Archive: September 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 September 2010 (front page)
- Obama’s Iraq speech: An exercise in cowardice and deceit
- As US “recovery” collapses, White House rules out social relief
- Pentagon report underscores rising US-China tensions
- Inspections of US egg farms reveal “stomach churning” conditions
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Australian election crisis
Greens sign deal backing minority Labor government - France: Socialist Party leaders call for increased state repression of youth and workers
- Spain: Popular Party embroiled in corruption scandal
- Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the civil war
- Five years since Hurricane Katrina
- Worst famine and flooding in Niger’s history
- Solomon Islands: New coalition government formed
- Mass breakout at Australian refugee detention centre
- The Tillman Story: An exposure of military mythmaking in the service of the US “war on terror”
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Public meetings in Sri Lanka
Seventy years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky: The return of history and the strategy of the world revolution -
The Global Economic Breakdown—A Marxist Analysis
Nick Beams to address University of Western Sydney students
2 September 2010 (front page)
- Afghanistan: Offensive in Kandahar underway
- Australia: Garment company returns to profit after axing jobs
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Australian election crisis
Liberal Party accused of budget “black hole” - US Mid-East talks: A conspiracy against the Palestinians
- “The steel in our ship of state”: Obama cowers before the military
- Swedish prosecutor re-opens “rape” case against WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- One million US public school students homeless
- Pakistan floods exacerbate child hunger and malnutrition
- Obama administration, media intensify campaign to hold teachers “accountable”
- France steps up military intervention in Sahel
- The Brunner trial in Germany—a different picture emerges
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The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the United States
Program of the Socialist Equality Party - Danton’s Death at the National Theatre
- SEP candidate denounces wage-cutting attack on Detroit city workers
3 September 2010 (front page)
- 2010 already deadliest year for US troops in Afghanistan
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Australian election crisis
Labor edges closer to forming minority government - New economic slowdown hits New Zealand workers
- Oil rig explodes off the Louisiana coast
- US bank profits back to pre-crisis heights
- US CEOs who laid off the most workers got the most pay
- Roma family gunned down in Slovakia
- Chile’s trapped miners: Victims of a ruthless drive for profit
- Nazi ideology from Germany’s Bundesbank
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The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the United States
Program of the Socialist Equality Party Part two - Indianapolis GM workers pressured to vote on wage cut
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Food, Inc.: What the food industry doesn’t want you to see
4 September 2010 (front page)
- Japan’s new political crisis
- Support the socialist campaign for Michigan House of Representatives
- US unemployment rose in August
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Food riots erupt in Mozambique
- Spanish air traffic controllers’ union sabotages another struggle
- Alan Milburn, New Labour and the British coalition government
- US companies shift bigger share of health care costs onto workers
- German Greens to continue their coalition with the conservative CDU in Hamburg
- Lawsuit challenges Obama administration’s “targeted killing” of US citizens
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The Breakdown of Capitalism and the fight for Socialism in the United States
Program of the Socialist Equality Party - Letters from auto workers on Indianapolis struggle
- Letters from our readers
6 September 2010 (front page)
- New Zealand: Hundreds left homeless after Christchurch earthquake
- Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha, a Sri Lankan Trotskyist, dies at 67
- US charges Pakistani Taliban leader with murder of CIA agents
- The First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
- Thousands protest in France vs. witch-hunt of Roma
- The Nation on the Detroit march for “Jobs, Justice and Peace”: Deceit and self-delusion
- Struggle against Sarkozy’s austerity measures requires a new socialist perspective
- Pathologist who investigated G20 police killing found guilty of misconduct
- Quebec: Rash of suicides linked to nurses’ deplorable working conditions
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The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the United States
Program of the Socialist Equality Party - This week in history: September 6-September 12
- The Kids Are All Right: Circling the wagons
7 September 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Detained refugees challenge Labor government’s denial of fundamental legal rights
- Australia: Labor forms minority government with rural independents’ support
- BP warns Congress offshore drilling regulations will threaten compensation fund
- Economic fault lines deepen in Europe
- German court agrees to insolvency plan for Karstadt store chain
- Letters from our readers
- Manila’s water crisis exposes impact of privatisation
- Obama on Labor Day: No measures to address jobs crisis
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Youth bear brunt of British budget cuts
8 September 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Gillard hails “resilient democracy”
- General Petraeus calls for 2,000 more troops to Afghanistan
- The Stieg Larsson phenomenon
- US and China at odds over North Korea
- US ruling class prepares attack on Social Security
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In the guise of creating jobs
Obama to propose further tax cuts for big business - Mideast talks a cover for US war preparations
- Police killing of immigrant worker sparks protests in Los Angeles
- Postal worker suicide in Britain reveals human cost of closures
- Service cuts will devastate public transportation in Pittsburgh
- Frank Rich on the “mystery” of Obama
9 September 2010 (front page)
- Canada: How to fight the CAW’s backroom deals
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In Cleveland speech
Obama unveils pro-business “jobs” plan - Thai government rules out early election
- The Australian election outcome
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Fires burn throughout Detroit
Residents hold energy giant responsible - Detroit fires expose criminality of DTE and Bing administration
- Koran-burning provocation sparks US fears over Afghanistan
- Millions strike in France to defend pensions
- South African unions attempt to impose settlement on striking public service workers
- Federal appeals court adopts Obama “state secrets” doctrine to block torture case
- London Underground workers strike to protest job losses and cuts
- 100 million workers join India’s September 7 general strike
- Geert Wilders—kingmaker in the Dutch political crisis
- Australia: Unions enforce Labor’s “Fair Work” ban on sugar strike
10 September 2010 (front page)
- Australian Greens seek collaboration with Liberals, pledge fealty to the banks
- Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould: A more intimate view
- New Zealand earthquake costs continue to rise
- New Zealand government bails out collapsed finance company
- Slideshow: The Detroit Fires
- US soldiers killed Afghan civilians and kept fingers, skull as trophies
- Obama’s victory for torturers
- OECD predicts global economic slowdown
- The twelve soldiers charged in atrocity and cover-up
- IMF demands blood from flood-ravaged Pakistan
- Canada’s “Northern Strategy” and the militarization of the Arctic
- BP report whitewashes oil disaster
- German authorities, police, organizers deny responsibility for Love Parade disaster
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Neighborhood blazes not just a “natural disaster”
Detroit firefighters denounce city budget cuts, DTE - Opposition in Sweden presents election program
- Witnesses describe horrific night of Detroit fires
- Frida Kahlo retrospective in Berlin—Part 1: The “Kahlo myth” and the reality
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Slideshow: The Detroit Fires
11 September 2010 (front page)
- Obama press conference on the economy: An exercise in demagogy and lies
- 9/11 anniversary overshadowed by uproar over Koran-burning
- Gas line explosion in California kills four, injures dozens
- Iraqi soldier kills two US troops
- Sri Lankan parliament amends constitution to entrench powerful presidency
- Tense contest over Japan’s prime ministership
- American media suppresses report on US military atrocities in Afghanistan
- Pentagon seeks to suppress book by 9/11 whistleblower
- Lawsuits launched over state repression at Toronto G20 summit
- Scottish local authorities confirm 13,000 public sector job losses
- Los Angeles Mayor defends shooting of immigrant worker
- Thilo Sarrazin and the preparations for a new right-wing party in Germany
- Committee Against Utility Shutoffs and SEP hold press conference on Detroit fires
- Frida Kahlo retrospective in Berlin—Part 2: Frida Kahlo and communism
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
13 September 2010 (front page)
- Australian PM Gillard announces new Labor cabinet
- China-South Africa deals highlight great-power rivalry in Africa
- One in seven Americans now living in poverty
- Anti-government protests hit Greek austerity measures
- Evidence points to infrastructure decay in California gas explosion
- Big corporations dictate German energy policy
- Conflicts intensify within Egyptian ruling elite
- Thousands line up for food, school supplies in Detroit
- California budget impasse leads to funding crisis in health care, education
- International lessons of the South African public service strike
- Video: Detroit fire victims charge DTE Energy with negligence
- This week in history: September 13-September 19
- True Blood: “Popcorn TV” for a generation that needs so much more
14 September 2010 (front page)
- Frida Kahlo retrospective in Berlin
- International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist
- Japan-China tensions flare up over disputed Diaoyu islets
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds funeral for comrade Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha
- The reality of Australia’s “two-speed” economy
- Poverty in America: 2010
- US transfer of Iraqi prisoners: an ongoing war crime
- Greek debt crisis fuels fears of European sovereign default
- German armed forces “reform” reflects growth of militarism
- Anglo Irish Bank fails
- Indian state murdered Maoist peace envoy
- Victim of Detroit fires: “DTE is to blame”
- Once again: The New York Times and Obama’s health care “reform”
- A letter from a Canadian telecom worker on the unions
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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Letter from South Africa
Malema prophesies ‘nationalisation’ of mining - Public school teachers strike in Danville, Illinois
15 September 2010 (front page)
- Cuba announces firing of half a million state workers
- Two years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers
- The French New Anti-Capitalist Party and the anti-burqa campaign
- Pakistan: Political infighting escalates in floods’ wake
- The NPA and the French regional elections: A case history of opportunism
- Germany: Thilo Sarrazin and the SPD
- Federal judge strikes down US military “don’t ask, don’t tell” law
- Pennsylvania’s capital city staggers towards bankruptcy
- Over a dozen to be charged in LA protests over police killing
- Committee Against Utility Shutoffs and SEP hold press conference on Detroit fires
- DTE, Detroit authorities launch legal vendetta against “energy thieves”
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The “Modern” experience of art:
Abramovic and Kentridge at MoMA - Rail unions confine London Underground workers to token strikes
- Australia: Construction unions wind down campaign over victimised worker
16 September 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Former Guantánamo prisoner denied passport again
- Conflict erupts between EU and France over Roma expulsions
- Japan’s prime minister fends off leadership challenge
- The Tea Party primary election victories
- Labour’s leadership contest enters final weeks
- French unions, “left” allies undermine resistance to pension cuts
- Hungary—Fidesz now in power for over 100 days
- A program to rebuild, not downsize Detroit
- Officials seek to prevent discussion at meetings on downsizing of Detroit
- Scientists find large amounts of oil on Gulf of Mexico seafloor
- Great power rivalries intensify ethnic conflicts in Kyrgyzstan
- Indianapolis GM workers fight new UAW vote on wage cut
- Swedish Greens offer support to right-wing Alliance
- Wishing and hoping for Franklin D. Obama
- Steelworkers union isolates locked out Sears Canada workers
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SEP public meetings
The Australian election crisis: The political issues facing the working class - Mott’s workers end bitter 16-week strike in upstate New York
- Sears Canada workers speak
- Letters from our readers
17 September 2010 (front page)
- Flooding crisis worsens in Pakistan
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The failure of American capitalism
Forty-four million living in poverty in the US - South Australian Labor government announces deep spending cuts
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University of Western Sydney lecture
The global economic breakdown—a Marxist analysis - Cuba’s mass layoffs: The dead-end of Castroism
- European leaders disavow criticism of France’s Roma deportations
- French unions, “left” allies undermine resistance to pension cuts
- More evidence of PG&E cost-cutting prior to San Bruno explosion
- British general’s memoirs hit Blair government on military policy
- Opel: Restructuring at the expense of the workforce
- US egg producer responsible for outbreak knew of contamination for years
- Detroit fires: Timeline of a disaster
- Splitting Image, the final album from Supastition
- Unions force through casual labor contract at Harley-Davidson
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
18 September 2010 (front page)
- Another rigged election in Afghanistan
- Economic crisis threatens to unleash global currency wars
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Record number of US homes seized by banks
- British Trades Union Congress will not oppose government’s austerity measures
- Raid by US troops kills Iraqi civilians
- UK coalition government attacks welfare benefits
- White House ducks fight with Senate Republicans over consumer agency chief
- Massachusetts infrastructure in dangerous state of decay
- The persecution of Roma—under the Nazis and today
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An important series of meetings in Berlin
American historian Alexander Rabinowitch to speak in Berlin - Join the International Students for Social Equality!
- Solid support for Indianapolis workers at GM’s Flint Metal Center
- Letters from our readers
20 September 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Pseudo-lefts line up behind Greens-backed Labor government
- Cambodian union leaders call off garment workers’ mass strike
- East side Detroit residents say fire not a “natural disaster”
- Fraud, violence and mass abstention: Election debacle in Afghanistan
- French Senate votes burqa ban into law
- BP seals well, but environmental disaster continues
- Tens of thousands in Germany protest “Stuttgart 21” railway project
- West Virginia jobless fund faces insolvency
- Britain’s trade unions and the ex-left
- This week in history: September 20-September 26
- Washington State paper mill workers reject second contract offer
21 September 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Gillard government responsible for suicide at immigration detention centre
- Japan-China dispute in East China Sea flares up
- The Pakistani cricket match-fixing scandal
- Sri Lankan constitutional changes entrench autocratic rule
- Obama seeks to placate Wall Street amidst forecasts of years of high unemployment
- Kashmir seethes: Indian elite resorts to repression and political maneuvers
- All London firefighters threatened with being sacked
- Spanish parliament passes anti-labour laws
- Split over Greek regional election highlights SYRIZA’s rightward march
- Chicago residents occupy public school field house
- Detroit symphony musicians facing deadline for strike or lockout
- UAW holds sham “information” meetings to push Indianapolis GM wage cut
- SEP Public Meetings: The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the US
- Video: Inferno on Moenart Street in Detroit
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Public meetings: The social and political roots of the Detroit fires
- Letters from our readers
22 September 2010 (front page)
- Helicopter crash makes 2010 the deadliest year for Afghanistan occupation troops
- Currency wars and the contradictions of capitalism
- Report whitewashes FBI political spying
- Right-wing Alliance inflicts defeat on Sweden’s social democrats
- Dollar drops, gold soars following Federal Reserve meeting
- European youth hit hard by crisis
- Murdoch phone hacking scandal engulfs all Britain’s major parties
- Democratic administration pushes ahead with Detroit downsizing
- Australia: New Labor government changes tune on carbon tax after BHP chief intervenes
- Australia: US-China rivalry provokes heated debate
- Support the Indianapolis GM workers!
- Get Low and getting to the truth
23 September 2010 (front page)
- 100,000 protest against government nuclear policy in Berlin
- Australia: Labor government defends mandatory detention in face of asylum-seeker protests
- Australia: Local residents offer support to asylum seekers
- European Central Bank presses Irish government for more social cuts
- Philippine president visits US amid rising regional tensions
- Republicans block vote on repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell”
- UN “poverty summit” exposes failure of world capitalism
- US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Virginia woman
- Russian president defends authoritarian rule in the name of “democracy”
- Germany’s bankrupt Hypo Real Estate pays out millions in bonuses
- Planning committee on education cuts—the ISO supports the Democratic Party
- Letters on the Indianapolis rank-and-file committee
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Toronto International Film Festival 2010—Part 1
Filmmaking in 2010
24 September 2010 (front page)
- Obama at the UN: The arrogant voice of imperialism
- International aid for Pakistan flood victims grossly inadequate
- Producer of tainted eggs testifies before US Congress
- Forbes 400 list: 2010 has been very good to the richest Americans
- Former Sri Lankan army chief convicted for second time
- US insurers stop offering child-only health plans
- Continental workers in France pressured into voting for wage cuts
- Australia: Queensland government launches rail sell-off
- Debacle in Afghanistan: British troops withdraw from Sangin
- CAUS holds meeting on Detroit fires
- Indianapolis GM workers defy UAW, vote down wage cut
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
25 September 2010 (front page)
- Japan releases trawler captain after China threatens economic war
- French day of action: Millions march against pension cuts
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Claiming “material support of terrorism”
FBI raids homes of antiwar activists - Senate Democrats postpone vote on tax cuts for the wealthy
- Virginia woman executed, Georgia and California executions to follow
- US presses India to further water down nuclear liability law
- US jobless claims, housing data show no recovery for workers
- Thousands demonstrate in Bucharest against social cuts
- FBI informant in “Newburgh 4” terror frame-up caught in perjury
- Thailand: Bangkok rally highlights continuing political tensions
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After San Bruno firestorm
California energy giant PG&E releases list of 100 most dangerous gas pipelines - The return of the Greens
- Why is the political right on the offensive in America?
- More letters on the Indianapolis rank-and-file committee
- Letters on the Indianapolis rank-and-file committee
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 September 2010 (front page)
- Former Australian police chief testifies in Bali Nine appeal
- Sri Lankan government to abolish Colombo Municipal Council
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“A screenwriter writes with his eyes”
Suso Cecchi d’Amico (1914–2010): a seminal figure in Italian cinema - US slaughter intensifies in Afghanistan
- Obama administration invokes “state secrets” doctrine to defend the assassination of US citizens
- Ed Miliband takes up the poisoned chalice as the UK’s Labour Party leader
- European economy falters as divisions mount
- Ballot irregularities fuel uncertainty over Sweden’s election result
- Did Massey officials tamper with evidence?
- Toronto Mayoralty race pushes right-wing agenda
- British police officer convicted of brutal assault released from prison after six days
- FBI raids on antiwar activists: A frontal assault on democratic rights
- This week in history: September 27-October 3
28 September 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Treasury sets austerity agenda for Gillard government
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Big Brother Obama: US to spy on Internet messaging
Regulations to target Skype, Facebook, Blackberry - Protesters denounce FBI raids on antiwar activists
- UAW backers offer no strategy for Indianapolis struggle
- IMF-ILO conference warns of political upheavals
- Spanish miners strike against unpaid wages and pit closures
- The New York Times and the FBI raids
- Paris seizes on Niger kidnapping to sow “war on terror” panic
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The lies of Thilo Sarrazin
Part one - Poverty grows in Madagascar
- Detroit teachers hear lecture by “school reform” opponent
- Hearings expose health hazards in natural gas extraction
- The way forward for Indianapolis GM workers
- Facebook founder’s gift to Newark schools: The return of the aristocratic principle
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Toronto International Film Festival 2010—Part 2
Tears of Gaza director: “How could one not want to show the world what is happening?” - ETUC European day of action—a cynical maneuver
- More letters to the Indianapolis rank-and-file committee
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
29 September 2010 (front page)
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US Census Bureau figures
2009 income gap in the US highest on record - General strike in Spain against anti-labour laws and austerity measures
- US escalates killing on both sides of Afghanistan-Pakistan border
- Military hearings on Afghanistan “kill team” begin
- Antiwar activists raided by FBI could face prison
- China-Japan standoff continues over disputed islets
- Defying police attacks, Foxconn workers in India continue strike
- French state, unions seek to disarm strikes against pension cuts
- German government offers miserly increase in welfare payments
- New push to send more Australian troops to Afghanistan
- Philippine budget: Austerity for the poor, subsidies for the rich
- Indianapolis rank-and-file committee draws worldwide support
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The lies of Thilo Sarrazin
Part two -
The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part one -
Revealing episode from the history of the civil rights movement
Ernest Withers and the FBI - ISO opposes break with Democratic Party at Berkeley planning committee meeting
- Detroit Symphony musicians set October 4 strike date
30 September 2010 (front page)
- US House passes anti-China trade war bill
- European Union sharpens its austerity measures
- Spain: Ten million workers take part in general strike
- Europe-wide protests against austerity and cuts
- At Wisconsin rally, Obama shows contempt for his “base”
- CIA runs private army in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Palestinian President Abbas refuses to quit phoney peace talks
- The rise of the Sweden Democrats and the Swedish far right
- Victim of FBI raid speaks out
- Sri Lankan president at the UN denies war crimes
- Australia: Labor-Green committee to promote pro-business climate policies
- Indianapolis workers face fight against threat to close GM plant
- More letters to the Indianapolis rank-and-file committee
- SEP publishes program: “The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the US”
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The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
Part two - Letters from our readers
- New Zealand teachers, health workers strike
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