Archive: May 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.
2 May 2011 (front page)
- Michigan’s anti-democratic emergency financial manager law takes effect
- Democrats, Republicans escalate attack on public employees
- Behind election smokescreen: Canada’s elite prepares all-out assault on Medicare
- Canada: NDP will abet big business in imposing its class war agenda
- European Union steps up measures to ward off refugees
- Fukushima radiation levels rise to highest levels yet
- Gaddafi family members murdered by US and NATO
- Massachusetts: Democrats attack municipal workers’ health care
- Oppose cuts to Manchester hospitals
- The killing of Osama bin Laden
- Australia: PPG paint workers remain on strike as union pushes two-tier wage cut
- Police make “pre-emptive” arrests before Royal wedding
- Sri Lankan union abandons victimised workers
- Spain: Telefónica slashes jobs and offers multimillion bonuses to its chief executives
- Storm death toll continues to rise in US South
- Eyewitness reflections on the storms in Alabama
- Six die in Vancouver, Washington, house fire
- This week in history: May 2-May 8
- The Fight for Socialism Today conference held in New York City
- The Conspirator: Film on Lincoln assassination trial misses the mark
3 May 2011 (front page)
- Japanese PM faces political crisis over nuclear disaster
- Tensions escalate over the South China Sea
- Australia: Queensland flood inquiry raises questions about state government’s response
- War on US workers drives stock market rise
- The killing of bin Laden and the “war on terror”
- Unanswered questions on US raid that killed bin Laden
- US, NATO defend air strike that murdered Gaddafi family members
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US State Department human rights reports
Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
Part 6: United Arab Emirates - US motorists express anger over skyrocketing gas prices
- Britain: National Health Service cuts target jobs and patient care
- Ugandan police open fire on protesters
- Wave of violence against Roma in Hungary
- Source Code and Hanna—two new Hollywood thrillers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
4 May 2011 (front page)
- Canadian elections set stage for intensified class conflict
- Living costs soar in New Zealand
- Australian government affirms support for Afghan war after bin Laden killing
- UN report details Sri Lankan government war crimes
- The killing of Osama bin Laden: Obama’s “historic moment”
- Obama urges bipartisan unity to impose austerity measures
- Rome meeting to consider further military action against Libya
- Yemen president torpedoes agreement to leave office
- $3 billion stock option bonanza for American CEOs
- Brazil’s poor evicted to make way for Olympics
- Atlanta, Georgia rally opposes anti-immigrant bill
- Workers in Ardwick, Manchester speak of growing poverty and hardship
- What attitude should British workers take to the May 5 Alternative Vote referendum?
- 86,000 Michigan households hit by utility shutoffs this winter
- A discussion with film historian Joseph McBride about Steven Spielberg: A Biography―Part 1
- An exchange of letters on the CGT union’s role in France’s anti-worker port reform
5 May 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Business demands more cutbacks after Victorian state budget
- Worker killed in New Zealand tornado
- Washington’s official story unravels, confirming extra-legal execution of Bin Laden
- Assault on US workers’ rights accelerates
- Syrian government widens crackdown
- Growing wave of strikes in Egypt
- International finance presses for counter-revolution in Tunisia
- Thousands of hospital workers demonstrate in Berlin
- How to win the strike at Berlin’s Charité hospital
- May Day marches in France held amid rising neo-fascist influence
- Mississippi River floods threaten cities in many states
- Elections in Scotland, Ireland and Wales conceal extent of austerity cuts
- Canada on the brink of mass social struggles
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The Fight for Socialism Today: Conference resolutions
The attack on the working class and the fight for socialism - “The Socialist Equality Party is the leadership workers in Britain need”
- Sheffield “anti-cuts” hustings: Ex-left line up with Labour Party/TUC
- Socialist Equality Party responds to PCS union’s “There is an Alternative” campaign
- A discussion with film historian Joseph McBride about Steven Spielberg: A Biography—Part 2
- Letters on the killing of Osama bin Laden
6 May 2011 (front page)
- Washington funnels confiscated Libyan assets to “rebel” leadership
- Defence lawyers demand acquittal of Malaysian opposition leader
- After bin Laden killing, US intensifies pressure on Pakistan
- Australia: Police gun down two people in Melbourne
- Obama at Ground Zero
- Democrats and Republicans work on compromise plan to cut social programs
- Draconian austerity measures a condition of Portuguese bailout
- Alabama residents struggle in storm’s aftermath
- British inquest jury rules Ian Tomlinson unlawfully killed by police officer
- One in seven Americans receiving federal food assistance
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The Fight for Socialism Today: Conference resolutions
For the international unity of the working class! -
The Fight for Socialism Today: Conference resolutions
No to imperialist war in Libya! Withdraw all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan! - Mediterranean Anti-Capitalist Conference aids counter-revolution in North Africa
- Important new work on historical foundations of Socialist Equality Party (Germany) now available in English
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
7 May 2011 (front page)
- Soaring dollar adds to Australian Labor government crisis
- Credit rating agencies press Japan for budget austerity
- In wake of Bin Laden killing: US targets American citizen in Yemen
- No prospect of global “economic recovery”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US jobs report points to protracted downturn
- Friday demonstrations in Syria met with violent repression
- Liberal Democrats hammered in UK elections
- Detroit food stamp recipients speak
- Italian unions deal another blow to Fiat autoworkers
- US football player targeted for criticizing celebration of Bin Laden killing
- The war against Libya and the German Left Party
- The Juilliard Orchestra performs Mahler’s Ninth Symphony in New York City
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The Fight for Socialism Today: Conference resolutions
Defend democratic rights! -
The Fight for Socialism Today: Conference resolutions
Socialism is the way forward for young people! - More letters on the killing of Osama bin Laden
9 May 2011 (front page)
- Despite mining boom, Australian economy in trouble
- California schools face continued budget uncertainty
- Unions sabotage strike at Berlin’s Charité hospital
- Threat of war crimes charges levelled against Gaddafi and son
- Mississippi floods pose disasters for multiple states
- The Pacquiao phenomenon in the Philippines
- SEP/ISSE May Day meeting in Colombo
- Tunisian regime imposes curfew amid protests over coup threat
- New York City to lay off teachers, close fire companies, cut social programs
- Mine explosion in Mexico: Unsafe conditions and government corruption
- Saab deal with Chinese automaker paves way for job cuts, outsourcing
- The death agony of American democracy
- The growth of the extreme right in Europe
- This week in history: May 9-May 15
- Folksinger Hazel Dickens dies at 75
10 May 2011 (front page)
- Behind Ford’s latest mass layoffs in Australia
- NATO ships, planes left African refugees stranded in Mediterranean to die
- Sri Lanka: Opposition web site suspended
- Australia: What next in the struggle against NAPLAN?
- Europe one year after the bailout of Greece
- Florida approves far-reaching cuts to unemployment benefits
- Obama on “60 Minutes:” A political assessment
- Pakistan warns US “unilateralism” could have “serious consequences”
- US carmakers profit from wage-cutting, speed-up
- Mississippi River flood looms over Memphis
- French Football Federation considers racial quotas
- Greens and Social Democrats in Stuttgart, Germany, seal coalition pact
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“They look at the arts as a luxury item”
An interview with Greg Near, Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra musician - How the Mediterranean Anti-Capitalist Conference defended French imperialism
- Mehring Books announces spring sale
- The trade unions and the ex-left: A reply to a British union official
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Letters from our readers
11 May 2011 (front page)
- Australian Labor government’s budget targets welfare recipients
- 18th ASEAN summit held amid growing geopolitical tensions
- Australia: Fairfax Media demands far-reaching job cuts
- Greek crisis triggers fierce conflicts in Europe
- Republicans, Democrats escalate budget-cutting campaign
- Sectarian conflict in Cairo between Muslims and Coptic Christians
- Bahrain tries 21 activists on trumped-up charges
- New threats emerge at Japanese nuclear plants
- Mexico: Opposition to government militarization of “drug war” grows
- Reports highlight threats to women’s health in poorest countries
- US student loan delinquency rises
- EU stability plan to bring poverty, inflation to Bulgaria
- The killing of Bin Laden and the threat of a wider war
12 May 2011 (front page)
- Beijing cancels debate on 1911 revolution
- Death squads reportedly assassinating Libyan regime figures in Benghazi
- Philippine president proposes to evict 500,000 slum residents from Manila
- Australian government plans to deport refugees to Malaysia
- ASEAN summit fails to resolve Thai-Cambodian conflict
- Pivotal elections in five Indian states
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Detroit area jobless speak out
“If the recession is over, show me” - European Union presses Finland to support bailout of Portugal
- Union betrays Berlin hospital workers’ strike
- Scottish National Party forms majority government in Holyrood
- The flooding in the US South
- Why is the NPA’s Olivier Besancenot sitting out the 2012 French presidential race?
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After first bowing to Zionist McCarthyism:
City University of New York restores honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner - Education is a social right! Unite teachers, students and workers against all cuts!
13 May 2011 (front page)
- Protesters, police clash in Athens demonstration
- Meltdown of Japanese nuclear reactor confirmed
- Australia: Chaotic official response during Queensland flood emergency
- Sri Lankan plantation workers speak to the WSWS
- Mississippi towns submerged in floodwaters
- Video: Students and staff denounce the threat to close Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy
- Syrian government widens crackdown
- Yemen security forces kill dozens more protesters
- Former billionaire hedge fund manager convicted of insider trading
- CEO pay in US tops pre-crisis levels
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Beholden to big business:
Canada’s NDP gave private assurances to Bay Street - The social counterrevolution in America and the tasks of the working class
- The ex-left apologists for Scottish nationalism
- Einstein’s theory of gravity confirmed by NASA probe
- Nationwide doctors’ strike in Egypt
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
14 May 2011 (front page)
- Australian budget debate highlights deepening political crisis
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As opposition leader meets Obama officials at White House
NATO air raid kills Libyan civilians in Brega - Financial chaos sounds a warning
- Singapore election reflects anti-government groundswell
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italy’s role in the war on Libya
- White House, Republicans use debt deadline to prepare historic cuts in Medicare and Medicaid
- Video: Catherine Ferguson Academy students and teachers speak on school closures and social inequality
- Thousands march on Wall Street to oppose New York City budget cuts
- Students and teachers speak out against Bloomberg’s budget cuts
- India: Stalinist-led Left Front suffers debacle in state elections
- Mississippi floods highlight decay of US infrastructure
- Creation of “bad bank” heightens prospect of Spanish bailout
- British Sunday Times Rich List: Austerity? Not for the elite
- The political tone at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival
- Letters from our readers
16 May 2011 (front page)
- Israeli troops kill unarmed Palestinian protesters on borders
- New Zealand SAS troops implicated in Afghan war crimes
- The Sydney Harbour Bridge protest: an insight into the level of social frustration
- Tensions in Kremlin continue to mount
- Victims of Mississippi flood must be made whole
- International Monetary Fund chief arrested on sexual assault charges
- Video: Thousands line up for jobs in Hamtramck, Michigan
- Obama announces steps to boost oil drilling and industry profits
- Mississippi River flood spills into central Louisiana
- Microsoft and the future of Skype
- Yonkers, New York facing crippling cuts to education
- Yonkers students denounce school cutbacks
- California teachers and students denounce cuts in public education
- Syrian regime continues to use lethal force against protests
- This week in history: May 16 - May 22
- Danish government introduces border controls
17 May 2011 (front page)
- Three Japanese nuclear reactors underwent meltdown
- ICC prosecutor demands arrest warrant against Gaddafi
- Australian government budget cuts welfare
- Israel’s border massacre and human rights hypocrisy
- Obama preaches individual responsibility in flooded Memphis
- IMF head held without bail on sexual assault charges
- White House, Republican discussions target federal workers’ pensions
- The royal visit to Ireland
- Tunisian regime creates electoral commission amid mass strikes
- Illinois education “reform” bill passes with bipartisan support
- Michigan legislature slashes taxes for business
- Florida to restructure Medicaid to benefit insurance industry
- German newspapers call for pay cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
18 May 2011 (front page)
- Social inequality and the Yangtze River drought
- European financial leaders postpone a new bailout for Greece
- PPG workers speak to the World Socialist Web Site
- Australia: Union prepares sell-out of PPG paint workers
- Sri Lankan government praises Bin Laden killing
- NATO warplanes step up attacks on Libya
- Mississippi flood spreads across Louisiana
- US manufacturing rebounds on lower wages
- Pakistani, NATO forces clash amid rising US-Pakistani tensions
- New Chicago mayor outlines austerity agenda
- School districts throughout Detroit area face cuts
- Unions agree to $1.6 billion in concessions for Connecticut state workers
- Massey refused to address ventilation problems at Upper Big Branch Mine
- Demjanjuk Nazi war crimes trial ends in Munich
- The International Criminal Court and Gaddafi
- UK: Official guidelines to deal with suicide by the jobless
19 May 2011 (front page)
- Afghans killed in protest over NATO night raids
- New “super bug” threatens Australian hospitals
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Book Review
Guantanamo: My Journey—David Hicks exposes torture and government criminality - The serious questions raised by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair
- Australian government shifts to corporate-controlled job “training”
- Republican right sets the tone for bipartisan assault on Medicare
- Pakistan’s President Zardari visits Moscow
- US Supreme Court gives green light to warrant-less searches of homes
- Wikileaks cable exposes Canadian duplicity in Iraq war
- Illinois to balance budget by cutting social services
- Unions call off strike on British Airways and London Underground
- Pro-cuts rally attempts launch of British “Tea Party”
- Former IMF economist installed as Ivory Coast president
- Ex-French resistance members make reactionary nationalist appeal
- Letters from our readers
20 May 2011 (front page)
- Mining boom shatters myth of “Australian exceptionalism”
- Judge endorses prosecution case in Malaysian opposition leader’s trial
- Obama's Middle East speech: “democratic” rhetoric cloaks predatory policy
- US spars with China over “human rights”
- Strauss-Kahn resigns as IMF chief, indicted in New York
- Protestors occupy city squares in Spain after mass demonstrations Sunday
- Mississippi flood cripples river communities
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“This is man-made—it’s going to hurt a lot of people”
Louisiana residents speak on flood disaster -
Executions in Alabama, Mississippi and Ohio
US states scramble to obtain lethal injection drugs - Pakistan: Military sponsored-PML (Q) joins PPP-led coalition government
- US banks involved in money laundering operation for Mexican mafia
- Border scandal exposes Romanian union corruption
- Britain’s National Health Service faces destruction
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
21 May 2011 (front page)
- Public education is a social right!
- Behind the battle over new IMF chief
- US and the Philippines: naval ships and ‘historical ties’
- Australian government denies basic rights to refugees
- Tens of thousands protest throughout Spain, defying government ban
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Netanyahu snubs Obama over 1967 border remark
- Detroit City Council targets public transportation, arts and fire department
- Democrats, Republicans agree to four-year extension of Patriot Act powers
- Texas plans drastic cuts to education, health care, and social services
- White House budget attacks higher education for working class students
- UK Afghan troop draw-down points to future deployments
- Britain plotted regime change in Iraq as early as 2001
- Egyptian “left” parties seek alliance with bourgeoisie
- Hungarian trade unions line up behind Orban government
- Hesher: The problem of the foreground and the background
- Letters on the Strauss-Kahn affair
23 May 2011 (front page)
- Bitter leadership rivalries re-emerge within Australian opposition
- South Korean president reshuffles cabinet after by-election defeats
- Sri Lankan university teachers demand pay rise
- Protests continue in Spain as ruling Socialist Party suffers electoral defeat
- Death squad attacks in Libyan “rebel” capital
- Thousands gather in Michigan to oppose education cuts
- California Democratic governor releases proposal for continued budget austerity
- Teachers, parents and students protest school cuts in Yonkers, New York
- Pakistan and China strengthen ties after Bin Laden assassination
- Change of chairs at the top of the German Free Democratic Party
- Labour in Sheffield: Cuts worse than under Thatcher
- Argentine victims of dirty war to sue Daimler Benz in US Court
- Obama affirms “ironclad” support for Israel
- This week in history: May 23-May 29
- The American “left” and the Strauss-Kahn affair
- US union head Trumka at the National Press Club
- Scientists see increasing floods with changing climate
24 May 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Union enforces job cuts at Fairfax Media
- Quake disaster renews debate over Japan’s relations with China
- The social conditions behind the deadly US tornado outbreak
- Tornado kills at least 116 in Joplin, Missouri
- The Libyan war and American democracy
- As popular opposition grows, European ruling class demands austerity
- Brutal state budget cuts hit schools in Philadelphia
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Massachusetts residents react to budget cuts
“People depend on these government programs just to sustain life” - Report reveals “corporate culture” of safety violations before fatal blast at West Virginia mine
- Gun battles erupt in Yemeni capital after Saleh refuses to step down
- Housing report points to growth of UK inequality
- Rwandan general sentenced for role in 1994 genocide
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Public meeting in Los Angeles
The way forward in the fight against budget cuts in California - Director Lars von Trier at Cannes: Playing with social dynamite
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 May 2011 (front page)
- Split erupts within Fijian military regime
- Japanese nuclear company confirms meltdowns in three reactors
- NATO bombing of Tripoli kills 19 civilians, wounds 150
- Spain: Local and regional elections show mass dissatisfaction
- As more storms move in, death toll rises in Joplin, Missouri
- Alabamans speak on aftermath of April tornadoes
- Nevada budget deficit highest in nation
- Following more budget cuts, tuition to increase at California’s public colleges
- Massive security preparations for the G8 meeting in France
- India: Rightwinger Banerjee becomes West Bengal’s new chief minister
- University of Nottingham suspends professor in major assault on free speech
- Anti-government protests continue in Georgia
- Indiana lawmakers attack reproductive health services
- The Joplin, Missouri tornado
26 May 2011 (front page)
- Charges dropped against Australian soldiers over Afghan civilian killings
- Explosion at Foxconn’s new China plant
- Australian waterfront company steps up provocations against dock workers
- Obama addresses UK parliament: A joint agenda for austerity and war
- Death toll rises in Joplin as more tornadoes hit US Midwest
- Report on US mine disaster: An indictment of American capitalism
- US budget talks target $1 trillion in cuts
- Republicans lose House seat in special election
- US Defense Secretary Gates urges post-2011 occupation of Iraq
- Finnish parliament approves Portuguese bailout
- Police officer shoots benefit claimant in German unemployment office
- Georgia governor signs anti-immigrant bill
- Growing resistance to union sell-out of Berlin hospital workers
- From Shakespeare to comic books: Kenneth Branagh directs Thor
- A letter in response to “A discussion with film historian Joseph McBride about Steven Spielberg: A Biography”
- Letters from our readers
27 May 2011 (front page)
- Germany’s Bremen state election: A vote against the federal government
- New US jobless claims top 400,000 for seventh straight week
- G8 summit: major powers discuss how to contain “Arab Spring”
- New York Times reporter subpoenaed in leak case
- Qantas prepares offensive on Australian workforce
- Aboriginal boxer Lionel Rose dies, aged 62
- WikiLeaks cables reveal Chinese vice president’s secret visit to Fiji, in defiance of Australia
- Death toll soars in fighting in Yemeni capital
- Tunisian interim prime minister visits France ahead of G8 summit
- California teachers and students protest against education cuts
- New York City budget will decimate libraries
- US Supreme Court decision exposes barbaric conditions in California prisons
- What way forward for Spain’s “angry ones”?
- Video: Hundreds of Michigan families seek assistance in Southfield
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
28 May 2011 (front page)
- Australian waterfront union capitulates, calling off industrial action
- Obama signs extension of Patriot Act spy powers
- A revealing prison “escape” in the Philippines
- Sri Lankan free trade zone workers demonstrate against pension bill
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Amidst divisions, G8 meeting pledges austerity and war
- Mass protests demand “second revolution” in Egypt
- Police beat anti-austerity protesters in Barcelona, Spain
- Syria becomes centre of struggle for regional influence
- Joplin, Missouri tornado death toll rises to 132
- White House unveils corporate deregulation scheme
- Win Win: Recognizably and unusually human
- A letter on the Joplin tornado and Wal-Mart
- Letters from our readers
30 May 2011 (front page)
- Twelve children killed in another US massacre in Afghanistan
- Germany’s new military doctrine of “national self-assertion”
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The war in Libya and the crisis of the European Union
Part 1 - The Aboriginal “intervention” in Australia: four years on
- Deep budget cuts ahead of New Zealand election
- The jobs crisis in America
- Trade unions collaborate in attacks on Scottish teachers
- Cuts in US welfare programs hit hundreds of thousands of poor families
- Three men jailed over Tongan ferry disaster
- Obama in Joplin: More empty promises to disaster survivors
- Spain’s M-15 protests continue
- “If things carry on like this, there won’t be work for any of us,” say Spain’s indignados
- This week in history: May 30-June 05
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Theater review
Tom Jacobson’s The Chinese Massacre (Annotated)…or Massacred History (Restored)
31 May 2011 (front page)
- Chinese patrol boats confront Vietnamese oil exploration ship in South China Sea
- German insurance bankruptcy threatens the elderly and sick
- Banks demand savage austerity measures in Greece
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The war in Libya and the crisis of the European Union
Part 2 -
Upper Big Branch report
Two-thirds of US mining disaster victims had black lung - Spanish anti-austerity protests spread to more cities
- Obama administration seeks to block legal challenges to Medicaid cuts
- Egypt’s “second revolution”
- Australian government rejects UN criticism of refugee abuses
- UK pay gap widens, millions in dire straits
- United Nations report warns of dollar "collapse"
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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