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Archive: August 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.

2 August 2010 (front page)

• Greek military mobilised to break truck drivers strike
• Slideshow
• Blood on whose hands in Afghanistan?
• US backs plan to send more troops to Somalia
• Economic crisis deepens in Gulf
• German court sanctions monitoring of Left Party MP
• California governor Schwarzenegger declares state of fiscal emergency
• Half of India’s population lives below the poverty line
• Australia: Labor’s leadership coup starts to unravel amid leaks and counter-leaks
• Fires ravage Southern California
• New Zealand government launches fresh attack on workers’ rights
• SEP candidate speaks on Gillard’s education record
• At Clinton wedding: The American aristocracy flaunts its wealth
• This week in history: August 2-August 8

3 August 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Labor’s factional war—a deepening crisis of the parliamentary system
• Australian government and media block discussion over Wikileaks revelations
• Hundreds killed in devastating Pakistani floods
• Inception: But where are the ideas?
• Obama hails Iraq war in “withdrawal” speech
• Markets, profits soar amid signs of deepening slump
• Greece: Union betrayal of truck driver’s strike sets stage for further attacks
• WikiLeaks: The German Armed Forces and the policy of targeted killings in Afghanistan
• US military, intelligence agencies press attack against Wikileaks
• “Independent claims czar” on BP payroll
• G20 Review Boards set to whitewash Toronto police-state tactics
• Another West Virginia coal miner killed
• Chicago Public Schools fires 600 teachers and staff
• Israel, Gaza and the aid flotillas
• Economic transformation of Welch, West Virginia: from mines to prisons
• DTE reports increased profits in second quarter
• Letters from our readers
• The social crisis in Appalachia
  Part 5: The assault on Blair Mountain and the legacy of struggle
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 August 2010 (front page)

• Garment workers in Bangladesh continue protests
• Opposition to Afghanistan war mounts as US intensifies offensive
• The ousting of Kevin Rudd: How the global corporations and financial markets rule
• US-China tensions over South China Sea
• Army operation against Greek truck drivers: A warning to European workers
• Gulf disaster largest oil spill ever
• UAW’s Bob King offers up auto workers as fodder for exploitation
• British Prime Minister Cameron’s Asian tour
• Funeral for victims of the Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany
• The decay of Germany’s CDU and preparations for a new right-wing party
• EPA holds public meeting on Michigan oil spill
• South Carolina budget cuts hit health care, education
• CAUS denounces new Michigan “energy theft” law, endorses D’Artagnan Collier campaign
• Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Britain: A socialist policy against mass unemployment and cuts

5 August 2010 (front page)

• SEP election campaign in Fowler finds...
  Deep disquiet in western Sydney over Australian Labor’s leadership coup
• Obama declares Gulf disaster “coming to an end”
• “We are putting forward a genuine alternative for the working class”
  Socialist Equality Party candidate interviewed on Melbourne radio
• Sri Lanka: Police oppose bail for arrested slum dwellers
• US war criminals threaten WikiLeaks, Private Manning
• Cuba’s Raúl Castro unveils plan for massive job cuts
• French National Assembly vote to ban the burqa: An attack on democratic rights
• ACLU files suit against Obama administration in Awlaki case
• Trafigura found guilty in Ivory Coast waste-dumping case
• German high court rules: Parliament cannot challenge domestic use of the military
• Michigan voters largely abstain in primary for governor
• Confessions of a scoundrel
  The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour, by Peter Mandelson
• Cinema as an imperialist weapon: Hollywood and World War I
• Letters from our readers

6 August 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Greens manoeuvre for de facto coalition with Labor
• SEP candidate campaigns at Newcastle university
• US ends ban on Indonesian Kopassus commandos
• US jobless claims, bankruptcies rise
• German media attack WikiLeaks
• Shooting rampage leaves nine dead at Connecticut beer distributor
• Federal judge strikes down anti-gay Proposition 8 in California
• Scientists criticize White House minimization of Gulf disaster
• Forest fires kill 50 in central Russia
• Scotland’s budget review proposes mass layoffs, end to universal benefits
• Obama threatens Iran
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

7 August 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Once more on the ETU disaffiliation
• Pakistani floods: A man-made not a natural disaster
• SEP candidate speaks on crisis facing students
• US economy lost 131,000 jobs in July
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• German foreign minister defends targeted killings in Afghanistan
• Pentagon demands return of WikiLeaks data on Afghanistan war crimes
• Russia bans grain exports, world wheat prices soar
• BP scales down cleanup efforts
• Communal outburst from Kerala’s Stalinist Chief Minister
• Over 60 migrants die in July in Arizona border crossings
• Police reform to create FBI-style national agency in Britain
• 65 years since the bombing of Hiroshima
• Beyond Borders, but how far beyond?—An album by Soulstice and SBe
• Letters from our readers

9 August 2010 (front page)

• SEP candidate speaks on the Afghan war
• US-Vietnam nuclear talks heighten frictions with China
• Leading Republicans call for partial repeal of 14th Amendment
  Behind the attack on US citizenship rights
• Australian election: Corporate concerns raised about “broken political system”
• France: Sarkozy stirs up hatred against Roma
• Santos takes office as Colombia’s president
• Royal College of Nursing backs British health service cuts
• Plan for mosque near Ground Zero a target of anti-Muslim chauvinism
• London Underground cuts 800 jobs
• Record number of Illinois families on food stamps
• A massive crime compounded by a massive cover-up
• Socialist Equality Party holds public meetings in New Orleans, Mobile
• SEP meeting in Sri Lanka warns of police-state measures
• Salt leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• This week in history: August 9-August 15

10 August 2010 (front page)

• Moscow suffocates as wildfires continue burning
• The “humanitarian” campaign for the war in Afghanistan
• British prime minister says austerity cuts are permanent
• Cambodian garment workers strike over low pay
• Spanish government prepares to use military against air traffic controllers
• BP and White House conclude negotiations on compensation fund
• Dramatic increase in HIV infections in Eastern Europe
• Guantánamo trial begins for Omar Khadr, abducted at 15
• SEP candidate for Calwell addresses the social crisis facing workers and youth
• SEP’s Chris Gordon addresses Your Rights at Work candidate forum
  Socialist Alliance & Greens candidates call for Labor vote
• A sense of unease: Tobias Wolff’s recent fiction collected in Our Story Begins

11 August 2010 (front page)

• Pakistani floods affect millions, but level of international aid pitiful
• ISSE meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
  The global financial crisis and the National government’s assault on the working class
• US Federal Reserve reassures markets, offers no help to the unemployed
• UN report reveals sharp spike in Afghan civilian casualties
• Canada’s Liberals press for extension of Afghan occupation
• Israel provokes Lebanon border clash
• IMF, European Union increase pressure on Romania
• Armed mob sets fire to Sri Lankan TV/radio station
• Youth services slashed in South Yorkshire
• Obama’s jobless “recovery”
• Australian bushfire royal commission report—a political whitewash
• SEP candidate for Fowler speaks on the assault on democratic rights
• SEP public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
  Seventy years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky: The Fourth International and the Perspective of the Socialist Equality Party

12 August 2010 (front page)

• Global markets plunge on fears of deeper slump
• Labor pledges new assault on the jobless and welfare recipients
• The dangers of mounting US-China rivalry
• Far-right party emerges as power broker behind new Netherlands government
• Obama mortgages the Gulf of Mexico to BP
• Obama stimulus funds pledged to community colleges go to for-profit institutions
• German parties back attack on pension system
• Britain: Health inequalities widest since records began in 1921

13 August 2010 (front page)

• 30,000 line up for housing aid in Georgia
• Australia: Gillard rolls out right-wing education agenda
• Hundreds killed in mudslides in China
• SEP candidate for Swan campaigns at Royal Perth Hospital
• Signs of Chinese slowdown add to global market fears
• Israel’s Netanyahu defends illegal assault on Turkish aid ship
• Fall in British unemployment figure misleading
• Spending cuts in Northern Ireland to be particularly severe
• Canada: Court ruling finds that Taser stun guns can kill
• The European press and the WikiLeaks revelations
• German journalist Götz Aly denounces pension system
• Video: Nick Beams explains Socialist Equality Party election program
• White House condemns criticism from the left
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

14 August 2010 (front page)

• A fraudulent “coalition of resistance” in Britain
• Obama signs law to militarize US-Mexico border
• Iraq’s top general calls for US forces to stay for another decade
• Jobless benefits claims at six-month high
  Mounting signs of slowdown in US economy
• Pentagon rejects new investigation into killing of Spanish cameraman by US troops in Iraq
• Sri Lankan president forced to sack deputy minister
• New private university signals drive to privatise higher education in Britain
• Australian government resumes vendetta against Julian Moti after appeals court reinstates charges
• GM and French trade unions force through wage cuts
• SEP candidate for Parramatta discusses urban infrastructure crisis
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters from our readers

16 August 2010 (front page)

• “Rudd’s removal was a putsch by the mining companies”
  Blaxland voters speak out about their concerns
• Greece sinks further into recession as European economy falters
• Greek ex-lefts denounce truck drivers strike
• Canadian military detains Tamil asylum seekers
• Floods hit Germany, Poland and Czech Republic
• Solomon Islander shot dead by Australian-led intervention forces
• Two Sri Lankan opposition MPs cross over to government
• First Khmer Rouge defendant convicted in Cambodia
• Obama’s covert wars
• The great Australian superannuation fraud
• This week in history: August 16-August 22
• Socialist Equality Party in Britain holds meetings: A socialist programme against mass austerity

17 August 2010 (front page)

• Pakistan floods affect 20 million people as disaster worsens
• Petraeus beats the drums for endless war in Afghanistan
• Canada’s government foments reaction over Tamil refugee boat
• Indianapolis auto workers drive UAW executives out of meeting
• Australian Labor Party’s campaign “launch”: Gillard pitches her right-wing credentials to corporate elite
• Relief wells delayed over fears of a new spill
• Austerity measures intensify social crisis in Romania
• Swedish election dominated by economy and unemployment
• The “return of Detroit”
  Wall Street celebrates the destruction of workers’ jobs and wages
• SEP candidate Noel Holt for Newcastle addresses community forum
• SEP candidate campaigns in Detroit against utility shutoffs
• Video: James Cogan answers community questions on the environment
• Pakistan after the floods: “The situation is explosive”
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

18 August 2010 (front page)

• New pamphlet from Mehring Books
  The June 2010 Political Coup: A warning to the working class
• US housing slump deepens
• Indianapolis auto workers take a courageous stand
• Indianapolis workers denounce GM-UAW threats
• Government crisis in Italy: Democrat leader supports the post-fascist Fini
• Sri Lankan military court convicts former army commander
• Scientists estimate nearly 80 percent of oil remains a threat
• Britain: Call to re-open inquest into death of Dr. David Kelly
• Austerity measures hit North West of England
• Child labour in Turkey exposes growing social inequality
• The “Ground Zero mosque”: Obama cowers before right-wing hysteria
• SEP candidate James Cogan speaks about Trotskyism on Sydney community radio
• SEP campaigns in Sydney seat of Parramatta
• German media campaign for establishment of new right-wing party

19 August 2010 (front page)

• As Pakistan drowns, Washington focuses on security threats
• Australian courts reject undemocratic electoral amendments
• SEP candidate debates Labor, Greens and Socialist Alliance
  James Cogan spells out socialist policies at Sydney candidates’ forum
• SEP candidate demands immediate end to Tullamarine health hazard
• The assault on US workers’ wages
• Indianapolis auto workers determined to resist wage cuts
• More than one million public workers strike in South Africa
• US claims end of combat operations as violence mounts in Iraq
• Mass protests continue in Indian-held Kashmir
• Britain’s National Health Service saddled with massive debts
• Photo book of the month: Red Star Over Russia
  A visual history by David King of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the death of Joseph Stalin
• Librarians protest closures in Southampton, England
• Letters from our readers

20 August 2010 (front page)

• SEP candidate Carolyn Kennett campaigns in Reid
  Increasing social hardship in Sydney’s west
• Police conduct “terrorist” raids on eve of Australian election
• SEP candidate for Swan speaks on health care
• Sri Lankan government to evict 66,000 families in Colombo
• Vote Socialist Equality Party in the 2010 Australian election
• Obama’s “Mission Accomplished”
• US jobless claims hit nine-month high
• Feigning concern for “democracy”
  Corporations, UAW call for revote on wage cut at Indianapolis GM plant
• French government’s law-and-order measures threaten democratic rule
• White House numbers on oil spill challenged at congressional hearing
• Google-Verizon deal undermines push for an open Internet
• All-party coalition suppresses truth about Love Parade tragedy in Germany
• Britain: 15,000 jobs to be cut at Ministry of Justice
• Los Angeles Times campaigns against teachers
• Resolution of the Socialist Equality Party Congress
  On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Assassination of Leon Trotsky
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

21 August 2010 (front page)

• Millions of Pakistani flood victims face continuing crisis
• France deports Roma en masse
• Indianapolis GM workers face abysmal working conditions
• Rush Limbaugh backs 50 percent pay cut for auto workers
• Spain joins anti-burqa witch-hunt
• Massive oil plumes remain in the Gulf, study shows
• The political and social roots of Russia’s wildfire disaster
• Colombian high court rejects US bases agreement
• Belgium fears becoming “Greece on the North Sea”
• Tainted eggs sicken thousands across US
• New York’s transit agency lays off workers, raises fares
• China eclipses Japan as the world’s No. 2 economy
• SEP holds final election meetings on Trotskyism and the struggle for socialism
• The Fourth International and the Perspectives of the SEP
• Audience members speak about Trotsky, socialism and the SEP
• SEP’s Carolyn Kennett exposes Greens’ role at public education forum
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 August 2010 (front page)

• Australian election delivers first hung parliament in 70 years
• New Zealand soldier killed in Afghanistan
• Voters speak to the WSWS on election day
• South Africa: ANC government uses police, army and courts against strikers
• Claims fund designed to limit payouts, shield BP from lawsuits
• Americans cut back on medical care due to economic crisis
• Trade unions betray airport workers in Britain
• Pay day loans in Britain increase by 400 percent
• Illinois uranium workers locked out over health care dispute
• New provocation against WikiLeaks
• East German secret police files highlight role of ex-Nazis in post-war Germany
• This week in history: August 23-August 29

24 August 2010 (front page)

• China: Foxconn hold rallies to boost its image
• SEP 2010 Australian election campaign wins powerful response
• Australian voters speak out—Part 1
  “Everything is far from rosy”
• After the Australian election: The way forward for the working class
• Australia: Labor and Liberal vie to form minority government
• US to spend $1.3 billion on Afghanistan bases
• Federal judge orders halt to US funding of stem cell research
• European Commission urges Greek government to press ahead with austerity
• Buyer of GM Indianapolis plant demands 50 percent wage cut
  Who is JD Norman?
• Canada’s Conservatives purge establishment critics
• Conflicts erupt within the German Left Party
• Letter from a Spanish air traffic controller
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra demands musicians accept huge cuts
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers
• Jasmine, duet recordings from Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden

25 August 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Greens willing to join coalition government with Labor or Liberal
• Egg recall exposes unsafe US food supply
• Pakistan lacks adequate international flood aid
• Record drop in US home sales
• Australian voters speak out—Part 2
  “It’s like the election got hijacked”
• German army abandons investigation of officer who ordered Kunduz massacre
• Greek unions posture as opponents of privatisation
• Facebook postings of abuse of Palestinians highlight polarisation of Israeli society
• US, British media keep pushing smear of WikiLeaks founder
• Obama administration continues to cover up US torture of prisoners
• Hearing reveals confusion aboard Deepwater Horizon rig
• Securities fraud case against New Jersey exposes pensions crisis
• Back to Vichy
• From the archives
  James Reid: a political profile
• Jimmy Reid, Stalinist union leader who betrayed Scottish shipyard struggle, dies at 78

26 August 2010 (front page)

• Israeli-Palestinian talks part of preparations for US aggression against Iran
• New Zealand union rallies mount sham opposition to new labour laws
• The Australian election and the war in Afghanistan
• US forges closer military ties with Vietnam
• Australian voters speak out—Part 3
  “Why are we still in Afghanistan!”
• US primaries: Millionaire candidates, right-wing politics and few voters
• Pakistan floods unleash desperate economic crisis
• The Jungle in 2010
• The fairytale of Germany’s “miracle growth”
• Uttar Pradesh farmers latest victims of Indian business’ land grab
• Tensions emerge between Rwanda and Western backers
• Germany: Heinrich Heine in the “Marble Galgotha”

27 August 2010 (front page)

• Heavy flooding creates further havoc in China
• Philippine hostage tragedy exposes tense international relations
• Queensland Labor proceeds with privatisations, despite last weekend’s electoral rout
• Sri Lankan government evicts street hawkers and shanty dwellers
• US Marine general rejects Obama’s Afghanistan deadline
• “Alarm bells” ring for Australian government over deepening China-East Timor ties
• US agencies delayed action on tainted eggs for weeks
• Conservatives contend for power in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Thousands of Detroit-area unemployed attend “over 50” job fair
• Chicago teachers speak about mass layoffs
• Class struggle erupts in South Africa
• Struggle by Indianapolis GM workers raises crucial issues
• Another utility worker killed in Detroit
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

28 August 2010 (front page)

• US slashes estimate of second-quarter economic growth
• Obama to escalate slaughter in Yemen
• Five years since Hurricane Katrina
  Part 1: A manmade disaster
• Japan’s prime minister faces leadership challenge
• India to conduct caste census
• As Australian election impasse continues
  Murdoch media issues threats to independents
• British trade unions hold secret talks with government
• Contamination scandal in the German city of Dortmund
• Detroit Symphony musicians appeal for support as contract deadline approaches
• UAW, Jesse Jackson push illusions in Democrats with phony “jobs march”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters from our readers

30 August 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Corporate media voice concerns over “courtship” of independents
• Evidence that Afghan leaders are on CIA payroll
• US ramps up pressure on Burmese junta over war crimes
• 72 immigrants massacred in Mexico
• Glenn Beck in Washington: Preaching the gospel of Mammon and militarism
• Five years since Hurricane Katrina
  Part 2: Ongoing social dispossession
• US soldiers punished for not attending Christian rock concert
• Russia to partially privatize major industries
• British Royal Mail plans mail centre closures and job cuts
• Pakistan’s floods, partition and imperialist oppression
• Resolution of the Socialist Equality Party Congress
  Twenty-Five Years Since the Split with the Workers Revolutionary Party
• This week in history: August 30-September 5

31 August 2010 (front page)

• Australia: Detained refugee dies in Perth hospital
• Australian election crisis
  Caretaker PM delivers pitch to independents and financial markets
• Global youth unemployment reaches record levels
• Pakistan floods displace another million people
• SEP public meetings
  The Australian election crisis: The political issues facing the working class
• Two Detroit-area men killed in Taser-related incidents
• Fourteen more US troops killed in Afghanistan: What are they dying for?
• US arrests 370 immigrants in Midwest raids
• French government seeks European backing for its anti-Roma policy
• Jesse Jackson, UAW hustle votes for Democrats at Detroit “jobs” march
• Five years since Hurricane Katrina
  Part 3: The gutting of social infrastructure
• Corporations, UAW continue campaign against Indianapolis GM workers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas