Archive: 07/2012
2012-07-02
- This week in history: July 2-8
- Bloody fighting in Syria as US pushes for intervention
- US appeals court upholds vindictive ten-year sentence against civil liberties attorney Lynne Stewart
- Spain: Unions send striking miners on phoney jobs march
- Saudi Arabia—a social tinderbox
- Massachusetts: Entergy suspends health care for locked-out Pilgrim power workers
- EU summit measures mean deeper attacks on the working class
- SEP holds election campaign meeting
- Con Ed locks out 8,500 workers in New York
- New York Public Library plan provokes opposition
- Japan’s lower house doubles consumption tax
- The Quebec Student Strike and the global struggle to defend education
- State raids in Germany fuel Islamophobia
- US and EU impose crippling sanctions on Iran
- SEP vice presidential candidate campaigns in Highland Park, Michigan
- Storms, record heat kill 14 across eastern US
- German parliament votes for European fiscal pact
- The reactionary politics of Grace Lee Boggs
2012-07-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Heavy hand of military at veterans job fair in Detroit
- New York City: Con Ed workers locked out for second day
- Political turmoil continues in Thailand
- The Paraguayan coup
- German Opel worker: “For nearly 10 years, it’s all been downhill”
- Mexico: Enrique Peña Nieto wins presidential race
- Japanese nuclear reactor re-activated despite mass protest
- Greek government presses ahead with austerity
- Record unemployment in euro zone
- Detroit schools emergency manager imposes contract on teachers
- Letters from our readers
- Chicago steps up police crackdown
- Detroit workers speak with SEP vice presidential candidate about heat wave
2012-07-04
- US expands military intervention into Yemen
- Sri Lankan unions betray university workers’ strike
- European crisis sets off slide to global slump
- Japan’s ruling Democratic Party splits
- Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson’s latest wispy, wistful adventure
- Boston transit fare hikes, service cuts go into effect
- Libor manipulation scandal engulfs 16 top banks
- US escalates military threat against Iran
- Indonesia to join US-Australia military exercises
- US death toll rises from heat wave and power outages
- Germany: Secret service chief resigns following scandal over destruction of neo-Nazi files
- The Fourth of July
- Islamist President Mursi takes office in Egypt
- Con Ed lockout puts New York in danger of power outages during heat wave
- Video: SEP candidate defends WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange at Melbourne rally
- German defence minister restructuring army for worldwide operations
2012-07-05
- Mehring Books announces release of Tsar to Lenin in DVD format
- Obama to sign bill with cuts to student loans
- Paltry pay rise for workers in Philippine capital
- US-Iran confrontation enters dangerous new stage
- Construction workers protest in Melbourne
- US states to opt out of Medicaid expansion under health care law
- European vehicle manufacturer Iveco to shutter five plants
- UK doctors speak out against cuts in NHS
- CERN discovers new fundamental particle
- Troika arrives in Athens to organise looting of Greece
- Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline fined $3 billion
- French Socialist Party government works with auto companies to attack workers
- British Medical Association winds down action against pension cuts
- UK report reveals yet another scandal of children in care
- Continued isolation of Caterpillar strike poses grave danger to workers
2012-07-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Pontiac, Michigan: The destruction of an American city
- New austerity package in Slovenia
- Libor scandal exposes banks’ rigging of global rates
- Pepco cuts exacerbate Washington, DC power outages
- US and Pakistan end standoff over Afghan supply routes
- Allegations of government collusion in Libor fixing raised in UK Parliament
- The social issues behind the shooting in Karlsruhe, Germany
- Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness greets British monarch
- The heat wave in the US and the decay of infrastructure
- President Gauck demands more support for Germany’s army
- Thousands of locked out Con Edison workers rally as New York City faces brownouts
- The Labor-Greens carbon tax hoax
- Palestinian Authority to exhume Yasser Arafat’s body to test polonium murder claim
2012-07-07
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Middle-class protest politics or a socialist orientation to the working class: A critique of the politics of CLASSE
- Concessions contract imposed by arbitrator on US postal union
- Left Party defends the German secret service
- The Late Henry Moss: Sam Shepard’s final exorcism
- Mexican officials to recount votes in last week’s election
- New Zealand: New evidence about US operation to shut down Megaupload
- NATO-installed regime seeks “democratic” cover in Libyan elections
- US jobs report for June shows continued economic stagnation
- Japanese report blames government/corporate nexus for Fukushima disaster
- Spokeswoman for CLASSE: “We have shaken Quebec’s government”
- Unemployed worker sets himself on fire outside UK Jobcentre
- $40 million cable project points to Guantánamo’s permanence
- French Socialist Party government presents initial austerity budget
2012-07-09
- This week in history: July 9-15
- Syria prepares for possible invasion
- Pseudo-left apologists for unions’ betrayal of Spanish miners
- San Diego teachers vote for concessions to “save” jobs
- Corporations find cheap labor haven in US
- Germany: Mass layoffs at the Neckermann mail order company
- Socialist Equality Party wins support in Melbourne election campaign
- Final SEP Melbourne election meeting on July 15
- Further US demands for espionage charges against Assange
- Inequality fuels mass protest in Hong Kong
- SEP speaks to Detroit workers and youth about power outages, heat wave
- Fresh arrests of police, journalists, public officials in UK hacking/bribery scandal
- Greek government announces further austerity
- The legal implications of the Supreme Court ruling on the Obama health care law
- Con Edison continues lockout of New York utility workers
2012-07-10
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Video: SEP candidate opposes Ford Australia stand-downs
- Massive expansion of domestic spying under Obama
- Over 170 die in floods in southern Russia
- Two die following Chicago train derailment
- Voting period extended in Papua New Guinea election
- Peru’s President Humala imposes another state of emergency against mine protests
- Fukushima: A disaster produced by capitalism
- Italian prime minister to cut additional €26 billion
- US extreme weather causes new power outages
- Letters from our readers
- Did Neanderthals create cave art?
- Canadian Auto Workers officials prepare 2012 contract surrender
- Afghanistan aid conference signals indefinite foreign occupation
2012-07-11
- UK Twitter joke conviction appealed at High Court
- Obama campaigns for “tax fairness”
- Credit agency rates Sri Lanka “very high risk”
- Scranton, Pennsylvania mayor cuts public workers to minimum wage
- Schlecker worker wins court case against dismissal
- The real significance of Libya’s elections
- Coles warehouse strikers speak with Patrick O’Connor
- Valley of the Shadow: A drama about art, society and revolution
- Interview with Jack Shepherd, British actor and playwright
- India: The lessons of the NLC betrayal
- Euro zone finance ministers demand more austerity
- Egyptian Islamists accept army dissolution of parliament
- Mass protests force Chinese authorities to scrap industrial project
- British democracy in “terminal decline,” report finds
2012-07-12
- Sri Lankan SEP meeting discusses socialist policy for fishermen
- Parti Québécois distances itself from student strike to reassure big business
- Europe’s austerity zone
- Stockton bankruptcy signals attack on US pensions
- London Olympic missile sites confirmed despite protests
- Melbourne election triggers federal Labor government infighting
- Kremlin prepares for a second economic crisis
- Global economic slowdown hits Germany
- France: Social Conference outlines massive attacks on the working class
- Massive growth of executive pay in US capital
- Clinton stirs tensions with China ahead of ASEAN summit
2012-07-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Scottish meat processing plant closure threatens 1,700 jobs
- Spain unveils new raft of brutal austerity measures
- Sri Lankan government moves to extend the police custody period
- Quebec student strike at the crossroads
- New Zealand signs new defence agreement with US
- South Korea postpones military pact with Japan
- French automaker PSA to cut 8,000 jobs, close Aulnay plant
- SEP candidate outlines socialist perspective at residents’ forum
- Foreclosures rise after bank settlement
- Stop the assault on public employees and social services!
- German trade union functions as management consultant at BMW
- Another California city files for bankruptcy
2012-07-14
- Washington seizes on alleged massacre in Syria to promote war
- Spanish miners’ “black march” attacked in Madrid
- Hedge fund billionaire named as buyer of “The Scream” for $120 million
- Romanian elite erupts in sordid infighting
- Voting rights in America under attack
- Main UK unions seek to impose government attack on pensions
- Dramatic increase in worldwide illegal organ trade
- Germany: IG Metall prepares further job cuts at GM-Opel
- LO, NPA block struggle against PSA job cuts in France
- Rupert Murdoch rows with former editor over deals with UK politicians
- Los Angeles police riot leads to arrests, injuries
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Detroit financial advisory board approves huge cuts in worker pay
- Australia: 700 jobs threatened at confectioner Darrell Lea
- Cyprus the focus of escalating regional tensions
- Letters from our readers
- Fantastic version of post-Katrina Louisiana in Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Australian government proposes sweeping Internet surveillance
- ASEAN summit breaks up amid feuding over South China Sea
2012-07-16
- Report details desperate conditions confronting US youth
- This week in history: July 16-22
- New York City transit workers go six months without a contract
- Suicide crisis mounts for US soldiers and veterans
- The Amazing Spider-Man: A play on formulas
- The police state 2012 Olympics
- British trade unions push productivity deals and enforced arbitration during Olympics
- Neo-Nazi murders in Germany: What role did the intelligence agencies play?
- SEP holds final election campaign meeting
- Unions block fightback at Ireland’s Bord Na Mona
- US treasury secretary covered up banks’ rigging of global rates
- Bangladesh and Assam devastated by floods
- Clinton backs Egyptian military junta, Islamist president
- Workers speak on budget cuts and the social crisis in Detroit
- Con Ed union appeals to state commission to end lockout
- Chinese economy slows to three-year low
- Con Ed workers speak out as lockout enters third week
- Germany: Fierce controversy over banking union
2012-07-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Huge credit card settlement conceals fraud and criminality
- For-profit education industry preys on returning US veterans
- The Con Ed struggle and fight for public ownership
- Mass demonstrations against Spain’s latest austerity package
- JPMorgan scandal: The tip of the iceberg
- New Zealand household finances increasingly precarious
- Australian Greens manoeuvre for coalition government in Victoria
- US Supreme Court ruling opens door for states to reject Medicaid expansion
- Western powers preparing intervention in Mali
- Janitors in Houston, Texas go on strike
- Clinton renews military threat against Iran
- Former Indian finance minister Mukherjee runs for presidency
- A revealing exposé of the US assets leading the Syrian opposition
- France’s Socialist Party government backs job cuts at automaker PSA
- Letters from our readers
- US presidential campaign: Cynical and reactionary “debate” over Bain Capital
2012-07-18
- SEP launches drive to place candidates on Wisconsin ballot
- Newfoundland wildcat strikers return to work
- Trade unions facilitate closure of two German solar energy plants
- New Serbian government commits to austerity measures
- Ruth Keedy Benjamin (June 4, 1947—June 29, 2012)
- Hillary Clinton’s incendiary global tour
- South Korea: Dictator’s daughter announces presidential bid
- New Zealand rail union collaborates with job cuts
- Israeli man immolates himself over social crisis
- Orange march triggers riot in Belfast
- End the blight of homelessness and housing stress
- Australia: Ford announces 440 job cuts in Victoria
- UN expert calls on US states to halt impending executions of mentally disabled prisoners
- Egyptian workers mount mass strikes against US-backed junta
- Corruption scandal threatens to implicate DC mayor
- Worst US drought since 1950s threatens to drive up global food prices
- US Fed chairman gives grim economic forecast in Senate testimony
2012-07-19
- Australia: Coles-Toll workers continue picket at Somerton
- Texas executes mentally disabled prisoner using one-drug lethal injection
- New report foreshadows post-election assault on pensions, social programs in US
- Suicide bombing kills top Syrian officials
- Relatives of American citizens killed in drone strikes sue US officials
- The self-immolation of Moshe Silman
- Opel CEO’s resignation heralds fresh round of cuts
- Illinois CAT workers, isolated by union, discuss new way forward
- US navy fires on fishing vessel in Persian Gulf
- Greek government lays out fresh cuts, privatisations
- The New York Times makes the “moral case” for drones
- Con Ed workers rally against lockout
- City College of San Francisco threatened with loss of accreditation
- SPD-Left Party state government in Brandenburg, Germany passes austerity budget
2012-07-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vote 1 for Patrick O’Connor and the SEP in Melbourne
- SEP presidential and vice presidential candidates speak to teachers at Detroit rally
- Flooding in Krymsk: Kremlin covers up causes and consequences
- Washington’s proxy terrorist war in Syria
- Merck Serono closes its factory in Geneva
- The Australian pseudo-left and Greece’s SYRIZA
- Retired diplomat points to Australian culpability for refugee deaths
- Stalinist CPM backs ruling Indian Congress party’s presidential candidate
- Popular confidence in new French president already falling
- Obama collaborates in Florida attack on right to vote
- Detroit mayor imposes 10 percent pay cut, layoffs
- Economic downturn in China worse than official data
- BBC’s drama on UK riots banned
- “The 1968 Exhibit” in Oakland: What was that year really about?
2012-07-21
- Defend the right to vote! Down with photo ID laws!
- The New York Times hails terror bombing in Damascus
- Stepped-up calls for military intervention in wake of terrorist bombing in Damascus
- Mass protests throughout Spain against government cuts
- A portrait of a “people smuggler”
- Part-time USA
- Wave of strikes across Norway
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel threatens Iran over Bulgarian bombing
- Finance ministers tie bailout of Spanish banks to deeper cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Grain prices spike as US crops fail
- The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral… American Beserk
- CLASSE representatives speak on Quebec student strike
- Aurora, Colorado tragedy: The latest mass shooting in the US
2012-07-23
- SEP kicks off Wisconsin campaign
- Kitty Wells, “Queen of Country Music” (1919-2012)
- This week in history: July 23-29
- Washington steps up drive to overthrow Syrian regime
- SYRIZA backs Greek government’s capitulation to the EU
- Ex-army chief calls for regime change in Sri Lanka
- Melbourne voters speak to WSWS
- The Aurora Massacre: Once again, evasions rather than explanations
- Labor Party narrowly wins Melbourne election
- India: Maruti Suzuki launches witch-hunt against workers
- Mounting evidence of international collusion in Libor rigging
- JPMorgan Chase investigated for manipulating California energy market
- Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary arrested in Budapest
- UK ex-left groups cover up collapsing support for education unions
- European auto crisis requires a socialist answer
- Australia’s spies active in world’s strategic hotspots
- Protesters opposing police killing attacked in Anaheim, California
2012-07-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK police officer cleared of the manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson
- Report details victimization of students by US private lenders
- Sri Lankan SEP to contest provincial council election
- Quebec students seek to broaden strike, but CLASSE leaders capitulate to union opposition
- $129 million pay package for new Yahoo CEO
- Germany: Karstadt department store to shed 2,000 jobs
- Ex-prime minister joins Japanese anti-nuclear protest
- ISO complicit in drive to strangle New York Con Ed workers’ struggle
- Georgia Supreme Court grants stay of execution to mentally disabled prisoner
- Australian PM pledges further spending cuts as Rudd prepares challenge
- Global markets fall as fears grow over Spanish debt crisis
- Fourteen immigrants killed in Texas highway accident
- Letters on the Aurora, Colorado shooting
- SEP candidates speak to workers at Caterpillar plant in South Milwaukee
- Beijing floods kill at least 37
2012-07-25
- Australia: Union shuts down warehouse strike, imposes sell out
- Spain’s regional governments seek bailouts
- Mass opposition to austerity deepens power struggle in Romanian ruling elite
- Crime, punishment and hypocrisy in the Penn State scandal
- US demands greater Australian military spending
- German state premier functions as marionette of Morgan Stanley
- The SEP campaigns at Master Lock: The reality behind Obama’s “insourcing”
- Layoffs mount in slumping US economy
- Netanyahu government in crisis over drafting orthodox Jews
- EU representatives discuss withdrawal of Greece from the euro zone
- US Food and Drug Administration spies on scientists to shield GE
- Former aide to British PM criminally charged in Murdoch phone-hacking scandal
- Anaheim, California residents speak out on police killing
2012-07-26
- SEP campaign team speaks with students and workers at Milwaukee Area colleges
- US uses WMD pretext to push for war against Syria
- Police violence in Anaheim: The class issues
- UK: Sheffield recycling workers strike sold out
- Tensions heighten in South China Sea
- World social inequality more pronounced than ever
- A new stage in the euro crisis
- New Pennsylvania budget cuts education, social programs
- US: National Football League officials locked out
- Brutal police attack on steel strike in Greece
- Forecasters warn of end to Australia’s mining boom
- Cortland, New York residents discuss jobs crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Caterpillar announces record profits
- New York Times’ David Brooks: Aurora tragedy has nothing to do with American society
- Protests, police repression continue in Anaheim, California
2012-07-27
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks in Ypsilanti, Michigan
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- East Timorese election bolsters ruling party
- The Caterpillar strike and the impoverishment of the American working class
- Global elite descend on East London for Olympics
- US states’ opt-out of Medicaid expansion could deny coverage to six million
- Hundreds killed and wounded in Iraq bombings, ambushes
- Overcrowding, budget cuts strain Illinois prisons
- Britain: Closure of hospital heart units will cost more children’s lives
- Greek government, European officials plan billions in new social cuts
- New bankruptcy law strengthens German employers
- Union agrees to Con Ed demands to end lockout in New York
- Tensions at China-Africa summit
- South Milwaukee Caterpillar workers speak out in support of Joliet strikers
- Australia: Caltex announces closure of Kurnell refinery
2012-07-28
- SEP ballot drive in Wisconsin surpasses signature requirement
- Video: Which way forward for the Quebec student strike?
- UK in double-dip recession
- Scottish National Party lurches right on social care and militarism
- Imperialist powers unveil their proposed Syrian military strongman
- Conflict between Pakistan’s Supreme Court and government intensifies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Consumer spending slowdown hits US economy
- Devastating US drought heralds global food inflation
- Another Australian auto parts maker collapses
- Court rules on Toronto construction worker deaths
- Underfunded California pensions stoke calls for benefit cuts
- Australian TV program exposes Assange frame-up
2012-07-30
- Widespread support as SEP concludes Wisconsin petition drive
- This week in history: July 30-August 5
- WSWS interviews tortured Tamil political refugee
- Syrian ethnic, sectarian conflicts deepen as US plots to install client regime
- Spanish unemployment nears 25 percent
- “Save Our Schools” webinar: ISO shills for the AFT bureaucracy
- French unions sign concession deal with automaker PSA
- Oliver Stone’s Savages and the war on drugs
- Papua New Guinea: Rival ex-prime ministers unite in bid to form new government
- The jobs crisis and the 2012 elections
- Thousands demonstrate to save children’s heart surgery in Leeds
- Signs of a North Korean power shift
- Book on Mossad confirms Israel assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists
- The unions’ role in isolating the Caterpillar strike
- Union accepts major concessions according to leaked summary of Con Ed agreement
2012-07-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Waste Management brings in strikebreakers against Seattle drivers
- Ex-TARP overseer denounces US government cover-up of Wall Street crimes
- US Defense Secretary Panetta threatens Syria, Iran in Middle East tour
- New report shows rising US child poverty
- SEP campaign team visits striking Caterpillar workers in Joliet
- Germany participates in war preparations against Syria
- Sri Lankan SEP candidate speaks to WSWS
- Letters from our readers
- Reports reveal City of London lobbyists have carte blanche
- Chinese regime indicts wife of fallen party leader
- South West England hospitals seek to slash wages
- Beaverton, Oregon school district cuts 10 percent of its teachers
- Australian government forcibly deports Tamil asylum seeker
- Massive police deployment against Anaheim, California protests
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