Archive: 01/2013
2013-01-03
- US drone strikes continue in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Owners Corporation Network spokesman discusses building safety
- German SPD leader Steinbrück: Candidate of the financial aristocracy
- Sri Lankan government prepares to impeach chief justice
- Southampton City Council cuts expose UK unions as partners in austerity
- 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation
- Texas judge approves ban on Planned Parenthood funding
- The fiscal cliff deal
- Merit-based scholarships in US to widen gap between high and low-income college students
- Growing poverty in Germany “politically desired”
- French Constitutional Council strikes down Hollande’s 75 percent tax on the rich
- Letters from our readers
- Brother Ali’s Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color and social reality in the US
- As 2013 begins: A mood of anxiety in ruling circles
2013-01-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Parti Québécois’ education summit—a mechanism for imposing tuition fee hikes and spending cuts
- Astronomers confirm fundamental relationship in atomic physics
- Obama and torture
- GM-Opel: German Left Party leader contacts US ambassador
- Shell Oil Arctic drilling rig runs aground
- UK: Hospitals across Greater Manchester under threat of closure
- Judge denies Obama administration attempt to dismiss challenge to “no-fly” list
- Homelessness and sleeping in the street on the rise in the UK
- New US drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen
- Court rules California city can halt pension payments
- Burmese military escalates war in Kachin state
- Afghanistan: Sharp rise in civilian deaths
2013-01-05
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK government attacks teachers’ pay
- US Congress approves measly relief package for Hurricane Sandy victims
- Australian government cuts welfare payments to single parents
- Philadelphia to shut one out of every six public schools
- Afghanistan: A model for 21st Century neo-colonialism
- Unions undermine struggle of Palermo’s Pizza workers
- Ontario Liberals impose sweeping concessions on teachers
- Obama signs Pentagon bill maintaining Guantanamo and military detention
- European Court orders damages for CIA torture victim
- London Underground to press ahead with driverless trains
- US jobs report points to continuing stagnation
- Australian dole recipients struggle to survive
- Tax cuts for business, pay cuts for workers
- Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained
2013-01-07
- Mental health care cuts hit rural Wisconsin
- This week in history: January 7-13
- US, allies step up military backing for Syria’s sectarian insurgency
- On the death of German SPD leader Peter Struck (1943-2012)
- Sri Lankan Tamil party legitimises military occupation
- Main resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “The political tasks of the Socialist Equality Party”
- After tax deal, spending cuts dominate Washington agenda
- 11,000 US teachers laid off in December
- New Year’s Eve stampede kills 64 in Ivory Coast
- India and Pakistan involved in fatal border clash
- French auto industry prepares assault on jobs, working conditions
- Obama administration blocks information request on assassination of US citizens
- Bushfires hit five Australian states
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds First National Congress
- Chinese government imposes new Internet censorship law
2013-01-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Transocean settles for $1.4 billion in criminal and civil charges
- Slovenian unions drop opposition to government austerity measures
- Resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “The SEP and the struggle against imperialist war”
- The world economy 2013: Illusions and reality
- Australia: Victorian paramedics protest over poor conditions
- Island dispute continues to fuel China-Japan tensions
- Corporate sponsors underwrite Obama’s inauguration extravaganza
- Greek government parties, opposition call joint demonstration
- UK council leaders warn of social unrest
- Letters from our readers
- California jobs report underscores deepening inequality
- New York City school bus drivers may strike over job security
- Obama names head of drone assassination program to lead CIA
2013-01-09
- Tens of thousands of distressed Michigan families losing welfare benefits
- Sri Lankan Buddhist chauvinists provoke violence against Muslims
- Resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “Defend Julian Assange and WikiLeaks”
- The Brennan nomination: A government of torturers and assassins
- Israeli election campaign reflects rightward shift
- Superhero graphic novels from DC and Marvel: Symbols and avatars, not images and people
- Behind the newly proposed US food regulations
- Australia: Hundreds of bushfires as heatwave continues
- Austerity drives up European unemployment to record levels
- President Mursi, IMF prepare austerity policies in Egypt
- Another sweetheart bank settlement on mortgage fraud
2013-01-10
- 2012 was hottest year recorded in US
- Venezuelan legislature postpones Chavez inauguration
- Sri Lanka heads toward constitutional crisis
- Resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality”
- Indian establishment manipulating anger over Delhi rape
- Europe in 2013
- Why the SEP (Germany) rejects a state ban of the neo-fascist NPD
- Witch-hunt continues against Maruti Suzuki workers in India
- US Army judge rejects motion to dismiss charges in Bradley Manning case
- India and Pakistan clash again in disputed Kashmir area
- Hitchcock: Small change, for the most part
- Finucane review shows links between British intelligence and loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland
- Australia headed for deepening slump in 2013
- Detroit city workers face new cuts
- Letters from our readers
2013-01-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Supreme Court refuses to hear lawsuit on suicide crisis facing war veterans
- Federal judge rules New York “stop-and-frisk” policing unconstitutional
- Saudi Arabia executes young Sri Lankan housemaid
- Billionaires gain as living standards fall
- Government prepares to dissolve South London National Health Service Trust
- US life expectancy lowest among industrialized countries
- Three Kurdish nationalist activists assassinated in Paris
- Obama nominates Jacob Lew, budget-cutter and ex-banker, to head Treasury
- Bankstown apartment fire survivor tells media how blaze began
- Fijian military objects to draft constitution
- South African police fire on striking farm workers
- Danish Red-Green Alliance supports budget cuts
- Ontario government threatens teachers with fines in bid to thwart walkout
- 2013 Academy Award nominations: Extraordinary and glaring contradictions, even greater than usual
2013-01-12
- Recent climate change research points to a growing global crisis
- Bomb blasts kill over 120 in Pakistan
- Japan, Philippines boost ties as tensions with China escalate
- The Middle East in 2013
- Hurricane lays bare social misery in New York’s public housing complexes
- National Hockey League lockout ends with concessions contract
- US consumer financial board issues pro-bank mortgage rules
- Eight workers killed in Turkish mining disaster
- Britain: Labour promotes anti-immigrant chauvinism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- American Express to cut 5,400 jobs
- House fires kill 11 in US south
- The impact of drawing: Two exhibitions of master drawings in New York
- Letters from our readers
- Canadian unions’ chauvinist campaign against “temporary foreign worker” expansion
- Obama-Karzai talks set stage for post-2014 US troop presence
2013-01-14
- Opposition emerges in film industry to Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty
- This week in history: January 14-20
- Pittsburgh teachers accused of fixing test scores
- Police shut down housing voucher distribution in Detroit suburb
- Washington, D.C., legislators vote to eliminate benefits for needy families
- Wall Street Journal demands “discipline” for Stockton, California “deadbeats”
- Sri Lankan president removes country’s chief justice
- Columbia geophysicist Klaus Jacob on Hurricane Sandy
- Obama’s cabinet of austerity and war
- UK: Peterborough National Health Service Trust deepens attacks on workers and services
- Benefit cuts to impoverish millions in Britain
- France launches war in northern Mali
- German Left Party defends its support for war against Syria
- Widespread influenza outbreak in 47 US states
- Chinese media censorship sparks protest
2013-01-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Greek SYRIZA leader meets with German finance minister
- Washington, DC legislators vote to eliminate benefits for needy families
- Push for Western military intervention in Syria escalates
- Open access activist dead at 26
- Exposure of sex-for-fees web site underscores UK student poverty
- Refugees step up protests in Australia’s offshore detention camps
- Hands off Mali!
- Obama outlines budget-cutting agenda at press conference
- India and Pakistan exchange threats in Kashmir border dispute
- 400,000 still homeless three years after Haitian earthquake
- Leading German publisher smeared as anti-Semite
- Letters from our readers
- Burgeoning native protests shake Canadian establishment and official native leadership
2013-01-16
- Record number of US military and veteran suicides
- Father of Aaron Swartz indicts US government for son’s suicide
- Growing share of US workers forced to tap retirement accounts
- California prison overcrowding set to worsen as governor raises state cap
- Behind the canonization of the second Philippine saint
- The rotten foundations of US policy in the Middle East
- Mobilize the working class to support New York’s school bus drivers!
- France continues to bomb Mali as Islamist opposition forces advance
- Australia: Engineer speaks with WSWS about building safety
- New York school drivers: “All they want is to push us backwards”
- Revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy (1937): The American dream turns sour
- French unions agree to pro-corporate labor “reforms”
- Fear of British EU exit prompts US/German warnings
- Australia: BlueScope Steel unveils further sackings
- UK: Barnet Council proceeds with public services outsourcing
2013-01-17
- Renault announces 7,500 job cuts in France
- 2013 and the new Scramble for Africa
- Pakistan Supreme Court orders arrest of PPP prime minister
- New York City school bus drivers strike to defend jobs
- The theoretical and historical origins of the pseudo-left
- France launches ground offensive in Mali
- Germany’s Left Party supports unconditional cooperation with the SPD and Greens
- Israeli police charge protest movement leader with assault
- Japanese government boosts military spending
- Striking school bus drivers: “The mayor is putting a price on our children”
- Obama on gun control: Expand surveillance and police powers
- New Australian Greens platform marks further rightward shift
- Europe slides deeper into recession
- Pro-austerity contenders in Czech Republic presidential election
- Letters from our readers
- World Bank cuts forecast for global economic growth
2013-01-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan government installs new chief justice
- Homelessness and hunger on the rise in San Diego, California
- Russian government intensifies witch-hunt of migrant workers
- Top US CEOs propose raising retirement age to 70
- Ranks of US working poor grow dramatically
- Asia in 2013
- NYC school bus strike
- The theoretical and historical origins of the pseudo-left
- France escalates Mali war amid Algerian hostage crisis
- Mounting job losses in Australia
- NYC bus interviews
- Germany: Corrupt practices of IG Metall union, paid for by Thyssen-Krupp
- Fatal accidents fuel discontent with Egyptian Islamist government
- UK Conservatives appoint major donor John Nash as education minister
- New York school bus drivers walk picket lines for second day
- Director Kathryn Bigelow defends her indefensible Zero Dark Thirty
- The Detroit auto show: Auto execs celebrate record profits
2013-01-19
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SEP holds public meeting on Stockton, California bankruptcy
- Sri Lanka government faces rising debt burden
- Germany: Lower Saxony vote a litmus test for upcoming general election
- The Australian pseudo-left and the NSW public sector union
- Political issues in the fight against the fascist Golden Dawn
- New York bus drivers continue strike to defend jobs
- Bradley Manning denied whistleblower defense
- Unions abruptly shut down “indefinite” public sector strike in Kerala
- Italy before the elections
- India-Pakistan relationship remains tense
- Far-right UVF behind Northern Ireland “flag protests”
- Letters from our readers
- California governor pledges continued austerity
- Australian fire-fighting budget cuts place lives at risk
- Standoff continues in Algerian hostage crisis
2013-01-21
- This week in history: January 21-27
- UK: Parents and staff demonstrate against closure of Sheffield children’s centres
- Australian mining giant ramps up pressure on PNG
- Obama’s second inauguration
- US attorney downplays vendetta against Internet pioneer Aaron Swartz
- Threat of federal intervention to break New York City school bus drivers strike
- Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables: Social misery, with a vengeance
- European Union demands further attacks on Ireland’s public sector
- Fightback needed to defend the UK’s National Health Service
- Obama to approve drone assassination manual
- Further strikes in China as economy slows
- Report documents mass poverty in California
- Boeing rejects engineering union contract extension amidst 787 crisis
- Algeria hostage crisis ends in bloodbath
- Air Berlin cuts 900 jobs
2013-01-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US covers up Islamist involvement in Aleppo bombing
- 1,000 attend New York memorial for Aaron Swartz
- Three UK retail chains collapse
- Christian Democrats ousted in German state election
- Philadelphia parents and teachers reject school closures
- Inaugural demagogy
- Imperialist powers escalate war in Mali
- French Left Front promotes war in Mali
- US inflames island dispute between Japan and China
- Lupe Fiasco kicked off US inaugural stage while performing anti-war song
- Letters from our readers
- Chicago records over 500 homicides in 2012
- India: Union calls off Chennai air cargo strike
- “Green-on-blue” attacks continue in Afghanistan
2013-01-23
- ILO report: Global unemployment to hit record high in 2013
- Imperialism plans “decades of war” in Africa
- School bus drivers in New York face NLRB threat as strike enters second week
- Baseball great Stan Musial dead at 92
- Israel: High voter turnout results in setback for Netanyahu
- Indonesian police gun down alleged terrorists
- Harlan, Kentucky coal truck drivers take independent strike action
- Germany: The role of the unions and Left Party in hospital privatisations
- Closed fire station costs Detroit resident her home
- Fijian junta discards draft constitution
- UK police officer found guilty of trying to sell information to News of the World
- One in ten Washington, DC public schools to be closed
- GM Brazil strike
- Lance Armstrong and the world of professional sports
2013-01-24
- Federal Circuit Court upholds Wisconsin anti-worker law
- Vadim: German documentary chronicles a family destroyed by immigration authorities
- Romanian government announces new round of austerity measures
- Why the New York Times backs Bloomberg’s assault on school bus drivers
- Reports of atrocities emerge as France escalates Mali war
- British MPs feign indignation over university links to warmongers
- Israel’s elections augur deepening political instability
- Australian hospital funding cuts cause bed closures
- Italy: Beppe Grillo’s inexorable move to the right
- Striking Athens subway workers defy court ruling
- Los Angeles expands school policing in wake of Newtown shooting
- Letters from our readers
- Canada to expand support for French imperialism’s war on Mali
- Australian prime minister reaffirms alignment with US against China
2013-01-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sri Lankan SEP condemns defence ministry ban on Jaffna meeting
- SEP holds meeting in Jaffna despite military threats
- Quebec’s Charbonneau Commission resumes hearings into contract rigging and political kickbacks
- Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land: A deal with the devil?
- Mass opposition to Philadelphia school closures
- Two years of the Egyptian Revolution
- German trade unions reject action to defend GM-Opel plant
- Striking New York school bus drivers face government and media gang up
- France sends troops to secure Niger uranium mines
- Union membership in US hits lowest level in nearly a century
- Letter from a school bus driver
- Japan’s finance minister: Old people should “hurry up and die”
- Italy plunges deeper into recession as general election approaches
- Johnson & Johnson knowingly sold faulty hip implants
- Pseudo-left conceals refusal of SYRIZA, PASOK and trade unions to oppose Golden Dawn
- US debt ceiling maneuver sets stage for new cuts
- UK Prime Minister Cameron commits to 2017 referendum on EU membership
- Australia: Government and media endorse French intervention in Mali
2013-01-26
- Obama names ex-federal prosecutor with Wall Street ties to head SEC
- Greek pseudo-left leader Tsipras auditions for State Department, IMF
- Germany: Deutsche Telekom cuts a further 1,200 jobs
- UK Socialist Party backs Len McCluskey reelection in UNITE union
- Junior Seau’s family sues National Football League over brain trauma
- South Carolina board authorizes strikebreaking against school bus drivers
- UK Probation Service to be privatised
- Japan’s currency war
- Workers need a new perspective and new organizations to mount class political struggle
- New York school bus walkout continues amid injunction and strikebreaking threats
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Floods kill 21 in Indonesian capital
- Greek government mobilizes riot police to break Athens subway strike
- Federal Reserve transcripts show top US policymakers vastly underestimated crisis
- Mass protests against Mursi mark second anniversary of Egyptian Revolution
- Forced overtime at Dundee, Michigan Chrysler plant as layoffs hit
- The Nation defends John Brennan, Obama’s nominee for the CIA
- New report details explosive growth of poverty among Detroit children
- Letters from our readers
2013-01-28
- This week in history: January 28-February 3
- The fight to defend Britain’s National Health Service
- New York school bus drivers remain determined as back-to-work injunction looms
- Union limits Indian auto workers to “go-slow” campaign over wages
- Australia: Protest over privatisation of hospital hydrotherapy pool
- Refugees subject to vicious treatment by Greek, Italian police
- Greek government extends strikebreaking against subway workers to rail and tram workers
- Detroit house fire kills nine-month-old child
- Mursi declares state of emergency as protests escalate in Egypt
- IMF cuts world growth forecast
- Former CIA agent responsible for torture revelations sentenced to prison
- Chinese media on war footing
- Ontario unions stage protest as cover for facilitating Liberals’ austerity agenda
- Fire in Brazil night club kills 245
- Forty years after Roe v. Wade: Abortion rights under sustained attack
2013-01-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- ISO offers sophistry in the service of the trade union bureaucracy
- Philadelphia Theatre Company stagehands’ strike in second week
- Sri Lankan SEP to mark 25th anniversary of Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
- Slovenia: Nationwide public sector strike intensifies government crisis
- Renault and PSA Peugeot-Citroën workers in joint protest against factory closures
- No to all school closures! For action committees to defend public education!
- Political lessons of the Athens subway strike
- US senators unveil draconian immigration “reform”
- Britain, US escalate war aid as France advances into northern Mali
- Thousands march in London against threat to close Lewisham Hospital Accident & Emergency unit
- University of Western Sydney victimises Professor Steve Keen
- Jordan on the brink of disaster
- The human cost of Italian austerity
- Four dead in severe floods across eastern Australia
- Push to dismantle public education behind plan to close another 28 Detroit schools
- Letters from our readers
- The Green Corn Rebellion: 1935 novel about an episode in the American class struggle
- New York school bus companies threaten to bring in scabs
2013-01-30
- Staff strike at Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust in England
- US Treasury rubber-stamps bonus requests from bailed-out firms
- Western push to oust Syrian regime escalates
- Sri Lanka’s constitutional crisis: The way forward for workers
- COSATU calls off farm workers strike in South Africa
- Sacramento moves to close 11 public elementary schools
- Youth poverty rises in Germany’s Ruhr region
- For workers’ power in Egypt!
- Companies bring in scabs in New York school bus drivers’ strike
- California’s NUHW nurses union affiliates with CNA ahead of vote at Kaiser hospitals
- A reply to Michael Moore’s defense of Zero Dark Thirty
- Obama announces his immigration “reform” plan
- Downgrade of Illinois credit rating prelude to attack on retired workers
- Australian PM announces unprecedented seven-month election campaign
- Germany acquiring drones for military use
- Another Detroit child dies in house fire
- US secures drone base in Northwest Africa
2013-01-31
- An answer to the Washington Teachers’ Union
- Desperate US students seek “arrangements”
- Australia: Gillard imposes Aboriginal celebrity as Senate candidate
- Revolutionary Socialists offer their services to the Egyptian bourgeoisie
- The Philippines takes South China Sea dispute to UN tribunal
- French Renault and PSA unions try to block fight against plant closures
- New York City school bus strike at the crossroads
- Union officials offer to end NY school bus strike and negotiate concessions
- Burger scandal reveals food adulteration in Britain
- The Impossible: A narrow view of a major disaster
- EMS cuts delayed ambulance in fatal Detroit fire
- With death toll rising, Egypt’s opposition calls for talks with Mursi
- US economy contracted in fourth quarter of 2012
- French military oversees power-sharing deal in Central African Republic
- California governor’s State of the State speech celebrates austerity
- At University of Michigan symposium Angela Davis offers political cover for Obama
- PBS’s The Abolitionists: Remembering the political struggle against slavery
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