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Archive: March 2010

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 2010 (front page)

• Chile earthquake death toll tops 700
• German parliament approves new Afghanistan strategy
• Jobless benefits cut off for a million US workers
• More details emerge on assassination of Hamas leader in Dubai
• French unions end air traffic controllers’ strike
• Spain: Fascist Falange allowed to join prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón
• Indonesian bank bailout exposes split in ruling coalition
• Central Falls High School firings
  Rhode Island school district seeks to tear up teachers’ contract
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 2
• This week in history: March 1-March 7
• Locked-out California Borax mine workers oppose concessions

2 March 2010 (front page)

• Government declares martial law in central Chile after earthquake
• The Dubai assassination and the “war on terror”
• Wall Street Journal cites Chilean earthquake to praise Pinochet
• Video report
  Dexter Avenue Fire Inquiry: Sister of victims speaks on utility shutoffs
• Obama applauds firing of Rhode Island teachers
• The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care study: Shoddy science in support of health care cuts
• An interview with Dr. Richard Cooper, critic of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care research
• Interview with Dr. Michael Ong: A response to the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
• British oil drilling off Malvinas escalates tensions with Argentina
• Opel unions and works councils collaborate in job losses
• New York State announces cuts in public parks, historic sites
• SEP public meeting in Colombo to launch election campaign
• For a socialist policy to defeat the attacks on mass transit!
• SEP stands in Sri Lankan parliamentary election
• February 2010 edition of WSWS Perspectives now available
• NUMMI auto workers denounce UAW intimidation
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 3
• The Criterion Collection’s The Golden Age of Television
  Not quite golden, but still valuable
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 March 2010 (front page)

• New strikes called as more social cuts are prepared in Greece
• The Ukrainian election and the demise of the “Orange Revolution”
• As death toll from quake, tsunamis mounts
  Massive military mobilization in Chile
• Saturday mail delivery threatened
  US Postal Service moves to cut 50,000 jobs
• India and Pakistan talk, but “composite dialogue” not resumed
• Sri Lankan election: Tamil party splits in four
• Violent storms cause 52 deaths in France
• Australian Labor government releases terrorism “White Paper”
• Study shows steep rise of poverty in Germany
• Iceland: Vote “no” in IceSave referendum
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 4
• 60th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 3
  Kanikosen: a Japanese “proletarian novel,” updated

4 March 2010 (front page)

• Greece: Papandreou announces deeper budget cuts
• Obama urges swift passage of his cost-cutting health care plan
• Obama’s assault on public education
• Three children perish in Detroit house fire
• Interviews with neighbors of fire victims
• 500,000 Portuguese public sector workers set to strike
• Military occupation of earthquake-ravaged region expands in Chile
• Bangladesh: Factory fire kills 21 garment workers
• US Supreme Court stalls Guantánamo appeal, upholds lethal injections
• Mass protest by immigrants against Italian government’s racist policies
• Australia: Unions launch campaign to secure Rudd’s re-election
• Will Canada join Israel’s next war?
• Icelandic government seeks renegotiation of Icesave deal as economic crisis continues
• For a working class movement to defend education!
• Former British Labour Party leader Michael Foot dies
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 5

5 March 2010 (front page)

• US presses for new UN sanctions against Iran
• The European strikes and the trade unions
• Portuguese public sector workers in 24-hour national strike
• Deadly house fires in Detroit: Who is responsible?
• Students and staff protest against education cuts in US
• Sri Lanka: A reactionary alliance between the JVP and Fonseka
• India’s budget: Concessions to business, new burdens for workers
• AFL-CIO pledges all-out backing for Democrats in 2010 elections
• Germany: Public service union agrees to sellout contract
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 6
• Canada: Sudbury miners’ strike enters eighth month
• Class and justice in America: The Supreme Court and Enron felon Jeffrey Skilling
• A further comment on Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Australia: Construction unions to pay record $1.3 million fine

6 March 2010 (front page)

• Amid angry protests in Greece
  Papandreou pledges to impose austerity plan in meeting with German PM
• Finance capital and the Greek debt crisis
• US payrolls shrank by 36,000 in February
• ISSE members speak at San Diego rallies
• Thousands rally in San Diego, California against education cuts
• Pakistan: Zardari and his PPP-led government weakened by clash with judiciary
• Irish unions seek new partnership with government-employers against working class
• Cover-up exposed in post-Katrina police killings
• Sri Lanka: End the state of emergency!
• Britain: Railworker Graham McMillan imprisoned
• Australia: Rudd government unveils plan to cut health spending
• State attempts to victimize mother of fire victims
  Sylvia Young says she pled with Detroit utility to keep heat on
• The role of the government in Detroit’s deadly house fires
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 7
• Woman severely injured in Detroit house fire
• 60th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 4
  This year’s German films: In general, a more serious tone
• Video: Neighbors of Detroit fire victims oppose utility shutoffs
• Australia: Unions push through sell-out deal at Pluto
• Boeing Australia to close Sydney plant and axe 350 jobs
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 March 2010 (front page)

• Iraqi election for a new US puppet regime
• Britain: Brown defends Iraq war at Chilcot Inquiry
• Earthquake exposes social chasm in Chile
• In wake of Rhode Island firings
  More teachers and “failing” schools targeted by Obama education policy
• Netherlands: Racist Geert Wilders increases his vote in municipal elections
• China: National People’s Congress reflects regime’s fears of social instability
• After the March 4 protests against education cuts
• Gillard’s National Press Club speech
  Australia: Labor’s war on public education
• Authorities, media launch witch-hunt against Sylvia Young
  Who are the real criminals behind the Detroit house fires?
• THAW, United Way: No help for utility shutoffs
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 8
• Sri Lankan SEP launches election campaign
• This week in history: March 8-March 14
• Winter Recommended Reading Series
  Patrick Martin: “A deeply rewarding intellectual journey”
  The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
• Britain: Civil servants strike for two days
• New England supermarket unions approve new contract

9 March 2010 (front page)

• Australia: The Rudd government and the new stage of the economic crisis
• Papandreou in Paris
  Sarkozy echos Germany’s hard line on Greek debt crisis
• The liberals’ lament: What’s wrong with Obama?
• Gates visits Afghanistan to prepare US offensive against Kandahar
• Iceland: Overwhelming rejection of Icesave bill in national referendum
• US-Turkey tensions mount over resolution on Armenian genocide
• Germany: The significance of the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections
• Canada: Conservatives initiate anti-working-class austerity drive
• Hong Kong: Two social worlds in one city
• Los Angeles sends layoff notices to 5,200 teachers
• US: Georgia legislators prepare deep budget cuts
• As death toll from fatal house fires increases
  Mayor plans to relocate poor residents to “downsize” Detroit
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 9
• From the catalog of Mehring Books
  The Truth Behind the Mack Avenue Fire
• The 82nd Annual Academy Awards: Hollywood celebrates itself, undeservedly
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

10 March 2010 (front page)

• Obama stumps for his cost-cutting health care overhaul
• Papandreou in Washington
  Obama administration backs Greek austerity measures
• Stampede at Indian temple kills 63
• Russian President Medvedev signs strategic, business deals in France
• Britain: Dartington College of Arts to close
• Superintendent plans to close nearly half of Kansas City schools
• Pittsburgh officials shift blame for steelworker’s death to paramedics
• Illinois budget crisis deepens
• Britain: Stafford General Hospital inquiry exposes impact of assault on NHS
• A photographic exposé of the social crisis in Detroit
• The German media’s chauvinist campaign against Greece
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 10
• Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island: Mysterious and sinister, but headed where precisely?
• “What’s necessary is a vibrant film culture not just a formula”
  Lucky Country scriptwriter Andy Cox speaks with the WSWS

11 March 2010 (front page)

• As US death toll hits 1,000 in “Operation Enduring Freedom”
  Congressional Democrats back expanded war in Afghanistan
• No letup in attack on jobs
• Dexter Avenue Fire Inquiry to hold press conference Thursday in Detroit
• Opposition deepens to austerity programme in Greece
• US banks and corporations announce huge pay packages for 2009
  Wells Fargo executives double their compensation
• Sri Lankan government boasts about low level of strikes
• US arms sale compounds political tensions in Taiwan
• New Obama administration program: no aid for distressed homeowners
• Britain: Murdoch’s News of the World censured for bugging on an “industrial scale”
• Acquittal in East Timor marks collapse of official “coup” story
• The Hurt Locker, the Academy Awards and the rehabilitation of the Iraq war
• Britain: Six University of Sussex students suspended following occupation
• Germany: Prominent feminist Alice Schwarzer agitates against Clara Zetkin
• Elderly woman dies in Detroit house fire
  DTE cut gas, electricity in 2006
• Dexter Avenue fire victim's son speaks to the WSWS
• 60th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 5
  Romania, Bosnia, and the problems of immigrants
• Letters on the Academy Awards
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 11

12 March 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Teachers’ union pushes through TAFE sell-out
• Greece: Millions join general strike against government austerity package
• US and Europe drift toward trade war
• “The deaths here at Dexter Avenue should never have happened”
  Press conference held by Detroit Citizens Inquiry
• Citizens’ Inquiry chairman and family member speak at press conference
• Sri Lankan parliament again ratifies emergency powers
• Haitian president at White House: US military occupation to continue
• Kansas City school board votes to close 28 of 61 schools
• Czech Republic: Trade unions call off transport workers strike
• Somalia: US backs puppet government’s planned military offensive
• World’s billionaires grew 50 percent richer in 2009
• French regional elections: Socialist Party splits in Languedoc-Roussillon
• Socialist Equality Party (Australia) Statement of Principles
• Irish airline Air Lingus sacks hundreds of workers
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

13 March 2010 (front page)

• Obama spearheads nationwide assault on public schools
• The revolutionary perspective of Trotskyism
• Hounded by Hindu right, India’s best-known painter takes Qatari citizenship
• The Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire
• Britain: Reimprisonment of Jon Venables sparks right-wing media campaign
• Sri Lankan army charges opposition candidate
• Russian family commits suicide after being denied asylum in UK
• Papua New Guinea report highlights illegality of Moti arrest
• Australian unions contract out recruitment of members
• Neighbor discusses Dexter Ave. fire, utility shutoffs
• Solar Dynamics Observatory―an eye on the Sun
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 March 2010 (front page)

• Iraq election entrenches communalist divisions
• Sri Lankan election: SEP campaigns at irrigation workers’ quarters
• Obama education plan to push competitive funding
• New Chilean president to continue military occupation of earthquake ravaged regions
• Britain: ISSE addresses rally in support of six suspended Sussex University students
• Sussex University students protest police attacks
• German trade union boss to celebrate birthday in the chancellery
• Australia: Parental leave plan provokes outrage in business circles
• Boston cuts target community centers, libraries
• Lehman bankruptcy report exposes Wall Street criminality
• Funeral held for Detroit children killed in Bangor Street fire
• The 1993 Mack Avenue fire inquiry
• An exchange on “The Hurt Locker, the Academy Awards and the rehabilitation of the Iraq war”
• This week in history: March 15-March 21
• WSWS posts founding document of Socialist Equality Party (US) in Spanish
  Las bases históricas e internacionales del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad
• A letter on the political career of British Labour “left” Michael Foot

16 March 2010 (front page)

• US military created private spy and murder squad in Afghanistan
• Britain’s Chilcot inquiry: A whitewash of war crimes and Iraq war
• French regional elections: Ruling party defeated amid mass abstention
• Mass protests in Thai capital as political crisis continues
• European finance ministers divided over Greek bailout
• Hundreds die as factions struggle for power in Nigeria
• Glasgow: March protests asylum deaths
• Britain: Communication Workers Union sells out postal workers
• Pittsburgh: WSWS speaks to family of steelworker left to die
  “If you don’t have money, they don’t care about you”
• Former legislator Juanita Goggins freezes to death in South Carolina home
• The deadly consequences of utility shutoffs
• The Hurt Locker and the rehabilitation of the Iraq war: New York Times journalists weigh in
• Winter Recommended Reading Series
  Ann Talbot: Charting a revolutionary perspective for the Spanish working class
• An exchange of letters concerning the state repression of India’s Telangana agitation
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan SEP holds election meeting on Karainagar Island
• A presentation by WSWS arts editor David Walsh
  The crisis of American filmmaking & cultural life
  Part one

17 March 2010 (front page)

• The Greek debt crisis signals a new stage in class conflict
• Obama’s cynical pursuit of health care “reform”
• Afghanistan violence escalates as US forces prepare Kandahar assault
• Greek trade unions close ranks behind PASOK austerity measures
• Senate Democrats unveil toothless bank regulation bill
• Detroit to close 45 more schools
• France: teachers, students march against education cuts
• Georgia: “Invasion” hoax used to whip up anti-Russian fears
• German executives awarded themselves millions in 2009
• Tensions over Togo election
• Detroit firefighters discuss impact of utility shut-offs and budget cuts
• 60th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 6
  The jurist Fritz Bauer and Germany’s Nazi past
• Political standoff in Nepal over constitution
• A presentation by WSWS arts editor David Walsh
  The crisis of American filmmaking & cultural life
  Part Two

18 March 2010 (front page)

• Britain: Protests against closure of elderly care homes
• Fiji hit by destructive cyclone
• Germany: Young refugee commits suicide in deportation centre
• Greece: Fake left lines up behind union sabotage of anti-austerity struggle
• Illinois budget crisis sharpens
• Sri Lanka: Military trials of Fonseka begin
• Sri Lankan SEP to hold series of election meetings
• US/NATO death squads killing indiscriminately in Afghanistan
• In wake of Paterson “scandals”
  Unelected multi-millionaire takes charge in New York budget crisis
• Greek workers insist “The economic crisis was not caused by us”
• US-China tensions threaten to ignite trade war
• DTE, Wall Street profit from utility shutoffs
• Video: Dexter Avenue area residents express anger over utility shutoffs
• Invictus, Clint Eastwood's uncritical tribute to Nelson Mandela
• Letters on The Hurt Locker and the Academy Awards
• A presentation by WSWS arts editor David Walsh
  The crisis of American filmmaking & cultural life

19 March 2010 (front page)

• Divisions between the US and Europe widen over Greek bailout
• Greece: WSWS speaks to students in Athens
• Detroit—a model for nationwide assault on public education
• Detroit media, politicians back corporate plan to privatize education
• Kucinich throws his support behind Obama health care bill
• Chinese premier warns of economic instability and US protectionism
• British Airways strike provokes fury in media and political establishment
• Tensions between UN and Sri Lanka over war crimes
• Works councils and unions implement GM’s European “restructuring” plan
• Trial in killing of Rachel Corrie opens in Israel
• Mother who lost three children in Detroit fire speaks out
  Legal witch hunt against Sylvia Young collapsing
• Australia: Boeing unions seek to impose Sydney plant closure
• Chinese report documents human rights disaster in the United States
• United Community Housing Coalition director to testify at Detroit inquiry
  Ted Phillips: “Thousands of people are living without lights, water or gas”
• Green Zone: Some very belated questions timidly posed
• Canada: Vale Inco steps up scab operation
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

20 March 2010 (front page)

• US prepares for military confrontation with Iran
• Greece: The pseudo-left and the trade unions
• Sri Lanka: Condemn the EPDP attack on SEP members in Jaffna
• US Congress poised to pass Obama’s cost-cutting health plan
• Detroit Medical Center to be sold to for-profit hospital chain
• French regional elections: NPA defends Socialist Party
• Appeal by Polanski’s lawyers exposes new details of judicial misconduct
• Scotland: Spending cuts across the education sector
• Australia: Rudd government steps up anti-refugee measures
• Spanish airport strikers face imprisonment for sedition
• Despite ruling by referee
  Court appointed guardian pursues neglect charges against Sylvia Young
• Seven years since the US invasion of Iraq
  The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

22 March 2010 (front page)

• Australian court allows Guantánamo torture compensation case to proceed
• Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire holds first hearing
• Sri Lanka: Leaked state intelligence hit list
• An attack on health care in the guise of reform
• Mass protest in Washington demands rights for immigrant workers
• Britain faces a possible Greek scenario, European Union warns
• British soldier jailed for refusing to redeploy to Afghanistan
• Arizona budget cuts education, health care for the poor
• This week in history: March 22-March 28

23 March 2010 (front page)

• French regional elections: second round confirms rejection of ruling party
• The significance of the Dexter Avenue Fire Inquiry
• The New York Times and the Obama health care plan
• European Union wracked by divisions over Greek crisis
• At massive march in Washington:
  Immigrant workers protest raids, deportations under Obama
• Ireland: Trade unions paved way for mass sackings at Aer Lingus
• Quebec public sector workers protest government concessions drive
• Unemployment on the rise in virtually every US urban area
• Sri Lanka: Permanent military occupation of the North and East
• Australia: Labor Party suffers substantial losses in state elections
• Russia and India improve relations
• Video: Director of Detroit free medical clinic denounces utility shutoffs
• March 20 hearing of the Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire
  The role of the government in deadly US house fires
• Sweeping cuts in German cultural facilities
• Letters from our readers

24 March 2010 (front page)

• Sri Lanka: Pro-government thugs attack plantation workers
• Bush, Clinton visit Port-au-Prince
  Washington dictates terms to devastated Haiti
• British Airways strike: What happened to the pledges of international solidarity?
• France: Over a million people strike against Sarkozy’s austerity policies
• Antiwar rally in Washington
  Protest group covers for Obama and the Democrats
• Japanese government reveals secret nuclear agreement with the US
• US, Mexico in crisis talks on “drug war”
• Germany: Siemens to cut another 4,200 jobs
• Trial begins in killing of Ecuadorean immigrant in New York suburb
• Australia: Labor and Liberal leaders stage phony healthcare debate
• Obama health bill sets the stage for assault on Medicare and Social Security
• March 20 hearing of the Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire
  Utility shutoffs: Who profits?
• DTE Energy holds public relations event as utility shut-offs continue
• In a visible voice: Alex Chilton (1950-2010)
• Quebec public sector workers confront a political struggle
• Trotsky the subject of cultural events in Russia
• Vincere—the tragic life of Ida Dalser, Mussolini’s first wife

25 March 2010 (front page)

• On eve of EU summit
  Europe split over Greek crisis
• Netanyahu defies Washington on settlements
• Hearing of the Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire
• New York Times fashions “egalitarian” defense of Obama health plan
• Obama signs anti-abortion executive order
• US and Pakistan hold “strategic dialogue,” but frictions persist
• Japanese economy plagued by deflation and debt
• Australian government announces plan to train more doctors
• In state of city address
  Bing demands smaller, more exploited Detroit
• Activist group ACORN collapses following witch-hunt
• Iceland to commence EU accession talks
• California: NUMMI auto workers railroaded into severance package
• Nevada budget cuts worsen the social crisis
• March 20 hearing of the Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire
  Deindustrialization, the UAW and the Decline of Detroit
• SEP manifesto for the 2010 Sri Lankan general election
  For socialist policies and a workers’ and farmers’ government
• Make Way for Tomorrow: Remarkable Depression-era film released on DVD
• Letters from our readers

26 March 2010 (front page)

• US jobless claims, home sales point to protracted recession
• Britain expels Israeli diplomat over Mossad assassination of Hamas leader
• A tense election campaign in the Philippines
• Britain: The business of education under Labour—Part 1
• Germany: Rapid increase in poverty for pensioners
• Malaysian government plays the communal card
• New Jersey budget targets workers, services
• The conviction of ex-Nazi Boere and Washington’s war crimes
• Vendetta continues against mother who lost three in Detroit fire
  Sylvia Young and family members speak out against utility shutoffs
• Sri Lankan SEP holds election meeting in Jaffna
• The Blind Side: No one-eyed man or woman in this kingdom
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

27 March 2010 (front page)

• European summit proposes bailout and austerity plan for Greece
• In the aftermath of the health care vote
• Obama administration pushes for more war funding
• Sri Lanka: Pro-government mob attacks media network offices
• Pro-imperialist Global Tamil Forum inaugurated at British Parliament
• White House announces bank-friendly housing assistance modifications
• Decline in 2009 personal income reveals impoverishment of US population
• At the invitation of the Left Party
  The NPA’s Alain Krivine speaks in Germany
• Britain: The business of education under Labour—Part 2
• Left Bloc offers its services to Portuguese capitalism
• Australia: Report details police attacks on African immigrant youth
• New release from Mehring Books
  The Crisis of the World Capitalist System: Perspectives and Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party 2008-2010
• Obama cuts to home energy assistance to have devastating consequences
• The Lacuna, or what’s missing
• Letters from our readers
• A socialist program to defend education
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 March 2010 (front page)

• Washington ratchets up war threats against Iran
• Former CIA asset Allawi touted as next Iraqi prime minister
• BA strikers: “It is time to stop this rush to the bottom”
• New York Times continues cost-cutting campaign with “doctors thoughts”
• Fifty years since the Sharpeville Massacre: The nature of post-Apartheid South Africa
• Britain: The business of education under Labour—Part 3
• DC public schools lead in reactionary education “reforms”
• The struggle against the EU’s financial diktats is a class issue
• This week in history: March 29-April 4
• An American liberal looks at health care systems around the globe
• Australia: Union ends print workers’ picket

30 March 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Unions try to head off public anger over Queensland privatisation plan
• Obama’s visit underscores US crisis in Afghanistan
• Philippine presidential candidates to cut budget deficit
• Sri Lanka: Urban poor deprived of proper housing
• Is a US attack on Iran imminent?
• Train bombing in Moscow kills dozens
• US Congress allows jobless benefits to expire
• Britain: Government suspensions forced by lobbying revelations
• Indian government continues its offensive against Maoist insurgents
• Scotland: Aberdeen University students oppose spending cuts and tuition fees
• Ypsilanti, Michigan, board votes to close schools, impose layoffs
• A talk by health care critic Dr. Richard Cooper in Detroit
  Poverty and health care in America: the unavoidable facts
• Health and health care services in the poorest US city
• For a working class movement to defend public education!
• Letters from our readers

31 March 2010 (front page)

• Greek trade unions line up behind government austerity measures
• The growing danger of trade war
• “Race to the Top” prizes to Tennessee, Delaware
  Obama education plan boosts privatization, victimizes teachers
• Two deaths highlight Sri Lanka’s terrible social crisis
• Banks named as “co-conspirators” in municipal bid-rigging
• German arms exports more than double
• Germany: Who is behind the neo-Nazi march in Duisburg?
• Ontario announces spending cuts, public sector wage freeze
• Report to the Dexter Inquiry
  The impact of poverty on utility shutoffs
• Creation: When Darwin was writing his groundbreaking work