Archive: November 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 November 2011 (front page)
- Australian corporate elite hails Qantas assault
- ILO report warns of sharp employment downturn, social unrest
- Police order end to occupation in Perth, Western Australia
- South Korean elections reveal widespread political disaffection
- NATO declares formal end to criminal war on Libya
- Occupy Albany action enters second week
- Occupy movement continues in upstate New York
- Occupy Wall Street organizing underway in La Crosse, Wisconsin
- US automakers to cash in from new UAW contracts
- Early snowstorm wreaks havoc with northeast US
- UK library cuts proceeding apace
- Unions move to sell out Southampton Council strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 November 2011 (front page)
- Anti-Wall Street protesters in New York denounce “Governor 1 percent”
- Australian “border protection” regime responsible for more refugee deaths
- Coup fears in Greece over referendum plan
- Political tensions rise as Thai flood disaster continues
- Sri Lankan government boosts military spending
- US financial trader brought down by eurozone crisis
- Unemployment and the global financial aristocracy
- Spain faces economic catastrophe
- Italian government prepares historic attack on workers
- Security official convicted of obstructing probe into West Virginia mine disaster
- Two Kentucky miners killed in wall collapse
- UK: Manchester’s most vulnerable face devastating cuts
- An exchange with a local union president on the Detroit library closures
- Berlin’s new Senate agrees on security buildup
- Letter to WSWS from Todd Kelly, AFSCME Local 1259 President
3 November 2011 (front page)
- Indonesian government orders police to break Papuan mine strike
- New Libyan prime minister installed by NATO-backed regime
- Washington austerity drive targets Medicare, Social Security
- Are Obama and NATO plotting a military coup in Greece?
- Europe on the brink as Greece staggers towards default
- British High Court dismisses appeal by WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange against extradition
- Thousands march in Oakland to defend Occupy movement
- “These are the Royal Courts of Injustice”
- SEP speaker opposes “no politics” at Occupy London Stock Exchange
- Obama green lights new BP Gulf oil drilling
- “Ostalgia”: Art from the Stalinist and post-Stalinist bloc, 1960s to the present
4 November 2011 (front page)
- Afghan army trainee kills three Australian soldiers
- Papandreou cancels referendum on Greek austerity plan
- US/Britain prepare for war against Iran
- Sharp rise in extreme-poverty neighborhoods in the US since 2000
- US business magazine: Military coup best solution for Greece
- Arrests follow Occupy Oakland demonstrations
- New York City: Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters going to trial for arrests
- US state Medicaid funding already squeezed in advance of federal cuts
- UK government to limit employment protection
- Margin Call: A look at the parasitical one percent
- Tentative evidence of particles travelling faster than light
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 November 2011 (front page)
- A global political strategy for Qantas workers
- G20 summit failure brings world recession closer
- Major parties pledge austerity agenda in New Zealand election campaign
- Papandreou pledges Greek government of national unity
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- October another bleak month for US jobs
- Joint US-Israeli campaign against Palestinian UN bid
- US again threatening to take military action inside Pakistan
- Corzine resigns from MF Global amid mounting probes
- United Mine Workers issues findings on Upper Big Branch mine disaster
- Hundreds of thousands without power in wake of Northeast US storm
7 November 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Police seek to block Occupy demonstrations
- Greek prime minister forced out in euro crisis deal
- Israeli leaders press for attack on Iran
- Police arrest 20 Occupy Atlanta protesters during late-night rally
- Occupy Pittsburgh protesters oppose police repression in California
- City government in Duluth, Minnesota prepares to evict Occupy protesters
- Australia’s central bank cuts growth forecast amid global turmoil
- German company demands 48-hour week and wage cuts
- New incident raises safety fears in UK mining
- Germany’s Pirate Party reveals its true colors
- Detroit bus drivers stage one-day strike
- Large numbers of US households to be denied heating assistance this winter
- Illinois Democrats plan budgetary assault
- Oppose the extradition of Julian Assange
- This week in history: November 7-13
- Pakistani government exploits railways crisis to pursue privatisation
8 November 2011 (front page)
- Major powers successfully dictate regime change in Greece
- Greek government crisis triggers new round of budget cuts in Europe
- A generation ago, young US households were three times wealthier than today
- Anti-worker legislation faces referendum vote in Ohio
- Euro crisis deepens after failure of G20 meeting
- First arrests in Occupy Detroit protest
- Protests mount against power grab by Egyptian military
- Australian government pledges new cuts as budget deficit looms
- German chancellor seeks closer alliance with the trade unions
- Malaysian government moves for early election
- Wisconsin power plant spills coal ash into Lake Michigan
- The MF Global collapse, the Democratic Party and Wall Street
- “Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde” at the Art Gallery of Ontario
- The JVP crisis and the SEP’s struggle for Marxism in Sri Lanka
- Workers vote for strike action at Park Cakes factories, north west England
- Reply to UK trade union official on Southampton Council strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
9 November 2011 (front page)
- 49 million Americans in poverty, Census study finds
- Talks on Greek national government stagger on without agreement
- Occupy protesters face more arrests, threats to encampments
- Occupy Los Angeles: “Obama promised us hope and change, and we got war and poverty instead.”
- Three occupations continue in Maine
- Australia: Bipartisan agreement on retrospective anti-refugee law
- London student protest: Defend education with class struggle methods
- Germany: Young people caught in the debt trap
- Croatia’s ruling party in crisis
- Chicago regional rail passengers to be hit with sharp fare hikes
- Strong opposition to Detroit suburban bus cuts
- California Governor Jerry Brown proposes public pension rollbacks
- Greece and the dictatorship of finance
- SEP campaigns at J’pura University for release of political prisoners
10 November 2011 (front page)
- Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi announces his resignation
- IAEA dossier heightens danger of war against Iran
- European debt crisis sparks global sell-off on financial markets
- No national government in Greece as talks break up
- US off-year balloting shows mass opposition to right-wing policies
- Occupy New York contingent sets off on march to Washington
- Sweden’s Social Democrats in freefall
- Australia: Corporate-backed government offensive against Victorian nurses
- Nine candidates vie to lead Canada’s NDP
- Another Kentucky coal miner killed
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“We need a revolution to get rid of the UAW”
UAW contracts set stage for global attack on auto workers - Southern Illinois University faculty strike
- Letters from our readers
11 November 2011 (front page)
- Favorite of European banks appointed to head Greek government
- British authorities launch “Total Policing” at student protest
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”Our future shouldn’t be determined by a few rich people”
Students at London demonstration speak - UK electricians’ demonstration faces police repression
- Police attack Occupy protesters in Berkeley, California
- University authorities seek to block and isolate Occupy Harvard
- Occupy Detroit protesters determined, despite threats from city
- First police action against Occupy Canada movement—more planned
- Eurozone crisis brings worsening outlook in China and Asia
- James Murdoch compared to “mafia boss” in British phone hacking inquiry
- Obama extends educational “competition” to preschoolers
- Russian nationalists march in Moscow
- US, UN snub Tamil National Alliance delegation
- Once again on Obama and Wall Street
- The Occupy movement, identity politics and the International Socialist Organization
- A portrait of contemporary anxiety in Take Shelter
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
12 November 2011 (front page)
- European Union presses for change of government in Italy
- Greek “left” prepares new trap for the working class
- Army sergeant convicted as ringleader of Afghan war crimes
- City of Sacramento criminalizes peaceful Occupy protest
- Unemployment in Germany: Appearance and reality
- Thai floods compound government’s political problems
- Australian government imposes new student union fee
- Tensions over Scottish independence referendum
- A bridge to somewhere: Billionaire obstructs new Michigan-Ontario crossing
- “Total Policing” and the criminalisation of dissent
- Former leader Arthur Scargill makes apologia for British National Union of Mineworkers
- India: Maruti Suzuki union leaders given huge payouts after ending strike
- Exciting and engaging: Richard Dawkins’ The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
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Public meetings in Britain
The Occupy movement and beyond
Inequality and the fight for socialism - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
14 November 2011 (front page)
- Australian elite troops prepared for decade-long operations in Afghanistan
- Resignation of Italy’s Berlusconi clears way for “technocratic” government chosen by the banks
- Arab League suspension of Syria brings military intervention closer
- US presses China on trade issues at APEC summit
- US authorities step up nationwide crackdown on Occupy protests
- Police evict Occupy Portland protesters
- US deficit panel focuses on cuts to Medicare, Social Security
- Saudi Arabia plays key role in US anti-Iranian alliance
- Mexican police arrest protesters in Juarez
- The unravelling of the European Union
- This week in history: November 14-20
- The Rum Diary: Fear and loathing in the Caribbean
- Oppose all utility shutoffs! Heat and Light are a social right! Join CAUS Today!
15 November 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Striking process workers resist police attacks
- New Zealand election: Mana Party a new political trap for workers
- Newly-installed Greek government pledges continued cuts
- The crackdown on Occupy protests and the criminalization of dissent
- OECD says economic slump will deepen throughout the world
- Brazilian army, police occupy Rio de Janeiro slums
- Police evict Occupy Oakland demonstrators
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A tale of two cities 2011
Social reality in New York - With eviction threat looming, protesters mark one month of Occupy Detroit
- UK couple driven to suicide by poverty and neglect
- Report reveals largest UK education cuts since 1950s
- Tunisia delays forming government amid a new wave of strikes
- 900 miners sacked in Romania
- The Penn State scandal and sports in America
- Asuncion: Inauspicious debut play from film actor Jesse Eisenberg
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
16 November 2011 (front page)
- Australian airline unions seek deal with Qantas
- Huge explosion at Iranian missile base kills top general
- New York City police raid Occupy Wall Street camp
- Papua New Guinea riots expose mounting social tensions
- UK’s major parties unite to demand action from Germany over euro crisis
- Berlusconi and the Italian “left”
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“This shows that it is illegal to express your opinion”
Protesters speak on Occupy Wall Street eviction - Boston protesters denounce raid on Occupy Wall Street
- Neo-Nazi terror and the German intelligence forces
- Politicians cover up austerity measures planned after Spanish elections
- US Supreme Court to hear challenge to Obama health care law
- Commissioners vote to close four Detroit branch libraries
17 November 2011 (front page)
- Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar
- Japanese PM’s support for US trade pact provokes opposition
- Letters on the Penn State scandal
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Mayors conspired to close Occupy Wall Street encampments
Arrests continue in major cities - Obama increases US military presence in Australia and Asia
- Papuan miners extend two-month strike
- The shutdown of Occupy Wall Street
- Thousands protest education fee hikes in California
- UK unemployment reaches 17-year high
- US more segregated in rich and poor neighborhoods
- Israel imposes heavy sentence on whistle-blower Anat Kam to protect the guilty
- Political issues in the arson attack on France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine
- Pro-European Union, right-wing candidate wins Bulgarian presidency
- Jefferson County, Alabama files largest municipal bankruptcy in US history
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From the archives
The story of Mark Zborowski: Stalin’s spy in the Fourth International - UAW-run trust fund to cut retiree health benefits
18 November 2011 (front page)
- Australian nurses’ industrial action banned by Labor’s laws
- Massive police mobilization against Occupy Wall Street protesters
- Obama lays down the challenge to China
- The German state and the neo-Nazi killings
- Portland Occupy protests face heavy police intimidation
- Detroit mayor outlines drastic cuts
- Financial markets continue offensive as European recession deepens
- Italy: The cabinet of Mario Monti—a government of the banks
- Italian “left” supports new Prime Minister Mario Monti
- Syria targeted for imperialist intrigue after Arab League suspension
- Obama moves to legalize cluster munitions
- US Congress blocks rules on healthier school lunches
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 November 2011 (front page)
- A reader responds on the suicide deaths of UK couple
- Constitutional crisis erupts in Papua New Guinea
- Germany’s Christian Democrats head toward a grand coalition
- JVP dissidents in Sri Lanka: a new political trap
- Labour’s Ed Miliband discovers “predatory capitalism”
- Mass protests against university fee hikes in Quebec
- Obama heightens danger of war in Asia
- Obama seeks to build anti-China coalition at Bali summit
- Police repression escalates against Occupy protests
- Police use pepper spray against unarmed protesters in Davis, California
- Service Employees International Union endorses Obama in 2012
- Sixth Kentucky coal miner killed
- Spain’s “Anti-Capitalist” electoral coalition: An anti-socialist trap for the working class
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Occupy Albany, NY: “The people need to represent the people”
- Letters from our readers
21 November 2011 (front page)
- California students face unending tuition hikes
- Egyptian military junta carries out deadly crackdown on protesters
- Ex-Philippine President Arroyo arrested for electoral fraud
- French parliament approves austerity measures
- Mark Duggan unarmed when shot by UK police
- Mounting food crisis in Latin America
- Obama forces discussion at Bali summit on South China Sea
- PSA Peugeot Citroën to slash 6,000 jobs in Europe
- The police attack at UC Davis: The working class and the defense of democratic rights
- The threat of dictatorship in Greece
- US and Australia discuss joint military base in Indian Ocean
- US budget panel fails to reach deficit-cutting agreement
- Crackdown on Occupy Canada encampments
- New York governor moves to forcibly remove Occupy Albany protesters
- Western powers back Syrian insurgents as Arab League deadline expires
- The counterrevolutionary role of the Egyptian pseudo-left
- This week in history: November 21-27
22 November 2011 (front page)
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WSWS/ISSE public meeting in Wellington
After the New Zealand election: the fight against social inequality - Australia: Nurses continue industrial action in defiance of industrial laws
- Gaddafi’s son captured in Libya
- IMF warns that China’s financial system is “vulnerable”
- Social democrats pave way for return of right-wing Popular Party in Spain
- Renewed uprising signals turning point in Egyptian revolution
- Opposition grows to police attack on UC Davis students
- US budget impasse, European debt contagion spark sell-off on world stock markets
- US Census figures show jump in child poverty
- European debt crisis threatens Balkan economies
- Three oil refineries on US East Coast face possible shutdown
- Occupy Bristol supporters attend Capita strike picket
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Public meetings in Germany
Greece, the crisis of the Euro and the dictatorship of finance - Letter on Occupy Toronto
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 November 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Elderly patients die in Sydney nursing home fire
- Australia: Qantas imposes arbitration to enforce restructuring
- Australia: The political issues facing Victorian nurses
- David Harvey and the Occupy Movement
- Millions protest to demand overthrow of US-backed Egyptian junta
- Thousands rally at UC Davis against police brutality and education cuts
- New York police beat and arrest students protesting tuition increase
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After collapse of “supercommittee”
Obama, Congress make new austerity plans - Detroit residents: “There is nothing here for the people but a struggle”
- Thousands line up for heating assistance in Detroit
- Spain: Inequality soars to record levels
- Inquiry hears evidence of extent of phone hacking at Murdoch’s News International
- Obama administration defends unlimited warrantless GPS surveillance before Supreme Court
- European historians oppose publication by Suhrkamp of Robert Service’s Trotsky biography
- The police assault at University of California, Davis
- Letter from historians to German publisher Suhrkamp on Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky
- Anonymous: An ignorant assault on Shakespeare
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Socialist Equality Party UK public meeting
What the Gleision mining tragedy reveals about Britain’s trade unions
24 November 2011 (front page)
- Former Libyan PM exposes US-NATO machinations
- Mass protests intensify against Egyptian junta
- Obama’s aggressive turn to Asia
- Obama’s move on Burma
- The Occupy protests in Australia, the unions and the pseudo-left
- As euro crisis worsens, new signs of world downturn
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“They are taking away people’s rights”
Auto workers denounce police attack on California students - UN lines up behind Arab League-Turkey action against Syria
- Social crisis in America: Thanksgiving 2011
- Greek police make first raid on university since fall of military junta
- Issues involved in the National Basketball Association lockout
- Video: Michigan residents denounce DTE Energy’s “Customer Assistance Day”
25 November 2011 (front page)
- Australian nurses rally in defence of wages and conditions
- Beijing considers response to US diplomatic offensive
- Berlin city government: SPD and CDU agree on a coalition
- Corruption-plagued NYPD tramples on democratic rights
- Labour’s new president promotes “Irishness” to cover austerity
- Nearly half of US Congress members are millionaires
- Police evict Occupy Toronto protesters
- Squalid manoeuvre gives extra vote to minority Australian Labor government
- The Greens: Adjuncts of US and Australian militarism
- The crisis of the euro
- UK bakers union calls off strikes at Park Cakes
- Working people disenfranchised in New Zealand election
- Yemeni president signs deal to step down
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 November 2011 (front page)
- Millions demand downfall of US-backed Egyptian junta
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In wake of US deficit-reduction panel’s demise
Renewed calls for Medicare cuts - Detroit mayor cuts jobs, threatens state takeover
- Members of 20 UK unions vote to join strike over pensions
- NPA responds to debt crisis by promoting alliances with French bourgeois “left”
- Russia, Germany launch Nord Stream pipeline
- Former Sri Lankan presidential candidate jailed for three years
- Australian government “delivers” on mining tax
- Inequality in Boston
- The civil war in Syria and the fate of the Middle Eastern revolution
- Mother of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, speaks with the WSWS
- International statements of support for UC Davis protests
- Australia: Union shuts down nurses’ industrial action
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 November 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Refugees narrowly survive another boat disaster
- Labour routed in New Zealand election
- NATO raid kills two dozen Pakistani soldiers
- South Korea ratifies free trade deal with US
- The Australian trade unions and the betrayal of the Victorian nurses’ struggle
- UC Davis Chancellor Katehi’s past: Police repression in Greece, FBI spying in the US
- The Occupy London movement at the crossroads
- Germany: The Nazi terrorist cell and the poison of anti-communism
- French petty-bourgeois “left” plots military intervention in Syria
- Mexican teachers fight to defend public education
- Former owner GM blocks Saab takeover
- Joint military exercise highlights growing Pakistan-China relations
- The Egyptian revolution turns against the military
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“Robert Service has written a diatribe, not a scientific polemic!”
A conversation with Professor Hermann Weber - This week in history: November 28-December 5
- Unite the working class to defend public education and democratic rights!
29 November 2011 (front page)
- Australian banks sound alarm over euro-zone fallout
- Outrage spreads in Pakistan over NATO bombings
- Sri Lankan SEP/ISSE holds public meeting on JVP crisis
- Strikes rock manufacturing centres in southern China
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WSWS/SEP public meetings in Melbourne and Sydney
The US-Australia military agreements: Preparations for war with China - Mass layoffs in Germany highlight new stage in global slump
- Protesters in Philadelphia and Los Angeles resist attempts to end occupations
- Students protest tuition hikes and police violence at UC Davis
- New York: CUNY students denounce police attacks
- US Census: One third of US population poor or near-poor
- UK academies pay managers up to £280,000
- Massive increase in UK wage inequality
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
30 November 2011 (front page)
- Australian government slashes spending as global crisis deepens
- Euro crisis deepens amid warnings of depression
- First round of Egyptian parliamentary elections begins
- Sri Lankan government imposes austerity budget
- WikiLeaks wins top Australian journalism prize
- American Airlines files for bankruptcy protection
- Article sheds light on the fabrication of charges against Strauss-Kahn
- West Yorkshire, UK parents and teachers march against school privatisation
- Germany: The referendum on the “Stuttgart 21” rail project
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UK public sector stages national one-day walkout
For a general strike to bring down the Cameron government! - An exchange on the union’s role in the Australian nurses’ dispute
- An exchange: More on the contemporary assault on Shakespeare
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