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Archive: February 2011

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 February 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Newly-installed Tasmanian Premier pledges deep spending cuts
• Egyptian uprising grows despite regime’s reform gestures
• Sri Lankan government blocks key local elections
• Ten workers die in construction accident in the Philippines
• The Egyptian Revolution
• The anti-socialist politics of Tunisia’s official “opposition”
• On the US “left” and the Egyptian Revolution
• British government consolidates two-tier education system
• More evidence of police infiltration of UK political groups
• German Supreme Court fails to defend right to asylum
• West Virginia teen is first US coal mining fatality of 2011
• MSHA’s “working theory” of explosion that killed 29 Massey miners
• Country singer Charlie Louvin dead at 83
• Letters from our readers

2 February 2011 (front page)

• Obama backs Mubarak’s bid to retain power
• 突尼斯群众起义与不断革命观
• The Egyptian working class needs new forms of mass organization
• King Abdullah replaces Jordanian cabinet
• Tunisian uprising continues
• Japan under growing international pressure for austerity measures
• One third of Americans are diabetic or prediabetic
• Indian human rights activist jailed for life on frame-up charges
• Los Angeles School District works with ACLU to deny teachers’ seniority rights
• Opposition emerges to Australian government’s flood tax package
• New York state and city universities face tuition hikes, cutbacks
• The New York Times and “living within our means”
• WikiLeaks cables reveal crimes of French imperialism in Africa
• Italian union calls eight-hour strike at Fiat
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 February 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Final SEP Broadmeadows election campaign meeting on Sunday February 13
• Australia: Goodna flood victims explain their plight
• Australia: Working people severely hit by Brisbane floods
  On-the-spot report from Queensland
• Cyclone Yasi causes extensive damage across north eastern Australia
• Deadly crackdown against Egyptian protesters
• Sri Lankan guards shoot protesting prisoners
• Moroccan government fears outbreak of mass protests
• Record pay for Wall Street executives in 2010
• Federal judge rules Obama health care law unconstitutional
• Ten people die in German train crash
• Police agent Mark Kennedy was active throughout Europe
• New York State takes control of Nassau County finances
• Obama backs bloodbath in Egypt
• The New York Times’ Bill Keller on WikiLeaks: A collapse of democratic sensibility
• WikiLeaks exposes Washington’s dollar diplomacy
• Rallying round the flag: The King’s Speech
• Letters from our readers

4 February 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Grantham—a community devastated
  On-the-spot report from Queensland
• Heroic resistance in Cairo to state-orchestrated repression
• Video: Queensland floods: “The government left us for dead”
  Part 1 of an interview with Marty Warburton in Grantham
• Obama’s crocodile tears over Egypt’s violence
• Tens of thousands rally in Yemeni capital
• Obama administration indicts ex-CIA whistleblower
• Arson attack on Sri Lankan opposition web site
• The CGT and Sarkozy’s pension “reform”
• French media gives glowing coverage of new National Front leader
• Australian cyclone contributes to renewed flooding in Victoria
• Previously eradicated diseases reemerge in US
• Australia: Report leaves unanswered questions on refugee deaths
• Auto bosses, UAW press ahead with “pay-for-performance” scheme
• SEP Australia public meeting: The Egyptian Revolution and its political implications
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

5 February 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Brisbane residents reveal ongoing impact of flood disaster
  On-the-spot report from Queensland
• Massive anti-government protest on Egypt’s “day of departure”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• WikiLeaks: Cables reveal connivance of US government with Mubarak dictatorship
• EU summit lines up with Washington on Egypt
• The fear of “Nile fever” in China
• US payroll growth slowed to four-month low in January
• EU leaders discuss further austerity measures
• Video: Queensland floods: “It's all about the corporate dollar”
  Part 2 of an interview with Marty Warburton in Grantham
• Canada’s political elite wages phony war over corporate taxes
• Oppose US-backed “transition” in Egypt
• SEP (UK) public meetings
  Egypt, Tunisia and the perspective of permanent revolution
• SEP (UK) public meetings
  Defend Julian Assange! Behind the witch-hunt of WikiLeaks
• Letters from our readers
• Reply to a reader on the Spanish air traffic controllers

7 February 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Flood victims’ property destroyed during official “recovery” operation
  On-the-spot report from Queensland
• Egyptian regime begins US-backed talks with opposition parties
• Imperialism and Egypt’s “democratic transition”
• Julian Assange condemns Australian Labor government at public meeting
• Socialist Equality Party holds election meeting in Broadmeadows
• International demonstrations support Egyptian revolution
• WSWS speaks to London protesters
• Social tensions worsen as south of Sudan votes for secession
• Spanish trade unions and Zapatero agree to pension cuts
• Quebec: Shutdown of Electrolux plant threatens 1,300 jobs
• Two Colombia mine explosions kill 26
• Chicago shut down by blizzard
• From the archive of the WSWS
  Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): An obituary
• The burying of the Financial Crisis Inquiry report
• This week in history: February 7-13

8 February 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Gillard government prepares assault on social welfare
• Egyptian protesters face mounting violence and repression
• Full extent of Australian cyclone disaster emerges
• In effort to limit BP payout, compensation fund head says gulf recovery imminent
• Sri Lankan Supreme Court upholds Fonseka convictions
• Obama’s cold-blooded defense of Egyptian regime
• Tunisian regime seeks emergency powers against mass protests
• Obama tells corporate leaders US will be “best place to do business”
• Julian Assange legal team makes devastating critique of Swedish extradition attempt
• One in seven Americans on food stamps
• Video: Queensland floods: “They totally destroyed anything I could salvage”
  On the spot report from Queensland
• Trade unions seek to politically disarm opposition to UK education cuts
• AOL buys Huffington Post for $315 million: So much for America’s “progressive” media
• Munich exhibition documents German army atrocity in Afghanistan
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 February 2011 (front page)

• “All those involved in my treatment should be jailed for war crimes”
  Former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib speaks with WSWS
• Mass protests and strikes escalate as Egyptians reject “orderly transition”
• Thai-Cambodian border clash driven by internal political tensions
• The Australian Labor Party and its property developer candidate for Broadmeadows
• The Company Men: what the economic crisis has wrought
• Britain’s prime minister whips up anti-Muslim sentiment
• Omar Suleiman—longtime collaborator with Israel and US
• Democrats on the Mubarak payroll
• French government embarrassed by its ties to North African dictatorships
• Italian politicians fear spread of “Egyptian fever”
• Munich Security Conference defends the Egyptian regime
• Extradition hearing against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to reconvene
• Pakistan: Red Cross warns of Tunisia-style unrest in wake of floods
• Iowa prepares massive cuts to social spending

10 February 2011 (front page)

• A reply to the falsifications of the ACTU and pseudo-lefts on the Swift meatworkers’ struggle
• Australia: Facing landslide defeat, NSW Labor issues “fairness” package
• Strikes and demonstrations spread across Egypt
• Vietnamese Communist Party opens its arms to the capitalist elite
• The Egyptian working class moves to the forefront
• Protests shake Algerian regime
• Hamas and PLO suppress solidarity action for Egypt
• Pentagon official: US could send troops to fight Mexican “insurgency”
• Nearly 30 percent of US homeowners now “underwater”
  Total value of homes fell $2 trillion last year
• Spain’s air traffic controllers union backs military policing of its members
• US bullying Pakistan to release “diplomat” who killed two in Lahore market
• Chicago mayoral candidates promise intensified attacks on working class
• State criminalizes family victimized by DTE and poverty
• Oppose all cuts in public spending
  Build rank-and-file committees to lead the struggle
• Donald Rumsfeld publishes memoirs of an unrepentant war criminal
• Detroit Symphony management escalates threats as musicians continue strike
• Letters from our readers

11 February 2011 (front page)

• Afghan president confirms US demand for permanent bases
• Australia: Union enforces sweatshop conditions at Foxconn’s Sydney plant
• Egyptian military tortured, “disappeared” thousands of demonstrators
• Mubarak resigns, military claims power in Egypt
• Mubarak’s speech: only revolution can oust regime
• New Zealand government outlines spending cuts, asset sales
• Video: Queensland floods—“I’ve lost everything”
  Part one of an interview with Wendy Smith and Lee Sheppard
• Israel staggered by Egypt protests, social tensions at home
• Protesters in Gabon call for president to step down
• French prime minister faces scandal over all-expenses paid Egyptian vacation
• New York City closes 22 more public schools
• New York City teachers and students voice opposition to school closings
• Natural gas explosion kills 5 in Eastern Pennsylvania
• Obama’s proposed budget to slash funding for historic preservation, National Park Service
• The downfall of Hosni Mubarak
• The Egyptian revolution and the German Left Party
• NPA meeting in Paris backs imperialist policy on Egypt, Tunisia
• Amazon drought highlights impact of global warming
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

12 February 2011 (front page)

• Mubarak resignation staggers Obama administration
• Mubarak resigns, military claims power in Egypt
• Solomon Islands government accuses Canberra of destabilisation drive
• Sri Lankan president foreshadows further economic hardship
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Popular anger boils over in Iraq
  Further protests in Algeria, Tunisia and Yemen
• WikiLeaks: Verdict on Assange extradition due February 24
• Obama to slash home heating assistance for low-income families and seniors
• German parliament votes to extend participation in Afghan war
• Toronto announces privatization of municipal workforce
• Indian Maoists declare support for right-wing Trinamool Congress
• The “friends” of the Tunisian masses: the example of the French Independent Workers Party
• The downfall of Hosni Mubarak
• The TUC is no friend of the Egyptian working class
• Victim of DTE utility shutoff
  Video: Wanda Scott tells her story

14 February 2011 (front page)

• Egyptian military asserts authority as strikes, protests spread
• Egyptian revolution discussed at Socialist Equality Party’s final election meeting in Broadmeadows
• New Zealand government outlines spending cuts, asset sales
• Video: Queensland floods—“The government is not supporting us”
  Part two of an interview with Wendy Smith and Lee Sheppard
• Thousands protest, clash with police in Yemen and Algeria
• Obama to propose more than $1 trillion in deficit reduction
• Wisconsin governor threatens to call National Guard on state workers
• Britain’s bankers given a free rein by government’s “Project Merlin”
• UK libraries face devastation
• Referendum on privatisation of Berlin’s water supply
• The Egyptian Revolution enters a new stage
• This week in history: February 14-February 20

15 February 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Gillard health plan to slash spending
• Australia: Reject the New South Wales nurses agreement
• As anger rises over Queensland flood insurance
  Australian prime minister rules out funds to rebuild local infrastructure
• Mass protests spread in Middle East as Washington reassures Israel, Arab dictators
• Strikes, workers’ protests spread throughout Egypt
• Obama’s budget and the rot of American capitalism
• Crisis-ridden Palestinian Authority calls elections
• US House committee hearing takes aim at public sector pensions
• Irish general election campaign: All main parties committed to savage cuts
• Obama budget to hit low-income students and families
• Florida Governor proposes drastic cuts in social programs
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

16 February 2011 (front page)

• Egyptian military repeats demands for end to strike wave
• Protests continue in Bahrain and Yemen
• Obama pledges cuts in entitlement programs
• Histadrut calls off Israeli general strike
• Thousands in Wisconsin demonstrate against cuts
• The resignation of German Federal Bank President Axel Weber
• Tuberculosis: Canadian Arctic tragedy, growing global threat
• What did the US and Britain know prior to the July 7 London bombings?
• Sri Lankan government undermines public education
• Iran and the Egyptian revolution
• US: Three natural gas explosions, one fatal, in Ohio-Pennsylvania area
• Unite workers and youth to defeat Wisconsin budget cuts
• The Eagle: a Roman centurion travels beyond “the end of the world”
• Detroit News continues its slanders against Detroit Symphony musicians
• SEP/ISSE meeting in Colombo on the Egyptian revolution
• Victorian government releases another whitewash of Tullamarine toxic dump hazard
• WSWS posts Marxist Voice statement from Pakistan in Urdu

17 February 2011 (front page)

• Major new protests in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and Iraq
• Egyptian workers step up strike offensive
• Tens of thousands demonstrate against attacks on government workers in Wisconsin
• Egyptian military commands a vast business empire
• Ohio workers protest attack on collective bargaining
• New York budget to slash health, education spending
• Teachers battle riot police as violence flares in Mexico
• Runoff election campaign begins in Haiti
• Japan and Russia in diplomatic row over disputed Kuril Islands
• Video: Workers, students speak on budget cuts in Madison
• Germany: Temporary workers face poverty wages
• Australian government hypocrisy over refugee funerals
• Israeli workers and the Egyptian revolution
• US security firms planned smear campaign against WikiLeaks
• Socialist Equality Party speaks to workers in Broadmeadows by-election

18 February 2011 (front page)

• Diplomatic crisis intensifies over US operative who gunned down Pakistanis
• Lethal crackdown in Bahrain is “Made in the US”
  Further unrest in Yemen
• The Wisconsin protests and the re-emergence of the American working class
• Protests spread throughout Iraq
• Libyan regime attempts to crush uprising
• Madison protesters denounce attacks on public workers, social spending
• Worker demonstrations, walk-outs spread in Wisconsin
• Obama’s cynical posturing on Wisconsin protests
• Massive service cuts in Pennsylvania budget
• Italy’s Berlusconi indicted on prostitution, abuse-of-power charges
• Video: Madison, Wisconsin demonstrations gain strength
• WikiLeaks cables reveal closer US-Japan intelligence relations
• German student arbitrarily detained in Afghan prison
• New York: Elderly woman killed in blaze after fire department cutbacks
• Sri Lankan bank workers strike to demand pension rights
• Vote 1 for Peter Byrne, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Broadmeadows
• Stardust spacecraft gives second glimpse of comet Tempel 1
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

19 February 2011 (front page)

• Popular uprisings spread across Middle East despite brutal crackdowns
• Protestors in Madison denounce attack on public employees
• United Left Alliance responds to Irish austerity programme
• Western Wisconsin students, workers oppose cuts
• Full support to Wisconsin workers!
• Mass celebrations in Egypt one week after Mubarak downfall
• Protests, teacher walkouts mount in Wisconsin
  Milwaukee schools closed
• Minnesota to cut health, education budgets
• WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denounces Australian Labor government
• Germany: SPD expects victory in Hamburg state election
• Canada and US launch continental “security perimeter” talks
• Scottish local authorities plan compulsory redundancies
• Dealing with tragedy and grief in the Rabbit Hole
• Wall Street Journal flaunts its support for dictatorship
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 February 2011 (front page)

• Libyan government massacres demonstrators as uprising spreads
• Rising food prices threaten 1 billion with chronic hunger
• “In Search of a Job—Any Job”
  Powerful depiction of the fate of Burmese migrant workers
• Protests by students and workers in Algeria and Morocco
• The struggle of Wisconsin workers enters a new stage
• Anti-government action spreads to Djibouti
• Huge protest march opposes Wisconsin cuts
• US House approves drastic social spending cuts
• Private providers skim millions from UK health budget
• Proposed California budget slashes education
• This week in history: February 21-27
• UN rejects intervention in Thai-Cambodian border tensions
• Video: In fifth day of Wisconsin protests, largest showing yet
• Management cancels rest of concert season
  DSO musicians reject “final offer”

22 February 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Mining giants post record profits, on top of tax victory
• Broadmeadows by-election highlights growing hostility towards Australian Labor Party
• Israel’s sabre-rattling against Iran
• Sri Lanka: Alongside the A9 highway to war-torn Jaffna
• WikiLeaks documents show...
  US threatens “military option” against China over space arms race
• Uprising spreads to Libyan capital
• The Wisconsin struggle and collective bargaining
• New protests rock Tunisian government
• As Wisconsin protests continue, teachers union ends walkouts
• Bolivia’s Morales confronts general strike over food prices
• SPD wins Hamburg state election in Germany
• Michigan governor proposes massive cuts to fund business tax cut
• Detroit Symphony management threatens to replace striking musicians
• Eye-witness report from Libya
• Detroiters speak out on DTE’s phony “customer assistance”
• Letters from our readers
• DTE Energy 2010 profits soar as utility shutoffs increase
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• India: Sanmina workers strike for higher wages and union recognition

23 February 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Qantas pilots vote for industrial action to defend jobs
• Dozens slaughtered by US forces in Afghanistan-Pakistan air attacks
• Egyptian junta clamps down on strikes
• Gaddafi threatens mass killings as popular rebellion spreads
• Libya and the bankruptcy of Arab nationalism
• US admiral tours Persian Gulf as protests spread
• More news of ties to North African dictators roils French ruling elite
• World oil prices soar, stocks tumble on fears of widening unrest in North Africa and Middle East
• UK’s PM Cameron talks “democracy” while peddling arms to Gulf despots
• Wisconsin protests continue
• Columbus, Ohio rally against anti-worker legislation
• Another earthquake devastates New Zealand’s second largest city
• New York City budget to cut services, lay off teachers
• Prichard, Alabama: 14 deaths follow pension cutoff
• The International Socialist Organization gushes over unions’ role in Wisconsin
• Cedar Rapids: Does Hollywood know much about American life?

24 February 2011 (front page)

• Borders bankruptcy, falling US home prices point to deepening slump
• Christchurch earthquake likely to be New Zealand’s worst natural disaster
• Obama and the Libyan crisis
• Pakistan: Tensions rise as Raymond Davis revealed to be a CIA operative
• Tasmania’s Labor-Green coalition government threatens to axe 10 percent of public sector jobs
• US and Europe weigh up Libyan intervention as oil prices spike
• Libyan protests outside BBC: “An amazing revolution is taking place in the Middle East”
• Mass protests continue in Bahrain
• Protests continue as Wisconsin politicians debate attack on public employees
• Democrats and Republicans target state employees
• Greek workers mount eighth general strike
• Cook County, Illinois to cut jobs and social services
• Striking DSO musicians picket Detroit mayor’s state of the city speech
• Berlin opera musicians strike against casual labour contract
• Train drivers strike in Germany
• Letters from our readers

25 February 2011 (front page)

• Australian union leader stokes anti-Chinese chauvinism as he launches protectionist campaign
• Calls mount for military intervention in Libya
• Greens back Australian government’s cost-cutting floods package
• Notes on the Egyptian Revolution
• Video: Queensland floods—Goodna residents speak out
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Class struggle emerges in Saudi Arabia
• Iraqi officials fear national “day of rage” protest
• Judge rules WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden
• Wisconsin governor threatens to cut 12,000 jobs
• Labour seeks coalition with Fine Gael in Ireland
• Top Argentine union leader arrested in murder of left-wing worker
• Obama aide Rahm Emanuel elected mayor of Chicago
• US political establishment escalates attack on abortion rights
• One-sided war in Wisconsin
• The significance of the SPD victory in Hamburg
• Fossil discovery confirms “Lucy” walked upright

26 February 2011 (front page)

• Death toll rises to 145 in New Zealand earthquake
• Sri Lankan government to slash spending to pay for flood damage
• US and Europe step up preparations for intervention in Libya
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Iraq “day of rage” protests shake US occupation regime
• New mass protests against US-backed regimes in Egypt and Yemen
• Wisconsin state assembly passes anti-worker bill
• Slideshow: The demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin
• US retreats from strategic Afghanistan valley
• US downwardly revises fourth quarter GDP
• Petraeus to probe claim that army attempted “psy-ops” against US senators
• US vetoes UN resolution criticising Israel
• Canada’s union-backed NDP angling for budget deal with Conservatives
• Bulgarian railway workers plan strike
• State of Michigan gives the green light to close 70 more Detroit public schools
• Defend Julian Assange
• Public meetings in the US
  From Egypt to America: Revolution, class struggle & the return of history
• Mehring Books featured title
  Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution

28 February 2011 (front page)

• As Libyan rebels close in on Gaddafi, US and Europe ramp up intervention
• Australian Labor government stakes pro-business credentials on new carbon tax
• Twenty-third Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan
• Tunisia prime minister resigns amid mass demonstrations
• Police crackdown against protests in Egypt, Oman
• After demonstration of 100,000, union officials prepare to end Wisconsin struggle
• Wisconsin workers and youth speak out
• Massive anti-government vote in Ireland
• North African uprisings force French foreign minister to resign
• California’s budget crisis: a historical overview
• University of Glasgow makes £20 million cuts
• Education conference in Denver: A conspiracy against teachers and the public schools
• Massachusetts governor leads attack on health care for public and private workers
• The political issues in the fight against budget cuts
• German defence minister adopts the political style of Italy’s Berlusconi
• This week in history: February 28-March 6