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Archive: March 2012

The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.

1 March 2012 (front page)

• New political turmoil over post of Australian foreign minister
• Obama, UAW revel in auto workers’ impoverishment
• Prosecution abruptly rests case in Philippine impeachment trial
• Australia: Union isolates striking Victorian nurses
• Further evidence of secret US indictment of Julian Assange
• Support for Quebec student strike swells
• New York police defend illegal spying operation against Muslims
• Hamas aligns itself with US imperialism against Syria, Iran
• Polish government plans new attacks on the working class
• A4e scandal highlights looting of UK social spending by private companies
• Popular protests sparked by deadly train accident in Argentina
• What is at stake in Syria?
• SEP vice presidential candidate denounces transit cuts at Pittsburgh forum
• German employers, courts, trade unions seek to crush airport ground crew strike
• An honest band for difficult times: Shaving by Chewing on Tinfoil

2 March 2012 (front page)

• Afghan troops kill two more US soldiers in Kandahar
• The Australian’s foreign editor and Labor’s leadership crisis
• Lessons of the Cooper Tire struggle
• India: Tens of millions join one-day protest strike
• A strange “Iranian” explosion in Bangkok
• Sri Lanka government slanders protesters opposing price hikes
• Tornadoes kill 12 in US Midwest, South
• Superintendent charged in Upper Big Branch mine disaster
• South China Sea tensions mount as Manila prepares to drill for oil
• EU and IMF increase pressure on Hungary
• SEP candidate visits Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
• New version of Porgy and Bess: A pale reflection of a work of genius and compassion
• German labour court bans Frankfurt airport strike
• Workers struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Unions call off strike by metro and bus workers in Barcelona
• The US media responds with hostility to this year’s Academy Awards show

3 March 2012 (front page)

• Political instability to continue with installation of new Australian foreign minister
• EU summit adopts Fiscal Pact for European-wide austerity
• Australian government dismisses call to boost school funding
• Sri Lankan unions betray university workers’ strike
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Egyptian junta lifts travel ban on NGO operatives
• Financial markets demand sharper crackdown against Egyptian workers
• US Congress expands authoritarian anti-protest law
• Massive attack on postal workers’ jobs
• University of South Florida students speak out on proposed budget cuts
• Irish government announces referendum on EU austerity treaty
• Spotlight falls on Murdoch newspapers’ bribing of police
• Protests against austerity continue in Spain
• 100,000 welfare recipients in Berlin threatened with eviction
• Hillary Clinton and Middle East war crimes
• The case for public ownership of the oil industry
  Gas prices and the working class
  Statement by Jerry White, Socialist Equality Party candidate for president
• Caterpillar workers accept severance deal in London, Ontario plant closure
• Will the Woody Guthrie Museum in Oklahoma distort the folksinger’s views?
• Letters from our readers

5 March 2012 (front page)

• SEP campaigns in Michigan, California and Kentucky
• German intelligence agencies expand monitoring of Internet
• Obama hardens threat of war against Iran
• Khamenei supporters win in Iran legislative elections
• An interview with Tony Krawitz, director of The Tall Man
  “It is an important story about justice in this country”
• Obama at Master Lock: “Insourcing” for cheap labor
• Perruchot report exposes French unions’ ties to the ruling class
• The European fiscal pact
• Putin wins Russian presidential election
• Britain considers air strikes against Somali insurgents
• British “left” covers for Unite union’s betrayal of electricians’ dispute
• World Bank demands further pro-market measures in China
• 39 dead in US tornado outbreak
• Photo story: West Liberty, Kentucky virtually destroyed by storm
• This week in history: March 05 - March 11
• The Tall Man: Probing a prisoner’s death on Australia’s Palm Island

6 March 2012 (front page)

• California Governor Brown’s pension reform: An assault on state workers
• Attorney general defends presidential assassinations of US citizens
• Obama, Netanyahu discuss Iran war options
• The uncertain future of Pompeii’s extraordinary ruins
• Sri Lankan fishermen forced back to work
• More cuts demanded as recession looms in Spain
• BP settles for $7.8 billion in Gulf blowout
• Arming of Syria’s opposition stepped up as demand for safe havens grows
• Stockton, California seeks bankruptcy
• Union helps liquidator impose mass layoffs at German drugstore chain
• Wall Street speculators continue to rake in billions
• The tornado disaster and the case for socialist planning
  Statement by Phyllis Scherrer, the Socialist Equality Party candidate for US vice president
• 62nd Berlin International Film Festival—Part 3
  Interview with Rainer Rother, director of a Soviet-German film retrospective: “These films are a pledge that things can be different”
• Detroit residents speak about deadly house fire
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

7 March 2012 (front page)

• Obama reiterates war threats as Iran, major powers agree to new talks
• Starvation tragedy underlines social deprivation in Japan
• Military tribunals and assassination
• US exploits UNHRC resolution to pressure Sri Lanka
• Romney builds lead in Republican presidential contest
• Monti government deregulates Italian jobs market
• Second round of UK local government cuts under way
• Sharp rise in people sleeping rough in UK
• French Socialist Party presidential candidate reassures the banks
• California’s March 5 “Day of Action” draws over 10,000 students
• Jerry White visits Debs museum in Terre Haute, Indiana
  Remembering a pioneer American socialist
• The New York Times and “liberal” warmongering against Iran

8 March 2012 (front page)

• Australia: Floods inundate rural communities
• Libya autonomy declaration poses threat of civil war
• Australia’s supreme court upholds free speech ban on Palm Island leader
• Australian political crisis exposes acute US-China tensions
• Hedge funds speculate on Greek default
• Six British soldiers killed by explosion in southern Afghanistan
• The New Orleans Saints’ “bounty” program and violence in American sports
• Notes on the social crisis in America
• Ithaca bus drivers speak out against salary cuts
• Child poverty on the rise in Germany
• Corruption charges vs. British officers investigating murder of Stephen Lawrence
• French petty-bourgeois “left” backs imperialist war plans in Syria
• Jack London’s The Iron Heel: An enduring classic
• Ireland’s Vita Cortex occupation in third month
• German Socialist Equality Party defends Greek workers
• Letters from our readers

9 March 2012 (front page)

• Australian nurses’ union betrays protracted industrial struggle
• Australian government pledges deeper cuts as economy slumps
• Spain’s Garzón acquitted for investigation of Franco-era crimes
• Washington threatens Pakistan over proposed gas pipeline with Iran
• Sri Lanka: Colombo residents defy government bid to demolish “unauthorised” housing
• Pentagon prepares war plans for Syria
• The US elections and the jobs crisis
• UN torture official denounces US treatment of Bradley Manning
• Detroit mayor outlines bipartisan assault on city workers
• Slovakia: Mass poverty, corruption on the eve of parliamentary elections
• How to fight Obama’s police-state policies
  Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for president
• Daniel Woodrell’s The Outlaw Album: Short, honest, brutal and beautiful stories
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

10 March 2012 (front page)

• Australian steel company axes another 575 jobs
• South Korean Democrats make empty populist appeal
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• The Greek agony
• Obama hails jobs report despite nearly 13 million unemployed
• Massive anti-government protest in Bahrain
• Murdoch press endorses Scottish independence
• Unarmed man shot dead by police in English village
• EU grants Serbia candidate status in run-up to federal election
• US teacher discouragement at 20-year high
• Over 10,000 mentally ill Michigan inmates face Tasers and torture
• Successful start to SEP West Coast campaign
• 62nd Berlin International Film Festival—Part 4
  Sergei Eisenstein’s October: a monumental work
• Letters from our readers

12 March 2012 (front page)

• Massacre in Afghanistan: US soldier kills 16 villagers, including 9 children
• Financial organisations declare Greece to be in default
• Australia: Second inquiry whitewashes Orica’s toxic leak
• Sri Lankan UNP’s bogus opposition to IMF austerity program
• Virginia abortion ultrasound measure becomes law
• Cuts push UK workers’ living standards back 30 years
• Britain: 1,000 jobs still at risk at Coryton oil refinery
• French social democratic unions, NGOs promote right-wing Social Pact
• Workers occupy ArcelorMittal site at Florange in France
• The collapse of American democracy
• Jerry White speaks in Los Angeles
• This week in history: March 12-18

13 March 2012 (front page)

• Autistic teen fatally shot by police in suburban Chicago home
• Divisions over economic policy at Chinese National People’s Congress
• Ralph Fiennes directs Shakespeare’s Coriolanus with an eye to contemporary events
• Israel expands deadly air strikes on Gaza
• Illinois Democrats plan massive attacks on Medicaid and state workers
• Public meeting in Leipzig: Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth
  On the controversy concerning the biography of Trotsky by Robert Service
• Afghanistan’s My Lai
• Strikes by German public-sector workers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• On-the-spot report
  Athens steel strike enters fifth month
• One year since Japan’s triple disaster
• Incomes of top 1 percent in US skyrocket in wake of recession
• SEP supporters campaign for meetings in Portland and Kentucky
• CAUS meeting endorses SEP presidential campaign

14 March 2012 (front page)

• Australian states impose Gillard’s “Empowering Local Schools” program
• The student debt explosion
• Secret Australian SAS operations in Africa
• Australian workers locked out by pharmaceutical company
• New bid for UN resolution aimed at Syrian regime-change fails
• On-the-spot report
  Hunger and homelessness on the rise in Greece
• Kony 2012 promotes US “humanitarian” intervention in Africa
• Santorum wins Republican primaries in Alabama, Mississippi
• German government study promotes campaign against immigrant communities
• Disabled workers facing redundancy due to UK budget cuts
• The Kandahar massacre and the fight against war
  Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president
• SEP presidential candidate Jerry White to speak in Kingston, Ontario
• Protest over closure of Detroit Day School for the Deaf
• Film Noir Classic Collection, Volume 5: The most political of the Warner Bros. film noir collections

15 March 2012 (front page)

• Letters from our readers
• Greece comes to the American Midwest
  Bankers’ dictatorship for Detroit workers
• Canada: Front-runner for NDP leader considered joining Harper Conservatives
• Sri Lankan ex-lefts promote the right-wing UNP
• East Timor to hold presidential election
• US, UK vow no change in war after Afghanistan massacre
• On-the-spot report
  Greek health service faces catastrophic cuts
• One-day general strike called in Spain
• Ruling parties routed in Slovakian elections
• UK Home Secretary approves Richard O’Dwyer’s extradition to US
• An insider’s view of Wall Street criminality
• Jerry White explains socialist perspective in Northern California meetings
• Kentucky students speak about bleak job prospects
• British print workers in fourth week of lockout
• Ani DiFranco's “¿Which Side Are You On?”: a “radical” artist openly embraces Obama and the Democrats

16 March 2012 (front page)

• US Afghan strategy unravels in wake of Kandahar massacre
• Japan’s triple disaster: An indictment of capitalism
• Australia: Labor faces electoral rout in Queensland
• Documents in US foreclosure settlement highlight lawlessness of the banks
• French President Sarkozy makes anti-immigrant appeal to neo-fascist vote
• New stage in Murdoch scandal as former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks re-arrested
• Millions for Volkswagen CEO, no money for European migrants
• German public service union agrees real wage cuts for Berlin transport workers
• Iceland’s ex-prime minister on trial over role in financial crisis
• “The attacks on us are extraordinarily revealing”
  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks with WSWS
• SEP campaign and public meeting at Portland State University
• 62nd Berlin International Film Festival—Part 5
  Left-wing German films in the 1920s reveal problems
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

17 March 2012 (front page)

• 20 million could lose employer coverage under Obama health care overhaul
• Obama menaces Iran with military threat
• Australian nurses’ union imposes real wage cut
• Social counterrevolution in Britain
• In wake of Afghan massacre, tensions mount between US and its puppet Karzai
• On-the-spot report
  Unemployment, wage cuts destroy living standards of millions in Greece
• Italian truckers strike against austerity closes Fiat plants
• Bangladeshi government cracks down on opposition rally
• New York legislature passes pension cutbacks
• Tornado damages 100 homes in Michigan community
• Quebec: Almost 200,000 students striking against university tuition fee hikes
• SEP vice presidential candidate Phyllis Scherrer speaks in Kentucky
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

19 March 2012 (front page)

• Questions mount over US account of Afghanistan massacre
• China’s military spending surpasses $100 billion
• New attacks on contraceptive access follow Obama cave-in on issue
• “It is leading Detroit into another dark age”
  Detroit workers react to plans for financial control board, more budget cuts
• French Socialist Party presidential candidate falls behind Sarkozy in polls
• Israel threatens Iran, continues air strikes against Gaza
• Leipzig meeting on Leon Trotsky and the defence of historical truth
  300 hear David North critique Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky
• The Greek crisis is only the beginning
• Quebec Solidaire moves still closer to big business PQ
• New York City police brutalize, arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters
• Health and Social Care Bill prepares health care privatisation in UK
• SEP campaign takes socialist program to Syracuse, New York
• Isaak Babel’s Marya: An antirevolutionary play?
• SEP campaigns in Tampa, Florida and Detroit, Michigan
• This week in history: March 19-25

20 March 2012 (front page)

• Top official Bo Xilai dismissed by Chinese Communist Party
• Letters from our readers
• Australia: Acute disaffection in Queensland election
• Sri Lankan defence ministry censors SMS news alerts
• Fighting and bombings in Syrian capital
• Afghanistan massacre: The product of a criminal war
• Gunman kills four at Jewish school in Toulouse, France
• US Supreme Court issues reactionary rulings on warrants and interrogations
• Cambridge University suspends PhD student for peaceful protest
• UK unions collude in railway restructuring
• Germany: New elections in North Rhine-Westfalia
• Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth
• The AFL-CIO’s endorsement of Obama: A conspiracy against the working class
  Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president
• Second round required in East Timorese presidential election

21 March 2012 (front page)

• US war game foreshadows Israeli attack on Iran
• Australian mining tax passed through Senate
• Australia: Queensland flood inquiry report a political coverup
• The coronation of the new German president
• Ireland: Opposition mounts to government-imposed household charge
• Federal authorities to investigate Florida shooting death of black teenager
• Detroit school czar targets 15 schools, 600 teachers
• A return to Sri Lanka’s killing fields by Channel 4
• Australian police Taser attack kills Brazilian student
• The Pope’s visit to Mexico deepens assault on the secular state
• Kony 2012 and the promotion of “humanitarian” wars
• Leipzig Book Fair 2012
  Mehring Publishers presents new German edition of Alexander Rabinowitch’s The Bolsheviks Come to Power
• Campaign in Morgantown wins support from workers and students
• New York Times’ Bill Keller sets ground rules for next war
• It’s perfectly true, We Need to Talk About Kevin is “not an issue-based movie”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

22 March 2012 (front page)

• Nine years after the invasion of Iraq
• Australia government intervenes into port workers’ dispute
• Syrian opposition accused of human rights abuses
• French police in armed standoff with alleged Toulouse gunman
• Quebec to implement university fee hikes in face of mass protests
• Workers face loss of more than 100,000 jobs as Obama joins attack on postal service
• California community college introduces two-tier tuition system
• More austerity measures as Spain’s public debt soars
• One quarter of German workers are in low-wage jobs
• Pakistan’s president delivers annual address amid swirl of economic and political crises
• “The key to the future lies in the international unity of the working class”
  Jerry White speaks in Canada
• Letters from our readers

23 March 2012 (front page)

• US condemns North Korea’s planned satellite launch
• Australian mining magnate accuses CIA of funding environment groups
• Portugal paralysed by general strike as second bailout looms
• Sri Lankan health unions abandon strike after court order
• UK budget brings a bonanza for the rich and pain for workers
• Top general demands US keep “robust” combat force in Afghanistan
• Thousands protest against killing of black teenager in Florida
• Florida shooting focuses attention on “Stand Your Ground” laws
• More than 20,000 California teachers receive preliminary layoff notices
• As ruling party loses support, Greek “left” cosies up to PASOK
• Canada: NDP frays over Mulcair’s candidacy for party leader
• Political issues in the Toulouse shootings
• The socialist solution to the crisis in Detroit
  Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Being Flynn: Homelessness as a social failure

24 March 2012 (front page)

• US student debt surpasses $1 trillion
• New evidence emerges on Brazilian student’s death in Sydney
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• US charges soldier with 17 counts of murder in Afghan massacre
• Questions emerge over police handling of Toulouse, France killings
• Quebec: Mammoth demonstration in support of strike against university fee hikes
• ICG reports detail the militarisation in Sri Lanka’s North
• Mahle workers in Kilmarnock, Scotland, vote to strike
• Escalating protests in Montenegro
• Notes on the social crisis in America
• Europe’s trade union heads meet with Merkel
• Phyllis Scherrer speaks in Morgantown, West Virginia
• Jerry White campaigns in Queens, New York
• Letters from our readers

26 March 2012 (front page)

• Wild rumours of a coup in Beijing
• Euro crisis set to resume
• Australia: A historic rout of Labor in Queensland election
• Australia: Brisbane voters speak to the WSWS
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 1
• Obama administration expands illegal surveillance of Americans
• US to give “non-lethal” aid to Syrian opposition
• Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists campaign for war against Syria
• Hire-and-fire labor reform: A historic attack on the Italian working class
• Lutte Ouvrière mounts nationalist French presidential election campaign
• British teenager arrested for Facebook comments criticizing Afghan war
• German and British GM plants threatened with closure
• West Virginia house fire kills nine
• The killing of Trayvon Martin
• ”What is needed is a new political leadership”
  SEP Presidential candidate Jerry White addresses New York meeting
• This week in history: March 26-April 1
• Theater review
  The Many Mistresses Of Martin Luther King and the politics of race in America

27 March 2012 (front page)

• Obama uses nuclear summit to issue new threats against North Korea and Iran
• Papua New Guinea government moves against judiciary
• Quebec student strike:
  A strategy to mobilize the working class is needed
• Sri Lankan farmers demonstrate for a higher rice price
• Sri Lankan SEP calls plantation workers’ congress
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 2
• Washington’s “human rights” fraud
• Thousands march to demand arrest of Trayvon Martin killer
• US Supreme Court hears challenge to Obama health care law
• Thatcher papers show how Murdoch’s media domination was secured
• The life and times of a Sri Lankan migrant worker
• Canada: NDP picks ex-Liberal minister as federal party leader
• Inside a union rally at the PSA auto plant in Aulnay, France
• The 2012 elections and the assault on voting rights in the US
• SEP campaigns in National City, California and Ann Arbor, Michigan
• “The American dream is not here”
  Free health screening draws unemployed, homeless in Detroit
• German public service union continues token strikes
• Joan Miró: An artist “in the service of mankind”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers
• US steelworkers union prepares betrayal of refinery workers

28 March 2012 (front page)

• Record opposition to Afghanistan war as killings mount
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 3
• Reports indicate Toulouse gunman was French intelligence asset
• Romney tightening grip on Republican presidential nomination
• Democrats seek to channel mass anger over killing of Trayvon Martin
• Military launches coup in Mali
• UN Human Rights Council passes resolution on Sri Lanka
• Israelis protest war with Iran
• UK Conservatives hit by “cash for access” scandal
• British trade unions call off national strike over public sector pensions
• German state election: Main parties in Saarland form grand coalition
• German Pirate Party takes 7 percent in Saarland state election
• Australian government bars Chinese telco on “security” grounds
• The Obama recovery
• SEP vice presidential candidate speaks in Ithaca, New York
• Why does The Hunger Games strike a chord?
• British Columbia criminalizes teachers’ strike to force through wage cut

29 March 2012 (front page)

• US and Australia prepare military build up in Indian Ocean
• Indian budget raises taxes and prices
• Taser death in Australia: A warning to youth
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 4
• In wake of Syria peace plan, US steps up bid for regime-change
• Obama’s nuclear disarmament hoax
• Spanish “left” groups use one-day general strike to promote trade union bureaucracy
• US Congress passes phony “JOBS Act”
• North Sea gas leak threatens environmental disaster
• French Socialist Party presidential candidate backs police in Toulouse shootings
• German union facilitates mass layoffs at Schlecker drugstore chain
• Pakistan: Power cuts spark mass protests across Punjab
• Three workers killed in Peru mining protests
• Davenport, Iowa aluminum strike in second month
• More troubling facts emerge in the Trayvon Martin shooting
• SEP presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns in Boston
• Parents of Trayvon Martin speak to the WSWS
• Letters from our readers

30 March 2012 (front page)

• Sham election in Hong Kong reveals sharp social tensions
• Millions join general strike in Spain
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 5
• Australian government pledges to slash billions from budget
• US House of Representatives approves plan to destroy Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps
• Trade unions in Italy play crucial role in the abolition of workers’ rights
• Ireland pushes for debt restructuring to avoid second bailout
• Tamil separatists lobby imperialist powers against Sri Lankan government at UN
• India’s government orients towards privatizing water
• Pope Benedict backs market measures in Cuba
• Wildcat strike at Air Canada outrages and unnerves ruling elite
• The award-winning A Separation and the humanity of the Iranian people
• SEP vice presidential candidate ends New York tour with meetings in Ithaca and Syracuse
• Government readies military as UK tanker drivers vote to strike
• Trade unions isolate London teachers and lecturers strike
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Mehring Publishers presents two new photo documentary books at Leipzig Book Fair

31 March 2012 (front page)

• Australia: Coal companies provoke new miners’ walkouts in Queensland
• New round of mass layoffs in North America
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 6
• Australia: University of Sydney job cuts temporarily postponed
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Judge dismisses terrorism charges against Michigan militia group
• Barcelona’s workers and youth speak during Spain’s general strike
• Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn faces sex crime charges
• Mohamed Merah’s family denies he was Toulouse, France gunman
• Labour Party facing loss of Glasgow City Council
• Canada’s federal and Ontario governments unveil “transformative” austerity budgets
• At least 13 dead in another Honduran prison massacre
• Unions complicit in GM attack on European auto workers
• Video: Florida workers and students speak on killing of Trayvon Martin
• The killing of Trayvon Martin and the social crisis in the US
  Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for president
• Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at 88