Archive: 08/2012
2012-08-01
- PCS union suspends strike planned for Olympics
- Sri Lankan government moves to gag web sites
- Afghan war crimes report suppressed
- What Danny Boyle’s Olympic pageant does and does not say about Britain
- Germany: Neckermann bankruptcy threatens 2,400 jobs
- Grid collapse in India leaves over 650 million without electricity
- Hollande backs the destruction of auto jobs in the name of French competitiveness
- Greek government plans further cuts
- Grain markets soar on worldwide crop downgrades
- Con Ed workers speak out against proposed contract
- Chicago Teachers Union agrees to lengthening of the school day
2012-08-02
- Melting of Greenland ice shelf likely caused by global warming
- Bloody fighting in Syria as US-backed forces slaughter prisoners
- Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag publishes Robert Service’s diatribe against Leon Trotsky
- Quebec Liberals launch re-election bid with tirade against striking students
- Behind the mounting conflicts in the EU
- Pakistani, US intelligence chiefs discuss US drone attacks
- Corporate sponsors tighten grip on the Olympics
- Nearly three-quarters of Detroit children living in poverty
- US threatens Rwandan President Kagame over support for Congolese rebels
- Israel steps up military threats against Iran
- “We should have the opportunity to live a decent, respectable lifestyle”
- German unions help destroy jobs in private hospitals
- Fed takes no steps to address US economic slowdown
- For a socialist program to stop foreclosures!
- Letters from our readers
- Protesters storm municipal building in China
- Assam communal clashes claim 53 lives in north-east India
2012-08-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Postal Service defaults on $5.5 billion payment to retiree fund
- The CIA proxy war in Syria and the pro-imperialist “left”
- Why we oppose the Detroit Institute of Arts millage
- SEC investigation into Miami’s fiscal corruption provokes crisis
- Libor scandal goes global
- Israeli cabinet reveals draconian austerity budget
- Interview with Jerry White: “We are running to give voice to the working class”
- France’s Socialist Party government plans to force Roma into ghettos
- New Egyptian government sworn in by Islamist president Mursi
- Child poverty in US capital increases sharply
- US report proposes aircraft carrier base in Western Australia
- UK: Peterborough care home workers resist closures
2012-08-04
- SEP Candidates submit signatures to gain spot on Wisconsin ballot
- UN General Assembly targets Syria as US proxy war escalates
- India: Maruti Suzuki and Haryana government mount vendetta against auto workers
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns among rubber plantation workers
- Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus discusses Beauty
- Sydney Film Festival 2012—Part 1: To shine a light on reality or flee from it
- Parti Quebecois and unions press students to end strike
- The London Olympics and the social crisis
- Tsar to Lenin DVD now available for immediate shipment
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kentucky legislature raids need-based college grant funds
- Greek government agrees €11.5 billion cuts package
- Australia normalises relations with Fijian regime
- US unemployment rate rises on weak jobs report
- Historic US drought deepens
- Burmese regime opens up to Western investment
2012-08-06
- Australian government moves to tighten anti-strike laws
- This week in history: August 6-August 12
- Banking crisis intensifies in Slovenia
- Saginaw, Michigan residents speak on police killing
- Portugal enforces labour reforms but more demanded
- The low-wage, no-raise economy
- At least seven dead in shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
- German Secret Service destroyed more files on neo-Nazi murders
- Massachusetts health care bill aims to cut $200 billion over 15 years
- Japan’s defence report takes tough line against China
- Sixty years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
- UK Fire Brigades Union calls off Olympics strike action
- Growing signs of global slump
- Detroit’s Wayne State University targets faculty tenure
- Vote “No” on the Con Ed-UWUA contract! For an independent political struggle of the working class!
- German court bans circumcision on religious grounds
2012-08-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Turkey attacks Kurds, threatens military action against Syria
- US gunman alleged to have killed six at Sikh temple was a neo-Nazi
- US stokes disputes in South China Sea
- Referendum fails to oust Romanian president
- The euro bailouts and the crisis of democracy in Europe
- New Zealand “Rich List” reveals deepening social divide
- Why I support the Detroit Institute of Arts and oppose the millage
- Curiosity rover lands on Mars: A milestone of space exploration
- GE executive to be paid $89,000 a month for not working
- IG Metall union sells out German contract workers
- London’s Tate Modern shows photomontages of John Heartfield
- Letters from our readers
- Brazilian public sector strike challenges PT government’s economic policy
- German Supreme Court declares asylum seekers benefit law unconstitutional
- SEP speaks to workers in Anaheim about election campaign and police violence
2012-08-08
- Texas executes mentally disabled death row prisoner
- New York Times gives glimpse of sectarian bloodbath being prepared by Syria intervention
- SEP presidential candidate to tour Britain, Germany and Sri Lanka
- Syrian army, US-backed opposition militias clash in Aleppo
- Sydney Film Festival—Part 2: Music as a dividing or unifying social force
- British police fabricate terrorist case against Rizwaan Sabir
- Northern California refinery fire spreads toxic fumes
- One year since the UK riots
- Job cuts deepen in Australia
- West Virginia aluminum plant workers strike
- CLASSE manifesto promotes Quebec nationalism and protest politics
- China’s leaders call for “stable growth” as economy slows
- US Secretary of State Clinton’s Africa tour raises tensions with China
2012-08-09
- Wisconsin officials move to exclude SEP candidates from ballot
- Flight attendants at Swiss airline oust union leadership
- Australian government authorises forced interrogation of refugees
- Sri Lankan graphite miners speak to SEP campaigners
- Egypt launches Sinai crackdown in collusion with Israel
- UK inquest finds against police in death of Sean Rigg
- Quebec establishment united in drive to suppress student strike
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to cut 280 teachers and staff
- Washington’s proxy in Syria: Al Qaeda
- New Zealand: State asset sales and the dead-end of Maori nationalism
- Greek government launches mass round-up and deportation of immigrants
- US drought feeds wildfires, crop failures
- California cities facing bankruptcy
- Belarus workers hit by hyperinflation and social cuts
- The Dark Knight Rises: Dubious and distortive
2012-08-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Workers denounce effort by Wisconsin officials to exclude SEP from ballot
- US, European powers press for intervention as Syrian army retakes Aleppo
- The betrayal of Spain’s miners strike and the silence of the fake left
- Sydney Film Festival—Part 3: Some naturalistic and mostly credible depictions
- A new policy is needed for Quebec student strike
- Nippon Sheet Glass cuts jobs at Pilkington’s UK factories
- Scores killed in Manila floods
- The Mars landing
- Wisconsin shooting reveals connections between US military and fascist groups
- The Lessons of Wisconsin: New pamphlet available at Mehring online
- Indian ruling elite fears impact of altercation at Maruti Suzuki plant
- Divisions sharpen in Australian ruling elite over US-China rivalry
- France’s Socialist Party government launches mass expulsions of Roma
- Spiking grain prices raise specter of global food crisis
- Tensions deepen as Brazil federal strike grows
2012-08-11
- Oppose the anti-democratic attempt to keep SEP candidates off the Wisconsin ballot!
- The Queen of Versailles: American “royalty” seeks to build its own palace
- Sri Lankan SEP holds election meeting in Kegalla
- Health advocacy group decries Obama administration’s stonewalling on food industry regulation
- Australia: Queensland government axes thousands of jobs
- Farewell, My Queen: The last days of the ancien régime
- The Quebec student strike, the working class and the struggle for social rights
- Defend immigrants in Greece
- New Zealand: Drilling company admits safety breaches in mine disaster
- London Olympics 2012: A city under lockdown
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Extended jobless benefits end for 500,000 US workers
- “The police defend the wealthy”—brother of murdered man
- Following grid collapse: Indian bourgeoisie demands privatisation of power sector
- US drops investigations of Goldman Sachs
- Letters from our readers
- Workfare schemes given legal sanction in UK
- Outrage over police violence at Anaheim, California city council meeting
- Afghan police chief kills three US special forces troops
2012-08-13
- Letters denounce effort to keep SEP candidates off Wisconsin ballot
- A hard life, then Hurricane Katrina: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
- This week in history: August 13-August 19
- Clinton visits Turkey to step up Syrian proxy war
- Ryan pick marks further shift to the right in US presidential campaign
- Washington’s bipartisan class-war policy: No jobs, no benefits
- Detroit water and sewage workers speak out against cuts
- Britain: Oppose cuts to wages and conditions at South West hospitals
- FBI raids homes of Occupy protesters in Oregon and Washington
- Egyptian President Mursi claims military junta’s dictatorial powers
- Detroit to cut 81 percent of water and sewage jobs
- Australian government intervenes to shut down DAIR strike
- US think tank plans military build-up against China
- China: Trial of Bo Xilai’s wife ends quickly
- Trade unions facilitate meat processing plant closures in Scotland
- European car industry prepares mass redundancies
2012-08-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- San Bernardino residents speak on bankruptcy filing
- The crisis of the European Union and the perspective of the United Socialist States of Europe
- Australian government reinstates anti-refugee “Pacific Solution”
- Quebec students debate whether to continue their strike
- Slaughter on Seventh Avenue
- UK unions push probation worker pension cuts
- France: The NPA and LO defend CIA operations in Syria
- Sri Lankan historical document now available at Mehring online
- Lufthansa flight attendants vote to strike
- Letters on The Dark Knight Rises
- Houston janitors ratify labor contract
- Iranian earthquakes leave over 300 dead
- Greek translation of Perspective “Defend immigrants in Greece”
- Google cutting 4,000 jobs at Motorola unit
- Hands off anti-Wall Street protesters
- Letters from our readers
- The ISO covers its tracks in betrayal of Con Ed workers
- Canadian Labour Congress pleads for bosses to recognize unions’ role in suppressing worker unrest
- Radical journalist Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012
- Afghan launches legal challenge over UK role in Washington kill list
2012-08-15
- More letters on effort to keep SEP off Wisconsin ballot
- Australia: Teachers face political struggle to fight Victorian TAFE cuts
- Sydney Film Festival 2012—Part 4: Two love stories and a couple of class-conscious dramas from Korea and Brazil
- Record temperatures and forest fires in Russia
- The return of class struggle and the tasks of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party)
- Two strikers arrested at West Virginia aluminum plant
- Quebec student strike votes produce mixed results
- Qantas unveils job cuts after Fair Work Australia victory
- SEP campaigns in Pittsburgh against cuts in social programs
- Workers in Philadelphia speak out against the two big business parties and union betrayals
- AFL-CIO drags Verizon workers into Philadelphia rally for Democrats
- A law unto themselves
- Germany: Police close down Frankfurt Occupy camp
- Joliet Caterpillar strikers speak out
- Japanese government in turmoil after tax bill clears upper house
- Racist murder in Greece reflects rising neo-Nazi influence
- US downgrades crop outlook
- Off-duty Chicago police officer kills unarmed man
- Illinois Democrats feign support for Caterpillar strikers
- Widespread criminal practices by UK banks
2012-08-16
- Wisconsin officials reverse decision and recommend SEP candidates be placed on ballot
- US coordinates with Turkey in proxy Syria war
- Sydney Film Festival—Part 5: Dead Europe and Mabo, two Australian features
- US media seeks to legitimize Ryan’s extreme-right agenda
- The defence of Günter Grass and the struggle against German militarism
- Australian laws rushed through to detain refugees offshore
- Québec Solidaire courts big business PQ
- China slowdown deepens global crisis
- Two New Zealand soldiers killed in Afghanistan
- German police linked to neo-Nazi murders and Ku Klux Klan
- Bradley Manning defense files motion to dismiss charges over pre-trial abuse
- IAM reaches sellout deal in Illinois Caterpillar strike
- Memo exposes Israeli war plan against Iran
- Wounded UK soldiers criticise Help for Heroes charity
- German military to acquire combat drones
- Letters from our readers
- French youth riot against police brutality in Amiens-Nord
2012-08-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Pennsylvania judge upholds anti-democratic “voter ID” law
- Strikes and protests sweep Tunisia
- Australia: TAFE staff and students rally against funding cuts
- South African police massacre striking miners
- In Defence of Leon Trotsky
- Australian government lies exposed over latest refugee vessel arrival
- Israeli threats heighten danger of Middle East war
- “Julian has shown us things that really needed to be known”
- European recession deepens, unemployment climbs
- Thousands of US immigrants line up for new work permit program
- West Virginia aluminum plant retirees seek restoration of health benefits
- Reject the sellout at Joliet! For an independent political struggle of the working class!
- In The Campaign, a fictional race for Congress
- California austerity: Student assistant jobs on the chopping block
- Corruption scandals rock Austrian politics
- UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean embassy to seize Assange
2012-08-18
- Magna International closing its Syracuse, New York auto parts plant
- Spanish trade union plays Robin Hood with supermarket raids
- Sri Lanka: Retrenched garment workers speak with SEP campaigners
- Sydney Film Festival—Part 6: Bernardo Bertolucci’s rise and fall
- Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot jailed for singing anti-Putin song
- South Africa’s mine massacre
- Swiss trade unions play key role in facilitating closure of Merck Serono plant
- SEP vice presidential candidate speaks to temp workers in McKeesport, Pennsylvania
- Letter from a South African reader on the Marikana miners massacre
- US proxy war in Syria spreads to Lebanon and Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian government lines up behind British threats against Assange
- Close associates of Indonesian president targeted over corruption
- Indian elite hamstrung as the economy falters
- Letters from our readers
- Con Ed workers disgusted as union reports contract ratification
- Union forces through concessions contract at Caterpillar in Illinois
- Imperialist lawlessness and the witch-hunt against Julian Assange
2012-08-20
- A renewed appeal for support in Wisconsin ballot effort
- This week in history: August 20-August 26
- Sri Lankan power unions sell out strike
- Quebec CEGEP students end their strike
- The US debacle in Afghanistan
- The real beneficiaries of the “people’s” Olympic Games
- A reply to a New Zealand union official
- South African miners continue strike in aftermath of massacre
- The Intouchables, record-breaking French film, and Ruby Sparks, “small change” in Los Angeles
- Thousands mass outside Ecuadorean embassy to support Assange
- How German philosopher Jürgen Habermas proposes to save the EU
- Michigan Chrysler workers reject union-backed local contract
- China stirs anti-Japanese protests over disputed islands
- Obama administration to respond to lawsuit challenging assassination program
- Julian Assange demands end to US witch-hunt
- US Army suicides nearly double from June to July
2012-08-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian government prepares to bolster terrorism laws
- German government aids anti-Assad forces in Syria
- French Communist Party backs killing of South African miners
- New York Times backs reckless US intervention in South China Sea
- South African miners defiant in face of government, company threats
- The election year controversy over Romney’s taxes: Hypocrisy to spare on both sides
- French ex-left parties support state persecution of the Roma
- Political lessons of the Quebec student strike
- Michigan cuts teacher health care, pensions
- German officer responsible for Kunduz massacre promoted to rank of general
- Spain: Forest fire outbreaks worsened by budget cuts
- US backs Egyptian president as he claims dictatorial powers
- US to drop criminal probe of MF Global
- Video: An appeal from SEP presidential candidate Jerry White
2012-08-22
- Obama threatens to invade Syria
- Ex-left groups champion “Yes” vote in Scottish referendum
- Betrayal at Caterpillar
- New Orleans universities plan huge cuts as state funding shrinks
- Obama and Romney’s phony Medicare debate
- SEP launches bid for ballot access in Louisiana
- Japan-South Korea tensions flare over disputed islands
- Italian right wing honours fascist war criminal
- Irish economy remains fragile
- German Constitutional Court legalizes use of army inside Germany
- College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair—a satire of contemporary American community colleges
- UK media lines up behind campaign to extradite Assange and silence WikiLeaks
- Australia: Asciano to slash hundreds of waterfront jobs
2012-08-23
- More letters supporting ballot status for the SEP in Wisconsin
- Venezuelan TV cuts broadcast after workers challenge Chavez
- A case of political hypocrisy: An exchange with the French Communist Party on the South African mine massacre
- Colombo press conference announces US SEP presidential candidate’s visit to Sri Lanka
- German court sanction for domestic deployment of the military
- Ontario’s Liberal government to slash teachers’ wages
- South African platinum miners’ strike spreads
- Washington and its allies work to destabilise Lebanon
- India: Maruti Suzuki fires workers en masse, reopens plant under police gauntlet
- European Union intensifies pressure on Greece for social cuts
- Dundee, Michigan Chrysler workers denounce sellout agreement
- Letters from our readers
- China: Bo’s wife given suspended death sentence
- Norwegian government report whitewashes Breivik terror attacks
- Akin affair highlights hypocrisy and ignorance in US official politics
2012-08-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Two killed in Maryland train derailment
- Workers should defend teacher tenure!
- US war threats against Syria as fighting intensifies across Near East
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns for US presidential candidate’s meetings
- Russian governor deploys Cossack militia against immigrants
- Quebec: Thousands protest Liberals’ tuition hikes, user fees and privatization
- New poll, data point to vast social polarization in US
- The unions, the pseudo-left and the South Africa massacre
- US to expand anti-missile systems in Asia
- BHP mine delay signals end of Australian mining boom
- Washington and its allies work to destabilise Lebanon
- French President Hollande meets US-backed Syrian “opposition”
- The struggle at Dundee Engine: A fight for all workers
- An exchange on the Chicago Teachers Union
- Pilots union pushes through restructuring plan at Air France
2012-08-25
- US SEP presidential candidate begins international tour
- Why Western politicians support Pussy Riot
- The US Medicare debate
- Pakistani court threatens to disqualify PM
- South Africa’s day of mourning fails to stem anger over Marikana massacre
- New Zealand court ruling a setback to the US Megaupload case
- SEP wins support in Wisconsin ballot status fight
- A letter on the South African NUM
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German chancellor demands tougher austerity in Greece
- Australian prime minister under pressure over union corruption allegations
- German energy company to shed 10,000 jobs despite huge profits
- Survey shows continuing hunger across US as Congress prepares to cut food stamps
- Layoff announcements, employment data point to worsening US jobs crisis
- Dundee Engine Plant workers boycott special union meetings
- Letters from our readers
- Norwegian mass murderer Breivik sentenced to 21 years
2012-08-27
- Wage cuts hit millions of US workers
- American writer and liberal thinker Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
- This week in history: August 27-September 02
- Searching for Sugar Man: Detroit musician connects with mass audience in South Africa
- Support the Dundee, Michigan Chrysler workers
- New York police kill gunman, wound nine bystanders in midtown Manhattan
- US West Nile virus cases double in one week
- Sri Lanka: Colombo public meeting hears US SEP presidential candidate
- Legal Aid forced to lay off 750 workers in US
- IAEA talks with Iran break down
- Ten years since Germany’s Hartz IV labor reform
- Australian government pushes electricity privatisation
- Egyptian President Mursi seeks IMF loan
- US “Fifty Wealthiest Lawmakers” list: A Congress of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich
- UK trade unions seek to block wider campaign against care home closures
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Party back extradition of Assange
2012-08-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Death toll in Venezuelan refinery blast rises to 41
- US moves toward two-track education system
- French President Hollande calls for formation of Syrian opposition government
- Sri Lankan government shuts universities to break strike
- Rising incidence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in South Africa
- Fed minutes point to a bankrupt economic order
- BBC’s Panorama shows how disabled are targeted by government
- Australia: Labor loses office in the Northern Territory
- German chancellor visits Moldova
- Lively discussion with US presidential candidate at Colombo meeting
- Indian government gifts tens of billions to big business through privatization
- 100 years since singer Woody Guthrie’s birth
- Letters from our readers
- Corporate bribery and political corruption on display at Republican, Democratic conventions
- SEP candidate campaigns among Chicago teachers
- Amidst cutbacks in mental health, California hospital faces closure
2012-08-29
- Wisconsin board approves ballot access for SEP candidates
- Islamist thugs attack Tunisian unemployed workers’ protest in Sidi Bouzid
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- German shipyards face insolvency
- More join South African strike as autopsies show miners were shot in the back
- Quebec’s major parties advance rival right-wing agendas
- US, UK and France threaten military intervention against Syria
- Lufthansa cabin crew on strike
- US SEP presidential candidate declines to meet LSSP
- Hurricane Isaac takes aim at US Gulf Coast
- Australia: Police attack picketing building workers
- US drone attacks escalate inside Pakistan
- Max Ophuls’s Caught and Edgar Ulmer’s Ruthless: Remarkable postwar films about wealth and power
- No prosecution of US troops for defiling Afghan corpses, burning Korans
2012-08-30
- Stockton workers support SEP presidential campaign
- Perspectives of the Socialist Equality Party
- Republican National Convention: A celebration of reaction
- Right-wing think tank calls for sale of UK council housing
- The tripling of US arms sales
- Nixon-Whitlam tapes shed light on current Australian rifts over US-China conflict
- Socialist Party leads polls in Dutch elections
- US SEP presidential candidate speaks with Sri Lankan plantation workers
- Israeli court rules army not responsible for Rachel Corrie’s death
- Hurricane Isaac pounds Gulf Coast
- Art History with a capital A and H: Art critic and social historian Robert Hughes (1938-2012)
- Homelessness, social misery on the rise in US capital
- US appeals court upholds Texas ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood
- Letters from our readers
- Socialist Equality Party (US) holds National Congress
- HRW report details persecution of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims
2012-08-31
- New York’s Woolworth building to be turned into luxury apartments
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- France, Turkey push for Syrian no-fly zone at UN
- Spain restricts aid to long-term unemployed
- Romney outlines right-wing agenda in acceptance speech
- On the 2012 Election and the SEP Campaign
- Latest Australian refugee disaster worsened by slow response
- Hurricane Isaac … and the seven years since Hurricane Katrina
- US Justice Department cites abuse of students’ constitutional rights in Mississippi schools
- South Africa to prosecute strikers targeted by police massacre at Marikana
- Sri Lanka: US SEP presidential candidate speaks in Kegalla
- Sardinian miners occupy coal mine
- UN Secretary-General: Washington’s emissary at Tehran summit
- New fossils support a multiple-species view of early human evolution
- SEP campaigners in Detroit discuss attacks on jobs, public education
- Brazil’s public workers end strike
- Five Australian soldiers killed in “worst day” in Afghanistan
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