Archive: August 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 August 2012 (front page)
- Grid collapse in India leaves over 650 million without electricity
- Afghan war crimes report suppressed
- Sri Lankan government moves to gag web sites
- PCS union suspends strike planned for Olympics
- Grain markets soar on worldwide crop downgrades
- Greek government plans further cuts
- Hollande backs the destruction of auto jobs in the name of French competitiveness
- Germany: Neckermann bankruptcy threatens 2,400 jobs
- Con Ed workers speak out against proposed contract
- Chicago Teachers Union agrees to lengthening of the school day
- What Danny Boyle’s Olympic pageant does and does not say about Britain
2 August 2012 (front page)
- Assam communal clashes claim 53 lives in north-east India
- Protesters storm municipal building in China
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“We should have the opportunity to live a decent, respectable lifestyle”
WSWS interviews two Detroit mothers about their conditions - Israel steps up military threats against Iran
- Nearly three-quarters of Detroit children living in poverty
- Quebec Liberals launch re-election bid with tirade against striking students
- Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag publishes Robert Service’s diatribe against Leon Trotsky
- Bloody fighting in Syria as US-backed forces slaughter prisoners
- Behind the mounting conflicts in the EU
- Pakistani, US intelligence chiefs discuss US drone attacks
- Fed takes no steps to address US economic slowdown
- Corporate sponsors tighten grip on the Olympics
- German unions help destroy jobs in private hospitals
- US threatens Rwandan President Kagame over support for Congolese rebels
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Bankers veto debt relief for distressed homeowners
For a socialist program to stop foreclosures!
Statement by Jerry White, Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president - Melting of Greenland ice shelf likely caused by global warming
- Letters from our readers
3 August 2012 (front page)
- US report proposes aircraft carrier base in Western Australia
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Questions of political principle in the defense of culture
Why we oppose the Detroit Institute of Arts millage - The CIA proxy war in Syria and the pro-imperialist “left”
- US Postal Service defaults on $5.5 billion payment to retiree fund
- France’s Socialist Party government plans to force Roma into ghettos
- New Egyptian government sworn in by Islamist president Mursi
- Israeli cabinet reveals draconian austerity budget
- Libor scandal goes global
- UK: Peterborough care home workers resist closures
- Child poverty in US capital increases sharply
- SEC investigation into Miami’s fiscal corruption provokes crisis
- Interview with Jerry White: “We are running to give voice to the working class”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
4 August 2012 (front page)
- Burmese regime opens up to Western investment
- US unemployment rate rises on weak jobs report
- Australia normalises relations with Fijian regime
- Greek government agrees €11.5 billion cuts package
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sydney Film Festival 2012—Part 1: To shine a light on reality or flee from it
- Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus discusses Beauty
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns among rubber plantation workers
- UN General Assembly targets Syria as US proxy war escalates
- Parti Quebecois and unions press students to end strike
- India: Maruti Suzuki and Haryana government mount vendetta against auto workers
- Historic US drought deepens
- Kentucky legislature raids need-based college grant funds
- The London Olympics and the social crisis
- SEP Candidates submit signatures to gain spot on Wisconsin ballot
- Tsar to Lenin DVD now available for immediate shipment
6 August 2012 (front page)
- Growing signs of global slump
- Japan’s defence report takes tough line against China
- Australian government moves to tighten anti-strike laws
- At least seven dead in shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
- Portugal enforces labour reforms but more demanded
- UK Fire Brigades Union calls off Olympics strike action
- German Secret Service destroyed more files on neo-Nazi murders
- German court bans circumcision on religious grounds
- Banking crisis intensifies in Slovenia
- Massachusetts health care bill aims to cut $200 billion over 15 years
- Detroit’s Wayne State University targets faculty tenure
- The low-wage, no-raise economy
- Saginaw, Michigan residents speak on police killing
- This week in history: August 6-August 12
- Vote “No” on the Con Ed-UWUA contract! For an independent political struggle of the working class!
- Sixty years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
7 August 2012 (front page)
- SEP speaks to workers in Anaheim about election campaign and police violence
- IG Metall union sells out German contract workers
- New Zealand “Rich List” reveals deepening social divide
- US stokes disputes in South China Sea
- Turkey attacks Kurds, threatens military action against Syria
- The euro bailouts and the crisis of democracy in Europe
- US gunman alleged to have killed six at Sikh temple was a neo-Nazi
- Brazilian public sector strike challenges PT government’s economic policy
- Referendum fails to oust Romanian president
- German Supreme Court declares asylum seekers benefit law unconstitutional
- GE executive to be paid $89,000 a month for not working
- Curiosity rover lands on Mars: A milestone of space exploration
- Why I support the Detroit Institute of Arts and oppose the millage
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- London’s Tate Modern shows photomontages of John Heartfield
8 August 2012 (front page)
- China’s leaders call for “stable growth” as economy slows
- Job cuts deepen in Australia
- Sydney Film Festival—Part 2: Music as a dividing or unifying social force
- Syrian army, US-backed opposition militias clash in Aleppo
- Texas executes mentally disabled death row prisoner
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Quebec student strike:
CLASSE manifesto promotes Quebec nationalism and protest politics - US Secretary of State Clinton’s Africa tour raises tensions with China
- British police fabricate terrorist case against Rizwaan Sabir
- Northern California refinery fire spreads toxic fumes
- One year since the UK riots
- SEP presidential candidate to tour Britain, Germany and Sri Lanka
- New York Times gives glimpse of sectarian bloodbath being prepared by Syria intervention
- West Virginia aluminum plant workers strike
9 August 2012 (front page)
- Greek government launches mass round-up and deportation of immigrants
- New Zealand: State asset sales and the dead-end of Maori nationalism
- Quebec establishment united in drive to suppress student strike
- Sri Lankan graphite miners speak to SEP campaigners
- Australian government authorises forced interrogation of refugees
- Egypt launches Sinai crackdown in collusion with Israel
- US drought feeds wildfires, crop failures
- UK inquest finds against police in death of Sean Rigg
- Flight attendants at Swiss airline oust union leadership
- Belarus workers hit by hyperinflation and social cuts
- California cities facing bankruptcy
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to cut 280 teachers and staff
- Washington’s proxy in Syria: Al Qaeda
- Wisconsin officials move to exclude SEP candidates from ballot
- The Dark Knight Rises: Dubious and distortive
10 August 2012 (front page)
- A new policy is needed for Quebec student strike
- US, European powers press for intervention as Syrian army retakes Aleppo
- Spiking grain prices raise specter of global food crisis
- Wisconsin shooting reveals connections between US military and fascist groups
- Tensions deepen as Brazil federal strike grows
- France’s Socialist Party government launches mass expulsions of Roma
- The betrayal of Spain’s miners strike and the silence of the fake left
- Divisions sharpen in Australian ruling elite over US-China rivalry
- Indian ruling elite fears impact of altercation at Maruti Suzuki plant
- Scores killed in Manila floods
- The Mars landing
- Workers denounce effort by Wisconsin officials to exclude SEP from ballot
- The Lessons of Wisconsin: New pamphlet available at Mehring online
- Sydney Film Festival—Part 3: Some naturalistic and mostly credible depictions
- Nippon Sheet Glass cuts jobs at Pilkington’s UK factories
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 August 2012 (front page)
- Extended jobless benefits end for 500,000 US workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New Zealand: Drilling company admits safety breaches in mine disaster
- Australia: Queensland government axes thousands of jobs
- Sri Lankan SEP holds election meeting in Kegalla
- Defend immigrants in Greece
- US drops investigations of Goldman Sachs
- Afghan police chief kills three US special forces troops
- London Olympics 2012: A city under lockdown
- Health advocacy group decries Obama administration’s stonewalling on food industry regulation
- Outrage over police violence at Anaheim, California city council meeting
- Following grid collapse: Indian bourgeoisie demands privatisation of power sector
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“The police defend the wealthy”—brother of murdered man
WSWS speaks to victims of police violence in Anaheim, California - Workfare schemes given legal sanction in UK
- The Queen of Versailles: American “royalty” seeks to build its own palace
- Oppose the anti-democratic attempt to keep SEP candidates off the Wisconsin ballot!
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SEP public meeting
The Quebec student strike, the working class and the struggle for social rights - Letters from our readers
- Farewell, My Queen: The last days of the ancien régime
13 August 2012 (front page)
- China: Trial of Bo Xilai’s wife ends quickly
- US think tank plans military build-up against China
- Australian government intervenes to shut down DAIR strike
- Detroit to cut 81 percent of water and sewage jobs
- Britain: Oppose cuts to wages and conditions at South West hospitals
- Ryan pick marks further shift to the right in US presidential campaign
- Washington’s bipartisan class-war policy: No jobs, no benefits
- Egyptian President Mursi claims military junta’s dictatorial powers
- Clinton visits Turkey to step up Syrian proxy war
- FBI raids homes of Occupy protesters in Oregon and Washington
- European car industry prepares mass redundancies
- Trade unions facilitate meat processing plant closures in Scotland
- Detroit water and sewage workers speak out against cuts
- This week in history: August 13-August 19
- Letters denounce effort to keep SEP candidates off Wisconsin ballot
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Book review:
A hard life, then Hurricane Katrina: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
14 August 2012 (front page)
- Canadian Labour Congress pleads for bosses to recognize unions’ role in suppressing worker unrest
- Google cutting 4,000 jobs at Motorola unit
- Iranian earthquakes leave over 300 dead
- Australian government reinstates anti-refugee “Pacific Solution”
- Slaughter on Seventh Avenue
- Afghan launches legal challenge over UK role in Washington kill list
- France: The NPA and LO defend CIA operations in Syria
- Quebec students debate whether to continue their strike
- Lufthansa flight attendants vote to strike
- UK unions push probation worker pension cuts
- San Bernardino residents speak on bankruptcy filing
- Hands off anti-Wall Street protesters
- Radical journalist Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012
- Greek translation of Perspective “Defend immigrants in Greece”
- The ISO covers its tracks in betrayal of Con Ed workers
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Resolution of the National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
The crisis of the European Union and the perspective of the United Socialist States of Europe - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan historical document now available at Mehring online
- Letters from our readers
- Houston janitors ratify labor contract
- Letters on The Dark Knight Rises
15 August 2012 (front page)
- Racist murder in Greece reflects rising neo-Nazi influence
- Japanese government in turmoil after tax bill clears upper house
- Qantas unveils job cuts after Fair Work Australia victory
- Quebec student strike votes produce mixed results
- Sydney Film Festival 2012—Part 4: Two love stories and a couple of class-conscious dramas from Korea and Brazil
- Australia: Teachers face political struggle to fight Victorian TAFE cuts
- A law unto themselves
- US downgrades crop outlook
- Widespread criminal practices by UK banks
- Record temperatures and forest fires in Russia
- Germany: Police close down Frankfurt Occupy camp
- AFL-CIO drags Verizon workers into Philadelphia rally for Democrats
- Workers in Philadelphia speak out against the two big business parties and union betrayals
- Off-duty Chicago police officer kills unarmed man
- SEP campaigns in Pittsburgh against cuts in social programs
- More letters on effort to keep SEP off Wisconsin ballot
- Illinois Democrats feign support for Caterpillar strikers
- Two strikers arrested at West Virginia aluminum plant
- Joliet Caterpillar strikers speak out
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Resolution of the National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
The return of class struggle and the tasks of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party)
16 August 2012 (front page)
- Memo exposes Israeli war plan against Iran
- Two New Zealand soldiers killed in Afghanistan
- Québec Solidaire courts big business PQ
- Australian laws rushed through to detain refugees offshore
- Sydney Film Festival—Part 5: Dead Europe and Mabo, two Australian features
- China slowdown deepens global crisis
- US coordinates with Turkey in proxy Syria war
- French youth riot against police brutality in Amiens-Nord
- Bradley Manning defense files motion to dismiss charges over pre-trial abuse
- US media seeks to legitimize Ryan’s extreme-right agenda
- German military to acquire combat drones
- German police linked to neo-Nazi murders and Ku Klux Klan
- Wounded UK soldiers criticise Help for Heroes charity
- IAM reaches sellout deal in Illinois Caterpillar strike
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Resolution of the National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
The defence of Günter Grass and the struggle against German militarism - Wisconsin officials reverse decision and recommend SEP candidates be placed on ballot
- Letters from our readers
17 August 2012 (front page)
- Israeli threats heighten danger of Middle East war
- Australian government lies exposed over latest refugee vessel arrival
- South African police massacre striking miners
- Australia: TAFE staff and students rally against funding cuts
- UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean embassy to seize Assange
- Thousands of US immigrants line up for new work permit program
- “Julian has shown us things that really needed to be known”
- European recession deepens, unemployment climbs
- Strikes and protests sweep Tunisia
- Pennsylvania judge upholds anti-democratic “voter ID” law
- Corruption scandals rock Austrian politics
- West Virginia aluminum plant retirees seek restoration of health benefits
- California austerity: Student assistant jobs on the chopping block
- Reject the sellout at Joliet! For an independent political struggle of the working class!
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- In The Campaign, a fictional race for Congress
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Resolution of the National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
In Defence of Leon Trotsky
18 August 2012 (front page)
- Close associates of Indonesian president targeted over corruption
- Australian government lines up behind British threats against Assange
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US proxy war in Syria spreads to Lebanon and Iraq
- Sydney Film Festival—Part 6: Bernardo Bertolucci’s rise and fall
- Sri Lanka: Retrenched garment workers speak with SEP campaigners
- South Africa’s mine massacre
- Union forces through concessions contract at Caterpillar in Illinois
- Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot jailed for singing anti-Putin song
- Spanish trade union plays Robin Hood with supermarket raids
- Indian elite hamstrung as the economy falters
- Magna International closing its Syracuse, New York auto parts plant
- Imperialist lawlessness and the witch-hunt against Julian Assange
- SEP vice presidential candidate speaks to temp workers in McKeesport, Pennsylvania
- Con Ed workers disgusted as union reports contract ratification
- Swiss trade unions play key role in facilitating closure of Merck Serono plant
- Letters from our readers
- Letter from a South African reader on the Marikana miners massacre
20 August 2012 (front page)
- Julian Assange demands end to US witch-hunt
- China stirs anti-Japanese protests over disputed islands
- South African miners continue strike in aftermath of massacre
- A reply to a New Zealand union official
- Sri Lankan power unions sell out strike
- The US debacle in Afghanistan
- Michigan Chrysler workers reject union-backed local contract
- Thousands mass outside Ecuadorean embassy to support Assange
- Quebec CEGEP students end their strike
- Obama administration to respond to lawsuit challenging assassination program
- US Army suicides nearly double from June to July
- The real beneficiaries of the “people’s” Olympic Games
- How German philosopher Jürgen Habermas proposes to save the EU
- A renewed appeal for support in Wisconsin ballot effort
- This week in history: August 20-August 26
- The Intouchables, record-breaking French film, and Ruby Sparks, “small change” in Los Angeles
21 August 2012 (front page)
- South African miners defiant in face of government, company threats
- New York Times backs reckless US intervention in South China Sea
- Australian government prepares to bolster terrorism laws
- French Communist Party backs killing of South African miners
- US backs Egyptian president as he claims dictatorial powers
- US to drop criminal probe of MF Global
- The election year controversy over Romney’s taxes: Hypocrisy to spare on both sides
- German government aids anti-Assad forces in Syria
- German officer responsible for Kunduz massacre promoted to rank of general
- Spain: Forest fire outbreaks worsened by budget cuts
- Michigan cuts teacher health care, pensions
- Political lessons of the Quebec student strike
- Video: An appeal from SEP presidential candidate Jerry White
- French ex-left parties support state persecution of the Roma
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 August 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Asciano to slash hundreds of waterfront jobs
- Japan-South Korea tensions flare over disputed islands
- Obama threatens to invade Syria
- Obama and Romney’s phony Medicare debate
- German Constitutional Court legalizes use of army inside Germany
- UK media lines up behind campaign to extradite Assange and silence WikiLeaks
- Italian right wing honours fascist war criminal
- Irish economy remains fragile
- New Orleans universities plan huge cuts as state funding shrinks
- Betrayal at Caterpillar
- SEP launches bid for ballot access in Louisiana
- Ex-left groups champion “Yes” vote in Scottish referendum
- College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair—a satire of contemporary American community colleges
23 August 2012 (front page)
- China: Bo’s wife given suspended death sentence
- European Union intensifies pressure on Greece for social cuts
- India: Maruti Suzuki fires workers en masse, reopens plant under police gauntlet
- Colombo press conference announces US SEP presidential candidate’s visit to Sri Lanka
- German court sanction for domestic deployment of the military
- South African platinum miners’ strike spreads
- Dundee, Michigan Chrysler workers denounce sellout agreement
- Akin affair highlights hypocrisy and ignorance in US official politics
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Washington and its allies work to destabilise Lebanon
Part one - Venezuelan TV cuts broadcast after workers challenge Chavez
- Norwegian government report whitewashes Breivik terror attacks
- Ontario’s Liberal government to slash teachers’ wages
- A case of political hypocrisy: An exchange with the French Communist Party on the South African mine massacre
- More letters supporting ballot status for the SEP in Wisconsin
- Letters from our readers
24 August 2012 (front page)
- An exchange on the Chicago Teachers Union
- BHP mine delay signals end of Australian mining boom
- US to expand anti-missile systems in Asia
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns for US presidential candidate’s meetings
- US war threats against Syria as fighting intensifies across Near East
- The unions, the pseudo-left and the South Africa massacre
- French President Hollande meets US-backed Syrian “opposition”
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Pew Research: “Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier: The Lost Decade of the Middle Class”
New poll, data point to vast social polarization in US - Quebec: Thousands protest Liberals’ tuition hikes, user fees and privatization
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Washington and its allies work to destabilise Lebanon
Part two - Two killed in Maryland train derailment
- Russian governor deploys Cossack militia against immigrants
- Pilots union pushes through restructuring plan at Air France
- The struggle at Dundee Engine: A fight for all workers
- Workers should defend teacher tenure!
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
25 August 2012 (front page)
- Australian prime minister under pressure over union corruption allegations
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New Zealand court ruling a setback to the US Megaupload case
- South Africa’s day of mourning fails to stem anger over Marikana massacre
- Pakistani court threatens to disqualify PM
- US SEP presidential candidate begins international tour
- Norwegian mass murderer Breivik sentenced to 21 years
- Dundee Engine Plant workers boycott special union meetings
- German chancellor demands tougher austerity in Greece
- Survey shows continuing hunger across US as Congress prepares to cut food stamps
- Layoff announcements, employment data point to worsening US jobs crisis
- Why Western politicians support Pussy Riot
- German energy company to shed 10,000 jobs despite huge profits
- The US Medicare debate
- SEP wins support in Wisconsin ballot status fight
- Letters from our readers
- A letter on the South African NUM
27 August 2012 (front page)
- Australian government pushes electricity privatisation
- IAEA talks with Iran break down
- Sri Lanka: Colombo public meeting hears US SEP presidential candidate
- Wage cuts hit millions of US workers
- US “Fifty Wealthiest Lawmakers” list: A Congress of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich
- New York police kill gunman, wound nine bystanders in midtown Manhattan
- Egyptian President Mursi seeks IMF loan
- Ten years since Germany’s Hartz IV labor reform
- UK trade unions seek to block wider campaign against care home closures
- US West Nile virus cases double in one week
- Legal Aid forced to lay off 750 workers in US
- Support the Dundee, Michigan Chrysler workers
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Party back extradition of Assange
- American writer and liberal thinker Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
- Searching for Sugar Man: Detroit musician connects with mass audience in South Africa
- This week in history: August 27-September 02
28 August 2012 (front page)
- Lively discussion with US presidential candidate at Colombo meeting
- Australia: Labor loses office in the Northern Territory
- Sri Lankan government shuts universities to break strike
- French President Hollande calls for formation of Syrian opposition government
- Fed minutes point to a bankrupt economic order
- Corporate bribery and political corruption on display at Republican, Democratic conventions
- Death toll in Venezuelan refinery blast rises to 41
- Rising incidence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in South Africa
- Indian government gifts tens of billions to big business through privatization
- German chancellor visits Moldova
- BBC’s Panorama shows how disabled are targeted by government
- Amidst cutbacks in mental health, California hospital faces closure
- SEP candidate campaigns among Chicago teachers
- 100 years since singer Woody Guthrie’s birth
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Standardized testing for five-year-olds
US moves toward two-track education system - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
29 August 2012 (front page)
- US drone attacks escalate inside Pakistan
- Australia: Police attack picketing building workers
- US SEP presidential candidate declines to meet LSSP
- More join South African strike as autopsies show miners were shot in the back
- No prosecution of US troops for defiling Afghan corpses, burning Korans
- Lufthansa cabin crew on strike
- German shipyards face insolvency
- Hurricane Isaac takes aim at US Gulf Coast
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Quebec’s major parties advance rival right-wing agendas
- Islamist thugs attack Tunisian unemployed workers’ protest in Sidi Bouzid
- US, UK and France threaten military intervention against Syria
- Wisconsin board approves ballot access for SEP candidates
- Max Ophuls’s Caught and Edgar Ulmer’s Ruthless: Remarkable postwar films about wealth and power
30 August 2012 (front page)
- HRW report details persecution of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims
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Seven years after the Katrina disaster
Hurricane Isaac pounds Gulf Coast - US SEP presidential candidate speaks with Sri Lankan plantation workers
- Nixon-Whitlam tapes shed light on current Australian rifts over US-China conflict
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Resolutions of the SEP (US) National Congress
Perspectives of the Socialist Equality Party - The tripling of US arms sales
- Republican National Convention: A celebration of reaction
- Israeli court rules army not responsible for Rachel Corrie’s death
- Socialist Party leads polls in Dutch elections
- Right-wing think tank calls for sale of UK council housing
- US appeals court upholds Texas ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood
- Homelessness, social misery on the rise in US capital
- Socialist Equality Party (US) holds National Congress
- Stockton workers support SEP presidential campaign
- Art History with a capital A and H: Art critic and social historian Robert Hughes (1938-2012)
- Letters from our readers
31 August 2012 (front page)
- Five Australian soldiers killed in “worst day” in Afghanistan
- UN Secretary-General: Washington’s emissary at Tehran summit
- Sri Lanka: US SEP presidential candidate speaks in Kegalla
- Latest Australian refugee disaster worsened by slow response
- Romney outlines right-wing agenda in acceptance speech
- France, Turkey push for Syrian no-fly zone at UN
- New York’s Woolworth building to be turned into luxury apartments
- South Africa to prosecute strikers targeted by police massacre at Marikana
- Brazil’s public workers end strike
- Sardinian miners occupy coal mine
- Spain restricts aid to long-term unemployed
- US Justice Department cites abuse of students’ constitutional rights in Mississippi schools
- Hurricane Isaac … and the seven years since Hurricane Katrina
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Resolutions of the SEP (US) National Congress
On the 2012 Election and the SEP Campaign - SEP campaigners in Detroit discuss attacks on jobs, public education
- New fossils support a multiple-species view of early human evolution
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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