8 February 2010
Portugal: Public sector workers protest pay freeze
By Paul Mitchell, 8 February 2010
Last Friday, tens of thousands of Portugal’s public sector workers demonstrated in Lisbon against a planned wage freeze.
Obama budget threatens funding for poor school districts
By Kate Randall, 8 February 2010
The Obama administration’s 2011 budget proposal contains sweeping changes to funding for primary and secondary education, in particular altering the distribution of funds for poor and working class school districts.
Spanish Communist Party seeks to re-found United Left
By Alejandro López and Paul Mitchell, 8 February 2010
The Spanish Communist Party (PCE) is seeking to re-found the crisis-ridden United Left (Izquierda Unida), which it set up in 1986.
Sri Lankan government purges the military
By Sarath Kumara, 8 February 2010
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse is purging the military and police hierarchies of supporters of his rival, General Sarath Fonseka.
US-China tensions continue over Google
By John Chan, 8 February 2010
The Obama administration is using Google’s hacking and censorship allegations as part of a broader push to intensify pressure on Beijing.
Russian economic crisis fuels political tensions
By Andrea Peters, 8 February 2010
The Russian economy declined dramatically over the course of 2009, according to recently released data from the federal statistics service.
US youth unemployment soars
By Nancy Hanover, 8 February 2010
Even prior to the current economic crisis, today’s young adults were on average poorer and more in debt than their parents. Since the economic meltdown began in 2008, however, conditions facing young people have taken a sharp turn for the worse.
New in Russian
Успешная презентация книги В защиту Льва Троцкого в книжном магазине Gleebooks в Сиднее
От нашего корреспондента, 8 февраля 2010 г.
Более 150 человек собралось в книжном магазине Gleebooks ("Глибукс") в Сиднее 3 февраля этого года для того, чтобы присутствовать на презентации работы Дэвида Норта В защиту Льва Троцкого: Ответ на фальсификации Роберта Сервиса (In Defence of Leon Trotsky: A Reply to the Falsifications of Robert Service), опубликованной издательством Mehring Books.
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France : la mission parlementaire prône l'interdiction de la burqa
Par //Kumaran Ira, 8 février 2010
Après avoir délibéré pendant six mois, la mission parlementaire sur la burqa chargée d'enquêter sur une interdiction de la burqa, ou du niqab, a rendu son rapport qui recommande le vote d'une loi qui rende illégal le port du vêtement dans toute administration gérée par l'Etat.
Conflits politiques internes au Sri Lanka : la rivalité entre les Etats-Unis et la Chine
Par Peter Symonds, 8 février 2010
Dans la foulée de l’élection présidentielle de mardi, Colombo est devenu un véritable foyer d’intrigue et de rumeurs. Loin de mettre un terme à la bagarre électorale, l’élection a pavé la voie à une instabilité croissante.
Perspective
After the defeat in Massachusetts, Democrats lurch to the right
8 February 2010
In the three weeks since the special election to the US Senate in Massachusetts, the party which controls the White House and has huge majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives has bowed and scraped before the minority Republican Party.
Socialist Equality Party
Sri Lankan SEP establishes trilingual web site
5 February 2010
The SEP has converted its presidential election web site into a permanent party site in the country’s three main languages—English, Sinhala and Tamil.
This Week in History: February 1 - February 7
With parliamentary elections approaching, South Korea's leading dissident, Kim Dae-jung, and an entourage of 30 American supporters—including two US Congressmen—were roughed up on their arrival at Seoul's airport. Kim was immediately placed under house arrest. Members of the American delegation said that Kim was beaten and that they too were manhandled by dozens of plainclothes police. The South Korean government had banned all media from the area.
50 years ago: France tests first atomic bomb
On February 13, 1960, France detonated a 70 kiloton nuclear bomb in the atmosphere over Algeria's southern Sahara, not far from Mali and Mauritania. "Gerboise bleue," as Paris dubbed the explosion, announced France had joined the US, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom as a nuclear-armed state.
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini this week in 1935 dispatched two divisions, numbering up to 35,000 soldiers, accompanied by heavy artillery and at least 50 planes to the border area between Ethiopia and Italian-Somalia. Three warships were also stationed off the Horn of Africa in preparation for a full scale invasion of one of the last two independent African states.
The Socialist Party of Germany (SPD) held hundreds of rallies across Germany on February 13, 1910, to protest against the perpetuation of the Prussian three-class franchise, which stipulated that the wealthiest voters would have out-sized representation in the Reichstag, the German parliament.
Workers Struggles
Anger toward UAW erupts at California auto workers meeting
By Tom Eley, 6 February 2010
Outrage among workers at the NUMMI plant in Fremont, California, toward the United Auto Workers exploded at a January 24 meeting discussing the slated closure of the factory, which will cost some 5,000 jobs.
Commentary
US to launch Fallujah-style attack in Afghanistan
6 February 2010
As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war.
What’s at stake in the Canadian intervention in Afghanistan?
By Richard Dufour, 6 February 2010
The Harper government’s suspension of parliament, an act carried out to try to hide the brutal reality of the Canadian Armed Forces’ “Afghan Mission,” underscores the close connection between the growth of militarism and the threat to the democratic rights.
Sovereign debt fears signal new stage of global crisis
By Barry Grey, 6 February 2010
Stock markets in Europe and Asia fell sharply Friday in the second day of a near-panic selloff fueled by fears that the debt crisis facing weaker European economies will throw the world economy into a “double-dip” recession.
Videos and Images
Family members denounce deaths in Detroit fire
Detroit teachers speak out against DFT Contract
Handful of jobs offered at Detroit jobs fair
Thousands line up for Swine Flu vaccine in Michigan
Ford workers speak on contract rejection
Ford workers speak out against concessions contract
50,000 line up for housing assistance in Detroit
ISSE members speak on education cuts at rally
Detroit residents speak on utility bills, social crisis
Michigan’s Oakland University faculty strike has student support
Detroit teachers denounce pay cuts
Detroit city workers oppose concessions, layoffs
Interviews at Los Angeles health care clinic
Workers continue Vestas occupation on Isle of Wight
A conversation with Windsor municipal workers
NYC workers speak against cuts in social services
Flint, Michigan and the bankruptcy of General Motors
GM workers on bankruptcy and plant closings
Michigan auto workers and families speak on plant closures
GM workers speak out on concessions contract
Protesting students and parents speak to the WSWS
Chrysler workers speak on concessions vote
UK Visteon workers speak on occupation
GM and Chrysler workers oppose more concessions
Chrysler workers oppose Obama auto plan
WSWS interviews G20 protesters in London
Pontiac residents speak on schools crisis
Workers interviewed at Detroit jobs fair
Ford workers: “Now the fight is with our own union.”
GM workers denounce concession demands 
Chrysler workers oppose pay cuts, concession demands
Over 100,000 demonstrate in London against Sri Lankan war
Funeral for Michigan man frozen following utility shut-off
Exposing Franco's mass graves
Bay City, Michigan residents speak on death from utility shut-off
WSWS interviews London protesters
London demonstrators protest Israeli assault on Gaza
Chrysler workers denounce pay cuts
The Writer and Revolution: A conversation with Trevor Griffiths
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