Archive: 01/2014
2014-01-03
- Treatment of political activist Trenton Oldfield shows criminalization of protest in UK
- Supreme Court justice stays contraceptive mandate for some church-run institutions
- The launch of the Obamacare counterrevolution
- Australia: National Gallery of Victoria patrons denounce selloff of Detroit masterpieces
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: James Thurber’s short story remade
- Civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart wins “compassionate release” after four years in prison
- Iraq slides toward civil war
- As 2014 begins, New York City’s homeless population continues to grow
- Hewlett-Packard to cut another 5,000 employees
- French President Hollande announces Lebanese arms deal in Saudi Arabia
- At least one dead in explosion in Minnesota neighborhood
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Corporate spokesman Mike Duggan inaugurated as Detroit mayor
- 6,000 Chicago workers lose jobs in Dominick’s grocery chain closure
- Condolences from Dave Hyland’s German comrades
- Reject IAM-Boeing blackmail!
- Bill Clinton administers oath of office to New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio
- Victims of Bangladesh building collapse neglected
2014-01-04
- UPTE union facilitates attack on University of California pensions
- Sri Lanka: Standoff between government and TNA deepens
- US appeals court upholds suppression of legal memo approving collection of phone records
- Quebec’s Bill 60—a chauvinist attack on democratic rights
- Report reveals the new face of UK poverty
- Fiat’s $4.35 billion payoff to UAW, Inc.
- New York Times proposes clemency for Snowden: An exercise in damage control
- Micro-credit and the return of debt bondage for world’s poor
- Britain: Mental health services reach breaking point
- Mehring Books Holiday Sale ends Monday
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German court rejects compensation claim from victims of Kunduz massacre
- Why Berlin is active on behalf of the Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky
- Fallout: Documentary about On the Beach
- Letters from our readers
- Cambodian security forces shoot striking garment workers
- Machinists’ union rams through sellout deal at Boeing
- North Dakota train explosion raises questions about oil transport safety
2014-01-06
- This week in history: January 6-12
- Father of slain Boston bombing witness releases letter to Obama accusing FBI of murder
- Emergency manager acknowledges bank deals pushed on Detroit were likely illegal
- India’s prime minister announces resignation
- Geo-political tensions raise spectre of 1914 Great War
- The genetic legacy of the Neanderthals
- Australia: Report foreshadows collapse of mining construction jobs
- Obama’s fraudulent defense of the unemployed
- David O. Russell’s American Hustle: Nearly everybody gets a free pass
- Hampshire council in England closes more care homes
- Poverty in Germany hits new high
- Elderly couple dies in house fire on Detroit’s west side
- Egyptian junta launches deadliest crackdown in months
- NSA does not deny spying on US Congress
- Bitter cold across much of US
- Cambodian government bans rallies and protests
2014-01-07
- Senate confirms Janet Yellen as Fed Chair
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The New York Times pronounces on destabilisation of the Middle East
- Australia: Defend Medicare rally promotes Labor Party
- A contemporary account of the German pogroms of November 1938
- How Khodorkovsky became Russia’s richest man
- US, Iran say they will not send troops to Iraq
- Anti-immigrant campaign intensifies in Britain
- Chicago residents thrown out ahead of eviction moratorium
- An appreciation of Phil Everly and the Everly Brothers
- DC charter school officials charged with funneling millions to personal accounts
- Letters from our readers
- Boeing workers denounce union for ramming through sellout deal
- Why aren’t the Wall Street criminals prosecuted?
- Sham election deepens Bangladesh political crisis
- Acute child malnutrition has doubled in Afghanistan since 2012
2014-01-08
- Surveys of British youth find growing anger and despair
- Tunisian political parties resume “national dialogue,” vote on constitution
- Wall Street swindles, not pensions, behind financial crisis in Detroit and other US cities
- Fifty years since Johnson’s declaration of the “War on Poverty”
- Obamacare site botches more than 100,000 Medicaid, CHIP enrollments
- PBS’s Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913 commemorates Michigan’s bitter labor past
- India’s “judiciary acts on the agenda of the capitalists”
- Japan scrambles fighters amid escalating tensions with China
- The cynical charade of Obama’s campaign for jobless benefits
- Frank Wess, Chico Hamilton, Yusef Lateef: A tribute to three important jazz musicians
- One in five Israelis lives in poverty
- German police declare parts of Hamburg “no-go zone”
- French president’s New Year message: an agenda for militarism and class war
- Death toll rises from North American “polar vortex”
- Australian union calls for auto funding switch to military spending
2014-01-09
- Australian fruit cannery sacks workers, threatens closure
- Spanish workers face years of mass unemployment
- Saudi budget signals growing social crisis
- US imperialism and Iraq’s descent into civil war
- Obama’s cheap-labor “promise zone” fraud
- US stalls on new coal dust rules as black lung disease spreads
- Mass protests by migrants and asylum seekers in Israel
- Iran offers major concessions to US and European oil giants
- Obama crony joins Carlyle Group
- French Socialist Party runs Florange steelworks union leader in European elections
- Letters from our readers
- Record cold has devastating effect on US homeless
- Canada’s top CEOs paid 171 times more than the average worker
- Cambodian garment workers forced back to work
- The oligarchs and their playthings: The private museum comes into its own
2014-01-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Syria conference, Iranian deal hang in balance as US steps up bullying
- Campaigning underway in South African elections
- The strange case of Dennis Rodman in North Korea
- Australian government forces refugee boats back to Indonesia
- Australian airline Qantas reduced to “junk” status
- Obama’s phony campaign against inequality
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom: A film largely without history or even politics
- Armed clashes erupt around besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah
- Japanese defence minister’s Indian visit strengthens military ties
- Against the European Union, for the United Socialist States of Europe!
- UK police get away with killing of Mark Duggan
- Washington DC health exchange plagued with problems
- New York City’s homeless suffer in record-breaking low temperatures
- New Jersey Governor Christie caught up in scandal over bridge vendetta
- The International Socialist Organization and the betrayal of the Boeing workers
2014-01-11
- Chemical spill leaves 300,000 without water in West Virginia
- Thai opposition vows to shut down Bangkok
- Inhuman treatment of UK woman in privately-run prison
- Asia: The 21st century tinderbox for war
- Troubled 18-year-old murdered by police in North Carolina
- Thatcher planned to use army against 1984-1985 British miners’ strike
- Millionaires become the majority in US Congress
- Germany: The grand coalition and the Left Party
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Former Labor prime ministers call on conservative government to slash spending more quickly
- Worst US jobs report in three years shatters claims of economic recovery
- Dramatic increase in poverty in Hungary
- Three children killed in Indiana house fire
- Why is Dan Gilbert on the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force?
- Neglect of the elderly in care increases in Germany
- German writer Georg Büchner: 200 years since his birth—Part 1
- US troops kill Afghan four-year-old
2014-01-13
- This week in history: January 13-19
- Paris conference on Syria: US, European allies renew push for regime-change
- Sri Lanka: Bogus union campaign for sacked Ansell strikers
- Ariel Sharon, war criminal (February 26, 1928-January 11, 2014)
- US inflames row with China over fisheries regulations
- Democrats attack the unemployed and the poor
- Unstable economic upturn in New Zealand
- The NPA’s support for France’s wars in Africa
- Over 400 jobs cut in Ireland as Lufthansa subsidiary shuts plant
- Iran and US finalize interim nuclear deal
- France, Japan form alliance targeting Chinese influence in Africa
- Support builds for the Workers Inquiry into Detroit bankruptcy
- Obama administration moves to freeze lawsuit challenging spying programs
- 300,000 in West Virginia remain without safe water for fourth day
- Billionaire-backed education “reform” organizations attack California teachers
- German writer Georg Büchner: 200 years since his birth—Part 2
- US university hospital suspends its black lung unit
2014-01-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Corruption scandal threatens to implode Turkish regime
- Officers caught on video beating California homeless man to death acquitted of all charges
- Thai opposition vows to continue “shutdown” of Bangkok
- Further evidence shows illegality of Detroit interest rate swaps
- European Parliamentary rapporteur denounces NSA/GCHQ spying as illegal
- Sharon’s funeral pays homage to war criminal
- Saudi Arabia pushes for renewed confrontation with Syria
- Australia: New school curriculum to promote war and nationalism
- The catastrophe unleashed by US imperialism in the Middle East
- US excludes Iran from Syria conference
- Lack of regulation behind West Virginia water disaster
- Hands off the Detroit Institute of Arts and pensions!
- Letters from our readers
- New Jersey governor faces deepening crisis over bridge scandal
- German writer Georg Büchner: 200 years since his birth—Part 3
- Australian government plans to celebrate World War I
2014-01-15
- Tongan cyclone leaves thousands homeless
- Hundreds drown fleeing continued fighting in South Sudan
- Britain: Rail unions betray London Overground conductors
- German Socialist Equality Party members collect signatures for European elections
- Socialist Alliance and the destruction of Australian car industry jobs
- The West Virginia chemical disaster
- Germany: The Left Party defends the EU
- South Korean rail union sellout paves way for privatization
- Her: A lonely man falls in love with his computer
- German social democrats pursue law-and-order policies in Hamburg
- French presidential address: A call for austerity and militarism
- Suburban Detroit teachers, support staff protest wage-cutting
- Condolence messages on the death of Dave Hyland from India, Europe and the United States
- Desert Hot Springs, California, declares “fiscal emergency”
- US Congress unveils austerity budget as Senate delays extension of jobless benefits
- German writer Georg Büchner: 200 years since his birth—Part 4
- Australia: Broadmeadows workers speak on car industry crisis
- Brazil’s Petrobrás sells off Peruvian stake to China
2014-01-16
- US government signals it will not sign no-spying agreement with Germany
- Outrage over acquittal of California police who beat homeless man to death
- The Socialist Equality Party candidates for the European election
- With Iran accord, US shifts tactics, not predatory aims
- Detroit retirees denounce pension, health care cuts
- US appeals court strikes down “net neutrality” rules
- Minnesota Orchestra musicians forced to accept massive cuts
- Meeting January 23 at Wayne State University: Exposing the bankers’ conspiracy
- Japanese PM’s aggressive diplomatic push in Africa
- UK Environment Agency warns of job cuts
- Obama’s NSA “reform” defends illegal spying
- London: Fire station closures endanger lives
- Low turnout as Egypt’s US-backed junta holds constitutional referendum
- Australia’s construction industry claims another life
- German writer Georg Büchner: 200 years since his birth—Part 5
- Australian government’s audit commission foreshadows deep spending cuts
- The Alex Rodriguez affair
2014-01-17
- US Congress passes bipartisan austerity budget
- Amid mounting political crisis, Turkey shifts policy on Syria
- Bankruptcy judge tells Detroit officials to renegotiate bank swap deal
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- International Youth and Students for Social Equality holds rally to build support for Workers Inquiry
- Deflation threat poses new dangers to world economy
- Ohio prisoner suffers horrific death in botched execution
- Heat wave and bush fires engulf southern Australia
- New toll for Virginia’s Norfolk-Portsmouth tunnels
- UK chancellor demands pro-business reform of European Union
- NSA collects nearly 200 million phone text messages a day
- Commiserations from Australia on the death of Dave Hyland
- Australia: Reactionary “law and order” campaign follows fatal assault on teenager
- The Blacklist and White Collar: Once again, excusing the inexcusable
- An exchange with the Bangladeshi ambassador to the US
- US airstrike kills woman, seven children in Afghanistan
2014-01-18
- West Virginia residents speak out on chemical disaster
- Bankruptcy of German publishing firm Weltbild threatens 6,800 jobs
- Grenade attack as Thai political crisis continues
- Indonesia demands suspension of Australian naval operations against refugees
- Obama defends police state spying
- London Underground workers to strike against ticket office closures
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US-South Korean war games threaten to inflame Korean Peninsula
- Amiri Baraka (1934-2014): Poet, playwright, black nationalist
- UK police demand Channel 4 hand over whistle-blower’s footage
- Scores of homes destroyed in Western Australian bushfires
- Emergency Manager seeks to extort $100 million from Detroit Institute of Arts
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s spy agencies lied to the courts
- Wildfire forces evacuations in Southern California
- Riots in Burgos, Spain reveal simmering social tensions
- 2014 Academy Award nominations: Very few bright spots
2014-01-20
- This week in history: January 20-26
- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says city “booming” despite record unemployment
- Opposition Syrian National Coalition to attend Geneva talks
- Democrats, Republicans back Obama’s police state spying
- Australian teachers’ union backs new “performance pay” regime
- US threatens international probe into Sri Lankan war crimes
- Austerity and shift to privatization leave Philadelphia schools in tatters
- Apologists for NSA redouble witch-hunt of Edward Snowden
- Exposing the Bankers’ Conspiracy: A Report on the Workers Inquiry into the Bankruptcy of Detroit
- The Kellers and cancer
- Japanese Communist Party signals regroupment with bourgeois “left” parties
- Chicago Teachers Union launches “independent” political organization
- Company responsible for West Virginia chemical spill declares bankruptcy
- Spain: Fascists intimidate plaintiffs in Franco-era crimes case
- Memorial meeting pays tribute to Dave Hyland’s political struggle
- Germany: Daimler works council pits contract workers against permanent staff
- JC Penney and Intel announce massive layoffs and closures
- Meeting at Toronto’s York University on implications of Snowden/CSEC spying revelations
- Workers speak on Detroit bankruptcy inquiry
- Bournemouth hospital review confirms warning by NHS FightBack campaign
- Thirteen arrested at California protest against acquittal of police who murdered homeless man
2014-01-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ukraine opposition leader meets with president to defuse protests
- Tunisia: New prime minister installed amid rising social tensions
- With Syria talks in disarray, UN yanks invitation to Iran
- EU pressures Serbia to distance itself from Russia
- Socialist Alternative councilwoman backs Democrats’ minimum wage maneuver
- The global plutocracy
- Two workers confirmed dead in Omaha factory explosion
- Family of executed Ohio man plans lawsuit over his botched lethal injection
- “The government, courts and police are all stacked against us”—spokesman for victimized Maruti Suzuki India workers
- Dave Hyland: A life-long struggle for Trotskyism
- Global unemployment rises above 200 million
- Ex-UK minister of defence and former army chief of staff named in Iraq war crimes case
- Emergency manager accelerates plans to “monetize” Detroit water department
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Car components workers speak on auto industry shutdown
- Chinese economic growth slows
- Problems remain as water is restored in West Virginia
- Seventeen charter schools closed in Columbus, Ohio
2014-01-22
- Australian government prepares sweeping welfare cuts
- Thai government imposes state of emergency
- As Geneva talks open, US advances trumped-up torture charges against Syria
- David Hyland and the fight for socialist consciousness
- Purdue University placed on lockdown after fatal shooting of teaching assistant
- The horror in Ohio’s death chamber
- August: Osage County and Lone Survivor: Sound and fury signifying not too much…and a celebration of the US military
- Omaha factory where fatal accident occurred had record of safety violations
- Khobragade affair exposes deep-rooted Indo-US tensions
- UK housing benefit changes threaten mass evictions
- Workers, community fight Brooklyn hospital closures
- Detroit’s “urban farming” scheme: A cover for a corporate land grab
- German government extends its military mission in Africa
- US states turn to unregulated compounding facilities to make drugs for lethal injections
- Care workers strike against Glasgow, Scotland City Council
2014-01-23
- New York’s Democratic governor plans major tax cuts for the wealthy
- West Virginia water crisis continues as second chemical is identified
- Workers World Party uses demagogy to conceal unions’ collusion in Detroit bankruptcy
- Video: David Walsh discusses Sky Between the Leaves
- Three dead in clash between Ukrainian regime and right-wing protesters
- Australian government defends seizure of East Timor’s documents
- Britain: Labour’s plan for licences another attempt to vilify teachers
- Michigan governor announces state money for Detroit bankruptcy settlement
- Wall Street demands austerity in Puerto Rico
- “Geneva II” and the US regime-change drive in Syria
- Texas Instruments lays off 1,100
- Charges for migrants and visitors set precedent for wider assault on Britain’s NHS
- Texas executes Mexican national in defiance of international law
- Egyptian junta steps up repression after constitutional referendum
- Corporate criminals, billionaires gather for World Economic Forum in Davos
- A tribute to Dave Hyland
- Letters from our readers
- Bangladesh election impasse heightens amid geo-political tensions
2014-01-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lanka: Dipped Products announces factory relocation
- As riots spread, right-wing Ukrainian opposition threatens new clashes
- Australia: SEP campaigns among Toyota workers
- US retailer Target eliminates health coverage for part-time workers
- Snowden defends his exposure of NSA’s mass spying in online chat
- Democratic rights and the defense of Edward Snowden
- Detroit retirees denounce attack on pensions, health care
- Dave Hyland and the role of the individual in history
- At Davos, Japanese prime minister inflames tensions with China
- France: Goodyear workers’ fight for jobs threatened by union sellout
- Near-starvation wages for 1.1 million German self-employed
- UK police demand water cannon to suppress austerity protests
- Socialist Equality Party of Germany publishes open letter to Professor Jörg Baberowski
- Pentagon unveils plan to keep 10,000 troops in Afghanistan
2014-01-25
- Obama poses as opponent of inequality ahead of State of the Union address
- Three years of the Egyptian revolution
- Union-affiliated officials acknowledge Detroit “rescue” plan will involve large pension cuts
- Pakistan air force pounds North Waziristan, massacring scores of civilians
- Oklahoma carries out second execution this year using pentobarbital
- Survivors say Greek policy caused deaths of 12 migrants in Aegean Sea
- Australia: Glaring social inequality in Sydney
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Irish government presses ahead with public sector attacks
- Liverpool residents condemn Australia’s growing social divide
- Fire at Quebec retirement home kills dozens
- Global stock sell-off highlights financial parasitism
- SEP and IYSSE hold meeting at Wayne State in Detroit to discuss campaign for Workers Inquiry
- Australian foreign minister slanders Edward Snowden
2014-01-27
- Young working class soldiers most exposed to war trauma, UK report finds
- Pro-Western Ukrainian opposition stokes up civil war
- This week in history: January 27-February 2
- Tensions mount between US and Russia in lead-up to Olympics
- US officials “want to kill me,” warns Edward Snowden
- The political and theoretical sources of The Sky Between the Leaves
- At Detroit Auto Show, workers denounce bankruptcy, attacks on wages and pensions
- UK Liberal Democrats wracked by sex scandal
- Defend Edward Snowden!
- Report confirms illegality of NSA bulk-collection programs
- European election: SEP (Germany) collects signatures in Leipzig and Halle
- Falling Australian jobs growth points to deepening slump
- Iranian president declares country “open for business”
- JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon gets 74 percent pay raise
- US Supreme Court extends exemption of contraception mandate for church-affiliated institution
- California governor pledges continued austerity in State of the State speech
- German union calls off strike by European air traffic controllers
- States, cities hand out billions in tax abatements
2014-01-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- As Ukrainian regime totters, oligarchs call for talks with right-wing opposition
- Syria talks deadlocked as US-backed opposition demands regime change
- US media blacks out Snowden interview exposing death threats
- US retailer Sam’s Club announces 2,300 layoffs
- What is Scotland’s Radical Independence Campaign?
- Obama’s legacy
- NSA, GCHQ mapping “political alignment” of cellphone users
- Newark, New Jersey principals victimized for opposing school closures
- East Timorese prime minister announces resignation plan
- Energy companies continue utility shutoffs as bitter cold hits Detroit
- New Zealand: Kim Dotcom to launch pro-business Internet Party
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese Internet shutdown linked to right-wing groups, US shell corporations
2014-01-29
- Ukrainian Prime Minister resigns as EU keeps pressure on Russia
- Turkish interest rate leaps amid currency market turmoil
- Sri Lankan Buddhist extremists attack two Christian churches
- Obama’s State of the Union address: An empty and reactionary charade
- The fraud of Governor Snyder’s “rescue package” for Detroit
- Unrelenting cold snap grips wide area of US
- South Africa: Economic Freedom Fighters target voters fed up with African National Congress
- Argentina on brink of new financial crisis
- The danger of war in Asia
- Obama administration announces new deal with tech companies on NSA spying
- European Union demands more austerity in Greece
- Argentine poet Juan Gelman dies in Mexico City at 83
- Democrats, Republicans reach deal to slash $8.7 billion from food stamp program
- Australia: Ex-military chief appointed governor-general
- Chilean port workers end month-long strike
- Australia Day 2014 used to promote the military
2014-01-30
- Report exposes Chinese elite’s offshore tax havens
- Australian government intervenes against Toyota workers
- Canadian NDP MP harassed by Sri Lankan authorities
- Popular support for Spain’s monarchy plummets
- American folksinger Pete Seeger dead, at 94
- Supreme Court denies back pay to 800 US Steel workers
- Japanese PM strengthens economic-strategic ties with India
- State of the Union: A bankrupt ruling class talking to itself
- UK Labour pledges itself to legally binding savage cuts
- US House of Representatives votes to slash $8.7 billion from food stamps
- Flint, Michigan emergency manager threatens to file for bankruptcy
- Share prices fall as global currency turmoil continues
- Far-right demonstration in Paris calls for resignation of President Hollande
- Defend Detroit water workers’ jobs!
- RMT rail union calls off London Docklands Light Railway strikes
- Letters from our readers
- Australian foreign minister declares US economic “best friend”
2014-01-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Western powers, opposition step up pressure on Ukrainian regime
- Thai government to hold election amid ongoing crisis
- Obama administration officials escalate attack on Snowden and “accomplices”
- Funeral held for eight-year old Rochester, New York boy killed in trailer fire
- Pseudo-left offer their services to rail unions before London Underground strikes
- Obama’s low-wage “recovery”
- New scandals rock US nuclear command
- Japan: New political alignment emerges in Tokyo election
- Italy: Democratic Party chief Renzi attacks Letta government from the right
- The Invisible Woman: Moralizing about Charles Dickens
- New chief executive calls for “opening up” of Britain’s National Health Service
- Cold weather fires kill 10 children in Kentucky, Georgia
- US Supreme Court lifts stay, allows Missouri execution to proceed
- US attorney general seeks death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing suspect
- Detroit Institute of Arts agrees to pay $100 million as part of “grand bargain”
- Billionaire-backed lawsuit tries to abolish California teacher tenure
- Detroit transit officials say fare hike coming, abysmal service continues
- Winter storm paralyzes Atlanta, Georgia, stranding thousands
- Australian PM denounces Edward Snowden as a “traitor”
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