Archive: 09/2013
2013-09-02
- This week in history: September 2-September 8
- Report links US-backed Syrian opposition to Ghouta gas attack
- US Congress to debate and vote on Syria war
- London protests: Stop the War Coalition promotes British parliament
- No to war against Syria!
- One in four Pennsylvania workers earn poverty wages
- Democrats prepare to select a New York mayoral candidate
- SEP and IYSSE public meetings: No to war and dictatorship!
- UK protesters speak out against Syrian war threat
- Demonstrations in Germany against Syria war drive
- Spy legislation pushed through New Zealand parliament
- “Edward Snowden has shone a light into the secret activities of the State”
- Australian government backs unilateral US attack on Syria
- The Artist and the Model: A sculptor creates his last work in the middle of war
- Australia: Thousands demonstrate against war on Syria
2013-09-03
- The World’s End: With a bang and a whimper
- London Underground prepares mass closure of ticket offices
- Industrial strikes spread in South Africa
- US spied on presidents of Brazil, Mexico, documents from Snowden reveal
- Rudd promotes “jobs” fraud at Labor Party campaign launch
- NATO’s Afghan draw-down stokes Kremlin’s fears of clash with US
- Australian pseudo-lefts complicit in US war drive against Syria
- Market turmoil signifies a new global financial crisis in the making
- Obama steps up drive to war against Syria
- Income inequality grows four times faster under Obama than Bush
- France publishes intelligence brief for war in Syria based on lies
- Senior political figures demand second vote in UK parliament on Syrian attack
- BP asks appeals court to throw out oil spill settlement
- Rochester, New York: More than 400 layoffs planned at Bausch + Lomb
2013-09-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tariq Ali’s false account of the suicide of Adolf Joffe
- Hands off Syria!
- US Congress lines up behind drive for war against Syria
- Shetland helicopter crash: Oil industry rushes to resume flights
- Obama, Congress and the coming war against Syria
- Record number of groups contest Australian election
- SEP campaign team discusses socialist program in Jaffna
- Irish Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Party boost trade unions and austerity
- Popular legal blog shuts down over US government spying
- German election debate: A media spectacle to prepare a right-wing government
- Germany: Rüsselsheim workers oppose war against Syria
- Fukushima leaks’ radioactivity 18 times higher than previously reported
- Egyptian junta cracks down on media and political opponents
- DEA’s Hemisphere Project collects more phone data than NSA
- One-day protest strike in Brazil
2013-09-05
- Detroit students speak out against Syria war drive
- US teen unemployment hits new record
- Global tensions over Syria on eve of G-20 summit
- Sri Lankan government to unleash new austerity measures
- Senate resolution authorizes war for regime change in Syria
- The Obama administration, public opinion and the drive to war
- Eighty years of the Diego Rivera murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts
- British court ruling on data seized from Miranda paves way for criminal prosecutions
- Australia: A revealing candidates forum in Sydney
- South Korean trade unions hold partial auto strikes
- German liberal and “left” media beat the drums for war
- French parliament debates war against Syria
- Sale of art would result in DIA closure
- The dental care crisis and the Labor-Greens “reform” fraud
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s government rallies behind Washington’s war on Syria
- Anti-war demonstrations in many German cities
2013-09-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Chrysler Warren Truck workers oppose war with Syria
- Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party in the Australian federal election!
- Syrian war, threat of global conflict dominate G20 summit
- SEP’s final election meetings oppose US war drive against Syria
- German election: Socialist Equality Party campaigns in Bochum
- The pseudo-lefts and the Australian election
- The US-Al Qaeda alliance in Syria and the fraud of the war on terror
- Western-backed Islamist forces attack historic Syrian town of Maaloula
- Louisiana sheriff’s deputies kill husband, wife in domestic dispute
- Australian meetings: Young people discuss SEP’s socialist policies
- How to vote Socialist Equality Party
- Euro zone hatches plan to wring further billions from Greece
- Opposition Greens and Left Party evade issues in German TV debate
- Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action—the new album from Franz Ferdinand
- Apartheid for asylum seekers comes to Europe
- Snowden documents reveal NSA operation to break encryption codes
- Eastern Europe split over Syria intervention
- IYSSE, SEP to hold demonstrations against war
- Australia: Liberal and Labor in virtual agreement on budget plans
2013-09-07
- Nearly 100 workers arrested across US in Walmart protests
- Video: Detroit students speak against Syria war
- Regent Park: A symbol of Toronto’s housing crisis
- As opposition to war mounts, Pentagon plans massive attack on Syria
- Union shuts down South African gold miners’ strike after less than 3 days
- International gangsterism and Washington’s war drive against Syria
- German President Gauck’s state visit to France
- Australia: Glencore Xstrata shuts coal mine to scrap working conditions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US labor force participation rate falls to lowest level since 1978
- Divisions in Japanese government over consumption tax hikes
- Revolution and counterrevolution in Egypt: The political lessons
- Egyptian junta intensifies crackdown after unresolved Cairo bombing
- Unite trade union ends DHL-Jaguar Land Rover dispute
- Britain uses G20 to campaign for war on Syria
- German commission defends the framework of a police state
- SEP candidates campaign in South Australia’s capital
2013-09-09
- Unemployment rises in Washington, DC
- This week in history: September 9-15
- Pentagon expands war plans against Syria
- Social Democrats demand more active German role in Syria
- SEP (Sri Lanka) meetings: No to war against Syria!
- Inmates end California’s largest hunger strike
- Britain: Children’s charity finds risk of “social apartheid”
- The week ahead: A propaganda barrage to prepare for war in Syria
- Obama administration had secret court lift restrictions on domestic spying
- Nonstop media lies in drive to war against Syria
- South Korean opposition lawmaker arrested
- European Union signals support for military strike against Syria
- US drone strike kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan
- Credit rating downgrades hit Illinois state agencies and local governments
- Australian Labor Party thrown out of office
2013-09-10
- SEP and IYSSE hold demonstration in Detroit against war in Syria
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK pledges full support for military intervention against Syria
- Kerry’s “blunder” delays, but does not end, Obama's drive to war
- UN High Commissioner criticises Sri Lankan human rights
- Serbian government reshuffled in preparation for assault on workers’ conditions
- SEP in Germany produces TV election spot
- The Australian election and the rout of the Labor Party
- Shaler, Pennsylvania teachers enter second week of strike against concessions
- Germany: GM-Opel workers fear Bochum plant will close in 2014
- Tens of thousands protest privatization of energy industry in Mexico
- Western-backed rebels bring death and destruction to historic Syrian town of Maaloula
- Irish doctors vote for strike action
- Newly released CIA files show US complicity in nerve gas attacks during Iran-Iraq war
- France to await US Congress vote, UN report before attacking Syria
- Remarks of IYSSE National Secretary Andre Damon at Detroit rally against war
- Asylum seekers occupy trade union headquarters in Munich
- Australian voters oppose US-led war against Syria
2013-09-11
- Video: Students speak against war at Wayne State University demonstration
- US war drive rattles Indian elite
- Saudi-Russian talks raise questions on Syrian war drive, Boston bombings
- Germany: Praktiker and Max Bahr DIY chains face closure
- Philadelphia public school system begins classes amid massive budget crisis
- Forty years since the Chilean coup of September 11, 1973
- In national address, Obama presses ahead with war plans against Syria
- UK: Wigan Hovis workers bring strike action over zero hours contracts
- SEP candidate intervenes in a discussion on German security policy
- Paris workers speak out against Syrian war, social austerity
- Danish Social Democrats come out in favor of a “competition state”
- China’s former security chief under investigation
- From the archives of Marxism: Lessons of the 1973 coup in Chile
- Australia: Ex-Boeing workers reduced to half pay
- Australian voters denounce attacks on refugees, living standards
2013-09-12
- Britain: Labour leader praises unions for working with employers to cut pay and hours
- US exploits Russian proposal of talks to prepare new pretext for Syria war
- Obama’s speech: No end to war threat against Syria
- Democrat postures as populist to win New York City mayoral primary
- Students at Northern Virginia Community College oppose war in Syria
- German Left Party seeks coalition with SPD and Greens
- The Law in These Parts: Israeli military justice in the Occupied Territories
- US income inequality soars to highest levels on record
- German media on the Syria war: Foaming at the mouth
- IYSSE holds anti-war rallies in San Diego and Berkeley, California
- British unions try to head off new strike threat at Brighton council
- Belgian academic blames Syrian poison gas attacks on US-backed opposition
- Australian corporate elite welcomes new government
- Australian voters speak out against establishment parties
- The AFL-CIO convention
2013-09-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- As talks open in Geneva, US begins direct arming of Syrian militias
- NSA feeds raw intelligence data to Israel
- SEP 2013 election campaign reaches wide sections of workers and youth
- Mass abstention in Russian regional elections
- German television broadcasts hostile and distorted reports on the SEP election campaign
- PQ introduces chauvinist, antidemocratic Charter of Quebec Values
- Corruption scandal in Philippine Congress in its second month
- Spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras exposed
- The social chasm in America
- SEP campaign team discusses US war threat to Syria
- University of Michigan IYSSE opposes war on Syria
- IBM latest company to shift retirees to private health exchange
- Ireland: Homeless worker dies in a Dublin waste truck
- Detroit emergency manager proposes elimination of retiree health care
- Australian PM-elect pledges support for US war in Syria
2013-09-14
- What the WSWS said about the Wall Street crash of September 15, 2008
- The pseudo-left USP and its bogus fight against the “Rajapakse dictatorship”
- UK public meetings: Hands off Syria!
- UK economic “recovery” based on property bubble and rising inequality
- Washington maneuvers in Syrian negotiations to lay groundwork for war
- Hands off Syria: Address by Peter Schwarz to SEP (Germany) election meeting
- Major power outage shuts down public buildings in Detroit
- Five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers
- NZ Labour leadership contest signals a party in crisis
- FISA records document “daily violations” by government spy agencies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US condemnation of chemical weapons use not applied to Israel
- “Project 6”: Joint German/US spy program
- Ontario: The EllisDon affair, worker rights, and the political charades at Queen’s Park
- California state legislature passes new attack on teachers
- Australian Labor Party members to vote on new leader
2013-09-16
- Volkswagen opens plant in Chinese province of Xinjiang
- Video: “No to war against Syria”—Australian voters speak out
- This week in history: September 16-22
- Slovenian government privatizes state corporations
- Socialist Equality Party to hold demonstration in defense of the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Philippine government to redistribute Hacienda Luisita plantation
- Syria chemical weapons deal—US war postponed, not canceled
- New Zealand government signals support for US attack on Syria
- Kick-Ass 2: Frat boy ethics, and worse
- Israel attacks Russian plan for Syria’s chemical weapons
- Intel to end chip manufacturing in Massachusetts
- Greece: Thousands protest attack on KKE by fascist Golden Dawn
- Citing Snowden leaks, FISA judge orders release of rulings authorizing domestic surveillance
- Russia: Fire in mental hospital kills at least 35
- More than 500 unaccounted for in Colorado floods
- Sino-Japanese tensions flare over disputed islands
- Obama, Congress advance plans for deeper social spending cuts
- A whiff of fascism—German tabloid demands war against Syria
2013-09-17
- Workers Struggles—the Americas
- Shooting rampage at Washington DC naval base
- US, UK and France stress threat of force against Syria
- Released Italian journalist recounts crimes of US-backed Syrian opposition
- Up to 150 million in Europe threatened with poverty
- On fifth anniversary of Wall Street crash, Obama tries the Big Lie technique
- Steep rise in UK workers on low pay
- New York City police wound two bystanders in Times Square shooting incident
- Conservatives to lead new government in Norway
- Brutal police attack on Mexican teachers
- Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting in Jaffna—No to war against Syria
- Obama renews military threat against Iran
- The defense of culture and the crisis in Detroit
- Letters from our readers
- Seven confirmed dead in Colorado flooding
- The housing crisis in Richmond, California and the debate over “eminent domain”
- Socialist Equality Party holds anti-war rally in Berlin
- Australian prime minister-elect announces cabinet
2013-09-18
- Russia-France talks on Syria end in clash over chemical warfare claims
- IYSSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand: Oppose war against Syria!
- Lawrence Summers withdraws from consideration for Fed chairman
- Sri Lanka: The JVP’s sham support for democratic rights
- North Carolina: Police officer charged following fatal shooting
- London rent rates to rise
- The “lost generation” and the failure of capitalism
- SEP (Germany) campaign reaches GM-Opel workers
- Six perish in Ohio home fire
- New York Times on Syria: All the propaganda fit to print
- US students, workers speak on war threat against Syria
- Students, professors denounce threat to the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Germany: Christian Social Union wins absolute majority in Bavarian state elections
- Cook County Jail most crowded jail in the US
- US Census report shows entrenched poverty and declining living standards
- Political deadlock over Cambodian election continues
- New Australian PM signifies further right-wing shift
2013-09-19
- Germany: Die Zeit editor advocates massive war in the Middle East
- SEP campaign video: Voices against war with Syria
- Russia challenges UN report on Syrian gas attack
- Shanghai Cooperation Organisation warns against US-led war on Syria
- Australia: Once again on Socialist Alternative’s pro-imperialist politics
- The looting of America
- Federal judge overturns post-Katrina police killing verdict
- US imperialism and the proxy war in Syria
- Israel plans mass evictions of Bedouins
- India: Official Opposition names arch-communalist as its prime ministerial candidate
- Greek workers demonstrate against mass sackings, fascist violence
- A Murderous Decision: Television docudrama about German army massacre of Afghan civilians
- Greece to ban Golden Dawn after fascists assassinate musician Pavlos Fyssas
- Wall Street celebrates Fed decision to maintain pace of money-printing
- Letters from our readers
- The betrayal of the Chicago teachers strike: One year on
- Early, ominous start to Australian bushfire season
- Brazilian president cancels White House visit over NSA spying
- Britain’s government suppresses “third-party” campaigns
2013-09-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK government and media demand measures against Muslim face veil
- Twenty years of covering the Toronto film festival
- Suicides rise sharply in Greece
- Vote SEP in Sri Lankan Northern Provincial elections
- Heavy fighting in Southern Philippine city
- The US health care overhaul and the social rights of the working class
- The German Left Party’s pursuit of war in Syria
- US officials turn down North Korean offer of nuclear talks
- JPMorgan receives wrist slap fine for hiding derivatives loss
- Iranian president calls for dialogue with the US
- Protests shake Greece after fascist murder of musician Pavlos Fyssas
- Egyptian junta raids Islamist strongholds, intensifies repression
- Video: Wayne State University students and staff oppose selloff of DIA art
- The unions and the Detroit bankruptcy
- Death toll at six in Colorado flooding
- Canada: Cross-country protests against Conservatives’ attack on science
2013-09-21
- The Washington Navy Yard shooting
- US threatens war while considering talks with Syria, Iran
- New Australian government appoints military commander to oversee anti-refugee regime
- SEP (Germany) election video: Defend Bradley Manning
- White House intervenes in Supreme Court case to back prayer at town meetings
- Poverty grows in Germany’s large cities
- The significance of the German election
- NZ Labour installs new leader
- Intense storms cause death, destruction in Mexico
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Irish trade unions agree to government-imposed cuts at Dublin Bus
- Indonesian economy faces continuing economic turbulence
- US Congress moves to cut billions in food aid
- FISA court releases document defending NSA bulk metadata collection
- Why workers must defend the Detroit Institute of Arts
- German election: Trade unions signal support for a grand coalition
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: NDP pledges not to raise taxes on rich
- UK government announces ten-year sentences for benefit fraud
2013-09-23
- Western Australia: Thousands protest against public education cuts
- Video: The fight to defend the Detroit Institute of Arts
- This week in history: September 23-29
- 12 Years a Slave and other films
- UK teaching unions announce limited strike action
- US presses for UN resolution to justify war on Syria
- Spanish Socialist Party toes US line on Syria
- Sri Lanka: TNA wins northern provincial council election
- Large demonstration in Poland against government austerity policies
- Fed “taper” decision points to deepening financial crisis
- Suicide-bomb attack on Christian church kills 80 in Pakistan
- Montreal meeting to discuss “The Socialist alternative to war and dictatorship”
- Minnesota Orchestra lockout approaches one year
- Minnesota leads US in falling living conditions
- SEP (US) public meetings: Syria, Iran and the geopolitics of American militarism
- Kenya: Islamist militia attacks Nairobi’s Westgate mall, killing 68
- Halliburton pleads guilty to charges stemming from BP oil spill
- Merkel wins German election
- Mass opposition in Detroit to planned cuts in pensions, sell off of DIA artwork
- New York police attack students protesting ex-CIA chief David Petraeus
- Chrysler workers voice support for Detroit Institute of Arts
- California governor strikes deal with the Labor Department over transit pensions
- Behind the US budget conflict, a renewed bipartisan campaign to cut social programs
- Germany: Socialist Equality Party holds antiwar rally in Berlin
2013-09-24
- Workers Struggles—the Americas
- Amid extreme inflation and severe shortages, Venezuela to revamp currency laws
- China: Ex-CCP Politburo member Bo Xilai given life sentence
- British artist pays tribute to Edward Snowden
- Philippine senators charged in corruption scandal
- Why Merkel won the German elections
- Obama’s NSA review panel: An arm of the national security apparatus
- Public meeting in Paris: 15 years of the WSWS
- Lobbying frenzy in run-up to US health care exchange launch
- French secularism charter attacks Muslims, democratic rights
- Fighting continues for third day in Nairobi, Kenya mall attack
- US and Iran set to meet at UN
- Obama administration to continue mass deportations of immigrants
- British firefighters to walk out over attack on pensions
- Support builds for demonstration to defend Detroit Institute of Arts
- “Truth will out”—Filmmaker Deepa Mehta defends Edward Snowden
- Detroit’s emergency manager plans early payoff of top banks
- Letters from our readers
- Opposition leader arrested as social tensions rise in Bahrain
2013-09-25
- Obama at the UN: A defense of unilateral aggression
- French Gaullist UMP party moves closer to neo-fascist National Front
- Deadline set for death penalty recommendation against Boston marathon bombing suspect
- Sri Lanka: Pro-government thugs attack TNA candidate’s house
- The working class and the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Alabama paper mill to be closed in 2014
- Budget cuts slam Minnesota services
- Escalating crisis in maternity care in UK
- Australian Labor Party leadership contenders hold first debate
- Japanese defence ministry calls for substantial budget increase
- Israel’s Netanyahu rails against US-Iran talks, but others see opportunities
- War, fascism and the fate of music in the 20th century
- Protests continue against social cuts and fascist terror in Greece
- German domestic intelligence agency supplies data to NSA
- Governor’s slush fund pays for Detroit emergency manager’s luxury condo
- European workers’ conference against war, dictatorship and social cuts in Berlin
2013-09-26
- Detroit city workers denounce threatened sale of DIA art
- Washington, DC living wage bill fails after mayor’s veto
- US-backed Syrian opposition forces reject political leaders, align with Al Qaeda
- Coverup of Spanish bank debt continues
- US Congress moves toward government shutdown
- Rallies in Sydney and Melbourne on October 5: No to war against Syria! End the US-Australia military alliance!
- Qantas Australia to sack another 300 maintenance engineers
- Obama’s UN speech and the crisis in US policy
- Australian mining magnate’s party gains parliamentary presence
- IMF imposes stringent austerity measures on Pakistan
- UK’s Royal Mail faces privatisation
- Breakup of German department store chain threatens jobs and wages
- Iranian president appeals at UN for deal with Washington
- Forming a new German government: Parties prepare for war, social attacks
- Workers, students, musicians endorse demonstration in defense of the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Ricky Gervais’ Derek: A glimpse into the lives of caregivers
2013-09-27
- Interview with Hany Abu-Assad, director of Omar
- Tensions and pressures that are almost unbearable
- Germany: Salzgitter AG cuts over 1,500 steel jobs
- The significance of the PSG’s election campaign
- Videos showing abuse in California prisons allowed in court
- The politics of cultural destruction: The Rape of Europa
- The class issues in the US budget crisis
- Earthquake kills more than 350 in Pakistan
- US health exchanges will impose high out-of-pocket costs, limit choices
- What Labour’s energy price pledge says about Britain
- Westgate mall attack death toll continues to rise as FBI deploys agents to Nairobi
- US, Iran meet in nuclear talks
- Secret Indian Army unit implicated in anti-constitutional acts
- Australia: Construction workers hit with large fines for striking
- Film showing in Detroit, Michigan: The Rape of Europa
- Worldwide support for campaign to defend DIA
- Video: Detroit creative art students denounce DIA selloff plans
2013-09-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UN Security Council backs US-Russia deal on Syrian chemical disarmament
- White House officials visit Detroit to support “restructuring” plans
- Sandow Birk’s American Qur’an: Scenes of contemporary American life
- Germany: Left Party leader attacks PSG election campaign
- Political issues in the struggle against the threat of fascism and dictatorship in Greece
- Billionaire heiress intervenes in yearlong Minnesota Orchestra lockout
- JPMorgan CEO in secret meeting with Attorney General Holder over fraud probes
- South Africa’s police concealed evidence, lied to cover up Marikana massacre
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- IYSSE holds anti-war meetings at Australian and New Zealand campuses
- Detroit workers, retirees oppose pension cuts
- Australian “border protection” regime fuels dispute with Indonesia
- China protests British and US interference in Hong Kong
- Thousands protest military rule in Egypt after Muslim Brotherhood ban
- Detroit blues singer Thornetta Davis: “DIA is important to the youth of Detroit”
- Detroit emergency manager to freeze city pensions
- Britain uses anti-terror powers to detain Yemeni activist
- CSEC’s spying: What Canada’s elite don’t want the public to know
- Letters from our readers
- Bachelet enlists Chilean CP in electoral coalition
- Detroit’s Belle Isle, Frederick Law Olmsted and popular access to culture
- Bangladesh garment workers strike for higher wages
- Austria on the eve of parliamentary elections
2013-09-30
- This week in history: September 30-October 6
- The drama of life in Britain, the Middle East, India, Poland and Bosnia…
- NSA using metadata to compile “social network diagrams” on Americans
- UNHRC threatens international probe of Sri Lankan war crimes
- Spanish government approves pension “reform” and freezes public-sector pay
- San Jose, California moves to slash pensions
- Australian government accused of ignoring refugee boat emergency calls
- The Obama administration and the Detroit bankruptcy
- Museum show misrepresents Detroit’s crisis and history
- Locked out Minnesota Orchestra musicians unanimously defy management, business elite
- New government crisis in Italy after resignation of five ministers
- US and Iranian presidents talk by telephone
- Obama and Singh pledge major increase in US-Indian military-strategic ties
- UK bakers union winds up Hovis strike
- Crackdown on Golden Dawn in Greece
- High school students defend Detroit Institute of Arts
- US prepares to furlough 800,000 workers as shutdown looms
- Boeing imposes more layoffs
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