Archive: 04/2013
2013-04-01
- This week in history: April 1-7
- Why I read the WSWS
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- The drive to dismantle Medicare
- Mobilizing the working class against the bankers’ dictatorship
- US sends fighter-bombers to Korea amid rising risk of war
- Banks threaten to increase repossessions as Irish mortgage crisis deepens
- Britain: Conservatives and Labour step up witch-hunt against immigrants
- Augusta, Georgia: Police hold back crowd in near-food riot
- Fire kills five near Sherrard, Illinois
- US states cut higher education spending by nearly a third
- Detroit workers speak against emergency manager
- Budget cuts severely impact US community college students
- Thousands of California teachers receive layoff notices
- Pro-French Central African Republic coup leaders scrap Chinese oil deals
- Burmese opposition party congress adopts pro-market agenda
- Bangladesh National Party heightens confrontation with the government
2013-04-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Venezuela’s Maduro runs right-wing campaign in preparation for austerity
- Approval of Stockton, California bankruptcy paves way for new assault on workers’ pensions
- Sri Lankan Buddhist extremists attack Muslim-owned businesses
- Reports reveal rapid pauperisation of the Spanish working class
- Russia presses ahead with the rebuilding of its military forces
- Sequester cuts pose new threat to US mine safety
- Tenants angry over New York Housing Authority’s plans to sell to developers
- South Korea’s threats heighten danger of military conflict
- In Qatar, US-backed Afghan President Karzai makes overtures to Taliban
- Costs of Iraq, Afghanistan wars could rise to $6 trillion
- Greek parliament overturns right to free, universal education
2013-04-03
- Trial of political activists underway in United Arab Emirates
- T-Mobile lays off several hundred workers in Washington State
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Australian court criticises Labor’s refugee deportations
- Germany: Pirate Party makes overtures to the far right
- The terrible cost of Washington’s wars
- Extreme right prison gang suspected in Texas killings
- US escalates military tensions over North Korean nuclear program
- Understanding Lincoln: An interview with historian Allen Guelzo
- Emergency manager’s ex-law firm hired to oversee Detroit restructuring
- A week of human carnage in China’s mines
2013-04-04
- Largest ever welfare cuts come into force in Britain
- Australia: Sydney University staff strike over jobs and conditions
- Atlanta testing scandal exposes fraud of anti-public school “reform”
- Why I read the WSWS
- Washington escalates Syria intervention
- SYRIZA makes political pact with the nationalist right
- California governor seeks end to federal prison oversight
- Class war in Europe
- Malaysian PM dissolves parliament for national election
- China appeals for calm amid fears of war over US escalation in Korea
- Italian president appoints expert commissions
- The Gatekeepers from Israel and a film version of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
- European unemployment rises for 22nd consecutive month
- Letters from our readers
- China: Suicide and strike at Foxconn
- Canada’s government suppresses scientific reporting
- French Budget Minister Cahuzac resigns over hidden bank account
2013-04-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UAW breaks silence on Chrysler firing skilled tradesman
- Why I read the WSWS
- Teacher opposes assault on public schools
- Obama’s “playbook” and the threat of nuclear war in Asia
- Oakland Police Department implicated in systematic abuse
- Australia: NSW teachers union paves way for assault on public education
- UK Labour’s David Miliband joins International Rescue Committee
- US sequester cuts treatment for thousands of cancer patients
- Germany: Victims of the Kunduz massacre sue for compensation
- District of Columbia budget proposal covers over deepening inequality
- Israel bombs Gaza, shoots down West Bank youth
- UK: Privatisation agenda causing overcrowded schools and poor-quality education
- Australian government divisions re-emerge over tax concessions for ultra-wealthy
- Cahuzac tax scandal, neo-fascist ties stagger France’s ruling Socialist Party
2013-04-06
- Wayne State University IYSSE holds meeting opposing financial dictatorship in Detroit
- Why I read the WSWS
- Obama attacks Medicare and Social Security
- Oil spills in Minnesota and Arkansas
- School districts across New York face cuts
- Renewed US pressure for increased Australian military spending
- Disney shuts down video game developer LucasArts, lays off 150 staff
- Health study: Austerity is costing lives in Europe
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US threatens North Korea while signaling possible talks
- Japan announces “new dimension” in quantitative easing
- UK: The political fraud of the “anti-bedroom tax” campaign
- US jobs growth slows to a crawl
- Multi-billionaire Dan Gilbert seeks to cash in on Detroit’s financial dictatorship
- UK Prime Minister Cameron stokes fires of war against North Korea
- US-backed Central African Republic coup leaders seek international support
- Australian PM’s China trip prepared by top-level, secret committee
2013-04-08
- This week in history: April 8-14
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Steubenville, Ohio: Portrait of a rust belt city
- UK politicians, media exploit children’s deaths to demand further attack on welfare
- Obama’s second term: a new stage in the social counterrevolution
- Rank-and-file committee points way forward for New York school bus workers
- US threatens war with North Korea, demands China cut off support
- Kansas anti-abortion bill defines life as beginning “at fertilization”
- International talks on Iran’s nuclear program fail
- New York City school bus drivers, escorts denounce contractors’ “final” offer
- US infrastructure dilapidated, underfunded
- Indian building collapse kills 75
- Hundreds of workers at Goss International France lose their jobs
- Oppose the bankers’ dictatorship in Detroit!
- NATO strike kills 10 Afghan children after week of bloody fighting
2013-04-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Why I read the WSWS
- SXSW Music Festival 2013—Part 1
- South Korea prepares for war amid US-China stand-off
- Communities across US feel impact of sequestration cuts
- Thousands of scientists protest US cuts to medical research
- European Union demands cuts after Portuguese court rules bailout unconstitutional
- Thatcher’s legacy
- David North addresses meetings in Australia on 15 years of the WSWS
- Obama’s dangerous “counter-provocation” plan against North Korea
- European Union imposes austerity bailout on Cyprus
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: South West NHS Pay Cartel publishes plans to cut wages and conditions
- California union supports Democratic-sponsored attack on teachers
- Obama defends plan to cut Medicare and Social Security
- General Motors-Holden to eliminate 500 more jobs in Australia
- AT&T workers reject contract, face déjà vu betrayal by union
2013-04-10
- Why I read the WSWS
- Remembering Cleotha Staples and the Staple Singers
- Saudi crackdown on migrants
- Former Australian PM urges US-China rapprochement
- The brutal face of neocolonialism in Afghanistan
- Germany’s Left Party defends the looting of Cyprus
- China confronts dilemma over Korean crisis
- Italian president pardons officer involved in CIA renditions in Italy
- Low-income students six times more likely to drop out of high school
- Obama on gun control: An exercise in concealing harsh social truths
- Detroit emergency manager prepares to attack pensions
- UK Council Tax changes spell deepening poverty for millions
- Chicago school closings target poorest neighborhoods
- Anti-Muslim violence erupts in Burma
- Eastern European auto industry in crisis
- Medical researchers protest sequestration cuts
2013-04-11
- US states de-fund public education through expanded voucher schemes
- Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States
- British parliament unites in praise of Margaret Thatcher
- Why I read the WSWS
- General Motors in drive to cut skilled trades jobs in US plants
- Detroit area gas explosion reveals deadly state of pipeline infrastructure
- The Cypriot bailout marks a new stage in the euro crisis
- Newark, New Jersey students protest education cuts
- The attack on UK health care and the case of Leeds General Infirmary
- US inflames North Korean missile scare
- Common Core: A California kindergarten teacher’s experience
- Stalinist daily l’Humanité defends French government in Cahuzac scandal
- Germany: Bundestag allows police access to private PINs and passwords
- Japan’s Fukushima plant leaking radioactive water
- Letters from our readers
- What is the Common Core US education initiative?
- Obama budget slashes Social Security, Medicare
- Brazil’s economy beset by inflation, lagging production
- Australian PM visits China amid sharpening regional tensions
2013-04-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Why I read the WSWS
- Hundreds of thousands of defrauded small savers face loss of life savings in Spain
- Sri Lankan correspondent explains why refugees are fleeing to Australia
- Obama’s budget
- No from Chile and The Sapphires from Australia
- Norwegian trade unions avert national strike
- NDP convenes in Montreal: a party of capitalist austerity and imperialist war
- Tens of thousands rally in Washington for immigrant rights
- Government witnesses to testify anonymously at Bradley Manning trial
- Obama issues new threat to North Korea
- Italy: Bersani, Berlusconi discuss forming coalition government
- The petty-bourgeois “left” promotes the CIA war in Syria
- Egyptian regime inflames sectarian violence
- Arkansas Senate approves random drug testing for the unemployed
- Detroit workers, youth denounce emergency manager
- Unions sabotage strike by ambulance staff in Yorkshire, England
2013-04-13
- Maduro prepares cutbacks for post-election Venezuela
- Why I read the WSWS
- European Union demands more austerity in Spain
- Mehring Books Spring Sale ends Saturday
- Putin in Germany: Rising tensions between Moscow and Berlin
- Japan’s monetary boost to escalate currency wars
- Sri Lankan pseudo lefts back bogus US calls for human rights
- France launches military, propaganda offensive in Mali
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kerry issues war threat over Korea
- Sharp decline in employer-sponsored health coverage in US
- India: Victimized Maruti Suzuki workers stage fresh protests
- Washington state nuclear workers face layoffs after sequester cuts
- European Union demands more austerity in Greece
- French government law increases worker exploitation
- Letters from our readers
- Hundreds of thousands of students march in Chile for education rights
- Australia’s “border protection” not just about refugees
2013-04-15
- WikiLeaks cables confirm collusion between Vatican and dictators
- This week in history: April 15-21
- Why I read the WSWS
- Sri Lanka: Pro-government thugs set fire to Tamil newspaper office
- The great unmentionable: Mass unemployment in America
- North Carolina bill requires background checks for public assistance
- US Secretary of State blackmails China over North Korea
- Irish unions support government austerity
- Australia: Former public servant condemns Iraq war lies
- Raid by guards triggers clash with Guantanamo inmates
- EU finance ministers demand more austerity at Dublin summit
- Leaked report reveals army torture, killings during the Egyptian Revolution
- Australian foreign minister outed as long-time US informant
- Chrysler Canada intensifies shop floor harassment
- Detroit Mayor Bing proposes $300 million cut in city budget
2013-04-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Narrow victory for Maduro in Venezuelan elections
- US Postal Service announces new attacks on workers
- Health workers in southern England forced to sign new low-pay contracts
- Showings of Tsar to Lenin
- Why I read the WSWS
- SXSW Music Festival 2013—Part 2
- Sri Lankan plantation unions sign secret wage deal
- Moscow calls Obama’s human rights bluff
- Union seeks to divert New Zealand teachers’ protests
- German Defence Minister prevented from speaking at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- US Head Start preschool program hit with sequester cuts
- British banks engulfed in new scandals
- Australian government guts university funding, promotes private schools
- WSWS 15th anniversary meeting held in Detroit
- Emergency manager to impose contract on Detroit firefighters
- Letters from our readers
- Cahuzac affair exposes bankruptcy of French petty-bourgeois “left”
- Media rush to judgment in Boston Marathon bombing
- Australian think tank outlines US plans for war against China
- Syrian opposition militia declares allegiance to Al Qaeda
2013-04-17
- Why I read the WSWS
- Australia: Victorian teachers’ union shuts down industrial campaign
- Siemens to slash 4,000 jobs in its industrial sector
- More than 10 million Americans among the working poor
- Another bumper year for hedge fund billionaires
- NDP “prepares for government” by emphasizing its kinship with Obama
- Malaysian election: PSM promotes illusions in Anwar’s opposition coalition
- Unemployment deepens in Australian working class areas
- Fight Labor’s cuts! For a socialist perspective to defend education!
- UK Green Party helps impose cuts in Bristol
- Gold price fall points to global deflation
- National Union of Students complicit in British government attacks on students
- Emergency manager to select former law firm as Detroit’s “restructuring counsel”
- Arrests of New York politicians reveal systemic corruption
- New report documents US war crimes over three administrations
- Obama proclaims Boston bombings an “act of terror”
- Right-wing opponents of the euro found party in Berlin
2013-04-18
- The US Justice Department brief for the assassination of US citizens
- Taiwan holds military exercises amid rising US-China tensions
- IYSSE challenges unions, Greens at Australian student protests
- German SPD conference approves election program
- Homeless in San Diego, California
- Australian PM dismisses refugee hunger strike over ASIO bans
- Child poverty in US among the highest in developed world
- The Place Beyond the Pines: Fathers and sons
- Thatcher’s funeral: Pomp in the service of political reaction
- New York stop-and-frisk trial bares massive police abuse
- Sequestration cuts hit Michigan
- Britain’s involvement in assassination of Congo’s Lumumba confirmed
- Mass layoffs in Illinois
- IMF slashes world growth outlook
- Observations from a visit to Cuba
- Locked-out American Crystal workers narrowly pass concessions contract
- Letters from our readers
- Media hysteria grows over Boston bombing
- Floods devastate Argentina
2013-04-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The US Justice Department brief for the assassination of US citizens
- Fertilizer plant explosion kills up to 20, wounds 160 in Texas
- Why I read the WSWS
- US deploys troops to Jordan, prepares to invade Syria
- Dozens of migrant farmworkers shot in Greece
- Mississippi man arrested in ricin mailings to officials
- Obama comes to Boston
- GM and German metal workers union collaborate against Opel workers
- Ontario Liberals to keep raising post-secondary tuition fees
- Old Hats from Bill Irwin and David Shiner: An evening with the clowns
- German state court defers trial of neo-Nazi gang
- Germany’s Left Party pledges support for debt ceiling
- US leaves door ajar for talks with North Korea
- EU, Greek government plan more mass layoffs, privatisations
- The reactionary nationalism of the “Alternative for Germany”
- Support D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for mayor of Detroit!
- California’s alarming demographic trends
- Australian big business launches campaign for austerity, market “reform”
2013-04-20
- Maduro sworn in as Venezuela sets vote recount
- Why I read the WSWS
- Attend the SEP campaign launch on May 5
- Texas plant explosion highlights gutting of health and safety rules
- Pakistan’s interim government to seek IMF loan
- Bochum Opel plant to close
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kuwait cracks down on political dissent
- Presidential vote heightens political crisis in Italy
- Dozens of bombings in run-up to today’s Iraq provincial elections
- Israel renews military threat against Iran
- Union isolates Australian glass workers as plant closures loom
- GE Transportation announces 950 layoffs in Erie, Pennsylvania
- Letters from our readers
- Reports detail CIA war crimes in Pakistan
- Chinese defence paper warns of US “hegemonism”
- Bombing suspect captured after military-police lockdown of Boston
2013-04-22
- This week in history: April 22-28
- Obama administration seeks to sell off Tennessee Valley Authority
- West, Texas residents survey explosion aftermath
- Why I read the WSWS
- Spain’s Socialist Party and trade unions profit from redundancy schemes
- Unanswered questions in Boston bombings
- American democracy in shambles
- Obama administration denies Miranda rights to marathon bombing suspect
- Italy: Napolitano re-elected as president
- Irish public sector workers reject austerity package
- The Flat: A family examines a Nazi-Zionist friendship
- Two planetary systems with potentially Earth-like conditions
- Increased tensions at G-20, IMF meetings
- Australia: Victorian teachers union announces sell-out deal
- Australia: Young worker killed on Sydney construction site
- Federal authorities prepare charges against Boston bombings suspect
2013-04-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Why I read the WSWS
- Supreme Court bars US lawsuits against overseas human rights abuses
- UK: 50,000 march to save Stafford Hospital
- Mass evictions continue in Spain
- Australia: Latest refugee boat disaster leaves 58 dead
- A tale of two cities
- German Left Party supports imperialist intervention in Syria
- Japanese ministers visit notorious war shrine
- Interview with Paul Hoffman, lawyer for the plaintiffs
- Australian thinktank demands “tough” health and welfare cutbacks
- German media, politicians praise Obama for military-police lockdown of Boston
- US sequester furloughs delay flights, threaten airport safety
- Detroit emergency manager proclaims power to end collective bargaining
- Letters from our readers
- Boston bombing suspect gets death penalty charge
2013-04-24
- Why I read the WSWS
- US ramps up plans for military intervention in Syria
- Sri Lankan SEP and ISSE to hold May Day meeting
- Spain: Polls show support for all parties, unions and monarchy at record low
- Snyder administration plot to privatize Michigan schools exposed
- The Boston bombings and the roots of terror
- 350 working without a contract at Master Lock in Milwaukee
- Official opposition protests Montenegro presidential election result
- One-day Lufthansa strike grounds flights in Germany
- European Union cites Boston attack to justify major anti-terrorist operation
- Reject the Australian Education Union’s sellout agreement!
- SEP mayoral campaign in Detroit wins strong support in first week
- 70,000 Danish teachers locked out
- Canadian government unveils “terror plot” as it adopts draconian new law
- After Boston bombing, Australian media escalates “war on terror”
- Car companies threaten 55,000 jobs in Australia
2013-04-25
- New report finds increase in social inequality during US “recovery”
- Victimized Detroit Chrysler worker reinstated
- Australian youth pushed into unpaid work
- The New York Times and the state of siege in Boston
- Why I read the WSWS
- Sri Lankan corporate profits soar as workers face poverty
- Australia: Socialist Alternative and the Victorian teachers’ betrayal
- California defies court-ordered prison population reduction
- Political issues in the teachers’ lockout in Denmark
- 42: A tribute to integrating baseball falls short
- Democratic Party’s Enrico Letta will try to form Italian government
- Germany extends military mission in Afghanistan and arms Qatar
- Letters from our readers
- The Boston lockdown and the Bill of Rights
- Protest strike by teachers in Berlin
- Huge death toll in Bangladesh factory collapse
- US finalises arms deals with Israel, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates
2013-04-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Memorial for West, Texas victims obscures causes of fertilizer plant exlosion
- Why I read the WSWS
- Socialist Equality Party to contest Australian federal election: A socialist program to fight the drive to war
- UK’s Sunday Times Rich List records massive increase in wealth
- Washington’s threat to invade Syria
- Barack Obama pays tribute to George W. Bush at presidential library opening
- The Detroit crisis and the municipal bond racket
- Teachers struggle erupts in Mexican state of Guerrero
- Anti-government sentiment dominates elections in Iceland
- Record flooding ravages midwestern US
- Finks dramatizes the 1950s anti-communist blacklist
- Unemployment hits record highs in Spain, France
- State prosecutors in Dresden, Germany, target anti-Nazi protesters
- China uses Boston bombing to appeal to US for unity
- Canada quick to try to cash in on its leading role in war on Libya
- Questions mount about Boston bombers’ links to US intelligence agencies
- Mass protests erupt in Bangladesh over factory collapse
2013-04-27
- Military conducts urban warfare exercises in Chicago area
- Washington fabricates chemical weapons pretext for war against Syria
- Average US student debt tops $20,000
- Spanish government announces more austerity as unemployment soars
- Chicago food service and retail workers protest low wages
- The Bangladesh factory collapse and the drive for profit
- At Opel plant in Bochum, Germany, Maoists provide key support for union leadership
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sectarian warfare grips Iraq
- Border tensions between India and China escalate
- Germany: Federal Constitutional Court legitimises anti-terrorism database
- Opposition grows to Australian Education Union sell-out in Victoria
- Report on US economic growth points to continuing stagnation
- Detroit residents face eviction as officials gentrify downtown region
- Danish government forces teachers to work longer hours without pay
- SEP campaigns to put D’Artagnan Collier on the ballot for Detroit mayor
- Letters from our readers
2013-04-29
- This week in history: April 29-May 5
- Sri Lankan mass grave recalls rural massacres
- EU demands further austerity in Slovenia
- PBS Frontline’s “The Retirement Gamble”
- A Grand Coalition for austerity in Italy
- Pennsylvania plans sell-off of state liquor stores
- Malaysian parties signal pro-market measures after election
- Country music legend George Jones dead at 81
- New questions on Boston bombing suspects’ ties to US intelligence
- Italian bank scandal reveals depth of financial crisis
- Governing coalition suffers huge losses in Iceland
- 84 million US adults lack adequate health care coverage
- Eight children dead in fires in the US south
- Campaigners for D’Artagnan Collier near signature goal in Detroit mayoral race
- IAM agrees to contract extension at New York Air Brake
- Bangladesh: Death toll nears 400 in building collapse
2013-04-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The New York Times and terrorism
- Why I read the WSWS
- US moves to expand Internet wiretaps
- David Mamet’s Race in Toronto
- Braying for war against Syria
- New Zealand government to extend spy agency’s powers
- Study finds nearly half of New Yorkers living in or near poverty
- Australian university union seeks to divert anger over Labor’s cuts
- Nation magazine, ISO silent on Boston lockdown
- Teachers’ struggles escalate across Mexico
- Explosion at Detroit oil refinery raises danger of wider disaster
- US student loan interest rates expected to double
- More mass layoffs in Greece
- Australian PM declares “grave” budget crisis as cuts prepared
- Amid jobs collapse, French President Hollande backs austerity in Europe
- UK base carrying out Afghan drone strikes
- Letters from our readers
- Genome sequencing of “living fossil” fish sheds light on the evolution of land animals
- Reject the USW sellout of S. Milwaukee Caterpillar workers! For an independent struggle by the working class!
- University of California’s medical workers to hold strike vote
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