Archive: January 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.
1 January 2011 (front page)
3 January 2011 (front page)
- US state governments prepare attacks on jobs, wages, pensions
- This week in history: January 3-January 9
- Sarkozy’s right-wing policies bolster French neo-fascist
- General Motors Europe: No end to job losses
- Severe weather and lack of preparation cause chaos in Moscow airports
- Fire kills five family members in the Seattle, Washington area
- Australia: Jury delivers split verdict in long-running “terror” trial
- Forty-eight US miners killed in 2010 — most since 1992
- Ireland’s emergency service workers abandon SIPTU union
- Investigation exposes abuse of foreign students on US work visas
- A welcome advance for the Pakistani and world working class
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Arm Pakistani workers with a revolutionary socialist program
Build the Pakistani section of the International Committee of the Fourth International!
Part 1 - Lebanon government gave covert support for Israeli attack on Hezbollah
- The Artificial Ape: How humans invented themselves
- Martin Scorsese’s Boardwalk Empire: a gangster series too much about gangster movies
- UK Heinz workers strike over pay deal
- President Aquino imposes strike ban on Philippines Airlines workers
4 January 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Queensland floods worsen, with major regional towns cut off
- Obama’s reign of terror in Afghanistan
- New Year begins with multiple US missile attacks in Pakistan
- Egypt destabilised in wake of bomb attack on Coptic Church
- Documents expose Egyptian regime as stooge of US imperialism
- 1990 cable details crucial meeting on eve of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
- New York settles fraud charges with ex-Auto Task Force head Steven Rattner
- State of emergency in Highland Park, Michigan after water system failure
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The ongoing attack on public education in the US
Detroit charter school teacher: “I feel horrible, nearly helpless, and completely unsupported by the administration.” -
Arm Pakistani workers with a revolutionary socialist program
Build the Pakistani section of the International Committee of the Fourth International!
Part 2 - John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment of news reporting as state propaganda
- James L. Brooks’ How Do You Know inspires a question in return: Why this film?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
5 January 2011 (front page)
- Pakistan’s PPP-led government on brink of collapse
- Wall Street reinforcements for Obama White House
- Mounting prospect of military intervention in Ivory Coast
- Cables expose US-Israeli war talks
- Texas man declared innocent after 30 years in prison
- Inflation haunts Chinese government
- Northern Ireland gripped by water crisis
- The 112th US Congress convenes
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Arm Pakistani workers with a revolutionary socialist program
Build the Pakistani section of the International Committee of the Fourth International!
Part 3 - Australia: Labor governments vow to retain “bikie laws” despite High Court ruling
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Election run-off offers teachers no way forward
Break with the DFT! Build rank-and-file committees to defend public education - Striking Detroit Symphony musicians to perform at free concert
- Detroit Disassembled by Andrew Moore: The devastation of a major American city
- An interview with photographer Andrew Moore, author of Detroit Disassembled
6 January 2011 (front page)
- 1.5 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2010
- The European Union and freedom of the press
- Sri Lanka: Former Tamil detainees speak to the WSWS
- East Timor: Alleged 2008 “coup” plotter accuses Prime Minister Gusmao of political manipulation
- Cables reveal how US and UK sought to plunder Zimbabwe’s resources
- US national security insider found dead in trash dump
- Right-wing Democrat takes California governor’s office, demands “sacrifice”
- Drastic austerity measures hit Bulgaria
- Suit challenges use of pepper spray on Birmingham, Alabama students
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Arm Pakistani workers with a revolutionary socialist program
Build the Pakistani section of the International Committee of the Fourth International! - A modest pay
- Letters from our readers
7 January 2011 (front page)
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Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 2: An uneven collection of mid-1950s releases
Works by Fritz Lang, Jacques Tourneur, Irving Lerner, Richard Quine and Phil Karlson - Using new formula, Census Bureau ups estimate of US poverty rate to 15.7 percent
- Spanish air traffic controllers’ union facilitates government persecution of its members
- BP claims czar: $10 billion “more than enough” to compensate oil spill victims
- British police trained Bangladeshi death squads
- Sri Lanka: NSSP prepares new trap for Tamil workers and youth
- Australia: Queensland crisis points to lack of flood mitigation and basic infrastructure
- Hypocrisy of German social democrats and Greens over welfare “reform” for the jobless
- Quebec’s Alliance Sociale: An instrument for defending the union bureaucracy’s privileges
- Details of Seattle, Washington area fire deaths released
- Obama orders new Afghan surge
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
8 January 2011 (front page)
- Obama picks Wall Street insider as White House chief of staff
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Julian Moti prepares High Court challenge to Australian government’s politically motivated charges
- World economy faces deepening turmoil
- Great power rivalries over oil animate Sudan secession referendum
- US jobs report for December: No relief from mass unemployment
- Study reveals growing social inequality in OECD countries
- Greece to build fortified border fence to deter refugees
- Springfield, Illinois mayor’s suicide highlights social crisis in Illinois
- New York students play on school “reform” censored
- The media and the man with the “golden voice”
- “Land of Hope and bloody Glory, eh?”: Pete Postlethwaite (1946-2011)
- Recent developments bring quantum computers closer to implementation
- Letters from our readers
10 January 2011 (front page)
- Arizona assassination spree tied to political right
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“We could have something far worse developing, something truly horrendous”
Australia: Flood management expert speaks to the World Socialist Web Site - Wall Street Journal condemns talk of US withdrawal from Iraq
- Irish Republic hit by water crisis
- WikiLeaks cables confirm US knowledge of Indonesian military’s crimes
- Riots shake Tunisia and Algeria
- US government demands Twitter account information of WikiLeaks and followers
- Ireland’s United Left Alliance: A fake oppositional movement
- Man attempts suicide in Romanian parliament
- The Tucson shootings: A warning to the American people
- This week in history: January 10-January 16
- Striking Detroit Symphony bassist: “It is really an eye-opening lesson for us musicians”
- Blake Edwards, director of classic Hollywood comedies, dies at 88
- The American Student Loan Racket
11 January 2011 (front page)
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As gunman is arraigned
Media whitewashes ultra-right in Arizona massacre - US defence secretary warns China not to “underestimate” US military power
- Australia: SEP member exposes role of Greens and unions at Macquarie University rally
- Australia: More deaths as a “wall of water” engulfs Queensland towns
- Price rises deepen discontent in Sri Lanka
- Democrats, Republicans plan deep cuts in US state budgets
- Sudan: A tale of blood and oil in Africa
- Obama proposes increased defense spending
- US government pursues bogus criminal prosecution of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- French magazine Politis promotes petition on pension reform
- India’s Congress-led government unable to quash 2G scandal
- Estonia adopts the euro
- The decay of Russia’s infrastructure
- After the shooting in Tucson
- David O. Russell’s The Fighter: “Big-hearted” people treated seriously
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
12 January 2011 (front page)
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Warning from lawyers for Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder faces “real risk” of rendition to US, torture and death - 通货膨胀困扰中国政府
- The ISO, the middle-class “left” and the Chicago Teachers Union
- One year since the earthquake in Haiti
- Serious floods threaten thousands in Australia’s third largest city
- Australia: Commodity prices soar as Queensland becomes “inland sea”
- Reports reveal state massacre of Tunisian protesters
- New York governor unveils major attacks on education, health care, and public employees
- Video on the anniversary of the Dexter Avenue fire
- Bonus bonanza for UK’s top bankers
- Italy: The Cesare Battisti case and the attack on democratic rights
- Fiat workers in Turin confront management blackmail
- Don Van Vliet—“Captain Beefheart” (1941-2010): Avant-garde musician and painter
13 January 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Floods engulf Brisbane as reports reveal authorities rejected warning measures
- South Korea and Japan discuss first-ever military agreements
- Obama in Tucson: Providing an amnesty for the right wing
- Reports warned of flood dangers to Brisbane
- Australia: National Union of Workers sells out six-week Swift meatworkers’ struggle
- Curfew ordered in Tunisian capital
- US Federal Reserve chief rules out loans to the states
- More evidence of right-wing links to Tucson attack
- WikiLeaks supporters protest threatened extradition of Julian Assange
- CIA terrorist Posada Carriles on trial for lying to immigration
- Scottish Socialist Party ensures conviction of former leader Tommy Sheridan
- Commission report whitewashes BP’s role in oil spill
- Pakistan’s summer floods: A man-made disaster
- California governor begins term proposing massive austerity budget
- Newfoundland inquiry issues report on year-and-a-half long Voisey’s Bay strike
- UAW, GM discuss pay scheme tied to productivity and profits
- New York City building workers locked out over demands for wage and benefit cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on the Tucson shootings
14 January 2011 (front page)
- 2010 sets US home foreclosure record
- Australia: New South Wales nurses union shuts down action over staffing
- Queensland flood chief Major-General Mick Slater issues ominous warning
- One million affected by Sri Lankan floods
- US pressure triggers collapse of Lebanese government
- Arizona Republican resigns over Tea Party threats
- Detroit Symphony management publishes attack on striking musicians
- Dioxin contaminates food in Germany
- US: Oklahoma executes two prisoners in one week
- Social conflict in Maghreb has international implications
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Hands off Rosa Luxemburg!
The historical falsification of Rosa Luxemburg's heritage by the German Left Party - Unite union accepts below inflation pay deal for UK Heinz workers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
15 January 2011 (front page)
- Tunisian president flees the country
- Hundreds dead in Brazilian flooding
- The flood crises in Sri Lanka and Australia
- Right-wing and liberal media fawn over Obama speech
- US adopts bellicose posture in advance of state visit by Chinese president
- Lawyer protests brutal treatment of Bradley Manning
- Egyptian regime fears mass protests
- Portugal under mounting pressure to accept financial bailout
- Belarus cracks down on opposition in wake of presidential vote
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
17 January 2011 (front page)
- Floods crisis widens in Australia
- New Zealand mine recovery attempts abandoned
- Australia: Despite inquiry backflip, NSW Labor pushes ahead with electricity selloff
- Tunisian ruling elite promises national government, imposes military rule
- Thousands march in France to support the Tunisian people
- The Nation and the Tucson massacre
- German media spreads nationalism by right-wing demagogues
- German political parties haggle over unemployed payments
- Illinois Democrats foist budget crisis onto working class
- The mass uprising in Tunisia and the perspective of permanent revolution
- The German foreign office and its defenders
- This week in history: January 17-January 23
- The Denisova discovery: Ancient genomics shed new light on human origins
- Rawmarsh school teachers strike against job cuts in Rotherham, UK
18 January 2011 (front page)
- Auto show: Car executives, UAW officials celebrate “return of Detroit”
- Australia: Labor government makes out-of-court settlement with former Guantánamo prisoner over torture allegations
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“The powers-that-be left us for dead”
Australia: Grantham flood survivor threatened with arrest - Wall Street celebrates record profits
- Opposition rally in Thailand cuts across government’s election manoeuvres
- Tunisia forms unity government dominated by ruling party
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tunisian events expose pro-imperialist policy of France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party
- German Supreme Court overturns acquittal of officer implicated in asylum seeker’s death
- Scotland’s budget cuts to slash 125,000 jobs
- Striking DSO musicians perform Rodgers and Hammerstein in Detroit
19 January 2011 (front page)
- Tunisia’s “unity” government fractures as protests continue
- Global food prices hit record high
- “Baby Doc” Duvalier arrested in Haiti
- Obama orders further deregulation of US economy
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On the spot report
Sri Lanka’s flood victims express anger over government’s lack of aid - Roma woman dies following deportation to Kosovo
- Exposure of police spy in UK sheds light on covert operations
- Australia’s two-track economy: Industrial decline, despite mining boom
- Washington state governor calls for draconian cuts in new budget
- WikiLeaks and Tunisia
- The Fiat vote in Turin: Unions push through historic attack on Italian workers
- Photo essay: The DSO strike in photos
- CAUS votes to hold Detroit march against utility shutoffs
- How I Got Over, the new album from The Roots
20 January 2011 (front page)
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EU finance ministers meeting
No agreement on euro crisis - Police march en masse at Toronto funeral
- The US-China summit
- Thousands march against Tunisia’s “unity” government
- Republican House votes to repeal Obama health care plan
- Sri Lankan coverup of WikiLeaks war crime revelations
- News of the World hacking scandal throws spotlight on Murdoch media empire
- The decay of Russia’s infrastructure
- Natural gas explosion in Philadelphia kills utility worker, injures three
- Australia: Electrical union promotes right-wing MP Bob Katter
- Letters from our readers
21 January 2011 (front page)
- Middle East and North Africa feel repercussions of Tunisian revolution
- The American middle class “left” and the Tunisian revolt
- Obama administration to step up prosecutions in Guantánamo tribunals
- Report documents widening US health disparities and inequality
- Swiss banker jailed for supplying information to WikiLeaks
- Cost of living to rise for Australian workers in 2011
- Rising work-related deaths and diseases in Vietnam
- The crisis in Europe and the financial aristocracy
- As talks resume: Detroit Symphony musicians’ struggle in danger
- House fires claim 30 lives around the US
- Rail unions collaborate in London Underground job losses
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
22 January 2011 (front page)
- ثورة شعبية تجتاح تونس وآمال في ثورة دائمة
- Fire destroys three homes in historic Delray neighborhood of Detroit
- Utility shutoff leads to three deaths in Oakland, California apartment fire
- Anti-government protests continue in Tunisia during official mourning period
- WSWS statement on Tunisia now available in Arabic
- Obama’s jobs fraud
- Spanish unions and middle class “left” back state repression of air traffic controllers
- Bombing attempt at Martin Luther King march in Spokane
- US youth returns home after torture in Kuwait
- Nazi “Butcher of Lyon” was a German intelligence agent
- Britain’s official unemployment tops 2.5 million
- Sri Lanka: Free Trade Zone unions mount bogus wage campaign
- Fifty years since the murder of Patrice Lumumba
- Utility prices surge across Russia
- Mars rovers mark seven years on the planet’s surface
- Letters on the uprising in Tunisia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
24 January 2011 (front page)
- Antigovernment protests spread across Northern Africa and Middle East
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Egyptian opposition warns of an “explosion of the masses”
National day of protest set for Tuesday - French government in crisis over its support for Tunisian dictatorship
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As federal stimulus funds dry up
US state budget deficits could top $140 billion - International talks over Iran’s nuclear program collapse
- Keith Olbermann leaves MSNBC: Another rightward lurch in US media
- Sri Lanka: Military discipline for university students
- US begins deportation of Haitians
- Afghan president continues building ties with Moscow
- More evidence of US war crimes
- This week in history: January 24-January 30
25 January 2011 (front page)
- Chinese police shoot protesting construction workers
- Australian floods crisis continues
- New York mayor moves to shut public schools while promoting charters
- Secret Palestine documents expose sham “peace process”
- Sri Lanka: Terror campaign against Tamils reemerges
- The White House’s corporate agenda
- Police crackdown in Tunisia meets resistance
- Tunisian popular revolt exposes France’s middle-class “left”
- Student homelessness at all-time high in Washington state
- Moscow airport bombing kills 35
- Irish election called: Fianna Fail and Greens facing wipe-out
- Amnesty International opposes US abuse of Private Manning
- UK National Health Service faces wholesale privatization
- Teachers and students speak out against New York school closings
- True Grit, a revenge tale from the Coen brothers
- DSO support concert broadcast live via webcast
- Oppose Brown’s cuts in California! Education must be a social right!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A letter on the Denisova discovery
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The Guerilla Orchestra and the struggle to defend the arts from funding cuts
An interview with Heather Bird - Letters from our readers
26 January 2011 (front page)
- Tens of thousands march in Egypt against Mubarak regime
- Obama outlines right-wing, pro-corporate agenda in State of the Union speech
- US drone attacks provoke fury in Pakistan
- Stranded migrant workers protest in Saudi Arabia
- 图森枪击事件之后
- The Palestine papers and the dead-end of nationalism
- Berlusconi’s scandals and the proposed “left”-right coalition in Italy
- FBI infiltrator prepared government raid on antiwar groups in Minneapolis and Chicago
- Murdoch’s News of the World phone hacking forces resignation of Andy Coulson
- Evidence of intensifying climate change grows
- Ex-Washington, DC schools chief escalates campaign against public education
- Education crisis in California
- The Bavarian state bank’s corruption scandal
- The 83rd Academy Awards nominations—the worst of times, the best of times
- Detroit house fire injures five
- Wigan, UK: Unite union secures vote for wage deal at Heinz
27 January 2011 (front page)
- ASEAN transport links boost economic integration with China
- US pursues two-track policy to suppress protests in Egypt and Tunisia
- Australia: Gillard announces aid for business, nothing for flood victims
- Sri Lankan government intensifies Colombo evictions
- Obama’s State of the Union address
- Lebanese conflict threatens civil war, Israeli-US intervention
- Russia to step up repression after Moscow bombing
- British GDP fell in fourth quarter
- Tony Blair’s testimony before Iraq inquiry: One war criminal amongst many
- Human rights report cites Brazil for torture, police killings
- Three killed in protests in Albania
- US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas violated conflict of interest law
- Detroit Symphony management steps up campaign for concessions with threat to cancel season
- Letters from our readers
28 January 2011 (front page)
- Socialist Equality Party and ISSE hold conference in Australia
- Egyptian government deploys police, shuts down Internet ahead of mass demonstrations
- Australia: Labor’s NSW power privatisation—a no-lose deal for big investors
- Anti-government protests erupt in Yemen
- Job crisis drives rise in US home foreclosures
- Financial crisis commission defends Wall Street criminals
- US Postal Service to close 2,000 offices
- Human Rights Watch condemns US prison system, immigration policy
- Thirteen-year-old in Pennsylvania could face life in prison
- Egypt, Tunisia, and the fight against US imperialism
- Stop US torture of Bradley Manning!
- Obama’s speech and the bankruptcy of identity politics
- ISSE meetings in Germany defend WikiLeaks
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Unemployed Detroit woman dies in house fire
Poverty, space heaters and steel bars: a common deadly mix - Smallest rocky planet outside our solar system discovered
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
29 January 2011 (front page)
- US commander in Afghanistan boasts of inflicting “enormous losses”
- Hundreds of thousands across Egypt defy police attacks to demand ouster of Mubarak
- Australia’s floods: a failure of government and the profit system
- Egypt shuts down internet access
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- WikiLeaks exposes US complicity in murder, torture by Egyptian government
- US, interim government conspire against Tunisian masses
- Britain’s MI6 trained Abbas in suppression of Palestinian opposition
- FBI, UK police carry out raids against WikiLeaks supporters
- Second-lowest US wage gain in three decades
- The United States, Egypt and the fight for socialist revolution
- Detroit cuts funding for homeless warming centers
31 January 2011 (front page)
- Irish unions seek to end dispute at Aer Lingus
- China’s property bubble reaches explosive levels
- Bankers lay down the law at Davos
- Mass protests continue in defiance of Egypt’s government and military
- Australia: The socialist alternative in the Broadmeadows by-election
- Massachusetts budget axes 900 jobs, cuts local aid
- Australia: SEP Victorian election campaign meeting
- An errand-boy for French imperialism: NPA’s Olivier Besancenot visits Tunisia
- WikiLeaks cable shows close US ties with new Egyptian vice president
- International demonstrations in support of Egyptian uprising
- Protests in London and Manchester against education cuts
- Regional divisions threaten to break Belgium apart
- Obama administration presses for law on Internet data retention
- The Obama administration and Egypt
- This week in history: January 31 - February 6
- Canada: Mass rally in support of locked-out US Steel workers
- Canada: Steelworkers struggle at a crossroads
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