Archive: 03/2013
2013-03-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- British trade union mounts witch-hunt based on accusations of “rape denial”
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Pressure mounts on Sri Lanka over human rights abuses
- Scandal-plagued Los Angeles County police head named US “Sheriff of the Year”
- Washington escalates Syrian bloodbath
- Former dictator’s daughter takes over South Korean presidency
- IG Metall union seeks to finalize closure of GM-Opel Bochum plant
- New York to use public housing and school property for luxury high-rises
- Head of Mexican teachers union arrested
- Bradley Manning pleads not guilty to “aiding the enemy” charge
- Conflict erupts on West Bank over death of Palestinian in detention
- Mass layoffs at Caterpillar in Belgium
- What Ken Loach makes of The Spirit of ’45
- US judge orders release of two anarchists held for five months without charges
2013-03-02
- Why I read the WSWS
- Swiss referendum against “rip-offs”
- Sussex University students and staff oppose privatisation
- Michigan governor moves to appoint emergency manager in Detroit
- Australia: Union complicity in Rosella closure
- Fourteen killed in stand-off between Philippine sultan and Malaysia
- Sequester cuts: A new stage in the assault on the US working class
- India: Chief Minister threatens victimized Maruti Suzuki workers
- Bradley Manning and the media
- German Left Party promotes SPD candidate Steinbrück
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese PM calls for a “strong Japan”
- Indian budget offers concessions to big business while slashing price subsidies
- UN hides its role in Haiti cholera outbreak
- Greek military prepares for mass repression
- Unemployment hits new record in euro zone, personal income plummets in US
- Fight the bankers’ dictatorship over Detroit!
- Letters from our readers
- Van Cliburn, US pianist who achieved fame at Moscow competition, dead at 78
- UAW sanctions elimination of the eight-hour day at Chrysler
2013-03-04
- This week in history: March 4-10
- Sequester initiates new austerity drive against US workers
- The financial aristocracy and the growth of working class struggle
- German parliament approves military operations in Mali
- Malaysia excludes Australian senator in lead up to election
- National Health Services in London under sustained attack
- Irish government and trade unions deepen austerity measures
- Australian PM promotes nationalism and “law-and-order” in western Sydney
- Kerry pushes for new IMF deal in Egypt
- Washington, DC shelter residents speak on living conditions
- Berlin bus driver welcomes rank-and-file committee of New York City school bus workers
- An honest Russian citizen: Boris Khlebnikov’s A Long and Happy Life
- Dozens shot in Bangladesh protests against death sentence for Islamic leader
2013-03-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Australia: Telstra slashes hundreds of jobs at Sensis
- Sequester cuts boost corporate assault on American workers
- Homeless crisis grows in San Diego
- South African police murder Mozambican taxi driver
- Social and political tensions mount in Russia
- Quebec’s Education Summit and the failure of ASSE’s protest perspective
- Japanese PM prepares for war
- Las Vegas taxi drivers continue strike
- UK: A quarter of Greater Manchester’s population living in “extreme poverty”
- Illinois public employees’ union agrees to concessions contract
- Gas explosion kills Michigan man
- Brutal budget cutting, privatization planned for Detroit
- Letters from our readers
- Washington steps up Africa intervention
2013-03-06
- David North to address public meetings in Australia
- Why I read the WSWS
- Kerry steps up US war threats against Syria, Iran
- After US sequester, Wall Street demands cuts in Medicare and Social Security
- Malaysian military bombs forces of Philippine sultan
- The stock market bonanza
- IG Metall protest at Opel Bochum: A travesty of solidarity
- Italian parties endeavor to form a government
- Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez dead
- Austerity demands provoke Greek government crisis
- Hypocrisy in European debate on bankers’ bonuses
- Democratic backers of austerity pose as opponents of emergency manager in Detroit
- Canadian aboriginal leadership collaborates with police
- Raoul Peck’s Fatal Assistance: An indictment of Western aid to Haiti, but…
2013-03-07
- Chrysler victimizes Detroit-area auto worker
- French government promotes pseudo-left opposition parties in Tunisia
- Teachers, school staff strike in Cleveland suburb
- Philippine typhoon victims storm government offices
- The collapse of Detroit: An indictment of American capitalism
- Eastleigh by-election used to shift UK politics rightwards
- The occupation of Friern Barnet Library and the future of public services in Britain
- Obama administration claims right to assassinate citizens within the US
- US Vice President reinforces military threat against Iran
- New York City homeless population reaches Great Depression levels
- Struggle against closure of Goodyear plant in Amiens, France at a crossroads
- German trade unions march in step with German army
- Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmmaker detained at Los Angeles airport
- Letters from our readers
- Operation Condor trial begins in Argentina
- California governor prepares implementation of Obama health care bill
- Australia: Victorian premier removed as state slides into recession
2013-03-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Why I read the WSWS
- Why I read the WSWS
- Obama, Republicans conspire to attack Medicare, Social Security
- Unions sign French automaker Renault’s plan to slash jobs, wages
- Hugo Chavez and socialism
- US Senate approves John Brennan, tied to torture and drone assassination, as CIA director
- The Obama administration’s persecution of Bradley Manning
- UN imposes harsh new sanctions on North Korea
- Australian High Court further erodes free speech
- European economy contracts as stock markets soar
- The Detroit City Council begs Snyder, “We can do this without an emergency manager.”
- Mounting economic instabilities loom over Chinese congress
- Thousands of native children died in Canada’s residential schools
- The political issues confronting the Bulgarian protests
2013-03-09
- Social crisis to intensify after Western Australian election
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Report exposes sexual torture of Sri Lankan detainees
- UK government passes legislation for secret courts
- Philadelphia announces plan to close one in ten public schools
- Police murder in South Africa
- New York Times describes 2002 US-backed coup against Hugo Chavez as “unwise”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Detroit techno artist Robert Hood’s Motor: Nighttime World Volume 3
- The political significance of Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star Movement
- Police clash with workers fighting closure of Goodyear Amiens-Nord plant
- Court suspends Egyptian parliamentary elections before explosive Port Said verdict
- February employment report masks depth of US jobs crisis
- US Supreme Court hears case on constitutionality of taking DNA samples from arrestees
- Letters from our readers
- ISO whitewashes role of Chicago Teachers Union in school closures
2013-03-11
- Labor Party routed in Western Australian election
- This week in history: March 11-17
- Why I read the WSWS
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- The New York Times defends drone murder
- UK government lays out agenda for National Health Service privatisation
- Wall Street turns profit in student loan debt
- Kentucky house fire kills seven
- North eastern Japan still a disaster zone
- German interior minister agitates against immigrants
- Greek government courts fascist Golden Dawn with anti-immigrant law
- Deadly clashes erupt across Egypt after Port Said court verdict
- Local UK official who said disabled children should be “put down” resigns
- Gold by Thomas Arslan: Always on the move—but why, and where?
2013-03-12
- Hospital unions attempt sellout of British strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Guardian/BBC report lays out US policy of torture, murder in Iraq
- Sri Lankan president rejects fresh war crimes evidence
- Corruption scandals engulf Spain’s monarchy
- Building, food service workers strike University of Illinois
- Too big to jail
- Maryland moves to repeal state death penalty
- Tensions rise on Korean peninsula
- Former Detroit mayor convicted of racketeering and extortion
- Letters from our readers
- Berlin: Mass layoffs at energy firm Vattenfall
- Australian business, media step up campaign for austerity cuts
- US defense secretary’s Afghanistan trip a debacle
2013-03-13
- University of Illinois building and food service workers discuss strike issues
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Olympia, Washington health care workers strike
- Mass opposition to austerity in Portugal
- The right-wing threat in Greece
- French army suppresses reporting of Mali war
- Australian glass workers face devastating plant closures
- Germany: Turkish mother and seven children killed in fire
- EU discusses restructuring of Irish and Portuguese bailouts to deepen austerity
- Detroit workers denounce threat to impose emergency manager
- India: Accused in Delhi rape found hanging in his prison cell
- Police and villagers clash in Burma over land dispute
- Obama calls for deeper cuts as Republicans, Democrats propose budget plans
- “The Weimar Touch”: An interview with Rainer Rother, director of the 2013 Berlin film festival’s retrospective
- Australia: Labor’s nationalist jobs campaign
2013-03-14
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Britain and France seek end to arms embargo on Syria
- Spain’s Iberia airline strike betrayed by unions
- France: PSA car workers’ strike at an impasse
- New pope elected as Catholic Church tries to stem crisis
- US budget debate targets Social Security and Medicare
- Parents, teachers and students oppose New York City school closings
- Kurdish nationalists pursue US-backed talks with Turkey
- British Labour Party steps up anti-immigrant rhetoric
- One hundred years since the birth of John Garfield—charismatic, working class figure of postwar Hollywood films
- EU summit wants more austerity
- Australian government imposes new anti-democratic electoral laws
- Detroit City Council pledges more cuts in bid to avoid state takeover
- US officials announce formation of offensive cyber war units
- Letters from our readers
- A reply to a supporter of Chavez
- WSWS launches new Afrikaans language section
2013-03-15
- Chrysler fires worker for protest
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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- Partner of deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz denounces US attorney general
- German social democrats prepare a new austerity agenda
- US sequester cuts target jobs, vital social services
- Brutal exploitation of immigrant labor in Russia
- A financial dictator for Detroit
- Pakistan begins construction of Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline
- Opel workers: Vote no on the contract!
- New Zealand government launches asset sales
- Police shooting of 16-year-old provokes protests in New York
- New York school bus drivers face new threats
- France’s defense minister visits French troops in Mali
- At union summit, Australian PM promotes phony jobs campaign
- Ireland’s top trade union bureaucrat warns of a “tipping point”
- Auto workers denounce victimization of Chrysler worker
2013-03-16
- Video: Parents and students speak out against school closures in Chicago
- Australia: Unions prepare to sell out Sydney university workers
- UN says US drone war in Pakistan violates international law
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Slovenian political crisis continues
- San Francisco Symphony musicians strike against concessions
- Australian opposition spokesman calls for refugees to be treated like criminals
- The “Dirty War” Pope
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Detroit’s emergency manager: Who is Kevyn Orr?
- US to boost anti-ballistic missile systems in Asia Pacific
- Germany: Union conference discusses “renewal through strikes”
- Politicians, media hail appointment of emergency manager for Detroit
- China’s new leadership signals more assertive foreign policy
- Obama renews calls for slashing Medicare, Social Security
- Senate report documents fraud and lawbreaking by JPMorgan Chase
- Britain: Student beaten by police finally found not guilty
2013-03-18
- Report details massive wealth loss for youth in US
- This week in history: March 18-24
- Showing of Tsar to Lenin in Los Angeles
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Teachers, school staff continue strike in Cleveland, Ohio suburb
- Australian government’s cover-up of “Prisoner X’s” death in Israel
- JPMorgan and the criminalization of the US ruling class
- The New York Times’ Bill Keller smears Bradley Manning
- New Detroit emergency manager owes back taxes
- An Appreciation of Juanita Tyler
- Japan to sign up to US-led Asia-Pacific trade pact
- Guantanamo hunger strike over prisoner abuse
- Europe’s rulers whip up anti-immigrant chauvinism
- US appeals court rules against Obama administration on drone assassination secrecy
- Detroit emergency manager threatens municipal bankruptcy
- EU summit sparks run on Cyprus banks
- China’s NPC installs new leadership
- UK public inquiry into Iraq war to withhold crucial documents
- No holds barred: Two German documentaries— I Will Not Lose and Metamorphoses
- Arizona woman’s murder conviction overturned after 22 years on death row
2013-03-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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- Plans for military surveillance of Americans’ financial records
- The Iraq War ten years on: A turning point for US imperialism
- School bus drivers face legacy of toxic pollution
- Germany: Inquiry committee posts interim report on neo-Nazi terrorist group
- Head of Canada’s NDP auditions before US elite
- Fifth West Virginia miner killed in as many weeks
- Australian government triggers furore over media laws
- The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
- India manoeuvres over UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka
- Cyprus banks close as bailout terms spark Europe-wide crisis
- Letters from our readers
- US funding bill to make sequester cuts permanent
- Italy: Bridgestone wants to close plant in Bari
- The managed bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler: A model for the assault on Detroit
2013-03-20
- David North to address public meeting in London on May 5: Fifteen Years of the World Socialist Web Site
- European trade unions oversee auto industry restructuring
- WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh to introduce Tsar to Lenin at Toronto’s York University
- New report on CIA: Rendition and torture on a global scale
- Why I read the WSWS
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- US, NATO prepare Syria intervention
- US retirement confidence at 23-year low
- The American media, ten years after the Iraq war
- German auto union splits GM-Opel workforce
- The Steubenville, Ohio rape case
- Massachusetts: One state through the sequester lens
- India: Victimized Maruti Suzuki workers file affidavits documenting their torture
- Germany: Resignation of ThyssenKrupp boss heralds new attacks on workforce
- Kodak ends retiree benefits to emerge from bankruptcy
- Oppose the privatisation of education
- State clampdown in Northern Ireland
- Into the maelstrom: The crisis of American imperialism and the war against Iraq
- China’s new premier to enforce “painful” market restructuring
- Australian Labor government embroiled in leadership crisis
2013-03-21
- Michel Gondry’s The We and the I: A complicated bus ride in the Bronx
- Why I read the WSWS
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- US Senate budget bill makes sequester cuts permanent
- Hands off Syria!
- Severe drought threatens new recession in New Zealand
- Germany’s Left Party closes ranks with German intelligence
- Los Angeles election results in May runoff between pro-business candidates
- US intensifies pressure on China over North Korea
- D.C. Fire Department investigation highlights underfunding
- Unions move to ram through concessions against Detroit workers
- Europe in crisis as Cyprus faces national bankruptcy
- Letters from our readers
- Osborne’s “Aspiration Nation” budget signals more UK austerity
- Australian PM fends off leadership challenge
- Unions approve closure of PSA’s Aulnay plant in France
2013-03-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Thai government and Muslim separatists agree to talks
- Why I read the WSWS
- Reject the concessions contracts! Mobilize against financial dictatorship in Detroit!
- US corporate executives cash in
- Contractors impose sweeping givebacks after defeat of New York City school bus strike
- German defence minister visits Mali
- Australian government crisis deepens after leadership turmoil
- Obama talks “peace” in Israel while preparing war
- Dying US army veteran denounces “illegal” Iraq War
- UK phone-hacking scandal spreads
- Europe threatens Cyprus with bankruptcy in power struggle with Russia
- UK’s new press regulations a major threat to democratic rights
- The feverish pulse of the early 20th century: George Bellows, American modernist
- India: Stalinist CPM waffles over its full-throated support for Afzal Guru’s execution
2013-03-23
- UN body passes further resolution on Sri Lankan human rights
- SYRIZA leader Tsipras addresses the British pseudo-left
- Why I read the WSWS
- Behind the failed political coup against Australian PM
- US retailer J.C. Penney cut 43,000 jobs last year
- Amid deepening crisis, Pakistan announces May general election
- Germany: IG Metall union stitches up the Opel Bochum workforce
- CTU president denies opposing school closures
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Hungary: National award for notorious Anti-Semite
- CERN confirms Higgs discovery
- Germany: Left Party leader seeks to dupe the electorate
- Cyprus to face savage cuts and economic dictatorship
- Letters from our readers
- Detroit Water and Sewerage Workers denounce contract
- Chicago announces plans to shut 61 public schools
- In second vote, Washington Boeing technicians accept concessions contract
- US agribusiness seeks to outlaw filming of farming practices
2013-03-25
- This week in history: March 25-31
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- US steps up war against Syria after Obama’s “peace” trip to Israel
- Striking teachers, students and parents rally to defend education in Cleveland area
- Suicide of Philippine college student sparks protests
- The attack on public education in Chicago
- Immigrant baby in Britain refused operation to prevent paralysis
- Police occupy New York City neighborhood
- Fat Jon’s Rapture Kontrolle— Hip hop with an emotional content
- Detroit Democratic politicans promote racial politics over emergency manager
- US “sequester” cuts shut 149 air traffic control towers
- US Senate budget proposes $975 billion in spending cuts
- Corporate elite presses Australian government to accelerate pro-business restructuring
- Eastern Kentucky hospital workers authorize strike
- France confirms killing of Al Qaeda leader Abou Zeid in Mali
2013-03-26
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Bryan Wizemann’s About Sunny (Think of Me) released on video on demand
- SEP National Secretary Joe Kishore: Support the WSWS!
- Why I read the WSWS
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- UK teaching unions signal no resistance to cuts
- Increasing number of US seniors living in poverty
- Agang offers no alternative for South African working class to ANC
- The CIA war against Syria
- The British working class and the American Civil War: 150 years since London’s St. James’ Hall meeting
- German military deploys lethal drones in Afghanistan
- Emergency Financial Manager takes over Detroit
- European Union imposes bank bailout on Cyprus
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese president’s “historic visit” to Russia
- Chicago residents angry at planned school closings
- Seleka rebels seize capital of Central African Republic
- Australian PM announces new cabinet
- The strange death of Boris Berezovsky
- Detroit water and sewerage workers reject concession demands
2013-03-27
- Tsar to Lenin screenings at Toronto’s York and Kingston’s Queen’s University
- Why I read the WSWS
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- A Place At The Table: A damning picture of hunger, with feeble conclusions
- US sequester cuts and the fraud of “political gridlock”
- Michigan unions ram through concession deals ahead of right-to-work law
- US-led campaign against Syria destabilises Lebanon
- Kerry’s Middle East tour prepares endless war in Afghanistan, Syria
- US authorities detain immigrants in solitary confinement
- Australia: CSR glass workers discuss issues posed by plant closures
- Germany: leading Left Party official praises Agenda 2010 reforms
- Mursi, army debate imposing martial law as strike wave shakes Egypt
- Detroit area worker killed in auto parts plant
- Cyprus faces deep recession, high unemployment after bank bailout
- Goodyear union in France touts cooperative to “save” Amiens plant
- No to all school closures! Unite the working class to defend public education!
- Bangladesh government continues repression against opposition
- Albuquerque police chief resigns amid surge of police violence
2013-03-28
- Letter from a reader on Zelary, a Czech film set in World War II
- Agreement reached between Turkish government and Kurdish nationalist PKK
- Why I read the WSWS
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- More evidence emerges of torture by Spanish troops in Iraq
- Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland not exempt from threat of National Health Service destruction
- Two refugees killed in latest boat disaster off Australia
- The trade unions and Michigan’s “right to work” law
- US sequester cuts force NASA to halt outreach programs
- New pamphlet available from Mehring Books
- Attempts to form Italian government collapse
- Kino Video’s Griffith Masterworks: Watching movies become art
- Plans to vastly expand drones in US
- Tensions high at Chrysler Warren Stamping in wake of victimization
- Letters from our readers
- New Chinese president courts Africa
2013-03-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Agreement reached between Turkish government and Kurdish nationalist PKK
- The European Union’s looting of Cyprus
- Large neo-fascist vote in French by-election: A warning to the working class
- Caterpillar prepares confrontation with South Milwaukee workers
- French President Hollande pledges austerity, war in prime time TV interview
- US food stamp use swells to a record 47.8 million
- New law granting Detroit emergency manager sweeping authority goes into effect
- Spain: Sacked Delphi workers confront trade unions
- Australian High Court approves “criminal organisation” laws
- Teachers union seeks to channel opposition behind Democratic Party
- Canada’s Conservatives slash social spending, promise further tax cuts for the rich
- Political crisis in Bulgaria continues
- Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announces mass layoffs
- North Dakota enacts most restrictive abortion laws in US
2013-03-30
- Letters to Trotsky: A remarkable play at Bielefeld’s Theaterlabor in Germany
- Quebec’s Option Nationale: An aspiring party of big business
- The two sides of the US economic “recovery”
- IG Metall union joins offensive against GM-Opel workers
- Residents face bitter winter in New Zealand’s quake-hit city
- David North to speak at WSWS anniversary meetings in San Diego and Toronto
- Obama, Republicans plot sweeping attack on Medicare
- Convicted Ponzi schemer Madoff accuses US government of stonewalling on bank prosecutions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US deployment of stealth bombers escalates military standoff in Korea
- Illinois House approves pension cuts
- After Cyprus, more austerity in Greece
- Detroit’s emergency manager keeps mayor, city council on payroll
- A financial dictator for Detroit - How to fight the emergency manager
- US Supreme Court hears arguments on gay marriage
- A letter from a former J.C. Penney worker
- UK health regulator reports on poor care of the elderly
- New Jersey governor announces state takeover of Camden schools
- Two cases of a “functional cure” for HIV/AIDS
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