Archive: 02/2014
2014-02-01
- Detroit bankruptcy blueprint would gut pensions
- Australian government refuses assistance to SPC fruit cannery
- Rolls Royce sales reflect mounting global social inequality
- Philippine peace deal in Mindanao followed by military assault
- Currency turmoil signals new phase of global economic crisis
- Pakistani court issues arrest warrant for ex-military dictator
- Murdoch’s Politics—An ex-Stalinist in awe of Rupert Murdoch, Part I
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama’s plan for long-term jobless: A teaspoon to bail out the ocean
- Unions unite with “Harrisburg Strong” to attack workers in Pennsylvania
- UK police marksman will not be charged for killing Anthony Grainger
- German government announces the end of military restraint
- The unknown women of Joan Fontaine (1917-2013)
- Australian government seizes on union corruption claims to prepare assault on workers
- Video shows Arizona police shooting man with hands over his head
2014-02-03
- Video: Detroit tenants determined to fight eviction
- Quebec: Profit, deregulation and the L’Isle Verte tragedy
- This week in history: February 3-9
- Thailand: Anti-government protests disrupt election
- After failed Geneva talks, US steps up threats against Syria
- Mass protests in Madrid against new abortion reform
- European governments stir up anti-Roma prejudice
- Obama names advocate of cyber-warfare to head NSA
- Australia: New evidence of refugees being assaulted at sea
- Australian government joins international witch-hunt of Edward Snowden
- Murdoch’s Politics—An ex-Stalinist in awe of Rupert Murdoch, Part II
- Germany, US push aggressive policies at Munich Security Conference
- US union membership remains near historic low
- Protests against cuts at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dead at 46
- Visitors to Detroit Institute of Arts discuss Workers Inquiry
- Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski revisited: Camera Buff (1979)
- New York’s “progressive” mayor de Blasio continues right-wing policies
2014-02-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The roots of South Africa’s Workers and Socialist Party and its political role
- Bankruptcy court seeks union backing for assault on Detroit workers
- EU and Washington step up pressure on Ukraine
- US warns China over air defence zone
- Appeal by family of Roma schoolgirl to return to France rejected
- World Court decision on Peru-Chile border fails to quell nationalist rivalries
- The Detroit bankruptcy and the global social counterrevolution
- Exposing the Bankers Conspiracy
- Baberowski’s invitation to Service: The philosophical and political foundations of historical falsification
- Sharp fall in global share markets
- Iraqi military bombs Fallujah ahead of ground assault
- Detroit infant mortality rate worst among large US cities
- Guardian reveals threats of imprisonment and closure over Snowden leaks
- Attacks on wages and jobs at Electrolux in Italy
- NY Times calls JPMorgan CEO’s pay raise “laudable”
- CSEC and Harper government assert right to spy on Canadians
- Australian government preparing attack on citizenship rights
- Study: Nearly half of Americans living in “liquid asset poverty”
- Australian government inquiry calls for end to car industry subsidies
- British role in 1984 Amritsar massacre
2014-02-05
- US increases pressure on Sri Lankan government over war crimes
- AFSCME members to hold strike vote at University of California campuses
- Australian government SPC decision signals broad assault on wages and conditions
- Australia Post workers face further restructuring and privatisation
- Portland teachers to vote on strike
- Ukraine and the pro-imperialist intellectuals
- After Detroit bankruptcy ruling, Chicago mayor leads charge on pension cuts
- Congressional report: Obamacare to reduce workforce by two million
- Tech company “transparency reports” reveal massive NSA spying
- Japanese government promotes militarism in media and schools
- US Senate votes to slash $8.7 billion in food assistance
- Fifty-five bodies found at Florida’s former reform school
- Deflationary tendencies intensify in Europe as unemployment remains at record levels
- Detroit water department workers angry at layoff plans
- The Irish trade unions, the pseudo-left and the Dublin lockout centenary
- UK “bedroom tax” leads to record requests for emergency assistance
- In latest “human rights” crusade, NY Times’ Kristof promotes allegations against Woody Allen
- Obama meets generals on Afghanistan as troop deal remains stalled
2014-02-06
- Deindustrialization and unemployment in Syracuse, New York
- Detroit City Council approves land transfer for billionaire’s sports stadium
- US threats mount against journalists, Snowden
- Democratic rights under attack in Scotland
- Puerto Rico steps up austerity after cut in credit rating
- Lou Renfrow (1925-2014)
- Philippine President Aquino compares China to Nazi Germany
- The return of German militarism
- London Underground strike shuts down capital
- Australian union leader backs government drive to lower wages
- Australian rich list: “A billionaire bounty”
- An exchange of letters on “NY Times calls JPMorgan CEO’s pay raise ‘laudable’”
- Canada’s government curtly dismisses concerns over blanket spying
- Pianist Menahem Pressler, refugee from Nazism, performs at the Berlin Philharmonic
- Trust bailout highlights massive growth of China’s “shadow banking”
- US CEOs made tens of billions on stock market rally
2014-02-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- US Senate fails to pass bill to extend unemployment benefits
- US regime-change operation in Ukraine exposed in leaked diplomatic phone call
- New hockey arena in Detroit: A gift to the super-rich amid social misery
- IMF increases pressure on Slovenia
- South Africa: Mamphela Ramphele’s planned merger with Democratic Alliance collapses
- Quebec Liberals stoke PQ’s anti-democratic Charter of Values campaign
- Pseudo-left groups silent on rail unions’ effort to call off strikes
- Philippine typhoon survivors stage protests
- Social inequality and the war against the working class
- Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick glosses over the economic crisis
- Mass layoffs hit North America, Europe and Japan
- US threatens French companies with sanctions over Iran
- Delhi’s AAP government teeters after month in office
- Ford Australia brings forward 300 job cuts
- Texas executes Suzanne Basso, despite claims of mental incompetency
- Danish government loses coalition partner
- Tony Blair whitewashes imperialism’s role in the Middle East
2014-02-08
- US response to leaked call confirms US/EU regime-change plot in Ukraine
- Sri Lankan SEP to contest provincial election
- US disputes China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea
- Rich lap up the cream of Britain’s top state schools
- Refugee details punishment at sea by Australian navy
- Canada’s Conservatives threaten CN Rail workers with anti-strike law
- The revival of Japanese militarism
- Portuguese government tries to auction 85 works by Joan Miró
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama hails dismal jobs report, signs bill to slash food stamps
- Detroiters endorse Workers Inquiry, denounce bankruptcy
- UK Conservatives face crisis over referendum on European Union
- Coal ash spill in North Carolina threatens population
- Letters from our readers
- Tragic death of homeless woman in Sydney
- Witch-hunt against Australian ABC escalates over refugee torture allegations
- AOL head rolls back pensions, citing Obamacare and cost of “distressed babies”
2014-02-10
- This week in history: February 10-16
- Thailand: Election fails to resolve political deadlock
- SYRIZA’s pose of opposition to Greek austerity unravels
- New York Times and Washington Post intensify Snowden smear campaign
- Press leaks claim NSA collects “only” 30 percent of US phone calls
- West Australian fires expose government failure to provide safe electricity supplies
- Leaked phone call on Ukraine lays bare Washington’s gangsterism
- Pakistani government provides the military with further antidemocratic powers
- US media, politicians mobilize against Sochi Olympics
- US analysts debate plans for war against China
- Large neo-fascist vote expected in French municipal elections
- Socialist Equality Party kicks off campaign on social inequality with meeting in Minneapolis
- Detroit meeting builds delegation for February 15 Workers Inquiry
- Australian by-election reveals voter disaffection
- NATO Three face prison terms in frame-up
- Enraged workers and youth protest austerity in Bosnia
2014-02-11
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- Reject UAW-Volkswagen company union
- Support the London Underground strikers!
- Following Ford and GM, Toyota Australia announces end of car production
- Tokyo election reveals widespread political alienation
- Initiative to restrict immigration passed in Swiss referendum vote
- Nine questions for Robert Service
- US Supreme Court justice declares mass internment inevitable
- Reddit forum blacklists WSWS
- French automaker PSA plans to slash jobs at Poissy, shift production to Asia
- Former State Department employee pleads guilty to information leak
- Mass unemployment in America
- The Monuments Men: An establishment film, in almost every way
- Robert McBride appointed as South Africa police watchdog: The ANC’s “answer” to police brutality
- Detroit firefighters speak on Workers Inquiry
- Two Brooklyn men freed after 21 years in prison for wrongful murder conviction
- Obama White House targeting American for drone murder
- Australian government to expand “work for the dole”
- Workers ignore token union protest against French Socialist Party’s cuts
- Unite the working class behind University of California workers!
2014-02-12
- Canada: Religious accommodation request sparks political furor
- US Fed Chair Janet Yellen reassures Wall Street on easy money policy
- Sri Lankan SEP holds public meeting on workers inquiry into water pollution
- Australian Labor Party and unions posture over Toyota closure
- Obama renews threats as Syrian talks remain deadlocked
- Portland school officials intransigent as deadline for teachers strike looms
- The state assassination of a US citizen foretold
- White House announces another delay in health mandate for employers
- James Cuno’s Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum
- Record youth homelessness in UK
- Violence in sports: Two more boxers die from head injuries
- New Yorkers condemn food stamp cuts
- Heroin use at historic highs in Chicago area
- Scottish government passes final pre-referendum budget
- Detroit’s Belle Isle taken over by state government
- The philosophical and political foundations of historical falsification
2014-02-13
- Winter storm paralyzes US South
- New Zealand: Mana and Green parties stage anti-oil drilling protest
- European Parliament kills call to protect Edward Snowden
- Australian attorney-general accuses Snowden of “endangering lives”
- Socialist Equality Party European election campaign finds support in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Australian car industry closure: A warning to workers internationally
- Australian documentary reveals Israeli torture of Palestinian youth
- Rail unions betray London Underground strike
- How the German Left Party defends the European Union
- Johnson Controls announces partial closure of plant in Bochum, Germany
- Growing unease in Iran over rapprochement with Washington
- London Underground workers outraged at unions’ suspension of strike
- Pennsylvania residents go days without power after ice storm
- Hollande’s state visit to Washington: France embraces global neo-colonialist war
- Former NSA chief Hayden praises Obama for “doubling down” on Bush-era spying
- Years of government cuts worsen UK flooding
- Worker killed in Pennsylvania gas well explosion
- What is Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority?
- Letters from our readers
2014-02-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Water privatization in England: 25 years on
- Clashes in Venezuela leave three dead
- Toyota registers record profit through ruthless restructuring
- NSA spying poses “direct threat to journalism,” watchdog group warns
- British government attempts to stamp out student protests
- More than 100,000 gallons released in West Virginia coal slurry spill
- Appearance of Robert Service in Berlin ends in fiasco
- Australian Labor Party defends its “heartfelt” celebration of Ariel Sharon
- The Workers Inquiry into the bankruptcy of Detroit
- National schools inspectorate to be overhauled by UK government
- Hungarian government exploits Holocaust Memorial Year to revise history
- Chinese navy conducts exercises in east Indian Ocean
- California’s homeless: Casualties of class warfare
- Calls for expanded European Union intervention in Bosnia
2014-02-15
- Thai government to end rice subsidy
- Report details housing crisis in Minnesota
- Edward Snowden and Europe’s pseudo-left
- White House sued for covering up crimes of JPMorgan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US secretary of state’s new round of bullying in Beijing
- Change of government in Italy
- Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline stalled
- US ready to do business with Hindu supremacist candidate for Indian PM
- Australia: Ten years since Aboriginal youth TJ Hickey killed in police chase
- US Congress lifts federal debt ceiling
- EU imposes harsh austerity on Croatia, its newest member
- One year since the betrayal of the NYC school bus workers strike
- Bangladeshi government appeals for military backing
2014-02-17
- Widespread abstention in UK’s Wythenshawe by-election
- This week in history: February 17-23
- Auto workers reject UAW at Tennessee VW plant
- US escalates Syrian intervention
- New Zealand government cancels passports over Syrian conflict
- Australian state government bolsters “move-on” police powers
- More Snowden documents expose US-Australian spying on Indonesia
- Kerry’s Asian trip and the build-up to war with China
- Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin found guilty of corruption
- Detroit Inquiry attendees denounce attack on workers’ rights
- Workers Inquiry examines political conspiracy behind Detroit bankruptcy
- Indonesian volcanic eruption displaces tens of thousands
- German government steps up military operations
- Spanish artist sued for insulting fascist dictator Franco
- Five die in North Minneapolis fire
- Comcast, Time Warner in $45 billion merger
2014-02-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Polk Awards honor Greenwald, other journalists who broke Snowden revelations
- The UAW debacle in Tennessee
- Ireland’s Socialist Workers Party promotes strikebreaker David Norris
- Social inequality and capitalism
- The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Philosophy and Politics of Historical Falsification
- Australia: Labor Party promoted at protest against Medicare cuts
- Germany: Duisburg state prosecutor discloses charges in Love Parade disaster
- Rejecting mediator’s proposal, New York’s transit agency insists on a wage freeze
- UN report on North Korea targets both Pyongyang and Beijing
- US intensifies pressure on Iran as talks on permanent nuclear pact begin
- Workers, youth speak on the significance of the Detroit Inquiry
- French unions, pseudo-left seek to block opposition to Hollande’s cuts
- Australian government woos Fijian military regime
- Workers Inquiry discussion focuses on political strategy to oppose Detroit bankruptcy
- Alzheimer’s sufferer died in handcuffs at UK immigrant detention centre
- Letters from our readers
- Jobs disaster looms in Australian car components industry
- Over one million petition for Brazil to grant asylum to Snowden
2014-02-19
- Leaked documents detail NSA surveillance operations against WikiLeaks
- David Walsh to conduct book tour on The Sky Between the Leaves
- Clashes in Ukraine signal escalation of US-EU intervention
- University of Illinois faculty members strike in Chicago
- Thai political crisis worsens as four killed in clashes
- St. Paul public school teachers to vote for strike authorization
- Cameron appeals to “quiet patriots” to save the United Kingdom
- “The Permanent Revolution in film criticism”
- Refugees killed and maimed in Australian detention camp on Manus Island
- The Comcast-Time Warner merger: The case for public ownership
- Department of Homeland Security invests $6.9 million to spy on Boston commuters
- Decades of budget cuts behind Detroit water main breaks
- German Left Party defends the European Union at party conference
- The Social and Historical Context of the Detroit Bankruptcy
- Gautier-Sauvagnac affair reveals employer payoffs to French unions
- FEMA cuts aid to West Virginians affected by chemical spill
- Hundreds of thousands evicted in Spain since 2008 crash
- Delhi’s AAP government resigns
- University of California workers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
- Alcoa Australia announces smelter closure, sacking 1,000 workers
2014-02-20
- Verizon Wireless to close five service centers, affecting 5,200 workers
- US, European Union threaten sanctions against Ukraine
- Striking University of Illinois at Chicago faculty and students speak out
- Sri Lanka’s war crimes and the US “human rights” charade
- Edward Snowden elected Rector of Glasgow University
- Detroit sanitation workers denounce privatization
- South African unions vie for control of militant workers
- 100 years since founding of the Los Angeles Public Defender’s Office
- Australian corporate profits soar at workers’ expense
- Berlin and Washington foment civil war in Ukraine
- Ontario Conservatives renew push for labor “reform”
- UK ruling against David Miranda escalates assault on democratic rights
- GM axes more auto jobs in South Korea
- The hazardous race for petroleum profits in North Dakota
- 741 Delta workers face job cuts at Detroit airport
- West Virginia law firm accused of “cutthroat approach” to fighting black lung claims
- Political agendas at this year’s Berlinale
2014-02-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Death toll rises to six as clashes continue in Venezuela
- Dozens killed in Ukraine as EU and Washington step up pressure on Yanukovych government
- Thai court undermines government’s emergency decree
- UK teachers union refuses to back one-day strike
- South African unions vie for control of militant workers
- The puzzle of the proton radius
- The US minimum wage “debate”
- 84-year-old nun sentenced to prison for “sabotaging” US preparations for war
- Australian state government closes disability support facilities
- US authorities seek national license plate tracking system
- The Political Conspiracy Behind the Bankruptcy of Detroit: Anatomy of a Crime
- Irish airport workers latest to strike over pensions
- US dictates terms in international talks with Iran
- House of Cards, season 2: The American politician as conspirator and murderer
- Serious concerns persist over helicopter safety in North Sea
2014-02-22
- Ukrainian regime bows to pressure from Washington, EU and far-right opposition
- Socialist Equality Party campaigns against Toyota Australia shutdown
- The glorification of World War I and the preparations for World War III
- Vote for the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)!
- Spanish authorities lie about African migrant drownings
- The social chasm in America’s cities
- US public sector cuts part-time work in advance of Obamacare mandate
- Australian government prepares cover-up of refugee detention camp atrocity
- Libyan military commander calls for Egyptian-style military junta
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Job losses sweep through Australian economy
- Indian parliament votes to create new Telangana state
- Child pornography scandal rocks Germany’s grand coalition government
- Wave of strikes by Egyptian textile workers
- Letters from our readers
- New Zealand: Three years after the Christchurch earthquake
- US bank CEOs rake in pay raises, bonuses
- Berlin IYSSE protests Professor Jörg Baberowski’s suppression of democratic discussion at Humboldt University
- Detroit bankruptcy plan: A savage assault on the working class
2014-02-24
- Western-backed Ukrainian opposition seizes power in fascist-led putsch
- This week in history: February 24-March 2
- Defend the social right to public education: Oppose St. Paul Federation of Teachers’ sellout contract!
- Freed “illegal” miners face imprisonment and deportation in South Africa
- Portland teachers to vote on tentative contract deal
- A bankers’ plan for Detroit
- Oppose political discrimination at University of Newcastle
- Tony Blair offered aid to Murdoch in phone-hacking scandal
- Australian government changes its story on refugee camp killing
- Japan: New radioactive water leak at Fukushima
- French government applauds coup in Ukraine
- Ford Cologne: Management and IG Metall union blackmail workers
- Another US provocation: Obama meets the Dalai Lama
- Scramble for Cuba begins with shifts among US ruling elite
- Canadian intelligence agencies deepen integration, expand spying
- New York mayor de Blasio and unions prepare new attacks on city workers
- The Detroit Bankruptcy: A Travesty of Democracy
- California enters third year of severe drought
- A serious approach to history: Non-Fiction Diary by South Korea’s Jung Yoon-suk
- Argentina on the brink of a social explosion
2014-02-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Death toll rises to 14 in Venezuelan protests
- Australian government eyes purchase of Triton drone aircraft
- Sri Lankan military training against mock student protest
- New far-right party VOX launched in Spain
- Interview with Tatiana Smilga-Poluyan
- Greek police enter schools, quiz children on political activities
- Truck delays at Port of New York and New Jersey spark outrage and protest
- Public health care workers clash with riot police in Peru
- Coup in Ukraine: A warning to the international working class
- GM’s job destruction and the South Korean pseudo-left
- WSWS publishes interviews with children of the Left Opposition
- Australian “union corruption” inquiry targets workers
- Detroit News feigns sympathy for Griswold tenants as evictions loom
- Egyptian cabinet resigns as strike wave grows
- Detroit workers denounce bankruptcy restructuring plan
- Letters from our readers
- Machinists union imposes deep concessions at St. Louis Boeing plant
2014-02-26
- Massive education cuts in German state of Saxony
- Attempts of EU, far-right opposition to set up Ukraine government collapse
- Thailand: Five dead in latest attacks on anti-government protests
- New fossil discovery sheds light on the evolution of the human hand
- Interview with Yuri Primakov
- Parti Quebecois government intensifies big business’ austerity drive
- Communication Workers Union becomes official tool of management at Royal Mail in Britain
- Australia: Community services minister denounces public housing tenants
- The David Miranda ruling and the attack on press freedom
- Judge dismisses suit against New York police spying on Muslims
- Pentagon chief proposes $115 billion increase in military spending
- As growth slows, Bank of Japan “opens spigot” to the rich
- Italy’s new prime minister prepares attacks on working class
- Homeless population in US capital up 135 percent from last year
- Unions betray Israel’s Hadassah hospital strike
- Art and the working class
- California board votes to increase pension contributions as benefits face attack
- We Come as Friends and Run Boy Run: Two more films that take a serious approach
- Arizona legislature enacts anti-gay legislation
2014-02-27
- Sri Lanka: Police intimidation against SEP workers inquiry on industrial pollution
- Video: Attendees speak on the Workers Inquiry into the Bankruptcy of Detroit
- After pro-EU putsch in Ukraine, Russia puts military on alert
- US Supreme Court backs police on warrantless searches
- Interview with Zorya Serebryakova
- More evidence about atrocity at Australian-run refugee camp
- Australia: Qantas Airways to cut 5,000 jobs and impose wage freeze
- The political lessons of the UAW debacle in Tennessee
- India: BJP PM candidate Modi makes provocative anti-China speech
- North West police commissioner appears before inquiry into Marikana massacre
- The geopolitical dimensions of the coup in Ukraine
- Snowden documents show US, UK spy agencies infiltrate online groups
- Czech government embarks on more austerity
- New York City budget exposes contrast between mayor’s rhetoric and reality
- US seeks to hijack Bosnia protests
- Obama threatens total US withdrawal from Afghanistan
2014-02-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US, Europe step up threats against Russia over Ukraine
- Thailand: Navy officers arrested for involvement in anti-government protests
- Interview with Tatiana Isaeva
- US and Japanese troops train for war against China
- Pakistani air raids escalate in North Waziristan
- Netflix to pay Comcast to prioritize content
- Report exposes denial of school lunches to children in Minnesota
- US insurers protest planned cuts to Medicare Advantage
- Detroit developers force artists out of downtown apartment building
- Devastation of health care in Greece
- GCHQ, NSA collected webcam images from 1.8 million Yahoo users
- Australian coal mine fire endangers working-class town
- In the name of “peace”, the European Union readies for war
- Following Workers Inquiry, SEP meeting discusses Detroit restructuring plan
- Between faith and the striving for truth: German films in competition at the Berlinale
- The rape of Detroit: Deindustrialization, financialization and parasitism
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