Archive: 12/2014
2014-12-01
- South African police ignore official watchdog’s recommendations
- Australia: Liberal-National Coalition loses Victorian state election
- This week in history: December 1-7
- Washington’s intrigues against Sri Lankan president
- More large US companies drop retirees from health plans
- The acquittal of Hosni Mubarak
- US Labor Department Study: 4,405 workers killed on the job in 2013
- German welfare “reforms” promote virtual slave labour
- Netanyahu’s “Jewish nation” bill enshrines an apartheid-style constitution
- Australia: Workers and youth oppose war and austerity in Victorian election
- UK Prime Minister Cameron launches fresh attack on European Union migrants
- IYSSE standing candidates in student elections at Humboldt University
- Missouri governor signals long-term National Guard presence in Ferguson
- Veteran photographer Errol Sawyer talks with the World Socialist Web Site
- Dozens killed in separate Chinese mine explosions
- German parliament passes austerity budget
- Australian government faces crisis over failed budget measures
- New telescope reveals first detailed image of a planetary system in formation
- Afghan regime hit by wave of Taliban attacks
2014-12-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Smith report on Scottish devolution sets off further devolution throughout UK
- US retail sales plunge during “Black Friday” weekend
- Hundreds mourn death of 12-year-old boy killed by Cleveland police
- Oil price slide rocks world economy
- New Zealand Labour elects new right-wing leader
- As election campaign begins, Moody’s downgrades Japan’s debt
- Low turnout in Italian regional elections
- The death of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes
- Obama backs continued militarization of local police forces
- The Theory of Everything: Stephen Hawking’s life, or parts of it, on film
- Scottish student debt skyrockets
- Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
- Billions in handouts to Canadian auto companies yet to be repaid
- After Brazilian election, Dilma taps “Chicago Boy” as finance minister
- Australian government confronts deepening political and economic crisis
2014-12-03
- Spain wracked by corruption scandal
- “Seeking for Utopia”—or were they? The Russian avant-garde and Soviet modernism in posters
- St. Louis football players protest Michael Brown murder in pre-game ceremony
- Obama’s paramilitary police: The “war on terror” comes home
- NATO prepares “rapid reaction force” for confrontation with Russia
- Munich police evict refugees from protest camp
- Moldovan election: Sharp decline in support for pro-EU coalition
- Thousands of Mexican workers and youth demand Peña Nieto’s resignation
- The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century now available in eBook format
- Australian military launches first amphibious assault ship
- Party leader boasts: German Left Party more pro-business than the CDU
- Hong Kong protest leadership divided after police clashes
- How the St. Louis prosecuting attorney manipulated the Ferguson grand jury
- Egyptian dictator al-Sisi signs military, economic deals in Paris
- Youth in Australia worse off than their parents
- Former Buffalo police officer sentenced to probation for beating handcuffed suspect
- Revolution: The witch-hunting of Russell Brand continues
- Infrastructure collapse blacks out large portions of Detroit
- The German Partei für Soziale Gleichheit answers the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s defense of Jörg Baberowski
2014-12-04
- One hundred years since Zapata and Villa took Mexico City—Part 1
- Whiplash: Heaping scorn on mediocrity
- US corporate profits soar as productivity rises and wages stagnate
- Sri Lanka: Opposition presidential candidate to implement austerity
- Radical Independence Campaign does dirty work for Scottish National Party
- The Detroit blackout
- Obama to name Ashton Carter as Pentagon chief
- New York transit agency unveils new fare hikes
- Plunging prices and stalling investment drive Australian mining job cuts
- Lufthansa pilots in Germany walk out again
- Hundreds of police killings go unreported
- UK and China clash over Hong Kong
- Anger follows New York grand jury’s failure to indict cop who killed Eric Garner
- Debate in Germany over euthanasia
- Egyptian regime imposes death penalties on nearly 200
- Ebola epidemic continues to ravage West Africa
- Australian economy in income recession
2014-12-05
- One hundred years since Zapata and Villa took Mexico City—Part 2
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Putin halts South Stream pipeline
- Australian sailors say Labor government ordered them not to rescue refugees
- To defend public services and pensions: Workers need a socialist strategy
- Police killings in America: The class issues
- The Obama administration and disappeared Mexican students
- London’s New Era housing estate residents take protest to Downing Street
- Ohio football player, apparent suicide victim, complained of concussions
- South Korean fishing vessel sinks, killing dozens
- Protests erupt in Rome against attack on job protection
- Protests erupt over decision not to indict cop who killed Eric Garner
- European Central Bank meeting downgrades euro zone forecast
- Ernest Cole Photographer—A searing look at apartheid South Africa
- NSA tapping vast majority of cell phone networks worldwide
- UK government’s fresh round of scorched-earth spending cuts
2014-12-06
- One hundred years since Zapata and Villa took Mexico City—Part 3
- Venezuela announces budget cuts and other financial measures in the wake of OPEC decision
- Toyota Australia details restructuring plans after 2017 shutdown
- New “anti-terror” legislation rushed through Canada’s parliament
- German Foreign Minister Steinmeier’s great power speech to big business
- ANC-affiliated student group stages anti-Semitic stunts against South African retailer
- Protests continue over decision not to charge cop who killed Eric Garner
- Police shooting of unarmed man in Phoenix, Arizona sparks protests
- The state of world capitalism: Labor productivity up, real wages down
- New nuclear arms race underway
- Malaysian government retains draconian Sedition Act
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wages flat despite job growth in latest US employment report
- US Supreme Court considers limits to online speech
- Report on Cleveland exposes national epidemic of police killings and abuse
- Cleveland police seek to justify shooting death of 12-year-old boy
2014-12-08
- This week in history: December 8-14
- Australia: Eleven-year-old Aboriginal boy commits suicide
- UK: Police use tear gas to repress student sit-in at Warwick University
- Widespread opposition to closure of Boston-area municipal hospital
- Tear gas, rubber bullets used against protests over police brutality in Berkeley, California
- The CIA torture report and the crisis of legitimacy in the United States
- Orion spacecraft makes first orbital flight
- New Orleans local school board makes its pitch to charter operators
- Germany: GM Opel plant closure exposes bankruptcy of IG Metall
- Expanded spy powers being rammed through New Zealand parliament
- Israeli prime minister Netanyahu calls March 2015 general election
- “Community-oriented policing”: A cover for the militarization of police in the US
- The veiled art of Alex Colville
- Former Chinese security chief arrested on corruption charges
- Social inequality in Canada far higher than official statistics claim
- Obama administration seeks to contain anger over whitewash of police killings
- Bank for International Settlements points to increased financial fragility
2014-12-09
- Botched US rescue operation in Yemen ends in deaths of two hostages
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US forces on global alert ahead of CIA torture report
- Israeli bombing of Syria threatens wider war
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold public meetings to launch presidential election campaign
- Spain’s Podemos presents its pro-capitalist economic programme
- More than 27 dead as Typhoon Hagupit hits Philippines
- Race, class and police violence in America
- Ontario NDP riven by dissension and recriminations
- Australian financial inquiry warns of insolvency danger
- DNA tests confirm charred remains belong to disappeared Mexican student
- San Jose, California: “The Jungle” homeless camp dismantled
- Los Angeles police gun down man at busy Hollywood intersection
- Brooklyn workers and young people condemn police violence
2014-12-10
- Brutal torture detailed in Senate report on CIA interrogation
- Taiwanese local elections reveal widespread disillusionment with government
- Deadly fire exposes hazardous housing conditions in Syracuse, New York
- European Arrest Warrants at center of Scottish National Party’s repressive agenda
- Leaked photos show UK nuclear plant poses public safety threat
- Run the Jewels 2 from rappers Killer Mike and El-P
- Protests over police killings continue in Northern California
- CIA torture and the crimes of the state
- Orlando, Florida police sergeant shoots unarmed man
- Chinese president visits New Zealand
- Unscrupulous lenders target South African mineworkers
- India implementing raft of “pro-investor” measures
- German elite divided over policy toward Russia and the US
- Germany: Trial of anti-Nazi pastor ends in compromise
- Australian government seeks to force doctors to charge fees
- Chicago Teachers Union backs long-time Democratic Party politician for mayor
- US raises troop deployment in Afghanistan by 1,000
2014-12-11
- UN officials call for criminal prosecution of US torturers
- Solomon Islands: Former target of Australian regime-change operation re-elected prime minister
- Rolling Stone magazine and the University of Virginia rape allegations
- Putin accuses US of seeking to undermine Russian sovereignty
- Senate report on torture exposes collusion between corporate media and CIA
- US Court of Appeals judge: Lawmakers should give NSA carte blanche in online spying
- CIA torture: American democracy in shambles
- California nurses strike at San Bernardino Hospitals
- British and German youth orchestras celebrate 100 years of jazz
- Protests mount against water charges in Ireland
- Greek stocks in free fall as early presidential election called
- Germany: First-ever Left Party state minister president
- German government attacks rights of asylum seekers
- At Lyon congress, French National Front prepares itself as party of capitalist rule
- Global recessionary trends strengthening
- Brazilian commission details murder and torture by US-backed dictatorship
- Injured Boeing contract worker dies in Washington state
- Kerry demands open-ended Mideast war resolution
2014-12-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Edith Wharton—The Sense of Harmony: A documentary about the American novelist
- Successive Australian governments complicit in US torture
- After being exposed, undercover cop draws gun on protesters in California
- Torture, police killings and the militarization of America
- Ten thousand take part in right-wing demonstration in Dresden
- US Congress to vote on union-backed plan to cut workers’ pensions
- Report shows rising social inequality in major capitalist countries
- Special 36-hour sale for The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Japan’s state secrecy law goes into effect
- Hong Kong police shut down protests
- Missouri and Georgia execute mentally disabled death row inmates
- US torture report exposes European powers’ involvement in CIA crimes
- Detroit Emergency Manager Orr departs as bankruptcy cuts take effect
- Obama embraces Republican budget bill
- Obama CIA director defends “enhanced interrogation” torture program
- Escalating tensions between Russia and the West over Balkan energy
- Four years since the arrest of Julian Assange
2014-12-13
- Who are Obama and the US Congress to sanction Venezuela?
- US Senate committee agreed to conceal UK complicity in CIA torture
- Thai junta maintains firm grip on power
- Financialization of rental market threatens future of home ownership in US
- US blocked negotiations for hostages killed in Yemen raid
- Brennan’s defense of CIA torture
- French neo-fascist National Front defends CIA torture
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Jobless toll continues to rise in Australia
- Japanese PM flags propaganda offensive to “restore Japan’s honour”
- Murder of Palestinian minister is latest Israeli provocation
- Federal judges overturn insider trading convictions
- UN agency calls Mediterranean Sea deadliest route for refugees
- Bankruptcy firms to collect huge fees from Detroit
- Canadian government lies over complicity in CIA torture
- Canada’s International Socialists promote unions’ “anti-Harper,” pro-Liberal campaign
- US budget resolution funds war and repression
2014-12-15
- Protesters in Washington, DC denounce police killings
- US Congress authorizes new sanctions against Russia, arms shipments to Ukraine
- UK faces a return to 1930s levels of poverty
- This week in history: December 15-21
- France: Neo-fascists defeat ruling Socialist Party in legislative elections
- Australia: Police lockdown as Sydney siege continues
- Vote for SEP candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena! Fight for a socialist program against war and social counterrevolution!
- Tens of thousands join protests against police killings in the US
- Cheney on CIA torture: “I’d do it again in a minute”
- New York City protest fills streets of Manhattan
- Oil price fall brings global market turbulence
- FBI investigates possible lynching of 17-year-old in Bladenboro, North Carolina
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung editor defends his attack on the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- Right-wing LDP wins Japanese election amid low turnout
- Italy: One-day general strike against Renzi’s Jobs Act
- Wide audience for online interview with David North, author of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- German government to send combat troops to Iraq
- Devil’s Knot, The Congress, The Giver and The Last Sentence: A few of this year’s films
- New far-right party in Greece
2014-12-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Mass arrests at Eric Garner protest in London
- Turkish government mounts police state crackdown on opposition media
- What is in the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on CIA torture
- Under the Skin (or aliens from another social class) and Mood Indigo (more inventiveness from Michel Gondry)
- Sydney siege ends in violent police assault
- Peru climate change negotiations again dominated by great power rivalries
- The Sydney siege
- Obama claims “turning point” for US militarism
- Australian government announces budget deficit blowout
- Mexican federal police attack students and teachers in Guerrero
- SEP public meetings in Australia oppose preparations for war
- Oil price slide and ruble plunge shake global markets
- Canada continues to persecute torture victim Omar Khadr
- Students and workers speak out on the danger of war
- Germany: The reactionary programme of the organisations backing “Winter of Peace”
- British Labour Party strikes a pose against NHS privatisation
- Charter school fraud exposed in Rochester, New York
- General strike against austerity hits Belgian government
2014-12-17
- The Prince and A Few Cubic Meters of Love: Two films about Iran and Afghanistan
- Mass surveillance ruled legal in UK
- Terrorist attack in Pakistan kills more than 130 children
- Unanswered questions about the Sydney siege
- Sri Lankan Trotskyist P. V. Nandasena dies at age 71
- US Supreme Court Justice Scalia says Constitution allows torture
- Russian ruble collapses amidst mounting social and political tensions
- US Department of Justice forces journalist Risen to testify in leak case
- US unions back historic assault on workers’ pensions
- Military-style manhunt in Pennsylvania after fatal shooting by Iraq War vet
- Australia: Senate inquiry whitewashes killing at Papua New Guinea refugee camp
- France’s Socialist Party pushes free-market deregulation with Macron Law
- Haitian street protests grow as US intervenes in political crisis
- German court stops prosecution of SS soldier involved in French war crime
- Xenophobic campaign in Germany leads to burning of refugee homes
- New details emerge on the execution of Clayton Lockett
- British troops returning to Iraq
- I Want To Live: The memoir of Izrail Agol
2014-12-18
- Sri Lankan government censors Prasanna Vithanage’s latest film
- UN report accuses Ukrainian government of human rights abuses
- US Supreme Court decision broadens police powers of search and seizure
- Australian government announces “review” of Sydney siege
- Edward Snowden denied entry by German Constitutional Court
- Imperialism and the ruble crisis
- US pushes for trilateral anti-missile cooperation in North East Asia
- Obama, Castro move to “normalize” US-Cuba ties
- Former Polish president confirms existence of secret CIA torture prison
- Catalan minister admits independence demand used to divert social unrest
- Fed Chair Yellen reassures Wall Street on record low interest rates
- US auto union president postures in advance of 2015 contract talks
2014-12-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US wealth gap largest on record
- Former Ben Ali official wins the first round of Tunisian presidential elections
- Australian government exploits Sydney siege to advance “war on terror”
- Russian president downplays economic crisis
- US Department of Justice to sue New York City over conditions at Rikers Island jail
- UN torture report criticises Australia’s refugee policies
- More police raids in Sydney on the pretext of counter-terrorism
- Physicians’ group details psychologists’ role in CIA’s “extensive system of torture”
- US-Cuban rapprochement: The lessons of history
- German establishment spawns right-wing Pegida movement
- US stokes conflict with North Korea over Sony hacking
- The Sky Between the Leaves now available in eBook format
- Kentucky coal miner killed at Patriot mine
- Greek presidential vote moves to second round
- California drought has depleted water sources by 11 trillion gallons
2014-12-20
- Final pre-trial hearing held for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
- What is in the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture
- Governments, media internationally respond to the Sydney siege
- Judge reverses guilty verdict in 1944 execution of 14-year-old
- Sri Lanka: SEP presidential candidate addresses Colombo meeting
- The Sydney siege and the drive to war
- Obama “task force” on policing: A cover for militarization
- The European powers and CIA torture
- Oil rig fire in Oklahoma kills two workers, critically burns two others
- US escalates campaign against North Korea
- Britain: Perverse verdict clears security guards of Jimmy Mubenga killing
- Eight children found dead in Cairns, Australia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German public broadcaster criticised over biased report on Ukraine
- European Union ramps up sanctions against Russia amid ruble crisis
- After announcing "normalization" with Cuba, Obama slaps sanctions on Venezuela
- Why is Canada’s ruling elite commemorating the Boer War?
- German defence minister visits the frontline in Afghanistan
2014-12-22
- This week in history: December 22-28
- What is in the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture
- Spain passes police state measures
- Sri Lanka: SEP election campaign reveals widespread disillusionment with main political parties
- New York City police pledge “wartime” response to killing of two officers
- The modus operandi of imperialist propaganda
- Pakistan escalates war offensive after school attack
- Navistar closing foundry in Indianapolis, Indiana
- National Guard called up in response to Milwaukee protest over police violence
- What the Sony emails tell us about the American film industry
- German interior minister calls for refugee camps in North Africa
- Prosecutor in Michael Brown case knowingly presented false testimony favorable to Ferguson cop
- Wall Street surge another sign of instability
- Corporations reached secret deals with Luxembourg to avoid tax payments
- Australia: Workers and youth denounce government and media response to Sydney siege
2014-12-23
- Ukrainian government prepares extreme austerity measures
- SYRIZA makes fresh pledge to defend Greek capitalism
- New York City mayor calls for a halt to protests against police violence
- The New York Times calls for torture prosecutions
- North Korea’s Internet connections cut off
- US troops in combat in Iraq
- No punishment for CIA officials who spied on Senate Intelligence Committee
- What is behind the German media’s condemnation of CIA torture?
- Parents of US toddler injured in SWAT raid face $1 million in medical bills
- Charges brought against executives in West Virginia chemical spill
- New York State bans fracking
- Foxcatcher: Under the thumb of a wealthy madman
- New protests against Hungary’s Fidesz government
- China challenges US economic war against Russia
- Australian establishment lays out agenda after Sydney siege
- Britain: Hospital patients face eviction for “bed blocking”
2014-12-24
- Ukraine parliament approves move towards NATO
- The 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas truce
- Air France pilots union signs concessions contract for low-cost subsidiary
- Putin appeals to the Russian oligarchs
- Australian state Labor leader quits over Sydney siege-linked letter
- The New York shooting and the bid to outlaw opposition to police violence
- Oklahoma to resume lethal injections
- Christmas for Wall Street: Dow hits record 18,000 points
- Mexico intensifies persecution of Central American immigrants
- South Korean court disbands opposition party
- Greek presidential election goes to third round
- Egypt boasts of imprisoning 10,000 in 2014
- Video: Detroit workers speak on a Christmas of inequality in America
- Cover-up of Canada’s complicity in torture continues
2014-12-27
- Ten years since the Asian tsunami disaster
- Australia: “Terrorism” warnings ratcheted up for Christmas
- Arrests for social media posts follow NYPD shootings
- Ebola epidemic: West African governments prohibit public Christmas celebrations
- The Sydney siege: Official lies and contradictions
- The Dow at 18,000: Contradictions mount in world economy
- Sri Lanka: NSSP leader campaigns for right-wing, pro-US presidential candidate
- Internal NSA reports detail violation of laws, regulations
- UK mental health services in crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New albums from saxophonists Dayna Stephens and Walter Smith III
- Ireland opens parliamentary inquiry into banking crisis
- IYSSE (Germany) lecture series: The return of German militarism and the falsification of history
- US steps up Pakistan drone murders amid crackdown over school attack
- Germany: Tens of thousands protest against ultra-right Pegida movement
- At least 786 US children died while being monitored by child protection authorities
- Police shooting of teen provokes protests in Berkeley, Missouri
2014-12-29
- Notes on police violence in America
- This week in history: December 29-January 4
- Reports reveal scale of destruction of Syria’s world historic heritage
- A political mobilization of the American police
- Social inequality in New Zealand over Christmas
- Further militarisation of UK schools
- The militarist agenda behind Washington’s confrontation with North Korea
- The latest blockbuster from CIA Pictures: The Interview
- Investigation into 1980 Munich Oktoberfest bombing reopened
- French pseudo-left seeks to block opposition to Socialist Party’s austerity agenda
- In the ten days before Christmas, 81 people killed in home fires throughout the US
- US Department of Education reveals new criteria for financial aid to colleges
- AirAsia flight lost over Java Sea
2014-12-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Vietnam backs Philippine case against Chinese maritime claims
- Trash haulers and truck drivers strike in Maryland
- Financial Times points to US regime-change intrigue in Sri Lanka
- Faction fight behind purge at South African tax-collection agency
- Thousands of Peruvian youth and students protest labor law
- The continuing US war in Afghanistan
- Loss of temporary Medicaid subsidies: Another Obamacare blow to US working poor
- NATO’s Libyan puppet regime bombs Misrata amid escalating civil war
- Los Angeles police department on high alert after officers allegedly ambushed by gunmen
- Snap elections in New Year following fall of Greek government
- As Greek government collapses, Berlin demands more austerity
- At least ten die in ferry blaze in the Adriatic Sea
- Best films of 2014
- Search continues for missing AirAsia flight
2014-12-31
- Maryland sanitation workers’ strike enters fifth day
- Cybersecurity investigators raise doubts about North Korean responsibility for Sony hack
- US drone strike against Somalia
- Twitter post prompts arrest of teenager for “terrorist” threats against police
- Sri Lankan opposition candidate issues pro-US, pro-business manifesto
- Scottish first minister reassures the financial oligarchy
- US House majority whip spoke at white supremacist conference
- Putin approves new Russian military doctrine
- The collapse of the Greek government
- Police counter-offensive continues in New York
- New Orleans elementary school holds coat drive for homeless students
- The year in music: Favorite recordings of 2014
- Global financial markets facing instability in 2015
- US, Japan, and South Korea sign intelligence sharing deal
- The Imitation Game: “Am I a machine? Am I a war hero? Am I a criminal?”
- Two dead, dozens injured in three separate attacks in France
- Oil price plummet roils Canadian economy
- Wreckage of crashed AirAsia flight found in Java Sea
- Report reveals poor performance by UK academies and free schools
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