Archive: January 2012
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 2012 (front page)
- Another year of death and destruction in the AfPak War
- Obama signs police state legislation
- Sri Lankan ex-lefts boost rightwing UNP
- Increased risk of poverty for German retirees
- US appeals court dismisses suits against telecom firms over warrantless wiretapping
- Wave of firebomb attacks on Muslim targets in New York City
- New York City police arrest another 68 Occupy Wall Street protesters
- Israeli government mounts major attack on democratic rights
- Britain deports Sri Lankan asylum seekers
- Care for the elderly in UK faces collapse
- Report calls for rollbacks in California public pensions
- The new year begins
- This week in history: January 2-8
- Who’s who on Detroit’s financial review panel
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A further discussion on human evolution
4 January 2012 (front page)
- Europe plunging into recession
- Australia: Victorian hospital workers speak on government cuts
- Romney, Santorum in virtual tie in Iowa Republican caucus
- 2012 opens with mounting war threat in Persian Gulf
- Signs that China’s property bubble is imploding
- Egyptian military junta raids, shuts down political organizations
- US backs Taliban office in Qatar in bid for Afghanistan deal
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Petty-bourgeois “left” applauds betrayal of French airport strike
- London trial reveals corrupt dealings of Russian oligarchs
- High Court ruling paves way for closure of 600 UK libraries
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Seeking US-style wage cuts
Caterpillar locks out Canadian workers - Chuck Palahniuk’s Damned: Damned if you do
5 January 2012 (front page)
- Australian Treasury warns of economic volatility
- Military trial begins for Marine charged in Iraq massacre
- Australia: Qantas engineering union imposes sell-out deal
- Iraq Veterans Against the War director speaks on Haditha massacre
- Italian government attacks labour protection laws
- Spain’s Popular Party government announces unprecedented budget cuts
- Texas police kill 15-year old student at school
- France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party backs imperialist intervention in Syria
- Wisconsin budget cuts target higher education
- Haiti’s President Martelly seeks to bring back military as internal police force
- The return of mass poverty to Europe
- The 2012 US presidential campaign begins: A cynical exercise in duping the people
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The Egyptian Revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood and the apologetics of the Revolutionary Socialists
Part 1 - Rally against emergency manager law: A conspiracy against Detroit workers
- Blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011): “Feel the soul and the pain”
- Letters from our readers
6 January 2012 (front page)
- Research on deadly flu virus prompts US government censorship
- Fijian military government announces end to emergency laws
- EU oil embargo heightens tensions in the Gulf
- Union imposes real wage cut on Australian Toyota workers
- Washington pressures Arab League to move against Syria
- General strike called as protests spread in Nigeria against gas price hike
- New Italian government tilts foreign policy towards Washington
- Panel recommends state takeover of Highland Park, Michigan schools
- Romanian unemployment climbs as companies move abroad
- Family of slain Texas teen condemns police shooting
- The scaffolding of an American police state
- London, Ontario locomotive workers in showdown with Caterpillar
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“We need a revolution”
Six weeks into battle, Cooper Tire workers remain determined - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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The Egyptian Revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood and the apologetics of the Revolutionary Socialists
Part 2 - David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7 January 2012 (front page)
- The Artist: An amiable gimmick
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The Egyptian Revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood and the apologetics of the Revolutionary Socialists
Part 3 - Australian government under mounting pressure to deliver workplace “reform”
- David N. Gibbs, historian and author, discusses threat of US war against Iran
- Bombings in Iraq intensify sectarian tensions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama unveils war strategy focused on China
- US, Canadian workers locked out for opposing wage cuts
- White House hails tepid job growth in December
- Unelected prime minister demands more sacrifices from Greek workers
- Stephen Lawrence murder convictions used to exonerate UK police
- Protests against new Hungarian constitution
- Bitter dispute among Indian elites ignores vital dam safety issues
- Several thousand layoffs imminent at German press manufacturer Manroland
- The Egyptian Revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood and the apologetics of the Revolutionary Socialists
9 January 2012 (front page)
- Strikes erupt in China’s Sichuan province
- US-China rivalry behind fresh corruption charges in the Philippines
- TNA drops opposition to Sri Lankan war crimes whitewash
- US presses for Arab League finding against Syria
- The Pentagon’s strategy review: A blueprint for world war
- Theater of the absurd in Republican presidential debates
- Illinois teacher commits suicide citing working conditions
- Ford closes Minnesota truck assembly plant
- US acquires ninth Predator drone to patrol borders
- Benefit cuts to make 800,000 more UK homes unaffordable
- This week in history: January 9 - January 15
- Proposed Chicago anti-protest laws to be permanent
10 January 2012 (front page)
- Afghanistan signs oil contract with Chinese giant
- Australian maritime union delivers “productivity” demands to DP World
- Malaysia’s opposition leader acquitted
- General strike over fuel hike paralyzes Nigeria
- Landslide in Philippine mining community kills at least 36
- The Republican primary campaign
- Afghan government accuses US of torture and false imprisonment
- Two die in Detroit house fire
- Ohio’s hidden housing crisis
- Reports of falling unemployment in Germany conceal growing poverty
- Lockout of New York City Opera performers begins after mediation breaks down
- Serious overcrowding in Irish hospitals
- The Iron Lady: What were they thinking?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
11 January 2012 (front page)
- US renews military threat against Iran
- Australian government steps up secret surveillance of protests
- South Africa’s ANC at 100: A balance sheet of bourgeois nationalism
- Romney wins New Hampshire Republican primary
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Ex-Citigroup exec replaces ex-JPMorgan banker
Daley resigns as White House chief of staff - Neo-fascist Breivik warned Norwegian authorities of plans for mass murder
- Detroit-area CEOs rake in millions while city prepares further cuts
- Police attack peaceful anti-racist protesters in Germany
- Profit drive leads to shortage of critical drugs, deaths in US
- Court finds Washington state in violation on education funding
- LA schools agreement to give unions greater role in imposing cuts
- Israel and foreign aid
12 January 2012 (front page)
- Nigerian general strike escalates as government steps up repression
- US prepares for war against China
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank chief calls for more IMF aid
- Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated in Tehran
- Lawsuit demands that Obama administration release Guantanamo torture tapes
- As Europe tips into recession, France and Germany call for more austerity
- US resumes drone missile attacks in Pakistan
- US Coast Guard to escort grain ship against dockworkers’ protest
- Bank of New York-Mellon seeks to evict Occupy Pittsburgh
- Protests in Clermont-Ferrand, France over man’s death after beating by police
- Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and American capitalism
- Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935
- Letters from our readers
13 January 2012 (front page)
- US marines desecrate Afghan dead
- Obama’s new war doctrine fuels debate in China
- Libya: TNC releases anti-democratic draft electoral laws
- Pakistan faces creeping military coup
- Scores injured, arrested in housing demolition in the Philippines
- US job cuts hit financial, IT, manufacturing sectors
- Former Turkish army chief of staff arrested
- Miliband commits UK Labour to long-term austerity
- Russia warns US, allies planning for war in Syria
- Iran’s Green Opposition endorses imperialist intervention in Syria
- SeaFrance cross-channel ferries liquidated
- Guantánamo: A decade of US torture and repression
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“It’s going back to the 1930s”
Cooper Tire workers speak on struggle - Manroland employees in Plauen: “We have been lied to and cheated”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
14 January 2012 (front page)
- Canada to revive anti-democratic “counter-terrorism” powers
- Unemployed workers denounce Labor’s poverty-line benefits
- Australian government rejects any dole increase
- Foxconn workers threaten suicide protest in China
- US doubles aircraft carriers near the Persian Gulf
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Nigerian unions suspend general strike
- New studies show growth of poverty, class tensions in US
- New York transit agency demands draconian worker givebacks
- French, European credit ratings slashed as Greek debt talks collapse
- Presiding officer calls for Bradley Manning to face court-martial
- The US and its Middle East proxies
- Illinois Caterpillar workers discuss London, Ontario lockout
- Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol: It might have been worse
16 January 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Government platitudes at Queensland flood memorials
- Japanese PM reshuffles cabinet to push tax hike
- Strikes resume in Nigeria after collapse of talks between unions and government
- Washington’s crimes against Iran
- Impeachment trial of chief justice opens in the Philippines
- KMT retains presidency in Taiwanese elections
- Obama seeks power to merge agencies, slash jobs
- Protests in Tunisia greet one-year anniversary of Ben Ali’s overthrow
- US Department of Agriculture to close 259 field offices
- Occupations and lockouts in Ireland
- Germany: The Lübeck arson attack and the Zwickau neo-Nazi terrorist cell
- This week in history: January 16-21
- Germany: Manroland workers protest job cuts
17 January 2012 (front page)
- Nigerian unions suspend general strike as army deploys in cities
- Social tensions rise as South African economy slows
- Strikes spreading in China
- S&P; downgrades and social counterrevolution in Europe
- Eleven dead, 29 missing as cruise ship runs aground in Italy
- ElBaradei abandons Egyptian presidential candidacy
- Unemployment soars in small Florida cities
- New York City transit contract expires without a strike
- Torture charges dropped against UK intelligence officers
- Ex-General Otto Perez Molina to expand drug war as Guatemala’s new president
- Indian economy buffeted by mounting crisis
- Quebec: Lockout of workers at Rio Tinto Alcan smelter in third week
- The way forward for locked-out Ontario Electro-Motive workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
18 January 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Deportation of Pakistani student
- UK library closures and the High Court decision on Brent Council
- Economic, military pressures on Iran escalate global tensions
- Sri Lanka: Support the struggle of plantation workers against higher workloads
- Wikipedia shuts down to protest censorship bills
- Socialist Party pledges austerity after France loses AAA credit rating
- One million signatures filed to recall Wisconsin governor
- Demonstrations spread in Romania against austerity policies
- Chicago officials deny antiquated fire code caused woman’s death
- Ireland facing a decade of austerity
- Michigan gives green light for charter school expansion
- South Carolina governor unveils plan to slash corporate income taxes
- The Bain Capital debate
- UK Unilever workers strike over pensions
19 January 2012 (front page)
- US upgrades diplomatic relations with Burma
- Australian mental health workers maintain bans over wages and conditions
- Obama backs regime change in Syria amid calls for intervention
- World economy set for another major downturn
- Millions poured into South Carolina primary campaign
- Rhode Island food bank director: “We’ve seen an incredible, dramatic increase in need”
- Death toll likely to rise in Italian cruise ship tragedy
- Tories and Scottish National Party argue over terms of independence referendum
- Paltry fine against UK Coal for miner deaths
- French “social summit” prepares attack on social security
- SOPA, PIPA and the freedom of the Internet
- Letters from our readers
20 January 2012 (front page)
- Mayors report: US cities remain mired in slump
- Australia: Banks warn of “painful” recession
- US, Israel coordinate strategy against Iran
- The bankruptcy of Kodak
- Spain’s judge Baltasar Garzón on trial for investigating Franco crimes
- US government shuts down file-sharing site MegaUpload
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Media campaign targets German president
- California budget proposal promises more cuts
- Latin American governments “apologize” for dictatorships’ crimes
- Thousands in Pennsylvania to lose food stamps due to asset test
- Mass layoffs hit German printing press industry
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A look at 3 Cohens’ Family album
21 January 2012 (front page)
- Ten NATO troops killed in Afghanistan
- The betrayal of Nigeria’s general strike
- Human rights groups charge NATO with war crimes in Libya
- Infighting in South Carolina presidential primary
- Yemen’s “unity” cabinet provides immunity for Saleh regime
- French media attack Damascus after French journalist dies in Syria
- Occupy London faces eviction as police trash Parliament Square protest
- Occupy Bristol served eviction notice by church and council
- Washington state schools, teachers under fire
- Some hard truths about the unions’ “Day of Action” for Ontario Electro-Motive workers
- 1,500 Oakland, California city workers to be laid off
- Texarkana Cooper Tire local to vote on settlement while Findlay workers remain locked out
- Germany: Manroland is broken up with the help of the union
- New Zealand port threatens to sack striking workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK pseudo-left covers for unions’ public sector pensions betrayal
23 January 2012 (front page)
- Banks and EU leaders pressure Greece for more austerity
- Twenty-five years since the Mendiola massacre in the Philippines
- Sri Lanka’s defence secretary targets workers and youth
- China: Wukan protest shut down
- Gingrich wins South Carolina Republican primary with right-wing, pseudo-populist appeal
- Protests in Romania enter their second week
- UK Prime Minister Cameron attacks “culturally rewarding” cinema
- German government sets up neo-Nazi database
- Iraq war veteran accused of killing four homeless men in Southern California
- New York’s Democratic governor continues attacks on workers in second budget
- US-NATO war crimes in Libya
- Thousands rally to support Ontario Electro-Motive workers
- “We need every worker from around the world to have a day of action against Caterpillar”
- This week in history: January 23-29
- Oppose extradition of Richard O’Dwyer to the US!
- War Horse—All heart and no head
24 January 2012 (front page)
- Australian government car subsidies spark rift in corporate circles
- European Union imposes oil embargo on Iran
- Sri Lanka: SEP/ISSE meeting to demand release of political prisoners
- New Zealand judge defers bail decision on Megaupload arrests
- US Senators escalate tensions in Southeast Asia
- Australian government loses support of independent MP
- The unions and the lockouts at Cooper Tire and Caterpillar
- Italian truckers, taxi drivers mount national strike against social cuts
- Anti-democratic actions by the US Supreme Court
- Russian Prime Minister Putin appeals to middle-class protesters
- Famine devastates states of northern Mexico
- Bostonians decry transit fare hikes and service cuts
- Police repress protest against tuition hikes at UC Riverside
- California food workers union reaches agreement with Food 4 Less
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Johnny Otis, R&B;’s renaissance man, dies at 90
- Letters from our readers
25 January 2012 (front page)
- Petition: The Court of the Complainants—a potent Chinese documentary about injustice and state repression
- Detroit Democrats continue cynical campaign against Emergency Manager law
- IMF warning on global downturn
- Australian jobs fall for first time in 20 years
- Obama’s State of the Union address: War and wage-cutting
- Toyota Australia slashes 10 percent of workforce
- One year of the Egyptian Revolution
- Republican presidential candidate Romney reports income of $21 million a year
- Arab League calls for Syria’s Assad to step down
- Nigerian government uses terror bombing to justify clampdown
- No prison time for Marine charged in Haditha massacre
- The French political establishment and Gilles Jacquier’s death in Syria
- US budget cuts devastate shelters for victims of domestic violence
- Croatia: Referendum paves way for EU accession
- UK: Breast implant failures threaten health of thousands
- Illinois continues to shed jobs
- Unions isolate Cooper Tire workers in Ohio
- Manroland: WSWS article unleashes debate in local newspaper
- The 84th Academy Awards nominations—uneventful, for the most part
- German government report highlights Nazi past of public officials
26 January 2012 (front page)
- Social and political crisis hangs over World Economic Forum in Davos
- Renewed mass protests mark anniversary of Egyptian Revolution
- Turkey threatens intervention into Iraq
- Cargo ship grounded in New Zealand breaks apart
- Montenegrin unions agree to pay and job cuts
- Connecticut police charged with brutalizing Hispanics
- United States Postal Service ends negotiations with two unions
- Aluminum giant Alcoa closes plant in Sardinia
- Two dozen arrested in San Francisco, California Occupy march
- The State of the Union address
- “Sing like your life depends on it”: Etta James—1938-2012
- Letters from our readers
27 January 2012 (front page)
- Australian protesters denounced as “ugly mob”
- Unilever worker says: “It’s like we have gone back a hundred years”
- Israel prepares for war against Iran
- Striking truckers, fishermen clash with Italian government
- Washington to expand military presence in the Philippines
- Military mutiny in Papua New Guinea
- Social protests spread in Eastern Europe
- Pakistani elite preparing to restore full cooperation with US in Afghan War
- Democrats seek to defuse opposition to Detroit library cuts
- Kazakh elections take place amid rising social tensions
- Child poverty map of UK paints a bleak picture
- Insolvency of Schlecker drugstore chain threatens 47,000 jobs throughout Europe
- Totally drug-resistant tuberculosis reported in Mumbai
- US militarism and Obama’s State of the Union address
- The death of Joe Paterno and the Penn State scandal
- The Cooper Tire lockout and the lowering of US wages
- Trustees endorse Unilever attack on UK workers’ pensions
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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The death of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos
“I no longer deal with politics, with generalisations. I have stopped understanding them.”
28 January 2012 (front page)
- Obama outlines plan to put higher education on rations
- Mounting social struggles cast shadow over Davos economic summit
- Papua New Guinea: Dozens dead and missing in landslide
- Sri Lankan army instigates violence against Jaffna SEP members
- Sri Lankan prison guards shoot protesting inmates
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Canada’s Harper outlines class war agenda at Davos forum
- France rules out rapid Afghanistan withdrawal
- Scottish nationalists outline independence referendum
- US CEO pay reaches new heights
- Early elections in Saarland, Germany: CDU, SPD to form grand coalition
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- The trade unions and Obama’s State of the Union speech
- Cooper Tire workers in UK express solidarity with Ohio struggle
- Arkansas Cooper Tire local ratifies contract
- Letters from our readers
30 January 2012 (front page)
- New Zealand court refuses bail in Megaupload case
- US tightens the military noose around China
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Twenty years since the dissolution of the USSR
The capitalist crisis and the radicalization of the working class in 2012 - Indian foreign minister visits Sri Lanka
- US, Arab League push for UN action against Syria
- Berlin calls for EU-run bankers’ dictatorship over Greek economy
- European Central Bank averted global financial freefall
- Hundreds arrested in police crackdown on Oakland protests
- Obama’s Jobs Council promotes pro-corporate policies
- New York Mayor Bloomberg backs police commissioner in uproar over anti-Muslim film
- London primary school mounts legal challenge over academy status
- London march against Academy status for schools
- This week in history: January 30 - February 5
- The Adventures of Tintin: A generic boy scout travels a computer-generated world
- Unite’s sabotaging of UK electricians dispute aided by ex-left
- A friendly response to William Whitlow’s comments on Thomas Kuhn
31 January 2012 (front page)
- As EU crisis summit opens: 23 million unemployed across continent
- US military preparations for war on Iran
- Composer Gustav Mahler: A centennial appreciation
- The New York Times and the drive to war against Iran
- The “Workers Party” and the sell-out of Philippine Airlines workers
- Hands off the SEP! Defend SEP members in Jaffna!
- Australian media furore over Canberra protest
- Occupy DC protesters ordered to end camps
- Forty arrested at Cape Town Occupy
- The French petty-bourgeois “left” and the rise of the neo-fascist vote
- Obama administration prosecutes CIA whistleblower for exposing torture
- Canada: Conservatives’ reactionary “tough on crime” bill soon to become law
- Britain’s National Health Service faces wholesale privatisation
- Ireland’s United Left Alliance meets with EU-IMF-ECB “troika”
- UK bank bonuses and the lie of “shared sacrifice”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
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