Archive: April 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.
1 April 2013 (front page)
- US sends fighter-bombers to Korea amid rising risk of war
- The drive to dismantle Medicare
- Britain: Conservatives and Labour step up witch-hunt against immigrants
- Banks threaten to increase repossessions as Irish mortgage crisis deepens
- Detroit workers speak against emergency manager
- Budget cuts severely impact US community college students
- Thousands of California teachers receive layoff notices
- Bangladesh National Party heightens confrontation with the government
- US states cut higher education spending by nearly a third
- Burmese opposition party congress adopts pro-market agenda
- Pro-French Central African Republic coup leaders scrap Chinese oil deals
- Augusta, Georgia: Police hold back crowd in near-food riot
- Fire kills five near Sherrard, Illinois
- This week in history: April 1-7
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World Socialist Web Site 15th Anniversary Meeting in Detroit
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2 April 2013 (front page)
- South Korea’s threats heighten danger of military conflict
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Three years since West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine disaster
Sequester cuts pose new threat to US mine safety - Costs of Iraq, Afghanistan wars could rise to $6 trillion
- Greek parliament overturns right to free, universal education
- Approval of Stockton, California bankruptcy paves way for new assault on workers’ pensions
- In Qatar, US-backed Afghan President Karzai makes overtures to Taliban
- Reports reveal rapid pauperisation of the Spanish working class
- Venezuela’s Maduro runs right-wing campaign in preparation for austerity
- Tenants angry over New York Housing Authority’s plans to sell to developers
- Russia presses ahead with the rebuilding of its military forces
- Sri Lankan Buddhist extremists attack Muslim-owned businesses
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
3 April 2013 (front page)
- US escalates military tensions over North Korean nuclear program
- The terrible cost of Washington’s wars
- Extreme right prison gang suspected in Texas killings
- Emergency manager’s ex-law firm hired to oversee Detroit restructuring
- T-Mobile lays off several hundred workers in Washington State
- Trial of political activists underway in United Arab Emirates
- A week of human carnage in China’s mines
- Germany: Pirate Party makes overtures to the far right
- Australian court criticises Labor’s refugee deportations
- Understanding Lincoln: An interview with historian Allen Guelzo
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Charles
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Ben Trent
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Anonymous
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4 April 2013 (front page)
- Washington escalates Syria intervention
- Class war in Europe
- China appeals for calm amid fears of war over US escalation in Korea
- Largest ever welfare cuts come into force in Britain
- Atlanta testing scandal exposes fraud of anti-public school “reform”
- California governor seeks end to federal prison oversight
- Canada’s government suppresses scientific reporting
- European unemployment rises for 22nd consecutive month
- French Budget Minister Cahuzac resigns over hidden bank account
- China: Suicide and strike at Foxconn
- Letters from our readers
- The Gatekeepers from Israel and a film version of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
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As government crisis drags on
Italian president appoints expert commissions - Malaysian PM dissolves parliament for national election
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Walter Noeli
Why I read the WSWS - Australia: Sydney University staff strike over jobs and conditions
- SYRIZA makes political pact with the nationalist right
5 April 2013 (front page)
- US sequester cuts treatment for thousands of cancer patients
- Obama’s “playbook” and the threat of nuclear war in Asia
- Israel bombs Gaza, shoots down West Bank youth
- Germany: Victims of the Kunduz massacre sue for compensation
- Cahuzac tax scandal, neo-fascist ties stagger France’s ruling Socialist Party
- UK Labour’s David Miliband joins International Rescue Committee
- UK: Privatisation agenda causing overcrowded schools and poor-quality education
- Oakland Police Department implicated in systematic abuse
- District of Columbia budget proposal covers over deepening inequality
- Australian government divisions re-emerge over tax concessions for ultra-wealthy
- Australia: NSW teachers union paves way for assault on public education
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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Letter from Washington, DC
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One month after victimization of Alex Wassell
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6 April 2013 (front page)
- US threatens North Korea while signaling possible talks
- Obama attacks Medicare and Social Security
- UK Prime Minister Cameron stokes fires of war against North Korea
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US jobs growth slows to a crawl
Hundreds of thousands drop out of the workforce - Japan announces “new dimension” in quantitative easing
- Health study: Austerity is costing lives in Europe
- US-backed Central African Republic coup leaders seek international support
- Australian PM’s China trip prepared by top-level, secret committee
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Renewed US pressure for increased Australian military spending
- Oil spills in Minnesota and Arkansas
- School districts across New York face cuts
- Disney shuts down video game developer LucasArts, lays off 150 staff
- Multi-billionaire Dan Gilbert seeks to cash in on Detroit’s financial dictatorship
- UK: The political fraud of the “anti-bedroom tax” campaign
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Zac Corrigan
Why I read the WSWS - Wayne State University IYSSE holds meeting opposing financial dictatorship in Detroit
8 April 2013 (front page)
- US threatens war with North Korea, demands China cut off support
- Obama’s second term: a new stage in the social counterrevolution
- NATO strike kills 10 Afghan children after week of bloody fighting
- Steubenville, Ohio: Portrait of a rust belt city
- Kansas anti-abortion bill defines life as beginning “at fertilization”
- US infrastructure dilapidated, underfunded
- Hundreds of workers at Goss International France lose their jobs
- UK politicians, media exploit children’s deaths to demand further attack on welfare
- Indian building collapse kills 75
- International talks on Iran’s nuclear program fail
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A Call to Action
Oppose the bankers’ dictatorship in Detroit! - Rank-and-file committee points way forward for New York school bus workers
- New York City school bus drivers, escorts denounce contractors’ “final” offer
- This week in history: April 8-14
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Allison Smith
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Carol Byrne
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9 April 2013 (front page)
- European Union demands cuts after Portuguese court rules bailout unconstitutional
- Thatcher’s legacy
- Obama defends plan to cut Medicare and Social Security
- Communities across US feel impact of sequestration cuts
- Obama’s dangerous “counter-provocation” plan against North Korea
- South Korea prepares for war amid US-China stand-off
- European Union imposes austerity bailout on Cyprus
- Britain: South West NHS Pay Cartel publishes plans to cut wages and conditions
- General Motors-Holden to eliminate 500 more jobs in Australia
- David North addresses meetings in Australia on 15 years of the WSWS
- Thousands of scientists protest US cuts to medical research
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Dermot Byrne
Why I read the WSWS - AT&T workers reject contract, face déjà vu betrayal by union
- California union supports Democratic-sponsored attack on teachers
- SXSW Music Festival 2013—Part 1
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
10 April 2013 (front page)
- Medical researchers protest sequestration cuts
- The brutal face of neocolonialism in Afghanistan
- Obama on gun control: An exercise in concealing harsh social truths
- China confronts dilemma over Korean crisis
- Former Australian PM urges US-China rapprochement
- Saudi crackdown on migrants
- Anti-Muslim violence erupts in Burma
- Detroit emergency manager prepares to attack pensions
- Chicago school closings target poorest neighborhoods
- Low-income students six times more likely to drop out of high school
- Italian president pardons officer involved in CIA renditions in Italy
- UK Council Tax changes spell deepening poverty for millions
- Eastern European auto industry in crisis
- Germany’s Left Party defends the looting of Cyprus
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Mitch Marcus
Why I read the WSWS - Remembering Cleotha Staples and the Staple Singers
11 April 2013 (front page)
- Obama budget slashes Social Security, Medicare
- The Cypriot bailout marks a new stage in the euro crisis
- Newark, New Jersey students protest education cuts
- British parliament unites in praise of Margaret Thatcher
- US inflames North Korean missile scare
- Brazil’s economy beset by inflation, lagging production
- The attack on UK health care and the case of Leeds General Infirmary
- Australian PM visits China amid sharpening regional tensions
- Letters from our readers
- Japan’s Fukushima plant leaking radioactive water
- Germany: Bundestag allows police access to private PINs and passwords
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Michael
Why I read the WSWS - What is the Common Core US education initiative?
- Common Core: A California kindergarten teacher’s experience
- US states de-fund public education through expanded voucher schemes
- Detroit area gas explosion reveals deadly state of pipeline infrastructure
- Stalinist daily l’Humanité defends French government in Cahuzac scandal
- Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States
- General Motors in drive to cut skilled trades jobs in US plants
12 April 2013 (front page)
- Egyptian regime inflames sectarian violence
- Obama’s budget
- Tens of thousands rally in Washington for immigrant rights
- Detroit workers, youth denounce emergency manager
- Government witnesses to testify anonymously at Bradley Manning trial
- Hundreds of thousands of defrauded small savers face loss of life savings in Spain
- Italy: Bersani, Berlusconi discuss forming coalition government
- Obama issues new threat to North Korea
- Sri Lankan correspondent explains why refugees are fleeing to Australia
- Arkansas Senate approves random drug testing for the unemployed
- NDP convenes in Montreal: a party of capitalist austerity and imperialist war
- The petty-bourgeois “left” promotes the CIA war in Syria
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Jason
Why I read the WSWS - Unions sabotage strike by ambulance staff in Yorkshire, England
- Norwegian trade unions avert national strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- No from Chile and The Sapphires from Australia
13 April 2013 (front page)
- Kerry issues war threat over Korea
- Japan’s monetary boost to escalate currency wars
- European Union demands more austerity in Greece
- Hundreds of thousands of students march in Chile for education rights
- Maduro prepares cutbacks for post-election Venezuela
- Sharp decline in employer-sponsored health coverage in US
- Washington state nuclear workers face layoffs after sequester cuts
- European Union demands more austerity in Spain
- Putin in Germany: Rising tensions between Moscow and Berlin
- French government law increases worker exploitation
- Australia’s “border protection” not just about refugees
- France launches military, propaganda offensive in Mali
- Mehring Books Spring Sale ends Saturday
- Sri Lankan pseudo lefts back bogus US calls for human rights
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Sahand
Why I read the WSWS - India: Victimized Maruti Suzuki workers stage fresh protests
- Letters from our readers
15 April 2013 (front page)
- US Secretary of State blackmails China over North Korea
- The great unmentionable: Mass unemployment in America
- Raid by guards triggers clash with Guantanamo inmates
- EU finance ministers demand more austerity at Dublin summit
- Leaked report reveals army torture, killings during the Egyptian Revolution
- Detroit Mayor Bing proposes $300 million cut in city budget
- WikiLeaks cables confirm collusion between Vatican and dictators
- Australian foreign minister outed as long-time US informant
- Australia: Former public servant condemns Iraq war lies
- Irish unions support government austerity
- Sri Lanka: Pro-government thugs set fire to Tamil newspaper office
- North Carolina bill requires background checks for public assistance
- This week in history: April 15-21
- Chrysler Canada intensifies shop floor harassment
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Robert (Taffy) Seaborne
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16 April 2013 (front page)
- Media rush to judgment in Boston Marathon bombing
- Moscow calls Obama’s human rights bluff
- Australian think tank outlines US plans for war against China
- Syrian opposition militia declares allegiance to Al Qaeda
- Emergency manager to impose contract on Detroit firefighters
- US Head Start preschool program hit with sequester cuts
- German Defence Minister prevented from speaking at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- British banks engulfed in new scandals
- WSWS 15th anniversary meeting held in Detroit
- Australian government guts university funding, promotes private schools
- Union seeks to divert New Zealand teachers’ protests
- Sri Lankan plantation unions sign secret wage deal
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Lawrence Cohen
Why I read the WSWS - Narrow victory for Maduro in Venezuelan elections
- Health workers in southern England forced to sign new low-pay contracts
- Cahuzac affair exposes bankruptcy of French petty-bourgeois “left”
- US Postal Service announces new attacks on workers
- Letters from our readers
- SXSW Music Festival 2013—Part 2
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Showings of Tsar to Lenin
17 April 2013 (front page)
- New report documents US war crimes over three administrations
- Another bumper year for hedge fund billionaires
- Obama proclaims Boston bombings an “act of terror”
- More than 10 million Americans among the working poor
- Gold price fall points to global deflation
- Right-wing opponents of the euro found party in Berlin
- Fight Labor’s cuts! For a socialist perspective to defend education!
- Unemployment deepens in Australian working class areas
- Malaysian election: PSM promotes illusions in Anwar’s opposition coalition
- Siemens to slash 4,000 jobs in its industrial sector
- Australia: Victorian teachers’ union shuts down industrial campaign
- National Union of Students complicit in British government attacks on students
- UK Green Party helps impose cuts in Bristol
- Arrests of New York politicians reveal systemic corruption
- NDP “prepares for government” by emphasizing its kinship with Obama
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Prasanna Vithanage
Why I read the WSWS - Emergency manager to select former law firm as Detroit’s “restructuring counsel”
18 April 2013 (front page)
- Child poverty in US among the highest in developed world
- Thatcher’s funeral: Pomp in the service of political reaction
- Taiwan holds military exercises amid rising US-China tensions
- Media hysteria grows over Boston bombing
- IMF slashes world growth outlook
- Sequestration cuts hit Michigan
- German SPD conference approves election program
- Letters from our readers
- Britain’s involvement in assassination of Congo’s Lumumba confirmed
- The Place Beyond the Pines: Fathers and sons
- Australian PM dismisses refugee hunger strike over ASIO bans
- IYSSE challenges unions, Greens at Australian student protests
- Floods devastate Argentina
- New York stop-and-frisk trial bares massive police abuse
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Homeless in San Diego, California
Life on the street in “America’s Finest City” - Mass layoffs in Illinois
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The US Justice Department brief for the assassination of US citizens
Part one - Observations from a visit to Cuba
- Locked-out American Crystal workers narrowly pass concessions contract
19 April 2013 (front page)
- Fertilizer plant explosion kills up to 20, wounds 160 in Texas
- Obama comes to Boston
- US deploys troops to Jordan, prepares to invade Syria
- EU, Greek government plan more mass layoffs, privatisations
- Dozens of migrant farmworkers shot in Greece
- GM and German metal workers union collaborate against Opel workers
- Mississippi man arrested in ricin mailings to officials
- Australian big business launches campaign for austerity, market “reform”
- US leaves door ajar for talks with North Korea
- Ontario Liberals to keep raising post-secondary tuition fees
- California’s alarming demographic trends
- Germany’s Left Party pledges support for debt ceiling
- German state court defers trial of neo-Nazi gang
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The US Justice Department brief for the assassination of US citizens
Part two - The reactionary nationalism of the “Alternative for Germany”
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KM
Why I read the WSWS - Old Hats from Bill Irwin and David Shiner: An evening with the clowns
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
20 April 2013 (front page)
- Bombing suspect captured after military-police lockdown of Boston
- Texas plant explosion highlights gutting of health and safety rules
- Presidential vote heightens political crisis in Italy
- Reports detail CIA war crimes in Pakistan
- Maduro sworn in as Venezuela sets vote recount
- Israel renews military threat against Iran
- Dozens of bombings in run-up to today’s Iraq provincial elections
- Kuwait cracks down on political dissent
- Pakistan’s interim government to seek IMF loan
- Chinese defence paper warns of US “hegemonism”
- Letters from our readers
- Bochum Opel plant to close
- Union isolates Australian glass workers as plant closures loom
- GE Transportation announces 950 layoffs in Erie, Pennsylvania
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Attend the SEP campaign launch on May 5
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22 April 2013 (front page)
- Increased tensions at G-20, IMF meetings
- American democracy in shambles
- Unanswered questions in Boston bombings
- Federal authorities prepare charges against Boston bombings suspect
- Obama administration denies Miranda rights to marathon bombing suspect
- Italy: Napolitano re-elected as president
- West, Texas residents survey explosion aftermath
- Obama administration seeks to sell off Tennessee Valley Authority
- Irish public sector workers reject austerity package
- Australia: Young worker killed on Sydney construction site
- Australia: Victorian teachers union announces sell-out deal
- Spain’s Socialist Party and trade unions profit from redundancy schemes
- This week in history: April 22-28
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Mike Jobson
Why I read the WSWS - Two planetary systems with potentially Earth-like conditions
- The Flat: A family examines a Nazi-Zionist friendship
23 April 2013 (front page)
- US sequester furloughs delay flights, threaten airport safety
- A tale of two cities
- Boston bombing suspect gets death penalty charge
- German media, politicians praise Obama for military-police lockdown of Boston
- Detroit emergency manager proclaims power to end collective bargaining
- UK: 50,000 march to save Stafford Hospital
- Australian thinktank demands “tough” health and welfare cutbacks
- Japanese ministers visit notorious war shrine
- Australia: Latest refugee boat disaster leaves 58 dead
- Mass evictions continue in Spain
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Greg
Why I read the WSWS - Supreme Court bars US lawsuits against overseas human rights abuses
- Interview with Paul Hoffman, lawyer for the plaintiffs
- German Left Party supports imperialist intervention in Syria
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
24 April 2013 (front page)
- US ramps up plans for military intervention in Syria
- The Boston bombings and the roots of terror
- 70,000 Danish teachers locked out
- After Boston bombing, Australian media escalates “war on terror”
- Canadian government unveils “terror plot” as it adopts draconian new law
- European Union cites Boston attack to justify major anti-terrorist operation
- Snyder administration plot to privatize Michigan schools exposed
23 April 2013 (front page)
24 April 2013 (front page)
- Car companies threaten 55,000 jobs in Australia
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Reject the Australian Education Union’s sellout agreement!
For a political offensive of the working class to defend public education - One-day Lufthansa strike grounds flights in Germany
- Sri Lankan SEP and ISSE to hold May Day meeting
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Bob Jackson
Why I read the WSWS - Spain: Polls show support for all parties, unions and monarchy at record low
- SEP mayoral campaign in Detroit wins strong support in first week
- Official opposition protests Montenegro presidential election result
25 April 2013 (front page)
- Huge death toll in Bangladesh factory collapse
- Political issues in the teachers’ lockout in Denmark
- Democratic Party’s Enrico Letta will try to form Italian government
- New report finds increase in social inequality during US “recovery”
- The Boston lockdown and the Bill of Rights
- The New York Times and the state of siege in Boston
- US finalises arms deals with Israel, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates
- Protest strike by teachers in Berlin
- Germany extends military mission in Afghanistan and arms Qatar
- Australia: Socialist Alternative and the Victorian teachers’ betrayal
- Sri Lankan corporate profits soar as workers face poverty
- Australian youth pushed into unpaid work
- California defies court-ordered prison population reduction
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Juan Verala Luz
Why I read the WSWS - Victimized Detroit Chrysler worker reinstated
- 42: A tribute to integrating baseball falls short
- Letters from our readers
26 April 2013 (front page)
- Mass protests erupt in Bangladesh over factory collapse
- Washington’s threat to invade Syria
- Unemployment hits record highs in Spain, France
- Questions mount about Boston bombers’ links to US intelligence agencies
- China uses Boston bombing to appeal to US for unity
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The Detroit crisis and the municipal bond racket
Timeline of Detroit debt crisis - Anti-government sentiment dominates elections in Iceland
- Teachers struggle erupts in Mexican state of Guerrero
- State prosecutors in Dresden, Germany, target anti-Nazi protesters
- UK’s Sunday Times Rich List records massive increase in wealth
- Socialist Equality Party to contest Australian federal election: A socialist program to fight the drive to war
- Canada quick to try to cash in on its leading role in war on Libya
- Record flooding ravages midwestern US
- Memorial for West, Texas victims obscures causes of fertilizer plant exlosion
- Barack Obama pays tribute to George W. Bush at presidential library opening
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Maire Byrne
Why I read the WSWS - Finks dramatizes the 1950s anti-communist blacklist
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 April 2013 (front page)
- Washington fabricates chemical weapons pretext for war against Syria
- The Bangladesh factory collapse and the drive for profit
- Sectarian warfare grips Iraq
- Border tensions between India and China escalate
- Military conducts urban warfare exercises in Chicago area
- Report on US economic growth points to continuing stagnation
- Detroit residents face eviction as officials gentrify downtown region
- Average US student debt tops $20,000
- Chicago food service and retail workers protest low wages
- Danish government forces teachers to work longer hours without pay
- Opposition grows to Australian Education Union sell-out in Victoria
- At Opel plant in Bochum, Germany, Maoists provide key support for union leadership
- Germany: Federal Constitutional Court legitimises anti-terrorism database
- Spanish government announces more austerity as unemployment soars
- SEP campaigns to put D’Artagnan Collier on the ballot for Detroit mayor
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
29 April 2013 (front page)
- 84 million US adults lack adequate health care coverage
- A Grand Coalition for austerity in Italy
- Bangladesh: Death toll nears 400 in building collapse
- New questions on Boston bombing suspects’ ties to US intelligence
- Governing coalition suffers huge losses in Iceland
- Italian bank scandal reveals depth of financial crisis
- EU demands further austerity in Slovenia
- Eight children dead in fires in the US south
- Malaysian parties signal pro-market measures after election
- Sri Lankan mass grave recalls rural massacres
- Pennsylvania plans sell-off of state liquor stores
- This week in history: April 29-May 5
- Campaigners for D’Artagnan Collier near signature goal in Detroit mayoral race
- Country music legend George Jones dead at 81
- PBS Frontline’s “The Retirement Gamble”
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After strike vote against wage-cutting demands
IAM agrees to contract extension at New York Air Brake
30 April 2013 (front page)
- US moves to expand Internet wiretaps
- Braying for war against Syria
- More mass layoffs in Greece
- Amid jobs collapse, French President Hollande backs austerity in Europe
- Explosion at Detroit oil refinery raises danger of wider disaster
- Study finds nearly half of New Yorkers living in or near poverty
- US student loan interest rates expected to double
- Teachers’ struggles escalate across Mexico
29 April 2013 (front page)
30 April 2013 (front page)
- Genome sequencing of “living fossil” fish sheds light on the evolution of land animals
- UK base carrying out Afghan drone strikes
- Australian PM declares “grave” budget crisis as cuts prepared
- Nation magazine, ISO silent on Boston lockdown
- Australian university union seeks to divert anger over Labor’s cuts
- New Zealand government to extend spy agency’s powers
- The New York Times and terrorism
- University of California’s medical workers to hold strike vote
- David Mamet’s Race in Toronto
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
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