Archive: November 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 November 2012 (front page)
- Corruption allegations hit Chinese premier on eve of Communist Party congress
- Record unemployment and indebtedness in Europe
- Fire safety problems in Australia’s tallest apartment block
- France: Socialist Party government bows to business demands for social cuts
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SEP public meeting in New Zealand
The socialist alternative to unemployment, austerity and war - Hurricane Sandy and capitalist “free enterprise”
- South African miners shot dead by security
- Hurricane leaves devastation in its wake
- New York City public housing without lights, heat or water after storm
- Former finance minister confirms France considered leaving euro zone
- The dead-end of Catalan independence
- German Ku Klux Klan founded by state’s intelligence agency
- Likud/Israel Beiteinu bloc prepares ground for war and savage austerity measures
- How to vote for SEP candidates Jerry White and Phyllis Scherrer
- US orchestra musicians face wave of concessions
- Letters from our readers
2 November 2012 (front page)
- Washington seeks new Syrian puppets in war for regime-change
- Defend the Greek working class!
- Growing popular anger as Hurricane Sandy death toll rises to 90
- Food shortages in Brooklyn public housing in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
- Protests in Chinese city halt multi-billion chemical project
- Labor steps up Australian commitment to Afghan war
- UK High Court hears Pakistan drone killing case
- German public services trade union Verdi agrees to wage cuts
- Australia: Job cuts mount amid signs of stalling growth
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The dead-end of Catalan independence
Part two - A socialist policy for the victims of Hurricane Sandy
- Cloud Atlas: Six stories in search of a genuine connection
- Nurses in California go on one-day strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
3 November 2012 (front page)
- Anger boils over at lack of US storm relief
- In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: Aid for Coney Island too little and too late
- Hurricane Sandy reveals deepening health, political crises in Caribbean countries
- Report shows tepid jobs growth, falling wages in US
- UK Conservative coalition suffers defeat on European Union funding
- Greek journalist acquitted for leaking list of wealthy potential tax dodgers
- Clinton visit to Algeria prepares war in Mali
- Drilling company fined negligible sum for safety breaches in New Zealand mine disaster
- New ethnic violence in Burma’s Rakhine state
- Wave of infections hits neonatal unit at Berlin’s Charité hospital
- A new turn in the euro zone financial crisis
- SEP candidate Jerry White speaks to Chrysler workers in Detroit
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
5 November 2012 (front page)
- US presidential campaign comes to an end
- China’s leadership change
- Philippine government implements two-tier wages
- SEP candidate Phyllis Scherrer campaigns among NYC workers in aftermath of hurricane
- Australian detainees in hunger strike on Nauru
- Millions still without power as temperature nears freezing in Eastern US
- New York’s Staten Island hit with death and destruction
- Unions collude in repression as South Africa’s strike wave ebbs
- French conservatives propose right-wing protests against social-democratic government
- Germany: Opel auto plant on brink of closure
- Italy’s ex-premier Berlusconi convicted of tax fraud
- Rochester, N.Y.: Kodak cutting health benefits for 56,000 retirees
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Resolution of the SEP Conferences
Build the Socialist Equality Party! - This week in history: November 5-11
- Lecture on Sri Lankan SEP’s historical and international foundations
6 November 2012 (front page)
- Job cuts deepen throughout Australian auto industry
- One week after Hurricane Sandy, human crisis and class tensions grow
- WSWS to provide live commentary on US elections
- Murdoch’s Australian holds conference promoting austerity and pro-business “reform”
- The class issues in the 2012 elections
- Philippine anti-mining activist arrested for Facebook posting
- Sri Lankan government moves to impeach chief justice
- US-backed Syrian “rebels” in disarray at Qatar conference
- Dutch grand coalition agrees on austerity programme
- London Fire Brigade proposes closing a quarter of its stations
- Death penalty and three-strikes law on California ballot
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP candidate Phyllis Scherrer campaigns among Brooklyn College students
- “The two parties are both beholden to Wall Street”
- SEP Midwest regional conference advances socialist alternative in 2012 elections
- Letters from our readers
- International Socialist Organization promotes Clinton’s new strategy against Syria
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012
A comment from Robert Connolly, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story - The future study of hurricanes at risk
7 November 2012 (front page)
- Obama wins reelection
- SEP campaigns on US Election Day
- Anti-austerity strike brings Greece to a halt
- French social democrats adopt new cuts after accepting pro-austerity Gallois report
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Arguments in Supreme Court warrantless spying case
Obama administration asserts unchecked powers - Chinese Communist Party congress preceded by expulsions
- Australian government critics express fears of an Asian war
- Lithuanian voters punish conservative government for austerity measures
- Iceland holds referendum on new constitution
- Peruvian government crushes riots in Lima market
- Tuition rises in Washington state
- California: Pension fund brings lawsuit against Compton
- Hillary Clinton’s “democracy” for Syria
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En Lucha’s Andy Durgan: Historical distortions to justify political betrayal of Spanish workers
Part one - Oddisee’s Traveling Man: Globalized society through the lens of a hip hop artist
8 November 2012 (front page)
- Chinese Communist Party congress: An oligarchic gathering
- Greek parliament approves drastic austerity plan amid mass strikes
- Greens enter government in Australian Capital Territory
- The disillusioned and dissatisfied electorate
- Another fatal train crash in Australia
- After election, Obama moves to slash social spending
- New storm hits US Northeast as misery from Sandy deepens
- Ontario teachers’ unions seek concessions deal
- Massive cuts to emergency health care in northwest London
- UK: Rotherham the scene of second state-organised provocation
- France’s Merah affair: New questions emerge on Toulouse killings
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En Lucha’s Andy Durgan: Historical distortions to justify political betrayal of Spanish workers
Part two
9 November 2012 (front page)
- Obama champions “grand bargain” to slash entitlement programs
- Growth forecasts slashed as Europe sinks deeper into crisis
- What way forward for workers in Greece?
- Chinese president’s speech points to uncertainty and crises ahead
- Asia Europe Meeting in Laos marked by economic and strategic tensions
- French CGT union chooses new leader
- UK backs down on accused hacker Gary McKinnon’s extradition to US
- L’Aquila, Italy earthquake: Long sentences for seismologists
- Qantas Australia sacks another 500 maintenance engineers
- Spokane Symphony Orchestra musicians on strike
- The Nation magazine and Obama’s reelection
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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En Lucha’s Andy Durgan: Historical distortions to justify political betrayal of Spanish workers
Part three -
SEP (Australia) public meeting and film screening
The historical and contemporary political significance of the 1917 Russian Revolution
10 November 2012 (front page)
- Obama spells out austerity agenda for second term
- Australia’s worsening housing affordability crisis
- Obama intensifies “pivot” to Asia
- New Zealand mine disaster inquiry whitewashes government
- US elections leave House and Senate balance nearly unchanged
- Strikes continue in Greece
- Man detained in Somalia is stripped of UK citizenship for refusing to spy on Muslims
- Hunger strike continues in Australian refugee detention centre on Nauru
- US Army hearing begins into March 2012 Afghan atrocity
- Massachusetts official fired for ignoring complaints against meningitis-linked pharmacy
- A major shift in the global economy
- French NPA offers “anti-imperialist” rationale for imperialist intervention in Syria
- SEP publishes 2012 perspectives resolution in Spanish
- Defence of the National Health Service demands a new socialist strategy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Flight: A pilot saves the day, but not himself
- Letters from our readers
12 November 2012 (front page)
- Infrastructure Australia calls for privatisation of public assets
- US claims Iran tried to shoot down drone
- Sri Lankan security forces kill dozens of prison inmates
- Israel launches missile strike against Syria
- The Petraeus affair
- Charges of evidence tampering at South African mine massacre inquiry
- US Supreme Court to consider challenge to 1965 Voting Rights Act
- Anger erupts over continuing power outages two weeks after Hurricane Sandy
- Thousands line up at Chicago job fair for less than 60 positions
- Mau-Mau verdict exposes crimes of British imperialism in Kenya
- Obama’s post-election pivot to austerity and war
- Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and the historical drama of the Civil War
- This week in history: November 12-18
13 November 2012 (front page)
- Euro zone finance ministers demand deeper cuts in Greece, Europe
- Philippine “left” quarrels over election
- Obama loan repayment scheme maintains crushing debt burden on students
- After the US election, Syria war threats mount
- Philippine “left” quarrels over election
- Australian government prepares “transition” for Solomon Islands intervention
- US criticises Sri Lanka at UN Human Rights Council
- Belgium: 20,000 protest against closure of Ford plant in Genk
- Urban Shield exercises in Boston test police-state tactics
- Scandal forces UK Labour MP Denis MacShane to resign
- “Many could have been tortured to death,” charges lawyer for jailed Maruti Suzuki India workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
14 November 2012 (front page)
- Union leaders meet with Obama, back austerity drive against workers
- What is the “fiscal cliff”?
- Top US commander in Afghanistan implicated in Petraeus probe
- Beijing’s phony campaign for social equality
- SYRIZA leader Tsipras offers his services to the troika
- French Greens, Stalinists staggered by President Hollande’s unpopularity
- Ohio carries out third execution since lifting of moratorium
- Australian government asks High Court to curb free speech rights
- Unemployment surges in New Zealand
- The way forward in the struggle against austerity in Europe
- The political lessons of the Sri Lankan university teachers’ strike
- India: Thousands protest victimization of Maruti Suzuki workers
- Concessions imposed on Chicago-area teachers
15 November 2012 (front page)
- US-Australian ministerial talks boost military ties
- Mass demonstrations in Spain, Portugal, Italy against austerity and unemployment
- Deepening economic crisis in Japan
- Sri Lankan government unveils charges against chief justice
- Israel launches offensive against Gaza
- Leaked “grand bargain” document details Obama's plan for cuts in entitlement programs
- Army pre-trial hearing into March 2012 Afghan massacre concludes
- Survivors describe bloodbath in Afghan atrocity
- Two weeks after Hurricane Sandy: Hoboken, New Jersey residents seek aid
- Additional education cuts on horizon after passage of California tax proposition
- US: Hostess to close three plants as strikes continue
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A comment and an interview with filmmaker Minda Martin
Free Land: American dreams and realities - Letters from our readers
16 November 2012 (front page)
- Chinese Communist Party unveils new leadership
- Japanese prime minister calls snap election
- The class issues in the “fiscal cliff”
- Labour MP blames workers for New Zealand mine disaster
- Nearly 50 million living in poverty in US
- Israel masses troops on Gaza border as bombardment intensifies
- South African farm workers’ strikes inspired by events at Marikana
- Spanish unions abandon miners prosecuted during 2010 strikes
- Parti Québecois to deliver austerity budget
- German-based Siemens announces austerity programme
- Where the International Socialist Organization stands on the 2012 election results
- The SEP vote in the 2012 elections
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
17 November 2012 (front page)
- Residents voice concerns about fire safety at Bankstown apartment
- Financial elite demands deeper spending cuts in Australia
- Ford Australia sacks 210 workers
- Israel calls up 75,000 troops as bombing continues in Gaza
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- West African states prepare intervention in Mali
- Obama begins bipartisan talks on spending cuts
- BP settles for $4.5 billion in federal criminal charges
- The troika calls for further cuts in Greece
- Hostess to liquidate in wake of strike by US bakery union
- Strike, protests belie Haitian government’s free education claims
- French Socialist Party’s Aubry charged over asbestos poisoning
- Rent strike threat after deaths at storm-ravaged New York housing complex
- Poverty and the American two-party system
- Letters from our readers
19 November 2012 (front page)
- Australian government announces inquiry into institutional child sex abuse
- For a European-wide struggle to defend auto jobs
- Canadian government proposing draconian criminal sanctions for masked protesters
- Death toll mounts from Israeli air strikes in Gaza
- New York Times acknowledges conspiracy of silence over “fiscal cliff”
- Deadly oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico
- China’s new leadership—a regime of crisis
- Petraeus resignation fuels political warfare over Benghazi attack
- Nauru refugee hunger striker taken to hospital
- Scotland’s health inequality worst in Europe
- Germany’s long-standing thalidomide scandal
- Michigan voters reject union-backed constitutional amendment
- Washington, DC chancellor announces closures of dozens of public schools
- This week in history: November 19-25
- Artifact: A musician’s struggle against a giant corporation
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A new “irrepressible conflict”
SEP holds post-election meeting in New York
20 November 2012 (front page)
- Australian government proposes new “Accord” between business and unions
- Obama’s trip intensifies US push into South East Asia
- Philippine mayor calls for extrajudicial killing
- Australia: Coroner criticises police over Brazilian student’s death
- Stop the massacre in Gaza!
- German federal prosecutor brings charges against neo-Nazi terrorist
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“There are a lot of people here who need help”
Thousands line up for winter coat distribution in Detroit - In advance of Hurricane Sandy, New York warned on vulnerable infrastructure
- Murray Energy lays off 160 miners in response to Obama’s reelection
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Drone squadron planned for Niagara Falls Air Force base
- University of Illinois graduate assistants authorize strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
21 November 2012 (front page)
- Israel continues blitz against Gaza amid truce talks
- Tensions at ASEAN summit over South China Sea
- China’s new leaders: Profiles of oligarchs
- South African farm workers’ strike spreads
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Firefighter says budget cuts are “killing people.”
Elderly couple dies in Detroit fire - SEC announces settlement with JPMorgan over mortgage fraud
- Thousands of miners to lose health care, pensions in Patriot Coal bankruptcy
- Sri Lankan president presents austerity budget
- California state police to deploy in Stockton
- Hostess bankruptcy: The brutal face of American capitalism
- The Law in These Parts: Israeli military justice in the Occupied Territories
22 November 2012 (front page)
- Clinton outlines global US economic offensive
- US and Egypt announce ceasefire in Israeli assault on Gaza
- French President Hollande’s prime-time speech promises austerity, war
- Former leading member of Tamil nationalist LTTE assassinated in Paris
- Nurses in California go on two-day strike
- LTTE officials work with Sri Lankan government after civil war
- Greece in the grip of the EU
- Australian government intensifies anti-refugee policy
- Sicily elects new regional president
- France’s conservative UMP faces split after leadership race
- Australia: Students and staff protest University of Western Sydney cuts
- The “Black Friday” protests at WalMart
- Judge approves Hostess liquidation, eliminating 15,000 jobs
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“This is a case of corporate harvesting”
Striking Hostess workers speak
23 November 2012 (front page)
- Push for pro-market reform after Chinese Communist Party congress
- A significant report on the global economy
- European Union budget talks deadlock
- Moody’s downgrades French debt rating, presses for austerity in Europe
- Egypt’s President Mursi claims vast new executive powers
- UK: NHS Trust quits South West Pay Consortium after unions agree cuts
- Nurses in California go on two-day strike
- Bombardment of Gaza portends further criminal wars in Middle East
- Australian government pushes for energy privatisation
- Big business applauds Quebec budget
- Sorry at New York’s Public Theater: American liberals on Election Day
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Book Review: Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History
An exercise in myth-making - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- IMF steps up pressure on Romanian government prior to election
- Holiday savings from Mehring Books
24 November 2012 (front page)
- China: Homeless children found dead in rubbish bin
- Mass protests erupt in Egypt against Mursi’s antidemocratic decrees
- Japan’s election dominated by right-wing nationalism
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Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History by Jenny Hocking
An exercise in myth-making - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israeli forces break Gaza ceasefire as Netanyahu outlines his political calculations
- US spy agencies edited Benghazi “talking points”
- UK unions and Socialist Party isolate striking Mid Yorkshire NHS workers
- Germany’s Green Party backs the European Union
- Ontario high school teachers union accepts concessions
- Chicago Transit Authority proposes large fare hike
- The social crisis in the US
- Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on Historical and International Foundations document
26 November 2012 (front page)
- Worst factory fire in Bangladeshi history
- Twenty years since Deng Xiaoping’s “Southern tour”
- Obama administration pushes ahead with drone killings
- The way forward in Egypt
- The New York Times continues its campaign: Breast cancer screenings cause more harm than good
- South African farmworkers speak on issues in strike
- Massive job losses in UK’s National Health Service
- SYRIZA leader visits Barcelona to prop up Greens and Stalinists
- Protests hit Walmart stores
- German defence minister promotes militarism
- This week in history: November 26-December 2
- The Man with the Iron Fists: Reactionary Kung-Fu
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An exercise in myth-making
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History by Jenny Hocking
27 November 2012 (front page)
- Garment workers protest after Bangladeshi fire
- Australia: Safety experts discuss Bankstown apartment fire
- China’s leadership announces new anti-corruption campaign
- Twenty years since Deng Xiaoping’s “Southern tour”—Part 2
- Mass protest against Mursi set for Egypt’s Tahrir Square
- The “fiscal cliff” fraud
- Separatist parties dominate Catalan election results
- Rebel soldiers advance in Congo
- ISO paves way for Chicago school closures
- Hurricane Sandy and the criminal failure of the utility companies
- Under threat of bankruptcy, Detroit escalates assault on working class
- Protest against austerity measures in Slovenia
- Report to the Second National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
- The growing impact and dangers of global warming
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
28 November 2012 (front page)
- Mass protests against Egyptian President Mursi
- No debt reduction for Greece
- Bradley Manning hearing focuses on unlawful pre-trial punishment
- Chinese journalist arrested for reporting homeless children’s deaths
- Australian prime minister defeated on UN vote
- Union corruption scandal plagues Australian PM
- Irish unions make show of opposition to new austerity measures
- Britain: Soup kitchens become part of mainstream welfare provision
- Portland, Oregon port union accepts concessions contract
- The brutal face of global capitalism
29 November 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Victorian teachers’ union abandons wage claim
- US fiscal cliff talks target the working class
- Australia: High-rise crane collapses on building site
- Report highlights UN “failure” in Sri Lanka
- OECD warns of lower growth, increased unemployment
- Germany: Fire at workshop for the disabled kills 14
- German Pirate Party sets sail to the right
- Rotherham by-election in Britain
- National Union of Students organises token London protest
- Hostess unions line up with Wall Street asset strippers
- Judge orders dismissal of Toronto's right-wing populist mayor
- Austerity without end
- Illinois graduate assistants’ union attempts to force through sellout contract
- Now available from Mehring Books: Russian Revolutionary Posters by David King
- Silver Linings Playbook: It’s the little things in life …
- Letters from our readers
30 November 2012 (front page)
- Australian opposition leader under pressure after accusing PM of criminality
- Egypt’s proposed constitution enshrines dictatorial powers and military rule
- New Japanese party formed to capitalise on anti-nuclear sentiment
- After the elections: Obama escalates war drive in the Middle East
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“The eight-hour day is a thing of the past”
UAW sanctions “alternative” work schedule at Chrysler - Detroit bankruptcy threats escalate as bonds are downgraded
- Bradley Manning testifies on his detention
- Psychiatrists testify on military mistreatment of Bradley Manning
- Brandenburg teachers protest state education policies
- Comet failure highlights UK retail jobs crisis
- Washington, D.C. parents and teachers oppose school closings, charter schools
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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