Archive: 06/2013
2013-06-01
- New on US television: Arrested Development (again), Behind the Candelabra and Family Tree
- Syrian opposition fighters arrested with chemical weapons
- Obama, Congress prepare to hike interest on student loans
- Sri Lankan chief justice expresses contempt for democratic rights
- New strike wave spreads across South Africa’s mines
- PQ appoints right-wing billionaire as Hydro-Québec chairman
- The Woolwich killing and the responsibility of Britain’s ruling elite
- 165 million children malnourished worldwide
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kyrgyzstan imposes state of emergency against mine protest
- Grillo’s Five Star Movement loses Italian local elections
- India’s Supreme Court approves nuclear plant, saying “destiny” to decide if it is safe
- The reality of Greece’s “recovery”
- Australian Liberal leader sheds a tear as Labor veteran departs
- More austerity in Europe in face of record unemployment
- D'Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for Detroit mayor, speaks on the social crisis in Detroit
- Obama appoints former Bush deputy attorney general to lead FBI
2013-06-03
- Wealth from economic “recovery” has gone to the richest Americans
- This week in history: June 3-9
- Mass protests shake Turkish government
- Espionage, blackmail and oil—Australian neo-colonialism in East Timor
- Why I read the WSWS
- Chicago Sun-Times fires all staff photographers
- US defence secretary outlines military build-up in Asia
- ACLU alleges massive human rights violations at Mississippi private prison
- The state killing of Ibragim Todashev
- Australian meat workers fight 20 percent pay cut
- Mackinac business conference sets anti-working class agenda for Detroit
- Britain seeks European Union action against Lebanon’s Hezbollah
- UK: Unite union imposes Salford NHS Trust’s attacks on workers
- US drone attacks controlled from military bases in Germany
- California first US state to implement health care exchange
2013-06-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A warning of the escalating danger of US-China conflict
- Turkish clashes continue as Erdogan brands protesters “extremists”
- Syrian opposition forces launch rocket attacks in Lebanon
- Sri Lankan defence secretary backs chauvinist campaign against provincial election
- Spanish Popular Party government seeks to turn back the clock on abortion rights
- Two very different documentaries: Sofia’s Last Ambulance and Sing Me The Songs That Say I Love You—A Concert for Kate McGarrigle
- The 2008 crisis and the restructuring of class relations in America
- Patriot Coal bankruptcy approved, thousands of retirees to lose health care
- Bradley Manning’s court martial begins
- UN warns against social unrest in Europe
- Australian government announces bogus “assistance” for Ford workers
- Chinese poultry slaughterhouse fire kills more than 100 workers
- School district of Philadelphia passes “doomsday” austerity budget
- US Supreme Court allows police to take DNA samples of arrestees
- Detroit emergency manager threatens sale of all cultural treasures
- Letters from our readers
- Connecticut legislature nears passage of austerity budget
- USW pushes sellout deal at South Milwaukee Caterpillar plant
- Britain’s Accident and Emergency services reach breaking point
2013-06-05
- SEP takes election campaign to steel city of Wollongong
- Strikes spread with two killed in Turkish protests
- Why I read the WSWS
- Syria: UN report reveals opposition crimes as imperialist powers push for intervention
- Former CIA head David Petraeus joins buyout firm
- Global capitalist crisis drives China’s pro-market reform
- US government charges Manning with “aiding the enemy” in court martial
- How Le Monde fed pro-war propaganda over chemical weapons in Syria
- US health reform to slash care, leave millions uninsured
- Flooding ravages central Europe
- Detroit plans to sell off closed fire stations
- SEP campaign to hold June 13 meeting in Detroit: Hands off the DIA
- Censorship and complicity at the Venice Biennale
- UK government’s new national curriculum meets widespread opposition
- Major credit lenders investigated for debt collection practices
- Sectarian violence spreads in Burma
- Workers and residents exposed to asbestos in Australia
2013-06-06
- Turkish police round up young protesters for use of social media
- Tsar to Lenin shown at UK’s National Media Museum and the Cornerhouse
- Why I read the WSWS
- Worker dies from extreme heat at Georgia auto parts plant
- Obama reshuffles national security staff
- Australia: Queensland budget reveals deepening slump
- Protests in Kyrgyzstan continue
- Wall Street embraces Humala’s “left” government in Peru
- Turkey at the crossroads
- Unemployment, lack of education lead to higher US mortality rate
- Number of UK million-pound earners almost doubled in past two years
- Bradley Manning’s supervisors testify in third day of court martial
- US: Kansas legislature passes budget slashing education
- Leading Australian economist spells out post-election austerity offensive
- Global stock sell-off amidst signs of deepening slump
- Hamtramck latest Michigan city declared in “financial emergency”
- Chinese strategic review warns of “big power competition” in Asia-Pacific
- Canada: Growing evidence Conservatives illegally suppressed vote in 2011 federal election
2013-06-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- As mining boom fades, Western Australian government imposes austerity measures
- Venezuela’s Maduro reaches out to big business and Washington
- Erdogan vows to run roughshod over continuing protests in Turkey
- US threatens Iran, Hezbollah for backing Syria
- Obama administration collecting phone records of tens of millions of Americans
- Philadelphia building collapse kills six
- Barack Obama’s health care counterrevolution
- Pakistan’s new prime minister to continue close relations with US
- 130 out of work after seafood plant fire in Oregon
- New York City teacher evaluation program deepens attack on public education
- Illinois governor proposes 70 percent cut to school transportation budget
- The Ford closures, the market and the fight for socialism
- Socialist Equality Party continues campaign against Detroit evictions
- Once again, on the filthiness of the makers of Zero Dark Thirty
- ANC, South African mining companies seek to crush new round of strikes
2013-06-08
- Russian officials charge FBI failure to heed warnings led to Boston bombings
- Toronto elite ostracizes right-wing mayor who served as their hatchet man
- US, Chinese presidents hold two-day discussion in California
- Photojournalists, artist censored by Australian authorities
- SEP campaigns in Western Australia against US war drive
- Obama defends massive spying on Americans
- New Bedford, Mass. public schools to cut 250 jobs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Sgt. Robert Bales pleads guilty in Kandahar massacre
- Two reports show escalating social inequality in Australia
- Greater Manchester, Britain hospitals face downsizing
- Anemic US jobs report points to ongoing slump
- Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories
- Letters from our readers
- California State Assembly passes bill to enable teacher firings
- Mass layoffs hit European auto parts suppliers
- Trial begins for Detroit police officer who killed seven-year-old
2013-06-10
- China’s president visits Mexico and Central America seeking economic ties
- Socialist Equality Party candidate campaigns against Detroit Institute of Arts selloff
- This week in history: June 10-16
- Turkish protests grow as Erdogan calls counter-demonstrations
- Trade unions urge anti-immigrant measures following Swedish riots
- NSA whistleblower reveals identity, exposes US government’s “architecture of oppression”
- Santa Monica, California shooting leaves six dead
- Building collapse in Philadelphia exposes corruption, lack of government oversight
- Who rules America?
- Germany: Police brutality against Blockupy protesters in Frankfurt
- Sharp economic reversal in Australian mining states
- US drone strikes kill dozens in Yemen, Pakistan
- The Supreme Court’s DNA ruling
- Obama ordered planning for cyberwarfare first strike
- Chinese president appeals to Obama for “new type of great power relations”
- Germany: SEP election campaign wins support of Berlin Mercedes workers
- Bankers to gather in Detroit to plot asset-stripping
2013-06-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Media silent on the state killing of Boston bombing witness
- White House convenes meetings on Syria escalation
- Swiss referendum on asylum law
- Sri Lankan president signs “strategic cooperative partnership” with China
- Obama administration initiates criminal prosecution of NSA whistleblower
- California’s San Onofre nuclear plant to shut down permanently
- At least 55 die in another Australian refugee boat disaster
- Philadelphia schools to lay off nearly 4,000 teachers
- What Edward Snowden has revealed
- Nashville Symphony threatened by foreclosure
- SEP election meeting in Melbourne discusses Ford closure, imperialist war drive
- SEC rules that Harrisburg misled investors
- Egypt: Supreme Constitutional Court invalidates Shura Council, Constituent Assembly
- David Walsh to speak at June 13 Detroit campaign meeting
- SEP mayoral candidate speaks at two Detroit election forums
- Letters from our readers
- Relatives protest over Chinese poultry factory fire deaths
- Reject the USW sellout in South Milwaukee! For an independent struggle by the working class!
- Canada: U.S. Steel lockout in seventh week
- Alter-Summit in Athens: A pseudo-left response to growing social opposition in Europe
2013-06-12
- Turkish police launch brutal crackdown on Taksim Square protests
- Why I read the WSWS
- No to Orr and the bankers’ dictatorship! For a working class and socialist alternative to the looting of Detroit!
- Obama administration prepares charges against NSA whistleblower
- UK security services used NSA’s Prism system for mass surveillance of British citizens
- Venezuela’s “normalization” of relations with Washington
- European governments in crisis over US spying revelations
- Penrith resident Matthew O’Farrell condemns asbestos exposure
- Luxembourg trial into 1980s terror bombings reveals involvement of German police, intelligence agents
- More than 3,500 state health workers to be laid off under Louisiana privatization drive
- Detroit emergency manager holds stage-managed “public” meeting
- Corporate Australia unleashes wave of job cuts
- Northern Ireland locked down for G8 summit
- New flare-up of Indo-Pakistani tensions in disputed Kashmir
- London police confiscate sleeping bags and food parcels from homeless people
- US Senate bill cuts $4 billion from food stamp program
- Canada: Conservatives target federal workers in escalation of class war
- Burma hosts the World Economic Forum on East Asia
- Interview with artist Jef Bourgeau about the threat to the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Bangladeshi police attack protesting garment workers
- The reality behind the “rebound” of the US auto industry
- SEP campaigners investigate asbestos exposure in Sydney’s west
2013-06-13
- Why I read the WSWS
- US-backed “rebels” carry out sectarian massacre in Syria
- London police launch violent raid on anti-G8 protesters
- Russian economy threatened by recession
- Defend Edward Snowden!
- NSA memos expose Obama administration's lies about wiretapping
- UK Labour Party pledges cuts in welfare
- US congressman calls for prosecution of journalists over NSA leak
- Iran goes to the polls amid US threats and sanctions
- Greek government shuts public broadcast station
- Detroit workers and youth speak out against attacks by emergency manager
- Letters from our readers
- Obama administration officials, guilty of perjury, defend spy program
- Union rams through sellout deal at Caterpillar South Milwaukee plant
- SEP campaigns at Brisbane meatworks
- Immigrant deaths rise with militarization of US-Mexican border
2013-06-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- FEMA refuses disaster relief to West, Texas
- US-backed Turkish government threatens violent crackdown
- Why I read the WSWS
- Pretext for a new war: Obama lies about Syrian chemical weapons
- Germany: The SPD’s new press spokesman
- Sri Lanka: Storm kills dozens of fishermen
- Snowden defends actions as Obama administration pushes for prosecution of whistleblower
- Philadelphia inspector involved in building collapse commits suicide
- Turkey, Syria and the hypocrisy of US imperialism
- Student killed by fascists in central Paris
- Deadly chemical plant explosion in Louisiana
- Libya destabilised by factional and military infighting
- Edward Snowden reveals US computer hacking aimed at China
- Tens of thousands protest closure of public television in Greece
- Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha and Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell: Incompleteness as a problem
- Australia: Hundreds homeless following Brisbane apartment fire
- Elevator companies invoke anti-worker law in bid to break Ontario strike
- Japanese stocks plunge amid global financial turmoil
- Who are Detroit’s creditors?
- Liberal advocates of a police state turn savagely against Edward Snowden
- German Socialist Equality Party (PSG) presents its candidates for the 2013 elections
2013-06-15
- Right of international students to study in UK under attack
- Sri Lankan government to limit provincial powers
- Democrats spearhead campaign against Snowden as evidence of illegal spying mounts
- Detroit emergency manager prepares privatization of trash collection
- Fifty years since the execution of the Rosenbergs
- Another boat disaster highlights criminality of Australian refugee policy
- After US Supreme Court ruling, police departments expand DNA seizure program
- Obama moves to escalate Syrian slaughter
- Australian wage tribunal gives pittance to low-paid workers
- Detroit emergency manager meets with city’s creditors, presents slash-and-burn plan
- At least one major UK museum faces closure
- What the WSWS said about the Detroit Institute of Arts millage
- The WSWS speaks to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s son
- Germany: Three years after the Love Parade disaster
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Detroit workers speak out against NSA spying
- BBC “Panorama” exposes UK police cover-up in 1989 Hillsborough football disaster
- US Congress debates deep cuts to food stamps as need surges
- Two dead, over half a million without power from US Mid-Atlantic storms
- D'Artagnan Collier, David Walsh speak in defense of the DIA and culture as a social right
- Letters from our readers
- Indian Tire maker Apollo in deal to buy Cooper Tire
- NSA’s Canadian counterpart runs massive domestic spying program
2013-06-17
- This week in history: June 17-23
- Turkish PM Erdogan mobilizes supporters and violently clears Gezi Park
- Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes brought to the screen: An understated examination of grief
- US inflames sectarian tensions to escalate war in Syria
- Media, government denounce Snowden as “traitor” and “Chinese spy”
- The German Socialist Equality Party (PSG) election campaign goes online
- Portland, Oregon teachers face unprecedented attack on jobs, work rights
- The dismantling of Pontiac, Michigan
- The NSA revelations and Obama’s “pivot to Asia”
- Tens of thousands of workers to be left stranded by Pittsburgh bus cuts
- Social counterrevolution in Detroit
- New reports detail vast scale of NSA “mega data collection”
- Nicaragua approves China-backed Atlantic-to-Pacific canal
- JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe
- SEP meetings in Perth and Sydney broaden discussion on war danger
- Mounting deaths of Nigerian children from lead poisoning
- Irish government to impose austerity until 2020
- “Moderate” cleric wins Iranian presidential election
- Pontiac residents describe social disaster left by emergency manager
- Worst wildfire in Colorado history destroys hundreds of homes, kills two
- Caterpillar announces layoffs at South Milwaukee plant
- Australian government ramps up NSA-connected surveillance apparatus
- France: How the Workers’ Struggle group is helping to shut down the Aulnay car plant
2013-06-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Turkish minister threatens to mobilize the army against protests
- G8 summit rent by divisions over Syria
- Sri Lanka: Kidney disease takes at least two lives a day
- Britain’s spying against international leaders disclosed
- NSA whistleblower Snowden issues defiant response to government threats and media lies
- South African miners battle with police as unions negotiate with mine bosses
- Russian parliament passes anti-homosexual laws
- World Socialist Web Site launches daily audio podcast
- US officials utilizing driver’s license databases to conduct police searches
- No to war in Syria!
- New York school bus workers denounce layoffs
- Collier speaks with Detroiters opposing high school privatization plan
- Japan moves to boost influence in Asia
- US Senate begins debate on right-wing immigration legislation
- Australia: Apartment residents raise fire safety concerns with SEP campaigners
- The California Nurses Association and health care “militancy”
2013-06-19
- One hundred fifty years since West Virginia statehood
- Video: D’Artagnan Collier responds to Kevyn Orr’s plan to slash workers’ retirement benefits
- Obama visits Berlin amidst mounting US-German tensions
- Security forces raid homes across Turkey as top officials threaten military crackdown
- Why I read the WSWS
- G8 calls for peace talks to provide cover for US war preparations against Syria
- US Supreme Court whittles down right to protection against self-incrimination
- Congress, intelligence officials join in attacking NSA whistleblower Snowden
- US federal agents raid 7-Eleven convenience stores
- Quebec: 175,000 construction workers mount province-wide strike
- Classes begin in Philippines as education crisis worsens
- Obama, Cheney and Snowden’s revelations
- The NBN asbestos exposures: The case for socialist planning
- Pakistan’s new government delivers pro-business budget
- General Motors demands wage cuts from Australian workforce
- Mass jobs losses as Greek state broadcaster ordered to reopen
- Australian government wracked by further leadership infighting
- SEP candidate in Detroit speaks with workers about attack on pensions
- Hundreds of thousands protest throughout Brazil
- Defend whistleblower Edward Snowden!
2013-06-20
- Turkish unions, business groups back crackdown on Taksim Square protest
- FBI director acknowledges use of surveillance drones in the US
- Rhode Island: Disabled students forced to work in sweatshop conditions
- Obama in Berlin
- Workers in Britain suffer the greatest fall in wages since the 1930s
- Public sector cuts intensify in Australia’s largest state
- Left Party offers its services as a prop of bourgeois rule
- UK health unions betray Mid Yorkshire trust dispute
- Journalist Michael Hastings dies in car crash
- Hannah Arendt: Margarethe von Trotta’s film revisits debate over Eichmann trial
- Stocks slump as Federal Reserve hints at reducing cash infusions
- As developers gentrify Detroit, evictions increase
- China uses NSA revelations to highlight US hypocrisy on cyber security
- Mass layoffs begin in Chicago Public Schools
- Washington seeks Taliban deal as Afghanistan casualties mount
2013-06-21
- A political answer to youth unemployment in Europe
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Why I read the WSWS
- Wave of suicides in Italy as social conditions deteriorate
- Sri Lankan government unveils media “ethics” code
- Quebec government threatens to criminalize province-wide construction strike
- Syrian war threatens regional sectarian bloodbath
- Key Senate Republicans back US immigration bill based on border “surge”
- Malaysian opposition offers cooperation with government
- Questions surround death of journalist Michael Hastings
- Actor James Gandolfini, lead actor in The Sopranos, dies at 51
- NSA monitoring US communications without a warrant, documents show
- Washington DC faces shortage of emergency response vehicles
- Panic deepens on world financial markets
- Detroit officials find $286 million to subsidize new sports arena
- British government moves to censor media coverage of spying operations
- California pension fund in crisis
- Massive protests sweep Brazil after transit fare rollback
- Wage-cutting in the meat and car industries—the socialist response
2013-06-22
- Communications of millions subject to US-UK spying
- Why I read the WSWS
- Bank of Spain calls for elimination of the minimum wage
- Edward Snowden charged with espionage
- Striking Quebec construction workers speak out
- The mass protests in Brazil and the crisis of revolutionary leadership
- New Zealand government fast tracks domestic spying laws
- Military commissions resume against alleged 9/11 conspirators
- Man of Steel: Superman returns…again
- London Metropolitan Police demand water cannons
- German Marx 21 group advocates military intervention in Syria
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- DIMAR party leaves Greek government amid protests over TV shutdown
- D’Artagnan Collier calls for “rebuilding Detroit in the interests of workers” at mayoral forum
- Czech prime minister’s resignation sparks power struggle
- Letters from our readers
- Credit crunch hits China
- South Milwaukee Caterpillar workers challenge union on ratification of sellout contract
- US fire marshals battle more wildfires as budgets are cut
- US government spying campaign having “chilling effect,” AP president says
2013-06-24
- Pharmaceutical companies sign contracts for vaccine sales to poorer countries to maximise profits
- This week in history: June 24-30
- Qatar conference opens new stage in Syrian war
- Snowden escapes Hong Kong ahead of US dragnet
- Russian government attacks public health system
- Three years since the US-backed coup against Australian Labor PM
- Democratic rights are at stake in fight to defend Edward Snowden
- Ultra-luxury high rise boom amid New York’s housing crisis
- Fuel price rise provokes unrest in Indonesia
- At least 1,000 killed in Indian floods and landslides
- Detroit union leaders given their marching orders over pension cuts
- Mass austerity to be outlined in UK government spending review
- Canada enacts law threatening masked protesters with ten-year jail terms
- Azeri-Iranian relations continue to deteriorate
2013-06-25
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Turkish police renew attacks on protesters
- Probe into DC mayor’s “shadow campaign” donor exposes political culture rife with criminality
- Sri Lankan government evicts poor families in Dambulla
- US issues threats to China, Russia over Snowden
- Germany: Socialist Equality Party wins support in Cologne and the Ruhr area
- Portland, Oregon: School board denies education to disabled children
- Daniel Pinkwater’s Bushman Lives: To become an artist
- Share selloff points to new crisis
- UK sees an increase in the number of “pauper’s funerals”
- UN report documents Israeli regime’s abuse and torture of Palestinian children
- New Zealand First issues anti-Chinese denunciation
- State plans to close Michigan school districts
- NAACP, UAW hold Martin Luther King Jr. rally to promote Democratic Party
- Infrastructure of a police state
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: CAW agrees to expansion of cheap labor at GM’s Oshawa plants
- US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action
2013-06-26
- US Supreme Court guts Voting Rights Act
- Major attack on pensions being prepared in Spain
- How the German secret service monitors the Internet
- Missing San Diego hospital patient found dead in canyon
- US threatens Russia, China in its pursuit of Snowden
- Study shows most Americans have inadequate savings
- SEP election meeting in Sydney discusses NBN asbestos hazards
- BP attempts to dodge fines in connection with Gulf Coast oil disaster
- Australian Labor Party dumps Gillard as prime minister
- Australia: Hundreds affected by fire at private university accommodation
- More pro-corporate rulings by US Supreme Court
- Proposed California budget to deepen attacks on public education and social programs
- Britain’s People’s Assembly covers for Labour and trade unions
2013-06-27
- State of Washington sends furlough warnings to 25,000 state workers
- Max Brooks’ World War Z brought to the screen, or is it?
- Teaching unions stage token one-day strike in North West of England
- US-China tensions flare over Snowden’s revelations
- Kevin Rudd reinstalled as Australian prime minister
- The US Supreme Court’s dismantling of the Voting Rights Act
- French pseudo-left works to defeat workers’ opposition to upcoming pension cuts
- Air pollution emergency in South East Asia points to systemic failure
- Germany: The false imprisonment of Gustl Mollath
- New Democracy and PASOK form new crisis-ridden government in Greece
- US Supreme Court decides gay marriage cases
- A grim milestone: Texas carries out 500th execution
- SEP Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier rejects claim “there is no money” at forum
- Australian government to extend intelligence powers
2013-06-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Swiss tax deal with the US voted down
- On Africa trip, US president questioned on Snowden dragnet
- General strike in Portugal
- Britain: Spying network exposed targeting organisations critical of police
- The political crisis in Australia
- Australia: Research links mining to high lead levels in Mount Isa
- US Marine’s murder conviction overturned in Iraq killing
- Scientist speaks to WSWS about lead cover-up in Mount Isa
- Military deploys throughout Egypt ahead of mass protests
- US first-quarter economic growth downgraded
- Obama in Africa to defend US strategic and profit interests
2013-06-29
- Washington ships arms to Al Qaeda-linked forces in Syria
- Quebec: Construction worker strike in grave danger
- US, Japan to establish military bases in the Philippines
- The EU’s fraudulent “call to action” on youth unemployment
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Senate approves legislation to militarize US-Mexico border
- Australia’s Hunter Valley devastated under Labor and Liberal governments
- Detroit emergency manager terminates union contracts, transfers city lighting to DTE
- UK chancellor announces a further £11.5 billion in cuts
- Chinese workers detain US businessman for a week
- Growing hardship in mining town of Cessnock
- Mother of teen jailed for Facebook post speaks to WSWS
- Who is Ruslan Tsarni?
- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted on 45 counts in Boston Marathon bombing
- British unions isolate refuse workers fighting wage cuts
- Ireland: Bankers joke about their €7 billion bailout scam
- US Army bars access to Guardian newspaper web site
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