Archive: April 2011
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 April 2011 (front page)
- Australian government imposes new punitive measures on the unemployed
- Gillard sets out the road to pain
- Sri Lankan plantation workers must launch an independent wage struggle
- US, Britain press two-track policy in Libya war
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Libya, imperialism and the prostration of the “left” intellectuals:
The case of Professor Juan Cole - US-NATO bombings kill civilians in Tripoli
- London School of Economics was hub of relations between British elite and Gaddafi regime
- Syrian president delays reforms, demands national unity against protests
- No end in sight for Japan nuclear crisis
- British government seeks new powers to ban demonstrations
- Ohio governor signs law attacking public employees
- New Hampshire protest hits budget cuts, anti-worker measure
- Detroit financial manager announces drastic school closing plan
- Massachusetts: Economic pressures close in on the hungry
- Inside WikiLeaks—an attack from a former supporter
- Indian army general praises instigator of 2002 Gujarat pogrom
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2 April 2011 (front page)
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Amid in-fighting over state electoral defeat:
Australian Labor Party installs new leader in NSW - Signs of crisis and internal conflict in US-NATO war on Libya
- Situation at Japanese nuclear plant still “very serious”
- The war on Libya: a new eruption of imperialist rivalry
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The agents of Washington and Britain within Libya’s opposition leadership
- Clashes follow Friday prayers in Syria
- Sluggish US job growth points to continued mass unemployment
- New York students and teachers protest draconian budget cuts
- Video: Albany rally hits attack on education
- California public employee unions line up against workers
- French, UN forces back military takeover of Ivory Coast, citing Libya war precedent
- Stalinists threatened in West Bengal election, after “pro-investor” policies
- Nationalist candidate Humala rises in Peru election polls
- Germany: No end in sight for Envio toxic pollution scandal
- Big business deems Quebec’s austerity budget not austere enough
- Rock band White Stripes breaks up: a look back
- Letters from our readers
4 April 2011 (front page)
- Japanese authorities warn nuclear crisis to continue for months
- Mounting evidence of CIA ties to Libyan rebels
- South Pacific countries defy Australian government and back Fijian military regime
- Civilians massacred by Western-backed forces in Ivory Coast
- Anti-American rioting sweeps Afghanistan
- Over one hundred thousand protest military rule in Egypt
- Protests, repression continue in Bahrain and Yemen
- House Republican budget proposal takes aim at Medicare and Medicaid
- UK: Homelessness to rise dramatically following funding cuts
- Two workers killed in Louisville, Kentucky, plant explosion
- The corporate looting of America
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Reject the AFL-CIO and Democratic Party
For a new strategy to defend the social rights of the working class - This week in history: April 4-April 10
5 April 2011 (front page)
- China’s execution of Filipino drug couriers highlights mounting regional tensions
- Japan’s tsunami victims left struggling to cope
- Obama begins bid for second term: A president of war and social reaction
- The war against Libya and the eruption of European imperialism
- US and allies gear up for protracted war in Libya
- US-backed regime in Yemen carries out new slaughter of protesters
- Shanghai: Grinding poverty amid corporate opulence
- Fuselage rupture in Southwest jet exposes crisis in airline industry
- Irish government raids pensions to give banks €24 billion
- US workers face widening economic insecurity
- Tentative contract agreement in strike by DSO musicians
- Syracuse Symphony suspends remainder of season
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A response to “Elizabeth Taylor and the melodrama of American life in the 1950s and 1960s”
- Letters from our readers
6 April 2011 (front page)
- Divisions erupt within Australian Labor government
- Japan: TEPCO dumps radioactive water in sea
- US, NATO allies join scramble for Libya’s oil
- US budget talks drag on as Democrats offer even larger cuts
- Obama administration to try accused 9/11 plotters by military commission
- The resignation of Guido Westerwelle as Free Democratic Party chairman and German vice chancellor
- UN investigator repudiates Gaza war findings under US and Israeli pressure
- British government presses US over treatment of Bradley Manning
- US Supreme Court issues temporary stay of Texas lethal injection
- BP asks permission to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico
- The two Americas
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) launches council election campaign
- The Socialist Equality Party’s candidates for Manchester and Sheffield
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Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Libya and the myth of humanitarian interventionism: A reply to the pro-war “left”
7 April 2011 (front page)
- France intervenes in Ivory Coast’s civil war
- Sri Lankan government announces a Colombo municipal corporation
- US report points to serious dangers at Japanese nuclear plant
- Republican budget sets stage for expanded assault on US workers
- With US government shutdown looming, Democrats offer more spending cuts
- Canadian elections: Deafening silence on Libyan and Afghan wars exemplifies all-party support
- One hundred and fifty feared dead in Mediterranean boat tragedy
- After sellout of Wisconsin struggle unions hail vote for state judge
- Ex-singer tied to death squads named winner in Haitian vote
- Closures, mass layoffs and cuts announced for Chicago-area schools
- Two workers killed in Tennessee sewage treatment plant collapse
- Musicians to take large pay cuts in Detroit Symphony contract deal
- Letters from our readers
8 April 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Hundreds more retail jobs threatened as Colorado Group collapses
- Major parties in Japan move closer to “national unity”
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To defend worker rights, jobs, and public services:
Ontario workers need a socialist strategy - Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout
- Sri Lankan SEP/ISSE meeting on war in Libya
- The German Greens as a party of war
- Partial shutdown of US federal government threatens layoff of 800,000
- Obama makes clear US opposition to ceasefire, insists on regime change in Libya
- In visit to Iraq, Gates indicates US troops to stay
- Thousands of teachers protest against the Berlin Senate
- Plans to privatise Britain’s National Health Service stall
- US Army clears “kill team” brigade commander of responsibility
- New Orleans Police Department rocked by scandals
- The Lincoln Lawyer: A morally “gray” attorney and his discontents
- Teachers in Berlin face political tasks
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 April 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Qantas gears up for major assault on airline workers
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In blow to Australian government:
High Court agrees to hear Julian Moti appeal - Japan promotes its nuclear industry at special ASEAN summit
- Large aftershock hits northern Japan
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Federal shutdown postponed
Obama hails deal to impose record cuts in social spending - Portugal’s bailout: European banking crisis deepens
- Social disaster deepens following New Zealand earthquake
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Senate discusses sending troops to Libya
- New York Times demands escalation of killing in Libya
- Portugal: Massive austerity measures to follow bailout
- Republican judge leads Wisconsin vote after new ballots are found by political ally
- Fiat deal being used to gut collective bargaining rights throughout Italy
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61st Berlin International Film Festival—Part 4
New films about former East Germany: Elke Hauck’s The Prize and Annekatrin Hendel’s Traitor to the Fatherland - Letters from our readers
11 April 2011 (front page)
- Australian government plans substantial cuts to health care
- Egyptian military kills protesters in Cairo
- European Union prepares to send ground troops to Libya
- Fireworks explosion kills five workers in Hawaii
- France and UN bear responsibility for massacres by Ouattara forces in Ivory Coast
- France re-establishes border controls with Italy amid dispute over African migrants
- Germany does an about-face on Libya war
- Medical researcher: “Our chance of solving health problems will be significantly smaller”
- Sri Lanka: Opposition web site editor arrested
- This week in history: April 11-April 17
- State crackdown claims scores of lives in Syria
- Supreme Court rules against New Orleans’ frame-up victim, upholds religious school credits
- Obama embraces Republican assault on social programs for workers and the poor
- The Fight for Socialism Today conference held in Ann Arbor
12 April 2011 (front page)
- Australian media attacks Greens over criticisms of Israel
- France helps seize Gbagbo in Ivory Coast
- Japan’s nuclear cover-up
- Workers buried alive in Vietnamese quarry disaster
- Obama to propose cuts in Medicare, Medicaid
- African Union’s Libya ceasefire rejected by opposition and NATO powers
- Scandinavian and other “neutral” states support assault on Libya
- Egyptian military storm peaceful protest in Tahrir Square
- CIA terrorist Posada Carriles acquitted in immigration trial
- New York state budget slashes education, health care and taxes on the rich
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The Fight for Socialism Today
Conference delegates speak with the WSWS - Socialist Equality Party (UK): Local authority elections campaign meetings
- Socialist Party in Britain encourages illusions in a Conservative “plan B”
- Workers Struggles. The Americas
- Letters from our readers
13 April 2011 (front page)
- Medical workers and students speak against pending spending cuts
- Severity of Japan’s nuclear disaster raised to highest level
- Thousands rally against Australian Labor government’s spending cuts to medical research
- Divisions at European Union summit on Libyan intervention
- US-backed Bahrain regime tortures, murders critics
- White House budget deal imposes cuts in health care, education, home heating aid
- Detroit mayor outlines plan to gut services, attack city workers
- Budget cuts to hit public education in California
- US blocks UN torture investigator from seeing Bradley Manning
- Israel steps up aggression against Gaza
- Peru elections pit Humala against Fujimori in second round
- German executive pay, company profits rise sharply in 2010
- French union campaign on undocumented workers ends in expulsions, few legalisations
- Push for comprehensive military reform continues in Russia
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Auditor-general’s draft report
Conservatives misled Canadian parliament on $1 billion in summit expenses - One hundred and fifty years since the US Civil War
- Why does Britain’s Guardian insist there is mass support for austerity and cuts?
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A guest commentator:
Yale goes global—university plans “liberal arts college” in authoritarian Singapore - Greetings from Indianapolis auto worker to Fight For Socialism Today conference
- A letter from a Detroit Symphony Orchestra musician
- Biutiful: A father’s tragic destiny
14 April 2011 (front page)
- Australian Labor PM Gillard launches war on welfare
- IMF report points to global economic fragility
- Obama proposes trillions in spending cuts
- Sri Lankan government shuts down three universities to block protests
- State-level Democrats deepen attack on public education
- Untrained labourers working in Japan’s nuclear industry
- Contact Group meeting in Doha plans imperialist carve-up of Libya
- Egyptian junta steps up violence as protests and strikes continue
- Mubarak and sons detained as Egypt’s military continues crackdown
- Conflict intensifies in Syria
- Michigan workers protest budget cuts
- Britain’s banks given free pass by Vickers Commission
- British government to expand powers of regional administrations
- Class issues in the Portuguese bailout
- Letters from our readers
15 April 2011 (front page)
- Australian government makes bogus pledge on household compensation for carbon tax
- Divisions deepen as NATO digs in for a prolonged war against Libya
- Drone attacks trigger fresh crisis in US-Pakistani relations
- Fears of a looming Philippine rice crisis
- Quake disaster shakes Japanese economy
- Liberalism and capitalist austerity
- Mass protests continue in Yemen, as official opposition conspires with US, Gulf states
- Mary Tillman condemns Obama’s appointment of McChrystal to head military families commission
- Zapatero asks for funds while claiming Spain needs no bailout
- Bolivian workers strike against government salary decree
- Senate committee details Wall Street criminality
- Rising social protests in the Balkans
- One year since the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia
- UK rail unions refuse to defend jobs
- Bloomberg insider Cathleen Black forced out as New York schools chancellor
- Strikes and protests by Egyptian workers
- Wildcat strike continues at GM India plant in Gujarat
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Detroit Symphony musicians ratify contract, return to Orchestra Hall
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Sylvia Young addresses The Fight for Socialism Today conference in Ann Arbor
“CAUS says utilities should be a right, not a luxury”
16 April 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Ford and Toyota announce job and wage cuts
- Japanese local elections reveal widespread voter alienation
- Sri Lankan government deepens IMF austerity measures
- US House of Representatives votes to abolish Medicare
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “Sleeping on the job” scandal reveals exploitation of US air traffic controllers
- Obama demands regime change in Libya
- Saudi protests against Bahrain invasion, repression
- Soaring gas, food prices hit US families
- Iceland voters reject IceSave agreement
- Illinois Senate unanimously passes right-wing education reform bill
- The Libyan war and the deepening inter-imperialist conflict
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Socialist Equality Party (UK) council election campaign
Manchester’s Ardwick ward blighted by poverty and inequality - Fifty years since the first manned spaceflight
- Letters from our readers
18 April 2011 (front page)
- Australian defence scandal reveals military-government rift
- BRICS summit denounces “use of force” against Libya
- Economic summits marked by great power divisions and concerns over class conflict
- European Union divided over refugee question
- Imperialist powers prepare escalation of Libyan war
- Japan’s reactor shutdown to take at least six months
- Senate report on Wall Street crash: The criminalization of the American ruling class
- Tornadoes kill dozens in US
- UK government pledges increased funds for Libya war
- France enforces burqa ban
- US public university presidents’ pay soars
- This week in history: April 18-April 24
- The Fight for Socialism Today conference held in Los Angeles
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Vote Simon Walker, Socialist Equality Party for Walkley, Sheffield
A socialist alternative to Labour and the Liberal Democrats - Philadelphia Orchestra files for bankruptcy protection
19 April 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Maritime union calls off industrial action by port workers
- Election manifesto of the Berlin Greens announces more austerity
- France, Britain step up drive for deployment of ground troops in Libya
- Libyan war accelerates Chinese debate over “non-intervention”
- Obama campaigns for austerity
- Spain: Catalan Greens vote for war with Libya
- US occupation in Afghanistan hit by string of bombings
- More violent attacks on protesters in Yemen
- Ratings agency S&P; downgrades outlook for US government debt
- California’s Democratic governor targets public pensions
- Canadian election leaders’ debates: A smokescreen for intensified class war
- UK Prime Minister David Cameron beats the anti-immigrant drum
- Workers strike at French retail giant Carrefour
- Idaho silver miner missing after cave-in
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
20 April 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Anger mounts as Labor governments abandon Queensland flood survivors
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Intensified bombing, military “advisers” on the ground
Britain and France escalate war in Libya - Calls for Japanese PM to resign over nuclear crisis
- The S&P; debt warning: Wall Street extortionists demand savage cuts
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US State Department human rights reports
Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
Part 1: Saudi Arabia - Italy plans to step up its participation in the war against Libya
- One year since the BP oil spill: Covering up a catastrophe
- Pentagon rehabilitates Gen. McChrystal
- Masses of US workers apply for low-wage jobs at McDonald’s
- France blocks train carrying Tunisian refugees from Italy
- All 5,466 Detroit teachers sent layoff notices
- Nigerian vote leaves country deeply divided
- SEP candidate speaks at children and family centre in Ardwick, Manchester
- Sidney Lumet, director of 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon, dead at 86
21 April 2011 (front page)
- As Obama reassures financial markets, public opposition grows to budget cuts
- Australia: PPG paint workers strike against 43-percent wage cut
- Qantas CEO escalates provocative campaign against workforce
- Report from anti-nuclear protests in Tokyo
- Sri Lankan SEP and ISSE to hold May Day meeting
- UN report verifies Sri Lankan government war crimes
- US seeks to exploit anti-Assad movement in Syria
- Bahraini regime pursues savage repression
- Bradley Manning to be transferred to Army prison in Kansas
- Documents confirm Iraq invasion was a war for oil
- Plan to restructure Greek debt reveals deep rifts in Europe
- Medical “expo” reveals health disaster in Detroit
- Social catastrophe follows French imperialist intervention in Ivory Coast
- Canada: NDP leader Layton concedes he has no substantive differences with big business Liberals
- 12-year-old Michigan girl charged with attempted robbery needed cash for family’s mortgage
- NDP platform mimics Liberal “Red Book”
- Former colonial powers send military “advisers” to Libya
- One year since the BP oil spill: A colossal failure of the “free market”
- An exchange on “Reject TUC’s phoney war”
22 April 2011 (front page)
- Obama sends drones to Libya as Britain readies troops
- Budget austerity and democracy
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US State Department human rights reports
Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
Part 2: Qatar - Good Friday crucifixions in the Philippines
- Jobless rate for young workers in US highest since 1948
- Workers at Berlin hospital vote for indefinite strike
- Croatian conviction casts light on US responsibility for war crimes
- Further legal action possible in News of the World phone hacking scandal
- Kentucky drug overdose deaths soar
- Australia: Shell to close Sydney refinery at the cost of almost 500 jobs
- US budget cuts threaten scientific research
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
23 April 2011 (front page)
- Mounting Libyan death toll from US-NATO bombings
- Pakistan: CIA drone kills 25 on eve of mass protest against US missile strikes
- Dozens killed in Syrian protests
- Obama pushes budget-cutting plan in California tour
- Rising energy, food prices spark global protests
- Britain’s national debt: Where did the money go?
- Thai government prepares for early election
- Inquiry into New Zealand mine tragedy begins on “no blame” basis
- Nationalists gain in Finland vote
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450 US deaths since 2001
Florida man dies after police Taser him - Question mark over role of US dollar
- One year since the BP oil spill: The environmental disaster continues
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“I spend all my time worrying how to make ends meet”
SEP speaks to workers, youth in Walkley, Sheffield - Detroit house fire kills child, injures another
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
25 April 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Villawood riot sparks protests at other immigration detention centres
- Japan’s nuclear evacuees face bleak future
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WikiLeaks’ cables reveal:
Portugal’s intelligence chief accused Australia of “fomenting unrest” in East Timor - US senators call for Gaddafi’s assassination
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US State Department human rights reports
Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
Part 3: Bahrain - Syrian regime extends crackdown on protests
- New effort to force Yemeni president from office
- Human rights groups condemn repression in Bahrain
- Democrats and Republicans escalate campaign against health care programs
- Britain: Bristol riots provoked by police
- Pakistan: IMF demands brutal restructuring in return for further funding
- Education policy of SPD and Left Party in Berlin: A devastating balance sheet
- Britain: Most universities to charge maximum tuition fees
- UAW sets benchmark for wage-cutting in global auto industry
- This week in history: April 25-May 1
26 April 2011 (front page)
- Guantanamo documents reveal US brutality and lawlessness
- Japan’s nuclear crisis far from over
- Shanghai truck drivers strike over rising costs
- US, NATO attempt assassination of Gaddafi
- US steps up pressure against Syria
- Burkina Faso shaken by widespread protests
- California governor campaigns for budget cuts, regressive taxes
- Enterprise Zones introduced across England
- Hungarian parliament passes authoritarian constitution
- Recordsetting homelessness in New York City
- Body of Idaho silver miner recovered
- Indiana: Notre Dame university appeals state fine in death of student worker
- One year since the BP oil spill: Obama “claims czar” provides no relief for the people of the Gulf
- India’s corruption scandals and the clamor for a “Jan Lokpal” Bill
- Manchester spending cuts hit most vulnerable
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
27 April 2011 (front page)
- Australian Labor government crisis deepens over carbon tax
- Australian government announces new laws to punish refugees
- Renewed fighting on Thai-Cambodian border
- Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting on Libyan war
- US, UK plot Libya war escalation
- White House, US media stonewall on Guantanamo
- European powers discuss sanctions against Syria
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US State Department human rights reports
Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
Part 4: Kuwait - 500 Afghan insurgents escape from high-security Kandahar prison
- Los Angeles: Budget crisis used to press attack against city workers
- Detroit parents and teachers denounce school closings
- More violent storms kill seven in Arkansas
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Oppose university tuition fee hikes
Simon Walker (SEP candidate Sheffield Walkley) -
61st Berlin International Film Festival—Part 5
Dirk Lütter’s The Education: what today’s youth face
28 April 2011 (front page)
- Australian PM tours North East Asia as mouthpiece for Washington
- General Petraeus and the CIA
- Guantánamo dossiers confirm Australian government criminality
- US, NATO defend policy of targeting Gaddafi
- 25 years ago—The first US attempt to murder Gaddafi
- Federal Reserve chairman outlines class war policy
- Franco-Italian summit calls for suspending European accords, closer corporate ties
- Racist politician Thilo Sarrazin remains in the SPD
- Nine US military personnel killed in Afghanistan airport shooting
- Chavez deports opposition journalist back to Colombia
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Canadian Elections:
“Surge” in support for social-democratic NDP changes campaign dynamic - UN Gaza report co-authors reject Goldstone’s capitulation to Israel
- Bolivian unions end strike against Morales government
- iPhone secretly records location of users
- The Bolsheviks in Power―The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd: Guest lecture by Prof. Alexander Rabinowitch in Vienna
- Letters from our readers
29 April 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Queensland flood inquiry exposes inadequate emergency services
- NATO bomb attack on Libya kills Misrata “rebel” fighters
- Oil bosses rake in record profits as US economy stalls
- Sri Lankan government denounces UN war crimes findings
- The Kabul airport killings: What are US troops dying for?
- Tornadoes kill at least 290 in US South
- Michigan governor outlines assault on public education
- The royal wedding and the myth of national unity
- German government attacks long-term unemployed
- Federal appeals court orders new sentencing hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- France Télécom employee immolates himself
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US State Department human rights reports
Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
Part 5: Oman - HBO’s Mildred Pierce: A Depression-era drama aimed at a contemporary audience
- Southern California grocery workers authorize strike
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SEP candidate visits picket line at Sheffield College, Hillsborough
Striking lecturer: “You don’t feel valued, you just feel like a number” - Scientists find evidence of cannibalism in Palaeolithic Britain
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Canada’s Globe endorses Conservatives, lauds Harper’s “bullheadedness”
30 April 2011 (front page)
- Obama, Congress renew push for austerity measures
- US South devastated by most destructive tornadoes on record
- Syrian demonstrators shot in protests over crackdown
- Bahraini military court sentences four protesters to die
- Fatah, Hamas reconciliation part of broader strategic realignment by Egypt
- Obama’s 2012 budget deepens attack on public education
- Outrage at inquest verdict on Dublin mother’s death from hypothermia
- Australia: Refugee protests continue as long-term detentions soar
- Deutsche Bank posts second highest ever quarterly profit
- Swedish automaker Saab nears collapse
- CGT union defends anti-worker reform of French ports
- The implications of the Shanghai truckers’ strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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