3 October 2011
Greece to miss deficit target and impose more cuts on workers
By Christoph Dreier, 3 October 2011
The social-democratic government of Greece bowed to pressure from the IMF and European authorities and cut the jobs of 30,000 civil servants.
New York City police arrest over 700 anti-Wall Street protesters
By Sandy English, 3 October 2011
Over 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge by the New York Police Department on Saturday afternoon.
Wall Street protesters: “The whole system is broken”
By a WSWS reporting team, 3 October 2011
Participants in Friday’s march of over 3,000 to protest the over 80 arrests and pepper-spraying of unresisting demonstrators the week before spoke to the WSWS about why they were demonstrating.
Chinese manufacturing contraction points to deeper economic trouble
By John Chan, 3 October 2011
Accelerating job losses, combined with the impact of rising prices on wages, will lead to a dramatic increase in the resistance of workers to the destruction of their living standards.
US sells arms to Bahraini dictatorship as repression continues
By Niall Green, 3 October 2011
The Pentagon will provide the dictatorship in Bahrain with an additional $53 million worth of weapons.
UK Coal and miners’ union close ranks after pit deaths
By Harvey Thompson, 3 October 2011
Safety officials from the UK’s coal mining industry met last week to “calm nerves” in the coal extraction market following the deaths of five miners in just weeks.
North Yorkshire residents speak on mining conditions
“If we challenge the health and safety then we are seen as stopping the job”
By our reporters, 3 October 2011
At the weekend, a World Socialist Web Site reporting team spoke to people in Knottingley, North Yorkshire—the town adjoining the Kellingley colliery where the latest tragic mining fatality occurred.
French foundry workers vote to continue their struggle against wage cuts and sackings
By Antoine Lerougetel, 3 October 2011
Some 700 workers rallied on Thursday at the Montupet foundry in Diors in central France in support of workers at the Fonderies du Poitou, another foundry in the group, on strike since September 2.
French president’s associates charged in “Karachigate” scandal
By Kumaran Ira, 3 October 2011
Close associates of French President Nicolas Sarkozy have been accused of using kickbacks from submarine sales to Pakistan in 1994 for illegal party funding.
Spain: PSOE and PP collude to rush through austerity legislation
By Vicky Short, 3 October 2011
The Spanish Socialist Workers Party government and Popular Party opposition are colluding to ensure the legislation required to further impoverish working people is rushed through parliament.
Listeria outbreak claims 15 lives in US
By Naomi Spencer, 3 October 2011
In the deadliest food poisoning outbreak in the US in over a decade, at least 15 people have died of listeriosis linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes.
New in French
France: Sarkozy perd sa majorité au sénat
Par Antoine Lerougetel, 3 octobre 2011
Lors des élections du 25 septembre, le président Nicolas Sarkozy du parti dirigeant UMP (Union pour un Mouvement populaire) a perdu le contrôle du sénat au profit du Parti socialiste et de ses alliés.
Les enseignants français protestent contre les suppressions brutales de postes d’enseignants
Par Pierre Mabut, 3 octobre 2011
165.000 enseignants partout en France sont descendus mardi dans la rue contre la politique du gouvernement de supprimer des postes d’enseignants.
New in Arabic
الثورة المصرية في مفترق طرق
بقلم يوهان سترن وأليكس لانتير 4 أوغسطس /آب 2011
الإجراءات القمعية التي اتخذها المجلس العسكري المدعوم من أمريكا وداعميه السياسيين في "المعارضة" الرسمية في مصر هي تحذير خطير للعمال المصريين والشباب.فقوى الثورة المضادة تتحرك لسحق الحركة التي أطلقتها الطبقة العاملة والتي أدت إلى خلع الرئيس حسني مبارك في فبراير الماضي.
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The slaughter in Sirte
3 October 2011
In their frenzied drive to crush all resistance in the north African state, NATO and its proxy militia forces are unleashing indiscriminate military force, killing civilians and destroying buildings and infrastructure.
Correspondence
Letter on the death of four miners at Gleision colliery, Wales
By Malcolm Bray, 3 October 2011
As a former miner in Yorkshire, I would like to express my sincere condolences to the families of the four men who tragically died at the Gleision mine in Wales.
This week in history: October 3 - October 9
25 years ago: Downed plane lifts lid on illegal US operations in Nicaragua
This week in 1986 strong evidence emerged that the Reagan administration was illegally supporting the right-wing Contra movement in Nicaragua, Washington’s proxy in a six-year dirty war to topple the nationalist Sandinista regime headed by Daniel Ortega.
50 years ago: Strike of 120,000 in UAW-Ford contract talks
On October 3, 1961, over 120,000 members of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) went out on strike against the Ford Motor Company over an impasse in negotiating a new contract. The strike was called off on October 11, although a few locals stayed out longer.
75 years ago: London workers rout fascists in “Battle of Cable Street”
On Sunday, October 4, 1936, tens of thousands of London workers stopped Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists from marching through the east end of London in what came to be called the “Battle of Cable Street.”
100 years ago: Italian troops occupy Tripoli
On October 3, 1911, four days after declaring war on Turkey, Italy began a naval bombardment of Tripoli. The attack was part of Italy’s bid to annex the Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica, which together constitute modern-day Libya.
Arts Review
At the Public Theater in New York
“Sweet and Sad”: An honest, probing look at life on the anniversary of 9/11
By Fred Mazelis, 3 October 2011
This is the second play in a projected trilogy by Richard Nelson dealing with ordinary events in the life of a family centered in the town of Rhinebeck, New York.
Toronto International Film Festival 2011—Part 1
The world at large and closer to home
By David Walsh, 30 September 2011
Video Report
US college students speak on unemployment and budget cuts
By Andre Damon, 1 October 2011
In this video, students from Northern Virginia Community College and the University of New Orleans discuss education cuts, life without work and other social problems facing young people.
Commentary
Obama boasts of assassinating American citizen in Yemen
By Bill Van Auken, 1 October 2011
Egypt’s “independent” unions seek to end strikes, prop up junta
By Johannes Stern, 1 October 2011
Auto workers struggles
Wall Street hails UAW-GM deal
By Jerry White, 1 October 2011
Widespread opposition and abstentions in UAW-GM contract vote
By Jerry White, 26 September 2011
More on auto workers’ struggles »
Socialist Equality Party
Unite the working class to defend public education!
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party, 29 September 2011
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain) now available
28 September 2011
Mehring Books is proud to announce the publication of the founding document of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain.
Sri Lanka: Book launch honours the life of Piyaseeli Wijegunasinghe
By our correspondents, 28 September 2011
Mehring Books
Leon Trotsky’s remarkable work:
Problems of Everyday Life
28 September 2011
Mehring Books is pleased to make available to readers of the World Socialist Web Site Problems of Everyday Life by Leon Trotsky.
SEP election campaign in Berlin
The significance of the 40-year struggle by the German Trotskyists
By Ulrich Rippert, 30 September 2011
On September 17, the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party—PSG) held a European workers rally against racism, war and social cutbacks at the conclusion of the party’s election campaign in Berlin.
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