Archive: December 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 December 2010 (front page)
- Australian government joins persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- Corporate executive pay hits “stratospheric new heights” in Australia
- US Congress allows extended jobless benefits to expire
- After the Irish bailout: The financial wolf pack targets new victims
- Obama administration seeks to criminalize WikiLeaks
- Financial markets increase pressure on Spain
- Impact of Hungary’s toxic mud disaster
- New Zealand government announces inquiry into mine disaster
- Afghan trainee kills six US troops
- Portland teen ensnared in FBI sting operation pleads not guilty
- Plan to deploy British mercenaries in Somalia
- Canada to create new class of political refugees with far fewer rights
- Thirty US college presidents take in over $1 million in 2008
- Spain’s middle-class “left” parties and the French pension struggle
2 December 2010 (front page)
- Eurozone crisis spreads: Portugal, Italy, Belgium hit by fallout from Irish bailout
- Australia: Labor seeks to overcome High Court ruling on refugee processing regime
- US Congress slams door on the unemployed
- WikiLeaks cables fuel hostility to US role in Pakistan
- UK education protests subjected to police attack
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“The banks make all the mistakes and we get the blame”
Students speak on UK education cuts - Russian government warns of new arms race
- The Italian “left” and Nichi Vendola
- Egyptian elections marked by state violence and fraud
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WSWS team visits villages in the Vanni
Sri Lankan detainees “resettled” in appalling conditions - Reflections on the Bolsheviks, the October Revolution, and early Soviet state building in Petrograd
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One hundred years since the death of the great Russian novelist
Trotsky’s 1908 tribute to Leo Tolstoy - Coalition of Resistance pledges loyalty to Labour and trade union bureaucracy
- The cancellation of AMC series Rubicon: Too close to home?
- Morning Glory: A film about American television, to no great effect
3 December 2010 (front page)
- Brain more complex than previously thought, research reveals
- Obama, Congress negotiate tax cuts for the wealthy
- Australia’s economy “under-performs expectations” in September quarter
- US and China in a diplomatic standoff over North Korea
- Fed report reveals multi-trillion-dollar “shadow bailout”
- Scotland and Wales reveal unprecedented budget cuts
- The end of the conservative-Green alliance in Hamburg
- Hundreds killed in national-ethnic violence in Pakistan’s largest city
- Climate talks promise little, deliver less
- Obama nominates for-profit prison consultant for US Marshals director
- The persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- Strike by Detroit Symphony musicians at critical point
- National Portrait Gallery in Washington bows to right-wing censorship
- Detroit media celebrates recovery of auto industry profits
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
4 December 2010 (front page)
- 昂山素季与缅甸民主
- Greens remain silent on witch-hunt against Australian citizen Julian Assange
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As unemployment rate tops 9.8 percent
27 million hit by US jobs crisis - Spanish government sends army to break air traffic controllers strike
- Fed report lifts lid on Great Bank Heist of 2008-2009
- International campaign targets WikiLeaks web site
- WikiLeaks document exposes US complicity in Sri Lankan war crimes
- European Central Bank promises unlimited liquidity
- Deficit commission votes 11-7 for budget-cutting plan
- Aid to be slashed for the UK’s poorest
- Most vulnerable, poorest and socially excluded hit by Legal Aid changes, says British campaigner
- Staff members stood down at two Australian universities
- Who is French trade union leader Bernard Thibault?
- Remembrance service held for New Zealand miners
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
6 December 2010 (front page)
- Assange lawyer hits out at Australian government
- Boston superintendent announces more school closures
- Year-end fund appeal: Donate now to support the WSWS
- WikiLeaks exposes US cover-up of Georgian attack on South Ossetia
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WSWS and ISSE public meeting in New Zealand
Political lessons of the Pike River mine disaster - FCC chairman bows to corporations on “net neutrality”
- California state workers’ pensions under assault
- The threat of dictatorship in Spain
- Australia: Prysmian strikers face growing dangers as unions maintain isolation
- Sri Lankan government moves to evict more Colombo shanty residents
- Arizona cuts Medicaid funding for organ transplants
- WikiLeaks continues exposure of predatory US foreign policy
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“You have to work to live, and then they want to deprive you of your work.”
Detroit workers face desperate jobs crisis - Australia: The Labor government’s broadband scheme and the profit system
- Fair Game: Hollywood liberals treat the drive to war in Iraq
- This week in history: December 6-December 12
7 December 2010 (front page)
- US-China tensions mount amid widening war exercises
- Remembering film director Mario Monicelli (1915-2010)
- Obama announces deal to extend tax cuts for the rich
- Australia: Report reveals Qantas flight narrowly missed disaster
- US negotiates free trade agreement with South Korea
- Australia: Visy workers strike over casualisation
- WikiLeaks and secret diplomacy
- Spanish air traffic controller: “We are living now like under Franco”
- US escalates threats and attacks on WikiLeaks
- Comic Jon Stewart attacks WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- UK government outlines frontal assault on education
- Arbitration brings cosmetic changes to “Stuttgart 21” rail project
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“In the mid-1980s my parents said the UAW was not for us”
Interview with Ohio auto parts worker - State regulatory agency defends role of utility giant in Detroit fires
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters on WikiLeaks
8 December 2010 (front page)
- WikiLeaks founder jailed in London on bogus charges
- Australia: Labor government opposes pay increase for community services workers
- WikiLeaks cables cast fresh light on coup against former Australian PM Rudd
- Sharp divisions at European finance ministers’ meeting
- Obama’s Big Lie: Tax cut for rich will benefit workers
- Irish budget imposes savage austerity
- Italian students continue protests against education cuts
- South Australian Labor conference gives green light for austerity measures
- Amtrak passenger trains in Michigan hobbled by decaying infrastructure
- Free Julian Assange! Hands off WikiLeaks!
- Hereafter: Another strangely unaffecting film from Clint Eastwood
- A letter on the Spanish air traffic controllers’ struggle
- A reply to a letter on the Spanish air traffic controllers’ struggle
- Spanish air traffic controller: “We have arrived at something akin to Stalinist Russia, the Stasi or Hitler’s SS”
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SEP Australia public meetings: Free Julian Assange! Hands off WikiLeaks!
Imperialist diplomacy exposed: Behind the witch-hunt of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange - A reply to a letter on the Spanish air traffic controllers’ struggle
9 December 2010 (front page)
- Australia: WikiLeaks cables reveal secret ties between Rudd coup plotters and US embassy
- WikiLeaks cable exposes NATO war plan against Russia
- Australia: Unions stifle struggle by NSW nurses
- WikiLeaks and Sri Lanka: Who are the real criminals?
- Australian Foreign Minister Rudd blames the United States for cable leaks
- German media responds to WikiLeaks revelations with nostalgia for the authoritarian state
- UK students protest prior to parliamentary vote on increased fees
- Obama tax proposal benefits wealthiest Americans while raising taxes on the poor
- Riots erupt in Haiti after announcement of election results
- Judge dismisses case challenging targeted killing of US citizens by Obama administration
- Netherlands judiciary demands extradition of Nazi war criminal from Germany
- The Mount Carmel fire and the “existential threat” to Israel
- Canada’s richest 1 percent grabbed one-third of all income growth since 1987
- How France’s unions aided police strike-breaking at Grandpuits refinery
- Los Angeles schools suffer more job cuts
- Letters from our readers
10 December 2010 (front page)
- 81 prisoners die in Chile penitentiary fire
- Obama administration steps up vendetta against WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- Obama’s tax windfall for the rich
- WikiLeaks documents show Shell Oil domination of Nigeria
- Support builds for Julian Assange in Australia
- WikiLeaks cable highlights fears in Beijing over social fragility
- Police brutally attack protesters as UK parliament backs university fees hike
- Detroit Symphony management intransigent as strike continues
- India: Lessons of the Stalinist CITU’s betrayal of the Foxconn and BYD strikes
- Lutte Ouvrière group defends union betrayal of French pension strikes
- Egypt parliamentary elections marked by violence and fraud in second round
- Czech public sector workers strike against austerity measures
- New Zealand: Former Pike River Coal miner hits out at lack of mine safety
- Detroit mayor plans to end services to one-third of city
- Sri Lankan unions accept budget cuts
- Bacteria that consumes arsenic boosts search for “alien” life
- Howl: Allen Ginsberg and American culture in the 1950s
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 December 2010 (front page)
- British student left with brain injury after police attacks on fees protest
- 外交机密与帝国主义罪行
- UK student protesters denounce fees hike and police violence
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US indictment of WikiLeaks founder said to be imminent
- Journalist John Pilger speaks out on charges against Julian Assange
- Leaked cables show German-American conspiracy to stifle prosecution of CIA kidnappers
- Leaks point to US concerns over Australian role in Afghanistan
- US life expectancy fell in 2008
- Australian protests to defend Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
- West Virginia chemical plant explosion kills two
- Human rights groups expose gross abuse of Mexican orphans and disabled
- Los Angeles expands charter schools in attack on public education
- Spain’s air traffic controllers targeted for escalating state repression
- What lies behind the liberals’ lamentations over Obama?
- Sri Lankan unions accept budget cuts
- Two-year-old boy dies in Detroit house fire
- India: Victimized Foxconn and BYD workers speak out
- More letters on WikiLeaks
13 December 2010 (front page)
- Another massacre of civilians in Afghanistan
- Cancún climate negotiations end without agreement on emissions reductions
- Australia: Striking Visy workers arrested on picket line
- Obama joins attack on WikiLeaks
- WikiLeaks document points to US contractor role in “dancing boys” incident
- The French “left” attacks WikiLeaks
- US: Georgia prison inmates strike
- Threat of renewed civil war after Ivory Coast election
- Ten years since Bush v. Gore: The stolen election of 2000
- Police-state tactics against protesters in Britain
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Mehring Books holiday sale
Featured book bundle: Selected Works of Trotsky - Detroit Symphony musicians’ picket forces concert cancellation
- This week in history: December 13-December 19
- End all utility shutoffs! Electricity and gas must be social rights
14 December 2010 (front page)
- Congressional Democrats ensure passage of Obama’s deal to extend tax cuts for the rich
- Thousands seek help in Detroit with winter utility payments
- Israel constructing giant refugee camp in Negev desert
- Australian media organisations, Labor MPs attack persecution of Julian Assange
- Court ruling protects Thai government
- Australia: Visy strikers denounce mass picket line arrests
- The resurgence of nationalism in the European Union
- Lawyer for Assange: US has empanelled secret grand jury against WikiLeaks leader
- Cables bare US operations in Brazil
- US and Israel use sabotage and assassinations to thwart Iran’s nuclear program
- Irish opposition parties commit to continue austerity drive
- Political crisis in Moldova intensifies after election
- New Orleans police convicted in post-Katrina killing
- Striking Detroit Symphony violinist: “No one ever imagined that we would be fighting to have a first-class orchestra in this town”
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
15 December 2010 (front page)
- Richard Holbrooke: Long-time operative for US imperialism
- Bangladesh police shoot striking garment workers
- The WikiLeaks cables and the US-Australia alliance
- SEP Sri Lanka public meeting: Defend Julian Assange and Wikileaks!
- Japan issues new defence guidelines aimed at China
- 维基解密与秘密外交
- Police attack Australian protests in defense of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- WikiLeaks founder granted bail, but remains incarcerated
- Protesters speak out in defence of Julian Assange
- Cables reveal US considered “state of exception” in Mexico
- WikiLeaks reveals the dirty diplomacy of climate change
- Six die in Baltimore fire
- General strike hits further austerity demands in Greece
- Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi narrowly survives confidence vote
- Federal judge in Virginia rules individual health care mandate unconstitutional
- German Left Party signals support for social austerity in state budget vote
- New York City, in “test,” denies housing aid to the poor
- Ethnic violence erupts in Russia
- Chile prison inmates on hunger strike
- Testing scandal exposes corporate-backed “school reform” in New York
- Detroit residents speak on utility shutoffs
- Connected, a 2004 collaboration between Dutch and US hip-hop musicians
16 December 2010 (front page)
- Factory fire and police killings fuel discontent among Bangladeshi garment workers
- California budget crisis poses new attacks on teachers
- Leaked cables show Australian intelligence discounted Iranian threat
- Up to 50 refugees drown off Australian coast after authorities fail to intercept boat
- US spy agencies paint grim picture of Afghan war
- Police attack protesters during Greek general strike
- Bloody clashes with police and anti-Berlusconi demonstrators in Rome
- Spate of cold-related deaths in Chicago
- Obama pledges more concessions to business at White House summit
- Obama budget director goes to work for Citigroup
- The New York Times and WikiLeaks
- GM CEO calls for executive pay caps to be lifted
- Letters from our readers
17 December 2010 (front page)
- Obama’s AfPak review: Endless war in face of mass opposition
- Obama’s business summit
- Julian Assange granted bail
- Protesters denounce legal persecution of Assange
- Cables show Portugal’s role in secret CIA prisoner flights
- Spain’s Socialist Party government colluded with US to conceal Iraq war crimes
- Interior Minister de Mazière wants a “German FBI”
- Australia: Further questions raised over Labor government’s role in refugee boat disaster
- Chinese leader denies any aim to replace the US as world hegemon
- Ontario Ombudsman denounce massive police abuse at Toronto G20 summit
- The Panama City, Florida school board tragedy and American social reality
- Detroit Symphony cancels more concerts as strikers hold firm
- Australia: Unions betray seven-week Prysmian strike against casualisation
- Australia: More than 70 striking Visy workers charged, but unions prepare sell-out
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
18 December 2010 (front page)
- US drones slaughter 54 in Pakistan
- Obama signs tax windfall for rich
- Tax law will overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy
- WikiLeaks founder defiant after release from British jail
- Accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning held in solitary confinement
- Cables show US reversed Indonesian army ban for Obama visit
- Madoff lawsuits charge JPMorgan and HSBC with complicity in Ponzi scheme
- Irish government blocks bank bonuses
- Deep cuts and fee rises threaten future of Scottish education system
- WikiLeaks cable reveals US role in 2006 Thai coup
- EU summit agrees to new rescue fund for the banks
- CAUS meeting discusses the political issues behind utility shutoffs
- Detroit Symphony management rejects new offer
- Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan: A portrait of the artist as a tormented young woman
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Mehring Books holiday sale
Give the gift of the WSWS - Sri Lankan health union calls off nurses’ strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
20 December 2010 (front page)
- South Korean military exercise raises danger of war
- Australia: Refugees stage detention centre demonstrations after boat disaster
- Spanish parliament votes to extend dictatorial powers
- Biden brands WikiLeaks leader “terrorist” and criminal
- Cables expose Washington’s contempt for international law, democratic rights
- Repression of Italian student protests: The specter of a police-state
- European deputies award themselves a generous Christmas bonus
- US drops demand for Israel to freeze settlement building
- France: State-backed police riot signals new lurch to the right
- Los Angeles area teachers, parents fight charter school takeover
- Massey CEO refuses to testify at hearing into Upper Big Branch mine disaster
- The end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the US military
- The “liberal” face of American imperialism
- This week in history: December 20-December 26
- Julian Schnabel retrospective in Toronto: Art, celebrity, and the market
21 December 2010 (front page)
- 维基解密电文与美澳同盟
- The police shooting of Bangladesh garment workers
- Australian Prime Minister Gillard forced to retract “illegal” charge against WikiLeaks founder
- Korean tensions ease—temporarily
- Australian meat workers locked out in dispute over wages and conditions
- Australia: After police attack, unions betray two-week Visy strike
- Julian Assange and the defense of democratic rights
- Washington Post details vast growth of US domestic spying
- US complicit in India’s systematic use of torture in Kashmir
- Colombia cable: Army murder of civilians “widespread”
- US corporations move to create a part-time, contingent workforce
- Oklahoma prisoner executed with animal anesthetic
- British police training facility opened in former mining village
- Miserable compensation for children abused in German care homes
- Boston School Committee approves expanded closure plan
- Letters from our readers on WikiLeaks
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 December 2010 (front page)
- Australia: SEP public meetings defend WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- One third of working families in US struggling to meet basic needs
- New York Times reports US plans for military escalation in Pakistan
- Julian Assange replies to media smear campaign
- German newspapers publish appeal opposing censorship of WikiLeaks
- WikiLeaks and Germany’s Left Party
- US to resume deportations to Haiti
- Conservative leader holds “constructive dialogue” with Britain’s union bosses
- Northern Irish executive announce four-year draft austerity budget
- WikiLeaks cables reveal commercial motivations behind New Zealand troop deployment to Iraq
- Washington’s incendiary role in Asia
- The BBC and the police attack on Jody McIntyre
- Imperialist diplomacy exposed: Behind the witch-hunt of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
23 December 2010 (front page)
- Obama administration preparing executive order to authorize indefinite detentions
- The Australian refugee boat disaster and the Labor government’s “border protection” regime
- US, EU prepare military action against Ivory Coast
- Backed by Washington, South Korea stages further military provocations
- Secret cables reveal Washington intervened in Italy to defend CIA kidnappers
- Britain assured US its interests would be protected in Iraq war inquiry
- US Senate ratifies nuclear arms treaty with Russia
- UK austerity measures to throw 1 million into poverty
- More than 30 die in Bangladesh ferry disaster
- Romania 2010: A year filled with social unrest and unprecedented cuts
- Two firefighters killed, 17 injured in Chicago building collapse
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A conversation with violist Caroline Coade
Detroit Symphony striker: “I now realize this is a big fight … a fight for what’s right” - The political significance of the WikiLeaks revelations
- Iranian filmmaker sentenced to six years in jail
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WSWS posts program of Socialist Equality Party (US) in Spanish
El derrumbe del capitalismo y la lucha por el socialismo en EE.UU - Letters from our readers
24 December 2010 (front page)
- Hailing 111th Congress, Obama prepares further shift to the right
- Iraqi cabinet established nine months after election
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan SEP holds a public meeting to defend WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- Australia: Union lifts work bans at Macquarie University
- WSWS/ISSE meeting discusses New Zealand mine disaster
- Christmas in America
- Greek parliament approves further austerity measures
- WikiLeaks cables: Spanish socialist government plans to renege on election pledges
- WikiLeaks cables expose France’s collaboration with US imperialism
- Iran imposes huge increases in fuel and food prices
- New York suit charges Lehman auditor Ernst & Young with collusion in fraud
- Report on collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland to be published
- The demolition of press freedom in Hungary
- British working class families forced to rely on charity food handouts
- 150 years ago: The election of Abraham Lincoln touches off secession crisis
- ISSE/SEP meetings in Germany defend Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
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WSWS posts program of Socialist Equality Party (US) in Spanish
El derrumbe del capitalismo y la lucha por el socialismo en EE.UU - Striking DSO musicians perform for Detroit homeless
- Red Star Over Russia by David King wins Banister Fletcher Award
- New species of lemur discovered in Madagascar
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 December 2010 (front page)
28 December 2010 (front page)
- CIA drone strikes kill 25 in Pakistan
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Photo essay
Sri Lanka: Thousands of shanty dwellers to be evicted from central Colombo - The media and Obama: Image and reality
- Ivory Coast general strike call portends further foreign intervention
- The New York Times backs the attack on WikiLeaks
- Spending cuts exacerbate weather chaos in Europe
- Italian students protest university austerity legislation
- Why the FCC can’t protect net neutrality
- Critics of UK cuts warn that National Health Service “could collapse”
- Pakistan president appeals to opposition to support IMF austerity measures
- Students protest collective punishment at New York City high school
- Australia: NSW Labor premier prorogues parliament to block power sale inquiry
- The Tourist, an artist on vacation from serious work
- An exchange on the strike-breaking role of the trade unions at a French refinery
- Australia: Union shuts down picket of locked out meatworkers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
- Leon Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution now available
29 December 2010 (front page)
- Fire in abandoned New Orleans warehouse kills 8
- US, Europe concealed organ trafficking by Kosovo Liberation Army
- Oil tycoon Khodorkovsky convicted in Moscow trial
- WikiLeaks confirms Fatah sought Israeli-US support for attack on Hamas
- Blizzard cripples northeastern US
- Guatemala escalates drug war with a declaration of martial law
- UK Navy medic has Afghan conscientious objector status refused
- US cable demonstrates Sri Lankan government’s collusion with paramilitary death squads
- Previews for “Spider-Man” musical in New York produce a rash of injuries
- The attack on press freedom in Hungary
- An interview with jazz and blues singer Mose Allison
- Australian government completes cave-in on mining tax
- Malaysian opposition leader suspended from parliament
- British women workers’ 1968 strike treated, more or less, in Made in Dagenham
30 December 2010 (front page)
- Military tensions remain high on Korean peninsula
- Australian government covers up causes of Montara oil spill
- Police open fire as protests spread in Tunisia
- The New Orleans fire and the conditions of youth in America
- New York City services come to a halt after blizzard
- The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assange
- Raul Castro sought “political channel” to Washington
- Huge rise in wounded Afghan civilians
- Sweeping cuts in UK Local Authority spending
- Gas explosion levels Michigan furniture store
- The Next Three Days: a thriller with something more on its mind
- Letters from our readers
31 December 2010 (front page)
- Best films of 2010
- Falsifying history and repudiating democratic rights: Floyd Abrams’ attack on WikiLeaks
- Australia: Major flooding hits hundreds of thousands of Queensland residents
- Commodity price surge sets stage for global food crisis in new year
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- WikiLeaks cables expose US hostility to Rudd’s Asia Pacific Community plan
- The first spintronic transistor
- US foreclosures soar, housing prices slump
- Wave of garment-worker suicides in Indian “boom” town
- Tirupur suicides: The human cost of India’s capitalist expansion
- The East Coast blizzard of 2010: One traveler’s experience
- German steel boss calls for “German raw materials corporation”
- Labour Party and trade unions seek to bring UK education cuts protests under control
- Central Falls, Rhode Island teachers face renewed attacks
- Washington’s “humanitarian” war and the KLA’s crimes
- Detroit Symphony strike now longest in orchestra’s history
- Holiday sale extended to January 10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Letters on the Nation and WikiLeaks
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