Archive: June 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 June 2011 (front page)
- After latest massacre, NATO to continue attacks on Afghan civilians
- Australian government expands spy agency’s powers
- Bomb blasts in Fuzhou, China
- Union betrays nine-week Australian PPG paint workers’ strike
- Defend Sri Lankan free trade zone workers
- Sri Lankan police fire on protesting free trade zone workers
- The conspiracy against Medicare
- Yemeni regime kills dozens in Taiz and Sana’a, bombs southern city
- Double-dip plunge in US home prices
- New York Democrats, Republicans push tax cap amid school cuts
- Mladic extradited to the Hague
- Berlusconi suffers defeat in Italian elections
- Ireland may need second bailout as state default looms
- Greens and Social Democrats back German government’s military reform
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“The October Revolution was the most important event of the 20th century”
Interview with Alexander Rabinowitch - HBO’s Too Big to Fail: Propaganda aimed at the US population
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The war in Libya and the crisis of the European Union
Part 3
2 June 2011 (front page)
- Australian unions hail “equal pay” ruling for community workers
- Growing death toll among former Ssangyong workers in South Korea
- NATO extends authorisation for Libya bombardment to September
- The assault on the Greek working class
- Obama, Republicans discuss massive cuts in social spending
- Further Israeli provocations on Jerusalem Day
- US Supreme Court protects abuse of material witness warrants
- Indiana enacts most expansive school voucher program in the US
- French pseudo-lefts attempt to strangle “los indignados” solidarity movement
- Inquiry findings continue cover-up of 1999 Rosemary Nelson assassination
- Socialist Equality Party to stand in Berlin elections
- Support the election campaign of the Socialist Equality Party in Berlin! For a socialist answer to welfare cuts, racism and war!
- Canadian postal workers approach strike deadline
- Mexican teachers vote to end strike
- Letters from our readers
3 June 2011 (front page)
- Greek government to announce billions more in austerity measures
- Heavy Chinese police presence after Mongolian protests
- Australia: NSW government seeks direct power to cut public sector wages
- Sri Lankan worker dies of police-inflicted wounds
- Obama touts US auto industry “turnaround”
- Spain’s 15-M protests and the politics of “autonomy”
- Heavy fighting in capital of Yemen
- Global commission brands “drug war” a failure
- Egyptian doctors threaten to renew strike
- Irish unions work to sell out pilots at Aer Lingus
- Massachusetts tornadoes kill at least three, injure dozens
- Video: Dearborn, Michigan residents protest pool closings
- The New York Times and the Joplin tornado’s “silver lining”
- Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris: No style, no substance
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
4 June 2011 (front page)
- Japanese prime minister survives no-confidence motion
- Disastrous US jobs report points to deepening slump
- Australian prime minister in love fest with mining moguls
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- European Union, IMF move toward second bailout of Greece
- Yemen fighting wounds president and prime minister
- Obama praises auto “resurgence” in the face of dismal jobs report
- Texas legislature approves “Texas-sized” attack on the working class
- State Supreme Court set to review challenge to Wisconsin anti-worker legislation
- IAEA whitewashes worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl
- Aymara protesters seize Peruvian city of Puno
- Portugal’s ruling elite plans social offensive after election
- Four dead, one injured in Wales refinery explosion
- Obama, Pentagon stall on Afghanistan troop withdrawal
- Socialist Alternative group defends union sell-out of German health worker strike
- Letters from our readers
6 June 2011 (front page)
- Two more Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
- Israeli troops murder Palestinian and Syrian protesters
- Helicopter attacks mark further escalation of US-NATO war in Libya
- Thousands attend funeral of slain Sri Lankan FTZ worker
- US House leaders block resolution against Libya war
- President of Yemen flees to Saudi Arabia
- Illinois and Indiana CEO pay rises sharply in 2010
- Record carbon dioxide emissions highlight climate change risks
- Investiture of French-backed president in Ivory Coast
- German Chancellor Merkel’s nuclear about-face—an invitation to the Greens
- Serbian government threatens protesting farmers and armament workers
- The US jobs report
- Young people have the right to a job!
- The ex-left and the British Airways-Unite agreement
- This week in history: June 6-June 12
- Wes Craven’s Scream 4: How badly did we need another one?
- Extra-solar planet could sustain Earth-like life
7 June 2011 (front page)
- Five US soldiers killed amid wave of violence in Iraq
- Sri Lankan FTZ strikes: a harbinger of the class struggle
- Australian government defies growing outcry over deporting refugees to Malaysia
- Gates outlines aggressive agenda for US imperialism in Asia
- Socialist Party routed in Portuguese general election
- Humala beats Fujimori in Peru’s presidential vote
- Thousands demonstrate against New York Mayor Bloomberg’s plans to close 20 fire companies
- Chasm widens between UK workers and financial elite
- Rising economic toll from US flooding, storms
- US gas industry refuses to release crucial data on hydrofracking
- New York Times decries “squandering” of Medicare funds
- Socialist Equality Party receives approval to participate in Berlin Senate election
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Detroit Symphony renews contract of Anne Parsons
DSO president led assault on musicians -
Hands off Libya!
Behind NATO’s war drive
Sheffield SEP Public Meeting - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
8 June 2011 (front page)
- European Union officials demand brutal austerity in Greece
- Australian government denies responsibility to rescue refugees
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Socialist Equality Party conferences in Australia:
The Failure of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism Today
Sydney: August 20-21 • Melbourne: August 27-28 - The Sri Lankan ex-lefts and the FTZ workers
- Obama’s illegal war against Libya
- Obama ignores worsening jobs crisis
- Syrian regime intensifies repression as protests mount
- Imperialist powers step up intervention in Yemen
- Canada to expand its role in imperialist assault on Libya
- School officials order closure of Detroit's Catherine Ferguson Academy
- Medicaid cuts in Washington state highlight bipartisan attack on health care
- US and Britain seek accommodation with Taliban
- Scottish police break up anti-cuts protest at Strathclyde University
- Canadian postal union limits worker resistance to isolated walkouts
9 June 2011 (front page)
- Mounting concerns about China’s slowing growth
- Sharp GDP downturn reveals fragility of Australian economy
- World Bank forecasts slowdown in global economic growth
- Australian community sector workers demand pay increases
- Sri Lankan government to reintroduce amended pension bill
- NATO’s terror bombing of Libya
- French bourgeois “left” calls for army occupation of Paris suburb
- British business secretary appeals for ongoing alliance between government, trade unions
- Austria: Poll shows far-right FP as strongest party
- German university lecturers face poverty wages
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Striking Canadian postal worker:
“We are fighting for everyone to be equal” - Letter from nurse on restructuring of Florida Medicaid system
- Letters from our readers
10 June 2011 (front page)
- Australian union chief pledges to help drive up mining profits
- The Australian Labor Party and the live cattle export furore
- Thousands sickened, dozens dead in E. coli outbreak in Germany
- International food crisis due to agribusinesses and speculation
- Western powers fashion a puppet regime for Libya
- The Anthony Weiner affair
- Washington exploits uprising to escalate secret war in Yemen
- German Chancellor Merkel visits the US
- Amid savage crackdown on protest, Obama welcomes Bahrain prince
- Michigan teachers rally against school cuts
- California transit workers reject union-backed contract
- Mexican drug gang’s guns traced to US operation
- US: Oregon foreclosure filings skyrocket
- Portugal and the collapse of European social democracy
- Egyptian bourgeoisie and pseudo-left oppose a “second revolution”
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Defend Catherine Ferguson Academy!
Unite all sections of the working class! Public education is a social right! - Julian Schnabel’s Miral: A Palestinian girl’s personal and political awakening
- New research sheds light on cognitive abilities of animals
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 June 2011 (front page)
- Capitalism and the climate change crisis
- More US employers to drop coverage under Obama health care overhaul
- Unanswered questions as Australian flood inquiry ends first stage
- South China Sea disputes intensify
- Sri Lankan plantation unions sign poverty-level pay deal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Syria slides toward civil war
- Video: No recovery for Toledo workers
- Mass resignations hit Gingrich campaign for Republican presidential nomination
- German troops intensify attacks on civilians in Afghanistan
- Threatened collapse of Southern Cross highlights crisis of Britain’s care homes
- Peru’s president-elect Humala bows to bankers
- After brutal police shooting, Miami officers attempted to destroy video evidence
- Britain: Private college accelerates drive to make education a preserve of the rich
- Washington’s endless wars
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Best known for “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
Musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron dead at 62
13 June 2011 (front page)
- Bob Gould 1937-2011: A political assessment
- Greek government announces new cuts amid mass opposition
- Japanese nuclear crisis worse than previously conceded
- Police attack protesting refugees at Australia’s Christmas Island
- Yemen: US continues military campaign as talks fail
- New York’s Democratic governor demands mass layoffs, pension cutbacks
- California teachers’ unions collaborate with state officials to impose cuts
- Scottish National Party government plays up legal tensions with London
- Worst drought in decades hits France
- Alabama adopts extreme anti-immigrant legislation
- Deadly heat wave exposes decaying US infrastructure
- Espionage case against US government whistleblower collapses
- Gates reads the riot act to Europe
- Canada Post imposes partial lockout on 48,000 workers
- This week in history: June 13-June 19
- Within the Whirlwind: Stalin’s Great Terror and a big question mark
- “Reclaim EIS” offers no alternative to union sell-out of Scottish teachers
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Hands off Libya!
Behind NATO’s war drive
14 June 2011 (front page)
- Australian hospital waiting times worsen under “health reform”
- Obama promotes corporate profits in the name of job creation
- China reveals construction of aircraft carrier
- The political issues facing NSW (Australia) workers
- Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on Middle East uprisings
- Only one in four US teenagers will find summer jobs
- Washington releases Pentagon Papers 40 years after publication
- Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan wins third term
- Syrian crackdown deepens as fighting threatens to spread
- Detroit students speak out against closure of Catherine Ferguson Academy
- Berlin sees big rent increases
- Oxford dons vote “no confidence” in British education policy
- Eastern Michigan University to cut staff, raise tuition
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Canada Post workers walk out in Windsor
“It’s not just us, it’s everywhere” - Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
15 June 2011 (front page)
- Angry protests erupt among Chinese workers
- Germany recognises Libyan opposition after US ultimatum
- Mining boom boosts Australia’s ultra-wealthy
- South China Sea disputes heighten danger of conflict
- Which way forward for the working class in Greece?
- US-backed Bahrain regime stages military trial of doctors and nurses
- Republican presidential candidates debate in New Hampshire
- Budget cuts threaten New York City hospitals’ laundry with shutdown
- What does Britain’s “Blue Labour” represent?
- GM threatens to sell off Opel
- Wildfires rage in Arizona
- The plight of the Roma in Romania
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“I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign”
Barack Obama intervenes in the Weiner affair - Historian Alexander Rabinowitch speaks in Vienna on the Russian Revolution
- Arbitrator imposes concessions on California transit workers
- Canada’s Conservative government to adopt law illegalizing airline workers’ strike
- Video: Canada Post strikers in Windsor speak on their struggle
- Letter of solidarity from US mail carrier to Canada Post strikers
16 June 2011 (front page)
- Australian government touts carbon tax “free market” credentials
- Greek prime minister proposes government of national unity as protests spread
- Australia: Thousands rally against attack on NSW public sector workers
- Defend Sri Lankan university teachers
- Election campaign heightens Thai political tensions
- Life expectancy declining in many parts of US
- Canada’s Conservative government to criminalize postal strike
- Obama defends Libya war, rejects need for Congress vote
- France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party continues support for war on Libya
- Lockheed Martin to cut 1,200 jobs
- US talks peace and prepares for war in Sudan
- US students test poorly in history
- Court sanctions Wisconsin anti-worker law
- SEP/ISSE holds meeting to oppose closure of Catherine Ferguson Academy
- Letters from our readers
17 June 2011 (front page)
- Clashes highlight the plight of migrant workers in China
- Australian government defies parliament to pursue Malaysian refugee scheme
- Global markets plummet as Greek political crisis deepens
- Oil companies prepare for post-Gaddafi Libya
- The return of the “enemies list”
- Biden, Republicans will agree on cuts “beyond $1 trillion”
- US steps up air strikes as conflict deepens in Yemen
- Thousands protest in New York City against budget cuts, layoffs
- New York workers speak out against attacks on jobs and services
- Egypt’s military regime prepares clampdown on strike wave
- Protests continue against budget cuts by Catalán parliament in Spain
- French lawyers sue Sarkozy over crimes against humanity in Libya
- The ISO and the betrayal of the Chicago teachers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Canada Post workers speak out on strike-lockout and Conservative-backed concessions drive
18 June 2011 (front page)
- Pentagon demands continuation of US surge in Afghanistan
- Social disaster deepens after third New Zealand earthquake
- India uses UN report on Sri Lanka to assert its interests
- The Fukushima nuclear disaster—three months on
- Australia: Tasmanian budget slashes jobs and services
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US used Strauss-Kahn ouster to dictate terms of Greek bailout
- Canadian unions move to suppress strikes and impose concessions
- Rep. Anthony Weiner resigns under pressure from media and Democrats
- Thousands of New Jersey state workers protest savage concessions
- Ex-left seek alliances with Scottish National Party
- Poor Kids: A devastating indictment of Britain’s Labour government
- World economy slides deeper into slump
- Germany: IG Metall accepts job cuts at KBA Frankenthal
- Letters from our readers
20 June 2011 (front page)
- New Zealand worker killed in water pipe blast
- Most US states lost jobs in May
- NATO bombs kill Libyan civilians in Tripoli
- Obama flouts legal deadline on Libya war
- More evidence of provocations, repression of Barcelona protests
- US and Egyptian bourgeoisie close ranks as workers’ struggles continue
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An attack on public education
Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy to become for-profit charter school - Despite “listening exercise”, Britain’s National Health Service still faces privatisation
- “Left” figurehead of German Left Party praises meritocracy and the market
- California Governor Brown vetoes budget, demanding more cuts
- Massachusetts Democrats scrap “bed holds” for seniors, the disabled
- This week in history: June 20-June 26
- Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life: A world of confusion
21 June 2011 (front page)
- Greece faces new austerity package
- Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) holds founding congress
- Sri Lankan government condemns Channel 4 war crimes documentary
- Australian pay tribunal awards token rise to low-paid workers
- Behind Obama’s Afghan withdrawal decision
- US Supreme Court undermines class action lawsuits in Wal-Mart ruling
- Mass protests against government cuts in Spain
- Mounting attacks on voting rights in US
- The Socialist Party adopts an anti-working class program in France
- Connecticut Democrats, media and unions push state workers to accept concessions
- Head of US teachers’ union decries danger of “revolution”
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Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy to be privatized
What is Evans Solutions, Inc.? - Berlin: Broad support for SEP election campaign
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 June 2011 (front page)
- Grocery workers march and rally in Los Angeles over contract impasse
- NATO attack kills 19, including women and children
- Greece: The dictatorship of finance capital
- Kerry, McCain push Senate resolution to sanction war in Libya
- SCO summit points to deepening global tensions
- Forty six major US cities face two "lost decades" of job growth
- Syria repression stepped up after Assad speech
- Canadian postal union to bow before strike-breaking law
- Savage cuts in Wisconsin budget
- Chicago school officials rescind pay raises for teachers
- Italian referendums inflict another defeat on Berlusconi
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Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
British television documents Sri Lankan war crimes - US Supreme Court denies reprieve for mentally retarded Texas death row inmate
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“I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse”
Surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) - The death of saxophonist Clarence Clemons
23 June 2011 (front page)
- One year since the Australian Labor Party coup
- Obama’s Afghanistan speech: An exercise in political duplicity
- Sri Lankan court examines police shooting of FTZ worker
- James Watt and Our World, an exhibition at the Science Museum, London
- The land of unlimited inequality
- Papandreou wins confidence vote in Greece
- Bahrain: Show trial sentences critics of regime
- From Hiroshima to Fukushima: The political background to the nuclear disaster in Japan
- Huge turnout for viewing of Emancipation Proclamation in Michigan
- Bi-partisan assault on public education in Detroit
- Irish government, employers and unions prepare new attacks on working class
- Report reveals majority of US nuclear plants are leaking radioactivity
- Quebec: Resignations of prominent legislators rocks Parti Québécois
- The role of the ex-left in Spain’s los indignados protests
- X-Men: First Class: Super-epic and social life
24 June 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Working people paying for Queensland’s mining “boom”
- Fed downgrades forecast for US economic growth
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Public Meeting in Wellington
The New Zealand budget and the fight against austerity - Mounting US-China rivalry over South China Sea
- Greece: The Syntagma Square movement—no real democracy
- Washington budget talks: Pressure mounts for trillions in spending cuts
- US Postal Service halts payments to retirement fund
- US auto workers union to abandon hourly wage increases
- Canada's NDP stampedes to the right
- WikiLeaks exposes US profiteering after Haiti earthquake
- More flooding triggers emergency evacuations in North Dakota
- From Hiroshima to Fukushima: The political background to the nuclear disaster in Japan
- All US troops out of Afghanistan now!
- Britain: The fraud of the upcoming “mass strike” in Britain
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Now available at Mehring Books online
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Spain by Felix Morrow - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
25 June 2011 (front page)
- Britain and France insist bombing of Libya must continue
- Worker unrest in China sends tremors through world capitalism
- US House defeats measure to reduce funding for Libya war
- Australia: Victorian government threatens to slash wages of construction workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wealth of world’s richest rose nearly 10 percent in 2010
- US detains thousands as states pass new anti-immigrant laws
- German Green Party moves toward coalition with Christian Democrats
- Detroit Public Schools announces 10 percent pay cuts, massive layoffs
- Bin Laden killing roils US ties with Pakistani army
- Changes to Obama health care program limit patient appeals
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Arthur Ransome and the Bolshevik Revolution
Part one - Letters in response to “Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life: A world of confusion”
- Letters from our readers
27 June 2011 (front page)
- Obama joins talks on massive US budget cuts
- Police crack down on two strikes in China
- Australian tribunal allows greater exploitation of student labour
- The Democratic Party and the assault on public workers
- Connecticut state workers reject union-backed concessions
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Canada Post strike:
Trade union-based NDP facilitates passage of striking-breaking law - Journalist Robert Fisk faces libel action for pointing out Bahrain-Saudi alliance
- The Supreme Court and corporate America
- Twenty years after the dissolution of Yugoslavia: Slovenia’s government in crisis
- Carmaker Citroën-Peugeot to close plants in France and Spain
- California moves to increase charter schools
- The Nation’s Tom Hayden falsifies Obama’s Afghanistan plan
- This week in history: June 27 - July 3
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Arthur Ransome and the Bolshevik Revolution
Part 2
28 June 2011 (front page)
- Warnings from the central bankers’ bank
- ICC orders arrest of Gaddafi as NATO bombings reach 100th day
- Political unrest looms after Thai elections
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“A book that fails to meet the basic standards of historical scholarship”
The American Historical Review discredits Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky - Floodwaters devastate North Dakota city
- White House anticipates “significant” deal with Republicans to slash social spending
- Providence, Rhode Island budget includes mass layoffs, spending cuts
- Finnish ex-left joins right-wing coalition government
- French welfare payments under attack
- Montenegro: Five years after independence
- Incendies: Trauma and tragedy in the Middle East
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Arthur Ransome and the Bolshevik Revolution
Part three - Letter from US Postal Service worker
- Arthur Ransome and the Bolshevik Revolution
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
29 June 2011 (front page)
- Greek parliament discusses new austerity in face of mass opposition
- Rival powers scramble for seabed mineral rights in South Pacific
- SEP calls on Sri Lankan plantation workers to reject pay deal
- Australian government to stop welfare payments to teenage mothers
- “Putting mothers and babies under grossly unfair pressure”
- Obama’s Katrina
- Germany contemplates “nuclear option” for Greece
- Tunisian interim government delays Constituent Assembly elections
- US strives to engineer post-Saleh regime in Yemen
- New Jersey residents denounce bipartisan anti-worker law
- Israel threatens violence against Gaza aid convoy
- No recovery for young workers and students in Canada
- Finnish ex-left joins right-wing coalition government
- West Virginia coal miner killed
- Richard Nixon as Obama’s role model
- Berlin state elections: Lively debate at PSG election meeting
30 June 2011 (front page)
- Obama backs trillions in “painful spending cuts”
- Egyptian military carries out bloody crackdown on protests
- Austerity measures threaten legal aid for New Yorkers facing foreclosure
- Corporate discontent triggers dispute in Australian opposition party
- ICC prosecutor clarifies purpose behind charges against Libya’s Gaddafi
- Washington continues to escalate tensions in South China Sea
- Greek austerity package: Social counterrevolution in Europe
- Spanish unions, “left” parties facilitate anti-worker reform of collective bargaining
- One thousand teachers to be fired in Chicago
- Birmingham, Michigan teachers denounce education cuts
- Germany and China agree to huge expansion of trade
- Trade unions offer no way forward in fight against British government assault on pensions
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on “The American Historical Review discredits Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky”
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