Archive: August 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 August 2011 (front page)
- Jewish, Arab workers and youth protest against social conditions in Israel
- Qantas management threatens “ruthless” restructure
- Sri Lankan ruling party fails to win local elections in war-torn north
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 5: A classic novel intelligently reworked, a light comedy and some less impressive efforts
- The US debt ceiling deal
- Pseudo-left parties end Cairo sit-in after Islamist protest
- Record level of strikes in South Africa
- Why is the Spanish media promoting Esther Vivas of the Anti-Capitalist Left?
- Massive cuts to education in Pennsylvania budget
- Germany: The Left Party’s new programme
- Strike hits world’s largest copper mine in Chile
- This week in history: August 1-August 7
2 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian firefighter cleared of arson charges in 2009 Victorian bushfire
- Australian government suppresses mounting unrest in refugee detention centres
- Report paints devastating portrait of conditions of US children
- US House approves record budget cuts
- The debt limit deal and the social counterrevolution in America
- Egyptian military junta attacks sit-in on Tahrir Square
- Syrian regime cracks down on protests
- Belgian burqa ban comes into force
- Jefferson County, Alabama verges on largest ever US municipal bankruptcy
- Kenyans win right to sue UK government for colonial torture
- Lucian Freud: “A life of uncertainty and loneliness” … and enduring insights
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters on the Oslo killings
- Letters from our readers
3 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian employers demand changes to industrial relations laws
- High profile assassinations continue in southern Afghanistan
- Sharp fall in consumer spending, manufacturing in US
- The US budget cuts and the fight for socialism
- Israeli protest movement sparks mass strikes
- Infant malnutrition at staggering levels in Massachusetts
- France announces partial troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- California police shootings prompt popular outrage
- Swedish Saab workers go unpaid for second month
- The calling of early elections in Spain
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Thirty years since the PATCO strike
Part one - Some cinematic landmarks of the 1960s in Stalinist East Germany
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Public meeting in Los Angeles
The way forward for California grocery workers
4 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian government prepares to forcibly deport refugees
- NATO facing military stalemate in Libya
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 6: Douglas Sirk’s elegant imitations of life
- Unlawful Australian government action alleged in Julian Moti case
- US budget deal a “down payment” on spending cuts
- Protests held against police eviction of “indignados” from Madrid’s Puerta del Sol
- US job cuts hit 16-month high in July
- Evidence grows of Norwegian mass murderer Breivik’s ties to British far-right
- Funding deadlock cripples US aviation agency
- Notes on the US social crisis
- The Egyptian revolution at a crossroads
- The American “left” and the debt ceiling deal
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Thirty years since the PATCO strike
Part two - Letters from our readers
5 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian High Court concludes hearing into Julian Moti appeal
- Brutal assault on senior journalist in northern Sri Lanka
- Financial markets plunge on fears of renewed recession
- Further signs of economic downturn in Australia
- The bankers’ budget
- German Labour Court bans air traffic controllers’ strike
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“It’s an outright crime”
Michigan workers denounce cuts to Social Security, Medicare - Spain: Major attack on living standards will follow November election
- Central Falls, Rhode Island files for bankruptcy
- Kentucky to privatize management of Medicaid program
- US government targets open access activist
- Herschel telescope discovered twisted ring of gas and dust at the centre of our galaxy
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Thirty years since the PATCO strike
Part three - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
6 August 2011 (front page)
- Japanese PM sacks three top nuclear officials
- Talks begin on extending US occupation of Iraq
- US jobs crisis worsened in July
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Stock market panic deepens euro crisis
- Charges mount of NATO war crimes in Libya
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A revealing episode
UAW president shares private jet with Ford CEO - Two more US coal miners die on the job
- Union violates own bylaws to force revote by Connecticut workers
- US prepares for military intervention in Somalia
- UK rail union seeks imposition of speed-ups and job losses
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Thirty years since the PATCO strike
Part four - Letters from our readers
8 August 2011 (front page)
- 43,000 strike telecommunications giant Verizon in Northeast US
- A socialist program for public sector workers in Sri Lanka
- Inquiry hears damning evidence of unsafe conditions at New Zealand mine
- Italy prepares new cuts after stock market panic
- Largest-ever social protests in Israel
- New Orleans police found guilty in post-Katrina killings
- Protests continue as the police leave Madrid’s Puerta del Sol
- Thai parliament endorses Yingluck as new PM
- The US credit downgrade
- Fatal police shooting sparks riot in north London
- Helicopter shootdown in Afghanistan hits Navy SEALs
- Central Falls, RI residents denounce social cuts following city’s bankruptcy filing
- This week in history: August 8-August 14
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Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Robert Motherwell and the Abstract Expressionists
9 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian shares plunge along with Asian, world markets
- Biggest global stock market plunge since 2008
- China lectures Washington on S&P downgrade
- The Israeli protests and the reemergence of the working class
- Major police clampdown as riots spread across London and other UK cities
- CIA, US military operating inside Mexico’s “drug war”
- New York City workers speak out against budget cuts
- German army commences recruitment in schools
- Québec Solidaire: An ally of the ruling elite
- Tensions remain high after clashes on Kosovo-Serbia border
- US House Judiciary Committee approves bill to abolish visa lottery
- Mobilize the working class behind Verizon strikers!
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“We are fighting for our rights”
Verizon workers denounce demands for massive concessions - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
10 August 2011 (front page)
- 16,000 police deployed in London to put down youth revolt
- Australian government vows to deport refugees to Malaysia despite legal challenge
- Australian university announces 70 redundancies
- Sri Lankan ex-left justifies betrayal of university pay campaign
- US stocks soar on Fed pledge to keep interest rates near zero
- Video: Detroit area workers, retired people speak out on social spending cuts
- NATO airstrike kills dozens of civilians east of Tripoli
- Protests over social conditions continue in Israel
- Thousands of Michigan students lose food stamp eligibility
- Low voter registration for the Tunisian Constituent Assembly elections
- Letters show Scottish National Party leader’s wooing of Rupert Murdoch
- The stock market panic and the call for strong government
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“How can you let the companies eliminate our jobs, security and rights?”
Verizon workers determined to defend living standards - An open letter to Professor Juan Cole: A reply to a slander
- Opening meeting of the SEP election campaign in Berlin
- “Order and Annihilation” exhibition reveals link between Germany’s police force and the Nazi regime
11 August 2011 (front page)
- A turning point in the crisis of world capitalism
- Australian government moves to cut thousands off disability pensions
- China’s train crash evolves into a political crisis
- US retaliation in Afghanistan in wake of helicopter downing
- Democrats routed in Wisconsin recall elections
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Pakistan: Report lifts veil on military and intelligence apparatus’ repression in Balochistan
- Authoritarian regime takes shape in Hungary
- One in ten US employers to cut health insurance by 2014
- Marseille mayor orders mass expulsion of Roma camp
- Oppose state repression of British youth
- Britain: Westminster council ban SEP public meeting in attack on democratic rights
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“The whole world needs to go on strike”
Verizon workers speak out as strike enters day five - Berlin state election: The offensive of the extreme right
- The way forward for Verizon workers
- Letters on Juan Cole
- Letters from our readers
12 August 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Queensland floods report covers up government responsibility
- China unable to rescue global economy
- Parliament demands violent repression of British youth riots
- The Wisconsin recall election
- US edges toward demand for ouster of Assad in Syria
- Lebanon intercepts covert arms shipments bound for Syria
- Secret interrogation policy confirms UK government’s complicity in war crimes
- Latin stock markets hit hardest by US credit downgrade
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“They are trying to make the worker an indentured servant to corporate America”
Verizon strikers speak out - A further advance in quantum computing
- Profit drive behind German family tragedy
- CAUS holds successful picnic in Detroit
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
13 August 2011 (front page)
- Indian government under renewed pressure for pro-market reforms
- NATO’s puppet regime in Libya falls apart
- Record levels of unemployment for Europe’s youth
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Attend the SEP conferences in Australia:
The Failure of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism Today
Melbourne: August 27-28 - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Postal Service plans to cut 220,000 jobs
- Media demand mass arrests, reprisals against UK rioters
- Ex-White House counter-terror chief charges CIA shielded 9/11 hijackers
- French bank shares crash as European debt panic spreads to France
- Central Falls, Rhode Island, in bankruptcy
- NATO allows Libyan refugees to drown in the Mediterranean
- Austerity measures spell social catastrophe in Greece
- Israel’s foreign policy linked to its growing social inequality
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SEP (UK) public meetings
Oppose state repression against youth in Britain - Unions prepared to end Verizon strike without a contract
- Verizon workers speak as first week of strike ends
- Once again: Why Obama won’t—and can’t—be Roosevelt
- Captain America returns to battle
- Letters from our readers
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Thirty years since the PATCO strike
Part five
15 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian state premier removed in backroom coup
- Draconian cuts to Michigan utility assistance programs
- Government strike-breaking against Verizon workers
- Iowa debate, straw poll mark further rightward shift by Republicans
- New Thai government seeks to appease factional rivals
- Protest marches, tent city protests continue in Israel
- SEP launches web site for Berlin campaign
- When the US defaulted: 40 years since the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement
- Verizon workers denounce corporate-police intimidation
- Turkey issues ultimatum to Syria
- Police Complaints Commission lied about police shooting that sparked British riots
- Federal appeals court rules Obama health care plan unconstitutional
- Stage collapse kills five at Indiana state fair
- This week in history: August 15-August 21
- The legacy of 10 years of SPD-Left Party rule in Berlin
16 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian court freezes former Guantánamo Bay prisoner’s bank accounts
- Mass protest forces Chinese authorities to shut petrochemical plant
- Sri Lankan defence report whitewashes war crimes
- Stock market panic deepens euro crisis
- The political issues in the Verizon strike
- Pervasive unemployment and poverty in London areas hit by riots
- Colorado mother sues over son’s death after Medicaid denial
- Humala packs Peruvian cabinet with pro-business figures
- Irish premier attacks Vatican after new evidence of child abuse
- Obama opens up delicate Alaska ecosystem for drilling
- Professor Cole “answers” WSWS on Libya: An admission of intellectual and political bankruptcy
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“Gerry was run down like a dog”
Verizon strikers honor Gerry Horgan, killed at a picket in 1989 - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
17 August 2011 (front page)
- German GDP figures highlight downward trajectory of global economy
- Japanese prime minister set to step down
- Qantas to destroy 1,000 jobs as part of shift to Asia
- South Korean government deploys police against shipyard protest
- The stench of a police state
- After wave of attacks, US signals troops could stay in Iraq
- Obama’s bus tour—a right-wing political stunt
- California transit agency cuts cell phone service to silence protests
- Spanish mayor desecrates mausoleum of fascist victims
- Fire forces Detroit family to leap from fourth floor apartment
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“This isn’t a negotiation. It’s more like dictating.”
Verizon workers denounce company charges of “sabotage” - SEP holds first Berlin campaign rally
18 August 2011 (front page)
- A socialist perspective for Sri Lankan workers
- Australian “health reform” plan to slash spending
- Detroit workers speak on jobs crisis
- Historic heat wave and drought in southwestern US
- India’s government uses authoritarian measures against self-styled anti-corruption crusade
- Merkel and Sarkozy propose financial dictatorship
- One million Indian bank workers take strike action
- Sri Lankan talks for a “political solution” reach dead-end
- Unions call symbolic protest as debt crisis spreads to France
- Video: On the Verizon picket lines in Pittsburgh
- Youth sentenced to years in jail for posting Facebook notices during British riots
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Congressional Black Caucus sponsors fraudulent jobs fair in Detroit
- Obama’s bloody “endgame” in Afghanistan
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“Five percent of the population will be wealthy, with everyone else fighting for food”
Verizon strikers denounce health care cut-off, court injunctions - Berlin election: Socialist Alternative group supports the Left Party
- Devastating cuts to museum funding across the UK
- “One banker’s bonus could keep a museum going for years”
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on Juan Cole
19 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian treasurer declares economy can “ride out global turbulence”
- Four killed in New Caledonia airport blockade
- US child poverty rate soars to 20 percent
- The Democrats and the US jobs crisis
- Global markets plunge on US data and European bank fears
- Bristol riots in Britain—A Tale of Two Cities
- Workers speak out on British riots: “The system is not viable”
- In wake of British riots, New York police prepare for unrest
- Chilean students demand a national referendum on education rights
- Eon announces the elimination of 11,000 jobs
- Detroit teachers rally against attack on public education
- Injunctions attack democratic rights of Verizon strikers
- New York Verizon workers rally against city schools contract
- German Left Party and British Socialist Party slander British youth
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The end of the US space shuttle program
20 August 2011 (front page)
- Bank of America prepares to slash 10,000 jobs
- Reject CWA-IBEW betrayal! Continue and expand the strike!
- Billionaire throws party on Long Island—other billionaires (and hangers-on) attend
- Western-backed rebel forces encircle Libyan capital
- US, European powers demand resignation of Syria’s Assad
- Government considers curfew powers following UK riots
- New evidence in UK phone hacking scandal implicates the Murdochs
- Japanese government seeks to defuse opposition to nuclear industry
- Australian PM affirms US alliance as tensions with China escalate
- Police repress Ugandan protests
- Australian government to reopen PNG refugee detention centre
- California grocery workers speak ahead of strike vote
- Europe’s economic crisis spins out of control
- Two striking Verizon workers could face 18 months in jail
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The magical allegory of Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
- Berlin state election: Greens want more cuts
- Letters from our readers
22 August 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Report recommends “user pays” for aged care
- Australian steel producer sacks 1,300 workers
- Foreign exchange students at Pennsylvania Hershey factory walk out over abuse
- NATO-backed forces move into Tripoli
- Nepali prime minister resigns amid sharp political crisis
- Israel launches bloody reprisals in Egypt and Gaza
- UK unemployment rises, with youth badly hit
- Ireland: New round of cuts in preparation
- Two more US coal miners killed on the job
- The betrayal of the Verizon strike
- Workers denounce union shutdown of Verizon strike
- Los Angeles grocery workers speak on strike vote
- This week in history: August 22-August 28
- Who is behind the arson attacks in Berlin?
23 August 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Residents condemn chemical company Orica over toxic leaks
- Australian steel industry sackings highlight national jobs crisis
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Canada: How the NDP facilitates imperialist war
Part one: From Yugoslavia to Haiti - Court grants injunction against Central Michigan University faculty strike
- Fierce fighting continues in Tripoli
- Indian government seeks compromise with anti-corruption campaigner
- Fed secretly loaned trillions to big banks
- Multiple deaths in attack on British Council compound in Kabul
- Public employee unions in New York and Connecticut force through takeaway contracts
- Pope steps up right-wing crusade in Spain
- Staggering levels of youth unemployment in the Balkans
- ISO covers for unions’ betrayal of Verizon strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Left Party’s campaign in the Berlin state election
- Letters on the Wall Street billionaire’s party
- Letters from our readers
24 August 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Liberal-National opposition tries to capitalise on carbon tax anger
- Biden’s visit to China underscores America’s decline
- Fighting continues in Tripoli after Gaddafi compound is overrun
- Oppose the BlueScope sackings! Fight for a socialist strategy to defend steel and manufacturing jobs
- Libya as a model for redividing the Middle East
- Manhattan district attorney drops case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Obama administration moves to quash state investigations of Wall Street banks
- France: Trade unions and bourgeois left parties pledge support for capitalist policies
- Karachi torn by mounting political-ethnic violence
- British police kill unarmed man with Taser
- Four dead in Pennsylvania flooding
- Slovenia government on verge of collapse
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Canada: How the NDP facilitates Imperialist War
Part Two: From Kandahar to Libya - CWA and IBEW abandon workers victimized by Verizon
- Germany: SEP rally calls for defence of British youth
25 August 2011 (front page)
- Credit card affair threatens survival of Australian government
- Randy Newman at the Sydney Opera House: an evening with a unique musical story-teller
- The Australian Workers Union, steel sackings and anti-China chauvinism
- US, NATO plan Libyan “stabilization” as fighting continues
- Yemeni political crisis set to escalate
- The ex-left and the British riots
- German imperialism seeks a share in Libyan war spoils
- Tunisian interim government faces widespread opposition
- Kentucky food bank faces rising social need, deep budget cuts
- Death at UK Sonae factory highlights appalling safety record
- Scottish government aided suppression of youth riots
- Fullerton, California authorities attempt to cover up police murder of innocent homeless man
- Obama’s health care “reform” and the Verizon strike
- Canada: How the NDP facilitates imperialist war
- A letter from an auto worker to Verizon workers
- Letters from our readers
26 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian Labor “left” Doug Cameron, the mining companies and the steel layoffs
- Martin Luther King and the fate of the civil rights movement
- New Zealand government imposes punitive welfare measures for teenagers
- One in ten US employers to cut health insurance by 2014
- The rape of Libya
- Video: Australian steel workers face deep job cuts
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Sweeping subpoena issued earlier this year
US government preparing new attacks against WikiLeaks - Economic growth stalls amidst debt crisis, austerity
- Metropolitan Police deny due process to British youth
- New York City police, CIA in massive spying operation among Muslims
- Michigan legislature requires cities and schools to cut health care payments
- CERN experiment weighs antimatter to unprecedented precision
- The fight against the right requires a struggle against the SPD-Left Party government
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 August 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Eleven die in Queensland house fire
- Letters from our readers
- Moody’s credit downgrade sends warning to Japan’s next leader
- Stand-off continues over Indian anti-corruption bill
- Steel unions appeal for deal to impose BlueScope sackings
- US Fed chief Bernanke offers no measures to ease jobs crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Teenager killed by police in mass demonstrations in Chile
- WikiLeaks cables expose Washington’s close ties to Gaddafi
- Bomb blast in Nigerian capital kills at least 18
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- South Carolina jobless up 10,000 in one month
- Turkey’s assault on Kurds in Iraq presages regional conflicts
- Norway’s Labour Party mounts political whitewash of establishment in mass shootings
- Libya: The criminal face of imperialism
- A right-wing rant against British youth from Slavoj Zizek
- Lockout continues at American Crystal Sugar Company
- The Help: A civil rights era film that ignores the civil rights movement
29 August 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Wollongong residents denounce BlueScope sackings
- IMF chief warns of new financial meltdown
- Uneasy truce between Indian government and anti-corruption campaigner
- Hurricane Irene leaves millions without power on US East Coast
- US government intervenes against faculty at Youngstown State University
- Italian ex-leftists and the new austerity measures
- Spain’s opportunist United Left forms “broad front”
- Hungary: Fidesz government presents draft of new labour law
- Evidence mounts of atrocities by Libyan “rebels”
- This week in history: August 29-September 4
- Verizon workers denounce union agreement to end strike
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Correspondence
A letter: Some thoughts on author Stan Barstow (1928-2011) and postwar British social realism
30 August 2011 (front page)
- Australian government, unions, business collaborate in job destruction
- Conferences on the Fight for Socialism Today held in Sydney and Melbourne
- New Japanese PM pledges austerity measures
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SEP (Australia) public meeting in Perth
The failure of capitalism and the fight for socialism today - Tripoli faces humanitarian crisis
- Hurricane Irene and the decay of US infrastructure
- Germany: Foreign Minister Westerwelle under fire for abstention in Libya war
- Canada: The death of Jack Layton and the myth of national solidarity
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Outsourcing education: The rise of virtual schools
Part 1—Virtual charters spreading across the US - Gulf slick matches oil from BP spill
- New York State workers speak out against concessions contracts
- More than one in five British households suffers fuel poverty
- Municipal Workers join South African strike wave
- Gene McDaniels, soul singer and songwriter, dead at 76
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
31 August 2011 (front page)
- Corruption scandal rattles Indonesian government
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SEP (Australia) public meeting in Wollongong
Fight axing of BlueScope steel jobs! - Hurricane Irene death toll at 42 as flooding continues
- Nick Beams addresses SEP conferences in Sydney and Melbourne
- The capitalist crisis and the conditions facing the youth
- Young people speak at Fight for Socialism Today conference in Sydney
- Divisions emerge among Libya’s NATO-led “rebels”
- US consumer confidence plunges to two-year low
- More deaths at the hands of UK police
- Social inequality proved to impact educational performance in UK
- Ban on Central Michigan University faculty strike extended
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Outsourcing education: The rise of virtual schools
Part 2—states facing cuts embrace virtual education - Berlin election: SEP rally calls for nationalization of the banks


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