Archive: 08/2013
2013-08-01
- Toronto police murder of teen Sammy Yatim provokes popular anger
- Defying police repression, Maruti Suzuki workers in India continue fight
- Students, workers and fishermen in northern Sri Lanka defend Snowden
- Germany: Former SPD Interior Minister Otto Schily defends mass surveillance
- Police detain students, teachers suspected of cheating in Romanian school
- The Bradley Manning verdict: Criminalizing the exposure of crimes
- Anti-surveillance demonstrators speak to WSWS
- Seoul to extend US control over South Korean military
- Sectarian conflict worsens in Iraq
- Tampa, Florida criminalizes homelessness
- Guardian newspaper reveals wider Internet surveillance
- Detroit’s downtown “development” plan: A blueprint written by and for the corporate elite
- New Zealand: Thousands protest domestic spying laws
- US, EU officials press for détente between Egyptian junta and Muslim Brotherhood
- SEP Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier in televised debate
- Letters from our readers
- Federal court OKs warrantless collection of cellphone data
- Australian business chiefs lay out austerity agenda
- Aftershock: One hundred years since The Armory Show
2013-08-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Florida law enforcement agencies refuse to probe killing of Boston Marathon bombing witness
- Sri Lankan government continues evictions of Colombo’s poor
- Edward Snowden gains temporary asylum in Russia
- Germany: Two Romanian shipyard workers burned to death in overcrowded accommodation
- Australian political parties step up anti-refugee campaign
- D’Artagnan Collier speaks on Detroit radio
- The Detroit bankruptcy and the drive toward dictatorship
- Bradley Manning prosecution pushes for maximum 136-year sentence
- US Congress approves plan that will increase student loan rates
- UK governments’ National Health Service adviser says it should be run like PC World retailer
- The Detroit bankruptcy and the Jones Day law firm
- Goss International closes its plants in France
- 5 Broken Cameras: “Forgotten wounds can’t be healed”
- Detroit workers outraged by bankruptcy
- Crisis deepens in the European auto industry
- US general reveals plans for Air Force expansion in Asia
2013-08-03
- Record numbers of young Americans living with their parents
- Indian government to create Telangana state in southern India
- Google searches bring visit by joint terrorism task force in Long Island
- Sri Lankan army fires on protesters, killing 17-year-old youth
- Obama administration launches terror scare
- Tens of thousands of Spanish shipbuilding jobs at risk
- The revival of Japanese militarism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Congress prepares to cut food stamps for millions
- Kerry boosts Egyptian military dictatorship
- Dismal jobs report exposes claims of US recovery
- Anger mounting in Detroit as bankruptcy plans begin to emerge
- D’Artagnan Collier holds rally at Detroit-area Chrysler plant
- Australian government “mini-budget” prepares post-election austerity
2013-08-05
- This week in history: August 5-11
- Obama and torture
- Sri Lankan SEP to contest provincial council election in Jaffna
- Build Detroit area workers committees to oppose bankruptcy
- Australia: Greens, pseudo-lefts suppress class issues at refugee rallies
- The US terror scare
- SEP meetings discuss the agenda behind the attack on refugees
- British government steps up plans to sell off Royal Mail
- Ireland seeks ongoing financial support after end of bailout
- Detroit workers at SEP election meeting speak to WSWS
- Homeless shelters overflowing in small Wisconsin city
- FBI using hacker techniques to spy on Americans
- Australian PM calls September 7 election
- SEP holds election rally capping Detroit mayoral campaign
- Who benefits from the “Common Core” curriculum in US schools?
- Standoff over Cambodian election result
- Berlusconi’s party threatens to bring down Italian government
2013-08-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Vote for D’Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for Detroit mayor!
- US extends global terror alert
- Top baseball player Alex Rodriguez suspended through 2014 season
- UK government mounts racist “Go Home or Face Arrest” campaign
- New attacks on civil liberties set to be passed in British parliament
- US growth and jobs figures point to continuing economic breakdown
- Australian SEP candidates to address meetings in Sri Lanka and New Zealand
- One year of the Mars rover Curiosity
- Obama administration officials testify at Manning sentencing
- Australia: Job losses mount amid stalling economy
- French government plans ban on Islamic veil in universities
- European Union seeks drone and spy satellite network
- US Drug Enforcement Agency conceals use of information from NSA mass surveillance programs
- Letters from our readers
- China to audit government debt “black hole”
- California governor intervenes with union support to prevent BART strike
2013-08-07
- One million UK workers on zero-hour contracts
- US officials cite deadly drone strike in Yemen to defend NSA spying operations
- Billionaire Jeffrey Bezos to purchase Washington Post
- Detroit voters speak out on bankruptcy, social conditions
- Thirty years since the start of Sri Lanka’s civil war
- Australian government’s refugee policy: An assault on legal and democratic rights
- Chairman of German Pirate Party defends the secret services
- Low-wage America
- More US doctors opting out of Medicare
- Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr: Detroit workers were “dumb, lazy, happy and rich”
- Contaminated water leaks into sea from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant
- Florida governor to launch new purge of voter rolls
- Former CEO and county sheriff winners of Detroit mayoral primary, boycotted by large majority of voters
- Christie’s auction house hired to appraise DIA collection
- British government introduces Internet censorship filters
- Australian election campaign dominated by austerity demands
2013-08-08
- US launches new drone strikes against Yemen
- Russia and Iran deepen political and military cooperation
- No justice for New Zealand mine disaster victims’ families
- Obama cancels summit, escalates tensions with Russia
- Obama’s housing program: A windfall for Wall Street
- Gas drilling company imposes lifetime gag order on Pennsylvania children
- Mass abstention in Detroit mayoral primary election
- Inquiry into police killing of Mark Duggan to report no evidence of police criminality
- Letters from our readers
- Billion-pound NHS contract offered to private health care providers
- No maritime agreement at ASEAN meeting
- AFL-CIO seeks to broaden income base as membership plummets
- Bay Area bus drivers sold out by union
2013-08-09
- Hundreds of Turkish officers, officials sentenced in Ergenekon trial
- Toronto doctor faces sanctions for helping poor
- NSA reading content of Americans’ international communications
- Australian lawyers and investigative journalist defend Edward Snowden
- Marked increase in US military suicides
- Military crackdown on Sri Lankan protesters: A warning to the working class
- IMF calls for 10 percent wage cuts in Spain
- Opposition in Papua New Guinea to Australian refugee pact
- The Detroit election
- Mali holds presidential election amid ongoing French intervention
- What the German Greens do not say about the Bavarian intelligence service
- Washington presses for talks between Egyptian army junta, Islamists
- A phony election “debate” on Australian foreign policy
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2013-08-10
- US launches more strikes against Yemen, expands terror alert to Pakistan
- Transportation Security Administration now patrolling Amtrak and public events
- Songwriter PJ Harvey releases song protesting treatment of Guantánamo Bay hunger striker
- Obama’s press conference: The smiling face of a police state
- Chicago city worker pensions under attack
- No charges against New York police in Ramarley Graham shooting
- German election: The Left Party pledges its allegiance to the ruling class
- Lavabit email shuts down after refusing to comply with “crimes against the American people”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Police kill 95-year old man in assisted living facility
- Australian corruption findings highlight Labor Party’s decay
- Miami teenager tased to death by police
- NSA funds UK’s spying operations
- SEP candidates challenge US ambassador
2013-08-12
- This week in history: August 12-18
- FBI suspected of cyber-attack on anonymous web-hosting and email services
- The subversion of due process in America
- Lon Snowden defends son’s actions in TV interview
- Dozens killed as Israel, Egypt strike targets in Sinai
- Obama, Greek premier stress close military and intelligence ties
- Railroad files for bankruptcy after Quebec oil train disaster
- Why is JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon immune from prosecution?
- Rhode Island workers’ pensions cut as hedge funds profit
- Manning prosecution rests case in sentencing phase
- Japan’s new naval carrier heightens regional tensions
- Reject the assault on GMH jobs and conditions!
- Heaven Shall Burn’s Veto: Politicised heavy metal
- The German elections and the threat of dictatorship
- Australian election “debate”: A stage-managed farce
- The brutal society: A week on America’s death row
- Detroit bankruptcy provokes calls for nationwide assault on pensions
2013-08-13
- US continues drone war against Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- This week in history: August 12-18
- Hundreds rally in Miami Beach over police killing of teenager
- Federal judge rules against New York City’s stop-and-frisk police practices
- Sri Lankan Buddhist extremists attack Muslim mosque
- Obama’s white paper on NSA spying
- Australian election: Treasury report points to more budget cuts
- Longshore union in Pacific Northwest abandons locked-out workers
- Libya destabilised by Egypt coup
- Former SEC enforcement head joins Wall Street law firm
- Australian Greens posture as “compassionate” alternative
- Protests at Greek detention camp highlight state violence against immigrants in Europe
- Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: To have or have not
- Egyptian junta delays threatened crackdown on Islamist protests
- Letters from our readers
- Former classmates of Boston Marathon bombing suspect indicted by federal officials
- Court imposes 60-day injunction against Bay Area, California transit strike
- Gilbert Achcar seeks to cover up his support for Middle East wars
2013-08-14
- India: NLC contract worker and WSWS supporter Sivakumar dies at 42
- Russian authorities persecute immigrants
- The working class and the defense of the Detroit Institute of Arts
- SEP (Australia) to hold final election meetings in five states
- Report: 97 percent of new US jobs are part-time
- The Australian housing market: A social disaster and a financial crisis in the making
- Australian car unions seek to ram through Holden wage-cutting deal
- Obama grants waiver on limits to out-of-pocket health costs
- Fascist Golden Dawn makes visit to Greek shipyards
- British navy sails for Gibraltar as tensions escalate with Spain
- Top US general travels to Middle East for war talks
- BP reneges on claims as environmental devastation persists in Gulf of Mexico
- Bangladeshi court bans Islamic party from elections
2013-08-15
- Second rally against police killing of Toronto youth
- Obama assigns intelligence director to form “independent” panel on NSA surveillance
- Australian film directors defend Edward Snowden
- New management at German giant Siemens to introduce further cuts
- Australian SEP candidate arrives in Colombo
- Support the socialist alternative to war, austerity and the drive to dictatorship
- The EU and the attack on European workers’ wages
- Mexican government introduces bill to open up oil industry to foreign companies
- Chinese security analyst questions “no first use” nuclear policy
- Australian meat workers coerced into bogus pay-cutting “ballot”
- The artist pays a terrible price in Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder
- Bradley Manning’s statement: A forced “confession” concludes a drumhead tribunal
- UAW head calls for restructuring Detroit on the model of the auto industry
- US shields CEO Dimon in indictment of JPMorgan traders
- New settlements on West Bank as Israeli-Palestinian talks begin
- Dublin Bus workers sold out by unions
- Egyptian junta imposes martial law amid bloody crackdown
- Violence escalates in Dagestan amid incipient Islamist insurgency
- Cisco to cut 4,000 jobs
- Cory Booker heading for US Senate following easy primary victory in New Jersey
2013-08-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- West Australian budget highlights end of mining boom
- Virginia universities cut staff hours due to Obama health law
- Britain’s Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation to be dissolved
- Australian SEP election candidate addresses Colombo meeting
- Rail transport chaos in major German city
- Obama and the Egyptian massacre
- Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine and The Way Way Back
- Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. sentenced to federal prison for corruption
- Deadly bombings rock Baghdad
- Renewed clashes between India and Pakistan in disputed Kashmir
- Journalist Michael Hastings was investigating CIA director at time of deadly crash
- German politicians, media defend the Egyptian army
- Friedman of the Times demands Edward Snowden turn himself in
- SEP Senate candidate challenges Greens at Melbourne forum
- Clashes spread in Egypt amid rising death toll from army massacre
- Germany: Lothar Bisky, leading member of the Left Party, dies
2013-08-17
- States suppress the right to vote
- Letter from a tutor in the Virginia community college system
- Father of Boston bombing witness killed by FBI announces investigation
- New revelations expose fraud of congressional, court oversight of NSA spying
- US retail sales drop points to worsening economic conditions for workers
- Peru’s economy sags as social conflicts mount
- The German election: The calm before the storm
- Food stamps to be cut for 1.8 million people in Pennsylvania
- Court rules Michigan right-to-work law applies to state workers
- Australian SEP candidate holds media conference in Colombo
- “The Big Change: Revolutions in Russian painting, 1895-1917”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese PM drops pledge to renounce war
- Irish unions prepared to enforce new round of austerity
- GM Holden’s wage-cutting deal and the Labor government’s “productivity” agenda
- German chancellor’s office declares end to NSA spying affair
- FISA court relies on information supplied by NSA, top judge admits
- Mass protests defy curfew, army crackdown in Egypt
- Letters from our readers
2013-08-19
- California: Employers stealing pay of low-wage workers
- UK Labour Party whips up anti-immigrant sentiment
- This week in history: August 19-25
- Australian SEP candidate speaks in Galle in southern Sri Lanka
- South African miners mark one year since Marikana massacre
- German EVG rail union takes on management role to deal with transport chaos
- PSG election campaign takes to the streets of Berlin
- Michigan researcher on extreme poverty: “We were staggered over what we found”
- Five years after the financial crash, global economy continues to weaken
- Fight Australian Labor’s cuts to education! Support the Socialist Equality Party’s election campaign!
- UK detains Glenn Greenwald’s partner under terrorism law
- Military judge in Bradley Manning court martial equates exposure of state secrets with espionage
- Time correspondent “can’t wait” to write defense of drone strike that “takes out Assange”
- Drastic growth in “extreme poverty” in US
- Egyptian junta intensifies crackdown
- WSWS introduces commenting feature on select articles
- Disputed election result fuels tensions in Cambodia
- Bahrain gripped by renewed protests
2013-08-20
- Australia: Locked-out power workers demonstrate in Melbourne
- Northern California bus workers reject sellout contract
- Thailand: Amnesty bill exposes ruling elite’s divisions
- European steel industry in deep crisis
- Socialist Equality Party manifesto for Sri Lankan provincial election
- How Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists helped pave the way for military repression
- The detention of David Miranda and the “war on terror”
- Outcry over detention of Glenn Greenwald’s partner under terrorism legislation
- Obama, the secrets of the state, and the persecution of Edward Snowden
- End the scourge of homelessness
- Australian SEP candidate speaks to Sri Lankan Free Trade Zone workers
- Egyptian military junta moves to free Mubarak
- TV documentary exposes Nazi collaboration with German intelligence agency
- Debt and financial insecurity mount for millions of UK citizens
- Strikes, protests challenge Colombian government
- Boston: The Bulger trial exposes criminal operations of FBI
2013-08-21
- Boston Marathon bombing suspect sustained massive injuries during apprehension
- SEP/IYSSE challenges Greens at education rallies
- German election: Socialist Alternative group supports social cuts and militarism
- Indian rupee and economy in free fall
- Australian opposition party unveils unconstitutional plan to reject refugees
- German election: PSG organises international meetings
- One quarter of world’s youth without jobs or education
- UMW pushes through new concessions contract with Patriot Coal
- Young Bank of America intern in London may have died from overwork
- Detention of Glenn Greenwald’s partner approved at highest levels of US and UK governments
- US prosecutors: Manning “does not deserve the mercy of a court of law”
- Jobless rate rises in more than half of US states
- Renewed sectarian rioting in Northern Ireland
- Guardian editor says newspaper forced to destroy hard drives
- German election: Merkel considers grand coalition option
- Egypt’s military consolidates dictatorship as Washington reviews aid
- Christie’s appraisal of Detroit museum’s artwork “like the weighing of souls”
- Floyd Abrams praises Manning verdict
2013-08-22
- West Australian government axes 500 education jobs
- Syria chemical warfare claims aim to provoke Western intervention
- California judge authorizes force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike
- Stop-and-frisk police program to come to Detroit
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold election meeting in Jaffna
- 30,000 South African autoworkers strike over wages and benefits
- Tensions grow between Ukraine and Russia
- The sentencing of Bradley Manning
- Declassified secret rulings found NSA spying program unconstitutional
- Egyptian court orders release of imprisoned former dictator Hosni Mubarak
- Britain and Spain escalate dispute over Gibraltar
- Again on Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets
- US government embedding facial recognition technology in surveillance system
- Federal judge to review objections to Detroit bankruptcy filing
- Australian party leaders engage in another phony “debate”
- China: Bo Xilai trial signals new wave of market “reform”
2013-08-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New report shows American wages stagnating for 10 years
- New York City high-rise to have separate entrances for rich and poor
- Growing calls for attack on Syria follow chemical weapons claims
- Property speculation exacerbates German housing crisis
- Parti Québécois pursuing chauvinist “identity” agenda to split working class
- The release of Hosni Mubarak
- The class issues in the parental leave “debate”
- Australian SEP candidate Nick Beams campaigns in New Zealand
- The New York Times and Manning’s prison sentence
- In letter to Obama, Bradley Manning defends exposure of war crimes
- “Sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society”
- Germany: How the Left Party creates a platform for neo-Nazis
- Australian public servant faces dismissal for criticising refugee policies
- UK High Court allows police to investigate documents illegally seized from David Miranda
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to back warrantless cell phone searches
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler: Identity politics at odds with history
2013-08-24
- 2001-2010 had the warmest temperatures globally
- Three decades of tax breaks for the wealthy in Australia
- US prepares military assault on Syria
- David Miranda’s detention and the raid on Britain’s Guardian newspaper
- Pakistan’s former US-backed dictator indicted for Benazir Bhutto’s murder
- Obama chooses ex-intelligence officials for “panel of experts” to review surveillance programs
- Outgoing FBI director uses fear-mongering to defend spying programs
- Defend whistleblower Edward Snowden!
- Defunding threatens school libraries throughout US
- The American “left” and Edward Snowden
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Syria’s Kurdish-Islamist conflict destabilises Turkey
- Fifty years since the March on Washington
- SEP 2012 US presidential candidate to speak at Australian election meetings
- Detroit auto plant produces five-millionth Jeep
- India: Plummeting rupee fuels fears of banking crisis
- German parliamentary committee covers up NSU affair
- German Socialist Equality Party (PSG) to stream election meeting online
- Military junta puts Egypt in lockdown amid Friday protests
- Obama lays out program to slash higher education funding
- US Navy to reinforce Marine taskforce in Australia
2013-08-26
- Organizers of March on Washington commemoration defend a criminal administration
- “Dirty tricks” and voter disqualification in Detroit mayoral vote
- Video: Nick Beams explains SEP election campaign on YouTube
- This week in history: August 25-September 1
- NSA used decryption technology to spy on the United Nations
- Sri Lankan military harasses SEP candidates for northern provincial election
- Profiting from Britain's dilapidated school system
- Australia: Greens promoted at refugee protests
- The war drive against Syria
- Obama administration spearheading growth of part-time labor
- Retired German auto workers fight for pension increase
- SEP candidate Nick Beams addresses meeting in New Zealand
- Germany: All-party coalition defends the secret services
- How the German Left Party supports the counterrevolution in Egypt
- Workers at 50th Anniversary of March on Washington speak about Obama, war and inequality
- Residents, visitors denounce plan to sell treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Australian Liberals campaign launch: A “make-over” of Abbott and policy cover-up
2013-08-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Royal College of Surgeons raise concerns over erosion of health services in Wales
- Britain: Police justification for Taser killing in Manchester unravels
- German pseudo-left think tank asserts “no alternative” to capitalism
- Australian government backs US-led campaign against Syria
- Stop the prosecution of Savas Michael-Matsas and Constantinos Moutzouris
- PSG meeting in Berlin: Revolution and counterrevolution in Egypt
- From the WSWS archives: Colin Powell’s speech before the UN
- John Kerry’s “Colin Powell moment”
- Sequester cuts to deprive over 125,000 households of housing aid
- All-party alliance dominates German election campaign
- Forest fire rages in Northern California near Yosemite National Park
- Turmoil in emerging economies a symptom of global crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Bo Xilai denies corruption charges
- A new school year begins in Chicago
- Bobby “Blue” Bland (1930-2013): An appreciation
2013-08-28
- Video: SEP candidate Patrick O’Connor explains why car workers need a socialist strategy
- US prepares military onslaught against Syria
- The Spectacular Now: The happiness of youth
- Worsening malnutrition amongst Spanish children
- Sri Lankan SEP holds its first election meeting in Jaffna
- Australian PM’s naval plans in line with US “pivot to Asia”
- Why the United States is waging war against Syria
- Britain’s Independent newspaper defends state spying apparatus
- Housing shortage and luxury development in Frankfurt-Main
- Workers speak out against New York hospital closures
- German media beats the drum for war against Syria
- TEPCO reports new leaks at Fukushima reactor
- Federal judge delays hearing on objections to bankruptcy filing
- Canada: Opposition and media abet cover-up of state spying
- August Bebel and the political awakening of the working class
2013-08-29
- WikiLeaks Party mired in crisis
- Obama at the Lincoln Memorial
- Online SEP (Germany) election meeting: Hands off Syria! Stop the warmongers!
- Union prepares to sell out Australian meat workers
- US-NATO campaign to justify Syria war disintegrates as attack looms
- Crisis of affordable housing hits broad sections of working class in New York
- Shetland helicopter crash exposes North Sea safety crisis
- Germany: All-party coalition supports Syria war
- German Green Party-linked newspaper backs war drive against Syria
- Ford Australia stands down production workers
- Washington, DC emergency response services in shambles
- Letters from our readers
- US families affected by unemployment up by 33 percent
- A call for German workers to support GM Holden workers in Australia
2013-08-30
- Washington’s lies on alleged Syrian chemical attack unravel
- Thailand’s recession: “Emerging economies” dragged into global downturn
- A bipartisan attack on public housing tenants
- Classes resume in US amid school closures, teacher layoffs
- Obama and media manufacture pretext for attack on Syria
- South Korean security agency arrests opposition party officials
- Eastern European migrant workers face slave labour in Germany
- Jerry White speaks with Ford Australia workers
- Facebook releases report on requests from governments for information on users
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Actor Matt Damon defends whistle-blower Edward Snowden
- Closed Circuit: The state and its dirty secrets
- British parliament votes down Syria action as US presses ahead with strike plans
- Canada spearheads exploitation and militarization of the Arctic
2013-08-31
- US SEP 2012 presidential candidate denounces war plans against Syria at Australian campuses
- Video: SEP candidate James Cogan opposes militarism and Washington’s “Asian pivot”
- Canada: Unifor—a bureaucratic apparatus for suppressing the working class
- US on brink of launching war against Syria based on lies
- TamilNet criticises WSWS article for opposing separatist program
- Court ruling grants bankruptcy protection to California city
- Germany: PSG election campaign in Frankfurt
- The war against Syria and American democracy
- New Snowden revelation details vast US intelligence “black budget”
- Germany: Left Party seeks to cover its tracks in the Syria war drive
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Tense standoff between India and Pakistan along their disputed Kashmir border continues
- As rupee slides, India’s PM vows to accelerate pro-investor reform
- French President Hollande backs US war against Syria
- UK: South Yorkshire fire service faces £13 million in cuts
- Fast-food workers mount protests across the US
- Letters from our readers
- China warns against a repeat of the Iraq war in Syria
- Britain’s vote against Syrian military action provokes political crisis
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