Archive: 04/2012
2012-04-02
- This week in history: April 2-8
- Southern conflict revives tensions in Thailand’s ruling elite
- US-led conference backs Syrian puppet group, threatens war
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 7
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Behind the global stock market surge
- Murdoch’s News Corporation accused of pay TV piracy
- Spanish pilots unions call strikes against new low-cost airline
- German police killing of unemployed woman at job centre
- An interview with writer Nick Flynn: “The job of an artist is to look at the realities of existence”
- Finance ministers increase European bailout fund
- Inquest into police killing of Mark Duggan sabotaged
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns in Detroit
- Supreme Court arguments on Obama health care law set stage for legal assault on social programs
2012-04-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Oppose the job cuts at University of Sydney!
- New evidence against shooter in death of Trayvon Martin
- US Supreme Court sanctions strip searches even for minor infractions
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 8
- Phyllis Scherrer speaks in Pittsburgh
- The Spanish general strike and the political tasks before the working class
- Investigation exposes role of federal safety agency in West Virginia mine disaster
- Economic decline continues to fuel US job losses
- Tax bill precipitates crisis for Japanese government
- Obama gives green light for punishing sanctions on Iran
- Calls in Germany for legal restrictions on right to strike
- Detroit City Council delays vote on dictatorial budget-cutting measure
- Letters from our readers
- Spanish government unveils €27 billion in budget cuts
- Adelanto, California: Parents defeat effort to privatize local school
2012-04-04
- Union complicity in UK minimum wage freeze
- Titanic as a social phenomenon
- Why are the critics lauding Titanic?
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 9
- Australian government boosts police and parole powers
- “Friends of Syria”—the antechamber of a wider Mideast war
- Seven dead in shooting at Christian college in northern California
- US immigration agency arrests 3,100
- French police detain 19 alleged Islamist militants
- US auto execs paid millions for slashing workers’ wages
- As unemployment soars, child labour returns to Europe
- India: Stalinist CPM holds party congress amid mounting internal crisis
- US welcomes outcome of sham elections in Burma
2012-04-05
- New attacks on unemployment benefits in the US
- UK tanker drivers’ dispute lays bare social tensions
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 10
- Spanish government outlines most severe budget cuts since fascist dictatorship
- Germany: Union steps up pressure on Schlecker drug store workers
- Australia: Gillard and unions pledge to work with new Queensland government
- The killing of Trayvon Martin and racial politics in America
- Police pepper spray students protesting tuition hikes in California
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) launches council election campaign
- France pledges to back action to crush Mali army revolt
- Health care is a social right, not a privilege for the rich
- German trade union officials and academics publish defence of European Union
- The Obama administration and the Supreme Court decision on strip searches
- Chinese media attacks “Chongqing model”
- SEP (UK) candidates in council elections
- More US troops killed amid talks on permanent bases in Afghanistan
2012-04-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Jerry White visits Cooper Tire workers and Michigan students
- Students and academics protest job cuts at the University of Sydney
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 11
- The repression against workers and youth in Spain
- The real face of the European Union
- Pentagon clears way for military trial of five charged in 9/11 attacks
- Greater Boston transit fares hiked by 23 percent
- India’s Communist Party (Marxist): Defender of Stalin and capitalist restoration
- The Bradford by-election and the need for a revolutionary socialist party
- Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood nominates presidential candidate
- Consent agreement paves way for savage attack on Detroit workers
- Chicago police officer fatally shoots 22-year-old woman
2012-04-07
- SEP campaigns at University of South Florida
- London teachers’ union branch denounces betrayal of pensions dispute
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 12
- IMF releases loan after Sri Lankan government imposes austerity measures
- PSA, GM prepare further attacks against auto workers
- Peterborough: Far from a boomtown
- Obama Justice Department indicts ex-CIA agent for exposing torture
- Murdoch scandal sparks divisions over media regulation within UK’s ruling elite
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- March jobs report undercuts US recovery claims
- Full rights for immigrant workers!
- Police violently break up protests following suicide in Athens
- Defend Günter Grass!
- Friends with Kids: To whom does this apply?
- Seventeen migrant workers die in Moscow fire
- Australia: Parents and teachers protest against Gosford school merger
- Social and political crisis intensifies in eastern Europe
- India: Stalinist CPM promotes alliance with regional bourgeois parties
- Letters from our readers
2012-04-09
- This week in history: April 9-15
- Imperialist powers manipulate Syrian peace plan to prepare for war
- St Helens, England: Scarred by joblessness and poverty
- Wife of missing Sri Lankan journalist speaks to WSWS
- Quebec authorities seeking to criminalize student strike
- The “German model” and the attack on European workers
- Council of Europe report makes NATO responsible for the death of 63 refugees
- UK hedge funds and ex-bankers take over first privatised NHS hospital
- Americans cut back on doctor visits, prescriptions
- Hundreds attend memorial in Athens for Dimitris Christoulas
- WSWS announces on-the-spot coverage of French presidential election
- Dust: Scargill’s dreams, and reality, Britain 1984-2012
- Chester, Pennsylvania schools in crisis
- SEP campaigns in New York, Kentucky, Massachusetts and California
2012-04-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- German public sector union Verdi agrees new concessions
- An exhibition of photographer Zoe Strauss in Philadelphia
- Sony to cut 10,000 jobs
- Santa Monica College votes to postpone tuition increase following pepper spraying
- Portland teachers face huge job cuts
- Peterborough residents speak out against growing inequality
- US, Israel issue ultimatums to Iran
- New York approves new austerity budget
- What are the politics of French Left Front candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon?
- In Defense of Leon Trotsky now available in multiple eBook formats
- France threatens to back intervention in Mali
- Israel: Documents show Defence Ministry planned West Bank land grabs
- No to bankers dictatorship in Detroit!
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese slowdown triggers more strikes
2012-04-11
- Jerry White speaks at the University of South Florida
- Prosecutor waives grand jury as defense team quits in Trayvon Martin case
- US, NATO powers intensify threats against Syria
- British government proposes extension of state surveillance
- Stop the warmongers! Defend Günter Grass!
- Papua New Guinea government attempts to postpone election
- In Defense of Leon Trotsky now available in multiple eBook formats
- International issues in the French elections
- Workers and youth speak out in St. Helens, England
- German unions agree to more layoffs at Heidelberg
- Donate to the World Socialist Web Site
- Fiji again devastated by floods
- Paying attention to—or ignoring—big events: In Darkness and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- California prepares thousands of government layoffs
2012-04-12
- US television personality Mike Wallace dead at 93
- Prosecutor files charges in killing of Trayvon Martin
- Santorum withdrawal cedes Republican nomination to Romney
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White interviewed on Florida radio station
- UK: Poorer families to lose up to one-quarter of income due to government austerity
- Peterborough: Thousands apply for just 20 jobs
- The Obama recovery: Rhetoric and reality
- New Anti-Capitalist Party backs Left Front, social cuts in French presidential election
- SEP campaigns among immigrant workers in Maywood, California
- US baseball manager suspended for comment on Castro
- German Verdi union negotiating further attacks on Schlecker drug store workers
- European Court’s extradition ruling: A major blow to democratic rights
- Letters from our readers
- Bo Xilai suspended from Chinese Communist Party leadership
- Opening of the “Building the Revolution” exhibition in Berlin
- Australian government reinforces conspiracy against Assange
2012-04-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Two suspects confess in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shootings
- US conspires with Turkey over militarized buffer zone following Syrian ceasefire
- Sri Lankan government releases abducted political activists
- Sarkozy proposes police measures after Toulouse shootings
- Jerry White speaks on the crisis of American democracy at San Diego meeting
- Tense naval stand-off in the South China Sea
- European court’s extradition ruling and Guantanamo’s global reach
- UK teaching unions complete rout of pensions fight
- Pakistan: 250,000 displaced by army operation in Khyber Agency
- Obama submits to right-wing judge over health care law
- Troika gives green light for Greek election
- Large Hadron Collider upgrade aids exploration of the origin of mass
- Australian car components plant shut down
- The case of Amber Alvarez: An indictment of conditions in the working class
2012-04-14
- Prosecution outlines case against Zimmerman in killing of Trayvon Martin
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Spain’s unions silent on general strike repression
- Germany: The way forward for Schlecker drug store workers
- The “Mommy wars” and media manipulation in the US election
- Quebec government escalates campaign to break student strike
- Inside the New Anti-capitalist Party’s Paris election meeting
- British police face investigation of racist incidents
- Obama’s Guantanamo “war court” in session
- Quebec student strike at the crossroads: Students must turn to the working class
- Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice: A world consumed with trade and commerce
- Jerry White addresses election meeting in Maywood, California
- Louisville Orchestra to hire replacement musicians
- US intensifies pressure on North Korea after rocket launch
- French Socialist Party candidate Hollande praises Left Front candidate Mélenchon
- German Left Party slanders Günter Grass
- US Marines begin operations in northern Australia
- Letters from our readers
2012-04-16
- This week in history: April 16-22
- At least five dead in US tornado outbreak
- UN agrees to deploy monitors to Syria as Washington ramps up military intervention
- SEP (UK) candidate in British council elections speaks to St. Helens residents
- Kremlin prepares austerity program
- The American working class and the 2012 presidential election
- Michigan Sierra Club: 200,000 DTE Energy shutoffs in 2011
- French Left Front candidate holds presidential election rally in Marseille
- Italy: The Monti government and the crisis of the Northern League
- Despite talks, US-Iran confrontation continues
- Financial markets demand deep cuts following French presidential election
- Socialist Equality Party campaigns in Detroit
- Amid signs of slump, Australian PM reiterates “tough” budget pledge
- Detroit budget proposal contains drastic cuts
- India: Stalinist CPM congress dismisses socialism
- Australia: BHP mine closure signals new corporate offensive
- Two immigrant workers killed by gunmen in Arizona
2012-04-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Toyota Australia sacks 350 workers
- Spain: More cuts in health care and education
- SEP campaigns for plantation workers’ congress
- UK SEP candidate condemns huge increase in day care charges for the elderly
- Financial turbulence mounts as global economy slides deeper into slump
- Election in North Rhine-Westphalia: Parties compete on welfare cuts
- Medicare begins linking doctor pay to costs
- Why I support the SEP campaign: A letter from a public school teacher
- Americas Summit ends in fiasco for Obama
- Israel blocks pro-Palestinian “flytilla”
- Aix-en-Provence students speak on French presidential elections
- Letters from our readers
- Bosses, media braying for new assault on Canadian auto workers
- University of California, Davis “pepper spray incident” reports made public
- Obama reassures the rich on his “Buffett Rule”
- Union leader killed in Bangladesh
- Insurgents attack heart of US-led occupation in Afghanistan
2012-04-18
- Former military chief wins East Timor’s presidential election
- US solar energy company to cut 2,000 jobs
- Quebec student strike at a crossroads
- Power outages wrack southern Philippine island
- Syria and Bahrain
- WSWS speaks to Socialist Party supporters at Vincennes campaign rally
- Mounting tensions between India’s army and civilian government
- French president and Socialist Party candidate hold Paris rallies
- David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People: The American theater rediscovers class
- Spate of fires kills eight in Philadelphia
- St Helens, UK: A message to car workers from SEP candidate Danny Dickinson
- Jerry White speaks at Detroit election meeting
- Fascist Anders Breivik defends mass killings as trial opens in Norway
- Australia: GM foreshadows job cuts after government bailout
- US union prepares betrayal of 40,000 working without a contract at AT&T
2012-04-19
- A reply to the ISO’s Sherry Wolf on racial politics and the killing of Trayvon Martin
- NATO discusses military intervention in Syria
- Focus of euro crisis shifts to Spain
- SEP (UK) election campaign: Oppose the privatisation of essential social assets
- Democrats conceal post-election austerity plans
- Lawsuit hits oppressive policing of New York apartment houses
- Israel repeats military threat against Iran
- Indonesian government retreats from immediate fuel price rise
- Egyptian junta bans major Islamist candidates from presidential race
- IMF insists austerity drive must be intensified
- Unanimous US Supreme Court expands reactionary “qualified immunity” doctrine
- Letters from our readers
- Obama’s “Buffett Rule” fraud and the need for socialist planning
- Bronx workers and youth speak out against stop-and-frisk
- Photos of US troops defiling corpses expose Afghan war’s savagery
2012-04-20
- CIA seeks to widen assassination campaign in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Long-term unemployed in Washington State to start losing benefits next week
- St. Helens, UK: Election meeting discusses Jerry White’s presidential campaign
- Anti-Indian propaganda intensifies in Sri Lanka after UN vote
- Letter from a worker at the Schlecker German drugstore chain: “We cannot accept the wage cut”
- Washington’s real concerns over the Afghanistan atrocity photos
- SEP holds election meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana
- The Third International After Lenin by Leon Trotsky
- Australian Greens cover for Labor government in Julian Assange witch hunt
- UK: Partner of Anthony Grainger, shot by police, campaigns for truth about his killing
- Extreme weather forebodes point-of-no-return for climate change
- Mass layoffs at major German bakery
- Australian government announces accelerated troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Assange lawyer delayed while flying to Australia
2012-04-21
- Bail for George Zimmerman, charged in Trayvon Martin shooting, set at $150,000
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain’s Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition offers to do Labour Party’s dirty work
- Paris “Friends of Syria” meeting: Imperialist powers prepare for war against Syria
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold May Day meeting
- Strikes in the Russian auto industry
- New York City Democrats propose phony “living wage” bill
- Quebec government seeks to intimidate, split striking students
- Two years since the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster
- New Zealand meat workers lockout enters eighth week
- South Korean elections return right-wing government
- The witch-hunt of Günter Grass and the preparations for war against Iran
- Polls show dead heat in first round of French presidential election
- Housing and utilities are a social right
- Peterborough residents respond to SEP election manifesto
- US jobs, manufacturing, housing figures point to deeper slump
- How Earth Made Us—a masterly BBC documentary
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: To defeat McGuinty and Harper, workers must rebel against OFL and NDP
- Mass protests in Bahrain in advance of Grand Prix auto race
- NATO prepares troop withdrawal from Afghan quagmire
2012-04-23
- Mayor of Yonkers, New York calls for draconian budget cuts
- This week in history: April 23-29
- UK: St. Helens workers speak to the SEP’s Danny Dickinson
- Germany: Almost 2,000 lawsuits against Schlecker drugstore layoffs
- New York Times beats drum for war in Syria … and beyond
- Australian mining magnate accuses PM of secret minerals tax deal
- Sacked Schlecker worker denounces trade union’s callousness
- Levon Helm, the distinctive voice of The Band, dies at 71
- Pro-Israeli provocateurs unsuccessfully try to disrupt SEP (Germany) meeting in defence of Günter Grass
- Socialist Party candidate Hollande, Sarkozy advance in French presidential elections
- IMF secures additional bank bailout funds
- Ontario unions try to provide cover for NDP’s support for austerity budget
- SEP (US) election: Campaigners discuss social inequality with workers and youth
- No end in sight for mass unemployment in California
- Demonstrator shot dead ahead of Bahrain Grand Prix
- Former Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson speaks with the WSWS
- US appeals court upholds photo ID provision of discriminatory Arizona voting law
2012-04-24
- China widens trading range of the yuan
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election set for June 5
- Australian parliamentary speaker steps down amid sex, corruption allegations
- UK: SEP candidate condemns rising child poverty in Peterborough
- US college grads confront the dead end of the profit system
- Netherlands government falls over austerity budget
- SEP election supporters campaign in several Michigan cities
- Mexico to hold elections in midst of social catastrophe
- India tests long-range missile capable of striking China’s cities
- Britain: Talks continue on possible tanker drivers strike
- Large neo-fascist vote shakes French presidential race
- New Detroit budget proposal contains deeper cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Oakland, California: Charter school head investigated for fraud
- Falling tax revenues deepen Australian budget cuts
- Argentina partially re-nationalizes YPF oil company
- US makes a pact with its Afghan puppet
2012-04-25
- Yemeni president announces cosmetic changes to military
- Kentucky universities to hike tuition
- Spanish government proceeds with the destruction of health care and education
- Major daily publishes fascist diatribe against Quebec student strike
- Political issues in the French presidential election
- Padilla torture case comes before US Supreme Court
- Deteriorating economy and deepening austerity in New Zealand
- Withdraw US, NATO troops from Afghanistan!
- Hungarian parliament to select new president
- Obama invokes Holocaust to ratchet up war threats on Iran, Syria
- Memorial for Christopher Hitchens in New York City: A gathering of the unprincipled and politically clueless
- The British Greens: A party of cuts and austerity
- University authorities and police seek to prevent Berlin meeting in defense of Günter Grass
- US Medicare and Social Security forecasts prompt new calls for cutbacks
- The Deep Blue Sea: Love and emotional truth in post-war Britain
- Dick Clark, longtime host of American Bandstand, dead at 82
- The Breivik trial
2012-04-26
- US-Philippine military exercises directed against China
- Sri Lanka: Slowing economy sharpens government austerity drive
- PSA auto workers speak out on French presidential elections
- Hands off the Socialist Equality Party in Germany!
- Union-dominated 99 Percent Spring holds protest stunt in Detroit
- Protests continue against New York school closings
- Forced resignation hits at heart of Cameron government after Murdoch testimony
- Anders Breivik and the Guardian: Suzanne Moore’s “sympathy for the devil” moment
- What was French Left Front candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign?
- Right-wing Zionist provocateurs and student council representative close down Leipzig meeting to defend Günter Grass
- The Bewildered Herd in Los Angeles: “Making the puppets jump”
- British local elections: National Health Service under threat
- Germany and France demand the reintroduction of border controls
- Pentagon creates new spy unit aimed at Iran, China
- Arizona anti-immigrant law argued before US Supreme Court
- Letters from our readers
- Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth
- Oppose the US-Australia war preparations against China
2012-04-27
- US steps up drone war in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- SEP candidate Jerry White takes campaign to Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Sri Lankan ex-lefts issue phony call for a hartal
- UK local elections: Record unemployment in St. Helens
- Former UK home secretary faces legal action over rendition
- Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin: The historical issues
- French President Sarkozy appeals to neo-fascist vote
- China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in North East Asia
- Former head of CIA operations defends torture, obstruction of justice
- Distressed Rhode Island municipalities face bankruptcy
- Workers must rally to the defense of Quebec’s striking students
- Military judge rejects motions to reduce charges against Bradley Manning
- Letters in defense of the German Socialist Equality Party
- Workers put on trial after police massacre in Kazakhstan
- Detroit students walkout against school closures and deteriorating conditions
- Clichy-sous-Bois residents speak on French elections, social conditions
- Australia: Anzac Day and the promotion of militarism
2012-04-28
- UK local elections: “The ill are being coerced, manipulated, into doing something they are not capable of”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- WSWS speaks to Tamil immigrants and refugees in France
- Worsening conflict between Sudan and South Sudan
- Sri Lanka: “Resettled” Tamils in Vanni live in poverty
- Russia prepares for a US-Israeli military strike against Iran
- SEP (UK) campaign among Peterborough youth
- Greek elections: Workers have no voice
- US and Pakistan restart talks on prosecuting AfPak War
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party backs Socialist Party candidate in May 6 run-off
- Rupert Murdoch testimony: Routine denials of wrongdoing by UK’s political power-broker
- Germany’s ISSE, SEP denounce attacks on meetings in defence of Günter Grass
- SEP campaigns against cuts in Detroit
- US slowdown intensifies global economic crisis
- California State University faculty to vote on possible strike
- Government charges low-level BP employee in Gulf oil spill
- Australia: Elderly to pay much more for care
2012-04-30
- Wisconsin law curtails Planned Parenthood abortion services
- Ukraine bombings point to growing political tensions
- This week in history: April 30-May 6
- US and allies ramp up plans for military intervention in Syria
- Spanish debt crisis pushing global economy to the brink
- Police shoot two Aboriginal youth in inner Sydney
- Who are the German Pirates?
- UK local elections: Labour Party and trade unions facilitate government cuts
- The downfall of Bo Xilai in China
- Ontario NDP enables savage austerity budget
- New York City closes 24 more schools
- Mass layoffs planned after French elections
- Calls for European “growth” policies signal new attacks on workers
- SEP vice presidential candidate campaigns in former mill town near Pittsburgh
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