Archive: January 2013
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.
3 January 2013 (front page)
- As 2013 begins: A mood of anxiety in ruling circles
- The fiscal cliff deal
- US drone strikes continue in Yemen
- French Constitutional Council strikes down Hollande’s 75 percent tax on the rich
- German SPD leader Steinbrück: Candidate of the financial aristocracy
- Sri Lankan government prepares to impeach chief justice
- Brother Ali’s Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color and social reality in the US
- Letters from our readers
- Growing poverty in Germany “politically desired”
- Merit-based scholarships in US to widen gap between high and low-income college students
- Texas judge approves ban on Planned Parenthood funding
- 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation
- Southampton City Council cuts expose UK unions as partners in austerity
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Owners Corporation Network spokesman discusses building safety
4 January 2013 (front page)
- New US drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen
- Obama and torture
- Afghanistan: Sharp rise in civilian deaths
- Judge denies Obama administration attempt to dismiss challenge to “no-fly” list
- Shell Oil Arctic drilling rig runs aground
- GM-Opel: German Left Party leader contacts US ambassador
- UK: Hospitals across Greater Manchester under threat of closure
- Homelessness and sleeping in the street on the rise in the UK
- Parti Québécois’ education summit—a mechanism for imposing tuition fee hikes and spending cuts
- Burmese military escalates war in Kachin state
- Court rules California city can halt pension payments
- Astronomers confirm fundamental relationship in atomic physics
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 January 2013 (front page)
- Obama signs Pentagon bill maintaining Guantanamo and military detention
- Afghanistan: A model for 21st Century neo-colonialism
- US jobs report points to continuing stagnation
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US bipartisan fiscal deal
Tax cuts for business, pay cuts for workers - European Court orders damages for CIA torture victim
- Ontario Liberals impose sweeping concessions on teachers
- Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained
- London Underground to press ahead with driverless trains
- Unions undermine struggle of Palermo’s Pizza workers
- Philadelphia to shut one out of every six public schools
- Australian government cuts welfare payments to single parents
- US Congress approves measly relief package for Hurricane Sandy victims
- UK government attacks teachers’ pay
- Australian dole recipients struggle to survive
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 January 2013 (front page)
- US, allies step up military backing for Syria’s sectarian insurgency
- After tax deal, spending cuts dominate Washington agenda
- India and Pakistan involved in fatal border clash
- Obama administration blocks information request on assassination of US citizens
- French auto industry prepares assault on jobs, working conditions
- Chinese government imposes new Internet censorship law
- New Year’s Eve stampede kills 64 in Ivory Coast
- Bushfires hit five Australian states
- Sri Lankan Tamil party legitimises military occupation
- 11,000 US teachers laid off in December
- Main resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “The political tasks of the Socialist Equality Party”
- Mental health care cuts hit rural Wisconsin
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds First National Congress
- This week in history: January 7-13
- On the death of German SPD leader Peter Struck (1943-2012)
8 January 2013 (front page)
- Obama names head of drone assassination program to lead CIA
- The world economy 2013: Illusions and reality
- Greek government parties, opposition call joint demonstration
- Island dispute continues to fuel China-Japan tensions
- UK council leaders warn of social unrest
- Corporate sponsors underwrite Obama’s inauguration extravaganza
- New York City school bus drivers may strike over job security
- California jobs report underscores deepening inequality
- Letters from our readers
- Resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “The SEP and the struggle against imperialist war”
- Slovenian unions drop opposition to government austerity measures
- Transocean settles for $1.4 billion in criminal and civil charges
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Victorian paramedics protest over poor conditions
9 January 2013 (front page)
- Austerity drives up European unemployment to record levels
- The Brennan nomination: A government of torturers and assassins
- Another sweetheart bank settlement on mortgage fraud
- President Mursi, IMF prepare austerity policies in Egypt
- Israeli election campaign reflects rightward shift
- Sri Lankan Buddhist chauvinists provoke violence against Muslims
- Behind the newly proposed US food regulations
- Tens of thousands of distressed Michigan families losing welfare benefits
- Australia: Hundreds of bushfires as heatwave continues
- Resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “Defend Julian Assange and WikiLeaks”
- Superhero graphic novels from DC and Marvel: Symbols and avatars, not images and people
10 January 2013 (front page)
- India and Pakistan clash again in disputed Kashmir area
- Europe in 2013
- Venezuelan legislature postpones Chavez inauguration
- US Army judge rejects motion to dismiss charges in Bradley Manning case
- 2012 was hottest year recorded in US
- Indian establishment manipulating anger over Delhi rape
- Sri Lanka heads toward constitutional crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Detroit city workers face new cuts
- Australia headed for deepening slump in 2013
- Finucane review shows links between British intelligence and loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland
- Hitchcock: Small change, for the most part
- Witch-hunt continues against Maruti Suzuki workers in India
- Why the SEP (Germany) rejects a state ban of the neo-fascist NPD
- Resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality”
11 January 2013 (front page)
- US life expectancy lowest among industrialized countries
- Billionaires gain as living standards fall
- Obama nominates Jacob Lew, budget-cutter and ex-banker, to head Treasury
- Saudi Arabia executes young Sri Lankan housemaid
- Three Kurdish nationalist activists assassinated in Paris
- 2013 Academy Award nominations: Extraordinary and glaring contradictions, even greater than usual
- Ontario government threatens teachers with fines in bid to thwart walkout
- Danish Red-Green Alliance supports budget cuts
- South African police fire on striking farm workers
- Government prepares to dissolve South London National Health Service Trust
- Federal judge rules New York “stop-and-frisk” policing unconstitutional
- US Supreme Court refuses to hear lawsuit on suicide crisis facing war veterans
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Fijian military objects to draft constitution
- Bankstown apartment fire survivor tells media how blaze began
12 January 2013 (front page)
- Bomb blasts kill over 120 in Pakistan
- The Middle East in 2013
- Obama-Karzai talks set stage for post-2014 US troop presence
- American Express to cut 5,400 jobs
- US consumer financial board issues pro-bank mortgage rules
- Japan, Philippines boost ties as tensions with China escalate
- Eight workers killed in Turkish mining disaster
- Britain: Labour promotes anti-immigrant chauvinism
- Canadian unions’ chauvinist campaign against “temporary foreign worker” expansion
- National Hockey League lockout ends with concessions contract
- Hurricane lays bare social misery in New York’s public housing complexes
- House fires kill 11 in US south
- Recent climate change research points to a growing global crisis
- The impact of drawing: Two exhibitions of master drawings in New York
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
14 January 2013 (front page)
- France launches war in northern Mali
- Obama’s cabinet of austerity and war
- Sri Lankan president removes country’s chief justice
- Benefit cuts to impoverish millions in Britain
- UK: Peterborough National Health Service Trust deepens attacks on workers and services
- Widespread influenza outbreak in 47 US states
- Chinese media censorship sparks protest
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Columbia geophysicist Klaus Jacob on Hurricane Sandy
“Disasters always amplify pre-existing inequities” -
Thousands line up for aid
Police shut down housing voucher distribution in Detroit suburb - Wall Street Journal demands “discipline” for Stockton, California “deadbeats”
- Washington, D.C., legislators vote to eliminate benefits for needy families
- Pittsburgh teachers accused of fixing test scores
- Opposition emerges in film industry to Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty
- German Left Party defends its support for war against Syria
- This week in history: January 14-20
15 January 2013 (front page)
- India and Pakistan exchange threats in Kashmir border dispute
- Hands off Mali!
- Obama outlines budget-cutting agenda at press conference
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Open access activist dead at 26
Family charges US with role in Aaron Swartz suicide - Push for Western military intervention in Syria escalates
- Greek SYRIZA leader meets with German finance minister
- Burgeoning native protests shake Canadian establishment and official native leadership
- Letters from our readers
- Leading German publisher smeared as anti-Semite
- 400,000 still homeless three years after Haitian earthquake
- Refugees step up protests in Australia’s offshore detention camps
- Exposure of sex-for-fees web site underscores UK student poverty
- Washington, DC legislators vote to eliminate benefits for needy families
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 January 2013 (front page)
- France continues to bomb Mali as Islamist opposition forces advance
- The rotten foundations of US policy in the Middle East
- Growing share of US workers forced to tap retirement accounts
- Father of Aaron Swartz indicts US government for son’s suicide
- Record number of US military and veteran suicides
- UK: Barnet Council proceeds with public services outsourcing
- Australia: BlueScope Steel unveils further sackings
- Fear of British EU exit prompts US/German warnings
- French unions agree to pro-corporate labor “reforms”
- Australia: Engineer speaks with WSWS about building safety
- Behind the canonization of the second Philippine saint
- California prison overcrowding set to worsen as governor raises state cap
- Mobilize the working class to support New York’s school bus drivers!
- New York school drivers: “All they want is to push us backwards”
- Revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy (1937): The American dream turns sour
17 January 2013 (front page)
- World Bank cuts forecast for global economic growth
- 2013 and the new Scramble for Africa
- Europe slides deeper into recession
- France launches ground offensive in Mali
- Obama on gun control: Expand surveillance and police powers
- Renault announces 7,500 job cuts in France
- New Australian Greens platform marks further rightward shift
- Japanese government boosts military spending
- Israeli police charge protest movement leader with assault
- Germany’s Left Party supports unconditional cooperation with the SPD and Greens
- Pakistan Supreme Court orders arrest of PPP prime minister
- Pro-austerity contenders in Czech Republic presidential election
- New York City school bus drivers strike to defend jobs
- Striking school bus drivers: “The mayor is putting a price on our children”
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The theoretical and historical origins of the pseudo-left - Letters from our readers
18 January 2013 (front page)
- France escalates Mali war amid Algerian hostage crisis
- Asia in 2013
- Ranks of US working poor grow dramatically
- Top US CEOs propose raising retirement age to 70
- Fatal accidents fuel discontent with Egyptian Islamist government
- The Detroit auto show: Auto execs celebrate record profits
- Director Kathryn Bigelow defends her indefensible Zero Dark Thirty
- UK Conservatives appoint major donor John Nash as education minister
- Germany: Corrupt practices of IG Metall union, paid for by Thyssen-Krupp
- NYC bus interviews
- Mounting job losses in Australia
-
New from Mehring Books
The theoretical and historical origins of the pseudo-left - NYC school bus strike
- Russian government intensifies witch-hunt of migrant workers
- Homelessness and hunger on the rise in San Diego, California
- Sri Lankan government installs new chief justice
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New York school bus drivers walk picket lines for second day
19 January 2013 (front page)
- Standoff continues in Algerian hostage crisis
- Political issues in the fight against the fascist Golden Dawn
- India-Pakistan relationship remains tense
- Bradley Manning denied whistleblower defense
- Italy before the elections
- Far-right UVF behind Northern Ireland “flag protests”
- Germany: Lower Saxony vote a litmus test for upcoming general election
- Australian fire-fighting budget cuts place lives at risk
- California governor pledges continued austerity
- Sri Lanka government faces rising debt burden
- The Australian pseudo-left and the NSW public sector union
- Unions abruptly shut down “indefinite” public sector strike in Kerala
- New York bus drivers continue strike to defend jobs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SEP holds public meeting on Stockton, California bankruptcy
- Letters from our readers
21 January 2013 (front page)
- Obama to approve drone assassination manual
- Obama’s second inauguration
- Algeria hostage crisis ends in bloodbath
- UK: Parents and staff demonstrate against closure of Sheffield children’s centres
- Air Berlin cuts 900 jobs
- US attorney downplays vendetta against Internet pioneer Aaron Swartz
- Boeing rejects engineering union contract extension amidst 787 crisis
- Report documents mass poverty in California
- Further strikes in China as economy slows
- European Union demands further attacks on Ireland’s public sector
- Australian mining giant ramps up pressure on PNG
- This week in history: January 21-27
- Threat of federal intervention to break New York City school bus drivers strike
- Fightback needed to defend the UK’s National Health Service
- Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables: Social misery, with a vengeance
22 January 2013 (front page)
- Imperialist powers escalate war in Mali
- Inaugural demagogy
- Lupe Fiasco kicked off US inaugural stage while performing anti-war song
- US covers up Islamist involvement in Aleppo bombing
- Christian Democrats ousted in German state election
- “Green-on-blue” attacks continue in Afghanistan
- India: Union calls off Chennai air cargo strike
- Chicago records over 500 homicides in 2012
- Letters from our readers
- US inflames island dispute between Japan and China
- French Left Front promotes war in Mali
- Philadelphia parents and teachers reject school closures
- Three UK retail chains collapse
- 1,000 attend New York memorial for Aaron Swartz
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 January 2013 (front page)
- ILO report: Global unemployment to hit record high in 2013
- Imperialism plans “decades of war” in Africa
- UK police officer found guilty of trying to sell information to News of the World
- Israel: High voter turnout results in setback for Netanyahu
- Closed fire station costs Detroit resident her home
- One in ten Washington, DC public schools to be closed
- Germany: The role of the unions and Left Party in hospital privatisations
- Fijian junta discards draft constitution
- Indonesian police gun down alleged terrorists
- Lance Armstrong and the world of professional sports
- School bus drivers in New York face NLRB threat as strike enters second week
- Harlan, Kentucky coal truck drivers take independent strike action
- GM Brazil strike
- Baseball great Stan Musial dead at 92
24 January 2013 (front page)
- Striking Athens subway workers defy court ruling
- Why the New York Times backs Bloomberg’s assault on school bus drivers
- Israel’s elections augur deepening political instability
- Reports of atrocities emerge as France escalates Mali war
- Canada to expand support for French imperialism’s war on Mali
- Italy: Beppe Grillo’s inexorable move to the right
- Federal Circuit Court upholds Wisconsin anti-worker law
- Australian prime minister reaffirms alignment with US against China
- Letters from our readers
- Los Angeles expands school policing in wake of Newtown shooting
- Australian hospital funding cuts cause bed closures
- British MPs feign indignation over university links to warmongers
- Romanian government announces new round of austerity measures
- Vadim: German documentary chronicles a family destroyed by immigration authorities
25 January 2013 (front page)
- US debt ceiling maneuver sets stage for new cuts
- Two years of the Egyptian Revolution
- UK Prime Minister Cameron commits to 2017 referendum on EU membership
- France sends troops to secure Niger uranium mines
- Australia: Government and media endorse French intervention in Mali
- Japan’s finance minister: Old people should “hurry up and die”
- German trade unions reject action to defend GM-Opel plant
- Union membership in US hits lowest level in nearly a century
- Mass opposition to Philadelphia school closures
- Johnson & Johnson knowingly sold faulty hip implants
- Italy plunges deeper into recession as general election approaches
- Quebec’s Charbonneau Commission resumes hearings into contract rigging and political kickbacks
- SEP holds meeting in Jaffna despite military threats
- Sri Lankan SEP condemns defence ministry ban on Jaffna meeting
- Striking New York school bus drivers face government and media gang up
- Letter from a school bus driver
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Pseudo-left conceals refusal of SYRIZA, PASOK and trade unions to oppose Golden Dawn
- Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land: A deal with the devil?
26 January 2013 (front page)
- Greek government mobilizes riot police to break Athens subway strike
- Japan’s currency war
- Greek pseudo-left leader Tsipras auditions for State Department, IMF
- Mass protests against Mursi mark second anniversary of Egyptian Revolution
- Obama names ex-federal prosecutor with Wall Street ties to head SEC
- Federal Reserve transcripts show top US policymakers vastly underestimated crisis
- Germany: Deutsche Telekom cuts a further 1,200 jobs
- UK Probation Service to be privatised
- Floods kill 21 in Indonesian capital
- New report details explosive growth of poverty among Detroit children
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OFL and NDP complicit in Liberal attacks
Workers need a new perspective and new organizations to mount class political struggle - Junior Seau’s family sues National Football League over brain trauma
- The Nation defends John Brennan, Obama’s nominee for the CIA
- UK Socialist Party backs Len McCluskey reelection in UNITE union
- New York school bus walkout continues amid injunction and strikebreaking threats
- South Carolina board authorizes strikebreaking against school bus drivers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Forced overtime at Dundee, Michigan Chrysler plant as layoffs hit
- Letters from our readers
28 January 2013 (front page)
- Mursi declares state of emergency as protests escalate in Egypt
- The fight to defend Britain’s National Health Service
- Greek government extends strikebreaking against subway workers to rail and tram workers
- Refugees subject to vicious treatment by Greek, Italian police
- Fire in Brazil night club kills 245
- IMF cuts world growth forecast
- Chinese media on war footing
- Former CIA agent responsible for torture revelations sentenced to prison
- Forty years after Roe v. Wade: Abortion rights under sustained attack
- Detroit house fire kills nine-month-old child
- Australia: Protest over privatisation of hospital hydrotherapy pool
- Ontario unions stage protest as cover for facilitating Liberals’ austerity agenda
- This week in history: January 28-February 3
- New York school bus drivers remain determined as back-to-work injunction looms
- Union limits Indian auto workers to “go-slow” campaign over wages
29 January 2013 (front page)
- Britain, US escalate war aid as France advances into northern Mali
- Political lessons of the Athens subway strike
- US senators unveil draconian immigration “reform”
- Jordan on the brink of disaster
- The human cost of Italian austerity
- Renault and PSA Peugeot-Citroën workers in joint protest against factory closures
- Philadelphia Theatre Company stagehands’ strike in second week
- New York school bus companies threaten to bring in scabs
- The Green Corn Rebellion: 1935 novel about an episode in the American class struggle
- Letters from our readers
- Push to dismantle public education behind plan to close another 28 Detroit schools
- Four dead in severe floods across eastern Australia
- University of Western Sydney victimises Professor Steve Keen
- Thousands march in London against threat to close Lewisham Hospital Accident & Emergency unit
- No to all school closures! For action committees to defend public education!
- Slovenia: Nationwide public sector strike intensifies government crisis
- Sri Lankan SEP to mark 25th anniversary of Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
- ISO offers sophistry in the service of the trade union bureaucracy
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 January 2013 (front page)
- US secures drone base in Northwest Africa
- Australian PM announces unprecedented seven-month election campaign
- For workers’ power in Egypt!
- Obama announces his immigration “reform” plan
- US Treasury rubber-stamps bonus requests from bailed-out firms
- COSATU calls off farm workers strike in South Africa
- Germany acquiring drones for military use
- Youth poverty rises in Germany’s Ruhr region
- Another Detroit child dies in house fire
- Downgrade of Illinois credit rating prelude to attack on retired workers
- Sri Lanka’s constitutional crisis: The way forward for workers
- Western push to oust Syrian regime escalates
- Sacramento moves to close 11 public elementary schools
- California’s NUHW nurses union affiliates with CNA ahead of vote at Kaiser hospitals
- Companies bring in scabs in New York school bus drivers’ strike
- A reply to Michael Moore’s defense of Zero Dark Thirty
- Staff strike at Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust in England
31 January 2013 (front page)
- US economy contracted in fourth quarter of 2012
- New York City school bus strike at the crossroads
- With death toll rising, Egypt’s opposition calls for talks with Mursi
- French military oversees power-sharing deal in Central African Republic
- French Renault and PSA unions try to block fight against plant closures
- The Philippines takes South China Sea dispute to UN tribunal
- PBS’s The Abolitionists: Remembering the political struggle against slavery
- At University of Michigan symposium Angela Davis offers political cover for Obama
- California governor’s State of the State speech celebrates austerity
- EMS cuts delayed ambulance in fatal Detroit fire
- The Impossible: A narrow view of a major disaster
- Burger scandal reveals food adulteration in Britain
- Union officials offer to end NY school bus strike and negotiate concessions
- Revolutionary Socialists offer their services to the Egyptian bourgeoisie
- Australia: Gillard imposes Aboriginal celebrity as Senate candidate
- Desperate US students seek “arrangements”
- An answer to the Washington Teachers’ Union
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