Archive: April 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.
2 April 2012 (front page)
- Inquest into police killing of Mark Duggan sabotaged
- Murdoch’s News Corporation accused of pay TV piracy
- Behind the global stock market surge
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 7
- US-led conference backs Syrian puppet group, threatens war
- Southern conflict revives tensions in Thailand’s ruling elite
- Supreme Court arguments on Obama health care law set stage for legal assault on social programs
- Finance ministers increase European bailout fund
- German police killing of unemployed woman at job centre
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns in Detroit
- This week in history: April 2-8
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An interview with writer Nick Flynn: “The job of an artist is to look at the realities of existence”
Being Flynn with Robert De Niro based on Flynn's memoir - Spanish pilots unions call strikes against new low-cost airline
3 April 2012 (front page)
- Tax bill precipitates crisis for Japanese government
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 8
- US Supreme Court sanctions strip searches even for minor infractions
- Oppose the job cuts at University of Sydney!
- The Spanish general strike and the political tasks before the working class
- Obama gives green light for punishing sanctions on Iran
- Spanish government unveils €27 billion in budget cuts
- New evidence against shooter in death of Trayvon Martin
- Economic decline continues to fuel US job losses
- Detroit City Council delays vote on dictatorial budget-cutting measure
- Investigation exposes role of federal safety agency in West Virginia mine disaster
- Adelanto, California: Parents defeat effort to privatize local school
- Calls in Germany for legal restrictions on right to strike
- Phyllis Scherrer speaks in Pittsburgh
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
4 April 2012 (front page)
- US welcomes outcome of sham elections in Burma
- As unemployment soars, child labour returns to Europe
- Australian government boosts police and parole powers
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 9
- US immigration agency arrests 3,100
- US auto execs paid millions for slashing workers’ wages
- Seven dead in shooting at Christian college in northern California
- French police detain 19 alleged Islamist militants
- Union complicity in UK minimum wage freeze
- India: Stalinist CPM holds party congress amid mounting internal crisis
- “Friends of Syria”—the antechamber of a wider Mideast war
- Why are the critics lauding Titanic?
- Titanic as a social phenomenon
5 April 2012 (front page)
- More US troops killed amid talks on permanent bases in Afghanistan
- Chinese media attacks “Chongqing model”
- The Obama administration and the Supreme Court decision on strip searches
- Australia: Gillard and unions pledge to work with new Queensland government
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 10
- The killing of Trayvon Martin and racial politics in America
- Police pepper spray students protesting tuition hikes in California
- New attacks on unemployment benefits in the US
- Spanish government outlines most severe budget cuts since fascist dictatorship
- German trade union officials and academics publish defence of European Union
- UK tanker drivers’ dispute lays bare social tensions
- Germany: Union steps up pressure on Schlecker drug store workers
- France pledges to back action to crush Mali army revolt
- Health care is a social right, not a privilege for the rich
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) launches council election campaign
- SEP (UK) candidates in council elections
6 April 2012 (front page)
- Consent agreement paves way for savage attack on Detroit workers
- The repression against workers and youth in Spain
- Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood nominates presidential candidate
- Pentagon clears way for military trial of five charged in 9/11 attacks
- India’s Communist Party (Marxist): Defender of Stalin and capitalist restoration
- Students and academics protest job cuts at the University of Sydney
- Chicago police officer fatally shoots 22-year-old woman
- Greater Boston transit fares hiked by 23 percent
- The real face of the European Union
- The Bradford by-election and the need for a revolutionary socialist party
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 11
- Jerry White visits Cooper Tire workers and Michigan students
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
7 April 2012 (front page)
- Police violently break up protests following suicide in Athens
- March jobs report undercuts US recovery claims
- Seventeen migrant workers die in Moscow fire
- India: Stalinist CPM promotes alliance with regional bourgeois parties
- Murdoch scandal sparks divisions over media regulation within UK’s ruling elite
- Social and political crisis intensifies in eastern Europe
- PSA, GM prepare further attacks against auto workers
- IMF releases loan after Sri Lankan government imposes austerity measures
- Australia: Parents and teachers protest against Gosford school merger
- Obama Justice Department indicts ex-CIA agent for exposing torture
- Defend Günter Grass!
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Full rights for immigrant workers!
Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president - SEP campaigns at University of South Florida
- Peterborough: Far from a boomtown
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 12
- London teachers’ union branch denounces betrayal of pensions dispute
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Friends with Kids: To whom does this apply?
- Letters from our readers
9 April 2012 (front page)
- Imperialist powers manipulate Syrian peace plan to prepare for war
- Hundreds attend memorial in Athens for Dimitris Christoulas
- Quebec authorities seeking to criminalize student strike
- Americans cut back on doctor visits, prescriptions
- Chester, Pennsylvania schools in crisis
- Wife of missing Sri Lankan journalist speaks to WSWS
- Council of Europe report makes NATO responsible for the death of 63 refugees
- UK hedge funds and ex-bankers take over first privatised NHS hospital
- The “German model” and the attack on European workers
- WSWS announces on-the-spot coverage of French presidential election
- SEP campaigns in New York, Kentucky, Massachusetts and California
- This week in history: April 9-15
- St Helens, England: Scarred by joblessness and poverty
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Theatre review
Dust: Scargill’s dreams, and reality, Britain 1984-2012
10 April 2012 (front page)
- Chinese slowdown triggers more strikes
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Amid signs of deepening global slump
Sony to cut 10,000 jobs - US, Israel issue ultimatums to Iran
- What are the politics of French Left Front candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon?
- France threatens to back intervention in Mali
- New York approves new austerity budget
- Santa Monica College votes to postpone tuition increase following pepper spraying
- Portland teachers face huge job cuts
- Israel: Documents show Defence Ministry planned West Bank land grabs
- No to bankers dictatorship in Detroit!
- In Defense of Leon Trotsky now available in multiple eBook formats
- Peterborough residents speak out against growing inequality
- An exhibition of photographer Zoe Strauss in Philadelphia
- German public sector union Verdi agrees new concessions
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
11 April 2012 (front page)
- Paying attention to—or ignoring—big events: In Darkness and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Fiji again devastated by floods
- Papua New Guinea government attempts to postpone election
- US, NATO powers intensify threats against Syria
- International issues in the French elections
- California prepares thousands of government layoffs
- Prosecutor waives grand jury as defense team quits in Trayvon Martin case
- British government proposes extension of state surveillance
- German unions agree to more layoffs at Heidelberg
- Stop the warmongers! Defend Günter Grass!
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- Jerry White speaks at the University of South Florida
- Workers and youth speak out in St. Helens, England
- In Defense of Leon Trotsky now available in multiple eBook formats
12 April 2012 (front page)
- Australian government reinforces conspiracy against Assange
- Bo Xilai suspended from Chinese Communist Party leadership
- European Court’s extradition ruling: A major blow to democratic rights
- The Obama recovery: Rhetoric and reality
- Santorum withdrawal cedes Republican nomination to Romney
- Prosecutor files charges in killing of Trayvon Martin
- New Anti-Capitalist Party backs Left Front, social cuts in French presidential election
- German Verdi union negotiating further attacks on Schlecker drug store workers
- UK: Poorer families to lose up to one-quarter of income due to government austerity
- US baseball manager suspended for comment on Castro
- Peterborough: Thousands apply for just 20 jobs
- Opening of the “Building the Revolution” exhibition in Berlin
- SEP campaigns among immigrant workers in Maywood, California
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White interviewed on Florida radio station
- Letters from our readers
- US television personality Mike Wallace dead at 93
13 April 2012 (front page)
- Tense naval stand-off in the South China Sea
- Sri Lankan government releases abducted political activists
- US conspires with Turkey over militarized buffer zone following Syrian ceasefire
- Troika gives green light for Greek election
- Sarkozy proposes police measures after Toulouse shootings
- Obama submits to right-wing judge over health care law
- Pakistan: 250,000 displaced by army operation in Khyber Agency
- Two suspects confess in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shootings
- The case of Amber Alvarez: An indictment of conditions in the working class
- European court’s extradition ruling and Guantanamo’s global reach
- Australian car components plant shut down
- Jerry White speaks on the crisis of American democracy at San Diego meeting
- UK teaching unions complete rout of pensions fight
- Large Hadron Collider upgrade aids exploration of the origin of mass
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
14 April 2012 (front page)
- US intensifies pressure on North Korea after rocket launch
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Inside the New Anti-capitalist Party’s Paris election meeting
- French Socialist Party candidate Hollande praises Left Front candidate Mélenchon
- Prosecution outlines case against Zimmerman in killing of Trayvon Martin
- The “Mommy wars” and media manipulation in the US election
- Spain’s unions silent on general strike repression
- US Marines begin operations in northern Australia
- British police face investigation of racist incidents
- Louisville Orchestra to hire replacement musicians
- Obama’s Guantanamo “war court” in session
- German Left Party slanders Günter Grass
- Jerry White addresses election meeting in Maywood, California
- Quebec government escalates campaign to break student strike
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ISSE Emergency Meeting in Montreal this Sunday
Quebec student strike at the crossroads: Students must turn to the working class - Germany: The way forward for Schlecker drug store workers
- Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice: A world consumed with trade and commerce
- Letters from our readers
16 April 2012 (front page)
- Australia: BHP mine closure signals new corporate offensive
- Amid signs of slump, Australian PM reiterates “tough” budget pledge
- Despite talks, US-Iran confrontation continues
- UN agrees to deploy monitors to Syria as Washington ramps up military intervention
- French Left Front candidate holds presidential election rally in Marseille
- Financial markets demand deep cuts following French presidential election
- India: Stalinist CPM congress dismisses socialism
- Two immigrant workers killed by gunmen in Arizona
- At least five dead in US tornado outbreak
- Italy: The Monti government and the crisis of the Northern League
- Kremlin prepares austerity program
- The American working class and the 2012 presidential election
- This week in history: April 16-22
- Socialist Equality Party campaigns in Detroit
- SEP (UK) candidate in British council elections speaks to St. Helens residents
- Detroit budget proposal contains drastic cuts
- Michigan Sierra Club: 200,000 DTE Energy shutoffs in 2011
17 April 2012 (front page)
- Insurgents attack heart of US-led occupation in Afghanistan
- Union leader killed in Bangladesh
- Aix-en-Provence students speak on French presidential elections
- Americas Summit ends in fiasco for Obama
- SEP campaigns for plantation workers’ congress
- Toyota Australia sacks 350 workers
- Financial turbulence mounts as global economy slides deeper into slump
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On eve of Senate vote
Obama reassures the rich on his “Buffett Rule” - Medicare begins linking doctor pay to costs
- Spain: More cuts in health care and education
- Election in North Rhine-Westphalia: Parties compete on welfare cuts
- Israel blocks pro-Palestinian “flytilla”
- University of California, Davis “pepper spray incident” reports made public
- Why I support the SEP campaign: A letter from a public school teacher
- UK SEP candidate condemns huge increase in day care charges for the elderly
- Bosses, media braying for new assault on Canadian auto workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
18 April 2012 (front page)
- Australia: GM foreshadows job cuts after government bailout
- Fascist Anders Breivik defends mass killings as trial opens in Norway
- Power outages wrack southern Philippine island
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In the face of state repression, government intransigence:
Quebec student strike at a crossroads - Former military chief wins East Timor’s presidential election
- US solar energy company to cut 2,000 jobs
- French president and Socialist Party candidate hold Paris rallies
- WSWS speaks to Socialist Party supporters at Vincennes campaign rally
- Mounting tensions between India’s army and civilian government
- Spate of fires kills eight in Philadelphia
- US union prepares betrayal of 40,000 working without a contract at AT&T;
- Syria and Bahrain
- Jerry White speaks at Detroit election meeting
- St Helens, UK: A message to car workers from SEP candidate Danny Dickinson
- David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People: The American theater rediscovers class
19 April 2012 (front page)
- Photos of US troops defiling corpses expose Afghan war’s savagery
- Obama’s “Buffett Rule” fraud and the need for socialist planning
- IMF insists austerity drive must be intensified
- Indonesian government retreats from immediate fuel price rise
- Israel repeats military threat against Iran
- Democrats conceal post-election austerity plans
- NATO discusses military intervention in Syria
- Unanimous US Supreme Court expands reactionary “qualified immunity” doctrine
- Focus of euro crisis shifts to Spain
- Egyptian junta bans major Islamist candidates from presidential race
- Lawsuit hits oppressive policing of New York apartment houses
- Bronx workers and youth speak out against stop-and-frisk
- A reply to the ISO’s Sherry Wolf on racial politics and the killing of Trayvon Martin
- SEP (UK) election campaign: Oppose the privatisation of essential social assets
- Letters from our readers
20 April 2012 (front page)
- Assange lawyer delayed while flying to Australia
- Australian government announces accelerated troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Australian Greens cover for Labor government in Julian Assange witch hunt
- Anti-Indian propaganda intensifies in Sri Lanka after UN vote
- CIA seeks to widen assassination campaign in Yemen
- Long-term unemployed in Washington State to start losing benefits next week
- UK: Partner of Anthony Grainger, shot by police, campaigns for truth about his killing
- Mass layoffs at major German bakery
- Washington’s real concerns over the Afghanistan atrocity photos
- SEP holds election meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana
- St. Helens, UK: Election meeting discusses Jerry White’s presidential campaign
- Letter from a worker at the Schlecker German drugstore chain: “We cannot accept the wage cut”
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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The Third International After Lenin by Leon Trotsky - Extreme weather forebodes point-of-no-return for climate change
21 April 2012 (front page)
- NATO prepares troop withdrawal from Afghan quagmire
- South Korean elections return right-wing government
- New Zealand meat workers lockout enters eighth week
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold May Day meeting
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Polls show dead heat in first round of French presidential election
- Paris “Friends of Syria” meeting: Imperialist powers prepare for war against Syria
- Mass protests in Bahrain in advance of Grand Prix auto race
- Bail for George Zimmerman, charged in Trayvon Martin shooting, set at $150,000
- US jobs, manufacturing, housing figures point to deeper slump
- Britain’s Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition offers to do Labour Party’s dirty work
- Strikes in the Russian auto industry
- Quebec government seeks to intimidate, split striking students
- New York City Democrats propose phony “living wage” bill
- Two years since the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster
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Housing and utilities are a social right
Statement by Phyllis Scherrer, SEP candidate for vice president - The witch-hunt of Günter Grass and the preparations for war against Iran
- Peterborough residents respond to SEP election manifesto
- Canada: To defeat McGuinty and Harper, workers must rebel against OFL and NDP
- Letters from our readers
- How Earth Made Us—a masterly BBC documentary
23 April 2012 (front page)
- Former Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson speaks with the WSWS
- IMF secures additional bank bailout funds
- Socialist Party candidate Hollande, Sarkozy advance in French presidential elections
- Australian mining magnate accuses PM of secret minerals tax deal
- Germany: Almost 2,000 lawsuits against Schlecker drugstore layoffs
- Demonstrator shot dead ahead of Bahrain Grand Prix
- US appeals court upholds photo ID provision of discriminatory Arizona voting law
- No end in sight for mass unemployment in California
- Mayor of Yonkers, New York calls for draconian budget cuts
- Ontario unions try to provide cover for NDP’s support for austerity budget
- New York Times beats drum for war in Syria … and beyond
- Pro-Israeli provocateurs unsuccessfully try to disrupt SEP (Germany) meeting in defence of Günter Grass
- UK: St. Helens workers speak to the SEP’s Danny Dickinson
- SEP (US) election: Campaigners discuss social inequality with workers and youth
- This week in history: April 23-29
- Sacked Schlecker worker denounces trade union’s callousness
- Levon Helm, the distinctive voice of The Band, dies at 71
24 April 2012 (front page)
- Falling tax revenues deepen Australian budget cuts
- Large neo-fascist vote shakes French presidential race
- Netherlands government falls over austerity budget
- Australian parliamentary speaker steps down amid sex, corruption allegations
- China widens trading range of the yuan
- US college grads confront the dead end of the profit system
- US makes a pact with its Afghan puppet
- Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election set for June 5
- Oakland, California: Charter school head investigated for fraud
- India tests long-range missile capable of striking China’s cities
- Argentina partially re-nationalizes YPF oil company
- Mexico to hold elections in midst of social catastrophe
- SEP election supporters campaign in several Michigan cities
- UK: SEP candidate condemns rising child poverty in Peterborough
- New Detroit budget proposal contains deeper cuts
- Britain: Talks continue on possible tanker drivers strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
25 April 2012 (front page)
- US Medicare and Social Security forecasts prompt new calls for cutbacks
- Obama invokes Holocaust to ratchet up war threats on Iran, Syria
- Padilla torture case comes before US Supreme Court
- Major daily publishes fascist diatribe against Quebec student strike
- Spanish government proceeds with the destruction of health care and education
- Hungarian parliament to select new president
- Yemeni president announces cosmetic changes to military
- Deteriorating economy and deepening austerity in New Zealand
- Kentucky universities to hike tuition
- Political issues in the French presidential election
- University authorities and police seek to prevent Berlin meeting in defense of Günter Grass
- The British Greens: A party of cuts and austerity
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Withdraw US, NATO troops from Afghanistan!
Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president - Memorial for Christopher Hitchens in New York City: A gathering of the unprincipled and politically clueless
- The Breivik trial
- The Deep Blue Sea: Love and emotional truth in post-war Britain
- Dick Clark, longtime host of American Bandstand, dead at 82
26 April 2012 (front page)
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SEP/ISSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand
Oppose the US-Australia war preparations against China - Sri Lanka: Slowing economy sharpens government austerity drive
- US-Philippine military exercises directed against China
- Hands off the Socialist Equality Party in Germany!
- Arizona anti-immigrant law argued before US Supreme Court
- What was French Left Front candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign?
- PSA auto workers speak out on French presidential elections
- Forced resignation hits at heart of Cameron government after Murdoch testimony
- Germany and France demand the reintroduction of border controls
- Union-dominated 99 Percent Spring holds protest stunt in Detroit
- Pentagon creates new spy unit aimed at Iran, China
- Protests continue against New York school closings
- Right-wing Zionist provocateurs and student council representative close down Leipzig meeting to defend Günter Grass
- British local elections: National Health Service under threat
- Anders Breivik and the Guardian: Suzanne Moore’s “sympathy for the devil” moment
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May 1 meeting at Cornell University
Leon Trotsky and the defense of historical truth -
Theater review
The Bewildered Herd in Los Angeles: “Making the puppets jump” - Letters from our readers
27 April 2012 (front page)
- US steps up drone war in Yemen
- Military judge rejects motions to reduce charges against Bradley Manning
- French President Sarkozy appeals to neo-fascist vote
- Clichy-sous-Bois residents speak on French elections, social conditions
- Former UK home secretary faces legal action over rendition
- Former head of CIA operations defends torture, obstruction of justice
- Detroit students walkout against school closures and deteriorating conditions
- Distressed Rhode Island municipalities face bankruptcy
- Australia: Anzac Day and the promotion of militarism
- China and Russia hold joint naval exercises in North East Asia
- Sri Lankan ex-lefts issue phony call for a hartal
- Workers put on trial after police massacre in Kazakhstan
- Workers must rally to the defense of Quebec’s striking students
- Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin: The historical issues
- Letters in defense of the German Socialist Equality Party
- UK local elections: Record unemployment in St. Helens
- SEP candidate Jerry White takes campaign to Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
28 April 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Elderly to pay much more for care
- US slowdown intensifies global economic crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Russia prepares for a US-Israeli military strike against Iran
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party backs Socialist Party candidate in May 6 run-off
- WSWS speaks to Tamil immigrants and refugees in France
- US and Pakistan restart talks on prosecuting AfPak War
- Sri Lanka: “Resettled” Tamils in Vanni live in poverty
- Rupert Murdoch testimony: Routine denials of wrongdoing by UK’s political power-broker
- Worsening conflict between Sudan and South Sudan
- Government charges low-level BP employee in Gulf oil spill
- California State University faculty to vote on possible strike
- Greek elections: Workers have no voice
- Germany’s ISSE, SEP denounce attacks on meetings in defence of Günter Grass
- SEP (UK) campaign among Peterborough youth
- UK local elections: “The ill are being coerced, manipulated, into doing something they are not capable of”
- SEP campaigns against cuts in Detroit
30 April 2012 (front page)
- The downfall of Bo Xilai in China
- Police shoot two Aboriginal youth in inner Sydney
- Spanish debt crisis pushing global economy to the brink
- US and allies ramp up plans for military intervention in Syria
- Calls for European “growth” policies signal new attacks on workers
- Mass layoffs planned after French elections
- New York City closes 24 more schools
- Ukraine bombings point to growing political tensions
- Who are the German Pirates?
- Ontario NDP enables savage austerity budget
- Wisconsin law curtails Planned Parenthood abortion services
- This week in history: April 30-May 6
- SEP vice presidential candidate campaigns in former mill town near Pittsburgh
- UK local elections: Labour Party and trade unions facilitate government cuts
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