Archive: October 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 October 2011 (front page)
- Death toll mounts in the wake of typhoon in the Philippines
- Devastating floods threaten famine, disease in Pakistan
- Israel announces new settlements in East Jerusalem
- Obama boasts of assassinating American citizen in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wall Street hails UAW-GM deal
- Egypt’s “independent” unions seek to end strikes, prop up junta
- Michigan: Meeting on power outages exposes DTE Energy negligence
- US-Pakistani relations worsen following accusations and threats from Washington
- German trade unions back European Stability fund
- Labour Party conference commits to austerity, cuts in pay, jobs and welfare
- Video: US college students speak on unemployment and budget cuts
3 October 2011 (front page)
- Chinese manufacturing contraction points to deeper economic trouble
- Greece to miss deficit target and impose more cuts on workers
- The slaughter in Sirte
- New York City police arrest over 700 anti-Wall Street protesters
- UK Coal and miners’ union close ranks after pit deaths
- Wall Street protesters: “The whole system is broken”
- US sells arms to Bahraini dictatorship as repression continues
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North Yorkshire residents speak on mining conditions
“If we challenge the health and safety then we are seen as stopping the job” - French foundry workers vote to continue their struggle against wage cuts and sackings
- Spain: PSOE and PP collude to rush through austerity legislation
- French president’s associates charged in “Karachigate” scandal
- Listeria outbreak claims 15 lives in US
- Letter on the death of four miners at Gleision colliery, Wales
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At the Public Theater in New York
“Sweet and Sad”: An honest, probing look at life on the anniversary of 9/11 - This week in history: October 3 - October 9
4 October 2011 (front page)
- NATO assault on Sirte inflicts more Libyan civilian casualties
- Reject the union sell-out at BlueScope Steel
- SEP launches campaign to release Sri Lankan political prisoners
- How to fight Wall Street
- Mayor Bloomberg backs mass arrests of Wall Street protesters
- White House urges Supreme Court to approve health care “reform” and deepen attacks on democratic rights
- Northwest Detroit residents continue to fight library closure
- Reports document housing crisis in London
- Berlin: The Left Party and the fake left SAV group
- Private finance contracts threaten UK health care
- Majority of US college students never get degrees
- Unions, Stalinists force Maruti Suzuki India workers to accept company’s demands
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
5 October 2011 (front page)
- Another NATO-backed interim government in Libya
- Anti-Wall Street protesters camp out at Los Angeles City Hall
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Toronto International Film Festival 2011—Part 2
Crimes and upheavals past and present - European markets plummet on fears of a new banking crisis
- House fire in Detroit suburb kills three in multi-generation home
- Nearly two thirds of US student borrowers behind on repaying loans
- SPD, Greens prepare for coalition in Berlin
- Sri Lanka: IMF demands currency devaluation
- The political issues in the fight against Wall Street
- UAW bars World Socialist Web Site from press conference
- UAW reaches sellout agreement with Ford
- US Congress blocks Palestinian aid after UN statehood bid
- Union abandons Philippine Airlines ground employees
- Unison colludes in pay cuts at Scottish care charity Quarriers
- “Occupy Boston” protesters set up tent city
6 October 2011 (front page)
- India-Afghan pact further poisons Afghan-Pakistan relations
- Russia and China veto UN resolution on Syria
- Tens of thousands strike in Greece as military threatens to intervene against anti-austerity protests
- Tensions continue to mount in South China Sea
- Socialism and the global economic crisis
- Mass march backs anti-Wall Street protest
- Wall Street protesters speak out: “America is long overdue for a revolution”
- Saudi Arabia cracks down on protesters
- Michigan child poverty surges
- Ontario elections serve as smokescreen for coming big business offensive
- New York governor says layoffs will follow rank-and-file contract rejection
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Reject UAW sellout at Ford! Establish rank-and-file committees to prepare strike action!
Abolish two-tier wage and restore all pay and benefit concessions! - Veteran utility company worker killed in Detroit-area gas pipe collapse
- Tony Blair cashes in on Iraq War
- Letters from our readers
7 October 2011 (front page)
- Anti-China rhetoric raises threat of war
- Anti-Wall Street protests spread across the US
- Australian columnist found guilty of breaching Racial Discrimination Act
- Australian steel unions impose BlueScope job destruction deal
- Fears of an economic meltdown in China
- Boston: “If you don’t have money it shouldn’t be a death sentence.”
- New York City: “The banks are selling our future”
- Costs of UK’s colonial war in Libya spiral
- Portland: “The government does not represent the people”
- Low-level Massey employee convicted in Upper Big Branch mine investigation
- Romania: Closure of Nokia plant leaves 2,200 jobless
- Violence against Roma in Bulgaria
- The Nation, ISO seek to channel Wall Street protests back to the Democratic Party
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“People are tired of this … they’re getting to the breaking point”
Chicago auto workers denounce UAW-Ford deal - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
8 October 2011 (front page)
- A decade of neo-colonial war in Afghanistan
- Australia: Victims’ families question police shootings in Sydney
- European Union prepares for Greek state bankruptcy
- Mayor Bloomberg slanders Wall Street protest
- Michigan welfare cuts threaten thousands with destitution
- Occupy Wall Street and the Democratic Party
- Plans for anti-Wall Street protests spread across US and globally
- San Diego: “Why has no one gone to jail for the financial crisis?”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “Occupy Chicago” protests continue into second week
- Another miserable US jobs report
- Minneapolis: “We need to establish a redirection of the flow of wealth”
- Ann Arbor: “End the influence of corporate money in politics”
- Poland: Outcome uncertain in Sunday’s election
- BAE Systems to cut 3,000 jobs across England
- From Tunisia to “Occupy Wall Street”: Who is the AFL-CIO’s Stuart Appelbaum?
- Letters from our readers
10 October 2011 (front page)
- Anti-Wall Street protesters rally in Norfolk, Virginia
- Australia: Union calls off Jeld-Wen strike
- Australian corporate elite calls for tax cuts, austerity at Labor summits
- Economic crisis heightens global tensions
- Minneapolis protesters continue occupation of county government center
- NATO and anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya step up bombardment of Sirte
- Obama administration asserts right to assassinate Americans
- Occupy LA protests enter second week
- Six workers die in Subic shipyard in the Philippines
- Thailand: Hundreds dead as floods threaten Bangkok
- Unions lead Southampton council workers strike into blind alley
- Protests building momentum as they enter fourth week
- New York: Kentucky college students send delegation to Wall Street protest
- Putin to run for Russian presidency
- Draconian anti-immigrant law stokes fear among Alabama’s undocumented population
- Interview with Detroit Symphony violinist: “We went on strike because we didn’t want the orchestra to be destroyed”
- Italian government closes refugee camp on Lampedusa
- Southampton council workers criticise union
- This week in history: October 10 - October 16
- Electricians occupy London’s Oxford Street
- The legal implications of the al-Awlaki assassination
11 October 2011 (front page)
- A letter from Charlotte, North Carolina on the anti-Wall Street protest
- Hundreds join Occupy Toledo rally
- Merkel, Sarkozy want to give the banks more capital
- New Zealand government amends surveillance laws after “anti-terror” case collapses
- Obama ramps up pressure on Pakistan
- Opposition to UAW-Ford deal
- Spain’s main parties attempt to re-introduce censorship of public broadcasting
- Student march backs Occupy Boston
- US-backed Egyptian junta massacres peaceful protesters
- Video Report: Youth speak on the Democratic Party and socialism
- Workers’ incomes plummet during the Obama “recovery”
- New York: “At this point a social revolution is necessary”
- Occupy Wall Street protests spread to hundreds of cities
- Berlin social democrats seek coalition with the conservatives
- Pseudo-left “Unity List” backs new right-wing Danish government
- President Piñera unleashes repression against Chile’s student movement
- British Conservatives pledge continued austerity
- Washington anti-Wall Street rally: “This country has slipped out of the hands of the people”
- India: Wildcat strike erupts anew at Maruti-Suzuki plant, thousands walk out in sympathy
- European Conference against Austerity seeks to rescue capitalism
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 October 2011 (front page)
- Boston police arrest 100 anti-Wall Street protesters
- Burma suspends Chinese dam construction
- Obama administration alleges Iranian terrorist plot
- Occupy Boston: “They came down with dogs, batons, riot gear, scare tactics”
- Occupy Wall Street marches on millionaires’ row
- Sri Lankan ruling party defeated in Colombo local election
- Unite seeks to stifle UK electricians’ pay dispute
- The euro crisis: Billions more for the banks
- Occupy Detroit holds first meeting
- Occupy Portland protests expand
- UN report documents systematic torture of Afghan detainees
- Poland: Tusk government begins second term
- Ex-SDS leader seeks to herd Wall Street protest behind Obama
- Hunger on the rise in UK
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Toronto International Film Festival 2011—Part 3
The drama of everyday life -
“Emotional truth and social truth are what I’m interested in”
An interview with Bryan Wizemann, director of Think of Me
13 October 2011 (front page)
- Australian government passes carbon tax through parliament
- Conflicts deepen over European bailout
- India: Maruti Suzuki and Congress government prepare police attack on occupation
- Indonesian police open fire on striking miners in Papua
- Russian Prime Minister Putin visits Beijing
- US steps up sanctions and threats against Iran over alleged terror plot
- Video report: Wall Street protesters express the grievances of American workers
- Financial officials increase pressure on Greece
- Occupy Wall Street protesters condemn US political establishment
- Dozens of anti-Wall Street protesters arrested in Sacramento
- Greece’s health system faces collapse
- Opposition mounts to Detroit library closures
- Occupy New Orleans enters seventh day
- Israeli cabinet approves whitewash report on social crisis
- School districts and administrators sue California over budget
- France’s NPA joins in anti-democratic media hysteria over Strauss-Kahn affair
- UAW signs Chrysler pact as opposition to Ford deal grows
- Letters from our readers
14 October 2011 (front page)
- Egyptian junta defends massacre, launches fresh attacks on strikers
- Politics and the international Occupy movement
- Ship grounding creates New Zealand’s worst environmental disaster
- Sri Lanka: JVP heading for another split
- Union scuppers Air Canada strike, in response to fresh Tory attack
- Washington and Iran: The reckless policy of provocation
- Eight arrested in Occupy Portland protest
- Occupy Wall Street protesters resist expulsion from Liberty Plaza in New York
- Anti-Wall Street occupation continues in Lexington, Kentucky
- UK unemployment reaches 17-year high
- German state deploys illegal spy software
- Police reign of terror intensifies at Los Angeles County Jail
- American liberalism attempts to corral Occupy Wall Street movement for Democrats
- Lockout at Bosch plant in Bangalore, India now two weeks old
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Chicago Ford workers vote down UAW sellout
15 October 2011 (front page)
- Famine threatening millions in North Korea
- French Socialist Party presidential contenders embrace right-wing policies
- Growing strike wave in Greece
- Letters from our readers
- New York police fail to clear park after thousands gather to defend Occupy Wall Street
- Obama touts South Korean trade deal at Michigan auto plant
- Occupy Pittsburgh: “The corporations just get bailed out, while the people suffer”
- Sirte’s fall to usher in mass repression by Libya’s National Transitional Council
- Strong turnout for first Occupy Detroit protest
- Support builds for Occupy Chicago protest
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Toronto International Film Festival 2011—Part 4
The permanent, painful search for truth - The political economy of quantitative easing
- The way forward in the fight against Wall Street
- University of Michigan hospital nurses protest concessions contract
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
17 October 2011 (front page)
- A day of international action against Wall Street
- Australia: Demonstrations held in every capital
- Australian Labor government threatens Qantas airline workers
- Hundreds of thousands protest internationally against social inequality
- New Zealand: Occupy protests in six cities
- San Diego: “The revolution is worldwide, not just in the US”
- New York City: “We are looking for equality”
- Chicago: As anti-Wall Street protests grow more than 175 arrested at Grant Park
- Europe: Protestors speak out in the UK and Germany
- Pittsburgh, Penn.: “They don’t treat us as humans”
- Canada: Occupy Wall Street movement hits twenty cities
- US deploys Special Forces troops to central Africa
- US hunger rate triple that in China
- DTE Energy turns out the lights on Highland Park, Michigan neighborhoods
- Tunisians distrust upcoming Constituent Assembly election
- India: Maruti strike continues after occupation ends under police threat
- WikiLeaks documents expose disaster created by the US and EU in Bosnia
- This week in history: October 17-23
- France: LyondellBasell unions betray Berre refinery strike
18 October 2011 (front page)
- A letter on Occupy Toronto
- G20 meeting: Upbeat assessments mask deep rifts
- Letters from our readers
- NSW public sector workers face onslaught on jobs and conditions
- Sirte destroyed by NTC-NATO offensive in Libya
- State government inquiry whitewashes Australian chemical leak
- Video Report: Protesters discuss social inequality in Melbourne, Australia
- Occupy Wall Street enters second month amid global protests
- Britain: Occupy London and Edinburgh protesters speak
- Norfolk, Virginia: “The international eruption of these protests gives me hope”
- Nashville: “I’m fed up with the way corporations are controlling the American government”
- Columbia, South Carolina: “I think we need a social revolution”
- Ithaca, N.Y.: “The people need to control the money and the wealth”
- Buffalo: “This movement does not support the current political system”
- Syracuse, N.Y.: “Democrats or Republicans, they’re not listening to the people”
- Portland, Oregon: “A democracy run by the wealthy is a plutocracy”
- Seattle: “The Democratic Party is not doing anything for the people”
- Las Vegas: “I have so many friends and family out of work”
- UK police to be given greater repressive powers after riots
- Job losses at BAE Systems to devastate towns
- Germany's low-wage earners remain trapped in poverty
- Obama, Martin Luther King and the Occupy Wall Street protests
- UAW seeks to ram through Ford sellout
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 October 2011 (front page)
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Ten years since the SIEV X tragedy
Did the Australian government deliberately allow 353 refugees to drown? - Freeport shuts Papuan gold mine in new strike-breaking bid
- Greek refuse workers threatened with army intervention on eve of general strike
- Indian government seeks to lower official poverty line to 50 cents per day
- The destruction of Sirte
- Captured soldier Gilad Shalit freed in Israeli-Palestinian prisoner exchange
- Boston: Democratic governor’s visit to protest prompts opposition
- Detroit: “This system is rigged for a very few”
- New York Governor Cuomo rejects Wall Street protest demand over “millionaires’ tax”
- Los Angeles: “Being out of work for two years is being called the ‘new normal’”
- Obama promotes token jobs plan in campaign-style tour of North Carolina, Virginia
- “Walk-To-Work” protests shake Ugandan capital city
- Neglected Pakistan flood victims left to survive on their own
- Video: Kentucky students join Occupy Wall Street protest
- Near fatality in UK mine
- George Clooney’s The Ides of March: What a great many people already know (and perhaps less)
- Unite move to bring UK electricians’ dispute behind union
20 October 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Ongoing conspiracy of silence over SIEV X tragedy
- China economy slows amid fears of credit bust
- Massive protests on first day of Greek general strike
- Video report: Protesters speak out at Occupy Sydney, Australia
- “We need the help of workers in Europe,” says Athens protester
- Atlanta: Mayor postpones eviction of anti-Wall Street protesters
- Long Beach, California: Anti-Wall Street protesters speak out
- US deports a record 400,000 immigrants
- UK: Citizens Inquiry covers up real reasons for Tottenham riots
- Detroit library closings face angry opposition
- Slovak government collapses
- Poverty up sharply in US South
- Romania: Nokia trade unions in the pocket of management
- Profit system unleashes misery on young and old
- India: Maruti Suzuki workers’ struggle must spearhead working-class political offensive
- New wave of job cuts at Italian Fiat plants
- British historical document now available at Mehring online
- Letters from our readers
21 October 2011 (front page)
- Australian government appeals to anti-refugee sentiment after migration bill collapses
- Five thousand register for the free health care clinic in Los Angeles
- France’s Socialist Party nominates “Mr. Normal” as its presidential candidate
- IG Metall union and German government reaffirm their collaboration
- Mortgage stress rising in Australia
- PASOK approves further austerity measures for Greece
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Abolish two-tier wage and restore all pay and benefit concessions!
Reject UAW sellout at Chrysler! Establish rank-and-file committees to prepare strike action! - The high cost of executions in California
- UK: Police make brutal attack on Irish traveller camp
- US and NATO murder Muammar Gaddafi
- What lies behind the rescue of the Euro?
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- More than 100,000 protest in Athens
- Occupy Pittsburgh: “Transportation shouldn’t be a privilege, it is a right”
- Occupy Wall Street in second month: $10 billion in bonuses for Goldman Sachs
- Protest strike hits Airbus in Germany
- Widespread opposition to Chrysler-UAW contract
- Woman as animal: Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Once Upon a River
22 October 2011 (front page)
- Australian police attack Melbourne protest
- Australian political crisis deepens over pro-business carbon tax
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“The police are here for the government and the corporations”
Demonstrators denounce police brutality at Occupy Melbourne - Former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks speaks with the World Socialist Web Site
- German-French conflicts deadlock European Union summit
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Sri Lankan SEP campaign for release of political prisoners:
Released detainees speak to the WSWS - Video: Sydney protesters discuss international Occupy movement
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Yemen regime massacres dozens as Saleh considers immunity deal
- Bristol, UK: “We are sick to the teeth of being robbed”
- Occupy Washington DC protesters speak out
- Turkey preparing military intervention in Syria
- Majority in US earn near-poverty wages
- The “liberation” of Libya
- Two US coal miners killed
- Critical political issues raised by the Occupy movement
- Letters from our readers
24 October 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Riot police evict Occupy Sydney
- Burmese president visits India
- Millions impacted as floods engulf Bangkok
- No answers from European summit meeting
- This week in history: October 24-30
- Obama announces US troop withdrawal from Iraq
- Chicago police arrest over 130 occupy protesters
- Occupy Wall Street: Dozens arrested as New York mayor warns of more prosecutions
- Occupy Albany protests outside New York state capitol building
- Germany's Left Party offers its services as a bulwark against revolution
- New questions raised over 2001 anthrax attacks
- Russia signs trade deal with former Soviet republics amid growing regional tensions
- Finance minister proposes “Swedish model” to solve European debt crisis
- The US and Gaddafi: The murderer calls for an investigation of the crime
- UAW seeks to push through Chrysler contract over worker opposition
- India: Unions scuttle Maruti Suzuki strike again
25 October 2011 (front page)
- Mass killings, arbitrary detention under new Libyan regime
- Philippine gunboat rams Chinese fishing vessel in South China Sea
- Sri Lankan NSSP repudiates socialism and the October Revolution
- Stepped-up repression against anti-Wall Street protesters
- The way forward in Greece
- London Occupation in second week
- Occupy Boston: Noam Chomsky speaks, but offers no way forward
- Mayor steps up intimidation of Occupy Atlanta protesters
- Turkey launches anti-Kurdish raids into northern Iraq
- Resignation of UK defense secretary reveals links between ministers and military firms
- Professor Cole gloats over Gaddafi’s murder
- US government panel recommends an end to prostate cancer screening
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“Workers are facing the same thing all over the world”
Widespread opposition as voting on UAW-Chrysler deal concludes - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters on the murder of Gaddafi
26 October 2011 (front page)
- Grounded ship threatens to break-up off New Zealand coast
- India: Maruti and Suzuki workers discuss their two-week strike
- Official report confirms growing inequality in Australia
- Riots erupt over Pakistan’s chronic electricity cuts
- US-backed Kenyan forces invade Somalia
- Violent crackdown on Occupy protesters in Oakland, California
- Minneapolis, Minnesota: Occupation targets banks
- Obama’s mortgage relief fraud
- Sacramento, California: “Democrats are tied to the corporations that caused the crash”
- Death toll rises in Turkish earthquake
- Britain’s Conservatives suffer worst ever back-bench revolt over Europe
- Floods threaten Mexico and Central America with famine
- Saab nears bankruptcy as restructuring plan collapses
- Occupy Wall Street movement at a crossroads
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SEP and ISSE public meetings
Occupy Wall Street and Beyond: Equality and the Fight for Socialism -
Toronto International Film Festival 2011—Part 5
The defense of Iranian filmmakers, and their artistic decline - UK bakery workers union ignores ballot for strike
27 October 2011 (front page)
- Business leaders oppose Thai government’s rice price scheme
- Debt crisis splits Europe
- Germany’s Left Party holds its congress: Verbal radicalism combined with calls for a strong state
- Government report says richest 1 percent doubled their share of US national income
- New Zealand: Students protest against university cuts
- Thousands flee flooding in Thailand
- Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq: Prelude to wider war
- Amidst police crackdown, widespread public support for Occupy movement
- New York: DA will not drop charges against hundreds of Occupy protesters
- Thousands march to denounce police brutality against Occupy Oakland
- Occupy Detroit: “People will possibly be killed if this keeps up”
- Obama offers a drop in the bucket for student loan crisis
- Sinn Fein’s McGuinness stands for Irish presidency
- Poverty and hunger on the rise in Hungary
- Video: Warren, Michigan Chrysler workers speak on contract vote
- The Occupy movement and the rightward lurch of musician Billy Bragg
- UAW imposes contract on Chrysler workers
- Unite’s strike ballot for UK electricians only covers Balfour Beatty
28 October 2011 (front page)
- Canada: Steelworkers union imposes pension cuts to end Hamilton lockout
- Growing anger over state repression of anti-Wall Street protests
- Massive security for Commonwealth meeting in Western Australia
- Solomon Islands: Australian police accused of bribing witnesses
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court rejects petitions against new anti-democratic laws
- The UAW and the “reincarnation” of the US auto industry
- Occupy Oakland votes for general strike
- Occupy Atlanta: Protesters speak after forcible eviction from park
- Islamists claim victory in Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly elections
- Spain: Basque separatist ETA declares end of armed struggle
- Germany: Kickbacks for union bureaucrats at Opel
- Occupy Wall Street: The ISO promotes the unions against workers’ interests
- Thomas S. Kuhn, post-modernism and materialist dialectics
- Moneyball, and the uneven playing field of professional sports
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
29 October 2011 (front page)
- Australian government aligns with Washington’s anti-China stance in Asia
- Record low mobility reflects US social crisis
- Sri Lankan SEP campaign to release political prisoners: Plantation detainee and relatives speak to WSWS
- Twenty thousand displaced as Philippine government bombs Mindanao
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Whirlpool cuts 5,000 jobs, other US companies prepare for economic slowdown
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- New York City Mayor steps up harassment of Occupy Wall Street protesters
- Police raid Occupy San Diego, make 51 arrests
- Occupy Pittsburgh: “The rich own both the Democrats and Republicans”
- Occupy Portland threatened by Oregon’s leading newspaper
- Social deprivation led to UK riots, figures show
- Documents reveal how UK backed Gaddafi’s repression
- Half a million students strike over education law in Colombia
- New York governor picks right-wing Republican to head transit agency
- Brussels summit intensifies national conflicts in Europe
- Letters from our readers
31 October 2011 (front page)
- Police attack Occupy protests in Denver, Colorado
- Protesters rally in Melbourne, Australia after police violence
- Qantas Airways grounds fleet to impose far-reaching restructuring
- Ten years on: The SIEV X tragedy and the assault on democratic rights
- Who owns Qantas?
- Church and City move to evict Occupy London camp
- Occupy London protesters: “This is a global movement”
- Occupy Bristol, UK: Mounting threats to clear camp
- US plans buildup in Persian Gulf to offset Iraq withdrawal
- Fresh protests in Israel
- Police victimise London protest against deaths in custody
- A portrait of America in decline
- This week in history: October 31-November 6
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Theater review
Betrayed: An American liberal looks at the disaster he helped bring about in Iraq
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