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Archive: April 2010

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 April 2010 (front page)

• US escalates threats against Iran
• Obama opens US coastlines for oil drilling
• Another Chinese coal mining tragedy
• “Left Alliance” defeated in Italian regional elections
• Britain: Legal challenge to planned Network Rail strike
• Election violence ahead of Sri Lankan poll
• UAW membership continues to plummet
• Attend the WSWS/SEP Emergency Conference!
• Obama’s Afghan visit: laying down the law to a US puppet
• David North to speak on May 5 at the University of Oxford
  Political Biography and the Historical Lie: An Examination of Robert Service’s Trotsky

2 April 2010 (front page)

• After French regional election victory
  Socialist Party leaders call for austerity policies
• Top US hedge fund managers took in $25.3 billion
• Washington asserts colonial-style control of Haiti at UN donors’ conference
• Ahmadinejad retreats in clash over Iran’s budget
  Slashing of subsidies to begin
• Australia: Media demands stricter health care “rationing”
• Virginia: Hampton Roads schools face major budget cuts
• A week of coal mine disasters in China
• Sri Lanka: The TNA and the program of “self determination”
• Unions isolate struggle at British Airways
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

3 April 2010 (front page)

• March jobs report points to protracted US downturn
• The “paradigm shift” in German foreign policy
• Google shuts down search services in China
• Spanish airport strikers given two-year probationary sentences
• Former IAEA chief: Iraq war killed “a million innocent civilians”
• Life imprisonment for SS man Heinrich Boere
• Australia: Students boycott farcical NUS “Day of Action”
• Refinery explosion in Washington state kills three, wounds four
• Public Meeting
  Findings of the Citizens Inquiry into Dexter Avenue Fire
• Detroit firefighter speaks before Dexter Avenue Inquiry
• Greenberg: Not the most important problems in life
• Letters from our readers
• “Rajapakse’s era not golden for us”—Sri Lankan plantation workers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

5 April 2010 (front page)

• Britain: Unofficial general election campaign underway
• Pakistan battered by inflation, anemic growth and power cuts
• Sri Lankan government campaigns to entrench autocratic powers
• British High Court blocks rail strike
• Australian government to ration diabetes care
• Parents, students, teachers speak out against Detroit school closures
• Tensions mount between Washington and its puppet in Kabul
• Video: Head of legal services nonprofit speaks before Dexter Avenue Inquiry
• Music review: Yonder Is the Clock by the Felice Brothers
• This week in history: April 5-April 11
• A letter on the closure of two schools in Ypsilanti, Michigan
• “8 Mile”: images from a Papua New Guinea shanty town

6 April 2010 (front page)

• Socialist Equality Party Manifesto for the 2010 British general election
• The international significance of the Sri Lankan election
• West Virginia mine disaster kills 25, 4 missing
• US Special Forces covered up massacre of Afghans
  Preparations advance for assault on Kandahar
• Federal judge slams Obama administration lawyers’ defense of illegal wiretapping
• Australia’s wealthiest executives “back in the money”
• Quebec budget attacks Medicare and other vital public services
• Toledo, Ohio to impose further cuts on employees
• Shostakovich’s The Nose finds its way to the opera stage
• Oppose furloughs and all school cuts! For a working class movement to defend public education!
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

7 April 2010 (front page)

• 25 dead, 4 missing, in West Virginia mine explosion
  CEO flouted safety procedures
• Background to the West Virginia mine disaster
  Massey Energy and the United Mine Workers union
• Leaked video shows US military killing of two Iraqi journalists
• Obama nominates cost-cutting advocate as Medicare and Medicaid chief
• Anti-government protests continue in Thailand
• Moscow underground bombings linked to crisis in North Caucasus
• China’s growing social polarisation
• New York City forum denounces FBI entrapment of Muslims in US
• No economic recovery for the working class
• Sri Lankan SEP holds final election meeting

8 April 2010 (front page)

• Details emerge of deadly conditions prior to West Virginia mine explosion
• Obama orders assassination of US citizen
• Kyrgyz government falls
• New US nuclear doctrine targets Iran, North Korea
• Greece moves to borrow from Wall Street
• Indian Stalinists’ “jail bharo”: a political stunt
• China maintains discriminatory measures against rural migrants
• New Zealand government imposes economic austerity measures
• Sri Lankan election: Vote for the Socialist Equality Party
• Latest edition of Perspectives now available
  Special offer for subscribers
• Following exposure of military massacre in Iraq
  The New York Times fingers whistleblower WikiLeaks
• Letters from our readers

9 April 2010 (front page)

• Struggle for power continues in Kyrgyzstan
• As federal officials downplay safety violations by Massey Energy
  Rescue attempt suspended at West Virginia mine
• West Virginia workers speak on mine disaster
• Britain: Election campaign focuses on economy
• A tense election day in Sri Lanka
• Thai government imposes state of emergency, but protests continue
• Australia: Greens-backed minority Labor government installed in Tasmania
• The West Virginia mine disaster and the collapse of the United Mine Workers
• From the catalog of Mehring Books
  Death on the Picket Line: The Story of John McCoy
  History of US miners’ struggles brought to life
• New study demands sweeping cuts, privatization for Detroit
• Defence Minister Guttenberg: Germany at war in Afghanistan
• New York Times distorts research on statin drug therapy
• Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meetings: General Election 2010
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

10 April 2010 (front page)

• Iraq’s communal, anti-democratic election
• The West Virginia mine tragedy
  Miners doomed by collusion between regulators and coal companies
• Four more miners found dead in West Virginia explosion
  Miners speak to WSWS on unsafe conditions
• Kyrgyz opposition struggles to consolidate power
• US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to retire in June
• Right wing expected to win election in Hungary this weekend
• Canada’s security forces refuse to release their files on long dead CCF-NDP leader
• DTE profits soar in first quarter
• US Supreme Court deals further blow to separation of church and state
• Boston Public Library trustees vote to close four branches
• Los Angeles faces insolvency
• Thousands in Detroit face utility shut-offs with end of “winter protection plan”
• South Korea: Kumho Tire workers reject sell-out agreement
• Miners speak on safety violations at Upper Big Branch Mine
• Sri Lankan election result sets stage for class conflict
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters from our readers

12 April 2010 (front page)

• Thai military crackdown on anti-government protest leaves 21 dead
• Emergency bailout plan for Greece: A new stage in world economic crisis
• Deadliest US mine disaster in nearly 40 years
  Families begin to bury 29 killed in West Virginia explosion
• Polish President Lech Kaczynski dies in plane crash
• Sri Lanka: A revealing breach of the constitution
• Franco-Italian summit makes strategic deals, calls for bailout of Greece
• Murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche destabilises South Africa
• Australian government suspends refugee applications
• French President Sarkozy’s visit to Rwanda
• Joined Trotskyist movement in early 1970s
  The life and career of actor Corin Redgrave
• The second stage of the global capitalist crisis
• This week in history: April 12-April 18

13 April 2010 (front page)

• Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue fire: Utility Shutoffs and the social crisis in Detroit
  Findings of the Commission
• Slideshow: The Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster
• Slideshow: The Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster
• Washington nuclear conference promotes US campaign against Iran, North Korea
• Ireland: Public sector unions agree four-year strike ban
• US troops attack Afghan bus, killing four and wounding 18
• More evidence of violations in West Virginia mine explosion
• Sri Lankan writer arrested for offending Buddhism
• China sentences Rio Tinto executives to lengthy jail terms
• Australian government releases final terms of health takeover
• IMF head dictates terms to Romania
• Repo Men lingers on all the wrong things
• Polish president Lech Kaczynski (1949–2010)—from Solidarity advisor to right-wing politician
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

14 April 2010 (front page)

• Thai government shaky as mass protests continue
• Mine disaster exposes the brutal reality of American capitalism
• Dexter Avenue inquiry announces findings
• Right wing wins large majority in Hungarian election
• Britain: Another legal Rubicon—“juryless trials”
• Hundreds killed in Rio de Janeiro mudslides
• Gujarat Chief Minister interrogated about his role in 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom
• Australian teachers’ union makes empty threat to boycott NAPLAN testing
• To workers at closed Clairoix tire plant
  France: Continental offers €137-a-month jobs in Tunisia
• Report cites staggering level of US maternal mortality
• Manchester Central: A picture of poverty and social deprivation
• Oxford East: Industrial decline and rising unemployment
• “Crime is common. Logic is rare”: Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes
• Fabcon workers in Minnesota fight company attacks
• Philippine port workers sold out by unions

15 April 2010 (front page)

• Earthquake hits impoverished Chinese region
• The class struggle in Thailand
• US Fed chief demands austerity plan
• Federal regulatory system sanctions deadly conditions in US mines
• Catholic Church in crisis over sexual abuse reports
• Britain: Observer exposes police spy in the Socialist Party
• Harlem School of the Arts shuts down in face of financial crisis
• New York, New Jersey governors tie school aid to teachers’ concessions
• Canada: Vale-Inco strike now longest in Sudbury Basin history
• State repression beats back Jammu and Kashmir public sector strike
• Detroit meeting indicts DTE in fatal house fires
  Committee formed to broaden struggle against shutoffs
• Letters from our readers
• Australia: Unions to collaborate in Australia Post restructuring

16 April 2010 (front page)

• US pushes for new sanctions against Iran
• Britain’s Liberal Democrats warn of “Greek-style” unrest
• US jobless benefit filings, foreclosures up sharply
• JPMorgan Chase profits jump 55 percent in first quarter of 2010
• Whitewash of mine disaster being prepared
  Who is Davitt McAteer?
• The rescue at China’s Wangjialing mine
• Australia: Miner killed at BHP Billiton nickel mine
• German chancellor’s military adviser a sympathiser of Nazi jurist
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

17 April 2010 (front page)

• Britain’s Party Leaders Debate: An exercise in political engineering
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Sri Lanka’s low voter turnout: A sign of coming class battles
• Bush CIA head agreed to destruction of torture videotapes
• Thai government prepares new crackdown on protests
• As prices of steel-making coal rose sharply
  Massey drove up production prior to West Virginia mine disaster
• Signs of discontent as China’s earthquake toll rises
• Kyrgyz president flees country
• German air traffic controllers prepare strike
• Severe tropical storm strikes eastern India
• Referee throws out case against Sylvia Young
  Detroit mother lost three children in house fire
• Welcome from France: A compassionate exposure of anti-immigrant measures
• An interview with Philippe Lioret, director of Welcome
• A letter on “The life and career of actor Corin Redgrave”
• Britain: Official parties pledge austerity, cuts, militarism and war

19 April 2010 (front page)

• Following death of Kaczynski, great powers vie for influence in Poland
• No agreement at Madrid summit on measures for Greek crisis
• The Goldman Sachs indictment
• Britain: What exactly is the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition?
• Liberian students protest increase in university fees
• Sri Lankan government revives law to suppress student protests
• Four more German soldiers killed in Afghanistan
• Australia’s two-speed economy: the reality behind the “new golden age”
• SEP Emergency Conference advances strategy for struggle against social crisis and war
• A significant contribution to an understanding of Permanent Revolution
  Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record edited and translated by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido. (Brill, 2009).
• Video: SEP participates in Oxford East hustings on electoral reform
• This week in history: April 19-April 25
• Scotrail strike isolated by RMT, attacked by SNP government

20 April 2010 (front page)

• Fallout from Goldman Sachs indictment spreads
• Rumblings of new war in the Middle East
• Volcanic ash cloud leaves hundreds of thousands stranded in Europe
• How France’s ex-left betrays the undocumented workers’ strike
• Report highlights escalating social and political tensions in Hong Kong
• Ireland: Quinn Insurance in administration
• CIA, State Department role in Operation Condor
  New documents link Kissinger, Bush senior to Letelier assassination
• Australian government to reopen remote refugee detention camp
• Resolution of Conference on Social Crisis & War
  For an emergency jobs program! For the nationalization of the banks and the redistribution of wealth!
• Resolution of Conference on Social Crisis & War
  On Detroit fires and the West Virginia mine explosion
• Britain: SEP candidate Robert Skelton speaks at Manchester Stop the War Coalition hustings
• Britain: SEP candidate responds to written questions from Manchester Stop The War Coalition
• Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète: An extreme case of making a virtue out of necessity
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Indian Telecom workers commence national strike
• Letters from our readers

21 April 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Academics’ union makes key concessions at University of Western Sydney
• Australia: Greens form coalition state government with Labor
• Greek strikes, debt crisis intensify fears of economic collapse
• Withdraw all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan!
• The house fires in Detroit and the West Virginia mine disaster
• Mounting international impact of European air traffic crisis
• Canada subcontracted torture of Afghan detainees
• Military menaces anti-government protesters in Thailand
• Political instability continues in Kyrgyzstan after president flees
• Sri Lankan defence secretary proposes further security laws
• Britain: What will a 20 percent cut in public spending mean for workers?
• French government prepares new pension cuts
• Indian government suffers reversal in its war on Maoists and tribals
• WSWS verifies Massey’s threat to fire miners who took off work to attend funerals
• Video: Mother of young children killed in Detroit house fire speaks
• Resolution of Conference on Social Crisis & War
  Break with the Democrats and Republicans! For an independent socialist movement of the working class!
• Emergency Conference attendees speak to the World Socialist Web Site
• For the international unity of the working class!
• Socialist Equality Party receives warm response in Manchester and Oxford

22 April 2010 (front page)

• Break with the Democrats and Republicans! For an independent socialist movement of the working class!
• Indian telecom unions sell out major strike
• Layoff notices sent to thousands of US teachers
• The European air traffic crisis
• Blaming the victims of fatal house fires
  Detroit News runs to the aid of DTE Energy
• Eleven workers missing after Louisiana oil rig explosion
• The return of German militarism: Colonel Klein goes unpunished
• Britain: Details of hundreds of students handed to CIA
• The Scottish Socialist Party: Cheerleaders for nationalism
• Pakistani air strike kills more than 70 civilians
• Australia: State Labor governments sign on to Rudd’s regressive health agenda
• New York’s St. Vincent’s Hospital announces closure
• SEIU chief Andrew Stern to resign
• Students at Warren, Michigan high school protest firing of principal
• One hundred years since the death of Mark Twain
• Resolution of Conference on Social Crisis & War
  On the youth and education
• Letters from our readers
• Withdraw all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan!

23 April 2010 (front page)

• Australian government’s policy sparked fatal refugee boat fire
• Greek public sector workers strike to oppose austerity measures
• Socialist Equality Party (Australia) Public Meetings
  NAPLAN testing and My School: Rudd’s free market education agenda
• New parliament opens in Sri Lanka
• Studies reveal Americans’ declining living standards and increasing anger
• German government statement on the Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan
  The Chancellor’s lies
• After leaking of 2007 videotape
  US soldiers issue apology over killings in Iraq
• Afghanistan: Another massacre as a bloody summer looms in Kandahar
• Obama reassures Wall Street on bank regulation bill
• US soldier on Baghdad massacre: “Not out of the ordinary in Iraq”
• Arizona legislature passes police-state measures against immigrants
• Israel: Whistleblower faces espionage charges for exposing IDF assassinations
• At House committee hearing
  Ex-CEO, regulators trade blame for Lehman collapse
• DTE Energy launches PR campaign to deflect anger over utility shutoffs
• Introductory remarks: On the capitalist crisis and the economic “recovery”
• Oxford East voters speak following SEP candidate’s appearance at election hustings
• Resolutions of the Conference on Social Crisis & War
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

24 April 2010 (front page)

• Britain’s leaders’ debate: A fraud in three acts
• Search ended for eleven workers missing in Louisiana oil rig explosion
• Sri Lanka: New cabinet installed to implement austerity program
• Sri Lankan SEP and ISSE to hold May Day meeting
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• The Greek crisis and the fight for the United Socialist States of Europe
• Obama administration spending billions on new global strike weapons
• Court denies filmmaker’s appeal
  Vindictive prosecution of Polanski continues
• Britain: Workers must oppose prejudice against immigrants and asylum seekers
• What is the situation facing immigrants and asylum seekers in Britain?
• European trade unions agree to closure of GM plant in Belgium
• Police beating of Maryland student caught on video
• US: Forty years since the national postal strike
• Letters from our readers

26 April 2010 (front page)

• At memorial service for West Virginia miners
  Obama preaches reconciliation with coal bosses
• Arizona immigration bill: A frontal assault on democratic rights
• Miners and friends at memorial service speak on mine explosion
• European officials demand new cuts following Greek bailout request
• Indian writer Arundhati Roy threatened with prosecution under anti-terrorism law
• Climate scientists exonerated in hacked emails inquiry
• Germany prepares to deport 14,000 refugees to Kosovo
• Google publishes figures on government requests for data
• “Casemix”: The model for cutting Australian hospital spending
• Unexplained naval sinking produces political crisis in South Korea
• Britain: David O’Sullivan addresses hustings in Oxford East
• Britain: SEP candidate addresses Greenpeace hustings
• This week in history: April 26-May 2

27 April 2010 (front page)

• Political stalemate continues in Thailand
• Sri Lanka: Opposition parties unanimously back new parliamentary speaker
• US military escalates its dirty war in Afghanistan
• Obama’s phony banking “reform”
• Sarkozy proposes total ban on the burqa in France
• Hungary: Right-wing Fidesz wins two-thirds majority
• Amid mounting popular anger over price rises
  Indian Stalinists stage one-day protest strike
• Israel expels first Palestinians under new military edict
• New York City: Luxury housing market recovers as homelessness rises
• Detroit mayor appoints DTE executive to top post
• On the road to ruin: The Runaways
• SEP candidate speaks at comprehensive school hustings in Oxford East
  “The working class has to take control of its own destiny”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• A letter on Witnesses to Permanent Revolution

28 April 2010 (front page)

• World markets plunge as Greek credit downgraded to “junk” status
• In Senate testimony
  Goldman Sachs executives defend deceptive marketing of securities
• US soldier in WikiLeaks massacre video: “I relive this every day”
• Hidden toll of US wars: 18 veterans commit suicide daily
• Britain: Tragic suicide highlights plight of young unemployed
• British press calls for election debate on budget cuts
• Charges dropped over Philippine political killings
• Puerto Rican students occupy four universities
• German chancellor steps up pressure on Greece
• New Jersey: Thousands of high school students walk out to protest education cuts
• Obama seizes on Arizona law to push repressive immigration overhaul
• Mehring Books featured title
  Fundamental Problems of Marxism by Georgi Plekhanov
• The hardcore composer: Gang Starr’s Guru dies at 48
• Video: SEP candidate addresses Oxford Union

29 April 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Workers rally against Labor government’s building industry watchdog
• Oil spill from BP explosion spreads in Gulf of Mexico
• Consumption tax, benefit cuts
  Obama’s blueprint for austerity
• Expanded Greek bailout discussed as credit crisis engulfs Europe
• Canada’s Speaker rebukes government for withholding Afghan detainee documents
• Japan: Mass protest against US base on Okinawa
• Sunday Times Rich List shows fortunes of British super-rich soar by a third
• Sri Lanka: The political decomposition of the LSSP
• New York City: thousands line up for a handful of jobs
• DTE profits soar in first quarter
• David King’s Red Star Over Russia now available in German
• SEP campaign in Oxford East: Cowley Road residents interviewed
• Unite the working class to defend public education!
• Letters from our readers

30 April 2010 (front page)

• Gulf oil spill threatens economic, environmental catastrophe
• Jan van der Marck, former chief curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, dies
  Interviewed by WSWS on “Art, museums and society” in 2000
• US Supreme Court deals further blow to separation of church and state
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Britain’s general election: An historic political shift
• Two miners killed in Kentucky mine collapse
• Senate hearing covers up role of government in West Virginia mine disaster
• German state election reveals an all-party coalition against the population
• Greek government agrees to deeper cuts in return for expanded bailout
• Uneasy standoff in Bangkok after violent clash
• Sri Lanka: New government threat against the media
• New Jersey students punished for participating in school walkout
• Australia: Labor government rejects inquiry into impact of mining on health
• Full rights for all immigrants! For the international unity of the working class!
• US soldiers’ stories: The terrible cost of Washington’s wars
• BBC Radio Manchester interviews SEP candidate Robert Skelton
• California: San Juan Capistrano teachers union calls off three-day strike
• University of Pittsburgh: Striking Cafeteria workers ordered back to work by SEIU