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Archive: March 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 March 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Labor keeps 900 refugees in detention pending spy agency reports
• Chinese regime reacts with alarm to “Jasmine Revolution” calls
• Clashes mount in Libyan uprising against Gaddafi
• Imperialist hands off Libya!
• Bahrain protests demand political change
• Wisconsin governor to announce $1 billion in budget cuts
• Mexico’s “left” and the Oaxacan teachers struggle
• US corporate profits return to record levels
• Firefighters speak out on Wisconsin struggle
• Spain: Basque separatist party moves to renounce armed struggle
• German government and SPD united against long-term unemployed
• Hundreds in Manchester protest closure of Sure Start
• The New York Times and CIA killer Raymond Davis
• 83rd Academy Awards: Appealing personalities, but they still need something to say
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

2 March 2011 (front page)

• Australian Labor Party in its death throes
• Call for “national unity” following New Zealand earthquake
• Materiel and personnel in place for military intervention in Libya
• Sri Lankan SEP meeting discusses Egyptian Revolution
• Wisconsin teachers denounce school cuts
• German imperialism and the crisis in Libya
• Protests spread throughout Arabian Peninsula
• Russia and the uprisings in the Middle East
• Wisconsin governor outlines $1.7 billion in budget cuts
• 8,500 demonstrate in Columbus, Ohio against anti-worker bill
• US states prepare to axe social spending, attack government workers
• Who is responsible for the growth in support for the British National Party?
• WikiLeaks cables expose Peruvian politicians’ subservience to Washington
• White House backs state opt-out of health care law
• Obama administration approves first deepwater drilling permit since BP oil spill
• EU accepts attack on press freedom in Hungary
• DSO musicians offer to submit outstanding issues to binding arbitration

3 March 2011 (front page)

• SEP election meetings in New South Wales
  Egypt and the return of revolutionary struggles
• Ivory Coast conflict deepens as sanctions choke economy
• Support the Socialist Equality Party in the NSW state election!
  Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
• US, European officials debate military intervention in Libya
• Walker must go! For a general strike in Wisconsin!
• German defence minister resigns
• US Army charges accused WikiLeaks source Private Bradley Manning with capital offense
• US Justice Department drops investigation of sub-prime mortgage mogul Angelo Mozilo
• Wisconsin budget will make higher education less accessible
• US Congress postpones government shutdown, passes two-week funding extension
• Italian municipalities crippled by financial speculation
• New York City: “Stop-and-frisks” hit record levels in 2010
• Louisiana governor plans cuts to education, health care
• 61st Berlin International Film Festival—Part 1
  Problems of the “personal” and “political” in cinema
• An exchange on DSO strike with Detroit Metro AFL-CIO President Saundra Williams
• Letters from our readers
• Letter from Detroit Metro AFL-CIO President Saundra Williams

4 March 2011 (front page)

• Canada signs on for imperialist campaign against Libya
• Egyptian prime minister resigns on eve of mass protest
• Military planning continues as divisions mount over Libyan intervention
• SEP candidate exposes hypocrisy of Labor and the Greens at election forum
• Washington and Seoul ramp up tensions on Korean peninsula
• Wisconsin workers discuss demand for general strike
• German interests in Libya
• Another war crime in Afghanistan: US massacres nine children in air strike
• Ohio senate passes anti-worker bill
• US: Massey official charged with cover-up of Upper Big Branch mine disaster
• Tories prepare wholesale privatisation of UK health, education, essential services
• Providence, Rhode Island rally protests mass teacher firings
• Free Bradley Manning!
• Britain’s political and media establishment promotes anti-immigrant sentiment
• Barney’s Version: Should mediocrity be celebrated in this way?
• Detroit-area community issues layoff notices to entire fire department
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

5 March 2011 (front page)

• Australian media promotes right-wing “people’s revolt” against Labor government’s carbon tax
• Global forces driving Middle East uprisings
• Obama lawyer defends Bush aide against abuse charges
• Private Bradley Manning held naked at military brig
• Savage cuts by UK local authorities spearheaded by Labour
• Western powers exploit Libyan crisis to step up intervention plans
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• The alliance between the EU and Libya in the persecution of refugees
• Egyptian military regime rolls out a new front man
• Wisconsin workers continue protests as Democrats prepare surrender to Walker
• February jobs report shows tepid growth in US payrolls
• Pakistan: US spy Raymond Davis allegedly tied to Islamicist groups
• Philippine planes confront China in disputed South China Sea
• CAUS holds press conference to announce March 12 demonstration
• A reply to a defender of Portugal’s Stalinist trade unions
• Letters from our readers
• Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork: Palestine, Israel—and the orange

7 March 2011 (front page)

• Australian government calls for air strikes on Gaddafi forces
• Sri Lankan government launches police witch-hunt to break garment workers’ strike
• US and allies step up military and intelligence operations in Libya
• Video: Wisconsin demonstrations continue
• Demand for general strike wins support at Wisconsin protests
• Idaho students walk out over education cuts
• Momentum builds for austerity budget in California
• Australian PM Gillard visits the US—a loyal servant reporting for duty
• French government attacks port workers
• Nursing survey paints damning picture of health cuts in Britain
• German Chancellor Merkel rebuilds her cabinet
• Ohio mother jailed for enrolling daughters in suburban school district
• The US states’ budget crisis: Where should the money come from?
• This week in history: March 7-13
• 61st Berlin International Film Festival—Part 2
  Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse: The social and the cosmic

8 March 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Insurers delay or deny claims of Queensland flood victims
  “The power these companies have is really frightening”
• US intensifies military operations in Libya
• US plays key role in Philippine corruption scandal
• Wisconsin struggle at the crossroads
• Egyptian protesters storm secret police headquarters
• Obama orders resumption of military trials at Guantanamo
• Military ramps up torture of alleged WikiLeaks source
  Private Bradley Manning forced to sleep naked
• Drastic cuts, tuition increases loom for Washington state universities
• Irish Labour Party and Fine Gael commit to savage austerity
• Barnsley Central by-election shows hostility towards major parties
• Iran’s Green Protests: Elite power struggle intensifies as Supreme Leader nears death
• UAW pushes through giveaway contract at Caterpillar
• Unions and employers collude against German public sector workers
• No response by DSO management to arbitration offer by musicians
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

9 March 2011 (front page)

• After meeting with Obama, Australian PM declares “enthusiasm” for Washington’s anti-China cordon
• Detroit Symphony management rejects binding arbitration
• Ireland’s “bad bank” accused of dubious practices as debts mount
• Labor exempts controversial Sydney harbour project from environmental laws
• US, Britain step up plans for military intervention in Libya
• Public meeting in Madison, Wisconsin
  Which way forward in the fight against budget cuts?
• Wisconsin budget to hurt students at technical colleges
• “Wealth gap” dominates Chinese congress session
• What is behind the growing influence of the National Front in France?
• Violent crackdown on Iraqi opposition
• Several thousand demonstrate in Columbus, Ohio
• Alabama budget cuts target state workers, tourism
• South Carolina governor threatens state workers’ pensions and health care
• US Supreme Court further weakens right to face one’s accuser
• The Adjustment Bureau: Fighting fate
• Musicians’ strike entering sixth month
  A conversation with Detroit Symphony Orchestra violist Jim VanValkenburg
• Obama administration escalates assault on undocumented workers

10 March 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Gillard government’s laws used to shut down strike by desalination workers
• Australian leader addresses US Congress: Obsequiousness in the service of anti-China aggression
• Christchurch residents denounce lack of basic services
• New Zealand: Growing anger over inadequate earthquake relief
• Obama and Guantánamo
• Wisconsin Senate rams through anti-worker bill
• Virginia budget hits education funding, attacks abortion rights
• The resurgence of Italy’s imperialist ambitions in Libya
• Washington to escalate military moves against Gaddafi
• Pennsylvania farm family loses seven children to fire
• Ontario to strip Toronto transit workers of right to strike
• US: National Public Radio chief quits in new surrender to extreme right
• Down with Gaddafi! No to US-NATO intervention!
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part One
• SEP (Canada) Meeting in Montreal
  Egypt and the return of revolutionary struggles
• WSWS public meeting in Paris
  The revolutions in the Maghreb and the Middle East and the Theory of Permanent Revolution
• Video: CAUS holds press conference to announce March 12 demonstration
• The Guardian’s hatchet job on Julian Assange
• German train drivers extend strike
• Letters from our readers

11 March 2011 (front page)

• Australian economy at risk as Asian bubble reaches bursting point
• France recognises Libyan opposition leadership
• Wisconsin’s anti-worker law: An historic attack on the working class
• British ruling elite advance “humanitarian” cover for intervention in Libya
• Britain’s Liberal Democrats meet behind metal barrier
• Germany: Demonstration in Bielefeld to support the Arab revolutions
• Union officials, state Democrats in Wisconsin try to smother opposition to anti-worker bill
• Socialist Equality Party members call for general strike at Wisconsin demonstration
• Ten thousand attend protest at Indiana statehouse
• US Congress holds anti-Muslim hearing
• The consequences of privatization for the Romanian working class
• Planet formation viewed by astronomers
• 61st Berlin International Film Festival—Part 3
  Two intriguing competition films: Coriolanus and Margin Call
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Two
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

12 March 2011 (front page)

• A report from Tokyo
• Japanese earthquake causes catastrophic damage
• Wisconsin governor signs anti-working-class bill
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• No surrender to Walker! For a general strike by all Wisconsin workers!
• Obama administration signals backing for “military options” in Libya
• Massive police mobilisation stifles “Day of Rage” protests in Saudi Arabia
• Dozens of US states declare war on workers’ rights
• Pennsylvania budget makes drastic cuts to education
• Obama defends abuse of Private Bradley Manning
• European summits: Aggressive action against Libya and European workers
• US economic indices point to continuing slump
• Gujarat court frames Muslims for train fire used to incite 2002 Gujarat pogrom
• Former French president Chirac's corruption trial postponed
• London councils make some of UK’s largest budget cuts
• Record number of Iowa residents overdue on utility bills
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Three
• 100 years since tragic blaze killed 146 garment workers
  Triangle Fire on PBS’s “American Experience”: compelling documentary marred by liberal perspective
• Letters from our readers

14 March 2011 (front page)

• Arab League backs no-fly zone in Libya
• Australia: Private equity group closes bookstores and axes hundreds of jobs
• Humanitarian disaster in wake of Japanese earthquake, tsunami
• Mass protest against Quebec government budget cuts
• NSW state election: SEP campaigners in Marrickville find growing distrust of Greens
• Protests continue against threat of counter-revolution in Egypt
• Violent crackdown against mass demonstrations in Yemen
• Whitechapel protest against London health cuts
• 100,000 march in Wisconsin to denounce anti-worker law
• Madison teachers union agrees to deep concessions
• San Diego school district launches new attacks on teachers
• Video: Wisconsin workers speak on the general strike and social inequality
• French riot police sent to port of Marseilles
• The implications of the Japanese catastrophe
• Demonstration in Detroit demands end to utility shutoffs
• Demonstrators speak out: “Heat and gas are necessities for life”
• Lawrence Porter at CAUS rally: “Utilities are a social right!”
• This week in history: March 14-20
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Four

15 March 2011 (front page)

• An exchange with the Greens
• Japanese disaster’s economic fallout spreads globally
• Major powers discuss Libyan intervention
• Mounting human toll and nuclear emergency in Japan
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Five
• US threatens Sri Lankan government over war crimes
• Obama, Private Manning and human rights
• Bahrain: Gulf states intervene against mass protests
• Teachers and students speak on Wisconsin education cuts
• Wisconsin state workers: “It’s the modern feudal society”
• Tennessee’s legislative onslaught against teachers
• Portugal: Hundreds of thousands demonstrate against youth unemployment
• Britain: Police intimidation of Liberal Democrat conference protest
• “This is just part of a bigger struggle that is happening on a global scale”
• British state pensions face devastation following Hutton report
• Regional elections in the Netherlands: Geert Wilders’s PVV enters the Senate
• Photo story: The Committee Against Utility Shutoffs holds march in Detroit
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

16 March 2011 (front page)

• Japanese nuclear crisis escalates as emergency workers withdrawn
• SEP candidate Carolyn Kennett exposes Labor and Greens at Auburn forum
• Share markets slide in response to Japan disaster
• German chancellor does about-face on nuclear policy
• G8 fails to back proposed Libyan no-fly zone
• Bahrain declares state of emergency
• Demonstrations, repression continue in Yemen
• Michigan bill gives financial managers dictatorial power over cities and schools
• Spain’s ex-radical groups apologise for unions’ acceptance of social pact
• Wisconsin unions rush to impose concessions before new law takes effect
• Long Beach, California: Public schools targeted for massive cuts, layoffs
• Pakistan: Government minister opposed to blasphemy laws assassinated
• Spain’s fake left groups apologise for union agreement to social pact
• Britain: West Ham United football club given London’s £600 million Olympic Stadium for free
• Detroit to vastly expand charter schools
  Trial run for Obama’s education “reform”
• Who is responsible for the nuclear catastrophe in Japan?
• Massachusetts: Hundreds of thousands affected by proposed LIHEAP cuts
• Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Britain: A socialist programme to fight the cuts
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Six

17 March 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Gillard government steps up attack on public education, with NSW Labor’s support
• Hong Kong: A tale of two cities
• Japan nuclear emergency deepens
• Japan’s TEPCO: a history of nuclear disaster cover-ups
• Tsunami survivors endure freezing conditions and food shortages
• Hillary Clinton in Tahrir Square
• Video: Protesters denounce Cuomo’s attack on seniors
• Obama administration maintains commitment to nuclear power
• Oil workers strike in Oman
• Petraeus outlines indefinite Afghan occupation in congressional testimony
• Michigan workers demonstrate against budget cuts, emergency finance law
• Retirees protest closure of 105 senior centers in New York City
• Kentucky legislature haggles over gutting public health care
• Budget that enriches financial elite sparks protest in Hong Kong
• Unions agree on sell-out contract for German public sector workers
• Unanswered questions over Stockholm suicide bomb attack
• Video: The Committee Against Utility Shutoffs holds demonstration in Detroit
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Seven
• Letters from our readers

18 March 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Telstra’s “Project New”—another round of job destruction
• Australia: Thousands turn out in support of WikiLeaks, Assange and Manning
• Desperate efforts to prevent full meltdown at Fukushima
• Japan disaster to intensify global economic contradictions
• Japanese emperor calls on the nation to “share the burden”
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Eight
• UN vote clears way for US-NATO attack on Libya
• US ally Bahrain orders bloody crackdown on protesters
• CIA killer Raymond Davis released by Pakistani authorities
  New US drone attack kills dozens
• US Congress approves three-week budget extension
• WikiLeaks founder was warned of CIA “dirty tricks” campaign
• Wisconsin governor releases district-by-district school cuts
• Court declares German state budget unconstitutional
• Italian youth unemployment reaches thirty percent
• David North to speak at Leipzig Book Fair
• Large Hadron Collider will continue experiments into 2012
• Witnesses to Permanent Revolution
  Advance order your copy today
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

19 March 2011 (front page)

• Australian government uses tear gas and synthetic bullets to suppress refugee protests
• Obama issues ultimatum in advance of air strikes on Libya
• Threat from Japanese nuclear emergency widens
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Yemeni forces massacre dozens of protesters
• German Left Party leader votes in favour of military intervention in Libya
• An interview with Linda Gunter of Beyond Nuclear: “This was a preventable catastrophe”
• Judge temporarily blocks Wisconsin anti-worker law
• Ohio governor proposes massive cuts to social spending
• Florida governor to sign teacher merit pay bill
• California state workers’ pensions under attack
• Mounting criticism of US torture of Private Bradley Manning
• India used bribes to win vote on US nuclear accord, WikiLeaks cables show
• Obama trip aimed at salvaging US interests in Latin America
• US CEO compensation up by 30 percent
• No to imperialist intervention in Libya!
• SEP/ISSE public meeting (Canada)
  Egypt and the return of revolutionary struggles
• Letters from our readers
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Nine
• WSWS Chairman David North to speak in Toronto, Ontario, April 2

21 March 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Youth unemployment ignored in NSW election
• Australian Labor government, Greens hail imperialist assault on Libya
• Inflation fuels social unrest in Vietnam
• Japanese government delayed nuclear emergency measures to protect TEPCO profits
• Memorial service used to divert attention from inadequate relief for New Zealand earthquake victims
• This week in history: March 21-27
• US, France and Britain launch war of aggression against Libya
• Report details 14 “near-misses” at US nuclear power plants in 2010
• Strikes and protests in Bahrain defy regime crackdown
• Tennessee attacks teachers, funds charter operations
• Savage austerity measures provoke resistance in Greece
• The case of Fabien Engelmann in France
  Trade unionist, ex-member of Lutte Ouvrière and the NPA—and neo-fascist
• Ford workers shout down Michigan governor
• Obama and Libya
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Ten

22 March 2011 (front page)

• Australia: SEP election meetings discuss new period of revolutionary upheavals
• Discontent growing over Japanese government’s response to humanitarian disaster
• Memorial service used to divert attention from inadequate relief for New Zealand earthquake victims
• US, Europe intensify Libya onslaught
• The bombing of Gaddafi’s compound
• Canada joins imperialist assault on Libya
• Photos released of atrocities by US “kill team” in Afghanistan
• Egyptian constitutional referendum passes amid low turnout
• Top Yemeni general calls for ouster of president
• More unions agree to concessions ahead of new Wisconsin law
• Irish government outlines programme of deep cuts
• Protests continue in Croatia
• Toronto mayor moves to privatize public housing
• US Postal union signs concessions contract
• With strike in 25th week, DSO musicians continue support concerts
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
  Part Eleven
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 March 2011 (front page)

• Australia: Ongoing repression produced asylum seeker protests
• GM India workers launch wildcat strike in Gujarat
• Japanese PM calls for grand coalition government
• Major parties outbid each other on law and order
• US escalates military onslaught against Libya
• Political lessons of the battle of Wisconsin
• British Parliament overwhelmingly endorses war
• German Greens agitate for war
• US approves 20-year extension for Vermont nuclear plant
• Michigan governor links aid to cities with cuts to worker benefits
• California teachers unions back regressive tax proposal
• Georgia House passes draconian budget
• Obama in Chile: No apology for 1973 coup
• Yemen ruling elite fractures as uprising continues
• Governing parties suffer losses in German state election
• Spanish air traffic controller: “The unions, the political parties. No one supported us.”
• Rail unions enable the axing of 800 London Underground jobs

24 March 2011 (front page)

• Australian government ties carbon impost to pro-business tax system reforms
• Libya war divides NATO
• Secret report foreshadows numerous public school closures and teaching job cuts
• US-NATO warplanes strike Libyan ground forces
• Situation still unstable at crippled nuclear plant in Japan
• Census reveals staggering decline of Detroit
• Portuguese Prime Minister resigns amid rising social protests
• Canada’s Conservative government almost certain to fall, triggering May election
• Syria cracks down on growing unrest
• German finance minister attacks immigrant workers
• Telecom giants AT&T and T-Mobile to merge
• Nuclear power, private ownership and the profit system
• MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow lines up behind Obama’s attack on Libya
• A remarkable glimpse at art and politics in Depression America
  A review of American Letters 1927-1947: Jackson Pollock & Family
• Letters from our readers
• An interview with Sylvia Winter Pollock

25 March 2011 (front page)

• Air strikes escalate, stalemate deepens in fighting around Libyan cities
• China and Russia criticise Libyan bombing campaign
• First spacecraft begins orbiting the planet Mercury
• Japanese government prepares to protect TEPCO from liability
• Vote for a socialist perspective in the New South Wales election
• Egyptian workers face US-backed counter-revolution
• Behind the sellout of the struggle in Wisconsin
• UK budget gives more handouts to business elite
• Big business lays out its demands for Irish government
• Ruling party routed in French local elections
• Afghan “kill team” soldier sentenced to 24 years in prison for murder
• Glasgow University student occupation continues despite police raid
• Pittsburgh bus drivers protest state budget cuts in transit
• Industry, politicians push “hydrofracking” despite environmental threat
• A tool of imperialism: France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party backs war on Libya
• 100 years since the historic workplace tragedy in New York City
  HBO’s Triangle: Remember the Fire
• Berlin exhibition: “Hitler and the Germans”—a historical travesty
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

26 March 2011 (front page)

• US corporate profits hit record high, new home sales at record low
• Washington seeks NATO cover for protracted war against Libya
• Radioactive contamination spreading from damaged Japanese nuclear plant
• Canada’s Conservatives lose confidence vote, triggering May election
• Assad regime guns down protesters in Syria
• Israel responds to Middle East unrest with provocations
• European summit demands more social cuts for Europe
• The fate of the Merkel coalition in Germany and the state election in Baden-Württemberg
• FBI memo orders delayed Miranda warnings for “terror” suspects
• Sri Lankan government wins local council elections
• Extraordinary deathbed confession exposes Julian Moti frame-up
• The depopulation of Detroit
• Reject TUC’s phoney war
• Germany: Vote “No!” on Hesse credit-cap clause
• Bernard-Henri Lévy makes “humanitarian” case for bombing Libya
• Casino Jack: The corruption scandals of the Bush years
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters from our readers
• Letters on nuclear power, private ownership and the profit system

28 March 2011 (front page)

• New South Wales election
  Australian Labor Party suffers devastating election defeat
• Gates and Clinton hint at open-ended war in Libya
• “They all represent the big companies and corporations”
  NSW voters speak out against Labor
• Sri Lanka: Tamil parties hold talks with government
• Protesters on the TUC demonstration in London
  “It is the capitalists who the politicians really work for”
• Reports suggest French intelligence encouraged anti-Gaddafi protests
• Britain steps up campaign for regime change, targeted assassination in Libya
• Yemen’s Saleh seeks deal with bourgeois opposition
• Syrian regime calls out army against protests
• Protests against counter-revolution in Egypt
• Unanswered questions as radiation levels rise at Fukushima nuclear plant
• Half a million demonstrate in London against austerity measures
• German ruling coalition suffers massive loss in state elections
• Mass demonstrations in Germany call for an end to nuclear power
• Michigan cuts unemployment benefits
• Pakistan: Report reveals deplorable state of country’s education system
• A CIA commander for the Libyan rebels
• This week in history: March 28-April 3

29 March 2011 (front page)

• Afghanistan: More children killed in US-NATO air attacks
• California governor, legislature approve deep cuts in social programs
• Contaminated water leaking from Japanese nuclear plant
• Death toll rises from Burma earthquake
• “I don’t think anyone really represents the people”
  NSW voters speak out against Labor—Part two
• New Australian state government declares budget “black hole”
• Obama on Libya: A war for US “interests”
• Thailand: a bonanza for international investors
• The war in Libya and the new scramble for Africa
• Civilian casualties mount in US-led air war against Libya
• The Italian “left” and Libya
• Rolling Stone publishes photos of US war crimes in Afghanistan
• Indiana official urged Wisconsin governor to stage fake assassination attempt
• Boston schools budget slashes $63 million, cuts 250 jobs
• Political earthquake in German state elections
• Haiti election result to be announced this week
• Opel factory in Germany threatened with closure
• Kentucky coal miner killed
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

30 March 2011 (front page)

• Another suicide inside Australia’s refugee detention centres
• Australia: Academics’ union prepares sell-out at Macquarie University
• Canadian Labour Congress was ready to support Conservative austerity budget
• London conference plots imperialist carve-up of Libya
• Obama fronts for US nuclear power industry
• Poverty, homelessness climb among US schoolchildren
• Reports indicate breach in Japanese nuclear reactor containment vessel
• The crisis of revolutionary leadership in 2011
• American media silent on CIA ties to Libya rebel commander
• Spain takes its place in the imperialist war against Libya
• Syrian government resigns amid continuing unrest
• Tunisian Reform Commission defends capitalist regime
• Facing layoff, California city worker commits suicide
• South Carolina legislature plans more cuts to health care and education
• Neo-fascist vote rises amid mass abstention in French local elections
• Honduran government unleashes violence against striking teachers
• Illinois abolishes death penalty
• DSO management issues new ultimatum to musicians
• An exchange on “Behind the sellout of the struggle in Wisconsin”
• Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Britain
  Oppose all cuts in public spending!

31 March 2011 (front page)

• Australian soldiers in Afghanistan post racist anti-Afghan comments
• Elizabeth Taylor and the melodrama of American life in the 1950s and 1960s
• Rising prices in China trigger panic buying
• The debate on “arming the rebels”
  Washington prepares to escalate the war in Libya
• London conference highlights imperialist power grab in Libya
• Libyan rebels massacre black Africans
• Widening global implications of Japan nuclear crisis
• Cuts threaten survival of Michigan libraries
• Proposed Texas budget includes deep cuts in public education, health care
• Portugal edges towards bailout as borrowing rate hits record high
• US budget talks near agreement on record cuts in social spending
• General Electric paid no federal income taxes in 2010
• Obama administration continues assault on public education
• Massey Energy sued by families of Upper Big Branch disaster victims
• The UAW: A purveyor of cheap labor for the US auto industry
• DSO musicians picket board meeting
• Letters from our readers