Archive: 05/2012
2012-05-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- May Day 2012: Unite workers around the world against austerity and war
- CBS’s “60 Minutes” interviews Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky
- Australian Labor government lurches from crisis to crisis
- Britain: Millionaires pay tax at a lower rate than working people
- Spain’s foreign minister admits economic and social crisis “of huge proportions”
- Quebec scuttles talks with striking students, unveils plan to nearly double tuition fees
- France’s Independent Workers Party backs bourgeois “left” presidential candidate
- Demonstrator shot dead in housing demolition in the Philippines
- UK local elections: SEP candidate speaks at PCS union’s question time
- ILO report: Worldwide unemployment over 200 million
- US resumes drone killings in Pakistan
- Election in North Rhine-Westphalia: A state mired in debt
- Police assault protesting students in Mexico
- Behind the right-wing racial politics of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
- Ford Australia imposes production shutdown
- More drastic service cuts hit Detroit public transportation
- California budget crisis continues to grow
2012-05-02
- UK: SEP candidate talks to students in St. Helens
- Offensive against democratic rights continues in Spain
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- US deploys F-22 fighter jets in threat to Iran
- Obama boasts of Bin Laden killing
- WSWS speaks to May Day demonstrators in France
- Thousands of jobs at risk at Lufthansa
- Released papers reveal attempts to cover up Britain’s criminal past
- Caterpillar workers strike in Joliet, Illinois
- SEP campaigns at Detroit job fair
- US, Japan strengthen military ties against China
- Two hundred feared dead in Indian ferry disaster
- Hunger stalks America—Part 1
- French unions, petty bourgeois groups back bourgeois “left” candidate in May Day rallies
2012-05-03
- SEP presidential candidate speaks on Wisconsin public radio
- UK local elections: Former Delphi worker explains how unions assisted in factory closure
- Labour-run Newham council pioneers social cleansing in London
- Officials move to dismantle Philadelphia public school system
- UK local elections: Defend migrant workers
- The establishment politics of the May 1 Occupy protests
- Special offer from Mehring Books
- May Day protests in Greece and Spain
- Police attack large opposition rally in Malaysia
- Obituary: Hilton Kramer, art critic and neoconservative
- Storm clouds gather over Indian economy
- Iceland’s former prime minister acquitted over role in financial crisis
- Hunger Stalks America—Part 2
- Sarkozy, Hollande outline right-wing policies in French presidential debate
- Letters from our readers
- David North speaks in defense of Leon Trotsky at Cornell University
- FBI provocateur ensnares Cleveland protesters in “bomb plot”
- Obama signs strategic pact in Afghanistan
2012-05-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A lesson for autoworkers: The short lived Windsor, Ontario Dakkota strike
- UK local elections: Workers explain why they voted Socialist Equality Party
- Unresolved tensions dominate US-China talks
- The suicide of professional football player Junior Seau
- UK super-rich more wealthy than before 2008 crash
- Defend the Quebec students!
- The social crisis in the US and the 2012 elections
- 4,500 nurses walk out in northern California
- Rupert Murdoch “not a fit person”, UK parliamentary committee finds
- Draconian security bill passed by Malaysian parliament
- Hunger Stalks America—Part 3
- Pseudo-left parties in Greek election offer no alternative
- Günter Grass and the Waffen SS
- Australian transport firm collapses and locks out 1,000 workers
- Egyptian military junta steps up threats of violence
- Argenteuil residents speak on French elections, social conditions
2012-05-05
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain faces worst recession since 1930s
- Appeals Court backs immunity for Bush administration torture policy
- Prosecutions continue under Thailand’s anti-democratic lese majeste laws
- Australia to acquire new submarine fleet
- Germany: Musical chairs at the Pirate Party congress
- On the eve of the French presidential elections
- Report highlights systemic jobs crisis in US
- India: Strike challenges NLC’s decades-long use of contract labor
- Australia: In advance of budget, Opposition MP demands end to “age of entitlement”
- The attacks on Günter Grass—a balance sheet
- UK local elections: Low turnout and anti-government vote
- Letters from our readers
- Chicago mayor’s infrastructure privatization scheme marked by secrecy
- Washington’s human rights hypocrisy and the case of Chen Guangcheng
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White wins warm response from Chrysler autoworkers
- Conservative François Bayrou calls for Hollande vote in French elections
2012-05-07
- Socialist candidate Jerry White campaigns in southwest Detroit
- Australia: Public sector layoffs, spending cuts in Victorian budget
- This week in history: May 7-13
- Russian general threatens pre-emptive attack on US missile defence system in Europe
- Philippine Supreme Court issues decision on Hacienda Luisita
- US jobless toll—a failure of capitalism
- Socialist Party defends betrayal of UK pension dispute
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold plantation workers’ congress
- Netanyahu predicted to call early Israeli election
- Greek elections reflect mass opposition to austerity
- Socialist Party candidate Hollande wins French presidential elections
- Egyptian junta intensifies crackdown before presidential elections
- Striking Caterpillar workers in Illinois speak on their struggle
- Berlin: Israelis and Iranians protest danger of war in the Middle East
- Australian Labor government on notice to deliver austerity budget
2012-05-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Buddhist mob in Sri Lanka threatens to demolish a mosque
- Australian SEP holds first national congress
- Resolution 1: The world capitalist crisis and the tasks of the SEP
- Unions and student associations betray Quebec student strike
- Vladimir Putin inaugurated as Russian president
- The European elections and the struggle against austerity
- New York police step up surveillance and harassment of political activists
- Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond embroiled in Murdoch scandal
- Guantanamo military commission arraigns 9/11 defendants
- Elections in Greece and France herald fresh social conflicts
- The European “growth pact” fraud
- SEP campaigns at Eastern Market in Detroit
- Behind the resignation of Australian Greens’ leader Bob Brown
- US bombings kills dozens of Afghan civilians
2012-05-09
- Australia: Police attack protesters at Sydney University
- Sri Lanka: SEP and ISSE hold May Day meeting
- Resolution 7: Build the SEP!
- Resolution 6: Defend Julian Assange
- Resolution 5: The 2010 coup and the crisis of bourgeois rule
- Resolution 4: Oppose the US-Australia military agreement
- Resolution 3: Oppose the US war drive against China
- Resolution 2: Against imperialist war
- Obama’s jobs program: A laundry list of corporate handouts
- Japanese powerbroker acquitted of political funding charges
- London to be militarised for 2012 Olympics
- Italian local elections: high abstention and a protest against austerity
- One in five Americans had “unmet medical needs” in 2010
- Incoming French president signals budget cuts, handouts to banks
- Growing use of food banks in the UK
- Workers speak to SEP candidate Jerry White on the crisis in Detroit
- Czech government survives no-confidence vote
- Australian Labor government budget marks shift to permanent austerity
2012-05-10
- Wisconsin primary picks right-wing Democrat for governor
- Spain’s United Left joins government, backs cuts in Andalucía
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Sri Lanka: Plantation workers denounce tea estate unions
- Quebec government defends police assault on striking students, plans further repression
- Locked-in workers die in fire in the Philippines
- The political uses of the latest “terror plot”
- Obama campaign underscores dead end of American political system
- Israel’s national unity government prepares ground for war
- Coalition talks continue in Greece as EU demands austerity measures
- Günter Grass and the German Social Democrats
- State elections in Germany: Massive losses for governing parties
- Court decision gives French employers green light for mass layoffs
- Indian Stalinists line up with national bourgeoisie on Sri Lanka’s Tamil issue
- Australian budget: Reality versus rhetoric
2012-05-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Suicide bombs claim 55 lives in Damascus
- Russian plane crashes in Indonesia
- UK Tories and Lib-Dems insist no retreat on austerity in Queen’s speech
- Quebec students reject union-promoted sellout of their fight for accessible education
- France: PSA Aulnay unions admit no solidarity action planned to defend jobs
- Philippine protests further escalate tensions with China
- Amid mass unemployment, corporate profits surge
- New Zealand: Land sale to Chinese company provokes opposition
- NRW State election: Former SPD premier supports free market FDP
- Obama backs gay marriage
- A conversation with a Detroit firefighter
- A boy faces rejection
- CSU students go on hunger strike against tuition hikes
- SEP (Australia) congress resolutions
- Australian opposition leader condemns Labor budget’s “class warfare”
2012-05-12
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Damascus terror bombing: Made in the USA
- UK trade unions mount much reduced one-day pension strike
- Germany: State election in North Rhine-Westphalia offers workers no choice
- JP Morgan Chase hit by $2 billion derivatives loss
- Over 200,000 to lose unemployment benefits in US this weekend
- UK public sector workers speak out against attacks on pension rights
- US military college prepared senior officers for “Hiroshima” tactics against Muslims
- Negotiations on Greek coalition government continue
- China: Two hundred Foxconn workers threaten suicide
- Jerry White campaigns on Detroit campus
- Letters from our readers
- Australian car component plant reopens after union-imposed layoffs
- Air Canada pushes Aveos into bankruptcy, eliminating 2,600 jobs
2012-05-14
- Vanuatu government expels Australian police
- This week in history: May 14-20
- Mass protests in Spain mark indignados anniversary
- Working class disenfranchised in Serbian elections
- US intensifies confrontation with Iran
- Water contamination in Maywood, California
- How the Lutte Ouvrière group backed Hollande in the French elections
- Irish referendum campaign offers workers no alternative
- Detroit workers and youth speak on the political issues in the US elections
- Spanish bank debts deepen eurozone crisis
- Socialist Equality Party holds meeting on the crisis in Detroit and the 2012 elections
- Canada’s banks received tens of billions in government support during 2008 crisis
- Drastic cuts planned as California state government announces huge deficit increase
2012-05-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: TAFE teachers and students protest Victorian budget cuts
- Thousands rally against education cuts in Portland, Oregon
- The JPMorgan debacle
- Bronx workers speak to SEP campaigners on the jobs crisis in America
- East London tenants evicted in run-up to Olympics
- India: Striking NLC contract workers must expand struggle—industrially and politically
- Clinton pressures India to support sanctions on Iran
- Greece: SYRIZA support sought to enforce austerity measures
- Trial opens in German environmental scandal
- Collapse of New York law firm reflects wider crisis
- US families saddled with debt, have few savings
- Washington DC schools plan to expand charters, cut jobs
- Letters from our readers
- China’s market “reform” accelerated after Bo Xilai’s removal
- Citizen Gangster: A drama of postwar Canadian life
2012-05-16
- Sri Lanka: Fire destroys plantation workers’ homes
- The Obama campaign and “vampire” capitalists
- SEP candidate Scherrer wins support at education protest in Pittsburgh
- Voters in German state election reject government austerity policy
- Defend Quebec’s striking students! Education should be a social right!
- Belgrade production of They Live exposes corruption of Serbia’s political parties
- Left Party collapse in North Rhine-Westphalia vote
- South Korean government tries to shore up fragile banking system
- Survey finds 23 percent rise in street homelessness in New York City
- French President Hollande attends Berlin summit after inauguration
- Scores of decapitated bodies found in Mexico
- California governor demands massive new cuts in response to budget revision
- Australian state governments prepare sweeping spending cuts
- Murdoch scandal: Rebekah Brooks charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice
2012-05-17
- US drone strikes kill civilians in Yemen
- Obama, the UAW and the auto bailout
- How have filmmakers responded to the new global situation?
- Redford, Michigan schools support staff oppose privatization
- Greece and the global crisis of capitalism
- City authorities in Frankfurt, Germany ban Occupy protest
- New Zealand “Not for Sale” campaign promotes anti-Chinese sentiment
- New search for life among Jupiter’s ice moons
- New elections called in Greece
- Columbia Law School study: How Texas executed an innocent man
- Egyptian presidential candidates outline counterrevolutionary programs in TV debate
- US public defender system crippled
- New York City’s Cooper Union to begin charging tuition for graduate students
- US government prepares new attacks on Internet privacy
- Australian foreign minister rebuked in Beijing over US military deal
2012-05-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- More US states pursuing drug testing for welfare recipients
- Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman: A valuable, passionate portrait of a great actress
- Sri Lankan government imposes new price rises
- Quebec to adopt emergency law to break student strike
- Washington’s lethal intervention in Syria
- GM prepares to close German plant
- Judge strikes down indefinite detention provision
- The JPMorgan fiasco and the case for nationalization
- Gulf monarchies and US foment sectarian clashes in Lebanon
- Socialist Party appoints anti-worker interim government in France
- Hydraulic fracturing and the case for socialist planning
- Fears grow over European banks
- US public defender system crippled
- University of California outlines future police action against student protests
- “Green-on-Blue” attacks on foreign troops increase in Afghanistan
2012-05-19
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks on Obama’s attack on auto workers
- Thomson scandal exposes decay of Australian “labour movement”
- Greece: The program of Syriza
- European economic crisis, military tensions overshadow G8 summit
- Spain’s regional governments impose further cuts
- Crulic—The Path to Beyond from Romania: The tragic fate of a decent, humble human being
- Quebec law criminalizing student strike threatens basic rights of all
- G8 and NATO summits take place without Putin
- A dangerous dispute in the South China Sea
- Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick endorses “murderer” Obama
- Hondurans demand US withdrawal over civilian deaths
- Mass layoffs hit Hewlett-Packard, US Postal Service
- Facebook IPO falls flat
- Massive security preparations for NATO summit in Chicago
- UK prime minister warns of euro zone break-up
2012-05-21
- Cost-cutting taking place across Australian universities
- This week in history: May 21-27
- Auburn, New York: 150 strike against TRW for eight-hour day
- TRW workers speak out against proposed contract
- Chicago police frame antiwar activists on “terrorism” charges
- No agreement at G8 summit on deepening financial crisis
- Palaces of memory: August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman
- Spain faces bank run
- Police state bill passed to suppress Quebec student strike
- Illegal stops by New York Police rise to 2,200 daily
- Leveson inquiry: Damning evidence of political corruption of Labour and Conservative parties
- An interview with Professor Mario Kessler on the Trotsky biography by Robert Service
- Sri Lankan SEP condemns attack on WSWS supporters in India
- Germany: Tens of thousands protest in banking quarter of Frankfurt
- German chancellor’s sacking of minister exposes government crisis
- Illinois Caterpillar strike enters fourth week
- Unemployed California workers face termination of benefits
- Western Australian, Tasmanian state governments announce new spending cuts
2012-05-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Thomson’s speech fuels political instability
- Greek SYRIZA leader Tsipras pledges to repay banks in European tour
- Two significant works: Fritz Lang’s House by the River (1950) and Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949)
- NATO protesters denounce police violence
- Obama hails police state methods in Chicago
- Pakistan’s Hazaras targeted by campaign of ethnic-communal killings
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party applauds President Hollande’s election
- India: WSWS team attacked as NLC strike enters second month
- NATO backs US plan on Afghanistan
- Convicted of Lockerbie bombing, al Megrahi dies protesting innocence
- Australia: Official employment rate hides real extent of joblessness
- Report details abuse at Georgia immigrant detention centers
- Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists praise the junta’s presidential elections
- Letters from our readers
- Tensions ease temporarily between China and the Philippines
- The politics of the anti-NATO protests
- Oppose Brown’s cuts in California
2012-05-23
- The appalling situation of Romania’s institutionalized children: From Ceausescu to today
- Quebec: Huge protest supports striking students, denounces Bill 78
- Australia: Qantas axes jobs and maintenance base
- US government panel calls for halt to prostate cancer screening
- SEP vice presidential candidate wins support in Pittsburgh
- After the NATO summit: Afghanistan slaughter to continue
- Palestinian hunger strike ended after Egypt’s intervention
- JPMorgan could face $7 billion in losses
- Mass unemployment and poverty fuel ethnic tensions in Macedonia
- One year since the tornado disaster in Joplin, Missouri
- Sharp divisions on eve of EU summit
- Pinter’s The Caretaker at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn: A classic has lost none of its power
- Washington eases economic sanctions on Burma
2012-05-24
- As Washington state health care options dwindle, whooping cough returns
- The 2012 Whitney Biennial in New York City
- SYRIZA leader Tsipras in Berlin
- UK TalkTalk call centre set to close
- Strike and mass protests against Spain’s education cuts
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Slovak premier prepares austerity agenda
- Canadian Pacific railway workers strike
- Police begin to apply draconian Bill 78
- Impeachment trial of Philippine chief justice nears end
- The pseudo-left unmasked in Greece
- Ireland: Unions shut down five-month occupation at Vita Cortex
- Baghdad talks on Iran’s nuclear program unresolved
- Facebook IPO engulfed by insider trading scandal
- Europe’s leaders at loggerheads at EU summit as markets tumble
- Letters from our readers
- The criminalization of dissent in Chicago and Quebec
- Australia: Bowen Basin coal miners resume strike action
- Australian government confirms commitment to ongoing Afghanistan occupation
2012-05-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White demands release of jailed Quebec students
- Australia: New South Wales teachers stop-work against devolution agenda
- US prepares multi-front proxy war against Syria
- Sri Lanka: SEP holds plantation workers’ congress
- Quebec police mount mass arrests in bid to break student strike
- Papua New Guinean government arrests chief justice
- The Democrats and the Bain Capital affair
- US steps up drone war on Pakistan
- A revealing look at Murdoch’s influence on British politics
- Harry Belafonte provides an historical insight into the civil rights movement’s decay
- Iranian nuclear talks on brink of collapse
- Hewlett-Packard announces 27,000 job cuts
- Greece: French Left Front backs SYRIZA’s appeal to the banks
- French election: The Left Front’s Mélenchon stands against neo-fascist Marine Le Pen
- Low turnout in Egyptian presidential elections
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, one of the great vocal artists of the 20th century, dies at 86
- Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow offered access to US military death squad
2012-05-26
- Sri Lankan president releases jailed rival
- Serbian presidential vote indicates growing disaffection from the EU
- Russian government cracks down on opposition
- Quebec student strike: Government excludes fee hikes, Bill 78 from proposed talks
- The Egyptian junta’s fraudulent elections and the tasks of the working class
- UK student Richard O’Dwyer’s extradition appeal scheduled for July 30
- Reports cite killings, disappearances and torture by Mexico’s security forces
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Greek ruling elite prepares for showdown with working class
- Mounting signs of deepening global slump
- Donald “Duck” Dunn, legendary bass player, dead at 70
- Detroit city council approves brutal cuts
- Letters from our readers
- SEP candidate speaks with Detroit Chrysler workers
- Chinese leadership turmoil continues
- US bank profits soar while lending drops
- The Avengers: Not at all the way truths can be explored
2012-05-28
- This week in history: May 28-June 3
- Ten years on, the myths of East Timor independence stand exposed
- Sri Lankan president’s salute to militarism
- SEP campaigns for election meeting in Quad Cities
- Mass repression in Quebec: A warning to the working class
- Dissecting class relations: The film collaborations of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter
- Germany: Lafontaine and the Left Party move to the right
- Israel’s ruling Likud party incites racist attacks on migrants
- French bourgeois “left” manipulates fight against Fralib factory closure
- IMF chief: It’s “payback time” for Greek workers
- US CEO pay continues to climb
- Canadian government attacks wages and unemployment benefits
- Detroit workers speak out against budget cuts
- NATO air strike kills Afghan family of eight
2012-05-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US threatens military intervention in Syria following Houla massacre
- Germany: Drugstore chain Schlecker threatened with destruction
- Canadian government moves to outlaw railway strike
- Seventy-five years since the Memorial Day Massacre
- Massachusetts legislation promotes health care rationing
- Remembering the Ludlow Massacre
- US student loan debt: Where did it come from and who benefits?
- An interview with photographer Robert Leslie
- Tensions with Iran rise after failed Baghdad talks
- Double suicide underscores Greece’s deepening health crisis
- Australian PM under pressure over mining “guest workers”
- Indian Communist Party (Marxist) continues to defend Stalin’s crimes
- Workers and youth speak on Chicago, Quebec and the attack on democratic rights
- Australia: ASIO assessments condemn refugees to indefinite detention
2012-05-30
- Obama uses Memorial Day speech to rehabilitate Vietnam War
- Twixt and Trishna: Weak films from Coppola and Winterbottom
- Steelworkers union undermines Northern California refinery workers strike
- Vote “No” in Ireland’s referendum on EU fiscal treaty
- Student associations in talks with Quebec government
- SEP meetings oppose US-Australia war preparations against China
- The ouster of Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona
- Germany’s six-point plan for sweatshop Europe
- New charges filed against Malaysian opposition leader
- Remembering the Ludlow Massacre
- Kazakhstan: Eleven workers, one officer sentenced following police massacre
- Youth and workers discuss US-Australia confrontation with China
- India: Nationwide protests against fuel price hikes
- Guantanamo military tribunals proceed despite evidence of torture
- Protests erupt against presidential elections in Egypt
- Reject the concessions contract at Caterpillar!
- California workers speak against budget cuts, unemployment
- Murdoch’s acolyte Tony Blair testifies before Leveson inquiry
2012-05-31
- Ypsilanti, Michigan to make “dramatic” cuts to services
- Democrats run right-wing campaign in Wisconsin recall election
- Federal cuts to strip 70,000 more US workers of jobless benefits in June
- French unions discuss wave of sackings after presidential elections
- Canadian government rams through anti-strike law against railway workers
- Talks continue between Quebec government, student groups over tuition protests
- Jerry White speaks at Quad Cities election meeting
- Hands off Syria!
- NDP abets suppression of Quebec student strike
- Mass student protests hit media bias in Mexican elections
- Remembering the Ludlow Massacre
- Former Australian union chief appeals to big business to rely on Labor
- Washington Post airs another unlikely Iranian assassination plot
- Germany: Günter Grass criticizes EU’s treatment of Greece
- Opel/Vauxhall workers need an international strategy
- Spanish banking crisis roils global financial markets
- Letters from our readers
- Illinois Caterpillar workers reject “revised” offer, continue strike
- Richard Linklater’s Bernie, about life and death in East Texas
- British Supreme Court endorses extradition of Julian Assange
- Indian government attempts to smash pilots strike
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