Archive: June 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 June 2010 (front page)
- China: Honda strike sends shudder through financial circles
- Israeli massacre of Gaza convoy supporters provokes outrage
- Public meetings in Australia discuss new stage of global crisis
- The socialist response to the Gulf oil crisis
- Israel steps up its warmongering
- Escalating violence in Afghanistan as Kandahar offensive nears
- Air India unions call off “flash” strike in face of state repression
- Indian air disaster kills 158
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40,000 rally against government austerity programme
Largest protest in Romania in 20 years - Australia: Surging house prices built on a debt time-bomb
- Australia: Rising debt stress among homebuyers
- Boron struggle betrayed
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
2 June 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Bushfire inquiry submissions criticise government policy
- Europe’s media warn of global social unrest
- Sculptor Louise Bourgeois dies at 98
- Washington comes to aid of Israel over Gaza convoy massacre
- Obama signals no end to deep-sea oil drilling
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As Congress allows extended unemployment benefits to expire
Hewlett-Packard slashes 9,000 jobs - French establishment promotes IMF director as presidential candidate
- Australian court hears prosecution appeal against Julian Moti verdict
- Trial begins against ex-Chicago police commander accused of torture
- New York City to shutter 50 senior centers
- WSWS reporters visit the devastated Sri Lankan town of Kilinochchi
- New Hungarian citizenship law creates tensions with Slovakia
- US public transit systems cutting service and raising fares
- An appeal to DTE workers
3 June 2010 (front page)
- Japanese prime minister resigns after just nine months
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2010 Part 6: Luchino Visconti’s Senso—drama and history
- Israel’s massacre at sea
- White House seeks to contain popular anger over BP oil disaster
- Protests against Israel’s flotilla massacre held across US, Canada
- Foxconn suicides highlight China’s sweatshop conditions
- German government crisis intensified by president’s resignation
- Major Czech parties suffer massive election losses
- Arrests follow publication of report on Iceland banking collapse
- Tobacco companies profit from child labour in Malawi
- Australian government expels Israeli diplomat over forged passports
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2010
An interview with Woo Ming-jin, director of Woman on Fire Looks for Water, and a comment - Latest edition of Perspectives now available
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96 percent vote in favor at Detroit area mass meeting
DTE Energy workers authorize strike - Letters from our readers
4 June 2010 (front page)
- Israel defends murderous assault on Gaza aid flotilla
- BP oil spill enters new regions of Gulf Coast
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The New York Times and the Dartmouth Atlas study
Fraudulent study used to sell Obama health plan - US turns up heat on Iran
- US Supreme Court weakens “Miranda” rights of criminal suspects
- Mexican immigrant beaten to death by US Border Patrol
- Sri Lanka gets US support on bogus human rights inquiry
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Criminal negligence towards workers’ health
Heart tests ignored at New York City’s Harlem Hospital - Western Australian budget imposes massive utility charge increases
- One year since the GM bankruptcy
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 June 2010 (front page)
- May job figures underscore deepening economic crisis in US
- The Chinese working class emerges
- BP spill washes ashore in Florida
- BP likely to proceed with dividend payout
- BP cleanup workers report serious health problems
- Sabotage of West Bengal train leads to 148 deaths, sparks reactionary political furor
- Bangladesh fire kills more than 120 people
- Obama sharply increases secret military operations
- Spain: government imposes austerity and pay cuts
- Thai prime minister survives no-confidence vote
- Russian-EU summit produces few agreements
- Berlin court bans Islamic prayer in schools
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 June 2010 (front page)
- Behind the Gulf oil crisis: Big Oil extends its political influence
- Sri Lankan government plans extensive slum clearance evictions
- This week in history: June 7-June 13
- Ecological effects of Gulf oil eruption will last for years
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Commandos raid the Rachel Corrie as
Further evidence emerges of Israel’s criminal attack on Gaza aid flotilla - Thousands oppose Gaza flotilla attack in London
- G-20 orders U-turn: from stimulus to austerity
- An interview with OKDE-Spartakos of Greece’s Antarsya coalition
- Greece: Antarsya offers no alternative to PASOK and the official “left”
- China: Honda workers return to work
- Italy on the eve of new class battles
- More Colombo families targetted for eviction
- The jobs crisis and socialist policies
- Washtenaw County, Michigan school bus drivers face deep wage cuts
8 June 2010 (front page)
- BP and White House continue cover-up of oil spill
- The Gulf oil spill and the case for socialism
- Israel steps up operations in Gaza
- New Japanese prime minister installed
- Australia: Minimum pay ruling deepens social inequality
- Union backs attacks on teachers in Washington, D.C.
- The way forward for a defense of education in Germany
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Hundreds of billions for the banks
France votes credits for European Financial Stability Fund - Report: DTE used spy planes to spot unauthorized hookups
- Frank Rich on Obama: Liberal fears and illusions
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 June 2010 (front page)
- White House clears way for more offshore drilling
- NATO casualties rise in Afghanistan before Kandahar offensive
- Spill rate far worse than latest estimate, scientist says
- US consolidates occupation of Iraq
- Internet discussion in China on the exploitation of workers
- Israel steps up repression against its Arab citizens
- France: Thousands protest against Israeli assault of Gaza-bound flotilla
- Public sector strike against austerity in Romania
- British government introduces plans for market-driven school system
- Colorado leads state government attacks on US teachers
- Australia-East Timor conflict intensifies over Greater Sunrise gas project
- South Carolina budget cuts target education and health care
- The Nation, Jonathan Israel and the Enlightenment
- Helen Thomas ousted over anti-Zionist comments
- Britain: The middle class politics of POWER2010 and Take Back Parliament
- Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood: an outlaw hero that even the rich can love
10 June 2010 (front page)
- Honda rocked by further strikes in China
- German chancellor’s austerity measures recall the Weimar Republic
- UN Security Council tightens sanctions on Iran
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Government scientists confirm massive oil plumes
BP issues denial - More doubts over spill rate
- Obama, Democrats abandon stimulus for austerity
- Spain: Strikes and protests greet PSOE austerity measures
- British prime minister outlines drastic cuts in public spending
- US Border Patrol murders Mexican teenager
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Off Canada’s Atlantic coast
Deep-water drilling proceeds without backup rigs - Sri Lanka: Widespread malnutrition among women and children
- Glasgow University principal proposes cuts and rationalisations
- Date Night and City Island: One comedy that knows where it’s going, another that can’t seem to decide
- US cable television host slanders socialism
11 June 2010 (front page)
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Scientists increase flow rate estimate
Oil spill reaches Alabama, Florida inland waterway - BP and government authorities collude to suppress reality of oil spill
- US-Turkish tensions and the Israeli assault on the Gaza flotilla
- Warning of famine in West Africa
- Canada’s social democrats ally with right-wingers in BC anti-tax campaign
- Obama defends Israel as tactical shift prepared on Gaza blockade
- The BP oil spill and the tyranny of private ownership
- SEP to run D’Artagnan Collier for Michigan State House of Representatives
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- One-day strike by Minnesota nurses to defend patient care
- Unions push through wage cutting deal at Ford Australia
12 June 2010 (front page)
- Billionaires and crackpots: US primaries select right-wing candidates for November election
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The history of a cover-up
New evidence undermines latest BP-White House estimate of spill size - One year after Iran’s presidential election
- BP seeks to limit liabilities in “truce” with White House
- Honda Lock strike in China continues as industrial unrest spreads
- Right-wing shift in Dutch elections
- Police break-up occupation at Hyundai complex in southern India
- US pushes for readmission of Honduras to Organization of American States
- Doctors “calibrated” pain for CIA interrogations
- Britain: How should the Cumbria massacre be understood?
- Australia: Unemployment statistics mask job crisis
- Ukraine abandons NATO candidacy
- Ypsilanti, Michigan school board approves 17 percent pay cut for bus workers
- A comment: Revisiting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2010
- For public ownership of DTE Energy
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 June 2010 (front page)
- US “surge” in Afghanistan in disarray
- After weeks of delay, BP deploys sensors to measure size of spill
- Sri Lankan government prepares for austerity measures
- US pilots strike shuts down Spirit Airlines
- German unions and employers unite against the right to strike
- UK government spending cuts threaten over 700,000 jobs
- Massachusetts Senate attaches anti-immigrant measure to state budget
- Australia: Labor and the superannuation industry
- Hands off WikiLeaks!
- This week in history: June 14-June 20
- Donald McCullin: An artist “shaped by war”
- University of California nurses hold protest rallies
15 June 2010 (front page)
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Hundreds killed and wounded in ethnic pogroms in Kyrgyzstan
Unrest destabilizes Central Asian region - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Obama plan for BP payments is far below cost of Gulf disaster
- China: Honda Lock strike continues
- US backs Israeli inquiry into aid flotilla massacre
- Filmmaker releases smuggled footage from Israeli assault
- Fortunes mount for the wealthy in wake of the finance crisis
- Democrats silent on possible ballot tampering in South Carolina primaries
- India: Bhopal verdict provokes public outrage
- British government turns to regional administrations to impose austerity
- Gulf oil disaster: a trillion-dollar corporate crime
- Washington “discovers” Afghanistan’s mineral wealth
- Spirit Airlines pilots strike enters fourth day
- Minnesota nurses denounce understaffing
- Letters on Glenn Beck, socialism and anti-Semitism
- Letters on “The Nation, Jonathan Israel and the Enlightenment”
16 June 2010 (front page)
- Obama’s Oval Office speech: A cowardly cover-up of BP’s crimes
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Internal documents reveal criminal negligence
Obama administration’s “escrow” account will shelter BP - Scientists raise estimate of spill rate once again
- South Africa: Riot police attack World Cup stewards pay protests
- German government crisis intensifies
- Arkansas flash flood claims lives of 20 campers
- Austerity measures unveiled in Pakistan’s budget
- Australia: Polling shows collapse in voter support for Labor government
- New York City students protest threat to free transit passes
- British Telecom workers to ballot for strike
- European trade union head backs austerity measures
17 June 2010 (front page)
- Obama cuts deal to shield BP assets
- Chinese workers revolt against the unions
- Gulf crisis stokes Washington-London tensions
- Demonstration in Rome protests austerity measures
- Protests in Stuttgart and Berlin hit government cutbacks
- Sri Lankan president visits India to improve relations
- France: Investigation of 2002 Karachi bombing implicates Sarkozy
- New York enacts sweeping cuts amid threats of state shutdown
- Australia: Construction worker threatened with jail
- UAW convention endorses policy of wage cuts, layoffs
- Letters on the Gulf oil disaster
18 June 2010 (front page)
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Mehring Books featured title
Hurricane Katrina: Social Consequences and Political Lessons -
Senate blocks extension
Nearly one million US workers cut off unemployment benefits - BP’s Hayward stonewalls, Congressmen posture at spill hearing
- Britain: Saville Inquiry continues cover-up of Bloody Sunday massacre
- As Chinese premier urges “respect” for workers, police prepare crackdown
- US Supreme Court refuses to hear Arar case
- French government witch-hunts partner of niqab-wearing woman
- India: Stalinist Left Front routed in West Bengal municipal elections
- Thai government continues crackdown on opposition
- Evidence emerges of Australian oil spill coverup
- Romania’s health service on brink of collapse
- Australia: Tasmanian Labor-Green government delivers big business budget
- New York public schools under siege
- What is driving the crisis of the German government?
- Trotskyism and the Bloody Sunday massacre: a record of principled opposition to British imperialism
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“Socialism 2010”: The politics of the International Socialist Organization
Part 1: The ISO and the American middle-class left - The presence of Tariq Ali at the “Socialism 2010” conference
- Pilots union ends Spirit Airlines strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 June 2010 (front page)
- Obama seeks “inflection point” on Gulf oil disaster
- US and EU impose extra sanctions on Iran
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- An execution by firing squad in Utah
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Central Command chief reassures Senate on July 2011 “withdrawal” date
No US military exit from Afghanistan - Five US soldiers charged with murdering civilians in Afghanistan
- Right-wing agenda dominates Labour Party leadership contest in Britain
- The Left party and German foreign policy
- French government announces plan for pension cut
- Over 50 miners trapped in a Colombian coal mine
- Hungary: New government presents radical austerity package
- Sri Lankan union bureaucrats prevent SEP member speaking
- “Socialism 2010”: The politics of the International Socialist Organization Part 2: The ISO and Barack Obama
- The Secret in Their Eyes: Does “fear” help explain anything?
- Letters on “Revisiting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2010”
21 June 2010 (front page)
- More strikes erupt in China’s auto industry
- This week in history: June 21-June 27
- Gulf states’ economies devastated by BP spill
- Louisiana residents report oil-spill related illnesses
- EU nations divided in run up to G20 summit
- British government imposes £2 billion cuts
- Greece trade unions intensify collaboration with austerity measures
- Japanese government announces pro-business agenda
- Australian Labor Party suffers record loss in NSW state by-election
- Saudi Arabia backs US campaign against Iran
- California: Unions work with governor to cut state worker retirement benefits
- Obama celebrates jobless “recovery”
- Public Meetings: The Gulf oil crisis and the profit system
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Dr. Richard Cooper, critic of Dartmouth health study, speaks to the WSWS
Why don’t they go into the middle of Detroit … and say, “Poverty makes almost no difference in health care spending”?
22 June 2010 (front page)
- Further evidence of criminal negligence by BP and US government in Gulf disaster
- More refugees drown trying to reach Australia
- The US Social Forum in Detroit
- Gulf species face unprecedented disaster
- Supreme Court backs use of terrorism law against free speech
- US-British tensions over Afghan occupation
- Kyrgyz ethnic pogroms leave 2,000 dead, 400,000 homeless
- Sri Lankan government holds victory celebrations
- Australia: Labor government crisis deepens
- Thousands of New York City workers demonstrate against threatened layoffs
- Middle-income layers shrinking in Germany
- Letters to Juliet: A mushy bon-bon
- Letters from our readers
23 June 2010 (front page)
- US commander recalled from Afghanistan after mocking Obama
- British budget hits workers and poor
- Spill cleanup workers face labor-camp conditions
- Labour’s Diane Abbott: Britain’s Obama?
- Train derails in Republic of the Congo, killing at least 60
- UN report reveals deep social divide in Thailand
- Kentucky coal miner killed
- Australian government targets diabetes sufferers to cut health costs
- Beyond BP
- For revolutionary socialist opposition to Sarkozy’s austerity
- The folly of a youth: The Trotsky
24 June 2010 (front page)
- Militarism and democracy: the implications of the McChrystal affair
- Divisions in G-20 open on summit eve
- Australian prime minister Rudd ousted in political coup
- Judge strikes down moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
- Israeli government shores up Gaza blockade
- Senate bill would authorize US president to seize control of Internet
- Sri Lankan government prepares major constitutional changes
- Dresden protest hits Saxony state government cuts
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Canada’s Braidwood inquiry admits only the incontestable:
Police tasered Dziekanski to death - Cover-up of Palm Island Aboriginal death continues
- When You’re Strange: A Film about the Doors—what was it about the 1960s?
- New benefit system in Britain forces sick and disabled into work
- An exchange on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- The political struggle to defend public education
- DTE Energy forces strike by tree trimmers
- Letters on the Gulf oil crisis
25 June 2010 (front page)
- BP containment effort set back as government acknowledges undersea oil plumes
- Why was General McChrystal fired?
- Australia: Big business and mining companies issue diktats to new prime minister
- Gulf Coast residents outraged at BP, government response
- China responds to US pressure on the yuan
- New Australian PM pledges ongoing commitment to Afghan war and US alliance
- Australia: Top mental health adviser resigns
- US Supreme Court ruling favors convicted corporate swindlers
- Claims of African economic growth hide stark divisions of rich and poor
- Nevada highest in foreclosures, bankruptcies, now tops US in unemployment
- Michigan school districts to undertake drastic cuts for federal grant aid
- A letter on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Minnesota nurses vote to authorize open-ended strike
26 June 2010 (front page)
- Senate Democrats and Obama abandon the jobless
- After almost ten weeks: no end to BP oil spill devastation
- Oil spill cleanup worker commits suicide
- Massive police build-up for Toronto G20 summit
- Two million protest in France against government austerity policies
- More strikes hit auto plants in China
- China: Explosion at coal mine kills 48
- Spain: Socialist Party government seeks to impose “labour reforms”
- The role of the Left Party in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Another Kentucky coal mining fatality
- Bangladesh attempts to woo foreign investment
- Australian government to deport cleric as “national security threat”
- The World Cup and South Africa
- More letters on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- Hyundai workers in India speak out against reprisals and poor working conditions
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 June 2010 (front page)
- G20 summit: Leaders try to paper over differences
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CAUS campaigns among striking tree trimmers
Sylvia Young visits DTE contractors’ picket line - Toronto police violently suppress G20 protests, arrest over 600
- Spending cuts in Britain worst since World War II
- House, Senate Democrats agree on pro-Wall Street bank “reform”
- First storm of Gulf hurricane season highlights threat to oil spill operations
- New Hampshire woman dies after electricity cutoff
- Rescue crews find no survivors in Colombian coal mine
- Irish unions agree to four-year strike ban
- UN sets up limited inquiry into human rights in Sri Lanka
- Labor government extends welfare quarantine powers across Australia
- One year since the Honduran coup
- Further correspondence on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- The Australian Labor Party coup: a warning to the working class
- The Story of Us on History channel—an attempt to revive the myths of American capitalism
- This week in history: June 28-July 4
29 June 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Mining giants dictate terms to new prime minister
- The “Hitler” option in Afghanistan
- Opposition grows to police repression in Toronto
- Obama and Cameron pledge to defend BP profits
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Video series: The Gulf oil spill
Part 1—The economic impact - Compensation paid by British military for Afghan deaths trebled in 2009
- Sri Lankan authorities ban student group from Jaffna campus
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Inequality, lead poisoning, and children
New study documents the impact of lead on Detroit school children - New today--Two letters on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- ISSE meetings in Germany: “Education is a class issue”
- An Ozark noir: Winter’s Bone
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
30 June 2010 (front page)
- Petraeus signals escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan
- Madrid subway shut down by mass strike
- Greek workers in fifth 24-hour strike against austerity measures
- Australia: Mining magnates ramp up demands on Gillard government
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Video series: The Gulf oil spill
Part 2—The effect on human health - The oil spill and the food web
- The German presidential election: What does Joachim Gauck stand for?
- Fuel price hike hits India’s poor
- The mass repression at the G20 summit in Toronto
- Correspondence on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- The New York Times and pacemaker “overtreatment”
- Thousands of Michigan teachers rally against education cuts
- Johnson & Johnson recalls more over-the-counter medicines
- More letters on the International Socialist Organization
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