Archive: July 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 July 2010 (front page)
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Attend SEP (Australia) meetings in Perth and Newcastle
The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism and the Case for Socialism - US Congress withholds billions from Medicaid, jobless benefits
- G20 summit exposes deep trans-Atlantic differences
- German government receives a drubbing in the presidential election
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Video series: The Gulf oil spill
Part 3—The social impact - Hurricane Alex sends oil onto shores of Gulf states
- Fears of a Chinese economic slowdown
- Signs of new recession throw stock markets into turmoil
- Supreme Court ruling encourages right-wing campaign on gun possession
- Aquino installed as Philippine president
- Spain: Striking Metro workers face military intervention and union betrayal
- Global corporations compete for West African minerals
- Letters from our readers
2 July 2010 (front page)
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Senate approves Petraeus nomination by 99-0
Bipartisan backing for US escalation in Afghanistan - German presidential election: A warning shot for Merkel
- Australia: Clean sweep for mining giants as Labor government capitulates on tax
- BP “claims czar”: No compensation for most victims of oil spill
- Who is Kenneth Feinberg?
- BP oil spill now worst ever in Gulf of Mexico
- Supreme Court nominee Kagan placates Republican right at confirmation hearing
- China: Strike erupts in Japanese-owned electronics plant
- British National Health Service faces life-threatening cuts
- Report highlights political persecution in Indonesia
- US telecom Verizon to cut 12,000 jobs this week
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
3 July 2010 (front page)
- Sri Lankan budget imposes IMF austerity demands
- US jobs report points to deepening slump
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- BP oil disaster at 75 days
- New Australian prime minister pledges support for US alliance and Afghan war
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Video series: The Gulf oil spill
Part four—The environment - West Virginia miner killed in Massey operation
- Pharmaceuticals impose embargo on Greek health service
- Slovakia: new right-wing government announces austerity program
- British unions block struggle against government austerity plans
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James P. Cannon on Independence Day
From Karl Marx to the Fourth of July - Mehring Books 2010 Summer Sale
5 July 2010 (front page)
- Canada: Steelworkers union finalizing concessions contract at Vale
- Harsh new US penalties against Iran
- Mehring Books 2010 Summer Sale
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July 4th in America:
A government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich - Crisis intensifies for German government
- Prime Minister Zapatero forced to defend Spain’s solvency
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Video series: The Gulf oil spill
Part 5—Residents respond to the disaster - Bangladesh government cracks down on protesting garment workers
- How the French railway workers strike was betrayed by the unions
- Mass dismissals in the global printing press industry
- This week in history: July 5-July 11
- Tentative pact by Minnesota nurses’ union gives up safe patient ratios
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 1: Increased attendances but no real signs of a revitalised cinema
6 July 2010 (front page)
- General Petraeus takes command as killing in Afghanistan escalates
- Censorship and cover-up in the Gulf oil disaster
- New Australian PM put “on notice” by global markets
- Oil industry benefits from billions in tax breaks
- Low voter turnout in Mexican state elections
- Polish presidential election: Komorowski’s victory augurs massive social attacks in Poland
- Britain’s Housing Benefit changes will increase social misery
- California pension system seeks $700 million in state funds
- Globalization and its human consequences: The Red Tail
- An interview with Dawn Mikkelson, co-director of The Red Tail
- An interview with Melissa Koch, co-director of The Red Tail
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
7 July 2010 (front page)
- Bettencourt tax-evasion scandal rocks French government
- Biden’s Baghdad mission: Securing “long term strategic” US interests
- The international significance of the political coup in Australia
- Army charges soldier for leaking video of US massacre in Baghdad
- Germany: Left Party bows before SPD and Greens
- Oil spill reaches Texas and Lake Pontchartrain
- June was deadliest month for foreign troops in Afghan war
- Spending cuts in British government departments may top 40 percent
- Oregon budget cuts, recession darken outlook for unemployed
- State of Emergency declared in Chester, Pennsylvania
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“The level of government secrecy today is incredible”
A conversation with Judith Ehrlich - Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 2: Last Train Home and The Most Dangerous Man in America and two less successful documentaries
8 July 2010 (front page)
- Obama endorses Netanyahu as “man of peace”
- Austerity for workers, tax cuts for business—Europe’s class policy
- Heat wave exposes decrepit infrastructure in US, Canada
- Indian Stalinists join BJP in one-day strike against fuel price hikes
- 27,000 abandoned oil wells in Gulf of Mexico
- Australia: Prime Minister Gillard unveils harsh new measures against refugees
- US government files suit against Arizona anti-immigrant law
- US anti-immigrant campaign spreads beyond Arizona
- Sri Lanka: Government-backed protesters besiege UN office over war crimes investigation
- Pennsylvania budget deal cuts education, human services
- Thai government extends emergency rule
- California governor seeks reductions in state worker pay
- Britain: Doncaster Council taken over by government fiat
- Sri Lankan nurses’ unions call off pay protest campaign
9 July 2010 (front page)
- Greece: Sixth general strike as PASOK passes austerity package
- SPD, Greens, Left Party groomed for new role in German politics
- IMF forecasts slower growth for world economy
- US appeals court rejects moratorium on deepwater drilling
- Coast Guard media liaison works for PR firm hired by BP
- US opposes Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline
- Sri Lankan government speeds up slum evictions in Colombo
- Illinois budget cuts gouge education, social services
- Workers pay the price for Germany’s health care “reforms”
- CNN fires senior Mideast editor over comments on cleric
- Britain: Attack on civil service redundancy pay anticipates massive job losses throughout public sector
- Australian PM Gillard and the reactionary nostrum of “border protection”
- Union forces hospitals’ demands on Minnesota nurses
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
10 July 2010 (front page)
- Thousands of Colombo slum dwellers rounded up by Sri Lankan military
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- British Sangin pull-out evidences deepening crisis of US Afghan intervention
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Mass arrests in Oakland protests against court verdict
Police officer who killed defenseless man given lenient verdict - Suffering and struggle: Six months after the Haitian earthquake
- Australia’s political coup leaders and their big business connections
- More oil contaminates parts of Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana
- BP workers exposed to chemical linked to Exxon Valdez spill illnesses
- Germany: Coalition deal in NRW means cuts in jobs and services
- Bogus wage rises fuel anger among Chinese workers
- Denmark’s Conservative-Liberal coalition imposes major spending cuts
- New York City subway and bus cuts take effect
- Obama’s “jobs program”: Poverty wages and mass unemployment
- Brillante Mendoza discusses Lola
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 3: Thai-style magic realism, Chinese history and poverty in the Philippines
- Letters from our readers
12 July 2010 (front page)
- While BP replaces cap on well, millions of gallons of oil flow into Gulf
- Oil companies complicit in Sudan civil war, report alleges
- Greece: What is behind the right wing-split from SYRIZA?
- French National Assembly debates burqa ban
- Steelworkers union forces end to year-long Vale-Inco strike
- California proposes to eliminate CalWORKS welfare program
- Fijian military junta suppresses media
- New Zealand government attacks beneficiaries
- General who says “It’s fun to kill people” picked to oversee US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq
- Dare more dictatorship! Professor Münkler praises authoritarian rule
- This week in history: July 12-July 18
13 July 2010 (front page)
- European economy slowed by sovereign debt, banking crises
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Six months since the earthquake
American imperialism and the Haitian catastrophe - Swiss authorities decide against extraditing Roman Polanski
- Australia: The political calculations behind Prime Minister Gillard’s “Timor Solution”
- National Commission on oil spill covers up for BP, government
- Syria deregulates its economy to further rapprochement with Washington
- Growing poverty in Syria
- Coal miner killed in Illinois mine
- Massachusetts budget makes deep cuts to cities and towns
- Mass roundup in Sri Lankan capital: a sharp warning to the working class
- Australian SEP conferences discuss Gillard coup and the global economic crisis
- Letters from our readers
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SEP conference participants speak to WSWS
“The system itself is failing and we can’t really afford to wait around” - Solitary Man: But what made this man solitary?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 July 2010 (front page)
- Obama, BP seek new “turning point” with well-capping effort
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 4: If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle and How I Ended Last Summer
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BP cuts benefits to victims of Gulf oil disaster
“Claims czar” urges residents not to sue BP - Sarkozy television interview: a brazen defense of the financial aristocracy
- Casual labour on the rise in Germany
- Half a million Israelis live on stolen West Bank land
- Irish government facing electoral rout
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Bypassing congressional confirmation process
Obama makes recess appointment of new chief of Medicare and Medicaid - Australia: Incompetent surgeon jailed for manslaughter
- The new normal
- Der Spiegel defends the Afghan war
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SEP (Australia) conferences pass resolution
The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism and the Case for Socialism - Latest edition of WSWS Perspectives now available
15 July 2010 (front page)
- Afghan attacks kill 12 US, British troops in 48 hours
- The global economic crisis and the political coup in Australia
- Mining executive’s speech points to key role in Australian coup
- Armed confrontation with Gaza aid ship narrowly averted
- What was Washington’s role in the coup against Australian prime minister Rudd?
- BP abruptly suspends testing on new well cap
- Presidential commission denounces deep sea drilling moratorium
- North Rhine-Westphalia: Left Party plays key role in facilitating SPD-Green coalition
- Germany and France use loans to Greece to push for major arms deals
- Fiji expels senior Australian diplomat
- Penn State tuition up 5.9 percent
- Liberal television host Rachel Maddow solidarizes herself with US military in Afghanistan
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Present historic: Carlyle, Robespierre and the French Revolution
Part one
16 July 2010 (front page)
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As Congress, Obama stall action
US jobless benefit cutoff to hit three million - The crisis of German democracy and calls for a “left” government
- Trade tensions loom over US and China
- Obama’s toothless banking overhaul to become law
- Australia: Gillard touts her economic “reform” credentials but coup questions persist
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BP begins two-day pressure test of new capping device
Possible damage to well casing - Researchers predict oil spill could reach Atlantic Ocean
- Major seabird nesting area in Louisiana contaminated by oil
- Sri Lankan government uses emergency laws to charge former presidential candidate
- Imprisoned for debt in America
- Media demands France prepare for world war
- Hundreds of school rebuilds scrapped by British government
- Utah vigilante group releases undocumented immigrant hit list
- SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier files petitions for Michigan state election
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Greetings and report from the US SEP to conferences in Australia
American capitalism’s decline and the tasks of the working class - Detroit house fires kill one, injure two
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Present historic: Carlyle, Robespierre, and the French Revolution
Part two - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
17 July 2010 (front page)
- Present historic: Carlyle, Robespierre and the French Revolution
- US stocks plunge on signs of renewed slump
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Judge sentences US civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart to 10 years
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As BP claims success in capping well
Gulf economy in ruins - Indian Stalinists split over what right-wing course to follow
- IMF tells Japanese government to raise consumption tax despite election defeat
- Settlement in fraud case against Goldman Sachs: A cover-up of Wall Street crimes
- 20 workers injured in US Steel blast
- Britain: Why did the police man-hunt of Raoul Moat end in death?
- Britain’s Rowntree Foundation: The poor are getting poorer
- Australian union bosses seek to protect superannuation posts
- Michigan farm workers die from inhaling fumes in silo
- The “Berlin Club”: Germany plans to put Europe on rations
- HBO’s Hung: Exploring social desperation, among other things
- Detroit fires kill two, injure one
- Letters from our readers
19 July 2010 (front page)
- Australia: The political issues in the University of NSW work bans dispute
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SEP stands candidates to provide socialist alternative
Prime Minister Gillard calls snap Australian election - Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 5: Corruption, war in the Middle East, poverty in the US and other issues
- Australia: Socialist Equality Party announces its 2010 election candidates
- German Chancellor Merkel visits Russia, Asia as criticism of foreign policy grows
- Sri Lanka: Mattakkuliya slum dwellers denounce police-military repression
- Seepage found near BP’s capped Macondo well
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Feinberg to fishermen: “Don’t blame the spill—life is unfair!”
Workers angry over decision to subtract “cleanup pay” from claims - Egypt: Protests mount over police murder of Khaled Said
- Czech government announces drastic economic measures
- Obama postures on unemployment benefits while defending Wall Street
- This week in history: July 19-July 25
- Scientists directly image an extra-solar planet’s orbit around a young star
20 July 2010 (front page)
- Cameron’s “Big Society:” Thatcherism’s new guise
- West Papuan protests voice discontent with Indonesian rule
- A lie exposed
- French police use live ammunition against riots over police killings
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SEP candidate speaks at academics’ union forum
A revealing political line-up in Australian election campaign - UK plans stepped-up offensive under new head of armed forces
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US government bows to BP on well cap
Seepage and “undetermined anomalies” found near Macondo well - Bulgaria: European business calls for harsher measures
- United Farm Workers launches reactionary “Take Our Jobs” campaign
- New York State budget crisis will mean draconian cuts for public education
- An exchange with a reader on “Liberal television host Rachel Maddow solidarizes herself with US military in Afghanistan”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 July 2010 (front page)
- US Senate advances stripped-down jobless benefits bill
- Australia: Election slogans spark wave of disgust
- BP considers “static kill” procedure
- Job losses in Gulf region could reach 100,000 or more
- SEP candidate calls for political struggle against Labor’s anti-strike laws
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Socialist candidate blocked from addressing building workers rally
Unions deflect anger over Labor’s prosecution of South Australian construction worker - Russian government to slash budget deficit
- Germany: Resignation of Hamburg mayor deepens crisis for Merkel and the CDU
- Israel land-grab escalates in East Jerusalem
- Avandia controversy highlights broken pharmaceutical regulatory system
- India’s latest train crash kills 66 in West Bengal
- For-profit universities thrive on unemployment
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Police killing in Oakland, California
The Oscar Grant verdict: some political lessons - Over 160,000 Michigan utility shutoffs from January to May 2010
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SEP public meetings in New Orleans and Mobile
The Gulf oil disaster and capitalism
22 July 2010 (front page)
- Afghan conference endorses indefinite occupation
- Australia: Xstrata launches new provocations against Tahmoor miners
- Socialist candidate’s open letter exposes attempted political censorship at UNSW rally
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SEP candidate addresses student rally at University of New South Wales
“This fight is first and foremost a political struggle against the Gillard government” - From stimulus to austerity: An international class-war policy
- Cameron negotiates BP-Libya minefield in Washington
- China: Protracted strike at Honda parts supplier
- The Shirley Sherrod firing: Once again, the Obama administration cowers before ultra-right
- Zardari's visit strengthens Pakistan-China relations
- Public health crisis looms in Gulf
- Spain: Unions force pay cut on Madrid Metro workers
- Government resignation deepens crisis of Swiss democracy
- Sri Lankan protest reveals discontent over wages
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The social crisis in Appalachia
Part 1: Deprivation and inequality in the coalfields -
“Everything is for the rich people, and the poor people are just hurting”
Harlan, Kentucky resident speaks to the WSWS - Illinois construction workers end three-week strike
23 July 2010 (front page)
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The consequences of a US war crime
Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima - US jobless claims, housing data point to worsening economy
- Australia: Electrical union members disaffiliate from Labor
- Australian election: The Labor government’s childcare backdown and the profit system
- Fishermen on strike against BP
- Deepwater Horizon workers knew of problems before explosion
- Finland targeted for EU/IMF austerity demands
- Detroit: Jobs scarce as home foreclosures hit record
- Massey shut off methane detectors at deadly mine
- Social crisis in California deepens for millions
- Merkel’s trip to China
- Michigan governor signs law witch-hunting workers for “energy theft”
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 6: Two classics and one that might have been
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
24 July 2010 (front page)
- Australian PM Gillard’s climate change speech—another admission of bankruptcy on the environment
- Letters from our readers
- Sri Lankan government pushes university privatisation
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The social crisis in Appalachia
Part 2: An epidemic of ill health among the poor - US naval exercise heightens tensions in Asia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Most oil industry lobbyists in US worked for government
- Venezuela breaks with Colombia over guerrilla accusations
- Germany’s ex-defence minister warns of a “cold military putsch”
- Britain: Local authorities face devastating cuts and rationalisation
- Ontario Liberals push wage freeze scheme
- British deputy prime minister admits Iraq war was illegal
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“When your kids go hungry—you’re going to find a way to get some money”
Homeless in Harlan, Kentucky
26 July 2010 (front page)
- Afghanistan casualty rate highest of war
- Australia’s political coup and the role of the ex-left
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Report rubber-stamps bonuses
On Wall Street, crime pays very well - Stress test whitewash of European banks
- Australia: Gillard and Abbott stage sham election debate
- Alarm on BP oil rig disabled prior to explosion
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In the shadow of bankruptcy
Yonkers, New York slashes schools, services - 1,500 layoffs at Pittsburgh health system
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Socialist Equality Party election meetings
The socialist alternative to austerity, social inequality and war - SEP candidate to be placed on the ballot in Detroit
- This week in history: July 26-August 1
27 July 2010 (front page)
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Diane Ravitch’s The Death and Life of the Great American School System
An insider’s critique of education “reform” - Australian election: The fraud of Labor’s “Work Choices” scare campaign
- Implications of Rudd coup discussed at SEP meeting in Newcastle
- Leaked documents expose imperialist war in Afghanistan
- Sri Lankan government enlists services of former LTTE leader
- A record of war crimes
- Germany: 20 dead and hundreds injured at techno music festival
- The refoundation of Spain’s United Left: A turn to the banks
- Mass teacher firings in Washington, DC
- BP attempts to buy silence of Gulf Coast scientists
- Police cleared of all charges in death of London G20 victim Ian Tomlinson
- Crowding, rising tuition at Michigan community colleges
- Report reveals systematic brutality against child offenders in Britain
- The Sherrod affair and American social reality
- I am Love and The Leopard: Italian cinema new and old
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The social crisis in Appalachia
Part 3: Environmental disaster and private profit -
“Massey has destroyed the wells and the water”
Williamson, West Virginia, residents speak to the WSWS - Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 July 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Labor’s mental illness plan and the healthcare crisis
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One day after WikiLeaks exposures of US war crimes
Congress ratifies Obama escalation of Afghanistan war - Indian security forces crack down on Kashmiri protests
- Australian election takes place in a ‘parallel universe’
- British politicians and media dismiss WikiLeaks details of Afghanistan war crimes
- BP’s Hayward out, with golden parachute
- BP to take $10 billion tax write-off for cleanup
- IMF and EU step up the pressure on Hungary
- “Priority Schools” in Detroit: A thin disguise for charters and privatization
- Ontario Liberals push wage freeze scheme
- The New York Times and the Afghan documents
29 July 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Prime Minister Gillard answers damaging leaks with display of “steel”
- SEP (Australia) relaunches party web site
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold a public meeting against police-state measures
- Sri Lankan students protest against police over university death
- The “new normal”: More than one in five Americans at risk of destitution
- The Afghanistan documents and the struggle against war
- Gulf oil spill: 100 days of disaster
- Judge blocks main provisions of Arizona anti-immigrant law
- The German Love Parade disaster: Not a tragic accident, but a crime
- Report exposes journalist killings in Honduras
- 800,000 gallons of oil spilled into Michigan river
- Support the socialist alternative to war, social inequality and attacks on democratic rights! Build the Socialist Equality Party!
- A somber look back: Mad Men, Season 4
- Letters from our readers
30 July 2010 (front page)
- EU, Australia and Canada impose tough sanctions on Iran
- Young people disenfranchised in Australia’s snap election
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Obama in Detroit
Returning to the scene of the crime - Pentagon retaliates against WikiLeaks, Pvt. Manning
- Russia to expand military aid to US occupation of Afghanistan
- Corporate media downplays Gulf oil spill
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Michigan oil spill forces evacuations
Regulators warned Enbridge of pipeline corrosion - UN court upholds Kosovo’s declaration of independence
- French parliamentary commission approves pension cuts
- Democrats, Republicans posture as friends of small business
- Italy’s Berlusconi government racked by scandals and growing tensions
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“Justice had nothing to do with it”
An interview with Richard Brenneman, journalist who covered the Polanski trial -
The social crisis in Appalachia
Part 4: Youth prospects -
“If you got hurt and took an ambulance, you would die”
Matewan, West Virginia, residents speak on dearth of services - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
31 July 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Labor’s punitive industrial legislation in action
- Sri Lanka: The JVP’s cynical posturing as a defender of democracy
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Demagogy and economic nationalism from Obama
The wage-cutter in chief visits Detroit - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Europe’s class policy: A blank check for the banks, austerity for workers
- Greek truck drivers defy government
- As casualties in Afghanistan rise, Army suicides, drug use set new records
- The American left and the WikiLeaks documents
- Dozens arrested in Arizona demonstrations against anti-immigrant law
- As BP winds down cleanup, environmental impact spreads
- Duisburg protesters demand resignation of mayor
- Techno music festival disaster—those responsible deny all charges
- “Nothing will ever be the same”—interview with an eyewitness
- France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party considers role in government
- Iraq establishes special court to prosecute journalists
- New York police to continue stop-and-frisk onslaught despite new law
- Rhode Island ACLU expands lawsuit over Chinese immigrant’s death
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