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Archive: May 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 May 2012 (front page)

• Australian Labor government lurches from crisis to crisis
• Demonstrator shot dead in housing demolition in the Philippines
• Ford Australia imposes production shutdown
• US resumes drone killings in Pakistan
• Spain’s foreign minister admits economic and social crisis “of huge proportions”
• France’s Independent Workers Party backs bourgeois “left” presidential candidate
• California budget crisis continues to grow
• More drastic service cuts hit Detroit public transportation
• Quebec scuttles talks with striking students, unveils plan to nearly double tuition fees
• Britain: Millionaires pay tax at a lower rate than working people
• Police assault protesting students in Mexico
• Election in North Rhine-Westphalia: A state mired in debt
• ILO report: Worldwide unemployment over 200 million
• May Day 2012: Unite workers around the world against austerity and war
  Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president
• UK local elections: SEP candidate speaks at PCS union’s question time
• CBS’s “60 Minutes” interviews Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky
• Behind the right-wing racial politics of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

2 May 2012 (front page)

• US deploys F-22 fighter jets in threat to Iran
• Obama boasts of Bin Laden killing
• French unions, petty bourgeois groups back bourgeois “left” candidate in May Day rallies
• US, Japan strengthen military ties against China
• WSWS speaks to May Day demonstrators in France
• Offensive against democratic rights continues in Spain
• Caterpillar workers strike in Joliet, Illinois
• Hunger stalks America—Part 1
  Unity 2012: The Feeding America Network Summit
• Notes on the social crisis in America
• Two hundred feared dead in Indian ferry disaster
• Thousands of jobs at risk at Lufthansa
• Released papers reveal attempts to cover up Britain’s criminal past
• SEP campaigns at Detroit job fair
• UK: SEP candidate talks to students in St. Helens

3 May 2012 (front page)

• Obama signs strategic pact in Afghanistan
• Police attack large opposition rally in Malaysia
• Sarkozy, Hollande outline right-wing policies in French presidential debate
• Storm clouds gather over Indian economy
• May Day protests in Greece and Spain
• FBI provocateur ensnares Cleveland protesters in “bomb plot”
• Iceland’s former prime minister acquitted over role in financial crisis
• Labour-run Newham council pioneers social cleansing in London
• Officials move to dismantle Philadelphia public school system
• Hunger Stalks America—Part 2
  Arizona, Arkansas and Texas: “What is the face of hunger?”
• David North speaks in defense of Leon Trotsky at Cornell University
• The establishment politics of the May 1 Occupy protests
• UK local elections: Defend migrant workers
• UK local elections: Former Delphi worker explains how unions assisted in factory closure
• SEP presidential candidate speaks on Wisconsin public radio
• Special offer from Mehring Books
• Obituary: Hilton Kramer, art critic and neoconservative
• Letters from our readers

4 May 2012 (front page)

• Unresolved tensions dominate US-China talks
• As protests mount against election-rigging
  Egyptian military junta steps up threats of violence
• Argenteuil residents speak on French elections, social conditions
• Rupert Murdoch “not a fit person”, UK parliamentary committee finds
• UK super-rich more wealthy than before 2008 crash
• Pseudo-left parties in Greek election offer no alternative
• Günter Grass and the Waffen SS
• The suicide of professional football player Junior Seau
• Hunger Stalks America—Part 3
  Metropolitan Detroit’s staggering need for food
• Draconian security bill passed by Malaysian parliament
• Australian transport firm collapses and locks out 1,000 workers
• The social crisis in the US and the 2012 elections
• Defend the Quebec students!
  Statement by Jerry White, Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president
• UK local elections: Workers explain why they voted Socialist Equality Party
• A lesson for autoworkers: The short lived Windsor, Ontario Dakkota strike
• 4,500 nurses walk out in northern California
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

5 May 2012 (front page)

• Australia to acquire new submarine fleet
• Australia: In advance of budget, Opposition MP demands end to “age of entitlement”
• Prosecutions continue under Thailand’s anti-democratic lese majeste laws
• Report highlights systemic jobs crisis in US
• Conservative François Bayrou calls for Hollande vote in French elections
• Britain faces worst recession since 1930s
• UK local elections: Low turnout and anti-government vote
• Appeals Court backs immunity for Bush administration torture policy
• Chicago mayor’s infrastructure privatization scheme marked by secrecy
• Germany: Musical chairs at the Pirate Party congress
• On the eve of the French presidential elections
• Washington’s human rights hypocrisy and the case of Chen Guangcheng
• The attacks on Günter Grass—a balance sheet
• SEP presidential candidate Jerry White wins warm response from Chrysler autoworkers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• India: Strike challenges NLC’s decades-long use of contract labor
• Letters from our readers

7 May 2012 (front page)

• Australia: Public sector layoffs, spending cuts in Victorian budget
• Socialist Party candidate Hollande wins French presidential elections
• US jobless toll—a failure of capitalism
• Greek elections reflect mass opposition to austerity
• Netanyahu predicted to call early Israeli election
• Australian Labor government on notice to deliver austerity budget
• Egyptian junta intensifies crackdown before presidential elections
• Berlin: Israelis and Iranians protest danger of war in the Middle East
• Russian general threatens pre-emptive attack on US missile defence system in Europe
• Philippine Supreme Court issues decision on Hacienda Luisita
• Socialist Party defends betrayal of UK pension dispute
• This week in history: May 7-13
• Socialist candidate Jerry White campaigns in southwest Detroit
• Striking Caterpillar workers in Illinois speak on their struggle
• Sri Lankan SEP to hold plantation workers’ congress

8 May 2012 (front page)

• Australian SEP holds first national congress
• Behind the resignation of Australian Greens’ leader Bob Brown
• Buddhist mob in Sri Lanka threatens to demolish a mosque
• Elections in Greece and France herald fresh social conflicts
• SEP (Australia) first national congress
  Resolution 1: The world capitalist crisis and the tasks of the SEP
• The European “growth pact” fraud
• The European elections and the struggle against austerity
• Vladimir Putin inaugurated as Russian president
• US bombings kills dozens of Afghan civilians
• Guantanamo military commission arraigns 9/11 defendants
• Unions and student associations betray Quebec student strike
• Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond embroiled in Murdoch scandal
• New York police step up surveillance and harassment of political activists
• SEP campaigns at Eastern Market in Detroit
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 May 2012 (front page)

• Australia: Police attack protesters at Sydney University
• Australian Labor government budget marks shift to permanent austerity
• Incoming French president signals budget cuts, handouts to banks
• Japanese powerbroker acquitted of political funding charges
• SEP (Australia) first national congress
  Resolution 2: Against imperialist war
• SEP (Australia) first national congress
  Resolution 3: Oppose the US war drive against China
• SEP (Australia) first national congress
  Resolution 4: Oppose the US-Australia military agreement
• SEP (Australia) first national congress
  Resolution 5: The 2010 coup and the crisis of bourgeois rule
• SEP (Australia) first national congress
  Resolution 6: Defend Julian Assange
• SEP (Australia) first national congress
  Resolution 7: Build the SEP!
• Sri Lanka: SEP and ISSE hold May Day meeting
• Italian local elections: high abstention and a protest against austerity
• One in five Americans had “unmet medical needs” in 2010
• Czech government survives no-confidence vote
• Growing use of food banks in the UK
• London to be militarised for 2012 Olympics
• Obama’s jobs program: A laundry list of corporate handouts
• “Detroit has been made an eyesore for the country”
  Workers speak to SEP candidate Jerry White on the crisis in Detroit

10 May 2012 (front page)

• Australian budget: Reality versus rhetoric
• Coalition talks continue in Greece as EU demands austerity measures
• Locked-in workers die in fire in the Philippines
• Quebec government defends police assault on striking students, plans further repression
• Sri Lanka: Plantation workers denounce tea estate unions
• Israel’s national unity government prepares ground for war
• Court decision gives French employers green light for mass layoffs
• Günter Grass and the German Social Democrats
• State elections in Germany: Massive losses for governing parties
• Spain’s United Left joins government, backs cuts in Andalucía
• Wisconsin primary picks right-wing Democrat for governor
• Notes on the social crisis in America
• Indian Stalinists line up with national bourgeoisie on Sri Lanka’s Tamil issue
• The political uses of the latest “terror plot”
• Obama campaign underscores dead end of American political system
  Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president

11 May 2012 (front page)

• Australian opposition leader condemns Labor budget’s “class warfare”
• New Zealand: Land sale to Chinese company provokes opposition
• Philippine protests further escalate tensions with China
• Suicide bombs claim 55 lives in Damascus
• Obama backs gay marriage
• France: PSA Aulnay unions admit no solidarity action planned to defend jobs
• CSU students go on hunger strike against tuition hikes
• Quebec students reject union-promoted sellout of their fight for accessible education
• UK Tories and Lib-Dems insist no retreat on austerity in Queen’s speech
• NRW State election: Former SPD premier supports free market FDP
• Russian plane crashes in Indonesia
• Amid mass unemployment, corporate profits surge
• A conversation with a Detroit firefighter
  Jerry White campaigns for May 12 meeting in Detroit
• SEP (Australia) congress resolutions
• The Dardenne brothers’ The Kid With a Bike
  A boy faces rejection
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

12 May 2012 (front page)

• China: Two hundred Foxconn workers threaten suicide
• Over 200,000 to lose unemployment benefits in US this weekend
• UK trade unions mount much reduced one-day pension strike
• Damascus terror bombing: Made in the USA
• Negotiations on Greek coalition government continue
• UK public sector workers speak out against attacks on pension rights
• JP Morgan Chase hit by $2 billion derivatives loss
• US military college prepared senior officers for “Hiroshima” tactics against Muslims
• Germany: State election in North Rhine-Westphalia offers workers no choice
• Australian car component plant reopens after union-imposed layoffs
• Air Canada pushes Aveos into bankruptcy, eliminating 2,600 jobs
• Jerry White campaigns on Detroit campus
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 May 2012 (front page)

• Spanish bank debts deepen eurozone crisis
• US intensifies confrontation with Iran
• Vanuatu government expels Australian police
• Mass protests in Spain mark indignados anniversary
• Drastic cuts planned as California state government announces huge deficit increase
• How the Lutte Ouvrière group backed Hollande in the French elections
• Irish referendum campaign offers workers no alternative
• Working class disenfranchised in Serbian elections
• Canada’s banks received tens of billions in government support during 2008 crisis
• Water contamination in Maywood, California
• This week in history: May 14-20
• Socialist Equality Party holds meeting on the crisis in Detroit and the 2012 elections
• Detroit workers and youth speak on the political issues in the US elections

15 May 2012 (front page)

• Australia: TAFE teachers and students protest Victorian budget cuts
• China’s market “reform” accelerated after Bo Xilai’s removal
• Clinton pressures India to support sanctions on Iran
• Greece: SYRIZA support sought to enforce austerity measures
• US families saddled with debt, have few savings
• The JPMorgan debacle
• Trial opens in German environmental scandal
• East London tenants evicted in run-up to Olympics
• Collapse of New York law firm reflects wider crisis
• Washington DC schools plan to expand charters, cut jobs
• “The only jobs out there are low wage jobs”
  Bronx workers speak to SEP campaigners on the jobs crisis in America
• Thousands rally against education cuts in Portland, Oregon
• India: Striking NLC contract workers must expand struggle—industrially and politically
• Letters from our readers
• Citizen Gangster: A drama of postwar Canadian life
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

16 May 2012 (front page)

• Australian state governments prepare sweeping spending cuts
• French President Hollande attends Berlin summit after inauguration
• South Korean government tries to shore up fragile banking system
• Sri Lanka: Fire destroys plantation workers’ homes
• Voters in German state election reject government austerity policy
• Left Party collapse in North Rhine-Westphalia vote
• Murdoch scandal: Rebekah Brooks charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice
• California governor demands massive new cuts in response to budget revision
• Survey finds 23 percent rise in street homelessness in New York City
• Scores of decapitated bodies found in Mexico
• The Obama campaign and “vampire” capitalists
• SEP candidate Scherrer wins support at education protest in Pittsburgh
• SEP/ISSE public meeting:
  Defend Quebec’s striking students! Education should be a social right!
• Theatre review
  Belgrade production of They Live exposes corruption of Serbia’s political parties

17 May 2012 (front page)

• US drone strikes kill civilians in Yemen
• New elections called in Greece
• Columbia Law School study: How Texas executed an innocent man
• Egyptian presidential candidates outline counterrevolutionary programs in TV debate
• City authorities in Frankfurt, Germany ban Occupy protest
• Australian foreign minister rebuked in Beijing over US military deal
• New Zealand “Not for Sale” campaign promotes anti-Chinese sentiment
• US government prepares new attacks on Internet privacy
• US public defender system crippled
  Part 1
• New York City’s Cooper Union to begin charging tuition for graduate students
• Redford, Michigan schools support staff oppose privatization
• Greece and the global crisis of capitalism
• Obama, the UAW and the auto bailout
  Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2012—Part 1
  How have filmmakers responded to the new global situation?
• New search for life among Jupiter’s ice moons

18 May 2012 (front page)

• Fears grow over European banks
• Socialist Party appoints anti-worker interim government in France
• Quebec to adopt emergency law to break student strike
• “Green-on-Blue” attacks on foreign troops increase in Afghanistan
• Gulf monarchies and US foment sectarian clashes in Lebanon
• Judge strikes down indefinite detention provision
• More US states pursuing drug testing for welfare recipients
• University of California outlines future police action against student protests
• US public defender system crippled
  Part 2
• Sri Lankan government imposes new price rises
• GM prepares to close German plant
• Washington’s lethal intervention in Syria
• The JPMorgan fiasco and the case for nationalization
• Hydraulic fracturing and the case for socialist planning
  Statement by Phyllis Scherrer, SEP candidate for US vice president
• Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman: A valuable, passionate portrait of a great actress
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

19 May 2012 (front page)

• A dangerous dispute in the South China Sea
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2012—Part 2
  Crulic—The Path to Beyond from Romania: The tragic fate of a decent, humble human being
• European economic crisis, military tensions overshadow G8 summit
• UK prime minister warns of euro zone break-up
• G8 and NATO summits take place without Putin
• Mass layoffs hit Hewlett-Packard, US Postal Service
• Quebec law criminalizing student strike threatens basic rights of all
• Greece: The program of Syriza
• Facebook IPO falls flat
• Spain’s regional governments impose further cuts
• Thomson scandal exposes decay of Australian “labour movement”
• Hondurans demand US withdrawal over civilian deaths
• Massive security preparations for NATO summit in Chicago
• SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks on Obama’s attack on auto workers
• Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick endorses “murderer” Obama
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 May 2012 (front page)

• Cost-cutting taking place across Australian universities
• No agreement at G8 summit on deepening financial crisis
• Sri Lankan SEP condemns attack on WSWS supporters in India
• Western Australian, Tasmanian state governments announce new spending cuts
• Chicago police frame antiwar activists on “terrorism” charges
• Germany: Tens of thousands protest in banking quarter of Frankfurt
• Spain faces bank run
• German chancellor’s sacking of minister exposes government crisis
• Leveson inquiry: Damning evidence of political corruption of Labour and Conservative parties
• Unemployed California workers face termination of benefits
• Illegal stops by New York Police rise to 2,200 daily
• Police state bill passed to suppress Quebec student strike
• “Of course, Trotsky was an alternative to Stalin”
  An interview with Professor Mario Kessler on the Trotsky biography by Robert Service—Part one
• Auburn, New York: 150 strike against TRW for eight-hour day
• TRW workers speak out against proposed contract
• This week in history: May 21-27
• Illinois Caterpillar strike enters fourth week
• Strindberg & Cinema in Los Angeles
  Palaces of memory: August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman

22 May 2012 (front page)

• Australia: Official employment rate hides real extent of joblessness
• Australia: Thomson’s speech fuels political instability
• India: WSWS team attacked as NLC strike enters second month
• NATO backs US plan on Afghanistan
• Tensions ease temporarily between China and the Philippines
• “Of course, Trotsky was an alternative to Stalin”
  An interview with Professor Mario Kessler on the Trotsky biography by Robert Service—Part two
• Obama hails police state methods in Chicago
• Greek SYRIZA leader Tsipras pledges to repay banks in European tour
• The politics of the anti-NATO protests
• NATO protesters denounce police violence
• Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists praise the junta’s presidential elections
• Convicted of Lockerbie bombing, al Megrahi dies protesting innocence
• France’s New Anti-capitalist Party applauds President Hollande’s election
• Pakistan’s Hazaras targeted by campaign of ethnic-communal killings
• Report details abuse at Georgia immigrant detention centers
• Oppose Brown’s cuts in California
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2012—Part 3
  Two significant works: Fritz Lang’s House by the River (1950) and Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949)
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

23 May 2012 (front page)

• Australia: Qantas axes jobs and maintenance base
• Quebec: Huge protest supports striking students, denounces Bill 78
• Sharp divisions on eve of EU summit
• Washington eases economic sanctions on Burma
• US government panel calls for halt to prostate cancer screening
• JPMorgan could face $7 billion in losses
• One year since the tornado disaster in Joplin, Missouri
• Palestinian hunger strike ended after Egypt’s intervention
• Mass unemployment and poverty fuel ethnic tensions in Macedonia
• The appalling situation of Romania’s institutionalized children: From Ceausescu to today
• After the NATO summit: Afghanistan slaughter to continue
• SEP vice presidential candidate wins support in Pittsburgh
• Pinter’s The Caretaker at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn: A classic has lost none of its power

24 May 2012 (front page)

• Australia: Bowen Basin coal miners resume strike action
• Australian government confirms commitment to ongoing Afghanistan occupation
• Baghdad talks on Iran’s nuclear program unresolved
• Canadian Pacific railway workers strike
• Europe’s leaders at loggerheads at EU summit as markets tumble
• Impeachment trial of Philippine chief justice nears end
• The pseudo-left unmasked in Greece
• SYRIZA leader Tsipras in Berlin
• Quebec student strike:
  Police begin to apply draconian Bill 78
• Facebook IPO engulfed by insider trading scandal
• Strike and mass protests against Spain’s education cuts
• UK TalkTalk call centre set to close
• Slovak premier prepares austerity agenda
• As Washington state health care options dwindle, whooping cough returns
• Notes on the social crisis in America
• The criminalization of dissent in Chicago and Quebec
• Survey of contemporary art
  The 2012 Whitney Biennial in New York City
• Ireland: Unions shut down five-month occupation at Vita Cortex
• Letters from our readers

25 May 2012 (front page)

• Australia: New South Wales teachers stop-work against devolution agenda
• Iranian nuclear talks on brink of collapse
• Papua New Guinean government arrests chief justice
• Quebec police mount mass arrests in bid to break student strike
• Sri Lanka: SEP holds plantation workers’ congress
• US prepares multi-front proxy war against Syria
• Low turnout in Egyptian presidential elections
• Hewlett-Packard announces 27,000 job cuts
• US steps up drone war on Pakistan
• Greece: French Left Front backs SYRIZA’s appeal to the banks
• French election: The Left Front’s Mélenchon stands against neo-fascist Marine Le Pen
• The Democrats and the Bain Capital affair
• SEP presidential candidate Jerry White demands release of jailed Quebec students
• Harry Belafonte provides an historical insight into the civil rights movement’s decay
• A revealing look at Murdoch’s influence on British politics
• Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow offered access to US military death squad
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, one of the great vocal artists of the 20th century, dies at 86
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

26 May 2012 (front page)

• Chinese leadership turmoil continues
• Detroit city council approves brutal cuts
• Greek ruling elite prepares for showdown with working class
• Reports cite killings, disappearances and torture by Mexico’s security forces
• Russian government cracks down on opposition
• Sri Lankan president releases jailed rival
• UK student Richard O’Dwyer’s extradition appeal scheduled for July 30
• US bank profits soar while lending drops
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Mounting signs of deepening global slump
• Quebec student strike: Government excludes fee hikes, Bill 78 from proposed talks
• Serbian presidential vote indicates growing disaffection from the EU
• The Egyptian junta’s fraudulent elections and the tasks of the working class
• SEP candidate speaks with Detroit Chrysler workers
• The Avengers: Not at all the way truths can be explored
• Donald “Duck” Dunn, legendary bass player, dead at 70
• Letters from our readers

28 May 2012 (front page)

• French bourgeois “left” manipulates fight against Fralib factory closure
• IMF chief: It’s “payback time” for Greek workers
• Israel’s ruling Likud party incites racist attacks on migrants
• NATO air strike kills Afghan family of eight
• Ten years on, the myths of East Timor independence stand exposed
• Mass repression in Quebec: A warning to the working class
• US CEO pay continues to climb
• Germany: Lafontaine and the Left Party move to the right
• Sri Lankan president’s salute to militarism
• Canadian government attacks wages and unemployment benefits
• SEP campaigns for election meeting in Quad Cities
• Detroit workers speak out against budget cuts
• This week in history: May 28-June 3
• Dissecting class relations: The film collaborations of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter

29 May 2012 (front page)

• Australia: ASIO assessments condemn refugees to indefinite detention
• Australian PM under pressure over mining “guest workers”
• Massachusetts legislation promotes health care rationing
• US threatens military intervention in Syria following Houla massacre
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers and youth speak on Chicago, Quebec and the attack on democratic rights
• Seventy-five years since the Memorial Day Massacre
• Double suicide underscores Greece’s deepening health crisis
• Tensions with Iran rise after failed Baghdad talks
• US student loan debt: Where did it come from and who benefits?
• Germany: Drugstore chain Schlecker threatened with destruction
• Indian Communist Party (Marxist) continues to defend Stalin’s crimes
• Canadian government moves to outlaw railway strike
• Remembering the Ludlow Massacre
  Part 1: Background to the Colorado miners’ strike of 1913-1914
• Stormbelt exhibition in Toronto—a dark journey through America’s Sun Belt
  An interview with photographer Robert Leslie

30 May 2012 (front page)

• Protests erupt against presidential elections in Egypt
• Obama uses Memorial Day speech to rehabilitate Vietnam War
• Guantanamo military tribunals proceed despite evidence of torture
• As state repression continues
  Student associations in talks with Quebec government
• Murdoch’s acolyte Tony Blair testifies before Leveson inquiry
• Kazakhstan: Eleven workers, one officer sentenced following police massacre
• India: Nationwide protests against fuel price hikes
• The ouster of Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona
• New charges filed against Malaysian opposition leader
• Germany’s six-point plan for sweatshop Europe
• Vote “No” in Ireland’s referendum on EU fiscal treaty
• SEP meetings oppose US-Australia war preparations against China
• California workers speak against budget cuts, unemployment
• Reject the concessions contract at Caterpillar!
• Youth and workers discuss US-Australia confrontation with China
• Steelworkers union undermines Northern California refinery workers strike
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2012—Part 4
  Twixt and Trishna: Weak films from Coppola and Winterbottom
• Remembering the Ludlow Massacre
  Part 2: The strike of 1913-14

31 May 2012 (front page)

• British Supreme Court endorses extradition of Julian Assange
• Federal cuts to strip 70,000 more US workers of jobless benefits in June
• Former Australian union chief appeals to big business to rely on Labor
• Indian government attempts to smash pilots strike
• Talks continue between Quebec government, student groups over tuition protests
• Washington Post airs another unlikely Iranian assassination plot
• Spanish banking crisis roils global financial markets
• NDP abets suppression of Quebec student strike
• Germany: Günter Grass criticizes EU’s treatment of Greece
• French unions discuss wave of sackings after presidential elections
• Mass student protests hit media bias in Mexican elections
• Democrats run right-wing campaign in Wisconsin recall election
• Ypsilanti, Michigan to make “dramatic” cuts to services
• Hands off Syria!
• Jerry White speaks at Quad Cities election meeting
• Opel/Vauxhall workers need an international strategy
  Statement by the Socialist Equality Parties of the UK and Germany
• Canadian government rams through anti-strike law against railway workers
• Illinois Caterpillar workers reject “revised” offer, continue strike
• Richard Linklater’s Bernie, about life and death in East Texas
• Remembering the Ludlow Massacre
  Part 3: The Massacre and the Ten Days War
• Letters from our readers