Archive: 02/2016
2016-02-01
- The World Socialist Web Site and the Flint water crisis
- US navy carries out provocative operation in South China Sea
- This week in history: February 1-7
- Australian teenager arrested for documents “connected” to terrorism
- Neo-Nazi mob assaults immigrants in Stockholm, Sweden
- On eve of first presidential contest: US two-party system in crisis
- Pennsylvania police shoot dead 12-year-old girl during home eviction
- Thousands of jobs threatened in North Sea oil and gas industry
- World Bank documents growth of “ninis” in Latin America: Youth neither working nor in school
- German parliament backs new military intervention in Mali
- South Korea joins US-Japan intelligence link
- Human Rights Watch report documents attack on democratic rights in US and Europe
- Number of empty luxury apartments in New York City continues to rise
- Detroit Public School students take a stand with teachers, spreading protests
- Divisions mount in German government over refugee policy
- China announcing 400,000 steelworker job cuts
- Report reveals ongoing social crisis for Chicago’s youth and young adults
- US Congress quietly enables funding for Ukrainian neo-Nazi-led Azov Regiment
2016-02-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Uber cuts protested by New York City drivers
- More than 1 million in US face food stamps cutoff
- Doctor challenges Australian government over refugee conditions on Nauru
- Geneva talks begin as US-backed war in Syria expands
- Five immigrant workers die in Novi, Michigan house fire
- Netherlands to begin bombing Islamic State in Syria
- Pressure mounts on Australian government to challenge China in South China Sea
- Maldives government releases former president
- Cruz wins Iowa Republican caucuses; Clinton and Sanders in near-tie
- Illinois prepares new attack on pensions as budget impasse enters eighth month
- Father of girl killed by Pennsylvania cop charged with murder
- Report: Flint lead filters provide inadequate protection for residents
- Global manufacturing continues to fall
- Records show “intentional destruction” of dashcams by Chicago cops
- On what program should workers oppose the sellout agreement in Quebec’s public sector?
- Former British Prime Minister Blair joins call for a European army
- Austrian municipalities impose ban on refugees using swimming pools
2016-02-03
- “Light lights in air”: Value, price, profit and Louis Zukofsky’s poetry
- Open leadership row at Vietnam’s ruling party congress
- The Pentagon’s CSIS report and Australia’s role in the escalating war drive against China
- Far-right German nationalist party calls for shooting refugees
- Working-class opposition to Socialist Party grows in Portugal
- The Sanders vote in Iowa
- Pentagon budget directed toward war with Russia and China
- West Coast US cities sue Monsanto over toxic chemicals
- What’s behind the Detroit Federation of Teachers’ lawsuit?
- French President Hollande visits India to boost military ties, investment
- Germany: Poorest half of population owns just 1 percent of wealth
- Many UK children go to school hungry
- US Environmental Protection Agency administrator appears in Flint, Michigan to “rebuild trust” over water crisis
- Detroit Public Schools emergency manager resigns
- Chicago teachers face mass layoffs after bargaining committee rejects CTU-backed deal
- Canada’s spy agencies illegally collected and shared personal information
2016-02-04
- WHO declares Zika virus a “public health emergency”
- Michigan lead expert exposes misinformation and delays in Flint crisis
- Syrian war negotiations collapse after two days
- German government steps up attacks on refugees
- Spain’s King calls on Socialist Party to form a government
- As its hometown of Flint remains poisoned, GM makes record 2015 profit
- German economics minister seeks to smooth relations with Poland
- Pentagon budget: A blueprint for World War III
- Two workers killed as government seeks to crush Pakistan airline strike
- New Zealand to host signing of Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Parents fighting lead poisoning denounce government inaction and lies
- New Zealand’s first Labour Party leader was no socialist: A reply to the pseudo-left ISO
- US autoworkers speak on record profits
- Wall Street donors account for 40 percent of super PAC funds in US election
- Political crisis over Flint poisoning intensifies as Congress holds hearing
- Deaths in Bronx fires highlight homeless crisis
- US: Georgia executes oldest inmate on its death row
- GM skilled trades worker killed at Defiance, Ohio factory
- Mobilize the working class to defend public education in Chicago!
- UK Prime Minister Cameron signals early referendum on EU membership
- Australian High Court sanctions indefinite offshore detention of refugees
2016-02-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Chicago teachers march to oppose budget and job cuts
- Stop the persecution of Julian Assange!
- India steps up pressure on Nepal
- Nazi war crime trial in Neubrandenburg threatens to collapse
- Irish pseudo-left form electoral pact
- Iran’s President Rouhani visits Italy, France as economic rivalries deepen
- Illinois legislators continue assault on public higher education
- Massive fire in Detroit enclave sparks water crisis
- Mass one-day strike hits Syriza’s austerity measures in Greece
- Residents speak out against Flint water disaster at Congressional hearing
- Oil price fall brings significant losses for big producers
- US Congressional memos highlight price-gouging strategies of drug companies
- The Ezubao scam: A sign of deeper problems in China’s financial system
- Albuquerque, New Mexico police murder case moves towards trial
- Belgian rail unions cancel mandated strike action
- 45 Years: A nightmare on the brain of the living?
2016-02-06
- Reject the Rail Maritime and Transport Union’s call to accept latest London Underground sell-out contract!
- More recalls of Takata exploding airbags
- Threat of wider war looms as Saudi monarchy proposes Syria intervention
- Sri Lanka: Plantation unions suppress struggle for wage rise
- Pro-refugee organisation comes under political attack in Germany
- “The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film”—an exhibition
- Sanders and the left feint in capitalist politics
- Pakistan airline workers defy government repression, continue strike
- North Korea announces satellite launch
- Hundreds attend University of Michigan talk on Flint water crisis
- Left Party founder Jean-Luc Mélenchon covers for French government’s authoritarian policies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Editor of Germany’s Die Zeit newspaper demands rearmament and war
- Iowa Democratic Party rejects audit of caucus vote
- Emails reveal Michigan governor’s staffer knew about Flint Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in March 2015
- Recession risk on the rise
- Junior doctors to take second strike in England
- Politicians, unions use the “carrot and stick” to try to derail Detroit Public Schools struggle
- Crane collapses in Manhattan, killing one and injuring three
- Report: Low-income households are low priority in US budget
- Australia: Thousands protest High Court ruling upholding offshore refugee detention
- UK and Swedish governments continue their persecution of Julian Assange
2016-02-08
- Slavoj Žižek: From pseudo-left to new right
- Unstable government in Vanuatu following snap election
- This week in history: February 8-14
- In New Hampshire debate: Republican frontrunner backs torture
- Obama administration continues suppression of torture photos
- Support for Poroshenko regime collapses in Ukraine
- Portugal’s Socialist Party agrees to impose further austerity
- Detroit and Chicago teachers fight to defend public education
- North Korean satellite launch heightens US-China tensions
- UK: Junior doctors demonstrate in run-up to Wednesday strike
- Job losses mount in US steel and aluminum industries
- Italian steel work faces closure or sell-off
- Australian public hospitals face growing funding crisis
- US Congress holds hearing on drug prices
- London donor conference pledges aid only to keep Syrian refugees out of Europe
- Hillary Clinton covers for Obama and Democrats in Flint water crisis
- Australia: Sydney city council locks out community theatre group
- Top US general confirms Pentagon plans for permanent combat role in Afghanistan
2016-02-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A new stage in the global economic breakdown
- Retirees speak on Teamster pension cuts
- Unions preparing to shut down Pakistan airline workers strike
- New York City public employee pension funds in danger of “operational failure”
- Cities and towns across the US suffer lead poisoning rates worse than Flint
- Italy hit by banking crisis
- The International Socialist Organization, Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party
- Citing influx of refugees, Hungary prepares authoritarian legislation
- Australia’s High Court backs indefinite offshore detention
- The Coen Brothers’ Hail Caesar!: The “Passion” of a film studio troubleshooter
- White House pushes ahead with plan to slash pensions for up to one million retirees
- Human Rights Watch report exposes French state of emergency
- New York Times vents recriminations over Syria debacle
- Sordid horse-trading over next Burmese president
- Bangladesh tea estate workers oppose government’s land seizures
- Locked out Allegheny Technologies workers to lose jobless benefits
- New Mexico: Relatives sue sheriff for the fatal pepper ball shooting of 88-year-old
2016-02-10
- Earthquake in Taiwan leaves over 100 killed and missing
- The origins of the Oxford University “Rhodes Must Fall” campaign
- Human Rights Watch underscores Australia’s abuses of refugees
- The looting of US workers’ pensions
- Pennsylvania Department of Corrections blocks thousands of inmates from receiving life-saving hepatitis-C drug
- Trans-Pacific Partnership signed in New Zealand amid mass protests
- Sanders wins New Hampshire Democratic primary
- Hundreds more US coal miners laid off
- Japanese bond rate goes negative as bank shares tumble
- Haitian president ends term amid widening protests
- Australian establishment condemns government’s retreat over increased consumption tax
- Greek military to play main role in setting up refugee concentration camps
- Fatal rail crash in Bavaria
- Canada to triple its Special Forces contingent in Iraq
- Obama budget proposes increases in military, security spending
2016-02-11
- Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace dramatized in a new television series
- Video: Retirees speak on Teamsters pension cuts in Detroit
- Torture, murder and Donald Trump
- National teachers’ union leader seeks to smother Detroit protests
- Detroit Public Schools students launch protests to demand quality education
- Australian shipbuilding workers sacked in takeover deal
- The political role of the Bernie Sanders campaign
- NATO to send thousands of troops to forward bases in the Baltics and Eastern Europe
- German Chancellor Merkel announces NATO intervention in Aegean Sea
- International investigations fuel Malaysian corruption scandal
- Tens of thousands of steel, energy, retail, government jobs cut in the UK
- E-mails show Michigan state officials knew of Legionnaires’ outbreak in Flint in early 2015
- Federal report criticizes lack of regulation and safety in West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion
- Kenneth Feinberg and the victim compensation racket
- Report points to growing epidemic of drug abuse in Pennsylvania
- Protest at University of Michigan on Flint crisis promotes racial politics
- Fed seeks to reassure markets on rate increases
- The Guardian defends continued persecution of Julian Assange by UK and Sweden
2016-02-12
- GM and UAW donate $3 million to Flint: Criminals covering their tracks
- Supreme Court blocks Obama plan on climate change
- The US “Plan B” for Syria and the threat of world war
- US prepares harsh new sanctions on North Korea
- Report: Berlin police delayed search for murdered refugee boy
- Astronomers detect gravitational waves predicted by Einstein
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New wave of job cuts in Australia as global slump deepens
- British junior doctors speak from the picket lines
- Flint inmates forced to use contaminated water
- Stock market panic risks new financial crisis
- Government to impose contract on junior doctors after second England-wide strike
- International Viewpoint joins in racist anti-refugee agitation
- Canada’s media pushes for more military spending, bigger Mideast war role
2016-02-13
- UAW President Dennis Williams denounces role of “outside groups” in 2015 auto contract negotiations
- New Hampshire students discuss Sanders and socialism
- UK: Second undercover police officer exposed infiltrating Socialist Party
- Syrian war continues after Munich deal
- United Steelworkers offers ArcelorMittal millions in concessions
- Shankill revelations expose British state informants’ role in mass killings in Ireland
- Socialist Alternative defends Sanders’ support for imperialist war
- The detection of gravitational waves: A scientific milestone
- Australian government refuses to help children trapped in Syria
- Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart: Three periods in modern China, a good deal of confusion
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New York police officer convicted of killing Akai Gurley
- Parents express support for protesting Detroit teachers and students
- In Democratic debate, Clinton presses Sanders on race, gender and support for Obama
- Worker killed at Tonawanda Coke near Buffalo, NY
- Former Los Angeles County sheriff pleads guilty in jail scandal
- NATO sends a flotilla to repulse refugees in the Aegean Sea
2016-02-15
- Coup threatened in Venezuela amidst deepening economic crisis
- What is behind Varoufakis’s “Democracy Movement to Rescue Europe?”
- This week in history: February 15-21
- Australian government-union conspiracy to sack “underperforming” teachers
- The legacy of Antonin Scalia
- Regional tensions and falling oil prices deepen crisis of Saudi monarchy
- Detroit bankruptcy judge appointed to restructure public schools
- Republican debate in South Carolina: Lies, mudslinging and an important truth
- Inequality, class and life expectancy in America
- Washington denounces Russia, backs escalation of Syria war
- Japanese PM pushes to remove constitutional constraints on military
- Obama urges Illinois legislature to adopt bipartisan plan for austerity
- Housing legislation to escalate “social cleansing” of UK cities
- The German president’s imperialist mission in Africa
2016-02-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- In wake of VW scandal European Parliament relaxes emissions regulations
- Syria fighting escalates as ceasefire deadline approaches
- Bernie Sanders campaigns at Eastern Michigan University
- ANC in crisis as President Zuma struggles to reassure big capital
- Closure of Balkan refugee route deepens rifts in the EU
- The glorification of Antonin Scalia
- Woman at the Window: Oratorio remembers the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- Rising school costs deepen class divide in New Zealand education
- US military boosts anti-missile systems in South Korea
- Youth discuss war, inequality at Michigan rally for Sanders
- Water quality official warned Flint, Michigan was not prepared for switch to Flint River
- Popular Unity Candidacy votes ensure passage of Catalan austerity budget
- Is the Indian Stalinist CPM heading for a split?
- Argentina’s president Macri attacks public employees and teachers
- Civilian casualties in Afghanistan hit record in 2015
2016-02-17
- Australian ministerial reshuffle underscores political impasse
- A reply to Tamil nationalist slanders against the World Socialist Web Site
- Turkey pushes for ground invasion of Syria
- In Detroit visit, Sanders promotes the UAW and economic nationalism
- Spain: More arrests and resignations in Popular Party corruption scandals
- Europe at the breaking point
- European Union pushes for energy independence from Russia
- Economic problems mount in Japan and China
- French National Assembly enshrines state of emergency in constitution
- Texas carries out third execution of 2016
- Egypt: Italian student tortured to death
- Rife with scandal, Detroit’s state-run school district to fold as privatization schemes continue
- Lockout of steelworkers at ATI enters sixth month
- US push on South China Sea falls short at ASEAN summit
2016-02-18
- Cuts lead to closure of youth centres across UK
- US condemns Chinese missiles in the South China Sea
- Chicago officer sues estate of teenager he fatally shot
- Obama lectures Russia on Syrian “quagmire”
- Mechanics at United Continental reject sellout contract
- Armed US marshals arrest man over 30-year-old student loan debt
- Indian government jails student leader on trumped up sedition charges
- Socialism and the Fight Against War
- Despite lead poisoning, Flint water rates highest in US
- Obama lectures Russia on Syrian “quagmire”
- Popular Unity Candidacy votes ensure passage of Catalan austerity budget
- Australia’s “Closing the Gap” fraud: Indigenous conditions worsen
- The International Socialist Organization backs Mayor Emanuel’s attack on Chicago teachers
- Australian foreign minister echoes US demands against China
- FBI wins court order forcing Apple to install backdoor in iPhone security systems
2016-02-19
- Health experts warn that Zika virus will infect millions worldwide
- Rhetoric escalates over Chinese missile installation in Paracel Islands
- West Virginia passes “right-to-work” law
- Turkey escalates war threats after terror attacks
- Saudi Arabia pushes for alliance with Turkey and Egypt
- John Patrick Shanley’s Prodigal Son: A working class youth at a Catholic high school in the 1960s
- White House steps up drive to outlaw encryption
- Oxfam Report exposes reality of Spain’s “economic recovery”
- OECD downgrades global growth forecast
- German Chancellor Merkel’s refugee policy and the growing danger of a war with Russia
- Australian union escalates nationalist campaign over shipping layoffs
- Western powers move closer to new military intervention in Libya
- Former Navy crewman executed in Georgia
- Divisions erupt at EU summit over refugees, possible British exit
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- An interview with Professor Marc Edwards on the Flint water crisis
- Obama to make March trip to Cuba
- Real estate statistics point to precarious state of Chinese economy
- Air conditioner maker Carrier to close two Indiana plants, slash 2,100 jobs
- Canada’s Globe and Mail demands Trudeau “stop whacking the 1 percent”
2016-02-20
- Wal-Mart reports currency losses and falling sales, profits
- Turkish threats against Kurds set stage for ground invasion of Syria
- Syriza-led Greek government takes its place in US war drive alongside Israel
- Brexit referendum to go ahead after UK secures deal with European Union
- Antonin Scalia’s death during secret junket points to new ethical violations
- The Pope visits Mexico
- Once again on Sanders and socialism
- Pakistan steps up privatization drive after unions suppress airline strike
- US launches airstrikes against Libya
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India: Over 200,000 Tamil Nadu government workers on indefinite strike
- Jesse Jackson promotes Democratic Party at Flint rally
- Fiji orders second arms consignment from Russia
- European Steel unions demand trade war in Brussels
- Canada’s Liberals debate aid for Bombardier as it slashes 7,000 jobs
- Global volatility triggers concerns about Australian banks
- Labor Party steps up demands for Australia to “stand up” to China
2016-02-22
- Arrium threatens to close Whyalla steelworks in South Australia
- This week in history: February 22-28
- More than 100 killed in ISIS suicide bombings in Syria
- Divisions emerge over appointment of Scalia’s successor to US Supreme Court
- Saudi Arabia cancels $3 billion grant for French military aid to Lebanon
- Mehring Books features classic biography of Rosa Luxemburg
- Illinois inmates terrorized by prison guard unit
- Trump, Clinton win US presidential nomination contests
- Portuguese government prepares second austerity package
- War and the 2016 US elections
- Sri Lankan Maoist party advocates “progressive Tamil nationalism”
- SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo to introduce Sinhala edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Mass shooting in Kalamazoo, Michigan leaves six dead
- A socialist program to fight war, austerity and dictatorship!
- Families of Americans killed by Mexican drug cartels sue banking giant HSBC
- German defence ministry spent billions on wars abroad
- French labor law reform sets stage for historic attack on workers’ rights
- Right-wing “Remain” and “Leave” campaigns begin for UK referendum on EU membership
- Hundreds demonstrate in Berlin against harsher asylum law
- Refugee crisis takes centre stage at the Berlinale
- Germany: Trial opens against SS guard at Auschwitz
2016-02-23
- “Angola 3” prisoner Albert Woodfox released after 45 years
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Flint residents protest lead poisoning and political cover-up
- “Secular stagnation” and the contradictions of capitalism
- French judiciary opens investigation into ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy
- South Africa: Police open fire on Modimolle water protests
- Nationalism and “Brexit”
- US blocked talks with North Korea before nuclear test
- Louisiana legislators plan deep cuts to education, health care
- India: Mounting death toll as army deployed to end caste-based job agitation
- Australian health care rallies promote election of Labor and Greens
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living Since the Civil War
- German historian calls for harsher measures against refugees
- At least 29 dead, thousands displaced after Cyclone Winston hits Fiji
- White House spearheads assault on cell phone encryption
- California Coastal Commission head ousted
- Canada: NDP leader Mulcair “apologizes” for social democrats’ election debacle
- Australia: BlueScope Steel profits leap on back of union-imposed job cuts
- Germany’s Deutsche Bank in crisis
2016-02-24
- Mounting US pressure on China over South China Sea
- Under cover of truce with Russia, US prepares military escalation in Syria
- Germany: Racism in Saxony and political hypocrisy
- The political struggle facing Detroit teachers
- The assault on encryption and the drive to expand police state spying
- New York City Council members award themselves a 32 percent pay raise
- Another mysterious death in the case of far-right NSU in Germany
- Obama, Pentagon outline latest plan to close Guantanamo, move prisoners to US
- Alternative approach to nuclear fusion energy at German lab takes important first step
- BAYAN mounts second bogus challenge to US basing deal
- Inaccurate metadata analysis used to kill thousands in US drone strikes
- California State University faculty headed into confrontation with Democrats
- Bolivians reject fourth term for Evo Morales in constitutional referendum
- Australian media use US admiral’s comments to push for confrontation with China
- Civil rights groups request federal investigation of San Diego police brutality
- UK schools privatisation programme continues despite failures
2016-02-25
- India: Tata Nano auto workers strike over suspensions
- Deadly storms across the southern United States
- New York police used military-grade cellphone surveillance equipment over 1,000 times
- USW agrees to sellout deal to end ATI lockout
- German news magazine Der Spiegel urges war against Russia
- Polish government expands police state powers
- Sticking point in Syria truce: Washington’s support for Al Qaeda
- South Korea whips up fears over North Korea’s nuclear program
- UK government proposes to set up Muslim-only jail
- Flint death toll from Legionnaires’ disease worsened by state and federal inaction
- Trump wins Republican presidential caucuses in Nevada
- Hundreds of Australian climate-change science jobs to be axed
- French unions seek to suppress opposition to Hollande’s labour reforms
- Downsizing begins as Fiat Chrysler seeks merger partner
- US government case against Apple would create broad precedent to override phone encryption
2016-02-26
- Michigan autoworker files challenge to UAW-Ford 2015 contract vote
- UK: Tottenham residents speak on plans to demolish Broadwater Farm estate
- Bernie Sanders and the “Scandinavian model”
- Austrian-led conference closes Balkan route for refugees and divides Europe
- US and the Philippines move rapidly to implement military deal
- Perplexity and divisions mark G-20 meeting
- Slowdown in Pennsylvania natural gas industry adds to state budget crisis
- Tens of thousands homeless in Fiji cyclone disaster
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Leading California Democrat sentenced to five years in prison for corruption
- Former US bankruptcy judge to be new emergency manager of Detroit schools
- US social crisis overshadows 2016 presidential election
- Canada’s pseudo-left silent on trade unions’ support for Liberal government
- Police call for boycott after Beyoncé endorses opposition to police brutality
2016-02-27
- India: Unions call off Tamil Nadu government workers strike
- Pentagon inflates “China threat” to justify massive build-up in Asia
- The Republican debate and the degradation of US politics
- US fires ICBMs amid war threats against Russia
- UK generals intervene to oppose Brexit
- University of Leipzig students speak out against right-wing professor
- Strike at 200 Further Education colleges in England
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- More mass shootings in the US
- Indian ruling elite in economic bind
- Top advisors to Michigan governor urged switching water supply from polluted Flint River
- Anti-refugee xenophobia and the danger of war
- Strike at Chinese steel plant points to impact of global slump
- A critique of Europe’s refugee policy: On the Berlinale’s Golden Bear for Fire at Sea
- Apple counters government demands as White House expands NSA data sharing
2016-02-29
- This week in history: February 29-March 6
- Trump backed by fascists, quotes Mussolini
- Tens of thousands attend London protest against nuclear weapons
- Syria fighting continues into third day of US-Russian “truce”
- G-20 summit rules out coordinated stimulus
- US uses “partnership dialogue” to strengthen ties with Sri Lanka
- Public split in French Socialist Party over state of emergency
- Clinton sweeps South Carolina primary as turnout plunges
- Scalia’s final junket linked to aristocratic hunting society
- Police refuse to release video showing shooting of Salt Lake City teenager
- For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum!
- NATO operation in Aegean heightens threat of war with Russia
- New technologies expand knowledge of early art in North America
- Chicago State University threatens to lay off entire staff amidst state budget impasse
- Australian feminists deride public sympathy for family murder-suicide victims
- Los Angeles area teachers stage “sickouts” over pay
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