Archive: February 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.
1 February 2012 (front page)
- New global downturn to hit China’s economy
- Britain’s Guardian and Observer sound a warning to the political elite
- EU summit agrees to German plan for austerity straitjacket
- Flooding in Fiji kills seven, leaves thousands homeless
- Mehring Books offers more titles in digital format
- Torture in Libya: The ugly reality of imperialist “liberation”
- Australia: New flood evidence delays Queensland election
- Romney wins Florida Republican primary
- Pakistan’s prime minister kowtows to military in bid to end political crisis
- Republican governor to sign “right to work” law in Indiana
- Growing strikes against austerity policies in Italy
- Kids Count report: Extreme poverty doubles in Michigan
- Security conference for London Olympics plans massive police operation
- Kentucky governor announces austerity budget
- Emergency manager announces school closure in Highland Park, Michigan
- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: A serious look at public housing and the fate of US cities
2 February 2012 (front page)
- US, Russia clash over Washington’s war drive against Syria
- Obama publicly embraces drone killings
- American intelligence agencies, media stoke war drive against Iran
- US pushes for renewed military presence in Iraq
- WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange appeals extradition before UK Supreme Court
- Obama backs hydrofracking in State of the Union speech
- Budget cuts hit Pittsburgh regional bus service
- France: Thibault to stand down as CGT union general secretary
- The Costa Concordia disaster and the profit drive of the cruise business
- Australian prime minister pledges “fiscal discipline”
- Australia: NAPLAN “breaches” by schools almost double
- Putting profits before health: Siemens abandons cancer therapy project
- Ontario premier feigns support for locked out Electro-Motive workers
- Indian town under police occupation after killing of union leader
- Detroit city unions agree to massive concessions
- Letters from our readers
3 February 2012 (front page)
- American Airlines to slash 13,000 jobs, demands deep concessions
- Opposition grows to Belgium austerity
- Australia: Coal terminal workers strike over enterprise agreement
- Hundreds die from the cold in eastern Europe
- Australian constitutional proposals will worsen Aboriginal oppression
- Mass protests in Egypt against pro-junta football riot
- California worker denied kidney transplant due to immigration status
- Europe placed under the dictatorship of the banks
- Philippine ex-left joins attack on Supreme Court
- NATO ministers hold crisis talks on Afghanistan
- Super PAC reports reveal the narrow base of US politics
- Police evict Occupy protesters in two New Zealand cities
- David North speaks in Berlin: “In Defence of Leon Trotsky and Historical Truth”
- Locked-out Ohio workers defy Cooper Tire as negotiations resume
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Surviving Progress: A dim view of humanity
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New boss of Highland Park, Michigan schools
Who is Jack Martin? - Galapagos tortoise species, thought to be extinct, has survived
- International Students for Social Equality (UK) meeting: Oppose extradition of Richard O’Dwyer to the US!
4 February 2012 (front page)
- Australian defence review prepares for war with China
- Protests against Egyptian junta spread after football massacre
- Israel threatens war against Iran within months
- Over 100 feared dead in Papua New Guinea ferry disaster
- Britain: Royal Mail casual workers protest non-payment of wages
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Caterpillar to close Ontario locomotive plant where workers resisted wage cut
- January employment report masks depth of US jobs crisis
- Former Gaddafi official tortured to death in Libya
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange awaits court decision on extradition
- India’s Supreme Court orders limited inquiry into Gujarat police murders
- Study reports that New Yorkers struggle to put food on the table
- The Susan G. Komen Foundation debacle and the US establishment
- Letters from our readers
6 February 2012 (front page)
- Greece default closer amid warnings of “social explosion”
- US war provocations against Syria
- After Russia’s UN veto, US talks of “coalition of the willing” against Syria
- Revealing new figures on German child poverty
- Romney wins Nevada Republican caucuses on low turnout
- Police raid Occupy DC protest
- Third police killing in one week in New York City
- Australian intelligence agencies prepare for political upheaval
- New wave of job losses in Australia
- UK’s elite protests stripping former RBS head of knighthood
- Illinois nuclear reactor expels radioactive steam
- Sri Lanka: Colombo meeting to defend SEP’s democratic rights
- This week in history: February 6-12
7 February 2012 (front page)
- Apple’s sweatshop supply chain
- Thousands evacuated as floods hit north-eastern Australia
- Mass protests bring down Romanian government
- US shuts Syrian embassy, threatens war
- Regulators collude in lawbreaking by Wall Street banks
- Mother of Richard O’Dwyer: “America is trying to control and police the Internet”
- Victims of Spain’s fascist junta testify in Garzón trial
- Thamesteel closure leaves 400 jobless in Britain
- Obama pushes community colleges to serve corporate America
- New York City teachers, students and parents oppose school “overhauls” and closures
- CIA drones target rescue workers, mourners
- Robert Service wins support from the extreme right in Germany
- The background to the euro crisis—Part 1
- Kucinich pushes anti-Chinese chauvinism in visit to Cooper Tire lockout
- The American “left” and Obama’s State of the Union address
8 February 2012 (front page)
- Greek government agrees to savage cuts, but troika demands more
- US and Israel in “lockstep” against Iran
- Syria and the seeds of world war
- Australia community workers awarded delayed “equal pay” rise
- Chicago’s Hull House closes after 120 years of service
- Manroland: “The IG Metall has played a double game”
- UK government supports plans for military schools
- Venture capital explodes into the US education market
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Dr. Michael Barbour, distance education specialist
“Full-time online learning is actually detrimental to student success” - Oakland proposes anti-protest measure after police crackdown
- The background to the euro crisis—Part 2
- A Dangerous Method: The Freud-Jung controversy, among other matters
9 February 2012 (front page)
- French law forbidding denial of Armenian genocide sent to Constitutional Council
- CAW begins talks on closing Ontario Caterpillar plant
- Australian coal loader workers continue industrial action
- Greek parties in talks as banks demand deep wage, social cuts
- Protest in New Zealand city over earthquake recovery fiasco
- Report of Arab League mission to Syria contradicts Western propaganda
- Obama cowers before religious right on contraceptives
- German chancellor Angela Merkel visits China
- Corporate money dominates US primary contests
- Philippine impeachment trial creates constitutional crisis
- Food bank use rises dramatically in Britain
- Fight Ontario Caterpillar plant closure! Unite North American workers against wage-cutting!
- American actor Ben Gazzara (1930-2012)
- New evidence points to German police involvement in 1967 murder of student protester
- Letters from our readers
10 February 2012 (front page)
- IMF warning: European “storm” would halve Chinese growth
- Australian government instability points to worsening political crisis
- Sri Lanka: Military continues intimidation of SEP in Jaffna
- Pentagon plans US-backed war against Syria
- Toronto municipal union accepts Mayor Ford’s layoff and privatization-promoting contract
- The looting of the Greek working class
- Obama administration brokers pro-bank mortgage fraud settlement
- Young adults hardest hit by recession, US study shows
- Global layoffs hit workers at GM, Nokia and Pepsico
- UK-Argentine tensions rise over Malvinas Islands
- Maldives president ousted in US-backed coup
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party echoes NATO propaganda against Syria
- Appointment of new US ambassador heightens tensions with Russia
- Polanski’s Carnage: Not a dispute about fundamentals
- Bird flu scientists respond to media hysteria, suspend critical research
- Detroit schools manager names schools to close this fall
- ISO covers for New York nurses union
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 February 2012 (front page)
- NATO bombing kills eight Afghan children
- Speculation on Greek default mounts as EU demands still more cuts
- Australia lines up with US for war with China
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama caves in to Catholic Church, religious right on contraceptives
- Bomb blasts in Aleppo, Syria kill 28
- Egyptians protest in lead-up to anniversary of Mubarak’s ouster
- Ongoing atrocities by NATO-installed Libyan regime
- Democrats propose cut in extended unemployment benefits
- UK government seeks deportation of Muslim cleric Abu Qatada
- IBM launches new form of day-wage labour
- Kentucky bill targets teachers for student achievement
- Germany: Lessons for workers from the defeat at Manroland
- Sri Lanka: SEP open letter to the defence minister
- Letter on the plight of construction workers in Britain
- Letters from our readers
- SEP/CAUS public meeting: Oppose Detroit budget cuts!
12 February 2012 (front page)
13 February 2012 (front page)
- Socialist Equality Party announces US election campaign
- Greek parliament votes for sweeping cuts
- Further revelations of Australian involvement in Iraq war crimes
- ISSE opposes extradition of UK student Richard O’Dwyer
- International petty-bourgeois “left” backs imperialist war in Syria
- Reckitt Benckiser to close Australia plant, destroying 190 jobs
- Arab League calls for UN intervention in Syria
- Tory peer Lord Ashcroft under scrutiny again
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Vote Socialist Equality in 2012!
Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president - Arab League calls for UN intervention in Syria
- The foreclosure fraud settlement: An amnesty for Wall Street criminals
- The death of Whitney Houston
- This week in history: February 13-19
- Workers at Ontario Caterpillar plant voice outrage over lockout and closure
14 February 2012 (front page)
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As popular anger erupts
Euro zone ministers to demand still more Greek cuts - US navy prepared for war against Iran
- Philippine Supreme Court issues restraining order on impeachment trial
- US secret armies gear up for global war
- Obama budget combines austerity and phony populism
- Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón debarred for 11 years
- Spain’s King Juan Carlos supported 1981 coup attempt
- Death toll rises to 600 in European cold snap
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Disabled suffer as a result of drive for UK benefits cuts
- Budget cuts hit California State University
- Jerry White campaigns in Detroit against school closings
- West Virginia budget: Strained social services and prison expansions
- The implications of the Obama administration’s capitulation on contraceptives
- SEP Presidential candidate Jerry White to speak in Detroit Thursday evening: “Oppose Detroit budget cuts!”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Union officials prepare ground for sellout of locked-out Cooper Tire workers
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on A Dangerous Method
15 February 2012 (front page)
- US-backed regime crushes protest in Bahrain
- Indonesian government shaken by corruption scandal
- The New York Times and Obama’s cave-in on contraceptives
- Greece heads toward a revolutionary explosion
- Protests erupt as Sri Lankan government enforces new IMF austerity measures
- Obama budget funds war, repression and Wall Street
- Tens of thousands in Germany protest against ACTA’s attack on the Internet
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party covers for imperialist regime change in Syria
- US, Indian envoys intervene to back coup in the Maldives
- West Virginia targets Medicaid for “fundamental adjustments”
- Jerry White demands end to government repression of Sri Lankan SEP
- Albert Nobbs: A model of repression
- Channel 4 programme highlights crisis conditions on London Underground
16 February 2012 (front page)
- Euro zone ministers tighten screws on Greece
- Political stench of 2010 coup haunts Australian PM
- Fisherman killed as Sri Lankan police fire on protest
- Obama, Democrats hail deal to slash unemployment benefits
- Video: Jerry White visits Cooper Tire picket line
- The Egyptian revolution and the struggle for workers’ power
- China’s president-in-waiting Xi Jinping visits Washington
- Clashes follow over 370 deaths in Honduran prison fire
- Germany: Duisburg’s mayor voted out a year and a half after Love Parade disaster
- Protests against New York City school closings
- Pakistan “highly vulnerable” to economic shocks, warns IMF
- Private companies poised for takeover of UK state education
- SEP presidential candidate gives press conference, speaks to workers in Findlay, Ohio
- SEP (UK) public meetings: For a general strike to bring down the Cameron government!
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Detroit and Obama’s “recovery”
Utility shutoffs soar amidst mass poverty in Michigan - Detroit residents speak out on utility shutoffs
- SEP (UK) public meetings: For a general strike to bring down the Cameron government!
- Letters from our readers
17 February 2012 (front page)
- US, Israel invoke terror to ratchet up war threats against Iran
- Job losses accelerate as interest rates rise in Australia
- Amnesty International details torture and murder in Libya
- Franco’s heirs prosecute Spain’s judge Garzón
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Obama, Congress cut jobless benefits:
The socialist response to the jobs crisis - Australian mining magnate buys controlling interest in Fairfax Media
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Spain’s Popular Party government imposes savage labour legislation
- Half a billion children at risk for malnutrition
- Study shows harmful impact of economic crisis on California’s women
- California deepens cuts to social safety net
- UK unemployment hits new high
- French political establishment capitulates to government’s appeals to racism
- Video: Cooper Tire workers speak with SEP candidate
- An interview with Chad Freidrichs, director of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
- A further reply on Thomas Kuhn
18 February 2012 (front page)
- Pakistan’s Supreme Court indicts prime minister
- UN vote seen as stepping stone toward military intervention in Syria
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German President Wulff resigns
- GM posts record profits, prepares more cuts
- 29,500 long-term unemployed Michigan workers lose benefits
- Rupert Murdoch pledges to fight back as corruption scandal spreads
- More than 60 dead as cold snap grips Italy
- Portugal’s labour reforms provoke mass opposition
- US-backed Bahraini regime continues repression
- New Zealand moves to broaden economic ties with China
- Alcoa Australia threatens to axe Geelong smelter
- Honduras’s prison inferno: A crime of capitalism
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Conditions in this city are a damning indictment of capitalism
SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks in Detroit - Workers in Germany and Europe must defend the Greek working class
- British Agent (1934): Early Hollywood looks at the Bolsheviks
- Detroit to cut early morning bus services
- Letters from our readers
20 February 2012 (front page)
- Australian coal miners strike over safety, wages and conditions
- Three fishermen perish in Southern Ocean fire
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Obama hails record GM profits
The wage-cutter in chief - Sri Lankan SEP condemns government attack on the party’s rights
- US sends drones over Syria as fighting spreads
- Capitol Hill terror suspect ensnared by US intelligence agencies
- Greek “left” pushes to join the government
- Bank foreclosure fraud to be rewarded at taxpayer expense
- Opel and Vauxhall in Europe threatened with more job cuts
- UK pensions fight sabotaged as just three unions urge one-day strike
- Tent camp reveals social inequality in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- The CGT comes out for bourgeois “left” in French presidential elections
- The Miramonte scandal and the crisis of public education in California
- UK Supreme Court rejects appeal over Brent library closures
- Free Bradley Manning!
- This week in history: February 20-26
21 February 2012 (front page)
- Euro zone negotiates Greek bailout amid rising popular opposition
- IAEA inspection team intensifies pressure on Iran
- Thousands attend slain fisherman’s funeral in Sri Lanka
- US reaffirms support for Egyptian junta amid conflict over NGOs
- Hundreds of thousands protest new Spanish labour legislation
- Public education, transit, health care targeted in Pennsylvania budget cuts
- Telephone industry pushes to end landline service in Kentucky
- UK government to extend workfare for young unemployed
- California hunger striker dies as prison conditions deteriorate
- Drones come to the US
- SEP supporters discuss election campaign with students in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Germany: Verdi prepares to agree wage cut for public transport workers
- PSA auto workers protest threat to close Aulnay, France plant
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Alexander Payne’s digestible The Descendants; Steven Soderbergh at an impasse with Haywire
22 February 2012 (front page)
- Darwin commemoration highlights US-Australia military ties
- Greek deal: More pain for workers, no end to Europe’s crisis
- Sri Lanka: Oppose the government’s price hikes!
- How the government enables Wall Street parasites to cash in on the crisis
- Super PACs outspend Republican presidential candidates in January
- International tensions mount over Syria conflict
- Unions oversee closure of Sheppey steel mill in UK
- All-party coalition supports Gauck as new German president
- Thousands march in Peru against US-backed mining project
- Reports expose desperate conditions of Illinois youth
- Economic crisis in Russia deepens
- California’s draft budget attacks public school system
- Defend public education!
- John Ford’s The Broken Heart: Impressive production of a rarely performed 17th-century classic
23 February 2012 (front page)
- US encourages Burma to distance itself from China
- Obama administration proposes corporate tax cut
- Today’s social divide and the Charles Dickens bicentenary
- Retired autoworker in Flint, Michigan dies after utilities are shut off
- Highland Park Michigan school district faces closure threat
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White addresses meeting at University of Michigan
- Mounting attacks on Nigerian workers
- Australian foreign minister resigns in Washington
- Sri Lankan defence ministry blocks SEP meeting
- London Underground uses Hong Kong and Singapore metros as benchmark
- US, Egyptian junta seek to arm Syrian opposition
- The European Union and Greece
- India brokers political deal to back coup in Maldives
- Report reveals depth of social crisis for African-American men in Milwaukee
- Letters from our readers
24 February 2012 (front page)
- Afghans besiege US bases in Koran protests
- US Congress to debate motion on “self-determination” for Pakistani Balochistan
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Amid deepening political crisis
Former Australian prime minister raises questions about 2010 coup - Further US involvement in Philippine constitutional crisis
- Qantas to axe 2,500 more jobs in government-backed restructuring
- “Friends of Syria” plan war, regime change at Washington’s behest
- Savage police assault on students in Valencia, Spain
- Republican primary campaign grows more frenzied as it heads for decisive contests
- European economy contracting
- Trade union and employers work together to break German ground crew strike
- Portland police chief defends latest police killing
- French Socialist Party presidential candidate calls for interning the Roma
- Video: SEP candidate Jerry White visits Chrysler plant in Warren, Michigan
-
62nd Berlin International Film Festival—Part 1
A few nuggets on display at the Berlinale - Autopsy shows retired Michigan auto worker froze to death after utility shutoff
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
25 February 2012 (front page)
- Mass layoffs in US belie talk of economic recovery
- Australian government torn apart by US-China tensions
- Obama, “Friends of Syria” press for military intervention against Damascus
- Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since 1996
- European trade unions back EU austerity demands
- Yemen: US-brokered presidential elections held with single candidate
- US pressures India to back sanctions against Iran
- Fire kills 29 at rehab center in Lima, Peru
- Deepening job cuts expose Australian Labor’s “new economy”
- Ontario legislature to debate call for Greek-style austerity
- Unite auto workers in Europe, North America and internationally against wage-cutting and layoffs!
- Paratroopers readied for future social unrest in UK
- Obama’s 2013 budget to increase corporate influence over public research
- SEP publishes election announcement of Jerry White in Spanish
- Union announces tentative settlement in Cooper Tire lockout
- Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: Not really a movie about 9/11, whatever else it might be
- Highland Park, Michigan teachers and staff go without pay after state refuses aid
- Fair Work Australia imposes no-strike bans on Victorian nurses
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 February 2012 (front page)
- Strike wave resumes in China
- Germany: Saxony’s state prosecutor persecutes anti-Nazi demonstrators
- Syrian conflict destabilizes Lebanon
- Court martial opens against Bradley Manning
- Afghanistan rises in revolt against US occupation
- Sri Lankan plantation workers strike over fuel price rises
- Australian prime minister defeats challenge from Kevin Rudd
- G20 meeting defers decision on boosting European rescue funds
- GM and Peugeot Citroën conspire to sack thousands of auto workers
- 2012 French elections: NPA bids to join pro-austerity government
- UK: Salford’s Labour council imposes cuts of almost £100 million
- Protests continue over Boston transit cuts and fare hikes
- New York teacher evaluations used to deepen attack on public education
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Socialism and the Cooper Tire struggle
Statement of Jerry White, the Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president - No to Cuts at the MBTA!
- Union pushes concessions contract at Cooper Tire
- This week in history: February 27-March 4
- Anger boils over at meetings on Detroit bus cuts
28 February 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Key 2010 coup plotter quits government after leadership vote
- West Bengal government threatens savage reprisals if state workers join one-day strike
- Letters from our readers
- US, Britain gear up for war on Iran
- Japan’s economy contracts as exports plunge
- New Zealand: Pike River Coal ignored mine safety warnings
- Mass layoffs expose myth of US economic recovery
- Thousands in Michigan continue to lose welfare benefits
- US workers without high school diplomas hit hard by recession
- Israel steps up repression in occupied Palestinian territories
- German court gives green light for expansion of temporary employment contracts
- French unions prepare to back cuts in PSA-GM tie-up
- Phyllis Scherrer wins strong support from bus drivers and riders
- Indian workers must adopt socialist strategy to oppose UPA-led big business offensive
- Amidst widespread discontent, Cooper Tire workers vote for concessions contract
- SEP campaigns in New York, Michigan and Kentucky
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The 2012 Academy Awards
29 February 2012 (front page)
- US ambassador suggests nuclear submarine sale to Australia
- Washington pushes drug war in Mexico, Central America
- US downplays North Korean regime’s overtures
- Romney wins Republican primaries in Arizona and Michigan
- German parliament supports austerity for Greece
- Three students dead in Ohio high school shooting
- French Socialist Party presidential candidate issues bogus pledge to tax the rich
- French President Sarkozy’s re-election bid appeals to extreme right
- Occupy London camp cleared by police from St Paul’s Cathedral
- London Fire chief proposes closing 50 ambulance stations
- Republican candidate Santorum attacks the First Amendment
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Full funding for public transportation!
Stop layoffs and cutbacks! - Quebec’s striking students must turn to the working class!
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62nd Berlin International Film Festival—Part 2
Political films in Berlin
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