Archive: July 2011
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 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Labor’s “welfare quarantining” trials target unemployed
- Further evidence of lack of safety at New Zealand mine
- Sri Lankan army attempts to block SEP meeting in Jaffna
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As new fiscal year begins
US states slash spending, cut jobs - The US policy of assassination
- Public sector strike hits across Britain
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Young and jobless in Chicago
Part 1: For students, a summer without jobs - Kabul hotel attack shakes US occupation regime in Afghanistan
- Germany: Greens agree to Merkel’s nuclear phase-out
- Stalinist union ends occupation at Suzuki plant in India
- The anti-worker program of the new “Right Cause” party in Russia
- Britain’s rail union calls off strikes, agrees to curtail future strikes
- How the SWP in Britain cover for the betrayals of the trade union bureaucracy
- The criminalization of the Canadian postal strike and the role of the unions and NDP
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2 July 2011 (front page)
- Australian airline foreshadows major restructuring and shift to Asia
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The tip of the iceberg of Wall Street criminality
Bank of America agrees to $8.5 billion settlement on fraud claims - Banks secure own interests at Greece’s expense
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Democratic Party in California passes austerity budget
State spending reduced to lowest level in 29 years - France arms anti-Gaddafi forces
- Miner killed in Harlan, Kentucky
- New York rape case against former IMF chief collapses
- Northern Ireland: Ulster Volunteer Force instigates sectarian riots
- The assault on public education in America
- US-China rivalry compounds Thai election tension
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4 July 2011 (front page)
- CEO pay in US soared 23 percent in 2010
- Global markets nervous about China’s mounting debt
- Political lessons of the Strauss-Kahn affair
- Washington boosts military ties with the Philippines
- Protests, strikes continue against military junta in Egypt
- Syrian protests spread against Assad regime
- Minnesota state government shuts down in budget crisis
- Connecticut workers oppose union-backed concessions
- One in six junior school children streamed in England
- Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team files for bankruptcy
- Young and jobless in Chicago
- Germany’s phase out of nuclear power: The pathos of national unity
- One year after the police ran amuck at Toronto’s G20 summit
- This week in history: July 4 - July 10
5 July 2011 (front page)
- Britain’s Independent advocates nationalist populism
- European think-tank warns: Insurgency strengthening in Afghanistan
- Iceland’s former prime minister charged with negligence over financial crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Military stalemate in Libya heightens US-NATO crisis
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Casualities of budget cuts
New school and medical center in Riverside, California to remain closed - Ninety years since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party
- Obama administration shuts down investigations into Bush-era torture
- Private schools boom in Germany
- Pro-Thaksin party to form next Thai government after election win
- Upper Big Branch mine operator hid safety problems before disaster
6 July 2011 (front page)
- Egyptians protest state defense of police violence
- Fifty years since the death of Ernest Hemingway
- New Zealand: Entire suburbs to be abandoned after earthquakes
- Saudi Arabia bans maids from Indonesia and the Philippines
- US teachers’ union endorses Obama for 2012 election
- Famine threat in the Horn of Africa
- Canada’s foreign affairs minister meets with Libyan rebels
- New wave of state worker layoffs begins in New York
- After Fukushima: Massive global expansion of nuclear industry under way
- US women charged with murder following miscarriage
- Poor nurse staffing leads to rising hospital-acquired illness in US
- The political lessons of Greece
- The “snap back” in the global art market
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Young and Jobless in Chicago
Part 3: Budget cuts - Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 July 2011 (front page)
- Another series of coal mine disasters in China
- Australian parliamentary inquiry whitewashes refugee disaster
- Hacienda Luisita and the farce of Philippine land reform
- US air strikes kill women and children in Afghanistan
- News of the World phone hacking scandal escalates
- American Axle to close Detroit complex
- ExxonMobil oil spill befouls Yellowstone River
- Israel prepares brutal response to Gaza flotilla ship
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon selected as the French Communist Party’s presidential candidate
- SPD in Berlin appoints hardliner as new police chief
- Obama’s budget summit
- The New York Times and the presumption of guilt
- Letters from our readers
8 July 2011 (front page)
- After the Thai election: A warning to the working class
- Australian Greens assume balance of power in the Senate
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US Supreme Court denies stay of execution
Texas sends Mexican national to death in violation of international law - Obama puts Social Security on chopping block
- Mass protest in Egypt calls for “second revolution”
- Default looms as Portugal’s bonds downgraded to “junk” status
- Devastating cuts to state Medicaid programs
- Germany offers bombs and military technology for war against Libya
- 120,000 students, teachers march in Chile against attacks on public education
- General Motors closes Indianapolis stamping plant
- Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- The acquittal of Casey Anthony
- A comment on Peter Falk’s finest moments: Husbands and A Woman Under the Influence
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 July 2011 (front page)
- Former top aide to British prime minister arrested in Murdoch hacking scandal
- Pakistani military launches offensive into Kurram agency
- Slave labour conditions in New Zealand’s fishing industry
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US jobs report points to renewed downturn
- Mass protests mark “Friday of Determination” in Egypt
- Five days after Detroit storm, thousands languish without power
- SYRIZA leader offers his services to the European political elite
- New York Times questions spending on “Extremely Expensive Cancer Drugs”
- The illegal state murder of Humberto Leal Garcia
- Letters from our readers
11 July 2011 (front page)
- Australian Labor government unveils carbon tax
- Former Taiwanese president indicted for embezzlement
- Malaysian government cracks down on electoral reform rally
- White House begins new push for social spending cuts
- Obama’s hypocrisy on the corporate jet tax loophole
- Anti-Assad protests as “national dialogue” launched in Syria
- Youth face jobless summer in New York City
- Charter schools in the US: Wall Street’s education model
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“Michigan charters are like a runaway train”
A conversation with Mary T. Wood, charter schools whistleblower - PSA auto workers protest plant closures in France
- UK elderly care report pushes private insurance
- Murdoch and the rule of the oligarchy
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Public meeting in Bristol, England
Hands off Libya!
Behind NATO’s war drive - This week in history: July 11-July 17
12 July 2011 (front page)
- Australian treasurer warns of global economic “contagion”
- China’s mountain of debt
- Obama toes Wall Street line in debt talks
- Press under attack in Haiti
- Financial markets target Italy
- Minnesota state budget shutdown in second week
- Partition of Sudan prepares way for further conflicts
- Five New Orleans police officers stand trial for post-Katrina killings
- The 2018 Winter Olympics: Money and power
- Netherlands budget cuts hit social services
- Why is the New Anti-Capitalist Party silent on the Libyan war?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
13 July 2011 (front page)
- Documents prove Australian complicity in Iraq war crimes
- French government manoeuvres for resolution to Libyan war
- Killing of Karzai’s brother deepens US crisis in Afghanistan
- Sri Lankan ex-lefts promote illusions in Tamil National Alliance
- The US jobs crisis
- UK hacking scandal yields new reports of criminality by Murdoch press
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fights extradition to Sweden
- WikiLeaks has provided evidence of war crimes, say Assange supporters
- The dramatic effect of poverty on death rates in the US
- UN report hits German social policies
- Another Kentucky coal miner killed
- US Internet service providers join big media in copyright crackdown
14 July 2011 (front page)
- New Thai government faces pressure to ditch election pledges
- Oranges and Sunshine: the story of Britain’s “child migrants”
- US defense secretary visits Iraq to extract new troop agreement
- Wall Street demands action on debt ceiling, deficit
- Terrorist attack in Mumbai kills 21
- In bipartisan vote French parliament continues war in Libya
- California State University raises tuition
- UK judge defers judgement on extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange
- Canada’s military to establish base in Kuwait in push for global presence
- 39 dead from US heat wave
- The Murdoch hacking scandal and class “justice”
- The New York Times’ Roger Cohen lavishes praise on Rupert Murdoch
- Letters from our readers
15 July 2011 (front page)
- Fissures deepen over European debt crisis
- Top US and Chinese generals exchange words over South China Sea
- UFCW prepares betrayal of California supermarket workers
- WSWS/ISSE meeting discusses austerity measures in New Zealand
- Where Obama’s axe will fall
- FBI to investigate allegations News Corp. hacked 9/11 victims’ phone records
- Attacks on US and French embassies used to step up pressure on Syrian regime
- Obama campaign raises record sums from the wealthy
- US Fed prepared for more “stimulus”
- Remote control murder: Afghan drones operated from Nevada and Virginia
- Berlusconi doubles cuts in Italian austerity program
- US suspends aid to Pakistan
- Massachusetts budget slashes spending
- Wage cuts and job losses at UK’s Southampton council
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
16 July 2011 (front page)
- As military operations stall, US recognises Libyan rebels
- Australian PM promotes carbon tax as pro-business reform
- Obama presses case for “something big” on social spending cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mass protests continue against Egyptian regime
- Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Murdoch’s News International operated a “criminal-media nexus”
- States axe higher education budgets, hike tuition
- Michigan welfare benefits cut to 48 months
- Widening health inequalities match UK poverty patterns
- German arms to Saudi Arabia
- The European debt crisis and the threat of dictatorship
- Horrible Bosses: It’s true, most Americans hate those they work for
18 July 2011 (front page)
- Australian Greens embroiled in Tasmanian school closures debacle
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Murdoch scandal spreads
Britain’s police chief resigns over relations with News International - US delegation tours Pacific island states
- Arrest of Rebekah Brooks takes hacking probe one step closer to the Murdochs
- Obama, Congress move towards deal on budget cuts
- Minnesota budget agreement slashes social spending
- State repression stepped up as strike wave grows in South Africa
- Need overwhelms Southern California food pantries
- EU concludes negotiations over Croatia’s accession
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NY Times’ David Brooks on “Death and Budgets”
The voice of the ruling class - The International Socialist Organization’s perspective in tatters
- This week in history: July 18-July 24
- BBC journalists’ strike hits all UK service’s major news programs
19 July 2011 (front page)
- British Prime Minister Cameron’s position under threat in Murdoch scandal
- Global economic crisis intrudes into Australian carbon tax “debate”
- Sri Lankan media voices concerns about Rajapakse’s pro-China orientation
- The class politics of the US debt ceiling crisis
- Commercial rivalries underlay conflict with Murdoch’s media empire
- Obama administration operates illegal torture compound in Somalia
- Obama passes over Elizabeth Warren to head Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Growing poverty for children and youth in Berlin
- UAW president calls for elimination of pay increases
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
20 July 2011 (front page)
- An interview with George Coling of the National Fuel Funds Network
- Australian bank warns of fallout from global turmoil as consumer confidence crashes
- Second Karzai ally assassinated in Afghanistan
- The US recognises Libya’s Transitional National Council
- UK Parliamentary Select Committee continues cover-up of Murdoch scandal
- Why did UK police declare death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”
- Bookseller Borders Group to liquidate, eliminating over 10,000 jobs
- Notes on the US social crisis
- Mexico’s former ruling party, the PRI, gains in governors’ races
- Utility Affordability Conference in Florida: Increased need, decreased support
- An interview with Florida attorney Viletta Coombs
- An Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism: Tony Kushner looks at the decay of the “left”
- Dawn spacecraft reaches the asteroid Vesta
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SEP holds meeting in Berlin
Greece and the euro crisis
21 July 2011 (front page)
- Australian government deepens Northern Territory “intervention”
- Canada blocks UN from declaring asbestos a “hazardous” substance
- Democrats, Republicans vow trillions in US spending cuts
- Sri Lankan ruling party resorts to violence in northern elections
- UAW abandons wage increases
- Fierce tensions in run-up to euro-zone emergency summit
- Labour gives Cameron kid gloves treatment over Murdoch scandal
- New York City slashes aid to homeless
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, residents in shock over Borders’ imminent closure
- Rising longevity masks growing life expectancy inequalities in Britain
- Hungarian government agrees to forced labor for the unemployed
- Financial crisis deepens at New York City Opera
- Letters from our readers
22 July 2011 (front page)
- Australian TV mini-series provides glimpse into refugee experience
- Egyptian military delays election as opposition mounts
- Financial markets fear Chinese economic instability
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 1: Social complexity versus the trivial
- Tunisian police attack anti-government protests
- Deaths mount in US heat wave
- Ferndale, Michigan residents speak on power outages
- Washington steps up confrontation with China in the South China Sea
- Pakistan Peoples Party budget imposes further IMF-dictated austerity
- New York State employee union surrenders to layoff threat
- The Murdoch scandal
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
23 July 2011 (front page)
- Bombing, mass shooting kill at least 87 in Norway
- Malaysian government cracks down on opposition protesters
- Murdoch’s News Corporation scrambles to defend its media interests in Australia
- Obama steps up campaign for “tough choices” on Medicare, Social Security
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SEP (Australia) public meeting in Sydney
The crisis of the Murdoch empire and its implications for the working class - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Profits soar amid mass layoffs
- British media quick to dismiss death in Murdoch phone hacking case
- US heat wave preys on poor
- Connecticut governor, unions to make state workers revote on concessions deal
- Europe’s crisis
- Executions this week in Arizona, Texas and Georgia
- The Philippine ex-left and the South China Sea
- The Shaw Festival’s 50th Season: George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House
- An interview with Christopher Newton, director of the Shaw Festival’s Heartbreak House
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Reject appeals to government ministers:
Saving Bombardier jobs means mobilising against Britain’s Tory-Lib Dem government
25 July 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Inquest told that authorities could have prevented Christmas Island refugee disaster
- Democrats, Republicans push for deeper US spending cuts
- Trial of Khmer Rouge leaders underway in Cambodia
- Hundreds wounded in crackdown against antigovernment protests in Egypt
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Former Cameron aide and News of the World editor investigated for perjury in trial of SSP leader
Why the Scottish Socialist Party is opposed to reopening the case of Tommy Sheridan - Sharp decline in income of Germany’s low-wage earners
- UK: Thousands protest in Derby against job cuts at Bombardier
- Bombardier protesters speak to WSWS
- Germany: One year after the Love Parade disaster
- The slaughter in Oslo
- This week in history: July 25-July 31
26 July 2011 (front page)
- A new wave of factory closures threatened in China
- Fears of China’s “imbalances” add to concerns in Australian corporate elite
- Obama returns to the fraud of “equal sacrifice”
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 2: An eclectic selection with a few valuable moments
- Sydney Film Festival: Filmmaker Ivan Sen speaks to WSWS
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As contract negotiations open
UAW, Detroit carmakers prepare new attacks on US auto workers - US imperialism and the South China Sea crisis
- Fascist killer appears in Norwegian court
- James Murdoch’s evidence to British parliamentary committee challenged
- New York students hit with tuition hikes
- Notes on the US social crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
27 July 2011 (front page)
- Australian government signs punitive refugee deal with Malaysia
- Union seeks to ram through pro-market deal at Australia’s Macquarie University
- Wall Street steps up pressure for deal on budget cuts
- WikiLeaks documents shed light on US-backed intervention in Libya
- Italy: Centre-left opposition supports austerity measures
- Scottish public services face profound cuts and privatisation
- Hunger strikes spread in Montenegro
- Michigan Education Association complicit in passage of anti-teacher law
- The political establishment and the Oslo massacre
- Born This Way and the Lady Gaga phenomenon
28 July 2011 (front page)
- Anti-Assad protests enter fifth month in Syria
- Deadly crash raises question mark over China’s bullet trains
- Imperialist powers seek exit from Libyan war
- Rising corporate dissatisfaction with Australian Labor government
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 3: Global warming, village life, and other documentaries
- Unanswered questions in Norway terror attack
- More than 5 million households had their wealth wiped out since 2005
- Fascist war crime trial in Hungary ends in acquittal
- WikiLeaks cables detail US military designs on Haiti
- 3,700 US post offices targeted for closure
- Legal victory for victimised German nurse
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UK Arts Council slashes poetry funding
An interview with Poetry Book Society director Chris Holifield
29 July 2011 (front page)
- Australian government moves to confiscate book royalties from former Guantánamo prisoner
- Mass protests sweep Israel
- Thai parliament to convene next week
- US-China rivalry drives corruption scandal in the Philippines
- Workers struggle in “boom” state of Western Australia
- Obama and the debt ceiling
- French neo-fascist officials endorse Norway atrocities
- Democratic mayor rolls out Detroit downsizing plan
- Singer Amy Winehouse dead at 27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa & Middle East
30 July 2011 (front page)
- Australian High Court prepares to hear Julian Moti appeal
- New moves by British parliament to shield the Murdochs
- Sri Lanka: University teachers union sells out wage campaign
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 4: A conversation with Shelly Kraicer about Chinese independent cinema
- US economy stalls as growth rate drops to 1.3 percent
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- General's killing sparks crisis in Western-backed Libyan TNC
- The ideological roots of the Oslo atrocity
- US-backed forces launch military offensive in Somalia as aid is used as a weapon of war
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuser goes public
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Canada’s NDP leader forced to temporarily step down:
Jack Layton’s right-wing record - The Israeli protests and the unity of Arab and Jewish workers
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