Archive: January 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.
5 January 2009 (front page)
1 January 2010 (front page)
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White House escalates push for Senate health bill passage
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British transport union accedes to anti-union laws, suspends strike ballot
4 January 2010 (front page)
- Questions mount over attempt to bomb Detroit-bound jetliner
- Charges dropped against Blackwater mercenaries in 2007 Baghdad massacre
- CIA base in Afghanistan hit by suicide attack
- California requests $8 billion in federal aid
- British fire service faces downsizing and privatisation
- Britain: Council signs contract with IBM for service privatisation
- The new decade begins
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SEP manifesto for the 2010 Sri Lankan presidential election
A socialist program to fight for social equality and democratic rights - This week in history: January 4-January 10
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- In praise of George Eliot’s Adam Bede on its 150th anniversary
- Letters in response to “Best films of 2009 and the decade”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 January 2010 (front page)
- New Year in America: A portrait of social misery
- US warns Yemen to be focus in “worldwide” war
- Three top Wall Street banks to award $49.5 billion in year-end bonuses
- Sri Lankan elections: JVP in sordid alliance to back Fonseka
- US surge in Afghanistan exposes dilemma of German foreign policy
- China jails leading dissident
- Britain: Government announces £400 million education cuts for new year
- Virginia, US: $2.3 billion in budget cuts target education, state workers
- Special discounts and new features available at Mehring Books online
- Up in the Air and the social calamity in the US
- Australia: Telstra unions call limited action over enterprise agreement
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
6 January 2010 (front page)
- US home sales plummet, personal bankruptcies soar
- Obama: US agencies had intelligence to foil airline bomb plot
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Cut off from heat in freezing temperatures
Three die in Detroit house fire - Suicide claims more US military lives than Afghan war
- India: All-Party meeting fails to staunch crisis over Telangana
- Sri Lanka: Report details Rajapakse’s abuse of public resources in presidential election
- Britain: Groundbreaking wealth survey exposes social polarisation
- Britain lines up behind US aggression in Yemen
- The White Ribbon: Michael Haneke’s pessimistic study of society
7 January 2010 (front page)
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Homelessness, utility shutoffs lead to house fires, freezing deaths
US cold snap highlights depth of social crisis - Six million in the US with no income but food stamps
- CIA takes revenge with missile strikes in Pakistan
- In line with US demands, Afghan parliament rejects cabinet proposals
- Russia announces expansion of nuclear capabilities, sanctions pre-emptive nuclear strikes
- Failed Detroit bombing used to justify crackdown on British universities
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Assassination without borders
CIA and mercenaries plotted murder of German citizen - Indian-held Kashmir continues to simmer over deaths of two women last May
- Australia: Queensland crisis points to lack of flood mitigation and basic infrastructure
- Two US senators quit reelection race: Democratic Party in crisis
- Sri Lankan Tamil refugee dies—a victim of Australian government policy
- Family members denounce deaths in Detroit fire
- SEP presidential candidate speaks in southern Sri Lankan city
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns in Galle city
- Photographer Roy DeCarava, chronicler of African-American life (1919-2009)
- Letters from our readers on the airline bombing attempt
8 January 2010 (front page)
- The airplane bomb plot: Obama continues the cover-up
- Children’s deaths spark anti-US outrage in Afghanistan
- The US to turn up heat on Iran
- Unanswered questions about attack on Danish cartoonist
- US court sharply limits rights of Guantanamo prisoners
- Iceland’s president vetoes IceSave law
- Sri Lankan plantation unions split over presidential candidates
- Chicago hospital emergency rooms strained by uninsured patients, budget cuts
- Why is Sonic Youth’s The Eternal such a disappointment?
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 January 2010 (front page)
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Mass layoffs at UPS, Lockheed Martin
US loses 85,000 jobs in December - US-China rivalry intensifies
- In wake of Detroit airplane bomb plot, new security measures in Europe
- France: CGT congress confirms orientation to Sarkozy
- Solomon Islands’ parliamentarian denounces WSWS during debate on Australian intervention force
- Miami public hospitals end payments for dialysis treatment of the indigent
- Western Saharan activist admitted into Morocco
- Les Automatistes: Revolt and modern art in post-war Montreal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 January 2010 (front page)
- Cold snap in Europe takes hundreds of lives
- Black lung on the rise among US coal miners
- Germany: Unemployment set to climb in 2010
- Senate Democrat calls for vast expansion of “no-fly” list
- Move to block major Sunni-based party contesting Iraq election
- Sri Lankan election: Tamil politicians line up behind warmongers
- Canadian press denounces Conservatives’ shutting down of parliament
- Earthquakes, tsunami destroy villages in Solomon Islands
- Europe in crisis
- France accused of attempted assassination in Guinea
- This week in history: January 11-17
- Australia: Employers using Labor’s laws to impose lockouts
12 January 2010 (front page)
- Italian police incarcerate 1,300 migrant workers after Calabria protest
- The United Mine Workers of America and the resurgence of black lung disease
- Emails implicate Treasury Secretary Geithner in cover-up of AIG deal to bail out the banks
- China and ASEAN create free trade bloc
- Proposed British anti-war march prompts demands for clampdown on rights
- Germany’s highest labour judge defends sacking workers for next to nothing
- Wave of cold-related fire deaths in the American South
- US: White House seeks to block new environmental regulations on coal ash
- UN confirms authenticity of Sri Lankan war crimes evidence
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- Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 January 2010 (front page)
- Iranian scientist assassinated as US steps up war threats
- Major earthquake devastates Haitian capital
- British government promises Israel it will end war crimes arrest warrants
- Obama meets with AFL-CIO to push for cost-cutting health care overhaul
- Millions more US children in poverty
- UK government slashes funding for astronomy and physics
- New Romanian government prepares massive social attacks
- Australian government in damage control after murder of Indian student
- Thirty years of the German Green Party
- Sri Lankan SEP launches election web site
- Much further reading required: Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, by Rick Geary
- Sri Lanka elections: SEP campaigns for Hatton meeting
- Sri Lanka: SEP candidate addresses plantation workers
- World Socialist Web Site announces launch of new perspectives journal
14 January 2010 (front page)
- Hundreds of thousands feared dead in Haiti
- The banks and socialism
- Afghans shot down while protesting US occupation
- Wall Street CEOs testify before financial crisis commission
- AfPak war claimed over 12,500 lives in Pakistan during 2009
- Sri Lankan election: The two faces of the United Socialist Party
- Major trade unions provide vital backing for German government
- Hundreds attend funeral for victims of Detroit house fire
- California Governor Schwarzenegger promises billions more in cuts
- Australian government denies visas to five Tamil refugees
- Join the International Students for Social Equality!
- Diane Sawyer and ABC News pay tribute to remote control drone killings
- Letters from our readers
15 January 2010 (front page)
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US provides more troops than aid
Death toll mounts in Haiti - Clinton speech underlines US-China tensions
- Obama’s “gentle bank tax”
- Anti-burqa campaign marks turn away from democratic rule in France
- Sri Lankan election: The crisis in public health
- British Army exploits recession to step up youth recruitment
- Sweden: Saab workers protest as GM begins winding down operations
- The history that “binds” the US and Haiti
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The death of Miep Gies (February 15, 1909—January 10, 2010)
Protected Anne Frank from the Nazis - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
16 January 2010 (front page)
- Haiti: US troops deployed as popular anger mounts
- Yemen: Toward another US quagmire
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As JP Morgan reports record compensation
Pay at top Wall Street firms estimated at $145 billion in 2009 - Record US foreclosures in 2009
- Iran to eliminate price subsidies, threatening mass impoverishment
- Why is the American press silent on the Israeli role in NW Flight 253?
- Widespread disaffection in lead-up to Ukrainian presidential elections
- Britain: Another failed Labour leadership challenge against Brown
- France: Victimised Continental workers lose their appeal
- Germany: Erika Steinbach dispute fuels conflict in government
- Liberalism and Wall Street
- Sri Lankan election: General Fonseka’s anti-working class agenda
- The career of French film director Eric Rohmer
- A letter on George Eliot’s Adam Bede
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
18 January 2010 (front page)
- Egor Gaidar (1956-2009): Architect of capitalist restoration in Russia
- Michigan community colleges struggling to meet demand
- US military tightens grip on Haiti
- Egypt joins Israel in blockade of Gaza
- Northern Ireland Assembly gripped by crisis
- What is behind the power struggle in the German Left Party?
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Acquittal of police vacated
Germany: New trial in death of asylum seeker - New York City: opposition mounts to Bloomberg’s closures of public schools
- Bush, Clinton and the crimes of US imperialism in Haiti
- This week in history: January 18-24
- Sri Lankan election: Widespread campaign violence
- Australian government counts on union to end maritime strike
19 January 2010 (front page)
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Death toll at 200,000
US military to enforce state of emergency in Haiti - European bankers demand unprecedented austerity measures
- Taliban attacks in Kabul deepen crisis of US occupation
- Obama, Democrats in crisis over Massachusetts Senate race
- Anti-Islamic measures in Britain threaten democratic rights
- More “missed clues” in the Northwest Flight 253 bomb plot
- Japanese finance minister quits
- Irish report indicts Catholic Church, authorities for child sex abuse
- Sri Lankan election: Rajapakse promises “economic war”
- Jyoti Basu: elder statesman of Indian Stalinism dies at 95
- Britain: Network Rail mounts strike-breaking operations against signal workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 January 2010 (front page)
- In Defence of Leon Trotsky: David North to speak at Sydney’s Gleebooks
- Washington shuts door on Haitian refugees
- Chilean right returns to power for first time in 20 years
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A debacle for Obama and the Democrats
Republican wins Massachusetts Senate race - FBI illegally obtained thousands of phone records
- Turkish foreign policy: growing conflicts with the West
- No criticism of Labor as Australia rejects Tamil refugees
- One year since Obama’s inauguration
- What does particle physics tell us about the nature of matter?
- Four Australian movies: Van Diemen’s Land, Beautiful Kate, Last Ride and Lucky Country
- SEP takes its presidential election campaign to Matara
- Rail union overturns strike ballot on London Underground
21 January 2010 (front page)
- US military operations block relief efforts in Haiti
- US: Democrats agree on commission to cut Social Security, Medicare
- Ukraine election marks declining US influence in region
- Many German local authorities nearing bankruptcy
- Oil, the Dutch Iraq inquiry on the Iraq war, and the missing letter
- US Senate begins whitewash hearings on Northwest Flight 253 bomb plot
- Iceland to hold referendum on international debt repayments
- Tenants of Detroit apartment building living without utilities
- California pension funds paid millions to former insiders working as middlemen investors
- Haiti’s tragedy: A crime of US imperialism
- The Democratic debacle in Massachusetts
- SEP campaigns in Jaffna
- Sri Lanka SEP holds successful meeting in Jaffna
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“We should work to unite Tamil and Sinhala people”
Participants in SEP Jaffna meeting speak out - Final SEP election meeting in Colombo on January 23
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David Walsh: Reading Voronsky on art today is to breathe fresh air - Crazy Heart and unnecessarily narrow pictures
- Letters on the Haiti earthquake
22 January 2010 (front page)
- Haitians dying by the thousands as US escalates military intervention
- The lessons of the Massachusetts election
- US Supreme Court abolishes restrictions on big business political spending
- US commander demands increased military commitment from Germany in Afghanistan
- Another toothless bank “reform” from Obama
- Oil, the Dutch Iraq inquiry on the Iraq war, and the missing letter
- Germany: The Left Party and the parliamentary Defence Committee
- New York: Mayor Bloomberg hands out $2.4 million in bonuses
- Vote for Wije Dias, SEP presidential candidate
- Dutch inquiry finds Iraq war illegal
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The social and political roots of the Haiti earthquake tragedy - Workers struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- South Yorkshire firefighters strike against threats of mass dismissal
23 January 2010 (front page)
- As US prepares long-term occupation, Haiti’s quake victims still without aid
- The Supreme Court ruling on corporate political spending
- US to hold 50 Guantanamo prisoners indefinitely
- US employment situation worsens
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The China-Google dispute
US plans to harness Internet to its hegemonic goals - Israel threatens Hezbollah and Lebanon
- Sri Lankan Tamil political prisoners stage hunger strike to demand their release
- All-party conspiracy of silence on German army role in Afghanistan
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Protests against shutdown of Canadian parliament
A socialist policy to defend democratic rights - Israeli government supports continued prosecution of filmmaker Mohammed Bakri
- University of California students suspended for protesting budget cuts
- Sri Lankan union endorses SEP presidential candidate
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
25 January 2010 (front page)
- Haiti: Rescue effort ended as people still emerge from rubble
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GM announces closure of Opel plant in Antwerp
The nationalist poison of the trade unions - After Massachusetts: Obama fakes anti-Wall Street stance
- Walmart to cut 11,000 jobs at Sam’s Club subsidiary
- GM to close Antwerp Opel plant
- Romania: Education system on the verge of collapse
- Spain: Youth unemployment tops 40 percent
- US telecommunications giant Verizon plans more layoffs
- US: Minnesota to cut two health care programs for the poor
- SEP concludes presidential election campaign with successful Colombo rally
- This week in history: January 25-January 31
- The Nation praises US intervention in Haiti
- Me and Orson Welles, but too much of the former
26 January 2010 (front page)
- Fallout from Washington crisis rattles world markets
- “Reconstructing Haiti” on starvation wages
- Sri Lankan election sets stage for deep political crisis
- Criticism mounts over US response to Haiti disaster
- Existing US home sales fall at record rate
- Thousands protest Conservatives’ shutting down of Canadian parliament
- A socialist programme needed to defend education in Britain
- Harper’s Magazine exposes Guantánamo cover-up
- Britain: Abbeydale Grange School’s closure agreed by Sheffield Council
- How big business financed a radical right-wing party in Austria
- Sri Lankan election: the NSSP’s electoral cretinism
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
27 January 2010 (front page)
- Sri Lankan government threatens to disqualify opposition candidate
- US Marines in Haiti: Back to colonialism
- Obama to impose freeze on social spending
- France’s Socialist Party calls for pension cuts
- US Supreme Court rules against Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Britain: Dr. David Kelly death evidence suppressed for 70 years
- Germany: Demjanjuk trial sheds light on Nazi crimes
- Massachusetts governor promotes charter schools as districts face budget crisis
- Southern California homeless shelters struggle to cope with economic crisis
- Pamphlet on Haitian history available from Mehring Books
- The Sri Lankan election, the LTTE and Tamil nationalism
- New York Times columnist worries over Obama’s “credibility gap”
- Armored, but not bulletproof
28 January 2010 (front page)
- Obama’s State of the Union Address: Cynicism, clichés and a call for austerity
- Sharp rise in British child poverty before recession’s onset
- Troops fire on starving crowds in Haiti
- German government falls in behind US strategy for Afghanistan
- Tensions high as incumbent wins Sri Lankan presidential poll
- Britain: Illegality of Iraq war dominates Chilcot inquiry
- China’s credit tightening exacerbates global financial instability
- Venezuela: Two students killed in clashes
- Belgium: Opel plant to close in Antwerp
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A socialist program to defend jobs at Opel
For a rebellion against the nationalist policies of the trade unions -
US firms Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, announce 21,000 job cuts
New home sales at record low - Letters from our readers
29 January 2010 (front page)
- Behind Sri Lanka’s political infighting: US-China rivalry
- London conference on Afghanistan: Occupation will last for years to come
- Haitian president says 170,000 bodies recovered
- US economic indices and layoff announcements point to protracted slump
- Villepin acquitted in France’s Clearstream trial
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Another Congressional whitewash
Geithner stonewalls in AIG bailout hearings - The resignation of Oscar Lafontaine and the crisis of the Left Party
- New York: Police brutality revealed in courtroom, on tape
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An interesting collection, but a distorted view of Stalinism
Mexican prints: revolution on paper -
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Tom Eley: The Revolution Betrayed is among the greatest political works of the 20th century - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Striking construction workers defy Rudd government’s laws
30 January 2010 (front page)
- Tony Blair, war criminal, testifies before inquiry
- The real state of the union in 2010
- Sri Lankan government cracks down on opposition
- Britain: Unions lobby Parliament to line up behind Labour
- Further questions raised in East Timor “assassination” trial
- US: Republican activist behind Acorn smear campaign faces felony charges
- First “bad bank” set up for Eastern Europe
- New York City: In the face of intense opposition, Bloomberg closes 19 public schools
- New York students and teachers speak out on school closings
- City union prepares capitulation to Detroit mayor
- Pennsylvania: Braddock hospital closes its doors for good
- Obama’s guilty silence on Haiti
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
31 January 2010 (front page)
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