Archive: 02/2012
2012-02-01
- Australia: New flood evidence delays Queensland election
- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: A serious look at public housing and the fate of US cities
- Torture in Libya: The ugly reality of imperialist “liberation”
- Pakistan’s prime minister kowtows to military in bid to end political crisis
- Security conference for London Olympics plans massive police operation
- Mehring Books offers more titles in digital format
- Kids Count report: Extreme poverty doubles in Michigan
- Kentucky governor announces austerity budget
- Growing strikes against austerity policies in Italy
- Republican governor to sign “right to work” law in Indiana
- Emergency manager announces school closure in Highland Park, Michigan
- Romney wins Florida Republican primary
- Flooding in Fiji kills seven, leaves thousands homeless
- EU summit agrees to German plan for austerity straitjacket
- Britain’s Guardian and Observer sound a warning to the political elite
- New global downturn to hit China’s economy
2012-02-02
- WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange appeals extradition before UK Supreme Court
- Budget cuts hit Pittsburgh regional bus service
- France: Thibault to stand down as CGT union general secretary
- US, Russia clash over Washington’s war drive against Syria
- Putting profits before health: Siemens abandons cancer therapy project
- Obama publicly embraces drone killings
- Australia: NAPLAN “breaches” by schools almost double
- Ontario premier feigns support for locked out Electro-Motive workers
- US pushes for renewed military presence in Iraq
- Indian town under police occupation after killing of union leader
- Australian prime minister pledges “fiscal discipline”
- Obama backs hydrofracking in State of the Union speech
- Detroit city unions agree to massive concessions
- The Costa Concordia disaster and the profit drive of the cruise business
- Letters from our readers
- American intelligence agencies, media stoke war drive against Iran
2012-02-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Surviving Progress: A dim view of humanity
- Philippine ex-left joins attack on Supreme Court
- Europe placed under the dictatorship of the banks
- David North speaks in Berlin: “In Defence of Leon Trotsky and Historical Truth”
- Who is Jack Martin?
- California worker denied kidney transplant due to immigration status
- International Students for Social Equality (UK) meeting: Oppose extradition of Richard O’Dwyer to the US!
- Galapagos tortoise species, thought to be extinct, has survived
- Mass protests in Egypt against pro-junta football riot
- Locked-out Ohio workers defy Cooper Tire as negotiations resume
- Australian constitutional proposals will worsen Aboriginal oppression
- Hundreds die from the cold in eastern Europe
- Australia: Coal terminal workers strike over enterprise agreement
- Super PAC reports reveal the narrow base of US politics
- Opposition grows to Belgium austerity
- Police evict Occupy protesters in two New Zealand cities
- NATO ministers hold crisis talks on Afghanistan
- American Airlines to slash 13,000 jobs, demands deep concessions
2012-02-04
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Royal Mail casual workers protest non-payment of wages
- Over 100 feared dead in Papua New Guinea ferry disaster
- The Susan G. Komen Foundation debacle and the US establishment
- Former Gaddafi official tortured to death in Libya
- January employment report masks depth of US jobs crisis
- Israel threatens war against Iran within months
- Study reports that New Yorkers struggle to put food on the table
- India’s Supreme Court orders limited inquiry into Gujarat police murders
- Protests against Egyptian junta spread after football massacre
- Letters from our readers
- Caterpillar to close Ontario locomotive plant where workers resisted wage cut
- Australian defence review prepares for war with China
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange awaits court decision on extradition
2012-02-06
- Police raid Occupy DC protest
- This week in history: February 6-12
- After Russia’s UN veto, US talks of “coalition of the willing” against Syria
- Sri Lanka: Colombo meeting to defend SEP’s democratic rights
- Revealing new figures on German child poverty
- US war provocations against Syria
- Third police killing in one week in New York City
- Illinois nuclear reactor expels radioactive steam
- Romney wins Nevada Republican caucuses on low turnout
- New wave of job losses in Australia
- Greece default closer amid warnings of “social explosion”
- UK’s elite protests stripping former RBS head of knighthood
- Australian intelligence agencies prepare for political upheaval
2012-02-07
- Thamesteel closure leaves 400 jobless in Britain
- US shuts Syrian embassy, threatens war
- The American “left” and Obama’s State of the Union address
- Robert Service wins support from the extreme right in Germany
- Mass protests bring down Romanian government
- CIA drones target rescue workers, mourners
- New York City teachers, students and parents oppose school “overhauls” and closures
- Kucinich pushes anti-Chinese chauvinism in visit to Cooper Tire lockout
- Mother of Richard O’Dwyer: “America is trying to control and police the Internet”
- Victims of Spain’s fascist junta testify in Garzón trial
- Thousands evacuated as floods hit north-eastern Australia
- The background to the euro crisis—Part 1
- Obama pushes community colleges to serve corporate America
- Regulators collude in lawbreaking by Wall Street banks
- Apple’s sweatshop supply chain
2012-02-08
- Venture capital explodes into the US education market
- Australia community workers awarded delayed “equal pay” rise
- Syria and the seeds of world war
- Oakland proposes anti-protest measure after police crackdown
- UK government supports plans for military schools
- A Dangerous Method: The Freud-Jung controversy, among other matters
- Manroland: “The IG Metall has played a double game”
- US and Israel in “lockstep” against Iran
- “Full-time online learning is actually detrimental to student success”
- Chicago’s Hull House closes after 120 years of service
- Greek government agrees to savage cuts, but troika demands more
- The background to the euro crisis—Part 2
2012-02-09
- Report of Arab League mission to Syria contradicts Western propaganda
- Corporate money dominates US primary contests
- Philippine impeachment trial creates constitutional crisis
- Fight Ontario Caterpillar plant closure! Unite North American workers against wage-cutting!
- New evidence points to German police involvement in 1967 murder of student protester
- Protest in New Zealand city over earthquake recovery fiasco
- German chancellor Angela Merkel visits China
- Greek parties in talks as banks demand deep wage, social cuts
- American actor Ben Gazzara (1930-2012)
- Food bank use rises dramatically in Britain
- Letters from our readers
- Obama cowers before religious right on contraceptives
- Australian coal loader workers continue industrial action
- CAW begins talks on closing Ontario Caterpillar plant
- French law forbidding denial of Armenian genocide sent to Constitutional Council
2012-02-10
- Young adults hardest hit by recession, US study shows
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Toronto municipal union accepts Mayor Ford’s layoff and privatization-promoting contract
- Pentagon plans US-backed war against Syria
- Sri Lanka: Military continues intimidation of SEP in Jaffna
- Appointment of new US ambassador heightens tensions with Russia
- The looting of the Greek working class
- ISO covers for New York nurses union
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party echoes NATO propaganda against Syria
- Obama administration brokers pro-bank mortgage fraud settlement
- UK-Argentine tensions rise over Malvinas Islands
- Maldives president ousted in US-backed coup
- Global layoffs hit workers at GM, Nokia and Pepsico
- Bird flu scientists respond to media hysteria, suspend critical research
- Australian government instability points to worsening political crisis
- Detroit schools manager names schools to close this fall
- IMF warning: European “storm” would halve Chinese growth
- Polanski’s Carnage: Not a dispute about fundamentals
2012-02-11
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Democrats propose cut in extended unemployment benefits
- Bomb blasts in Aleppo, Syria kill 28
- Sri Lanka: SEP open letter to the defence minister
- UK government seeks deportation of Muslim cleric Abu Qatada
- Australia lines up with US for war with China
- SEP/CAUS public meeting: Oppose Detroit budget cuts!
- Germany: Lessons for workers from the defeat at Manroland
- Ongoing atrocities by NATO-installed Libyan regime
- Letter on the plight of construction workers in Britain
- Kentucky bill targets teachers for student achievement
- IBM launches new form of day-wage labour
- Speculation on Greek default mounts as EU demands still more cuts
- Egyptians protest in lead-up to anniversary of Mubarak’s ouster
- Letters from our readers
- Obama caves in to Catholic Church, religious right on contraceptives
- NATO bombing kills eight Afghan children
2012-02-12
2012-02-13
- Vote Socialist Equality in 2012!
- This week in history: February 13-19
- Tory peer Lord Ashcroft under scrutiny again
- Arab League calls for UN intervention in Syria
- Reckitt Benckiser to close Australia plant, destroying 190 jobs
- The foreclosure fraud settlement: An amnesty for Wall Street criminals
- International petty-bourgeois “left” backs imperialist war in Syria
- ISSE opposes extradition of UK student Richard O’Dwyer
- Workers at Ontario Caterpillar plant voice outrage over lockout and closure
- Further revelations of Australian involvement in Iraq war crimes
- The death of Whitney Houston
- Greek parliament votes for sweeping cuts
- Socialist Equality Party announces US election campaign
- Arab League calls for UN intervention in Syria
2012-02-14
- West Virginia budget: Strained social services and prison expansions
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Jerry White campaigns in Detroit against school closings
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Philippine Supreme Court issues restraining order on impeachment trial
- US secret armies gear up for global war
- Letters on A Dangerous Method
- Spain’s King Juan Carlos supported 1981 coup attempt
- US navy prepared for war against Iran
- Euro zone ministers to demand still more Greek cuts
- Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón debarred for 11 years
- SEP Presidential candidate Jerry White to speak in Detroit Thursday evening: “Oppose Detroit budget cuts!”
- Disabled suffer as a result of drive for UK benefits cuts
- Budget cuts hit California State University
- Letters from our readers
- Union officials prepare ground for sellout of locked-out Cooper Tire workers
- The implications of the Obama administration’s capitulation on contraceptives
- Death toll rises to 600 in European cold snap
- Obama budget combines austerity and phony populism
2012-02-15
- West Virginia targets Medicaid for “fundamental adjustments”
- Jerry White demands end to government repression of Sri Lankan SEP
- Channel 4 programme highlights crisis conditions on London Underground
- Protests erupt as Sri Lankan government enforces new IMF austerity measures
- Greece heads toward a revolutionary explosion
- The New York Times and Obama’s cave-in on contraceptives
- Albert Nobbs: A model of repression
- US, Indian envoys intervene to back coup in the Maldives
- Indonesian government shaken by corruption scandal
- Obama budget funds war, repression and Wall Street
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party covers for imperialist regime change in Syria
- US-backed regime crushes protest in Bahrain
- Tens of thousands in Germany protest against ACTA’s attack on the Internet
2012-02-16
- China’s president-in-waiting Xi Jinping visits Washington
- Video: Jerry White visits Cooper Tire picket line
- Detroit residents speak out on utility shutoffs
- Utility shutoffs soar amidst mass poverty in Michigan
- Obama, Democrats hail deal to slash unemployment benefits
- Fisherman killed as Sri Lankan police fire on protest
- SEP (UK) public meetings: For a general strike to bring down the Cameron government!
- Private companies poised for takeover of UK state education
- The Egyptian revolution and the struggle for workers’ power
- SEP (UK) public meetings: For a general strike to bring down the Cameron government!
- Pakistan “highly vulnerable” to economic shocks, warns IMF
- Protests against New York City school closings
- Clashes follow over 370 deaths in Honduran prison fire
- Political stench of 2010 coup haunts Australian PM
- Euro zone ministers tighten screws on Greece
- Germany: Duisburg’s mayor voted out a year and a half after Love Parade disaster
- Letters from our readers
- SEP presidential candidate gives press conference, speaks to workers in Findlay, Ohio
2012-02-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Video: Cooper Tire workers speak with SEP candidate
- UK unemployment hits new high
- Spain’s Popular Party government imposes savage labour legislation
- Australian mining magnate buys controlling interest in Fairfax Media
- An interview with Chad Freidrichs, director of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
- The socialist response to the jobs crisis
- Franco’s heirs prosecute Spain’s judge Garzón
- Half a billion children at risk for malnutrition
- Amnesty International details torture and murder in Libya
- A further reply on Thomas Kuhn
- Job losses accelerate as interest rates rise in Australia
- US, Israel invoke terror to ratchet up war threats against Iran
- French political establishment capitulates to government’s appeals to racism
- California deepens cuts to social safety net
- Study shows harmful impact of economic crisis on California’s women
2012-02-18
- German President Wulff resigns
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UN vote seen as stepping stone toward military intervention in Syria
- Portugal’s labour reforms provoke mass opposition
- Honduras’s prison inferno: A crime of capitalism
- Pakistan’s Supreme Court indicts prime minister
- New Zealand moves to broaden economic ties with China
- Rupert Murdoch pledges to fight back as corruption scandal spreads
- 29,500 long-term unemployed Michigan workers lose benefits
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks in Detroit
- More than 60 dead as cold snap grips Italy
- Workers in Germany and Europe must defend the Greek working class
- Detroit to cut early morning bus services
- Letters from our readers
- British Agent (1934): Early Hollywood looks at the Bolsheviks
- US-backed Bahraini regime continues repression
- GM posts record profits, prepares more cuts
- Alcoa Australia threatens to axe Geelong smelter
2012-02-20
- This week in history: February 20-26
- US sends drones over Syria as fighting spreads
- Capitol Hill terror suspect ensnared by US intelligence agencies
- Sri Lankan SEP condemns government attack on the party’s rights
- The wage-cutter in chief
- UK pensions fight sabotaged as just three unions urge one-day strike
- Opel and Vauxhall in Europe threatened with more job cuts
- The Miramonte scandal and the crisis of public education in California
- Free Bradley Manning!
- Greek “left” pushes to join the government
- Three fishermen perish in Southern Ocean fire
- The CGT comes out for bourgeois “left” in French presidential elections
- Tent camp reveals social inequality in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- UK Supreme Court rejects appeal over Brent library closures
- Australian coal miners strike over safety, wages and conditions
- Bank foreclosure fraud to be rewarded at taxpayer expense
2012-02-21
- UK government to extend workfare for young unemployed
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP supporters discuss election campaign with students in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Thousands attend slain fisherman’s funeral in Sri Lanka
- Hundreds of thousands protest new Spanish labour legislation
- California hunger striker dies as prison conditions deteriorate
- Drones come to the US
- Public education, transit, health care targeted in Pennsylvania budget cuts
- Telephone industry pushes to end landline service in Kentucky
- IAEA inspection team intensifies pressure on Iran
- Euro zone negotiates Greek bailout amid rising popular opposition
- PSA auto workers protest threat to close Aulnay, France plant
- US reaffirms support for Egyptian junta amid conflict over NGOs
- Alexander Payne’s digestible The Descendants; Steven Soderbergh at an impasse with Haywire
- Germany: Verdi prepares to agree wage cut for public transport workers
2012-02-22
- Unions oversee closure of Sheppey steel mill in UK
- International tensions mount over Syria conflict
- Sri Lanka: Oppose the government’s price hikes!
- Economic crisis in Russia deepens
- Thousands march in Peru against US-backed mining project
- How the government enables Wall Street parasites to cash in on the crisis
- Super PACs outspend Republican presidential candidates in January
- Reports expose desperate conditions of Illinois youth
- Greek deal: More pain for workers, no end to Europe’s crisis
- All-party coalition supports Gauck as new German president
- Defend public education!
- Darwin commemoration highlights US-Australia military ties
- California’s draft budget attacks public school system
- John Ford’s The Broken Heart: Impressive production of a rarely performed 17th-century classic
2012-02-23
- US, Egyptian junta seek to arm Syrian opposition
- London Underground uses Hong Kong and Singapore metros as benchmark
- Sri Lankan defence ministry blocks SEP meeting
- Australian foreign minister resigns in Washington
- The European Union and Greece
- Mounting attacks on Nigerian workers
- Report reveals depth of social crisis for African-American men in Milwaukee
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White addresses meeting at University of Michigan
- India brokers political deal to back coup in Maldives
- Highland Park Michigan school district faces closure threat
- Retired autoworker in Flint, Michigan dies after utilities are shut off
- Today’s social divide and the Charles Dickens bicentenary
- Letters from our readers
- Obama administration proposes corporate tax cut
- US encourages Burma to distance itself from China
2012-02-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Video: SEP candidate Jerry White visits Chrysler plant in Warren, Michigan
- Savage police assault on students in Valencia, Spain
- French Socialist Party presidential candidate calls for interning the Roma
- Republican primary campaign grows more frenzied as it heads for decisive contests
- Qantas to axe 2,500 more jobs in government-backed restructuring
- Portland police chief defends latest police killing
- Further US involvement in Philippine constitutional crisis
- “Friends of Syria” plan war, regime change at Washington’s behest
- Former Australian prime minister raises questions about 2010 coup
- Trade union and employers work together to break German ground crew strike
- Autopsy shows retired Michigan auto worker froze to death after utility shutoff
- European economy contracting
- A few nuggets on display at the Berlinale
- US Congress to debate motion on “self-determination” for Pakistani Balochistan
- Afghans besiege US bases in Koran protests
2012-02-25
- Yemen: US-brokered presidential elections held with single candidate
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama, “Friends of Syria” press for military intervention against Damascus
- SEP publishes election announcement of Jerry White in Spanish
- Obama’s 2013 budget to increase corporate influence over public research
- Paratroopers readied for future social unrest in UK
- Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since 1996
- Fire kills 29 at rehab center in Lima, Peru
- Australian government torn apart by US-China tensions
- Ontario legislature to debate call for Greek-style austerity
- Fair Work Australia imposes no-strike bans on Victorian nurses
- Mass layoffs in US belie talk of economic recovery
- US pressures India to back sanctions against Iran
- Highland Park, Michigan teachers and staff go without pay after state refuses aid
- European trade unions back EU austerity demands
- Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: Not really a movie about 9/11, whatever else it might be
- Union announces tentative settlement in Cooper Tire lockout
- Unite auto workers in Europe, North America and internationally against wage-cutting and layoffs!
- Deepening job cuts expose Australian Labor’s “new economy”
2012-02-27
- Socialism and the Cooper Tire struggle
- Australian prime minister defeats challenge from Kevin Rudd
- This week in history: February 27-March 4
- Sri Lankan plantation workers strike over fuel price rises
- UK: Salford’s Labour council imposes cuts of almost £100 million
- GM and Peugeot Citroën conspire to sack thousands of auto workers
- Afghanistan rises in revolt against US occupation
- 2012 French elections: NPA bids to join pro-austerity government
- New York teacher evaluations used to deepen attack on public education
- G20 meeting defers decision on boosting European rescue funds
- Protests continue over Boston transit cuts and fare hikes
- Court martial opens against Bradley Manning
- Syrian conflict destabilizes Lebanon
- Germany: Saxony’s state prosecutor persecutes anti-Nazi demonstrators
- Anger boils over at meetings on Detroit bus cuts
- Union pushes concessions contract at Cooper Tire
- Strike wave resumes in China
- No to Cuts at the MBTA!
2012-02-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Thousands in Michigan continue to lose welfare benefits
- German court gives green light for expansion of temporary employment contracts
- Phyllis Scherrer wins strong support from bus drivers and riders
- New Zealand: Pike River Coal ignored mine safety warnings
- Mass layoffs expose myth of US economic recovery
- Japan’s economy contracts as exports plunge
- Israel steps up repression in occupied Palestinian territories
- US, Britain gear up for war on Iran
- Indian workers must adopt socialist strategy to oppose UPA-led big business offensive
- French unions prepare to back cuts in PSA-GM tie-up
- US workers without high school diplomas hit hard by recession
- Letters from our readers
- Amidst widespread discontent, Cooper Tire workers vote for concessions contract
- SEP campaigns in New York, Michigan and Kentucky
- West Bengal government threatens savage reprisals if state workers join one-day strike
- Australia: Key 2010 coup plotter quits government after leadership vote
- The 2012 Academy Awards
2012-02-29
- Full funding for public transportation!
- French President Sarkozy’s re-election bid appeals to extreme right
- Quebec’s striking students must turn to the working class!
- Republican candidate Santorum attacks the First Amendment
- Three students dead in Ohio high school shooting
- Occupy London camp cleared by police from St Paul’s Cathedral
- Romney wins Republican primaries in Arizona and Michigan
- US downplays North Korean regime’s overtures
- German parliament supports austerity for Greece
- French Socialist Party presidential candidate issues bogus pledge to tax the rich
- London Fire chief proposes closing 50 ambulance stations
- Washington pushes drug war in Mexico, Central America
- Political films in Berlin
- US ambassador suggests nuclear submarine sale to Australia
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