Archive: October 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 October 2010 (front page)
- Pakistan shuts key Afghan war supply-route
- Brazilian election points to continuity of “Lulaism”
- Cambodian garment strikers victimised as unions enter talks
- Australian soldiers charged over civilian killings in Afghanistan
- Teacher ranked “less effective” by the Los Angeles Times takes his own life
- US Medicaid enrollment climbs to 48 million
- German Social Democrats take up racist program of Thilo Sarrazin
- Scottish National Party defers independence referendum
- The stench of dictatorship
- India-China relations strained
- Detroit residents blame DTE Energy for September 7 fires at regulatory hearing
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Toronto International Film Festival 2010—Part 3
Even the Rain and the need for dealing with complexity -
The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part three - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
2 October 2010 (front page)
- Pakistani attacks on NATO tankers deepen US crisis in Af-Pak war
- Emanuel resignation highlights crisis of Obama administration
- The rising danger of US-China trade war
- Ecuador shaken by police, military uprising
- Indian High Court abets Hindu supremacists with Babri Masjid ruling
- Commonwealth Games spell major crisis for Indian elite
- British Labour Party’s new leader pledges to support cuts and suppress strikes
- Spanish general strike shuts down Barcelona
- Elections in Latvia—austerity course to be continued
- Poverty, segregation and discrimination for the Roma in Germany
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Break with Obama, the Democratic Party and the AFL-CIO
Build a socialist movement against mass unemployment, war and repression - Sri Lanka: SEP meeting in Jaffna on anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination
- Twenty years since the reunification of Germany
- New York Times publishes scurrilous attack on Marxism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Utilities must be a social right!
- Second round of strikes set for London Underground
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The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part four
4 October 2010 (front page)
- Pro-Democratic Party rally shows bankruptcy of US unions
- Washington moves to thwart Sadrist role in a new Iraqi government
- Millions march in France against austerity as opposition to Sarkozy grows
- Police action against demonstrators opposing “Stuttgart 21” rail project
- Ireland moves closer to state bankruptcy
- More revelations into US military atrocities in Afghanistan
- China’s growing army of unemployed graduates
- Australia: Government and unions complicit in death of undocumented Korean worker
- New austerity budget in California
- US frame-up victim Affia Siddiqui sentenced to 86 years
- Siemens management and union close ranks in Germany
- 20 years since the reunification of Germany: What was the GDR?
- This week in history: October 4-October 10
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New US television series
Rubicon: On the other side of the secret door -
The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part five
5 October 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Finance Department “razor gang” commits to savage spending cuts
- Sri Lankan president jails political rival
- US agency exploited Guatemalans for lethal medical tests
- US issues terror alert for European cities
- Video: DSO musicians speak on strike
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“I wonder about this inequality and how it’s impacting on my country”
Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik speaks to WSWS - The assault on culture and the crisis of American capitalism
- US Supreme Court opens 2010 term with pro-corporate agenda
- Detroit Symphony musicians strike
- Workers Party candidate fails to win first-round victory in Brazil
- Steps toward a two-class health system in Germany
- Letter from Balmoral plantation workers to Indianapolis rank-and-file committee
- Letters on the Indianapolis rank-and-file committee
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The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part six - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Unions isolate London tube struggle as government prepares anti-strike legislation
- Letters from our readers
6 October 2010 (front page)
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Toronto International Film Festival 2010—Part 4
American fiction - Australian terrorism trial produces evidence of police entrapment
- China and Russia strengthen strategic ties
- Security guard in Wales cleared of manslaughter in death of shoplifter
- UAW, GM slash workers’ wages by half at Michigan plant
- US corporate profits soar on layoffs, wage cuts
- US: Tennessee home left to burn over $75 fee
- Tens of thousands of distressed homeowners line up for assistance in Los Angeles
- The Detroit News and the DSO strike
- German youth report finds increasing social polarization
- US threatens wider war in Pakistan
- D’Artagnan Collier campaigns among Detroit workers and students
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The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part seven
7 October 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Labor government appoints new construction watchdog chief
- ICJ report accuses Sri Lankan government of violating human rights
- US banks fake documents to rush foreclosures
- UAW expands drive to cut auto workers’ pay
- European politicians deny US claims of terror threat
- French National Assembly debates anti-immigration law
- Detroit symphony management pursues hard line
- Universal benefits under fire as Tories announce further UK welfare cuts
- Corporate cash floods US congressional elections
- Supreme Court to review order to slash California’s prison population
- US mine safety agency did not enforce regulations, audit shows
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Waiting for Superman
American liberalism spearheads the right-wing attack on public education -
Break with Obama and the Democratic Party
For an independent working class movement to defend public education! - Oliver Stone returns to Wall Street
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The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part eight
8 October 2010 (front page)
- Australian PM’s visit to Afghanistan paves way for military escalation
- Global currency, trade conflicts dominate IMF meeting
- US tightens economic blockade of Iran
- US apologies for killing troops fail to halt Pakistan blockade
- Toxic sludge catastrophe in Hungary
- White House sanctions employers’ cut-rate health plans
- Mass anti-government protests in Iceland
- Reports expose White House cover-up of BP spill
- Arthur Penn, American filmmaker (1922-2010)
- Residents denounce DTE and Detroit officials for September 7 fires
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The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part nine - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 October 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Police use Tasers as “weapon of choice”
- Currency wars: Another phase in the capitalist breakdown
- Pakistan: Popular discontent, military intrigue rise after August floods
- The real issues in the “Stuttgart 21” rail project dispute
- US loses 95,000 jobs in September
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Pakistani, European officials charge US manufactured terror scare
- Judge bars torture evidence in ex-Guantánamo detainee trial
- New government coalition in the Netherlands
- Dismissal of Moscow mayor reveals tensions in Russian ruling elite
- US Army court martial recommended over Afghan civilian killings
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Cheerleaders for the AFL-CIO
The pseudo-left and the October 2 Washington rally -
The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part ten
11 October 2010 (front page)
- Differences widen at IMF meeting
- Japan-China tensions over disputed islets unresolved
- Six more Boston public schools threatened with closure
- Sri Lankan shanty dwellers form committee to fight evictions
- Thousands of homeowners seek help in Sacramento, California
- Traditional parties take beating in Peru elections
- Far-right party wins Hungarian municipal elections
- Marseille strike hits Mediterranean shipping, oil supplies
- New York City transit fare increased for third time in three years
- The New York Times defends assassinations
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For a united movement of the working class to oppose concessions and job cuts!
An open letter from the Indianapolis GM Stamping Rank-and-File Committee - This week in history: October 11-October 17
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The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part 11
12 October 2010 (front page)
- Support for striking Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians at weekend concert
- US cover-up exposed in killing of Afghanistan aid worker
- Nobel Peace Prize: Another exercise in political cynicism
- Marseille bosses call for army, police to break dockers’ strike
- Coup threat reported as Iraq government deadlock drags on
- Economist Joseph Stiglitz warns of malaise “with no end in sight”
- No cost-of-living raise for 59 million US elderly
- Report documents health impact of social inequality in Australia
- Obama Administration boasts of increased repression of immigrants
- Over 200,000 UK students denied university places
- Republican House candidate took part in pro-Nazi group
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
13 October 2010 (front page)
- Mass protests shake French government
- Pentagon chief asserts US “national interest” in China seas
- Wall Street firms dole out record pay to executives
- US corn prices surge
- Sri Lankan government to intensify austerity measures
- New Zealand government uses earthquake to enact sweeping new powers
- UK housing benefit cuts threaten thousands with homelessness
- California budget cuts billions from social programs
- Demagogy and duplicity: The Democrats in the 2010 elections
- SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier offers support to striking DSO musicians
- Claude Chabrol: A brief appreciation
- Roger Waters’ The Wall Live tour: A comment from a reader
- Scientist awarded Nobel Prize for developing IVF treatment
14 October 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Westpac plans to axe thousands of jobs
- Charging of Australian soldiers for Afghan crimes provokes frenzied reaction
- Chilean miners rescued after ten-week ordeal
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Mehring Books featured titles
Whither France by Leon Trotsky and French Workers in Revolt by David Walsh - Political issues in the struggle against Sarkozy’s cuts
- Poor safety condemned by workers at San Jose mine
- Millions demonstrate in France against pension cuts
- Obama lifts moratorium on deepwater oil drilling
- Subpoenas rescinded for antiwar activists raided by FBI
- US Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in political rights case
- Tens of thousands demonstrate in Germany against railway project
- University tuition fees to more than double in UK
- New York Republican candidate attacks gays amid mounting hate crimes
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For Committees of Action―Not the People’s Front
November 26, 1935 -
Toronto International Film Festival 2010—Part 5
What does it mean to take reality seriously? -
Toronto International Film Festival 2010
ANPO: Art X War—Art and opposition in postwar Japan - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Letters from our readers
15 October 2010 (front page)
- Strikes continue as French government defends pension cuts
- How the NPA disorients the struggle against Sarkozy’s cuts
- US jobless claims rise
- Two officers convicted for killing 15-year-old Greek student
- Leading German politicians take up Thilo Sarrazin’s anti-Islamic campaign
- French Constitutional Council approves burqa ban
- Sri Lanka: Opposition front formed to protest Fonseka’s jailing
- Australia: Austerity agenda hidden as Victorian state election campaign begins
- Seattle Schools win federal grant for teacher merit pay
- The White House and the US mortgage racket
- More letters on the Indianapolis GM Stamping Rank-and-File Committee
- The Social Network: “Dot-com” myth-making
- Strikes erupt over public worker pay cut in Romania
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
16 October 2010 (front page)
- Sarkozy mobilizes riot police to break French oil strike
- Hungary’s toxic sludge disaster and the case for socialism
- Greek culture ministry workers end strike after police attack
- US backs “peace talks” as violence soars in Afghanistan
- Wall Street, White House blame homeowners in foreclosure crisis
- Quebec to prohibit women wearing Muslim veil from receiving public services
- UK companies selling pensions take 80 percent in fees and commissions
- Obama administration allows premium hikes for sick children
- Protests continue against South Australian job cuts
- Haiti presidential elections to be held at gunpoint
- Great interest in lecture by Professor Rabinowitch in Berlin
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D’Artagnan Collier election campaign meeting
The crisis in Detroit: The socialist response - Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
18 October 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Labor government lifts ban on processing Afghani refugees
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The strange end of the 2008 “coup” affair
East Timorese president frees men jailed over alleged assassination attempts - This week in history: October 18-October 24
- Top Sri Lankan official defends mass eviction plans
- US policies intensify world currency, trade conflicts
- French government, unions try to end strikes against pension cuts
- Chile mine rescue exposes precarious working conditions
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Two weeks before US midterm election
Democrats embrace right-wing austerity policies - Cleveland Orchestra players support striking DSO musicians
- Growing workers’ rebellion against the UAW
- The New York Times’ Roger Cohen attacks French workers
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Toronto International Film Festival 2010—Part 6
Walking around and near the problems
19 October 2010 (front page)
- At least 32 dead in Chinese mine disaster
- Australia: NSW government extends “sunset clause” in terrorism law
- Confrontation builds between French workers and Sarkozy
- Solomon Burke (1940-2010): a great inventor and innovator of the “soul” sound
- The French strike wave: A new stage in the class struggle
- Scenes from the “Day of Action” in France
- WSWS speaks to French workers on protests
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Interview with striking Detroit Symphony violist Hart Hollman
“What is happening to the DSO is a poster child for what is happening to the arts in America” - Government announces massive cuts ahead of UK public spending review
- US agencies had warnings before Mumbai terrorist attack
- Lead poisoning kills hundreds of children in Nigeria
- Anger builds in Boston over school closures
- Hilton hotel workers end three-day protest strike in Chicago
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
20 October 2010 (front page)
- Millions march in France against pension cuts
- With White House backing, banks resume foreclosure evictions
- Australian prime minister commits to Afghanistan war for next ten years
- Obama administration moves to strengthen wiretapping law
- UK arts funding faces savage cuts
- Major cuts throughout Britain’s National Health Service
- Hunger in the Philippines as President Aquino cuts food subsidies
- Supreme Court to review “war on terror” claim against Ashcroft
- Tory multimillionaire witch-hunts welfare claimants
- The strike wave in Europe and the decay of bourgeois democracy
- Western Australia: Children’s deaths expose health crisis
- 诺贝尔和平奖: 又一次犬儒式的政治操作
- Nobel Prize physicists protest British immigration restrictions on scientists
21 October 2010 (front page)
- Another decade of neo-colonial war in Afghanistan
- Sri Lankan police attack protesting students
- US moves to normalise relations with Fiji’s junta
- French President Sarkozy moves to break strikes against austerity measures
- Paris workers speak to WSWS on October 19 day of action
- British government announces unprecedented social cuts
- How riot police broke the occupation of the Marseille oil depots
- Investment firms, New York Fed demand Bank of America buy back mortgages
- Aircraft workers reject IAM-backed concessions contract
- Journal de Montréal workers reject union surrender
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Ahead of mayoral elections
Chicago budget sets stage for long-term austerity - Berlin meeting marks 70th anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination
- Seventy years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
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Toronto International Film Festival 2010—Part 7
Ken Loach’s Route Irish: the Iraq war comes home - UAW deal paves way for 100 percent low-wage workforce at Michigan GM plant
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Toronto International Film Festival 2010
A conversation with Ken Loach
22 October 2010 (front page)
- Obama’s 2010 campaign: Fake populism and right-wing policies
- Workers face a struggle for power in France
- Australian Greens: No principled opposition to Afghan war
- German chancellor agitates against immigrants
- Major gains for far-right Freedom Party in Vienna election
- Chilean workers protest San Jose mine’s closure
- Chinese premier warns of global consequences of currency wars
- Zambian miners shot by Chinese mine owners
- Teachers’ democratic rights under attack in US
- Right-wing consensus in California gubernatorial elections
- Australian prime minister denounces opposition to workplace safety cuts
- SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier speaks to Wayne State students in Detroit
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SEP (Australia) Public Meetings
Gillard commits to indefinite war: End the occupation of Afghanistan! - Tony Curtis (1925-2010)
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
23 October 2010 (front page)
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As police attack refinery strikers
French Senate votes pension cuts over mass opposition - India: 13,000 contract workers strike at lignite mine and power-company
- US mortgage crisis: The case for public ownership
- Cholera epidemic kills 150 in Haiti
- Seven million without shelter months after Pakistan floods
- National Public Radio fires Juan Williams
- US Justice Department abandons murder case against Blackwater contractor
- Australian government expands refugee detention
- Egyptian opposition decides to take part in elections
- Sri Lanka: JVP unions submit budget proposal to government
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
25 October 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Support the socialist alternative in the Victorian state election
- G20 meeting papers over conflicts
- New York Times tries character assassination against WikiLeaks founder Assange
- The Afghan peace talks and the “war on terror”
- WikiLeaks releases documents exposing US war crimes in Iraq
- Strikes continue in France against pension cuts
- France: New Anti-Capitalist Party academic advocates surrender to Sarkozy’s cuts
- General strike in Argentina over killing of left-wing youth
- Six months of the Gulf oil disaster
- Government seeks to crush strike of Foxconn workers in India
- New York Philharmonic musicians back DSO strike
- This week in history: October 25-November 1
26 October 2010 (front page)
- Chinese leadership meeting squashes talk of political reform
- Haiti cholera epidemic reaches Port-au-Prince
- Once again on the Australian Greens and the Afghan war
- Pope creates Australia’s first “saint”
- 法国罢工潮：阶级斗争的一个新阶段
- The WikiLeaks documents and the rape of Iraq
- French government, unions seek to limit strikes against pension cuts
- Angolan asylum seeker killed during forced British deportation
- Cleveland Orchestra musicians join striking DSO players for support concert
- Minority government formed in Sweden
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
27 October 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Victorian government covers up desalination plant costs
- Midterm elections to usher in further shift by Obama to the right
- Small Australian towns face devastation under river “rescue plan”
- Sri Lanka: War widows left in poverty
- WikiLeaks reveals private security contractors killed Iraqis with impunity
- Child soldier Omar Khadr coerced into plea-bargain
- Opel’s auto works in Antwerp to close by end of year
- Activist assaulted by Rand Paul supporters in Kentucky
- Debtors' prisons on the rise in the US
- New York gubernatorial campaign centers on pledges to attack state workers
- French strike movement at a crossroads
28 October 2010 (front page)
- Revelations of “systemic” torture by British military
- Tariq Aziz faces judicial murder in Iraq
- French strikes continue as parliament approves pension cuts
- Hundreds dead after two Indonesian disasters
- Cost-cutting yields surging profits for Ford
- Arizona execution proceeds after Supreme Court lifts stay
- Australian Labor government pushes pro-business austerity agenda
- Right-wing populist Ford elected Toronto mayor
- Falling overseas enrolments compound funding crisis for Australian universities
- Michigan: Washtenaw Community College faculty face privatization
- More letters to the Indianapolis GM Stamping Rank-and-File Committee
- Letters from our readers
29 October 2010 (front page)
- Millions march in France against pension cuts
- Moldova before the elections
- The 2010 elections, the working class and the Democratic Party
- Sino-Japanese relations remain tense
- Australia’s central bank chief highlights rise of China
- Key witness in Khadr case based testimony on work of anti-Muslim bigot
- Incentives in US health care bill for employers to drop coverage
- US government undervaluing losses on AIG bailout
- Capitalism and the Chilean miners
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
30 October 2010 (front page)
- Canada’s role in the persecution of child soldier Omar Khadr
- GDP report heralds still higher US unemployment
- Security alert ties up US air cargo shipments
- Trade union bureaucracy strangles French oil strike
- The WSWS speaks to workers on October 28 day of action in France
- EU steps up pressure for austerity measures
- Halliburton tests warned of cement problems before BP well blowout
- London fire fighters strike against mass dismissals
- Sri Lanka: UNP mounts bogus campaign against slum evictions
- Australia: Victorian government buries toxic dump as election issue
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Break with Obama and the Democrats
Build a socialist movement against mass unemployment and war - Aquino government blocks strike at Philippine Airlines
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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