Archive: 10/2014
2014-10-01
- German government approves new law on sexual offenses
- Almost 900,000 refugees from war in Ukraine flee to Russia
- Turkey lines up for military role in Syria–Part 2
- UK Tories outline next phase of their war on working class
- German Foreign Minister Steinmeier’s UN speech: War propaganda cloaked in pacifist phrases
- Australia to effectively repudiate international refugee law
- American FBI instigates another Australian anti-terrorism raid
- A US judge declares Detroit residents have no right to water
- Montreal: Witch-hunt against city workers opposed to pension cuts
- Modi promotes India as world’s sweatshop
- “Abu-Ghraib-like” torture of refugees exposed in Germany
- Mexican government imposes education “reform” over teacher protests
- Russian metallurgy giant Mechel faces bankruptcy
- Mass protests continue in Hong Kong
- “Poisonous” economic combinations preparing new international crisis
- Recordings show Federal Reserve covered up Wall Street crimes
- Protests and sick-outs continue in Colorado against “patriotic” curriculum
- Miners Shot Down: Documentary about the 2012 Marikana massacre
2014-10-02
- Iraqi Odyssey and other pictures of the modern world
- US Secret Service director resigns amid mounting security scandals
- US war against the people of Syria and Iraq
- Pseudo-left New Anti-capitalist Party backs France’s “war on terror” agenda
- One-day strike by Lufthansa pilots in Germany
- Libya disintegrates as rival governments vie for control
- Income gains after recessions increasingly go to the wealthy
- Student leaders threaten to escalate Hong Kong protests
- French government prepares to slash family, health benefits
- First Ebola case diagnosed in US
- UK Conservatives pledge further attacks on democratic rights
- CIA document details cover-up of drug trafficking by Contras
- Germany’s ill-equipped army—the campaign for higher military spending
- Australian spy agencies given vast new powers
2014-10-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Washington partially lifts ban on the sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam
- Federal judge opens door to the shredding of California public worker pensions
- Serbian government slashes wages and pensions
- Seattle workers to be hit by transit fare increases, cuts to service
- Revelations of brutality deepen crisis over New York’s Rikers Island prison
- The revival of German militarism: One year on
- Indian contract workers continue strike at state-owned energy company
- New steps to wider war in Middle East
- King County, Washington, budget proposes layoffs and deep cuts to social services
- India tilts still closer to Washington
- Hong Kong chief executive seeks to defuse protests
- German public television turns out propaganda on Ukraine
- Obama deported a record 438,421 people last year
- Australia: Opposition Labor Party votes for deep budget cuts
- Death sentence for Bangladesh Islamic leader commuted
2014-10-04
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE public lecture series: Fifty years since the LSSP’s betrayal
- SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold antiwar meetings in Galle, Gampaha and Hatton
- French neo-fascists win two Senate seats amid government defeat
- Behind the war against ISIS
- Why is the German elite once again agitating for war?
- US labor force participation rate hits lowest level since 1978
- Hong Kong protests ebb
- The demise of “bond king” Bill Gross: Financial and political implications
- In response to exposure of abuses, German interior minister attacks refugees
- Anti-Muslim ads removed from New York buses after protest from James Foley's family
- Australia, US back sham election staged by Fiji military regime
- US exploiting West Africa Ebola outbreak to establish military foothold
- Corporate elite divvies up Detroit as bankruptcy plan confirmation looms
- Spain’s Constitutional Court suspends Catalan independence referendum
- Canada to dramatically escalate its role in Mideast war
- Calvary: An Irish priest threatened for another’s crimes
- Elections in Bulgaria take place amidst political and economic crisis
- Australia commits to combat operations in Middle East
- Majority of Texas abortion clinics to close following court ruling
2014-10-06
- This week in history: October 6-12
- US Supreme Court Justice Scalia attacks separation of church and state
- European Union ends rescue mission for refugees
- German train drivers vote to strike
- Biden’s admission: US allies armed ISIS
- Mass grave found near disappearance of student protesters in Mexico
- Tensions rise in Spain over Catalan independence referendum
- Soldiers’ deaths reveal widespread abuse in South Korean military
- Allegations of sexual abuse at south Texas immigrant detention facility
- Australia: Inala residents voice concerns about police shooting
- Hong Kong government issues ultimatum to protesters
- Judge orders release of Guantanamo Bay force-feeding videos
- Wealth of richest 400 Americans surges to $2.29 trillion
- Three more New York City police killings last week
- Protests continue after Colorado school board refuses to back down on "patriotic" curriculum
- The Boxtrolls: A cartoonish glimpse of class society
- UK terror trial collapses because defendant briefed MI5
- New Anti-capitalist Party, Lutte Ouvrière hail union sellout of Air France strike
2014-10-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: 500 more public sector jobs to go in Tasmania
- ISIS gains provide further pretext for US ground troops in Iraq and Syria
- South Africa’s education department maintains apartheid-era victimisation of blacks
- Police killed 77 people in September
- State authorities revoke labor contract for 15,000 Philadelphia teachers
- The Mideast war and the US election
- New Zealand government prepares to join US war in Middle East
- New pamphlet outlines basis for struggle against imperialist war
- Italian prime minister targets protection against layoffs
- Germany to deploy combat troops in Ukraine
- French automaker PSA Peugeot-Citroën prepares to cut 10,000 more jobs
- Report finds Border Patrol flew drones away from US borders
- CGT union convicted of embezzling funds of France’s biggest works committee
- Brazil’s Rousseff faces runoff after worst showing for Workers Party in 12 years
- The LSSP’s Great Betrayal: Part 1
2014-10-08
- San Diego suicides reach highest reported number in 2013
- Snowpiercer: A new ice age and its consequences
- The bank bailout and the Forbes 400
- New Zealand Labour leader resigns after election rout
- Burned bodies of 28 Mexican teaching students pulled from mass graves
- Felony charges dropped against Detroit cop who killed seven-year-old girl
- Turkey demands US back war to topple Syria’s Assad
- Dire shortage of affordable housing in the UK
- Hewlett-Packard layoffs to total more than 55,000
- German Green Party-affiliated think tank calls for renewed offensive against Russia
- Detroit mayor and city council president voice full support for continued financial dictatorship
- Canada’s government engaged in mass surveillance of protest groups
- Growth estimates revised down ahead of IMF-World Bank meetings
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court endorses deportation of asylum seekers
2014-10-09
- War propaganda in the German Historical Museum
- Wal-Mart to eliminate health benefits for 30,000 workers
- Turkey’s role in ISIS conflict threatens to reignite civil war
- High school students walk out to defend Philadelphia teachers
- The Ebola epidemic: A social disaster in West Africa
- Oppose Australia’s participation in Iraq-Syria war! Oppose anti-democratic laws and police raids!
- Malaysian government tries to railroad opposition leader to jail
- The Ben Affleck-Bill Maher-Sam Harris dispute: Anti-Muslim bigotry and American imperialist policy
- Obama meets with US combat commanders amid mounting calls for ground troops
- IMF report records global economic breakdown
- Hong Kong protests dwindle ahead of talks
- Haiti’s President Martelly eulogizes ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier
- The Australian Greens and their phony anti-war posturing
- Germany: Joschka Fischer’s declaration of war on Russia
- Police and Obama administration plan for nationwide crackdown on Ferguson protests
- Canada’s parliament votes to join new Mideast war
2014-10-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Burqas banned in Australian parliament
- 99 Homes, Shelter and harsh American realities: Filmmakers inch their way toward important truths
- Australian PM foreshadows ban on Islamist group
- US, Turkey at odds over Syria intervention
- UK unions begin to demobilise their own pathetic protest strike
- The economic roots of the drive to war
- Tens of thousands protest massacre of Mexican student teachers
- The LSSP’s Great Betrayal: Part 2
- Germany: Left Party bangs the drum for military action against the Islamic State
- Right-wing governing coalition wins parliamentary elections in Latvia
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky announces his return to Russian politics
- India and Pakistan trade warnings over escalating border clashes
- IYSSE protests censorship at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- Off-duty cop kills St. Louis teenager
- Atlantic City, New Jersey casino workers arrested at protest over slashed benefits
- Authors weigh in on the Amazon-Hachette war
2014-10-11
- Court decisions stop voter ID requirements in Wisconsin, Texas
- US Supreme Court opens new term
- Right-wing UK Independence Party benefits from disaffection in British by-elections
- Germany: Nine-hour strike by train drivers
- Sri Lankan SEP anti-war campaign receives support among workers
- Romania joins imperialist war drive against Russia
- Strike of Reynoldsburg, Ohio teachers in its fourth week
- Another asthmatic man dead after being tackled by New York police
- Two months since the police murder of Michael Brown
- “Chicago Socialist Campaign” seeks to head off opposition to Democrats
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Chicago-area teen charged with attempting to join ISIS
- David North lectures in US Midwest on lessons of 20th Century imperialism
- Hong Kong protests swell after talks called off
- World powers stand by as Ebola death toll passes 4,000
- CLC president helped scuttle BC teachers’ strike
- Australia’s “Camp Gallipoli”—a militarist extravaganza
- IMF and EU call the tune in Bosnia elections
- Australian forces deployed in Iraq: Bipartisanship and the war drive
- Balkan states back US war in the Middle East
2014-10-13
- October 15 public meeting at York University: Against Canada’s participation in Mideast war
- This week in history: October 13-19
- German media attacks train drivers’ right to strike
- Drumbeat grows for US troops in Middle East war
- Australian imperialism and the Middle East war
- “Terrorist” sword seized in Australian police raids was plastic
- Peru faces threat of housing bubble
- Political issues in the Ebola crisis
- Britain: NHS at “breaking point,” say top health professionals
- The legacy of postwar Polish filmmaker Andrzej Munk
- Illinois governor race shows bipartisan lineup against workers
- Greece proceeds with further austerity after government survives confidence vote
- German Social Democrat leader plans to expand arms industry
- Protests continue against police violence in St. Louis
- Toxic fallout from US war produces record child birth defect rates in Iraq
- New York’s de Blasio administration defends spying on Muslims
- Majority of Buffalo, New York, children live in poverty
- Marina Silva backs candidate of Brazilian right against Workers Party
2014-10-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- WHO, CDC heads warn of Ebola epidemic’s dangers
- Western Australian government announces further public sector job cuts
- Latest Australian “terrorist” witch-hunt targets Islamist meeting in Sydney
- Swiss referendum rejects single public health insurance fund
- Uncovering the Maritime Silk Road
- South Africa: ANC and unions exploit popular anger over electronic toll collections
- Who is responsible for the Philadelphia school budget crisis?
- US Army drafts blueprint for World War III
- Michigan Democrat backs Detroit bankruptcy, auto wage-cutting
- The LSSP’s Great Betrayal: Part 3
- North Korean leader’s public absence remains unexplained
- Greens back deployment of German ground troops to Syria
- European Union threatens to veto France’s 2015 budget
- Storm clouds gather over world economy
- Health care workers protest conditions faced in treating Ebola
- Laid off New York City school bus workers ignored by Mayor de Blasio
2014-10-15
- Boston Marathon bombing suspect’s defense demands prosecutors turn over evidence on 2011 murders
- Tigers and global corporate criminality: “We’ve got a really bad system”
- Job cuts deepen in Australian TAFE colleges
- The invisible election
- Reports point to worsening conditions for Pennsylvania workers
- Street battles erupt in Guerrero over disappeared Mexican students
- UK health workers strike: “We should all be out together”
- German IYSSE defends freedom of speech at Humboldt University
- Police clash with Hong Kong protesters
- Why does the German ruling elite want war? A well-attended meeting in Frankfurt
- World Health Organization says Ebola cases could reach 10,000 per week
- Sharp rise in US contract workers killed on the job
- Catalan government cancels independence referendum
- Australian prime minister threatens to “shirtfront” Vladimir Putin
- Obama meets anti-ISIS “coalition” amid rising US-Turkish tensions
2014-10-16
- White House publicity stunt offers no relief to long-term jobless workers
- Drone flying “Greater Albania” flag provokes soccer riot in Serbia
- German train drivers and pilots take strike action
- San Ysidro, California teachers sold out after three-day strike
- Excavation of gas chamber at Nazi Sobibor concentration camp completed
- David Greenglass, star witness against the Rosenbergs, dies at 92
- US Marine accused of murdering Filipino during war games
- Ebola in America
- Pennsylvania boy, 10, charged as adult in murder case
- Protests across Mexico over disappearance of students
- The Gold Mine by Kelsey Waldon: Life, more or less
- US-backed militias commit war crimes in Iraq
- India: Tamil Nadu chief minister jailed over graft case
- Turmoil rips through global financial markets
- Who is responsible for the Ebola virus case in Spain?
- Reports expose Australian government’s data retention plans
2014-10-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US boosts air war in Syria
- Russia, Ukraine to negotiate amid deepening crisis
- Australia’s pseudo-left organisation complicit in US war for regime change in Syria
- Students, workers denounce attack on Philadelphia teachers
- The US midterm elections and the bankruptcy of the capitalist system
- New Zealand WSWS meeting discusses election outcome
- The Gary Webb story in Kill the Messenger: Shedding light on CIA criminality and conspiracy
- Richest one percent controls nearly half of global wealth
- Germany’s Left Party emerges as a party of war
- Death claims mount from GM ignition defect
- Lack of training, safety at Texas hospital where nurses contracted Ebola
- Deal with bond insurer paves way for approval of Detroit bankruptcy plan
- Rising inequality in Denmark
- Pro-charter think tank in New Orleans forced to retract flawed study
- CIA warned arming Syrian “rebels” unlikely to succeed
- An Australian Labor leader feigns concern over terror laws
2014-10-18
- Police harass street performers in New York’s Times Square
- Spanish students eject Ukrainian fascist thugs
- Texas man dies after being tased by police
- The American oligarchy
- Thousands protest disappearance of Mexican teaching students
- From pseudo-left to New Right: The trajectory of France’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Scholarship instead of war propaganda! IYSSE statement on the dispute at Humboldt University
- Judge delays order to release Guantanamo force-feeding videos
- University study exposes growing hunger in South London borough of Lambeth
- French President Hollande moves to end universality of family benefits
- Europe’s police target refugees in operation Mos Maiorum
- Government indifference compounds Ebola disaster
- Australian government refuses to send teams to fight Ebola
- Reports of garbage, vermin in Chicago public schools
- FBI director demands unfettered access to all encrypted phone data
2014-10-20
- US Supreme Court allows Texas to implement anti-democratic voter ID law
- This week in history: October 20-26
- Tens of thousands march in London against low wages
- “Risky Business” study highlights the inability of capitalism to address the consequences of climate change
- Philadelphia unions use teachers’ rally to promote Democrats
- Australian imperialism: Political attack dog for US war drive
- Leaked documents expose secret contracts between NSA and tech companies
- Six killed in Pittsburgh area house fire
- Electricity base rates to double in Massachusetts this winter
- Los Angeles City Council proposes minor increase in minimum wage
- Students forced to endure sweltering temperatures in Southern California classrooms
- Imperialism and the World Wars of the Twentieth Century: Historical lessons and present dangers
- Keen interest in anti-war campaign of IYSSE at Humboldt University in Berlin
- German intellectuals in World War I
- Obama administration signals reluctance to bring civil rights charges against killer cop in Missouri
- Pleas to major powers from Ebola-stricken countries, health professionals fall on deaf ears
- Citizenfour documentary on Edward Snowden premieres in UK and US
2014-10-21
- Turkish government seeks new police state powers
- Australia: Opposition Labor Party rubberstamps “Foreign Fighters Bill”
- US boosts support for Kurdish militia in Syria
- Tatiana Ivarovna Smilga-Poluyan: May 22, 1919 – September 27, 2014
- Workers and youth discuss the war in Syria and Iraq
- SEP meetings oppose Australian involvement in US war in the Middle East
- Hundreds of prison deaths in Florida under investigation
- Germany: Lufthansa pilots take renewed strike action
- Municipal elections a debacle for Peruvian “left”
- Market gyrations and the need for socialism
- The LSSP’s Great Betrayal: Part 4
- Workers protest East London Labour council budget cuts
- France, Germany hold talks on EU approval of France’s 2015 budget
- US midterm elections dominated by corporate cash
- Detroit hearing on water shutoffs promotes UN, Democrats
- UAW imposes concessions on Pennsylvania Boeing workers
2014-10-22
- Teaching war: Australian government targets primary school students
- Waukegan, Illinois teachers’ strike enters third week
- German union proposes cost-cutting plan to boost VW profits
- Human Rights Watch documents Ukrainian military’s use of cluster rockets
- Sweden mounts military operation to find alleged Russian submarine
- Census report: Half of Americans poor or near poor
- Mexico’s disappeared students
- Wyoming coal miner killed
- The Death of Klinghoffer premieres in New York
- Two newly-appointed Japanese cabinet members resign
- Hong Kong protests continue after televised debate
- David Fincher’s Gone Girl: The lady vanishes
- Sharp rise of Ebola cases in western Sierra Leone
- Defend striking German train drivers and airline pilots!
- Canada: Harper using “terror attack” to impose anti-democratic measures
- Striking Bosch workers in India defy state government ban
2014-10-23
- Automakers covered up deadly airbag defect
- US judge sets deadline in lawsuit over Iraq, Afghanistan torture photos
- Poverty and inequality worsening in Australia
- The carve-up of Detroit
- Pennsylvania 10-year-old still behind bars on murder charge
- Obama administration considers sending more “advisers” to Iraq
- Joko Widodo installed as Indonesian president
- IYSSE antiwar campaign resonates with workers and youth in Berlin
- US media campaign to exonerate cop who killed Michael Brown
- Ebola crisis: Major powers line up to send troops to Africa
- Climate change behind recent extreme weather conditions
- German business demands further opening of Chinese market
- Ottawa terror attack triggers massive police-military mobilization
- Blackwater mercenaries convicted for role in 2007 Iraq massacre
- Lawsuits allege Alabama prison inmates left to die of treatable diseases
2014-10-24
- Japanese ministers visit Yasukuni war shrine
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK Tories intensify anti-EU, anti-immigrant rhetoric
- Rise in US corporate profits fueled by fall in real wages
- Blackwater, torture and US imperialism
- Democrat Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race
- College police across the US armed with military-grade weaponry
- Mass protests in Mexico over Iguala Massacre
- Germany’s SPD leadership backs Left Party premier in Thuringia
- Australia expands military involvement in Middle East war
- Over 200 attend IYSSE meeting at Berlin's Humboldt University
- Democratic Senate candidates sound right-wing themes in pre-election debates
- Canadian government seizes on Ottawa shooting to promote militarist, anti-democratic agenda
- Brazil’s Workers Party faces its tightest election after 12 years in power
2014-10-25
- Washington Post seizes on chemical weapons claims to press for wider war in Syria
- Right-wing oligarchs vie for power in Ukraine elections
- Sri Lankan president visits war-ravaged north under massive security cordon
- The Ottawa shooting
- Autopsy shows St. Louis teenager Vonderrit Myers was gunned down by police while fleeing
- Pennsylvania’s “Mumia Law”: New attack on political prisoners and new threat to freedom of speech
- US Marine lawyer Michael Mori discusses fight to release Guantanamo prisoner David Hicks
- No cause yet determined in Pennsylvania house fire
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Packed IYSSE meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin
- Germany plans to expand its military operations in the Middle East
- Amnesty International: Ferguson police crackdown violated US and international law
- Why is there no vaccine for Ebola?
- Brazil: São Paulo drought poses public health and economic catastrophe
2014-10-27
- This week in history: October 27-November 2
- Obama administration continues to obstruct release of CIA torture report
- Australian student union’s phony “day of action”
- Interview with Tatiana Smilga-Poluyan, daughter of leading Soviet Left Oppositionist
- A quarter of South Africans regularly go hungry
- Judge orders Philadelphia officials to negotiate school cuts with teachers union
- The US elections and the American plutocracy
- Syria, Iraq and the new war in the Middle East: Causes and Consequences
- Two killed, four wounded in Washington school shooting
- Right-wing nationalist parties dominate Ukrainian parliamentary elections
- Chinese Communist Party plenum pushes pro-market agenda
- US child poverty remains at highest rate in 20 years
- Biographies of assailants undermine claim that Canada is under attack
- The California drought: A tale of two cities
- US and China clash over infrastructure bank
- Albuquerque authorities seek to dampen public outrage over police violence
2014-10-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- French Socialist Party plans to scrap post-World War II job security rules
- US, EU hail election staged by ultra-right regime in Ukraine
- US-Japan conflicts stall Obama’s Trans-Pacific economic pact
- Anti-terror law passed by the French Senate attacks democratic rights
- The Cut, a story of the Armenian Genocide
- One million protest in Rome against Renzi’s labor “reforms”
- International Socialist Organisation seeks to revive New Zealand Labour Party
- The $2 billion Congress
- Canada’s government tables bill to expand intelligence agency powers
- German government plans massive rearmament
- Ebola nurse treated “like a criminal” in New Jersey quarantine
- Lawyers deliver closing statements in Detroit bankruptcy case
- Workers Party’s Rousseff re-elected in closest vote since end of Brazil’s dictatorship
- ALS patients face loss of Medicare coverage for speech-generating devices
- Automakers, US federal regulators limit recall of deadly airbags
2014-10-29
- Australian state government unveils huge asset sales
- Pride: The UK miners’ strike through the distorted mirror of identity politics
- UNICEF report: 2.6 million more children in poverty in developed countries since 2008
- After the US election, an escalation of the Mideast war
- New book sheds further light on US government protection of ex-Nazis
- Political crisis deepens in Mexico as army is called on to testify on Iguala massacre
- Louisiana Supreme Court declares anti-teacher tenure act constitutional
- IRS regularly seizes “suspicious” bank accounts without a criminal charge
- Indonesia’s new cabinet of generals, businessmen and technocrats
- Gas dispute between Ukraine, EU and Russia threatens to escalate
- Australia shuts door to Ebola-hit countries
2014-10-30
- Ukraine’s recession continues to deepen
- Mine disaster deepens crisis of Turkish government
- Turkey allows Kurdish reinforcements into Syrian town of Kobani
- Sri Lankan president brings down election budget
- South Africa metalworkers union announces formation of new party
- Quebec Solidaire renews appeals to big business PQ
- US Federal Reserve ends “quantitative easing” program after funneling trillions to financial markets
- Federal jury convicts friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect of lying to the FBI
- The trade unions and the Detroit bankruptcy
- Germany: Final stage in dismantling of Karstadt department store chain
- One execution in Texas, another stayed in Missouri
- Europe threatened with deflationary spiral
- Obama uses Ebola doctors as campaign prop
- Three darkish comedies: Birdman, The Skeleton Twins and St. Vincent
2014-10-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Judge backs Stockton, California bankruptcy plan ending retiree health care payments
- Sri Lanka: About 200 killed in landslide
- The CIA torture cover-up continues
- Woman wearing a niqab forced to leave Paris Opera
- Australian Labor leader Gough Whitlam (1916–2014)
- NSA chief calls for more “permeable” barrier between state and tech corporations
- Pentagon claims “Russian aggression” against NATO
- Relatives of disappeared students confront Mexico’s president
- Israeli provocations ignite growing Palestinian revolt in Jerusalem
- 13 million in Germany at risk for poverty
- St. Louis police stock up on riot gear ahead of grand jury decision on Brown killing
- Australian data retention bill means mass surveillance
- Canadian government exploiting shootings to promote militarism, attack civil rights
- Video shows “firing squad” police killing of Michigan man
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