Archive: 03/2014
2014-03-01
- Ukraine alleges Russian “invasion” of Crimea as Obama warns of “costs”
- Germany: Union plays key role in job losses at ThyssenKrupp
- Scottish independence referendum campaign dominated by currency dispute
- Québec Solidaire gives PQ friendly advice on its chauvinist Charter
- Australian trade unions move to enforce Qantas layoffs, wage cuts
- Obama and Kerry lecture Russia on Ukraine
- Calls for pension cuts spread across US
- NSA listens in on the German chancellor’s contacts
- FBI, CIA lied to 9/11 Commission on bin Laden ties
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Homelessness on the rise in Boston
- US economy slows as companies announce thousands of layoffs
- Australian regional brewery closure announced
- Documents confirm US military spying on antiwar groups
2014-03-03
- Residents speak on continued water problems in West Virginia
- US-backed Ukrainian regime mobilizes reserves, threatening war with Russia
- AFSCME cancels strike, accepts concessions at University of California
- This week in history: March 3-9
- Australia: Aurizon coal train drivers locked out
- New Zealand: Sordid deal to avoid prosecution over Pike River mine disaster
- The crisis in Ukraine
- Emergency manager steps up blackmail of Detroit pensioners
- The political fraud of International Viewpoint’s statement on Ukraine
- Kazakhstan devalues national currency
- Mining corporations pressure Indonesian government over mineral export law
- UK facing housing costs time bomb
- Company responsible for West Virginia chemical spill plans to liquidate
- Socialist Party uses opposition to bedroom tax to promote Scottish nationalism
2014-03-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US steps up pressure on Russia amid growing risk of war over Ukraine
- Canada supports Ukraine coup, threats to Russia
- New report documents Sri Lankan military’s killing of surrendering LTTE leaders
- Vote “no” on St. Paul Federation of Teachers sellout contract!
- US media escalates propaganda offensive on Ukraine
- Unarmed man dies in custody of Oklahoma police
- Germany’s Angela Merkel feted by the UK to little effect
- US Justice Department protocols include sweeping attacks on press freedom
- Rome at risk of Detroit-style bankruptcy
- UK: Families of Hillsborough disaster victims placed under police surveillance
- What the 2008 Federal Reserve transcripts reveal
- Letters from our readers
- China: Uighur separatists blamed for railway station killings
- California Democrats attack pension protections
- Detroit emergency manager targets bus riders, transit workers
- 2014 Academy Awards: Life versus the film industry
2014-03-05
- “Emergency Town Hall meeting” in Detroit promotes Obama
- Thirteen workers exposed to radiation at New Mexico nuclear waste site
- US threatens Russia as Ukraine crisis escalates
- Erdogan crisis destabilises Turkey
- New deal would pay $85 million to banks that swindled Detroit
- Chronic kidney disease spreads in rural Sri Lanka
- RadioShack to close up to 1,100 stores
- Australian government signals breakup of Qantas airline
- US imperialism, Ukraine and the danger of World War III
- The Past from Iran’s Asghar Farhadi: Something of a disappointment
- Irish government preparing army to break strike by airport workers
- India’s government lies about 2012 military coup fears
- Cultural theorist Stuart Hall (1932-2014): A political career dedicated to opposing Marxism
- Eurozone social inequality most extreme in Germany
- 100 years since Ford’s five dollar day
- Forbes list of world’s richest people highlights growth of social inequality
- China treads cautiously after pro-US coup in Ukraine
- Obama budget: Populist demagogy and empty promises
- Age of Cannibals and Amma and Appa: Two sides of globalisation
- Australian government backs Washington’s anti-Russian confrontation
2014-03-06
- Former German President Wulff acquitted on bribery charge
- Number of US long-term jobless who lost benefits hits 2 million
- Amid Ukraine crisis, US launches military escalation in Eastern Europe
- Leaked phone call suggests opposition snipers killed Maidan protesters
- International court permits Australian seizure of Timor’s documents
- Thai political standoff continues
- Sri Lankan SEP election campaign receives wide hearing
- The fascist danger in Ukraine
- New York governor proposes $4 million cut to public libraries
- British Labour Party ends block union membership
- South Korean unions hold token “people’s strike”
- Crisis at General Motors over safety recall
- Former state treasurer gets job at firm cashing in from Detroit bankruptcy.
- Submission to Workers Inquiry: Social conditions facing workers in California
- A global political strategy to defend car industry jobs
- California Democrat sponsors bill to expedite teacher removal
- Artists boycott Sydney biennale over Australia’s asylum seeker regime
2014-03-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- British government cuts funding for poorest university students
- US, European Union impose sanctions against Russia
- US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in police killing of unarmed driver and passenger
- CIA spied on US Senate oversight committee
- José Padilha’s new RoboCop: Largely missing the point
- Detroit unions seek protection from retiree lawsuits
- The assault on Qantas workers and the global airline crisis
- The crisis in Ukraine and the historical consequences of the dissolution of the Soviet Union
- Obama administration again extends life of “skinny” health plans
- Australia: Strong response to IYSSE campaign at University of Newcastle
- Japan’s diplomacy in shambles over Ukraine crisis
- German media campaigns for war in Ukraine
- Australian economy heads for slump and deepening inequality
- China: IBM workers strike against sale of business to Lenovo
- Vergara v. California: A smokescreen to hide the attack on education
- Art and commerce: Austrian documentary The Great Museum
2014-03-08
- Tim’s Vermeer: Art and technology
- US, Europe step up pressure as Ukrainian crisis intensifies
- Ukraine: The danger of fascism and war
- Latino immigrants robbed by police during traffic stops in suburban New York
- US presents new UNHRC resolution on Sri Lankan human rights
- Over 4,000 signatures support German Socialist Equality Party for European elections
- Britain: More health services face privatisation
- Five years of Obama’s “recovery”
- New Zealand parliament unanimously backs US in Ukraine crisis
- Marx 21’s Christine Buchholz visits German troops in Africa
- More evidence of Australian government responsibility for refugee camp assault
- Letter on growing social polarization and class conflict in Alberta
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Anemic US jobs report shows growth in long-term unemployed
- Ford Australia refuses to guarantee production until 2016
- UK High Court backs government imposition of fees for workers’ claims
- SEP (Canada) meeting to oppose PQ’s chauvinist Charter, unite workers on socialist program
- Germany: Workers protest Johnson Controls closure in Bochum
- Why is Ron Bloom representing Detroit’s retirees?
- Sexual assault case against US Army general begins
- Senate Democrats reject Justice Department nominee over Abu-Jamal case
2014-03-10
- Australian youth unemployment reaches “crisis point”
- US builds up military forces, threatens end to diplomacy over Ukraine
- This week in history: March 10-16
- Tesoro refinery barred inspectors from site of accident in California
- Snowden’s testimony to European Parliament: “Billions of innocents” unlawfully spied upon
- CIA caught spying on US Senate
- Japanese government signals restart of nuclear power plants
- US immigration detainees begin hunger strike
- Germany: The Süddeutsche Zeitung and the poison of militarism
- Drive-by Truckers release new album, English Oceans
- Probes continue in scandal involving New Jersey governor
- New attacks on Boston Public School workers, students
- Boeing to freeze US salaried workers’ pensions
- Many questions unanswered about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
2014-03-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Denouncing Crimea referendum, US and EU step up pressure on Russia
- The US media returns to the mysterious death of Ibragim Todashev
- Snowden denounces global mass surveillance at SXSW festival
- Ukraine, the United States and international law
- New Zealand Labour leader appoints new chief of staff
- Maryland politicians plan wave of business tax cuts
- Malaysian court overturns acquittal of opposition leader Anwar
- US grocery chain takeover threatens workers’ jobs
- Spike Lee, gentrification and the crisis of affordable housing
- German President Gauck visits Greece
- Twenty-six died from the cold in Chicago area this winter
- Students sue British government over ban on loans and grants
- Searches fail to locate Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
2014-03-12
- German trade union advises workers to invest redundancy money with Thyssen Krupp
- Kiev to build new army, impose austerity as civil war threatens Ukraine
- South African police attack naked assault victim
- Alain Resnais (1922-2014), a major figure in postwar filmmaking
- What is behind the warmongering of the German media?
- Oligarchs to the fore once again in Ukraine
- Number of British hospitals in debt doubles in one year
- War propaganda in the German media
- Iron ore price slump points to mounting Chinese economic problems
- India’s election campaign goes into high gear
- US highway safety agency abetted GM cover-up of defect linked to fatal crashes
- French unions sign Socialist Party’s “Responsibility Pact”
- Senate Intelligence head accuses CIA of undermining US “constitutional framework”
- What the European Union said in 2012 about its current fascist allies in Ukraine
- Barclays loan deal would use Detroit income tax revenue, city assets as collateral
- Australian government defies UN call to release refugee detainees
2014-03-13
- Obama issues new threats against Russia
- Spanish government abolishes prosecutions under universal jurisdiction laws
- Quebec: PQ welcomes right-wing billionaire as star candidate
- The CIA, the Senate and the breakdown of American democracy
- Obama peddles private health care to young people in web interview
- Mehring Books and SEP (Germany) hold two meetings at Leipzig Book Fair
- Japanese government seeks to whitewash crimes against “comfort women”
- Greek students face prosecution for protests
- Republican wins special election in Florida
- At least three dead in Manhattan explosion blamed on gas leak
- Detroit emergency manager examines privatizing the water department
- Conflicting accounts of vanished Malaysia Airline Flight 370
2014-03-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Wall Street bonuses up by 15 percent last year
- Germany threatens “massive damage” to Russia ahead of Crimea referendum
- Investigations into Lac-Mégantic rail disaster show government culpability
- Ex-German chancellor Gerhard Schröder and international law
- Top British universities exclude poorer students
- Obama’s “high crimes and misdemeanors”
- State officials seek pension cuts in Pennsylvania
- Australian refugee camp atrocity: The class issues
- Leaked NSA documents expose agency’s sophisticated malware arsenal
- Sri Lanka: JVP pledges to defend big business interests
- New York City gas explosion likely caused by 127-year-old pipes
- Final two Australian state Labor governments face defeat
- Alex Callinicos: An imperialist apologist writes on Ukraine
- Boston parents, students oppose public school budget cuts
2014-03-15
- Senate negotiators reach deal to extend jobless benefits by cutting pension funding
- US-Russia talks on Ukraine collapse ahead of Crimean independence referendum
- Protests in Turkey threaten Erdogan government
- Thai government faces threat of judicial coup
- Scandals grow in wiretapping of ex-French President Sarkozy
- Sri Lanka: SEP election campaign explains danger of war
- Australian unions assist Qantas airways to sack workers
- What the Western-backed regime is planning for Ukrainian workers
- Senate Armed Services Committee hearing promotes cyberwarfare and illegal spying
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ukraine coup intensifies conflicts within Iran’s elite
- White House withholding documents from CIA torture probe
- Veteran Labour “left” Tony Benn dead at 88
- Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 may have veered off course
2014-03-17
- US, EU threaten retaliation as Crimea votes to join Russia
- This week in history: March 17-23
- Australian government threatens arts funding following Sydney Biennale protest over refugees
- South African union bureaucrats seek to break strike by platinum miners
- Socialist Equality Party (Germany) officially on ballot for European election
- Imperialist hypocrisy on Crimea
- New evidence in murder of German police officer by far-right
- Minnesota: Worker denied restroom break sues Electrolux
- Ireland: Letters promising immunity for IRA fugitives revealed in Downey prosecution
- The New York City gas explosion and the neglect of infrastructure
- Evidence mounts of cover-up of deaths related to GM ignition defect
- Concerns mount over Chinese growth and financial stability
- Detroit attorney says pension cuts actually close to 50 percent
- The New York Times deploys C.J. Chivers to Ukraine
- US Environmental Protection Agency lifts ban on federal contracts for BP
- Malaysian PM declares missing aircraft deliberately diverted
2014-03-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington, DC workers speak on budget cuts and inequality
- US-EU sanctions against Russia: A barely veiled threat of war
- Ukrainian putsch creates economic and political turmoil in Russia
- Australian state elections point to deep discontent
- The US media and the CIA’s spying on Congress
- Obamacare short of enrollment target ahead of March 31 deadline
- SEP holds meeting to oppose Australian car industry shutdown
- Israel backs far-right coup in Ukraine
- Irish high court outlaws strike by airport workers
- Sri Lanka: Police attack Hanwella villagers protesting against water pollution
- US continues to militarize space
- Australian feminists campaign to promote ex-PM Julia Gillard
- Facing destitution, Detroit retirees denounce pension cuts in letters to court
- Louisiana inmate exonerated after 30 years on death row
2014-03-19
- Novelis workers reject steelworkers union in upstate New York
- Moscow weighs the fate of historic Shukhov radio tower
- US Army general avoids charges of sexual assault in plea deal
- US hypocrisy on Crimean independence referendum
- Financial backer of Washington, DC mayor pleads guilty to illegal contributions
- Police and ANC fire on protesting South African schoolchildren
- US/European military provocations greet Russian annexation of Crimea
- War threats against Russia and the social crisis in the United States
- New Zealand media bury fresh Snowden revelations
- One hundred people killed in New York house fires this winter
- The NSA records “every single” phone call in a targeted country
- India: Demanding pay rise, 200,000 power-loom operators continue strike
- Meetings at Leipzig Book Fair: The relevance of Trotsky’s Europe at War
- David North speaks on “The Philosophy and Politics of Historical Falsification” at The New School in New York City
- Sri Lankan government detains human rights activists under anti-terror law
- Joe Louis Arena facing closure, demolition as part of stadium deal with Ilitch
- Polls predict victory for right-wing Fidesz in Hungarian elections
- March 18 protest against social cuts in France: A political dead end
- Australia: Ex-Labor minister urges sweeping attack on workers’ conditions
2014-03-20
- US, EU escalate war threats against Russia over Crimea annexation
- SEP/IYSSE to hold final election meeting in Colombo
- Svoboda thugs attack head of Ukrainian national television
- The CIA spying scandal, Watergate and the decay of American democracy
- New York mayor offers empty words to besieged school bus workers
- New York school bus workers defiant in face of attacks
- Newark, New Jersey school official threatens to fire one third of district’s teachers
- Indian security forces gun down coal mine worker
- Lack of international cooperation mars search for Malaysia Airlines plane
- US Navy SEALs seize tanker carrying Libyan oil
- South Korean doctors walk out over medical privatization
- Israel air strikes on Syrian military raise Mideast tensions
- German media campaigns for economic sanctions against Russia
- The “left” posturing of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters
- Federal Reserve reaffirms commitment to cheap money for Wall Street
- Cyprus parliament passes privatisation programme
- Chinese real estate developer on brink of collapse
- An interview with Detroit retiree attorney
2014-03-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US court ruling upholds state efforts to disenfranchise voters
- Provocative remarks by US Pacific fleet commander fuel disputes with China
- Toyota pays $1.2 billion to escape prosecution for defect deaths and injuries
- US Army general charged in sexual assault case let off with small fine
- WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh speaks at Wayne State University in Detroit
- Anti-Russia propaganda and the fabrication of a new pro-war consensus
- US judge slams surveillance requests as “repugnant to the Fourth Amendment”
- German Left Party promotes government propaganda against Russia
- Republican house speaker rejects US Senate deal to restore long-term unemployment benefits
- Family of murdered Indian mine worker speak out
- More than 100 immigrants found locked in Houston, Texas house
- Endless austerity in UK budget tailored to big business and wealthy
- Australian government joins US sanctions against Russia
- Argentina: Tens of thousands of striking teachers protest in La Plata
- Australia: Massive fire at Sydney’s Barangaroo building site
2014-03-22
- EU-Ukraine trade pact paves way for brutal austerity
- Constitutional conflict escalates between US Senate and CIA
- Massive budget cuts and labour reforms to follow Serbian election
- Puerto Rico’s pensions in the crosshairs
- Sexual violence and abuse in the US military
- Australia: Mounting anger over coal mine fire health crisis
- The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Philosophy and Politics of Historical Falsification
- Time Warner CEO to receive $80 million payout after six weeks of work
- Search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane enters third week
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German media seeks to paint Putin as new “Hitler”
- German Green Party campaigns for war
- Detroit water department preparing mass utility shutoffs
- Duke Energy illegally pumps millions of gallons of contaminated water into North Carolina river
- The pseudo-left and the plenums in Bosnia
2014-03-24
- US and NATO use Ukrainian crisis to advance military build-up in Eastern Europe
- This week in history: March 24-30
- Toyota locks out auto workers in India
- FBI agent to be cleared in killing of Ibragim Todashev
- Political crisis deepens as Thai court annuls election
- Sri Lankan SEP speaks to Colombo residents about austerity and war
- Scottish Socialist Party pronounces on the currency question
- Greece’s “The River” party: A populist fraud
- The OECD’s “Society at A Glance” report: A portrait of a failed system
- Spain: One million march in Madrid against austerity
- New Jersey motel fire kills Hurricane Sandy evacuees
- Edward Snowden exposes NSA spying against Chinese telecom firm Huawei
- Imprint of primordial gravitational waves detected
- Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush comes to Lexington, Kentucky
- Germany: 24-hour warning strikes in public sector
- Half of Detroit’s residents too poor to afford Obamacare
- Canada’s Harper visits Kiev to laud coup, threaten Russia
- Former US intelligence contractor speaks on 1975 Australian coup
2014-03-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fourteen dead, over 100 missing in Washington state landslide
- G7 powers exploit Ukraine crisis to isolate Russia
- Leading US-backed Ukrainian politician calls for annihilation of Russia
- The International Socialist Organization’s silence on CIA spying
- What accounts for the electoral victories of France’s neo-fascist National Front?
- German foreign minister Steinmeier woos Ukrainian oligarchs
- UK parliament approves assault on National Health Service
- Malaysian PM: Missing plane crashed in southern Indian Ocean
- Three Detroit metro hospitals planning mega-merger
- US-backed military junta in Egypt sentences 529 Brotherhood members to death
- Obama’s 2015 budget continues attack on public education
- More signs of a weakening Chinese economy
- Canada: Truckers and rail workers face antistrike laws
- The Grand Budapest Hotel from Wes Anderson
2014-03-26
- What was US teachers union president Randi Weingarten doing in Kiev?
- Search continues for survivors in massive Washington State mudslide
- US, EU press Russia to recognize Ukraine’s putschist regime
- Turkey shoots down Syrian fighter jet
- Obama “reform” seeks new framework for illegal NSA spying
- Australian government minister steps aside: A revealing episode
- The US State Department’s “labor man” in Ukraine
- Stop Egypt’s Pinochet from murdering 529 Muslim Brotherhood supporters!
- IYSSE statement: University of Michigan welcomes the dictator of Detroit
- Oil spill threatens Houston-area wildlife
- Leader of US-backed Ukrainian fascist Right Sector militia killed in police shootout
- Inner-Sydney tenants denounce government’s privatisation
- Australia: State government to sell off Sydney Harbour public housing
- Detroit emergency manager at the University of Michigan
- Thousands of refugees intercepted off the coast of Sicily
- Egypt on the verge of a social explosion
- US Supreme Court hears corporate challenge to Obamacare contraception provision
- Former President Jimmy Carter says NSA likely spying on his communications
2014-03-27
- One in three people in the US live “hand-to-mouth”
- Sri Lankan pseudo-lefts justify front with right-wing UNP
- AFSCME cancels University of California strike
- Florida prosecutor’s report whitewashes FBI killing of Ibragim Todashev
- California police departments capture cellphone data
- Sri Lankan government revives terror campaign against Tamils
- Academic experts advise Spanish government to escalate attacks on the working class
- The Detroit News endorses mass water shutoffs
- Quebec elections: The issues facing the working class
- The fraud of Obama’s NSA “reform”
- Obama’s speech on Ukraine: Propaganda and lies
- New Zealand joins Washington’s sanctions against Russia
- Following death of workers, report indicts safety at New York Metro-North rail system
- Five more convicted in Madoff Ponzi scheme
- UK Labour Party proposes compulsory cheap-labour scheme
- Divergent: A different sort of dystopia
2014-03-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- No to Detroit water shutoffs!
- Venezuelan generals arrested in alleged coup plot
- Nationwide strike by UK teachers
- Sri Lanka: SEP campaigns among villagers protesting water pollution
- Obama administration submits formal plan for NSA “reforms”
- The real face of Ukraine’s Maidan “democrats”
- What way forward for workers in Ukraine?
- Area of Washington mudslide long known and documented as unstable
- 74-year-old woman, wrongly imprisoned, released after 32 years
- Australian government instigates moves to quash PNG judge’s refugee inquiry
- Finding Vivian Maier: A brief comment …
- India attempts precarious balancing act in Ukraine crisis
- Egyptian coup leader al-Sisi announces presidential candidacy
- Britain seeks to make up lost ground with US over Ukraine
- Police shooting of New Mexico homeless man caught on video
- Search continues for Malaysia Airlines plane
2014-03-29
- Obama demands Russia withdraw troops from Ukraine border
- Turkish officials plan false-flag attacks to create pretext for war with Syria
- The growing danger of dictatorship in Thailand
- UK National Union of Teachers stage one-day strike
- In talks with Saudi monarch, Obama prepares escalation of US-backed war in Syria
- Australian student union’s “Day of Action” promotes Labor and the Greens
- The Detroit water cutoffs and the social counterrevolution in America
- French elections: Rising neo-fascist vote exposes bankruptcy of pseudo-left NPA
- Defeat in French municipal elections staggers ruling Socialist Party
- Battles between drug cartels and vigilante groups destabilize Mexico
- Detroit meeting called by SEP endorses fight against water shutoffs
- Malaysian government deepens crackdown on opposition
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iceland’s government seeks to abandon EU membership negotiations
- UN report details US human rights abuses
- German magazine Die Zeit calls for reintroduction of compulsory military service
- Mississippi court delays state killing of mentally incompetent woman
- Ukraine conflict exacerbates tensions in the Caucasus
- Canada’s Harper stokes imperialism’s drive against Russia
2014-03-31
- At least 18 dead in Washington mudslide, dozens still missing
- NATO steps up military pressure on Russia
- This week in history: March 31-April 6
- New evidence of US intelligence links to Boston Marathon bomber
- UN body call for international probe into Sri Lankan human rights violations
- Spokane, Washington police kill man as he surrenders
- White House ally reveals anti-working class agenda behind Obamacare
- New Snowden documents detail political and corporate espionage by US, UK
- Australian government reintroduces imperial honours system
- Chicago Transit Authority wreck raises questions of safety equipment and operator fatigue
- Obama administration urges Supreme Court to dismiss First Amendment suit brought by anti-Bush demonstrators
- Socialist Equality Party in Britain joins German Partei für Soziale Gleichheit in European election campaign
- Boston School Committee approves austerity budget
- UK benefits claimants victimised and driven into destitution
- US appeals court upholds reactionary Texas anti-abortion law
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