Archive: 12/2013
2013-12-02
- This week in history: December 2-8
- Thai protest leaders demand government step down
- Commuter train derailment in New York City kills four
- Portuguese government deepens attacks in 2014 budget
- The unions and the Detroit bankruptcy
- Massachusetts: Chism case highlights prosecution of juveniles as adults
- Germany’s Left Party defends the European Union
- Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock in New York City
- One million in German metal and electronics industries working on temporary contracts
- Australian High Court hears challenge to anti-democratic electoral laws
- Detroit workers defend DIA
- Four out of ten recent college graduates say they are underemployed
- Britain’s poorest summonsed to court to pay council tax arrears
- US vice-president begins Asian tour as tensions with China continue
2013-12-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Union-organized Walmart protests seek to pressure Democratic Party
- New report documents “a living death” in US prisons
- A concert of early and rare Shostakovich
- Drop in holiday sales reflects US social crisis
- Detroit workers denounce attack on pensions, moves to sell DIA art
- Pro-European Union protests mount in Kiev
- Dormitory fire kills seven migrant textile workers in Italy
- US vice-president to lay down law to China
- Australian media denounces exposure of Indonesia spying operations
- The New York Times, Obamacare and the war on the elderly
- Nine confirmed dead in Glasgow helicopter crash
- Snowden document confirms US-backed mass surveillance in Australia
- Letters from our readers
- British local councils cut home care visits for elderly and disabled
- Canada facilitated NSA spying on 2010 G8 and G20 summits
2013-12-04
- Venigros owners demand reopening of Sri Lankan factory
- More than 1 million in US scheduled to lose unemployment benefits
- Temporary truce in Thai anti-government protests
- Scottish National Party issues independence blueprint
- Facing threat of prosecution, Guardian editor testifies before UK parliament
- Behind the US negotiations with Iran
- Obamacare enrollment records contain significant errors
- Governor and media rush to blame train’s engineer in fatal New York derailment
- SEP public meetings: Oppose the US, Australia war preparations against China
- Australian government announces another school funding backflip
- Transit, Ilo Ilo and Youth: Three films that rise above the average
- Detroit bankruptcy ruling paves way for nationwide attack on pensions
- Five years since Canada’s constitutional coup
- US vice president backs Japan over China’s air defence zone
- Detroit workers denounce bankruptcy ruling and attack on pensions
- Australian government orders ASIO raids to suppress East Timor spying evidence
- US steps up war of words with Afghan puppet regime
2013-12-05
- Scotland: Unions call off strike at Stirling City Council
- Sri Lanka: Ansell Lanka sacks hundreds of workers
- US tracks billions of cell phone location records daily
- The Detroit bankruptcy ruling
- On-the-job accident kills Ohio coal miner
- Obama postures as an opponent of inequality
- Mexican government accelerates drive to privatize state oil industry
- Berlin rally commemorates 75th anniversary of the Fourth International
- Workers, youth speak on Berlin meeting to mark 75th anniversary of the Fourth International
- Illinois legislature passes bill to cut pensions
- German IG Metall union supports grand coalition government
- German universities threatened with spending cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Britain’s Co-op Bank teeters on the brink
- The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler—how the studios suppressed films about Nazi crimes
- New offensive being prepared against Boeing machinists
- Detroit workers and students react to bankruptcy ruling
- Australia: Slowing economic growth fuels austerity demands
- Australian government threatens lawyer with charges over Timor spying revelations
- Biden-Xi meeting fails to resolve East China Sea crisis
2013-12-06
- As tensions in Asia mount, danger of world war emerges
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Video: SEP holds press conference to announce Workers Inquiry
- US congressional intelligence chiefs promote terror scare
- Russia moving to devalue the ruble
- New York: Basic safety system absent in Metro North crash
- Qantas Airways announces another 1,000 job cuts
- The struggle for Ukraine
- Nepal’s Maoists suffer landslide election defeat
- Alexander Payne’s Nebraska: How a great many people live today
- Former South African President Nelson Mandela dies
- Poverty skyrockets in Ireland as the ruling elite gets richer
- US officials will no longer provide information on Guantanamo hunger strikers
- Detroit bankruptcy ruling triggers calls for pension cuts across the US
- France steps up military intervention into Central African Republic
- Biden lectures Chinese leaders on “human rights”
2013-12-07
- More whistleblowers emerge in Australia’s Timor spying scandal
- Why imperialism mourns Mandela
- Obama prepared to drop jobless benefits as part of budget deal
- New Zealand calls for “constructive dialogue” on Chinese air defence zone
- EU announces token fines on banks caught rigging global rates
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel’s Netanyahu weakened by US shift on Iran/Syria
- Renewed strikes at Amazon sites in Germany
- Union-organized fast food worker action promotes Democratic Party
- UAW considers dues hike
- Millionaire offers $5 million in support of plan to spin off the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Former Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks speaks with the World Socialist Web Site
- Chrysler workers denounce Detroit bankruptcy ruling, support Workers Inquiry
- Letters from our readers
- Washington, DC: Family of woman slain by police calls for investigation
- Biden in South Korea reaffirms “absolute” US commitment to “pivot to Asia”
- Osborne’s Autumn statement: Recovery for UK business means poverty for the working class
- Alberta mounts sweeping attack on workers’ rights
2013-12-09
- Mass protests in Ukraine demand ouster of President Yanukovich
- This week in history: December 9-15
- Thai prime minister to dissolve parliament
- New Mexico railway crash kills three train operators
- Inequality and the fight for socialism
- China’s neo-Maoists hail North Korea’s nuclear program
- French Left Front’s “Fiscal Revolution” aims to block anti-austerity movement
- South African ANC faces deepening crisis after Mandela’s death
- Novelist Doris Lessing (1919-2013) and the long retreat
- What is Britain’s newly founded Left Unity party?
- Government sources claim GM will shut Holden subsidiary in Australia
- German grand coalition plans expansion of surveillance state
- Food bank use surges as hunger spreads across Britain
- French troops intervene in Central African Republic, seize Bangui
- Trial underway in police killing of homeless man in California
- US budget talks focus on entitlement cuts
- South Korea declares air defence zone
2013-12-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Skyrocketing energy prices increase Britain’s winter death rate
- Ukrainian government issues ultimatum to end pro-EU protests
- Tense standoff in Thailand after government calls election
- Supporters of Detroit Workers Inquiry hold meeting with tenants facing eviction
- Gross exploitation of migrant workers fuels riot in Singapore
- Seymour Hersh exposes US government lies on Syrian sarin attack
- Australian government cancels 20 passports over Syrian conflict
- Emergency manager outlines scorched earth policy on Detroit talk show
- David Edward Hyland: March 7, 1947 — December 8, 2013
- Obamacare plans include high deductibles, large out-of-pocket drug costs
- State secrets law pushed through in Japan
- Congress Party humiliated in Indian state elections
- Australian Greens make debt ceiling deal with Abbott government
- Letters from our readers
- Millions caught in cell phone tracking by US police agencies
- Canadian Conservatives’ cyber-bullying bill—a pretext for expanding police surveillance
- Australian foreign minister toes US line during Asian trip
- Japan steps up campaign against Chinese air defence zone
2013-12-11
- Before Detroit bankruptcy Democratic Party-led task force demanded huge pension cuts
- Factional struggle intensifies between Ukraine’s oligarchs
- Neo-fascist wins regional election in Slovakia
- Obama and Mandela
- New Zealand: Mana Party seeks unity with right-wing Maori Party
- India walks fine line over China’s air defence zone
- GM announces closure of Holden in Australia
- US media blacks out Seymour Hersh exposé of Washington’s lies on sarin attack in Syria
- Greece’s 2014 budget lays out more social attacks
- Australia: Rio Tinto shuts down Gove alumina refinery
- Nearly a quarter of Californians live in poverty, according to modified Census figures
- Democratic, Republican negotiators reach agreement on austerity budget
- Britain: Disabled widow commits suicide after benefits withdrawn
- New York Mayor-Elect de Blasio’s appointments signal continuing assault on working class
2013-12-12
- US Congress, White House to allow jobless benefits to expire for 1.3 million
- Stand-off in Ukrainian power struggle continues
- Sri Lanka: Support grows for workers’ inquiry into Weliweriya water pollution
- Mandela and the South African Communist Party
- UN reports expose conditions in Australia’s offshore refugee camps
- The implications of privatizing the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Australia’s integration into US war plans against China
- US budget deal continues attack on federal worker pensions
- Thousands more New York City school bus workers face layoffs
- Beleaguered Minnesota Orchestra musicians nominated for Grammy award
- Two days only: Sky Between the Leaves now $14.50
- Washington escalates phony “human rights” campaign against China
- Renzi elected Democratic Party leader as protests spread across Italy
- Irish pseudo-left signs off on repaying EU bank bailout
- Greek girl dies from carbon monoxide poisoning after utility shut-off
- The Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis: The story of a struggling musician … but which one?
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Toyota foreshadows closure in wake of Holden announcement
- The “Detroit Project” in Bochum
2013-12-13
- US drone strike in Yemen kills 15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Volcker rule gives free pass for Wall Street speculation
- Anti-government protests continue in Thailand
- Art Turning Left at the Tate Liverpool: An ambitious but problematic collection of “left-wing” art
- US suspends military aid to its Syrian proxies
- New Zealand: Charges dropped against Pike River mine CEO
- The US budget deal and the political conspiracy against the working class
- Two miners killed in Australian copper mine
- Unions capitulate on pensions at Irish energy supplier
- Deadly house fires as winter freeze hits Detroit
- EADS to cut 5,800 jobs across Europe
- Detroit Institute of Arts privatization plan would undermine both art and pensions
- US mayors’ report: Hunger and homelessness rise as aid programs are cut
- Probe finds ex-president of Brazil was assassinated by US-backed regime
- Revised UK welfare sanctions mean more punishment for the poor
- The role of Labor and the unions in the assault on car industry workers in Australia
2013-12-14
- Ukraine round-table talks fail as power struggle intensifies
- Trans-Pacific trade talks fail to meet Obama’s deadline
- Australia: Toyota exploits GM shutdown to bolster wage-cutting drive
- White House-backed panel to call for cosmetic changes to illegal spying programs
- New documents expose more NSA programs
- San Antonio, Texas university student slain by police
- German Marx21 in exploratory talks to form Hesse state government
- Which way forward for Ukrainian workers?
- US defence secretary warns Pakistan to end NATO supply blockade
- Paganini or The Devil’s Violinist?
- Widespread abuse of juvenile inmates in Michigan prisons
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- North Korean regime executes no. 2 leader Jang Song-thaek
- Missing US citizen in Iran identified as CIA spy
- Uttar Pradesh government sanctions mass expulsion of Muslim villagers
- Letters on the death of Dave Hyland
- Canadian spy agency set up covert sites worldwide at NSA’s request
- Australian government rescinds childcare and aged care pay rises
2013-12-16
- Tensions rise in Ukraine amid dueling pro- and anti-EU rallies
- This week in history: December 16-22
- Germany: Thyssen Krupp launches further attacks on workforce
- The Book Thief: The Nazis and the assault, then and now, on culture
- A quarter of New Zealand children live in poverty
- Australian Federal Police boosts data intercept capacity
- UN Syrian chemical weapons report exposes Washington’s lies
- Privatization draws foreign capital to Mexico
- Mexican Congress approves oil privatization
- Homeless crisis deepens in Massachusetts
- Signs of China-North Korea tensions after Jang Song-thaek’s execution
- Japan’s new defence documents target China
- Detroit firefighters, city workers speak out on bankruptcy decision
- Letters from international comrades on the death of Dave Hyland
- French war in Central African Republic intensifies humanitarian crisis
- Budget deal intensifies attack on US workers
- Union, politicians press Boeing workers for revote on rejected contract extension
- People in UK going blind due to lack of eye care
2013-12-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US and Chinese naval vessels in near-collision
- Thai military leaders support new election to resolve crisis
- Relatives of Franco’s victims testify in Argentine courts
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: The filmmakers waste considerable talent and skill
- Saudi Arabia angered by US-Iran rapprochement
- Australia: Unions meet with Qantas to plan job and wage cuts
- Global markets shudder at prospect of Fed pullback on dollar handouts to banks
- Obamacare a model for employer-sponsored health plans
- Federal prosecutors charge Los Angeles deputy sheriffs in jail abuse probe
- Christian Democrats, Social Democrats form new German grand coalition goverment
- Bankruptcy judge moves to privatize Detroit public lighting system
- Behind the Obama-Raúl Castro handshake at Mandela memorial
- UK’s Croydon Council sells artworks
- Federal judge holds NSA telephone surveillance unconstitutional
- Letters from our readers
- Bachelet wins Chilean election marked by massive abstention
- Willy Brandt, first Social Democratic chancellor of Germany and opponent of Trotskyism
- US in sweetheart deal with JPMorgan over complicity in Madoff Ponzi scheme
- Australian unions stage phony protest against GMH shutdown
2013-12-18
- Russian offer of aid sharpens international power struggle over Ukraine
- Food stamp cuts hurting poor and low-income workers in Syracuse, New York
- “Almost Orwellian”: US Judge indicts NSA spying
- German prosecutors to investigate more far-right terror groups
- Australian budget update foreshadows sharp austerity cuts
- Special offer, WSWS Chronology now $12.00
- The Crime Films of Anthony Mann: A comment and a conversation with the author—Part 1
- UK local government spending will have fallen by a third by 2015
- Latvian Prime Minister Dombrovskis resigns
- Australia: A tidal wave of job losses
- Chairman of Workers Inquiry condemns privatization of Detroit public lighting system
- Top Indian official declares relationship with China “adversarial”
- More letters from international comrades on the death of Dave Hyland
- US college executive pay soars along with student debt
- Former Chinese security chief under house arrest
- Detroit’s bankruptcy ruling paves way for new attacks on California workers
- Budget-slashing deal set to be ratified by US Senate
2013-12-19
- European Left selects Tsipras as lead candidate in European elections
- India: Frame-up trial of Maruti Suzuki auto workers continues
- Obama advisory committee whitewashes US spying programs
- German ruling class closes ranks in grand coalition government
- The Crime Films of Anthony Mann: A comment and a conversation with the author—Part 2
- Survivors of Lampedusa tragedy among refugees brutalised in Italian camp
- Japanese government boosts defence budget
- Ruling circles hail social misery produced by Irish bailout
- US arrest and strip-search of diplomat provokes India’s retaliation
- Wall Street celebrates Fed announcement, sending US stocks to record highs
- Australian auto workers condemn Holden plant closure
- Egypt’s new constitution legitimizes coup, enshrines military dictatorship
- Chinese security circles debate growing US war threat
- US Senate approves bipartisan austerity budget
- Edward Snowden’s open letter sparks asylum debate in Brazil
- Detroit emergency manager conceals evidence of possible financial collusion
2013-12-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Washington, DC Council passes living wage bill
- US steps up the drumbeat on Sri Lankan human rights
- Railroad accident investigator speaks on US rail safety
- Philomena: Crime and forgiveness
- Peru military-police scandal throws government into crisis
- Australia’s auto closures pose need for a global workers’ strategy
- Australia: SEP meetings oppose war preparations against China
- US academics approve boycott of Israeli universities
- Australian media bid to justify spying angers Indonesia
- Detainee ejected from courtroom at Guantanamo trial
- German court rejects challenge against temporary work
- Florida residents speak on poverty, unemployment benefit cuts
- Eileen Hyland responds with thanks
- Further condolences on the death of Dave Hyland
- European Union increases border controls against asylum seekers
- Christie’s appraisal paves way for sale of Detroit Institute of Arts masterpieces
- Australia: Adelaide workers discuss Holden shutdown
2013-12-21
- UK faces most severe youth unemployment crisis in decades
- UK reneges on promised independent inquiry on rendition, torture
- Latest Snowden revelations expose Obama’s lies on NSA spy programs
- US Congress passes $633 billion military spending bill
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kellogg announces plant closures in Australia and Canada
- Juno and the Paycock at the Irish Repertory Theatre: An interview with J. Smith-Cameron and Ciarán O’Reilly
- Dozens killed and wounded as sectarian bloodshed escalates in Iraq
- Italy’s “Forconi” movement
- Detroit bus drivers speak out on bankruptcy, crisis in city bus system
- Islamist political leader executed in Bangladesh
- Further strikes at Amazon, Germany
2013-12-23
- This week in history: December 23-29
- East Timor takes Australia to International Court of Justice over ASIO raids
- Democrat Party to boycott Thai elections
- Obama pushes program to turn public schools over to corporations
- EU summit: Berlin calls for stricter budgetary discipline
- Washington issues warning as South Sudan slides toward civil war
- Australian government inquiry blames wage levels for car plant closures
- Mass opposition blocks Portuguese pension reform
- Behind North Korea’s political crisis
- “I will stir the smooth sands of monotony:” Peter O’Toole, 1932-2013
- White House grants new Obamacare exemptions as enrollment deadline hits
- Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra threatened with closure
- South Korean police raid unions over railway strike
- Putin pardons Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky in overture to the West
- Implementation of US-Iran interim nuclear deal stalls
- Detroiters denounce the widening social divide
- Canada’s foreign minister calls on Edward Snowden to surrender to US authorities
2013-12-24
- Crackdown on UK student protests
- US military forces mobilised amid South Sudan crisis
- US government steps up attack on exposure of NSA spying
- Scotland: Jimmy Reid Foundation advocates suppression of the class struggle
- Doctors condemn conditions in Australian refugee camp
- Union moves to block Portland teachers strike, impose concessions
- Fed decision fuels global financial parasitism
- Germany: 87-year-old imprisoned for fare-dodging
- New Zealand government ignores asset sales referendum result
- MIA’s new album Matangi
- Locked out Minnesota Orchestra musicians take independent steps
- British NHS director promotes restructuring of accident and emergency departments
- Germany’s grand coalition appoints new state secretary for intelligence services
- Washington, DC workers speak out on federal budget cuts
- Condolences on the death of Dave Hyland from Australia and the US
- Letters from our readers
- CIA role in Colombia assassination program bared
- Chinese economic conference warns of downturn
- More Detroit workers speak on pensions, jobs and the DIA
- Machinists union forces re-vote on Boeing concessions contract
2013-12-27
- French humanitarian group alleges Sri Lankan security forces executed aid workers
- Japanese PM revives militarist traditions
- Young worker and father of two killed at Detroit area steel mill
- The year in music: Favorite recordings of 2013
- US prepares strikes against Islamists in Iraq
- German Greens, Christian Democrats seal coalition pact in Hesse
- Elizabeth, South Australia: A city devastated by General Motors Holden
- Hundreds of thousands face Christmas holidays without electricity in US and Canada
- Half a million in the UK deprived of social care over the last five years
- Catalan nationalist parties set date for independence referendum
- Cancel Detroit’s debt!
- Austrian grand coalition government intensifies austerity
2013-12-28
- US veterans face economic and physical hardship
- Power struggle intensifies in Turkey
- Thai military hints at a coup
- Federal judge rules NSA phone data collection is legal
- Attempt at ceasefire as military buildup continues in South Sudan
- Australia: Teenage girl assaulted by train ticket inspectors
- A cruel Christmas gift: Jobless benefits cut off for 1.3 million Americans
- German IG Metall union refuses to present agreement to GM-Opel workers
- Public Meeting: David Hyland—a political appreciation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India’s Supreme Court re-criminalizes homosexuality
- Egyptian junta intensifies crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood
- Memories of Dave Hyland from the US and Australia
- Who is getting paid for the plunder of Detroit?
- Spanish government attacks abortion rights
2013-12-30
- The Wolf of Wall Street: Why should we admire such figures?
- This week in history: December 30-January 5
- Australian Greens initiate Senate inquiry to whitewash mass surveillance
- Swedish intelligence service spying on Russia for US National Security Agency
- Factional warfare grips Congress of South African Trade Unions
- As 2013 draws to a close, capitalist breakdown is intensifying
- NYC school bus workers hammered by mass layoffs and contract givebacks
- Lebanon destabilised by Chatah assassination
- Cutoff of jobless benefits caps year of attacks on US workers
- Pennsylvania court upholds life terms for crimes committed by juveniles
- Deadly train fire highlights poor safety conditions on Indian Railways
- The humanitarian industry: A “force multiplier” for imperialism
- New German defence minister makes Christmas visit to Afghanistan
- DIA visitors support Workers Inquiry
- Canada Post to end home mail delivery, slash pensions
- Berlin Senate passes new austerity budget
- CIA-backed militias linked to Benghazi, Libya attack
- Bangladeshi government cracks down on opposition protests
- Fifty years since the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
2013-12-31
- Women threatened with deportation after exposing sexual harassment at UK detention centre
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Protests hit Turkey as corruption probes target Erdogan government
- Snowden reveals massive National Security Agency hacking unit
- Terror bombings kill at least 32 in southern Russia
- The pseudo-legal arguments for a police state
- Pakistani PM warns against anti-US drone protests
- New Year’s launch of Obamacare: A health care counter-reform in action
- New York’s Mayor Bloomberg calls for assault on public worker pensions
- India: Protest denounces frame-up of Maruti Suzuki auto workers
- Japan: Okinawa governor approves new US Marine base
- Czech Republic: Social Democrats enter into coalition with right-wing billionaire’s party
- Australia: Former Labor minister to assist Holden shutdown
- After years of privatization, Detroit charter school enrollment tops public schools
- Best films of 2013
- Following social unrest, Argentine government grants police wage hikes
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