Archive: September 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 September 2011 (front page)
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30,000 arrests planned
London neighbourhoods terrorized by police raids - Sri Lankan government ends emergency, but police state continues
- The breakdown of capitalism and the tasks of the working class
- Video: Youth discuss Australian steel job cuts
- WikiLeaks cables reveal Australian government divisions over Fijian junta
- Workers speak at Fight for Socialism Today conference in Melbourne
- NATO prepares bloodbath in Sirte
- The Libyan war and “Germany’s disgrace”
- Top US corporations paid CEOs more than they paid in taxes
- UK families face growing hardship
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- California schools: Billions more in cuts
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Now available in pamphlet form
Thirty years since the PATCO strike - “Understanding Berlin”: The election campaign of the Social Democrats
- Outsourcing education: The rise of virtual schools
- Letters from our readers
2 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Steel unions impose BlueScope job cuts
- Australian High Court overrules refugee “Malaysia solution”
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SEP (Australia) public meetings in Wollongong and Hastings
Fight axing of BlueScope steel jobs! - Indian Stalinists and the anti-corruption Lokpal movement
- Power outages, flooding continue in wake of Hurricane Irene
- The economic and political crisis in Australia and the building of the SEP
- Youth and the fight for socialism
- Obama’s phony “jobs” plan
- Sharp slowdown in world manufacturing
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“This isn’t even a band-aid”
Thousands line up for jobs fair in Los Angeles - “Friends of Libya” meet in Paris for imperialist carve-up
- France announces emergency budget
- Pakistan: KESC security guards and Karachi police open fire on protesting workers
- Glasgow University student occupation ends
- ISO ignores every question of principle in Strauss-Kahn affair
- Prolific songwriter Jerry Leiber dead at 78
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
3 September 2011 (front page)
- A new constituency for imperialism
- Australian PM visits city facing devastating steel job losses
- China legalises secret detention
- French political establishment tries to bury the Oslo neo-fascist massacre
- German Left Party in crisis
- Obama cancels smog regulation opposed by big business
- Report details corporate plundering in Iraq, Afghanistan
- Sri Lankan SEP meeting discusses rising class struggles
- UN issues apologia for Israeli massacre on Gaza aid ship
- US added no net jobs in August
- US lagging behind in prevention of newborn deaths
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Police arrest 15 Muslims in clash in New York suburb
5 September 2011 (front page)
- Documents expose intimate ties between Libyan torturers and CIA, MI6
- India: Comstar workers’ strike in fourth week
- Israel’s largest ever protests oppose inequality
- Maoist leader elected as prime minister in Nepal
- Video: Hastings residents condemn Australian steel job cuts
- Unions preparing to agree to concessions at Verizon
- Protests continue against US-backed Bahraini dictatorship
- Western powers have Syria in their sights
- German Left Party campaigns for Eurobonds
- Texas households struggle to cope with costs in record heat wave
- Labor Day 2011: The failure of capitalism and the Obama administration
- This week in history: September 5- 11
- New York Times hails “humanitarian” war in Libya
- Letters on the ISO and Strauss-Kahn
6 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: BlueScope job cuts begin in Hastings
- Australian government crisis deepens after High Court’s refugee ruling
- Australian union to pay compensation to resources giant for strike
- Britain: Lessons of the Southampton council strike
- France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party applauds Libya war
- Germany: Record abstention in state elections in Mecklenburg-Pomerania
- Libyan opposition lays siege to pro-Gaddafi strongholds
- Motown songwriter Nick Ashford dies at 70
- Obama on Labor Day: No measures to address historic jobs crisis
- Presidential photo-op in storm-ravaged New Jersey
- Regulator says banks lied about assets sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- SEP candidate Christoph Vandreier speaks on German television
- US-backed monarchy loots Jordan amid continuing protests
- What do the repressive measures imposed in the UK portend?
- WikiLeaks cable confirms reports of US massacre of Iraqi civilians
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Workers and youth speak at Detroit Labor Day
“We are spending billions on wars, and we have people who have no jobs.”
7 September 2011 (front page)
- An unstable new government in Japan
- Australia: NSW government launches public transport carve-up
- Australia: Two whitewash inquiries into Orica chemical leak
- Economic downturn intensifies global currency conflict
- Reject the NSW budget cuts! A socialist strategy to defend jobs and conditions!
- Libyan humanitarian disaster deepens as NATO, opposition continue offensive
- US Postal Service demands right to slash jobs
- One-day national strike in Italy against austerity measures
- Sharp increases in British youth without jobs or education prospects
- Disability benefits under threat in UK
- What way forward for mass social struggles in Israel?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Berlin election: SEP holds rally to demand affordable housing
- The fight against rent increases, welfare cuts and poverty requires the building of a new political party
- Letters from our readers
8 September 2011 (front page)
- New Zealand universities cut staff and courses
- Nike faces allegations of worker abuse in Indonesia
- Shell confirms Sydney refinery closure
- Washington plans to keep thousands of US troops in Iraq
- Israel makes military preparations for UN vote on Palestinian state
- Germany’s Left Party and Nichi Vendola offer their services to the European Union
- Russia officially recognises the National Transitional Council in Libya
- Five million ravaged by floods in Pakistan
- Swedish Left Party leader announces resignation
- Virginia imposes stricter regulations on abortion providers
- US auto workers face historic struggle
9 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Thousands rally against NSW budget cuts
- Marchers discuss political issues raised by Sydney protest
- NATO-backed Libyan regime persecutes black Africans
- Obama outlines right-wing program in “jobs” speech
- Washington intervenes in Pacific Islands Forum
- Growing conflicts over euro crisis
- Republican presidential debate highlights further shift to the right
- Egyptian military junta deepens ties to NATO-backed Libyan opposition
- French government admits to wiretapping journalists in Bettencourt scandal
- Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, speak on jobs crisis
- Persecution of Roma in the Czech Republic
- Flooding causes havoc in eastern US
- University in UK being closed off to the working class
- Britain: Bristol’s street art project sidelines social comment
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
10 September 2011 (front page)
- A political trap for Chinese workers
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Ed: The Milibands and the making of a Labour Leader
A transparent attempt to rebrand Labour
Part one - India: Police support Maruti Suzuki lockout, occupy plant
- Indian prime minister visits Bangladesh
- Mass protests in Egypt against US-backed military junta
- Obama’s jobs fraud
- Sharp tensions in Indonesian Papua following failure of “peace conference”
- Spanish parliament passes constitutional amendment capping public deficit
- Video: Australian steel and maritime workers denounce BlueScope job cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- James Murdoch knew of widespread phone hacking, UK Parliament told
- New York, Washington in security lockdown on 9/11 anniversary
- Wildcat strikes shut down Washington docks for one day
- Illinois to close mental health facilities, lay off 1,900
- Ugandan President Museveni proposes land giveaways to international business interests
- Detroit residents protest plans to close local library
- Berlin election: What lies behind the hype for the Pirate Party
12 September 2011 (front page)
- Egyptian junta declares state of alert after storming of Israeli embassy
- Euro crisis divides European Central Bank
- Japan: Six months after the triple disaster
- Southern California power outage exposes decay of US infrastructure
- Western media accuse China of selling arms to Gaddafi
- Growing tensions between Turkey and Israel
- Riot police battle austerity protesters in Greece
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Hundreds attend funeral for Mark Duggan, murdered by UK police
- 9/11, ten years on
- The record of the World Socialist Web Site on 9/11
- This week in history: September 12-September 18
- Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director—a new biography of a major American filmmaker
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Ed: The Milibands and the making of a Labour Leader
A transparent attempt to rebrand Labour
Part two
13 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Jeld-Wen workers locked out in pay-cutting dispute
- Australian government rushes to circumvent High Court refugee ruling
- Bank of America layoffs overshadow Obama’s phony “jobs” bill
- Sri Lankan government holds belated local council elections
- Political tasks of the Egyptian Revolution
- European markets, banks staggered as Greece slides toward default
- Imperialist powers increase threats against Syria
- Over 100 dead, others horribly maimed in Nairobi pipeline explosion
- Deadly explosion hits French nuclear waste disposal plant
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“I was making more money as a door greeter at Wal-Mart than I am now”
Maintenance of low wages key to US auto profits -
“Are we paying people just to come and kill us?”
London family subject to brutal police raid speaks out - Gage Inquiry into Mousa death whitewashes British Army once again
- European workers rally against cuts in social welfare, war and racism
- Images of a dictatorship: La Cantuta in the Jaws of the Devil
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Ed: The Milibands and the making of a Labour Leader
A transparent attempt to rebrand Labour - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
14 September 2011 (front page)
- Australian government’s cuts opposed by public sector workers
- Record number of Americans in poverty
- US embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul under fire
- WikiLeaks cables reveal US role in Australia’s “regime change” in Solomon Islands
- Italy moves to secure its share of the booty in Libya
- Protests continue over Detroit library closures
- Guantanamo lawyers speak out on decade of torture and abuse
- Canada: NDP leadership campaign begins
- Wildfires devastate Texas following historic drought
- Scottish writers lined up to endorse nationalism
- California teachers’ pension system labeled “high-risk issue” by state auditors
- A socialist answer to the euro crisis
- UAW plan for auto workers: back to sweatshop conditions
- French NPA prepares international betrayal of auto workers’ struggles
- Tacoma, Washington teachers strike
15 September 2011 (front page)
- America: The land of poverty
- French bank downgrade increases pressure for austerity across Europe
- In wake of British riots, Australian government preparing for youth unrest
- Maruti Suzuki India sacks workers, hires strike breakers
- NATO’s client regime in Libya confronts divisions as military offensives stall
- New York Times’ Keller on Iraq: The confession of a “liberal” hawk
- Sri Lankan government revives emergency powers in a new guise
- Greek workers plunged into social misery
- Atlanta dialysis patients left to die
- Republicans win US by-elections in New York, Nevada
- UK’s “free schools” accelerate privatisation
- Demonstration in Berlin against data retention and the surveillance state
- Letters from our readers
16 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Lessons from the closure of the Newcastle steel plant
- Indian government to hang men convicted over Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination
- Newcastle residents voice concern about BlueScope job losses
- Sarkozy and Cameron in Tripoli: Scramble for Libya is on
- Obama’s assault on health care
- Corporate media promotes Republican ultra-right
- Tacoma teachers defy court order, vote overwhelmingly to continue strike
- Chile’s student struggle and the legacy of 1973
- 30,000 children face destitution from welfare cut in Michigan
- Detroit residents denounce library closures
- NATO admits killing BBC journalist in Afghanistan
- Right-wing demonstrations against Roma in the Czech Republic
- Toronto Mayor moves to gut city jobs and services
- The interests behind Romania’s Roşia Montana project
- For a united fight by all auto workers! No to job and wage cuts!
- Berlin elections: 5,000 demonstrate for better education
- Mass Viking grave identified in southern England
17 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Steel workers in Hastings kept in the dark as layoffs hit
- Britain and France lead the colonial charge into Libya
- China’s list of billionaires expands again
- European finance ministers delay loan, press Greece for deeper cuts
- Federal judge finds Washington dockworkers union in contempt
- Former Colombian secret police chief convicted of murder
- Four miners killed at private coal mine in the Swansea valley, Wales
- India: Maruti Suzuki struggle escalates as company hires more strikebreakers
- The German government’s “pension reform”: A travesty for pensioners in poverty
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Youth and families targeted for collective punishment over UK riots
- Britain’s Trades Union Congress threatens November strikes over pensions
- An exhibition of Russian and Soviet modernism makes its way across Europe
- Berlin elections: What does the “BIG Party” represent?
19 September 2011 (front page)
- As Libyan “rebel” offensive stalls, NATO bombs kill hundreds
- Australian Labor government repudiates international law on refugees
- Berlin election deals blow to federal coalition government
- Further rollback for workers in UAW-GM deal
- Philippine economy decelerating amid global turmoil
- Yemeni government cracks down on opposition protesters
- Georgia parole board meets to decide fate of Troy Davis
- Danish elections bring Social Democrats to power
- Britain: James Murdoch to be quizzed again over phone hacking
- Pennsylvania’s capital faces possible financial takeover
- Demagogy in defense of the rich
- German carmaker finds cheap labor platform in America
- This week in history: September 19-25
20 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: SEP holds meetings to fight BlueScope Steel sackings
- Australian media “inquiry” designed to protect Murdoch empire
- Case of jailed Americans highlights infighting in Iranian regime
- Georgia parole board hears evidence of Troy Davis’s innocence
- Obama’s budget plan: Cut social spending, lower tax rates for the rich
- Toyota Australia executives threaten shutdown after strike
- The carve-up of Greece
- Socialist Equality Party (PSG) vote in the Berlin election
- Investigation launched into deaths of four Welsh miners
- Turkey’s Erdogan tours North African capitals
- French New Anti-Capitalist Party’s summer school marks new rightward lurch
- Credit rating agencies threaten to downgrade Spain
- Germany’s Left Party leaders reveal extent of their austerity policies
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Reject UAW sellout! Establish rank-and-file committees to prepare strike action!
Abolish two-tier wage and restore pay and benefit concessions! -
“There’s no way to raise a family on $15.06 an hour”
UAW-GM deal sanctions exploitation of temporary workers - Maruti Suzuki India lockout: After talks fail, union leaders arrested
- Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers—reconsidering a hip hop “classic”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Grocery workers union signs agreement with Southern California supermarkets
- Letters from our readers
21 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Qantas uses Labor’s laws to lock out thousands of workers
- Australian government’s anti-refugee laws blocked in parliament
- Mass protest in Tokyo against nuclear power
- Saleh urged to resign as Yemeni regime kills more protesters
- The significance of the Berlin elections
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Georgia parole board denies clemency
Troy Davis set to die by lethal injection - UAW: We’d “love to see” 40 percent of GM workers making tier-two wages
- NATO powers indifferent to Libyan refugees
- Local residents speak on Welsh mining tragedy
- Public anger mounts as floods again engulf Pakistan
- UK students priced out of university education
- Canada’s Conservatives invoke back-to-work legislation to help airline extort concessions
- Peter Schwarz addresses Berlin election campaign rally
22 September 2011 (front page)
- Assassination of top Afghan negotiator undermines “peace talks”
- Australia’s “finance minister of the year”
- Obama at the UN: The arrogant voice of imperialism
- Support for Labour slumps ahead of New Zealand poll
- The California nurses strike and the right to health care
- The execution of Troy Davis
- Poverty soars among young families in US
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After IMF cuts growth forecasts for US, world economy
Fed moves to increase cheap credit for business - Britain: Irish Travellers fight Dale Farm eviction in Essex
- Bourgi affair exposes French imperialism’s criminal activities in Africa
- Obama backs slashing of postal jobs and benefits
- University of California prepares huge tuition hikes
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Maruti Suzuki India workers challenge cheap-labor regime
“We are determined this time to fight to the end” - Spanish teachers and students protest education cuts
- Trotskyist candidate in Berlin elections addresses European workers rally
23 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Jeld-Wen strike into third week
- Australian big business steps up campaign for more “flexible” industrial relations laws
- Japanese government proposes major tax increases
- World stock markets slump as Europe moves into recession
- Wealth and poverty in America
- Greek workers strike, protest against brutal austerity measures
- Opposition to UAW-GM deal grows
- Police retreat from attack on Guardian over Murdoch phone-hacking scandal
- Ex-general set to win Guatemalan presidency
- Photo story: The Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant sets new standard for low wages
- Julie Hyland addresses Berlin election campaign rally
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New hominin fossil finds in South Africa may fill a gap in the record of human evolution
24 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Mounting job losses in basic industry
- Specter of global depression haunts IMF, World Bank meetings
- Tensions escalate as Yemen’s president returns
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- European powers discuss possible bankruptcy of Greece
- Report cites BP responsibility in Gulf blowout
- French car workers strike against 23 percent wage cut
- Police force UK broadcasters to hand over footage from London riots
- Autistic man sentenced to prison in UK for Internet “trolling”
- Michigan students denounce Troy Davis execution
- Slovenian government ousted by vote of no confidence
- Palestine and the UN: The dead-end of the “peace process”
- Tacoma, Washington teachers union pushes through concessions
- California health care workers oppose concessions
- European workers rally: The French “left” and the building of a new revolutionary party
- US SEP’s greetings to European workers rally
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UK public meeting
Lessons of the Southampton council workers strikes - Letters from our readers
- Letters on the execution of Troy Davis
26 September 2011 (front page)
- No new proposals from IMF on European debt crisis
- Sri Lankan military attacks Tamil villagers
- US, European corporations rush to secure cut from Libyan war
- United Nations attempts to stall Palestine statehood bid
- New York City police arrest scores at anti-Wall Street protest
- The deaths of three hockey “enforcers:” The tragic contradictions of professional sports
- What can be expected from the Pirate Party in Berlin?
- The many frauds of the “Buffett rule”
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Forty years since the Attica uprising
Nixon-Rockefeller tapes praise bloodbath—“A beautiful operation” - Widespread opposition and abstentions in UAW-GM contract vote
- Swedish court grants Saab bankruptcy protection
- This week in history: September 26-October 2
- Contagion, the latest from Steven Soderbergh
27 September 2011 (front page)
- Bolivian government violently represses indigenous protest
- Philippine Airlines to sack 2,600 ground staff
- Rolling strikes continue at Toyota Australia
- Social inequality worsening in South Korea
- Strikes and protests mount against austerity in Greece
- The Welsh mining tragedy and the return to Dickensian-style exploitation
- Democrats agree to no additional disaster aid in US budget dispute
- Detroit Science Center shut down, faces permanent closure
- Britain’s Liberal Democrats: The political walking dead
- German President Wulff addresses Verdi congress and thanks the unions
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Governor-appointed official moves to dismantle Detroit public schools
- India: Stalinist union works to impose company demands on locked-out Maruti Suzuki workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
28 September 2011 (front page)
- Australian steel unions finalise sell-out deal with BlueScope on jobs
- Report warns of deepening global jobs crisis
- Sri Lanka: Book launch honours the life of Piyaseeli Wijegunasinghe
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain) now available
- Yemen edges closer to civil war
- Yemen edges closer to civil war
- Egyptian elites demand end to strikes
- Half of Americans cannot afford prescribed medications
- Scottish budget sets out cuts in jobs, wages and public services
- Imperialist powers prepare to keep UN forces in Haiti
- The euro crisis: Major powers plan new bank bailout
- Electricians in the UK protest threatened wage cuts
- Leon Trotsky’s remarkable work Problems of Everyday Life
29 September 2011 (front page)
- Australia to shut northern TB clinics
- Greek parliament approves “property tax” as PASOK pledges more pain
- Two dead in shooting at CIA headquarters in Kabul
- US becomes a center of poverty-wage manufacturing
- Mass killing and humanitarian disaster in NATO siege of Sirte
- Growing anger over police attack on Wall Street protesters
- Miner killed, another injured after roof collapse at UK colliery
- Sarkozy loses his majority in the French Senate
- Union pushes through contract on Southern California grocery workers
- Toronto demonstration opposes municipal cuts
- Unite the working class to defend public education!
- The political tasks arising from the Egyptian Revolution
30 September 2011 (front page)
- German parliament approves increase in European bank bailout fund
- Libya: “the jewel in the crown”
- Riots erupt in southern China over land sales to developers
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Toronto International Film Festival 2011—Part 1
The world at large and closer to home - Obama fundraising drive targets the wealthy
- More evidence of criminality by Murdoch’s media empire
- Obama administration seeks first death penalty via military tribunal at Guantánamo
- French teachers protest against savage reduction in teaching posts
- Italy prepares “left” government of austerity
- Pope Benedict speaks to German parliament against majority rule and “ungodly” laws
- University of California students convicted for protesting Israeli ambassador’s speech
- Canada’s Conservative government promotes militarism, monarchy, and reaction
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The significance of the 40-year struggle by the German Trotskyists
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