Archive: September 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 September 2012 (front page)
- US Justice Department closes CIA probe with no charges in torture, murder of detainees
- US Federal Reserve set to provide further boost to banks
- Lufthansa cabin crew launch strike
- Support for break with euro grows within Finnish ruling elite
- German chancellor visits China
- Parti Quebecois promotes chauvinist, anti-immigrant agenda
- West Nile virus cases set seasonal record
- Millions in India affected by severe drought
- Three New Zealand soldiers killed in Afghanistan
- South Africa after the Marikana massacre
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Resolutions of the SEP (US) National Congress
The Organization of the Working Class and the Fight for Socialism - Jerry White concludes visit to Sri Lanka with meeting in Galle
- Australian police move to break building workers’ picket
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Dental care in America: A study in austerity, neglect and profiteering
3 September 2012 (front page)
- A new stage in the attacks on the European working class
- Australia: Refugees stage hunger strike against removal to Nauru
- Australian “liberal” press joins persecution of Assange
- Funerals of slain South African miners held as unrest spreads
- Terrorist attacks intensify after Western war threats against Syria
- This week in history: September 3-9
- Videos capture extreme police brutality in Los Angeles
- Jackson Hole discussion points to deepening economic crisis
- Jewish youth charged with assault on Israeli Arabs
- Opposition to sellout contract by Chrysler workers wins support
- Tens of thousands lose cash welfare assistance in Michigan
- Short-time working introduced at Opel
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Resolutions of the SEP Congress
Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality - Cortland, New York residents and youth discuss poor working conditions
4 September 2012 (front page)
- Australian government imposes new “performance” regime on public schools
- Australian soldiers launch reprisal over “green on blue” incident
- Clinton intervenes at Pacific Islands Forum
- Global manufacturing slumps as European banks seek bailouts
- India: Maruti Suzuki presses ahead with workforce purge
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Perspectives of the Socialist Equality Party
Resolutions of the SEP (US) National Congress - Four South African miners shot as strikes spread after Marikana massacre
- Former Obama advisers float proposals for cutting health care costs
- Jury rules for Apple against Samsung in patent dispute
- European parliament president calls for special economic zones in Greece
- Foreign students at London Metropolitan University threatened with deportation
- California Assembly passes resolution defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism
- Imperialist powers mourn death of Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi
- The Democratic convention opens
- SEP supporters campaign for ballot access in Louisiana
- Reject the plantation unions’ fraudulent electoral front
- Music review: Replica from Oneohtrix Point Never and James Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual
5 September 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Construction union offers to end blockade at Grocon site
- Obama considers new “red lines” against Iran
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First night of Democratic convention
Phony populism from a party of corporate America - Syrian opposition, Western powers push for regime change in Syria
- Frankfurt protest against Western intervention in Syria
- US letter carrier dies after delivering mail in heat wave
- Democrats slash California workers’ compensation
- Police shootings raise questions over CIA role in Mexico
- Right-wing pogroms against Roma in Hungary
- Former Gujarat minister convicted for her role in 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom
- South Africa’s miners and the fear of “contagion”
- Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White begins England tour
- Flight attendants strike at Germany’s major airports
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Socialist Equality Party (Britain) launches National Health Service Fightback web site
- Britain’s National Health Service under sustained attack
6 September 2012 (front page)
- EU, IMF demand lower wages, longer hours in Greece
- A lost generation and the struggle for socialism
- The Democratic convention: A scripted and empty spectacle
- Parti Quebecois to form minority government, after narrow election win
- Clinton pressures Beijing over South China Sea
- Tensions remain high between South Korea and Japan
- Colombian government, FARC guerrillas in peace talks
- Gulf region remains devastated one week after Hurricane Isaac
- Portland, Oregon increases transit fees
- California launches attack on public sector pensions
- Sharp fall in number of UK university students
- US Presidential candidate Jerry White addresses Manchester audience
- Peter and the Starcatcher: An evening of complacent children’s theater
- Letters from our readers
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) resolution to AEU mass meeting
- Striking teachers and support staff speak out
- Victorian teachers’ union blocks fight against Labor’s assault on public education
7 September 2012 (front page)
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US political conventions
Obama speech caps two weeks of demagogy and right-wing policies - Clinton at the Democratic convention: Rhetoric vs. reality
- Financial markets rejoice over European Central Bank plan
- French trade unions urge spending cuts, labour market deregulation
- Sectarian violence erupts in Northern Ireland
- China: Sixty killed in two mine disasters
- Federal court upholds key provision of Arizona law targeting immigrants
- More than 50 million face hunger in the US
- Michigan governor signs bill attacking school employee pensions
- The Obama administration and the cover-up of CIA torture
- SEP US presidential candidate addresses London meeting
- Lufthansa strike needs the support and solidarity of all workers
- Vote SEP in Sri Lankan provincial elections
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
8 September 2012 (front page)
- Another dismal US jobs report
- The bankers’ dictatorship in Greece
- Obama's acceptance speech: A compendium of half-truths and lies
- US escalates CIA intervention on Syrian-Turkish border
- Open letter demands Chinese premier’s removal
- Canada’s government continues to persecute “child soldier” Omar Khadr
- Signs of economic reversal in Australia
- German flight attendants’ union calls for arbitration at Lufthansa
- UK government shifts further to the right
- United Steelworkers union agrees to concessions at US Steel
- The reactionary essence of California’s Proposition 30
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White reports on visit to Sri Lanka
- Jerry White discusses with workers and students at London meeting
- Under African Skies: The story of the collaboration that became Graceland
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SEP Australia public meetings
The socialist answer to Labor’s program of war and austerity - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 September 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Residents denounce lack of fire safety
- Cuts in US jobless pay, government layoffs throw 1.5 million more people into poverty
- More than 80 killed by earthquakes in southwestern China
- Sri Lanka: Ruling UPFA wins provincial elections but with reduced votes
- Teachers strike in Chicago
- French President Hollande outlines budget cuts, law-and-order policies in TV interview
- South Africa: Corruption exposed at Orkney and Grootvlei mines
- US steps up military operations in Yemen
- Scottish National Party seeks military role in the Arctic
- Slovenia threatened with national bankruptcy
- Texas: Austin police provocateurs infiltrated, entrapped Houston Occupy protesters
- California raids special funds in attempt to fix budget
- After the conventions: The political issues in the 2012 elections
- SEP (US) presidential candidate speaks at Berlin Humboldt University
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Film showings and lectures by David North
The historical significance and enduring political relevance of the 1917 Russian Revolution - This week in history: September 10-16
- Syria’s “eerie parallel to Afghanistan” and the pro-imperialist pseudo-left
11 September 2012 (front page)
- Democrats and Republicans line up against Chicago teachers
- Strikes spread in South African mines
- Striking teachers speak out in Chicago
- South African miners speak on Marikana massacre
- Bombings, death sentence stoke sectarian tensions in Iraq
- Turkey ramps up war threats against Syria
- Obama evades jobs crisis on campaign trail
- More companies charged with manipulating California energy market
- Catalan separatism whipped up in Spain
- Mining cuts deepen job losses across Australia
- WSWS speaks to wife of New Zealand mine disaster victim
- Clinton stokes up tensions with China on tour of Asia
- SEP campaigns at Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike commemoration
- “I want to have people influenced by John Heartfield”: An interview with the German artist’s grandson
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A letter from the mother of homeless Michigan man killed by police
- Letters from our readers
12 September 2012 (front page)
- Chicago teachers in forefront of fight against bipartisan assault on education
- Chicago teachers discuss political issues in their strike
- The troika returns to Athens
- Dutch elections: All parties support austerity
- German Constitutional Court to rule on euro rescue fund
- More ANC leading figures embroiled in gold mines asset stripping scandal
- India: Profiteering, negligence, and corruption lead to 50 deaths in factory explosion
- UK politicians gain from privatising National Health Service
- Share market scandal erupts in Sri Lanka
- Chinese military conducts long-range missile tests
- 9/11 anniversary: The terror pretext in tatters
- SEP vice presidential candidate discusses political issues with striking Chicago teachers
- UAW calls off Jeep contract vote
- Detroit Three demand massive concessions from Canadian auto workers
- The enigma of Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony
13 September 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Queensland budget spearheads new austerity offensive
- Pakistan factory fires kill over 300 workers
- Tensions between China and Japan flare over disputed islands
- Victory to the Chicago teachers!
- Mayor Emanuel plans to close one-fifth of Chicago public schools
- US sends Marines to Libya after ambassador’s killing
- US Census report: Record numbers in poverty and widening inequality
- State of alert declared as unrest spreads in South Africa
- German Constitutional Court gives green light for euro bailout fund
- Growing number of family tragedies in Germany
- IMF urges “more clarity” on Ireland’s austerity plans
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“The conditions for students are horrible”
SEP vice presidential candidate Phyllis Scherrer speaks to Chicago teachers
14 September 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Hundreds of Bankstown fire survivors remain locked out
- Chinese president’s top aide sidelined
- Protests against Palestinian Authority austerity measures
- The US embassy protests
- Union preparing to accept sellout contract and end Chicago teachers strike
- Students, teachers oppose attack on public education
- US Federal Reserve extends unlimited support to financial markets
- CAW moves to meet Detroit Three’s demands for two tier-wages, other givebacks
- Survey of California’s community colleges reveals harmful impact of budget cuts
- “The Quiet American”: the death of J. Christopher Stevens
- German Court ruling on euro bailout fund heralds deeper attacks on working class
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Talk by socialist candidate evokes lively discussion
Jerry White reports on international tour in Detroit - Lessons of the Lufthansa strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- An appeal from SEP (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore
15 September 2012 (front page)
- Teachers have the right to know: What’s in the contract?
- Without final contract, Chicago Teachers Union pushes for end to strike
- Anti-US protests rage across the Middle East
- Grand coalition government formed in the Netherlands
- US designates Haqqani Network in Pakistan as terrorist group
- The strange absence of China’s vice president
- Right-wing terrorist organization worked within US Army
- British TUC makes hollow general strike threat
- Sartorius report: French government backs mass layoffs at auto maker PSA
- Report on Hillsborough football disaster exposes “biggest cover-up in British legal history”
- CLASSE and Quebec’s student federations welcome PQ’s election
- The US poverty report and the Obama “recovery”
- Australia: Official wall of silence over Bankstown fire
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Chicago teachers: Reject the contract betrayal! Broaden the fight to defend jobs and public schools!
Statement by Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White - Australia: The issues behind the clash between Grocon and the construction unions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
17 September 2012 (front page)
- Australia police raids stir up new “terror” scare
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Chicago teachers vote to continue strike
Mayor threatens injunction -
Latest moves by Fed and European Central Bank
Financial parasitism and looting are the “new normal” - NATO bombing kills nine women in Afghanistan as fighting mounts
- Pakistani government facing public anger over Karachi fire
- South Africa: ANC orders security clampdown against miners’ revolt
- This deal is not what the strike was about!
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Seven weeks before US election
Polls show Obama edging ahead of Romney - Right-wing groups prepare national campaign to disenfranchise US voters
- Alcoa workers travel to Rome to protest imminent plant closure
- Ireland: Behind Clare Daly’s resignation from Socialist Party
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Prelude to the Emancipation Proclamation
150 years since the Battle of Antietam - SEP candidates discuss fight to defend education with Chicago teachers
- This week in history: September 17-23
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First Irish Theatre Festival in New York City
Silent: A homeless man in Dublin, with anger and regrets about the past
18 September 2012 (front page)
- Anti-US protests spread throughout Muslim world
- Australia: After Bankstown apartment fire, residents demand answers
- Israeli leader presses Obama to set trigger for war against Iran
- Seven Days in Chicago: What has been revealed by the Chicago teachers strike
- Under threat of injunction, Chicago teacher delegates to vote on strike
- Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against austerity
- India announces “big bang” economic reforms
- New York police arrest hundreds on first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street protests
- Discrimination of Roma in Europe intensifies
- Study shows rise in US youth population neither in workforce nor school
- SEP candidate Jerry White speaks to transit workers on Chicago teachers strike
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A brief for racial politics
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander - Metro Detroit area pipefitters on strike
- UK: Conservative Lord’s company wins £300 million National Health Service contract
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
19 September 2012 (front page)
- Australian police crackdown on anti-US protest in Sydney
- Delegates meeting votes to end Chicago teachers strike
- Mounting anti-Japanese protests in China
- Pakistan’s factory fire: An indictment of capitalism
- The two paths open to Chicago teachers
- Attacks force US to halt joint operations with Afghan troops
- CAW leadership bows to Ford Canada’s concessions demands
- The unholy nexus between Britain’s royal family, the military and the media in Afghanistan
- Caterpillar to sack 920 workers at FG Wilson, Northern Ireland
- Calls grow for slashing pensions in Ireland
- EU launches anti-monopoly suit against Russia's Gazprom
- Romney's words
- SEP vice-presidential candidate campaigns in San Diego
20 September 2012 (front page)
- American Airlines sends layoff notices to 11,000 employees
- Australian Labor government prepares for election campaign of lies
- Australian government removes refugees to Nauru
- Bangladeshi garment workers clash with police
- End of Chicago strike paves way for redoubled attack on teachers, public education
- Anti-US protests spark internal policy debate over American war drive in Syria
- Egyptian President Mursi cracks down after US embassy protests
- Mexican gas plant explosion kills some 30 workers
- All-India general strike against pro-investor “big bang” economic “reforms”
- European GM auto workers face US-style attacks
- Romanian workers protest privatization, demand resignation of union leaders
- Lockout of National Football League referees continues
- Political and historical issues in the South African miners’ revolt
- Vice presidential candidate Phyllis Scherrer speaks in San Diego
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A guest review
Bento’s Sketchbook—John Berger’s “Way of Seeing” Spinoza - Increasing use of “zero-hours” contracts in Britain’s National Health Service
- Letters from our readers
21 September 2012 (front page)
- Australia: TAFE teachers strike over job losses, assets sell off
- Lessons of the Chicago teachers strike
- Millions protest in India against “big bang” pro-market measures
- Oppose Chinese and Japanese nationalism
- Victorian TAFE teachers speak on cuts to funding
- Net worth of richest Americans soars by 13 percent in 2012
- Washington pressures Iraq over alleged arms shipments to Syria
- Obama denies health care to young immigrants granted temporary reprieve from deportation
- British royals take criminal action over topless photograph
- German police and secret services linked to neo-Nazi murder band
- Hungarian government plans further austerity measures
- Alpha Natural Resources closing eight mines, laying off 1,200
- Marikana massacre: France’s NPA sows illusions in South African government, unions
- Britain: Reject pay-cutting demands of Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s chief executive
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
22 September 2012 (front page)
- Letters from our readers
- Life expectancy falling for the poorest Americans
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 1
The wide range of human passion, action and adventure - US blames Libya attack on Al Qaeda-linked forces it previously backed
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Amid renewed signs of economic slump
Bank of America to lay off 16,000 workers - ANC President Zuma authorises use of South African army against miners
- Amid rising tensions, US defense secretary visits China and Japan
- Greece: Growing resistance to austerity measures
- “Largest-ever” demonstrations in Portugal
- Germany’s rich profit from the financial crisis
- India’s government survives defection, vows to press forward with “big bang” reforms
- Obama moves to overturn court ruling invalidating indefinite detention law
- Verizon workers should reject the concessions contract
- New Zealand: Social crisis deepens following Christchurch earthquake
- 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation
- David North to speak on Leon Trotsky at historians meeting in Mainz, Germany
- Demand Bankstown council provides accommodation and answers for Euro Terraces residents
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Oppose the Ford “pattern” of two-tier wages and concessions:
For a counteroffensive of Canadian and US auto workers! - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
24 September 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Brisbane workers and youth denounce austerity budget
- Australia: Devastating cuts to Queensland public sector jobs and services
- Australia: Funeral ceremony held for Bankstown fire victim
- Currency war warnings follow US Fed’s “quantitative easing”
- UN human rights officials visit Sri Lanka
- Chicago Symphony musicians walk out
- France’s Socialist Party government bans protests against anti-Muhammad cartoons
- Squatting now a criminal offence in the UK
- Melting ice in the Arctic unleashes race for profits
- Britain: Ian Tomlinson’s family denounce police misconduct trial as a whitewash
- Russian parliament expels Putin adversary
- A balance sheet of the Afghanistan war
- Phyllis Scherrer discusses SEP campaign, Chicago strike at California meetings
- Los Angeles workers speak on social crisis
- Socialist Equality Party (US) Congress resolutions now available as pamphlet and ebook
- This week in history: September 24-30
25 September 2012 (front page)
- Thousands of Foxconn workers clash with security guards in China
- Romney’s “47 percent” video and the bipartisan assault on social reform
- Attack in Libya disrupted major CIA operation
- UN prepares French-backed intervention in Mali
- California governor signs pension “reform” bill
- Ford Canada workers ratify concessions deal
- Study: Recession punishes West Virginia workers
- Australian budget figures mean major attacks on spending
- Unions leading race to bottom for British car workers
- Britain: Vast cover-up of Hillsborough football disaster
- SEP presidential candidate speaks to Ford Canada workers
- How Germany’s Left Party supports the war in Syria
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
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“Counterculture or Scientific Socialism”
Sri Lankan SEP to hold Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha commemorative lecture - Support the struggle of Sri Lankan university teachers
26 September 2012 (front page)
- As Australian mining boom ends, new push for wage cuts
- Australia: Bankstown council shuts fire victims out of meeting
- Obama uses UN speech to threaten war against Iran
- Banks and money markets back plans for European banking union
- Japan and China face off in island dispute
- Pakistani government breaks up protests against the US
- UAW to hold revote at Chrysler Dundee, Michigan engine plant
- Workers at French auto plant speak out against job cuts
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians ratify concessions contract
- In fourth date with death, Texas inmate executed by lethal injection
- Mentally ill double amputee shot to death by Houston police
- Birthplace of UK’s National Health Service targeted for cuts
- Miners’ strikes add to fears of South African economic downturn
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In response to Muslim protests
Europe strengthens repressive powers of the state - Video: Chicago teachers speak on their strike and the defense of public education
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 2
A World Not Ours: Where do the Palestinians go from here? -
Toronto International Film Festival 2012
An interview with Mahdi Fleifel and Patrick Campbell, director and co-producer of A World Not Ours
27 September 2012 (front page)
- Japan’s new opposition leader promotes militarist agenda
- Job cuts confirmed at New Zealand rail
- Millions of Greek workers join one-day general strike against austerity
- Spain’s anti-cuts protest violently broken up by police
- Western Australian cuts highlight sharp turn to austerity
- US elections conceal preparations for war with Iran
- Early voting begins in US elections
- Questions raised by BBC’s apology to queen over Abu Hamza
- Despite mass opposition, India pushes ahead with operationalizing nuclear plant
- Humala government outlaws strikes by Peruvian teachers and doctors
- Expo Chicago: Money and art mingle, with little benefit to art
- Poverty grows in Washington DC suburbs
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks in South Carolina
- Letters from our readers
28 September 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Bankstown fire points to safety de-regulation
- Australian PM demands UN rubberstamp war on Syria and Iran
- South Africa’s strike wave hits whole mining sector, spreads to transport
- Sri Lanka suicide rate one of the world’s highest
- Israeli prime minister lays out path to war with Iran
- US military brands Assange, WikiLeaks as “the enemy”
- The terror of US drone warfare
- National Football League and referees reach tentative agreement
- Chicago school nurses speak on shortage: “Our kids deserve better”
- Global crisis hits German auto manufacturers
- Germany: Undercover state agents active on periphery of far-right terrorist cell
- Turkish government raises consumption taxes
- Europe sees unprecedented social polarisation
- SEP presidential campaign comes to Virginia
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012--Part 3
Filmmakers respond to important events—but how they respond is also important … - Voyager spacecraft approaching interstellar space—35 years after launch
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
29 September 2012 (front page)
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As popular opposition grows
Austerity budgets imposed across Europe - Catalonia plans referendum on independence from Spain
- China: Bo Xilai expelled from the Communist Party
- US scuttles Syria negotiations, backs anti-Assad forces at UN
- AKP government moves against Turkish army
- Report reveals deteriorating social conditions in Wisconsin
- Harlan, Kentucky coal miner killed in roof fall
- UN delegation snubbed by Pakistani officials as violence ravages Balochistan
- Witchhunt intensifies against anti-US protesters in Australia
- Slovenia: Government and opposition join ranks to impose austerity
- What is behind the global stock market rally?
- Meeting in defense of Leon Trotsky at German Historians Conference
- Syria and the pro-imperialist “leftists” of the ISO
- Australia: Union/Grocon collusion against building workers
- Jerry White speaks to workers and students in Virginia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- An exchange of letters on the Emancipation Proclamation
- Letters from our readers
- 14,000-strong New England janitors union authorizes strike action
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