Archive: November 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 November 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Nurses stop work over staffing at Blacktown hospital
- Australia: Warehouse workers strike over wages and conditions
- US election campaign ends amid deepening economic crisis
- US stokes disputes with China at Asian summit
- Wikileaks exposures deepen political crisis in Iraq
- 欧洲的罢工浪潮与资产阶级民主的衰败
- Stewart/Colbert rally preaches compromise and complacency
- New Anti-capitalist Party covers for union betrayal of French oil strike
- UK government to impose Orwellian-style surveillance
- US Supreme Court justice’s wife has leading role in ultra-right group
- Haiti’s cholera toll: An indictment of imperialism
- Unanswered questions in the Yemen terror scare
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SEP candidate for Michigan legislature
D’Artagnan Collier addresses public meeting in Detroit - This week in history: November 1-November 6
2 November 2010 (front page)
- New Zealand workers protest new industrial laws
- Obama prepares to expand military attacks in Yemen
- Sri Lanka: Fight against university privatisation
- The decay of American democracy
- Brazil stock market rises on Workers Party election victory
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Interview with WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson
“The Iraq documents give a picture of the war that has been hidden until now” - Greek union calls off rail strike
- Germany: Envio workers contaminated with both PCB and dioxin
- California ballot propositions: Corporate money and the illusion of reform
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Vote for D’Artagnan Collier
Socialist Candidate in Michigan’s 9th District - London Underground workers on third one-day strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
3 November 2010 (front page)
- Indonesia: Inadequate relief endangers disaster victims
- Republicans win sweeping victory in US congressional election
- Top Saudi court confirms death sentence on Sri Lankan worker
- Mounting evidence of British war crimes
- France: More strikes, opposition to social austerity
- The German Foreign Ministry during the Third Reich: “A criminal organisation”
- Wall Street expected to net billions from GM stock sale
- Housing benefits cuts will “socially cleanse” London
- BP spill claims czar throws out thousands of applications
- New York Times defends its coverage of WikiLeaks exposures
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The American student loan racket
Part one - National Ransom, Elvis Costello and Americana music
- Two injured as London fire fighters resist strikebreaking operation
4 November 2010 (front page)
- China: Report exposes Foxconn’s oppressive work regime
- Global financial crisis leaves two million Australians in poverty
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After the 2010 Democratic defeat
Obama, Republicans prepare for joint assault on American workers - Striking warehouse workers isolated as trade unions prepare sell out deal
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SEP public meeting
The Detroit Symphony Strike & the Defense of Culture in the US - The dimensions of the Democratic Party collapse in 2010 election
- US Federal Reserve announces new round of bond purchases
- The significance of Israel’s “loyalty oath”
- India: Police Chief vows to step up spying on workers
- India: BYD Electronics fires most of its workforce, after police break up sit-in
- UK and France forge military alliance
- Behind the Democratic debacle
- Fractal visionary dies: Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010
- Montreal meeting: 70 years since the assassination of Trotsky
- Pakistani workers express support for Indianapolis GM rank-and-file committee
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The American student loan racket
Part two - Letters on the Stewart/Colbert rally
5 November 2010 (front page)
- The American student loan racket
- The Town: Clichés and engaging performances
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“Reality television”
Top Chef: Is real drama so hard to find? - Wall Street celebrates Fed credit boost, Obama deal on tax cuts
- US Federal Reserve stokes global currency war
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2010 US elections
The record of the WSWS on Obama - French unions call further one-day strike to contain opposition
- Hurricane threatens Haiti as cholera epidemic surges
- Disputed Pacific islands spark tensions between Russia and Japan
- British Columbia Premier felled by anti-tax campaign
- Right-wing Democrat wins in California gubernatorial election
- Sri Lankan government wages “war on drugs”
- German unions prepare betrayal of rail workers
- Unions undermine London Underground jobs fight
- Australia: Labor joins Murdoch media smear campaign in Victorian election
- Australia: Union rams through sellout deal for warehouse workers
- The German Foreign Ministry and the Nazis
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
6 November 2010 (front page)
- Business concerns over Greens and threat of hung parliament dominate Victorian election debate
- US unemployment remains at 9.6 percent despite rise in payrolls
- Obama continues Washington’s aggressive courting of India
- Clinton to pressure Australia to be firmer on China
- French union leaders seek to wind down opposition to pension cuts
- US tax data shows falling wages, rising inequality
- Fire Brigades Union sabotages London firefighters struggle
- Public outrage over light sentence for California cop
- Scotland concedes legal access to those arrested, but curtails appeals
- The apologists for Obama and the Republican “resurgence”
- Torturer-in-chief: Bush brags about waterboarding
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The 2010 elections in Detroit and the fight for socialism
8 November 2010 (front page)
- Australia: SEP meetings advance socialist perspective against war in Afghanistan
- Obama, Republicans embrace spending cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy
- Sri Lanka: Action committee against evictions appeals to workers
- One million march in eighth national protest against Sarkozy’s pension law
- Pseudo-left critics of French unions sow demoralization about strikes
- MSNBC’s suspension of Keith Olbermann: US media shifts further to the right
- BBC journalists strike against pension cuts
- UK’s top CEOs see 55 percent earnings rise
- German parliament approves billions in welfare cut
- Mounting US war threats against Iran
- This week in history: November 8-November 14
9 November 2010 (front page)
- Australia aligns with US against China’s geo-political rise
- Australia: Victorian government tries to cover up ambulance crisis
- Indonesian government dismisses evidence of torture in Papua
- Obama backs India’s bid for permanent UN Security Council seat
- 民主党溃败的背后
- World Bank head calls for monetary system linked to gold
- Obama on “60 Minutes”: A servant of big business
- Presidential commission whitewashes BP disaster
- Abstention in Greek elections shows anger at PASOK austerity
- Indian worker left to die on Nokia assembly line
- Student demonstration against cuts attacked by police in Dublin
- Striking Detroit Symphony musicians hold another well-attended support concert
- Austrian government adopts austerity budget
- Three films: Conviction, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Inside Job
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 November 2010 (front page)
- No explanation for apparent missile firing near Los Angeles
- French Constitutional Council approves pension cuts
- Protests in Germany against radioactive waste transport
- French police infiltrated protests against Sarkozy austerity program
- Australian media denounces Labor government for postponing major spending cuts
- Oligarchy and inequality in Israel
- Mother of Sri Lankan worker facing Saudi death sentence speaks to WSWS
- Shootings of immigrants in Sweden
- US ends 25-year defence rift with New Zealand
- US prepares permanent Iraq occupation
- Bush on NBC: Rehabilitating a war criminal
- SEP Victorian election meeting
- Unprecedented attacks on Fiat workers
- David Walsh speaks on “Socialism and Cinema”
- Washington cuts funding for emergency utilities assistance
11 November 2010 (front page)
- Australian banks denounce criticism of record profits
- Australian cable workers in third week of strike against restructuring of conditions
- G20 summit dominated by specter of currency, trade wars
- New Zealand government attacks film workers, gives millions to Hobbit producers
- The Nagoya biodiversity summit, a cynical fraud in global politics
- Lessons of the European strike wave
- Chairmen of Obama deficit panel propose cuts in Social Security, Medicare
- UK students march against cuts, occupy Conservative Party HQ
- White House rejects criminal charges in CIA destruction of torture videos
- Leading members of the Socialist Alternative Group join German Left Party
- Marine biologist denounces BP commission findings
- California’s public universities start new round of tuition hikes
- Texas legislature proposes draconian education cuts
- Houston officials attack summer school programs
- The New York Times argues against promising lung cancer test
- Pentagon moves to quickly close investigation of mystery missile
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SEP meetings in California
The historical and political legacy of Leon Trotsky - An additional comment on Inside Job, the documentary about the financial meltdown
- Letters from our readers
12 November 2010 (front page)
- Iraq parliament meets to ratify power-sharing deal
- Qantas’s near mid-air disaster highlights safety concerns
- Sri Lankan minister warns of “insurgency” in universities
- Zizek in Manhattan: An intellectual charlatan masquerading as “left”
- US deficit panel launches offensive against social programs
- UK students and academics voice anger at tuition fee hikes
- 50 million US adults without health insurance
- Italy: right-wing shift underlies latest Berlusconi scandal
- The protests against nuclear energy and the German Greens
- Hollywood musicians express support for Detroit Symphony strikers
- US Army “kill team” hearing continues
- US soldier refused Afghan deployment over PTSD
- Toronto Star investigation highlights police brutality, rigged disciplinary system
- Detroit town hall meeting on utilities offers residents no help
- Five children killed in Florida house fire
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Video: SEP candidate speaks with residents in toxic dump area
13 November 2010 (front page)
- Canada to extend participation in Afghan War through 2014
- G20 summit fails to resolve global trade, currency conflicts
- US diplomatic offensive tightens strategic encirclement of China
- US pushes back Afghanistan timetable as fighting escalates
- Workfare to be imposed in Britain
- Growing signs of renewed debt crisis in Europe
- 200,000 at risk in Haiti cholera epidemic
- Chinese President Hu visits France
- After the elections, New York Democrats step up attacks on state workers
- US steps up pressure on Burmese junta following rigged elections
- Louisiana college students protest budget cuts in Baton Rouge
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Obama moves toward extending Bush tax cuts
A government of, by, and for the rich - Britain’s Guardian embraces the Tories’ austerity measures
- Media drops story of apparent missile launch
- Australia: Sydney Foxconn workers expose sweatshop conditions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Oppose the witch-hunt of student protesters in Britain
- An interview with Richard Pare, photographer and expert on Soviet Modernist architecture
- LHC particle accelerator begins lead ion collisions
15 November 2010 (front page)
- APEC summit ends with drift toward trade war
- Karzai calls for reducing US military operations in Afghanistan
- SEP (Australia) holds election meeting in Broadmeadows
- Released opposition leader Suu Kyi calls for talks with Burmese junta
- Ireland seeks bailout by European Union
- 10 percent of all German adults heavily indebted
- Study shows growing social divide in Germany
- Boston School Committee approves in-district charter schools
- After the G20 summit
- This week in history: November 15-November 21
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Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Britain
For a mass movement against austerity! For a workers’ government on socialist policies!
16 November 2010 (front page)
- Lame duck US Congress moves to cut taxes for rich, end benefits for unemployed
- US corporate executives back at the trough
- Sarkozy reshuffles French cabinet
- German unions’ “hot autumn” protests seek to demobilize workers
- Trade union federation works hand in glove with German government
- Texas execution in 2000 based on false evidence
- Israel prevents fair trial of Rachel Corrie lawsuit
- Australia: Privatisations send electricity prices surging
- Chicago apartment fires kill and injure multiple residents, leave scores homeless
- The New York Times and the mystery missile
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Victorian opposition directs preferences to government, almost ensuring a Labor victory
- Letters from our readers
17 November 2010 (front page)
- Australian Labor government “education revolution” leads to Macquarie University job cuts
- Obama trip consolidates strategic ties with Indonesia
- Protesters shot dead as Haiti cholera toll tops 1,000
- World markets fall on signs of renewed financial crisis
- Mounting evidence of British war crimes in Iraq
- Social democrats win Greek regional elections amid mass abstention
- DSO musicians hold spirited picket in week seven of strike
- New Anti-Capitalist Party endorses French unions’ sellout of pension strikes
- German parliament approves health reform
- Bloomberg appoints publishing exec to run New York schools
- Hunger in America
- The liberals’ lament: “Why won’t Obama fight?”
- India: Unions sell out contract workers strike at lignite mining company
- Veteran’s wife writes on US military neglect of PTSD victims
18 November 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Gillard Labor responsible for another refugee suicide
- Australia: The Victorian Labor government’s “jobs pledge” and the unemployment crisis
- EU “rescue” operation for Ireland heralds deepening euro crisis
- Fire in Shanghai building kills 79
- The revival of German militarism
- US seeks “engagement” with Burmese junta after Suu Kyi's release
- Another bipartisan panel proposes cuts to Social Security, Medicare
- Former British ambassador forecasts 50-year foreign role in Afghanistan
- The GM IPO: Wall Street celebrates impoverishment of auto workers
- Growing public outrage over full-body scans, “enhanced” pat-downs at US airports
- Republicans dictate agenda in lame duck Congress
- California state workers’ union pushes through cuts in pay and pensions
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A talk by WSWS arts editor David Walsh
The Detroit Symphony strike and the defense of culture in the US - ISSE and SEP hold meeting on Detroit Symphony strike at the University of Michigan
- Gamma-ray bubbles discovered around our galaxy
- Letters from our readers
19 November 2010 (front page)
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As stock market soars
US House fails to extend jobless benefits - Europe’s dirty secret
- Social crisis grips Ireland
- Sweden issues international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Assange
- Guantánamo detainee, acquitted on 284 of 285 charges, faces 20 years
- Australia backs US in currency conflict with China
- New York’s Mayor Bloomberg announces 10,000 job cuts
- Sri Lankan government detains plantation union leaders
- New report on Gulf oil spill shows BP ignored warning signs
- Obama lawyers oppose suits enforcing separation of church and state
- US takes extraordinary steps to extradite alleged Russian arms dealer
- New social cuts in California to follow revised budget deficit
- Thirteen arrested in California student protest
- UAW President Bob King on Wall Street
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
20 November 2010 (front page)
- Anti-UN protests spread as Haitians die without aid
- Australia: Striking Prysmian workers fighting global “restructuring” offensive
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- 美国外交攻势收紧对华战略包围
- Former Nazi soldier appointed to Latvian parliamentary committee
- NATO summit to embrace indefinite Afghan war
- Students and academics condemn witch-hunt of anti-Tory protesters
- 29 missing after explosion in New Zealand mine
- French President Sarkozy outlines right-wing agenda in TV interview
- French Socialist Party advocates fraudulent “Real Equality” program
- The Rangel diversion: Democratic congressman convicted on ethics charges
- Australia: Desalination plant workers strike over corporate spying revelations
- US Steel locks out Hamilton, Ontario workers
- State of emergency declared in Guinea after elections
- More US orchestras demand musicians accept pay, job cuts
- Australia: Bipartisan support for repressive “law and order” measures in Victorian election
- Letters from our readers
22 November 2010 (front page)
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Grand Junction, Colorado and the rationing of health care in the US
Introduction: An attack on health care in the guise of “reform” - NATO summit reveals cracks in Atlantic Alliance
- New Zealand: 29 miners still missing after underground explosion
- Sri Lanka: ISSE/SEP public meeting against university privatisation
- US, NATO commit to indefinite occupation of Afghanistan
- Ireland “on the brink of significant civil unrest”
- Obama appeals to Republicans to back Russia arms treaty
- Myth and reality in the mountains of Colorado
- Interview with a Grand Junction resident
- Repression against opposition intensifies in Egypt
- Hundreds sue Massey Energy over water pollution
- More details emerge in US Army kill team case
- Repression of British students presages explosive class struggles
- This week in history: November 22-November 28
- The “cool little cluster” that is Mose Allison’s brain
23 November 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Desalination workers challenge attempt to cover up spying affair
- Australia: Labor’s “world class health system” leaves thousands of Victorians waiting for treatment
- Australia: Refugees continue hunger strike as frustration and anger escalate
- Bankers dictate brutal cuts as part of EU-IMF bailout of Ireland
- Pentagon ratchets up Korea tensions over nuclear facility
- Rescuers preparing for “loss of life” in New Zealand mine disaster
- The stench of the police state at US airports
- Obama’s car czar faces new lawsuits in kickback scheme
- Bernanke defends Fed monetary policy, blames China for currency tensions
- Striking Detroit Symphony musicians continue efforts to win public support
- British enterprise tsar resigns after “never had it so good” remark
- Detroit News targets Michigan teachers for new round of pay cuts
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Assessing Leon Trotsky seventy years after his assassination
Report given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies -
New pamphlet from Mehring Books
The Detroit Symphony strike and the defense of culture in the US - Young worker dies in Detroit area house fire
- SEP to hold first ever meeting in Vancouver
- Struggling California condor population suggests persistence of DDT
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
24 November 2010 (front page)
- Artillery exchange heightens tensions on Korean peninsula
- Australia: Labor government accelerates rundown and privatisation of public housing
- Leon Trotsky’s Analysis of the Emerging Global Role of US Capitalism
- Nurses strike across Australia’s largest state
- Irish government moves to push through austerity measures
- At Indiana Chrysler plant Obama hails revival of auto industry profits
- Portugal: General strike ahead of Congress budget vote
- Terror warning a pretext for an attack on fundamental rights
- Harlan, Kentucky mine worker killed, three injured in separate accidents
- New Zealand miners declared dead after another massive explosion
- The Irish bailout and the necessity for the United Socialist States of Europe
- The legacy of Leonard Bernstein: a book review
- Media campaigns against “energy theft” at start of heating season
- Maine hospital locks out nurses in response to one-day strike
25 November 2010 (front page)
- US exploits Korean clash to step up pressure on China
- European markets fall as Ireland reveals further austerity plan
- General strike brings Portugal to a halt
- Student protests in Italy against education cuts
- Quebec’s Liberal government engulfed by scandals and crisis
- Australia: Labor moves to tighten coercive industrial powers after construction worker acquitted by magistrate
- New York City: Thousands of subway signals not inspected
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Thanksgiving in America
US corporations shatter profit records - Germany: Missing “degenerate art” works rediscovered
- Australia: Ex-lefts develop new political “regroupment” in Victorian election campaign
- Letters from our readers
26 November 2010 (front page)
- Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy in Burma
- Council of Europe accuses Greece of mistreating refugees
- Euro in crisis as speculative assault intensifies
- India’s government rocked by 2G mobile license scandal
- Mehring Books holiday sale!
- Pentagon issues grim review of Afghanistan war
- Police attack students involved in nationwide protests in UK
- South Australian unions call protest to head off opposition to Labor’s job cuts
- Sri Lankan budget implements IMF austerity measures
- Students demonstrate in UK against increased fees and education cuts
- The Nation covers up for Democratic Party debacle
- US: The millionaires’ Congress
- Vote 1 for Peter Byrne and the SEP in Broadmeadows, Victoria
- Workers Struggles: Europe. Middle East & Africa
- World Bank report points to deepening social crisis in Russia
- Growing anger over New Zealand mine deaths
27 November 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Prysmian workers stand firm as they enter fifth week of strike
- Cholera outbreak kills dozens in Papua New Guinea
- Hundreds die in Phnom Penh bridge stampede
- Portugal passes austerity budget as speculative attack on Spain intensifies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- 在美国挨饿
- Ireland’s main opposition parties signal support for austerity budget
- UN agency predicts global food crisis as prices soar
- State repression rampant in run up to Egyptian parliamentary elections
- Management reject rail unions’ offer to call off London strike action
- First arrest in high-profile insider trading investigation
- Former House Republican leader convicted of money laundering
- Cholera outbreak kills dozens in Papua New Guinea
- Over 300,000 affected by boil-water advisory in New Orleans
- The Korean crisis and the threat of a wider war
- Experiment at CERN traps antimatter atoms
29 November 2010 (front page)
- Australia: Victorian Labor government thrown out of office
- Tens of thousands protest EU-IMF bank bailout in Ireland
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Victorian workers discuss key issues in state election
“These conditions cannot continue unanswered” -
“They’re going after the people who are least able to afford it”
Demonstrators in Ireland denounce austerity cuts - US stages show of force as China calls for crisis talks on Korea
- New WikiLeaks documents expose US foreign policy conspiracies
- One hundred arts organisations face destruction from UK budget cuts
- German court bans pilots strike
- Labour’s majority slashed in New Zealand by-election
- US states prepare unprecedented cuts to social spending
- Four of five Las Vegas mortgages “underwater”
- US praises Malaysia’s autocratic government
- The US Congress and the unemployed
- This week in history: November 29-December 5
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Public lecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts
The historical and political legacy of Leon Trotsky
30 November 2010 (front page)
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New WikiLeaks revelations confirm
Obama administration targets Iran for aggression - Diplomatic secrecy and imperialist crimes
- Financial oligarchy dictates terms of Irish bailout
- Obama imposes pay freeze on 2.1 million federal workers
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Statement of the International Students for Social Equality (UK)
Britain: Which way forward for the student movement? - SEP member addresses student occupation at the University of Manchester
- Switzerland approves reactionary “Deportation Initiative”
- China imposes price controls as inflation threatens social unrest
- German state exploits terror alert to expand police powers
- Michigan families face rising poverty, hunger and homelessness
- The Victorian election and the crisis of the Australian Labor Party
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Victorian workers discuss key issues in state election
“The economy is in chaos and we’re being made to pay” - Angels in America returns to New York
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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