Archive: February 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 February 2010 (front page)
- US halts military flights to evacuate Haiti earthquake victims
- Obama courts the Republican right
- Iran’s Green Revolution leaders seek compromise with Supreme Leader
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US frame-up of Aafia Siddiqui begins to unravel
Pakistani victim of rendition and torture - Sri Lankan government widens witch-hunt against opposition
- Sri Lankan SEP condemns EPDP thuggery on Kayts
- Prosecutor appeals Villepin’s acquittal in France’s Clearstream Affair
- Afghanistan: Record winter casualties for US-led occupying forces
- Eurozone unemployment increases to 10 percent
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“We can make him disappear”
America’s secret prisons for undocumented immigrants - Perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party in 2010
- Tony Blair and the “2010 question”
- This week in history: February 1-February 7
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January edition of WSWS Perspectives journal now available
10 percent off at Mehring Books with a one-year subscription
2 February 2010 (front page)
- Obama budget: War, debt and cuts in social services
- US exonerates authors of Bush torture memos
- US group charged with child trafficking in Haiti
- Greek PM promises to “draw blood” to salvage economy
- A wave of post-election violence in Sri Lanka
- French parliamentary commission advocates banning the burqa
- Canada’s Supreme Court strikes down order to repatriate Guantánamo detainee
- Behind rapid growth, US GDP figures reveal bleak economic situation
- Australia: Inquest evidence shows Rudd government policies caused refugee deaths
- Sweden: Spyker announces last-minute purchase of Saab
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The Crisis in American Filmmaking and Cultural Life
WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh to speak at New York public meeting - J.D. Salinger (1919-2010): An appreciation
- Spacecraft Kepler discovers five extrasolar planets
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
3 February 2010 (front page)
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Amid media blackout
Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber - Obama’s budget reveals the bankruptcy of American capitalism
- Obama’s surge: killing spree on both sides of AfPak border
- Iraq: Animosities grow over banning of election candidates
- India nervously watches post-election Sri Lanka
- US trade union membership at lowest level in more than a century
- British postal union seeks to deliver management’s agenda
- Youth protest against French police after fatal scooter chase
- TARP inspector says bank bailout has increased danger of new financial crisis
- German government prepares to implement two-tier health care system
- Political and social crisis grows as Clinton condemns Nigeria
- Pressure mounts for Australian rapprochement with Fiji
- Australia: Unions called in to sell-out Pluto construction workers
4 February 2010 (front page)
- One in eight Americans needs emergency food assistance
- Haiti: Three weeks after earthquake, angry protests over aid delays
- Strikes as Greece imposes EU-backed austerity programme
- AIG pays out $100 million in bonuses
- Sri Lanka: Post-election witch-hunt extends into workplaces
- Sri Lankan SEP replies to the United Socialist Party
- French government backs US occupation of earthquake-stricken Haiti
- Northern Ireland: Still searching for agreement in talks over policing
- GM: More Opel factories in Europe threatened with closure
- Utility shutoffs responsible for another death in Detroit
- Australia: Labor’s My School web site launches new attack on public education
- Major symphony orchestras in US face funding crisis
- Bankers defiant at Davos World Economic Forum
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WSWS chairman David North addresses Sydney book launch
In defence of Trotsky’s “immense and enduring historical significance” - Successful launch of In Defence of Leon Trotsky at Sydney’s Gleebooks
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Newly available at Mehring Books
Pamphlet on Haitian history available in French - Letters from our readers
5 February 2010 (front page)
- Sovereign debt fears trigger plunge in global markets
- US intelligence chief claims right to assassinate Americans overseas
- A dangerous rise in US-China tensions
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US jury convicts Aafia Siddiqui
Protests erupt across Pakistan over torture victim’s frame-up - New details on Kunduz massacre disprove German government claims
- US and EU powers greet Iranian offer with threats and bullying
- Sri Lankan opposition parties protest over election results
- Britain: Labour government cuts deny university access to 200,000
- Kansas jury convicts murderer of abortion doctor George Tiller
- Sri Lankan SEP establishes trilingual web site
- Academy Award nominations: Hollywood plods on
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
6 February 2010 (front page)
- Sovereign debt fears signal new stage of global crisis
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20,000 jobs lost in US as official unemployment rate falls
Revised figures show 8.7 million jobs lost since December 2007 - Anger toward UAW erupts at California auto workers meeting
- Sri Lankan president sets out agenda of “economic war”
- Israel’s crisis deepens over Gaza war crimes report
- With US backing, court rejects candidate ban in Iraq
- British Labour presides over increase in inequality
- Opposition mounts to Michigan education cuts
- Oregon voters approve higher taxes for wealthy and corporations
- US to launch Fallujah-style attack in Afghanistan
- What’s at stake in the Canadian intervention in Afghanistan?
- Letters on J.D. Salinger
- Rio Tinto Borax locks out 570 California mine workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 February 2010 (front page)
- Portugal: Public sector workers protest pay freeze
- Sri Lankan government purges the military
- Obama budget threatens funding for poor school districts
- Spanish Communist Party seeks to re-found United Left
- US-China tensions continue over Google
- Russian economic crisis fuels political tensions
- US youth unemployment soars
- After the defeat in Massachusetts, Democrats lurch to the right
- This week in history: February 8-February 14
9 February 2010 (front page)
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Four weeks after earthquake
Haiti: hunger sparks growing protests - Government debt: a new stage in the global financial crisis
- Tensions worsen between Israel and Syria
- Sri Lankan government arrests opposition presidential candidate
- Connecticut power plant explosion kills five, injures dozens
- Deutsche Bank nets €5 billion profit in 2009
- Bank executives get multimillion-dollar bonuses
- Los Angeles, California mayor orders elimination of 1,000 city worker jobs
- Northern Ireland: Policing and justice agreement heralds assault on living standards
- Australia: Opposition leader unveils slush fund for corporate polluters and agribusiness
- Trial of Malaysian opposition leader begins
- The “Tea Party” movement in the US: A right-wing media creation
- Letters from our readers
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International Students for Social Equality meetings in Britain
A socialist programme to defend education - Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 February 2010 (front page)
- US pushes for new sanctions against Iran
- Jazz drummer Ed Thigpen dies at 79
- Goldman Sachs made billions by pushing AIG to bankruptcy
- Spain: Government and unions conspire to impose austerity measures
- Witch-hunt against the unemployed in Germany
- EU moves to end preferential imports from Sri Lanka
- One year since Australian bushfires: communities abandoned as government cover-up continues
- Victorian bushfire survivors continue to face uncertainty and devastation
- Housing crisis deepens in New York City
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The crisis of public education in California
Los Angeles votes on school restructuring initiatives - The class divide between US auto workers and the UAW
- Unite New York City teachers, students, workers to stop school closings and cuts
- Why the media silence on the Flight 253 bombing hearings?
11 February 2010 (front page)
- Chicago Transit Authority fires workers and cuts service
- Police attack opposition protest in Sri Lanka
- Greek public sector workers strike against austerity measures
- Obama pleads for Republican support at White House meeting
- East Coast blizzard lays bare social crisis of US cities
- Vancouver Olympics: Public anger over security measures and free speech limits
- Australia: Labor boosts new agency to attack construction workers
- Australian teachers condemn Labor’s My School web site
- Britain: Universities slash jobs, close campuses
- Criminal probe in Connecticut power plant explosion
- Greece under European Union diktat
- Sri Lankan SEP condemns opposition candidate’s arrest
- Obama doesn’t “begrudge” bankers their multi-million-dollar bonuses
- Letters from our readers
12 February 2010 (front page)
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Offensive looms in Helmand province
US military noose tightens on Afghanistan town - Toyota recall highlights crisis in global auto industry
- EU leaders fail to calm fears of Greek sovereign default
- Iranian regime mounts display of “national unity” on anniversary of anti-Shah revolution
- Sri Lankan election announced amid climate of fear and intimidation
- Munich Security Conference steps up threats against Iran
- Australian High Court overturns workplace safety law
- Ypsilanti, Michigan, parents, school employees initiate fight to defend education
- Detroit to close 40 more schools
- Britain: Students mount 24-hour occupation at Sussex University
- Honduras: The making of a death squad “democracy”
- An appreciation of the life of Paula Claire Schuman (1948-2010)
- Letter to the editor: Photography notes
- Australia: TAFE teachers challenge Labor’s education reforms, defying strike ban
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
13 February 2010 (front page)
- European officials demand further cuts in Greece after bailout pledge
- America, the land of inequality
- Sri Lanka’s top court to hear challenge to candidate’s arrest
- The Binyam Mohamed case: Top UK judges find US and Britain guilty of torture
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White House projects long-term mass unemployment
Democrats prepare paltry “jobs” bill - Political turmoil continues in Ukraine after presidential election
- US-China trade tensions escalate
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Under US pressure
India and Pakistan to resume long-stalled talks - US and UK courts ensure BAe’s Saudi deals remain secret
- Australian military vehicle responsible for elderly woman’s death in East Timor
- Bolshevism and the avant-garde artists (1993)—Part 1
- Germany: Verdi union prepares sellout of public service workers
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 February 2010 (front page)
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Rockets kill 12 near Marjah
More civilian deaths as US launches offensive in southern Afghanistan - Sri Lankan government prepares new Internet restrictions
- South Africa 20 years after Mandela’s release
- Sri Lankan official accuses US of supporting opposition candidate
- Iraq: US military raid on “Iranian-backed terrorist organisation”
- Obama affirms right-wing, pro-business policies in interview
- New reports of multi-million dollar payouts to US bankers
- Mexico: growing crisis over failed drug war policy
- Flint, Michigan fire kills four children
- New York’s St. Vincent’s Hospital threatened with closure
- This week in history: February 15-February 21
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Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
An assessment of A People’s History of the United States - Bolshevism and the avant-garde artists (1993)—Part 2
16 February 2010 (front page)
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European countries renew demands for social cuts in Greece
Debt crisis fuels expectations of social unrest - German army given green light to kill civilians in Afghanistan
- The international significance of Sri Lanka’s emerging police state
- Haiti’s elite eyes profits as millions face disease and hunger
- Britain: Court revokes terror conviction of Scottish student
- Québec Solidaire and the dead end of Quebec independence
- Australia: Queensland trials scheme to punish parents of truants
- New York mayor unveils plan to cut jobs, services
- Bolshevism and the avant-garde artists (1993)—Part 3
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A comment on the Vancouver Winter Olympics
The unnecessary death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili - Letters from our readers
17 February 2010 (front page)
- The US puts “regime change” in Iran on agenda
- Belgian rail workers take wildcat action over safety fears after fatal collision
- French government cites European debt crisis to slash spending
- Bangladesh: The execution of Mujibur Rahman’s killers
- Britain: Government crisis deepens over Binyam Mohamed torture revelations
- Sri Lanka: Government campaign of victimisation in workplaces
- Australia: Large anti-Labor swing in Victorian state by-election
- Britain: Unemployment continues to rise despite official claims
- California teachers’ pension fund faces $43 billion shortfall
- Chicago fire claims seven young lives
- Afghanistan: Obama’s escalation begins
- A Single Man: Despite everything…
- Bolshevism and the avant-garde artists (1993)
- New York Times history lesson on civilian control of the military: Why now?
18 February 2010 (front page)
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Behind Obama’s overtures to Republican right
“Bipartisan” campaign targets US working class - Socialism and the Greek debt crisis
- Mounting evidence Mossad behind Dubai assassination of Hamas leader
- After 4 million jobs lost, White House declares stimulus a success
- Sri Lanka’s debt crisis worsens
- Signs of Chinese financial instability provoke market nervousness
- Haiti disaster is worst in modern history
- Germany: Hartz IV welfare legislation ruled unconstitutional
- Majority of US children suffer chronic health conditions, study says
- Illinois stops payments to university system, mass furloughs result
- Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg—Part 1
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Winter Recommended Reading Series
Shannon Jones: “One of the best short political biographies of Marx and Engels ever written”
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: An Introduction to Their Lives and Work
19 February 2010 (front page)
- Greece: Strikes continue as EU demands more severe austerity measures
- Mass protests greet Sarkozy visit to Haiti
- US health insurers reap record profits in 2009
- Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils still in detention camps
- Amid preparations for India-Pakistan talks, deadly bomb blast in west India
- Sharp rise in new US jobless claims
- Mounting fiscal crisis of US states and cities
- North Korean currency reform fuels social tensions
- Obama appoints panel to slash social programs
- Canada’s Supreme Court rules foreign policy trumps citizens’ rights
- Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg—Part 2
- Nowhere Boy: No surprises in John Lennon biopic
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- As academic year begins: ISSE to hold meetings in Australia and New Zealand
20 February 2010 (front page)
- US states slash Medicaid
- Iran’s Green movement in disarray
- US Federal Reserve raises discount rate
- Total refinery workers go on indefinite strike in France
- Rising unemployment fuels social tensions in Russia
- US: Software engineer crashes plane into IRS office
- US super-rich get five times more income than in 1995
- Israeli human rights groups face state repression
- Australia: Labor government ends bank guarantee
- German government minister prepares new attacks on the unemployed
- Los Angeles City Council approves 3,000 city worker layoffs
- The Last Station: Not a film about Tolstoy
- Sri Lankan SEP press conference condemns government’s anti-democratic measures
- Boron, California mine workers denounce company lock-out
- India: Unions shut down two-month jute workers strike
- Letters from our readers
- Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg
- Australia: Construction unions move to sell out Pluto workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 February 2010 (front page)
- Dutch government collapses over military deployment in Afghanistan
- US Justice Department report clears authors of Bush torture memos
- German pilots strike against Lufthansa
- Obama ignores China’s warnings and meets Dalai Lama
- Sri Lanka: Release of opposition supporters undermines “coup” claims
- Britain: Top economists demand austerity measures
- Iraq: Sunni party announces election boycott
- Australian government scraps home insulation program
- The Binyam Mohamed case and the threat of dictatorship
- Alexander Haig (1924-2010): Long-time enforcer for American imperialism
- This week in history: February 22-February 28
- How To Make It In America on HBO: “Anything is still possible”
- Large Hadron Collider to resume operations at CERN
23 February 2010 (front page)
- US airstrike kills Afghan civilians
- Australian government sets new precedent in Aboriginal land grab
- Emergency Conference on the Social Crisis & War The Fight for a Socialist Alternative
- Obama unveils health plan ahead of bipartisan summit
- Sri Lanka: Opposition candidate challenges election result
- IG Metall deal paves way for austerity campaign against German workers
- Britain: Last steel plant on Teesside mothballed
- Huge increase in Canadian youth unemployment and student indebtedness
- Long Beach, California school board approves 755 layoff notices
- The Austin airplane suicide and the political crisis in the US
- For a socialist movement to defend education!
- San Francisco transit workers reject concessions contract
- Scotrail workers face strike-breaking operation
- Australian coal miners’ strike at a turning point
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
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Winter Recommended Reading Series
Nick Beams: “A brilliant introduction to dialectical and historical materialism”
The Essential Marx
24 February 2010 (front page)
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With social crisis mounting
Record demand for heating assistance in US - Sri Lanka: Supreme Court refuses to release Fonseka
- France: Trade unions call to end strike at Total
- German leftist think tank: The SPD’s right-wing agenda in a new garb
- Military coup in Niger
- Britain: Government’s flagship academy schools failing
- California town to charge residents for 911 emergency calls
- The capitulation of the German pilots’ union
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) holds founding Congress
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Rio Tinto lockout in California enters fourth week
The lessons of the 1974 Borax strike - Australia: Sacked metal workers continue 13-week long picket
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60th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 1
Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer, a new version of Metropolis, and other matters
25 February 2010 (front page)
- Two million Greek workers strike against austerity measures
- Canada’s prime minister uses Haiti visit to promote “hard power”
- Banks demand austerity measures against “profligate” countries
- Workers and youth at Athens protest speak to the World Socialist Web Site
- The social situation in Greece
- French air traffic controllers’ strike strengthens on second day
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Top general reveals
US has “Plan B” to keep combat troops in Iraq after August - The UN nuclear agency, the US and Iran
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On eve of health care summit
Obama courts US corporate elite - Indian Supreme Court sanctions police occupation of university campus
- Somalia: Troop surge in support of US-backed puppet government
- UAW holds nationalist rally at NUMMI plant in California
- Three New York police officers acquitted in brutality case
- GM’s recovery plan for Opel: Death by a thousand cuts
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Attend the fact-finding inquiry
The Dexter Avenue fire: Utility shutoffs and the social crisis in Detroit - Nick Beams report to SEP founding congress—Part 1
- A letter from a reader on “(500) Days of Summer: The eternally sunlit paradise that is Los Angeles”
- Letters from our readers
26 February 2010 (front page)
- Health care summit promotes Obama’s pro-business agenda
- Pentagon chief condemns European “pacifism”
- Spanish unions offer meek protests against pension reforms
- Senior military officers arrested in Turkey
- The decay of parliamentary democracy in Sri Lanka
- US jobless claims rise again
- Australian government prosecutors appeal Julian Moti verdict
- A turning point in Europe
- Unprecedented sentences in Australian terrorism trial
- Nick Beams report to SEP founding congress—Part 2
- Many unanswered questions as FBI closes anthrax case
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60th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 2
Moloch Tropical and Jew Suss: Rise and Fall - Britain: Strike mandate at British Airways put “on hold” by Unite union
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
27 February 2010 (front page)
- Democrats vote to renew Patriot Act
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WSWS speaks with leader of GSSE union federation
The Greek trade unions: Partners in the government’s austerity program - France: Total workers in Dunkirk continue walkout after CGT calls off national strike
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In testimony before House and Senate
US Federal Reserve chairman calls for austerity plan - Abuse of immigrant workers in South Korea
- US: Virginia lawmakers prepare billions in cuts
- San Francisco school district prepares to lay off 900 workers
- Sri Lanka: IMF loan delay signals deep assault on living standards
- Obama’s health care agenda and the case for a socialist alternative
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 1
- Germany: Left Party, Greens cancel appearances by historian Norman Finkelstein
- Opening report to the SEP (Australia) Founding Congress
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
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