Archive: December 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 December 2011 (front page)
- Australian government to end ban on uranium sales to India
- Bitter rivalries dominate Durban climate summit
- Central banks seek to avert global meltdown
- Over two million UK public sector workers strike
- Protesters storm British embassy in Tehran over new sanctions
- The bankruptcy of American Airlines and the case for public ownership
- Police attack Occupy camps in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, arresting 350
- Mass layoffs in Greece’s public sector
- Occupy UC Davis protesters adopt resolution calling for break with Democratic Party
- Syrian crisis draws in regional and major powers
- Cricketer Imran Khan’s party: A dead end for opposition to US war in Pakistan
- Quebec Solidaire abets big business assault on workers
- Mehring Books launches holiday sale
2 December 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Another serious chemical leak by Orica
- Australia: Residents denounce Orica cover-up
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Socialist Equality Party and Committee Against Utility Shutoffs
Emergency Meeting: Stop Detroit Budget Cuts! Billions for jobs, education and housing! - Pakistan protests mount as Obama rejects apology for US strike
- Police helped plan vandalism at Toronto G20 summit
- SEP-ISSE meeting to demand release of Sri Lankan political prisoners
- Yemen to install “national unity” government
- US Senators back law authorizing indefinite military detention without trial or charge
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Britain: Anger over pensions feeds into widespread opposition to government and the bankers
Interviews with UK public sector strikers - Occupy Boston: Order barring eviction remains in effect for now
- Norway’s neo-fascist mass murderer Breivik declared insane
- Michigan holds sham review process on welfare cuts
- Italy’s Fiat terminates collective bargaining agreements
- European “left” supports EU institutions
- German Greens: A policy of social devastation in the name of ecology
- The way forward in the fight for social equality
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
3 December 2011 (front page)
- US Senate backs military detention of American citizens
- US jobs report: No relief from mass unemployment
- Clinton in Burma: Another US move against China
- Manufacturing slowdown in China triggers more strikes
- Police arrest 29 Occupy Tampa protesters
- Police confiscate tents from Minneapolis protesters
- Pakistani elite plunged into crisis over reputed secret offer to US
- UK public sector pension strike: Demonstrators in Peterborough and Cambridge describe social conditions
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“The 60-month rule is incredibly unfair”
Legal advocate speaks on cuts to Michigan welfare aid - Hungarian debt downgraded to junk status
- Campaign deals expose French Greens’ subservience to big business
- Federal judge rejects Harrisburg, Pennsylvania bankruptcy filing
- Former Tripoli Brigade leader Mahdi al-Harati outed as US asset
- Australia: Nurses’ union announces sham “community campaign”
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 December 2011 (front page)
- Australian Labor Party to enforce dictates of Washington, financial markets
- Australian nurses’ union holds first “community rally”
- Former Australian senator accuses Murdoch executives of offering a deal
- No letup in US aggression following military withdrawal from Iraq
- Study documents desperate conditions facing the unemployed in America
- West Bengal government orchestrates murder of top Maoist leader
- Chilean prosecutor charges ex-US officer in 1973 murder of American journalists
- Police arrest 19 Occupy Portland protesters
- Report exposes brutality of Saudi Arabian regime
- New York City workers protest inequality and layoffs
- Childhood poverty and hunger deepen in Oregon
- UK schools threatened with closure or privatisation
- This week in history: December 5-11
6 December 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Bushfires raise questions over emergency resources
- Australian Labor Party conference endorses plans to expel refugees
- Italy: Technocrat Monti introduces new drastic austerity package
- The New York Times and the privatization of Medicare
- Democrats, unions conspire against Detroit city workers
- Bonn conference on Afghanistan dominated by crisis and pessimism
- WikiLeaks’ Assange given green light to appeal extradition order before UK Supreme Court
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WikiLeaks “is shining light on the crimes that go on behind the scenes”
Demonstrators speak in support of Assange - Los Angeles police infiltrate Occupy LA
- Occupy DC: Police arrest 31, demolish protest structure
- Germany: Angry Manroland workers protest against job losses
- Manroland: The defense of jobs and the role of the German trade unions
- US-Russian tensions mount
- Washington state protesters disrupt special legislative session
- Basketball team owners prevail as NBA lockout ends
- Workers’ Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
7 December 2011 (front page)
- Merkel and Sarkozy plan a Europe of austerity
- The gutting of the US Postal Service
- Russian parliamentary elections highlight growing popular discontent
- US spy drone downed in Iran
- Social inequality spreads in industrialized countries
- Low turnout for run-offs in first wave of Egyptian elections
- New York City transit workers meet as contract deadline looms
- Mounting evidence of US involvement in Syrian crisis
- Australian unions commit to Labor’s austerity program
- Mexican workers face no alternative in 2012 vote
- 2012 Olympics: Police-state measures for London as super-wealthy party
- Thousands protest austerity measures in Hungary
- Bad as Me—a new album from Tom Waits
8 December 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Letter on the Victorian nurses’ struggle
- Australian High Court blocks frame-up charges against Moti
- Indian government puts retail sector restructure on hold
- US generals balk at Obama’s Afghanistan withdrawal plan
- Obama plays the populist card
- The rise and fall of Herman Cain
- Police arrest over 70 in attack on Occupy San Francisco encampment
- Report concludes British riots provoked by police brutality and poverty
- Texas student’s suicide highlights desperate plight of undocumented immigrants
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Germany: Thousands of Postbank workers strike
- Gay marriage “victory” diversion at Australian Labor Party conference
- Musicians may strike at New York City Opera
- Letters from our readers
9 December 2011 (front page)
- Obama’s visit prompts rancorous Australian foreign policy debate
- US officials threaten Russia amid post-election protests
- Obama administration blocks access to emergency contraception for young women
- American military sent hundreds of soldiers’ remains to garbage dump
- Justice Department drops criminal charges against Massey for deaths of 29 miners
- US condemned for arming Egyptian regime
- City threatens to clear Occupy Albany encampment
- Mumia Abu-Jamal to leave death row
- Labour and Fine Gael impose savage cuts in Ireland
- New York’s Cooper Union announces plans to charge tuition
- New Zealand: Pike River Coal charged over miners’ deaths
- EU summit prepares new attacks on the working class
- Cooper Tire workers fight wage cut demands in northern Ohio
- Striking electricians oppose Unite union’s efforts to isolate dispute
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage supports SEP campaign for release of political prisoners
10 December 2011 (front page)
- Brussels summit ends with isolation of Britain inside the EU
- Greek government imposes new austerity budget
- US covert operations threaten war with Iran
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Flint, Michigan emergency financial manager begins imposing cuts
State moving toward takeover of Detroit - SEIU, pro-Democratic Party groups stage protests in DC
- White House asks Supreme Court to block suit of man arrested for criticizing Cheney
- Australian state government to privatise electricity generators
- Canadian report shows growing political alienation
- Slovenian election brings businessman to power, more cuts promised
- Signs of a new strike wave in China
- The Dover mortuary scandal and America’s disposable soldiers
- Germany: Fierce debates at Manroland in Offenbach
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Message to fighting Manroland workers
“Workers must unite internationally” - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- My Week With Marilyn: Another look at the postwar American film icon
- Letters from our readers
12 December 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Labor to extend NT “intervention” for a decade
- Indian hospital fire death toll rises to 92
- Occupy Pittsburgh ordered to empty camp
- The unreality of the US presidential campaign
- Thousands protest against Kremlin regime
- City of Boston shuts down Occupy encampment
- Detroit house-fire season begins amid cuts in firefighting
- Portuguese workers hit by massive austerity package
- Washington continues campaign for Syrian regime-change
- CIA prison exposed in Romania
- Video: Detroit City workers speak on planned layoffs
- This week in history: December 12-18
13 December 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Ambulance services under pressure to cut costs
- Obama and Maliki discuss continued US operations in Iraq
- Trial of Khmer Rouge leaders underway in Cambodia
- European workers face austerity and dictatorship
- US Supreme Court to review Arizona immigration law
- Regional cuts intensify Detroit transportation crisis
- UK family face eviction as collective punishment
- New York governor packages tax cut for rich as “reform”
- Federal investigation finds Upper Big Branch mine disaster “entirely preventable”
- New Croatian government to implement big business measures
- California governor to enact midyear trigger cuts
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“If we don’t fight we’ll be making slave wages”
Cooper Tire workers in Ohio determined to fight pay cuts - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- In defense of Shakespeare—a conversation with veteran Australian actor and director John Bell
- The Nation backs Obama after anti-Plan B contraception ruling
- Letters from our readers
14 December 2011 (front page)
- Supreme Court intervention in Arizona anti-immigrant law poses threat to democratic rights
- The Australian pseudo-lefts and the betrayal of Victorian nurses
- US-China tensions loom over Taiwan’s presidential election
- The Iraq withdrawal and the continuing eruption of US militarism
- Russian billionaire announces presidential run against Putin
- Grenade attack on Belgian city square leaves six dead, 123 wounded
- West Coast demonstrations target port operators
- Bulgaria: Strikes and protests against layoffs and austerity
- Renting a home in the UK unaffordable for many
- Cooper Tire workers expose sweatshop conditions at Ohio factory
- Contract workers denounce low wages in US auto industry
- Bakery union sells out Park Cakes fight
15 December 2011 (front page)
- Australian Labor government shuts down port workers’ dispute
- Australian PM reshuffles ministry to deepen corporate assault
- Obama administration backs bill authorizing indefinite military detention of US citizens
- Papua New Guinea locked in constitutional crisis
- Mobilize the working class behind the Cooper Tire workers!
- Obama at Fort Bragg: A hypocritical embrace of a criminal war
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“A Third World in our own backyard”
US child homelessness soars - UK Liberal Democrats pledge support for coalition over EU summit crisis
- German government seeks to ban neo-fascist NPD
- New fears of Greek default and new austerity demands against Greek workers
- Peruvian crisis shifts Humala government to the right
- Detroit mothers speak on wintertime utility shutoffs
- Martin Scorsese’s Hugo: A rather drab and disjointed fairytale
16 December 2011 (front page)
- Australian government pursues anti-China relations with India
- Police besiege village land protest in China
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US hunger, homelessness soar amid cuts in social spending
Half of Americans either poor or low-income - French bank Crédit Agricole to cut 2,350 jobs worldwide
- Pontiac, Michigan firefighters fight cuts
- One man’s campaign to expose corruption in Spain’s health service
- Far-right fanatic guns down immigrants in Florence
- Tennessee plant where five workers died found rife with dangers
- Obama, Congress back legalization of a police state
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
17 December 2011 (front page)
- Army hearing begins against accused whistleblower Bradley Manning
- Fijian junta imposes draconian anti-union laws
- Imperialism and the Khmer Rouge trials
- PNG crisis eases as Australia hints at military intervention
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Putin dismisses election protests
- Bipartisan proposal targets Medicare for privatization
- Three more jailed for Facebook comments on UK summer riots
- Canadian government drops lawsuit against U.S. Steel
- Seattle students walk out against education cuts
- Children’s reading levels determined by poverty, UK survey finds
- Journalist, scoundrel Christopher Hitchens dies at 62
- German trade unions, management work to break up Manroland
- Letters from our readers
19 December 2011 (front page)
- Australia: Refugee boat disaster claims over 180 lives
- Australia: SEP meetings discuss the US-Australia alliance against China
- Australian nurses’ union announces “mass resignation” stunt
- Constitutional crisis erupts in the Philippines
- Egyptian military cracks down on peaceful protesters
- Philippines: Hundreds dead and missing in flash flooding
- Sri Lankan opposition party backs Colombo slum evictions
- Obama, Congress ratify social spending cuts
- Police massacre striking oil workers in Kazakhstan
- UK’s Supreme Court will hear Assange appeal against extradition
- New York City: Over 50 protesters arrested during attempt to establish new occupation site
- Mass job losses and privatisation on London Underground
- Bradley Manning and the attack on democratic rights
- This week in history: December 19-25
- SEP and CAUS hold meeting to oppose Detroit budget cuts
20 December 2011 (front page)
- Chinese village protest gains wide support
- The Philippine ‘left’ and the constitutional crisis
- The death of Kim Jong-il
- The Democratic Party and the assault on Medicare
- Banks demand deeper cuts following EU summit
- New York City postal workers speak out on layoff, closure threats
- Irish ex-left reaches out to Labour and Sinn Fein
- Germany’s Pirate Party debates new programme
- North Chicago police beating death sparks public outcry
- New York City targets 19 more schools for closing
- Children of welfare recipients in California forced to pay for welfare debt
- Cooper Tire struggle at the crossroads
- On the picket lines at Cooper Tire
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
21 December 2011 (front page)
- Diego Rivera at the Museum of Modern Art: Then and now—revolutionary art for revolutionary times
- Mexican students in Guerrero gunned down by government security forces
- PNG constitutional crisis: O’Neill consolidates as PM
- Sri Lanka: Thousands of farmers protest against new law
- Thousands of women march in Cairo against military junta
- The reality of the Iraq War
- UK unemployment on track for 3 million mark
- Obama’s “Car Czar” says workers should have taken deeper cuts
- Spain: Regional governments step up attacks on living standards
- On the death of Václav Havel
- Pakistan continues to halt the supply of US forces occupying Afghanistan
- New revelations on 2005 Haditha massacre in Iraq
- Leon Trotsky on Mexican painter Diego Rivera (1938)
- Unilever’s UK plants strike against pension attack
22 December 2011 (front page)
- Iraq lurches toward sectarian warfare
- New Zealand government prepares deeper austerity measures
- Russ Russell of Forgotten Harvest speaks on hunger in Detroit
- That Deadman Dance—an imaginative story about indigenous Australians and European settlers
- US House votes down extension of unemployment benefits
- The lamentations of the rich
- French government prepares to deploy security forces to break airport strike
- Troika demands Greece make billions more in spending cuts
- UK: TUC moves to sell out fight against public sector pension cuts
- Québec Solidaire seeks electoral pact with big business Parti Québécois
- Poor conditions in US for-profit nursing homes
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Hunger in Detroit area on the rise
More than 1,000 at holiday dinner - Letters from our readers
23 December 2011 (front page)
- Bombings heighten sectarian tensions in Iraq
- Retrenchments hit Australian universities
- Sri Lanka: SEP and ISSE hold meeting on political prisoners
- Union prepares to sell out Australian port workers
- Waterfront workers disgusted by Australian government’s intervention
- Death toll in Philippines flooding over a thousand
- Rising demands for military intervention in Syria
- Michigan politicians prepare new assault on Detroit workers
- Russian President Medvedev appeals to free-market parties amid protests
- Central Falls, Rhode Island: Retiree pensions slashed, but bondholders get paid
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ECB doles out billions to the banks
A Christmas bonus for European financial elite, austerity for the masses - Cameron visits Afghanistan as UK prepares further interventions in region
- Disabled man killed in Detroit-area apartment fire
- Washington State deepens austerity measures
- Christmas of crisis in America
- The Russian Socialist Movement—a political trap for the working class
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Young Goethe in Love: In fact, just another love story
24 December 2011 (front page)
- New Zealand meat workers, wharfies locked out
- Sri Lanka: Protest in Jaffna over “disappearances”
- The siege of Wukan village in China
- US admits partial blame in deaths of Pakistani soldiers, but defends airstrikes
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Congress passes two-month extension of jobless benefits and payroll tax cut
- Manning prosecution lays basis for terror charge against WikiLeaks founder Assange
- UK: Struggling families face astronomical interest on loans
- Germany: Neo-Nazi terror and the secret service
- Occupy Albany encampment brutally attacked by police
- Occupy Tampa activist released from jail after protests
- Canadian imperialism preparing for war in the Middle East
- Ivory Coast elections bolster French recolonization plans
- California nurses strike against cutbacks and concessions
- Letters from our readers
27 December 2011 (front page)
- Pro-market opposition holds Moscow rally
- Iraq’s tragic encounter with US imperialism
- Gingrich, Perry fail to qualify for Virginia Republican ballot
- UK police to use live rounds, plastic bullets and water cannon in future riots
- What is behind the Wulff affair in Germany?
- French unions seek to end airport security workers strike
- US-China military talks fail to resolve tensions
- Portland teachers protest principal’s removal of Occupy speakers
- This week in history: December 25-January 1
- The Nation and the National Defense Authorization Act
- Poetry review: Carol Ann Duffy’s The Christmas Truce
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
- New research may show that Neanderthals did not go extinct
28 December 2011 (front page)
- Australian state government announces 3,600 public sector job cuts
- Mass opposition rally heightens political crisis in Pakistan
- Hundreds of Sears, Kmart stores to close
- Hungarian government passes authoritarian new laws
- Congress seeks legal framework for Internet censorship
- Vita Cortex factory occupied in Cork, Ireland
- Unions pave way for jobs and services bloodbath in UK councils
- Deadly shootings over Christmas holidays in the US
- Government of the rich, by rich and for the rich
- Democrats and Republicans conspire to impose cuts on Detroit workers
- Jazz drummer Paul Motian (1931-2011)
29 December 2011 (front page)
- Call for US intervention into Iraqi crisis
- Indonesian police kill three protesters during anti-mine protest
- Slideshow presentation: Afghan refugees in Paris speak out
- Sri Lankan commission whitewashes war crimes
- Obama’s global Murder, Inc.
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Second recession looms in Spain
- New Swiss government installed
- Debt-burdened Illinois gives tax breaks to large corporations
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The Economic Crisis and the Return of History
New Pamphlet from Mehring Books - “Understatement never won a war”: British filmmaker Ken Russell (1927-2011)
- Tantalizing evidence of the Higgs boson
- A personal perspective on the UK Occupy Movement
30 December 2011 (front page)
- Australian State Coroner reports on three refugee suicides
- Schweppes Australia locks out workers
- Strikes escalate in China
- US menaces Iran over Strait of Hormuz
- House fire caused by space heater kills three in Ohio
- Poverty in Germany persists despite economic growth
- UK poverty entrenched and deepening
- Sparrows Point, Maryland mill suspends steelmaking operations
- France prepares ban on denying a Turkish genocide of Armenians
- 75 years since the Flint sit-down strike
- Oakland police shut down new Occupy encampment
- Best films of 2011
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
31 December 2011 (front page)
- A blow against the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
- Arab League mission to Syria becomes focus of demands for military intervention
- California Democratic Governor enacts “trigger cuts,” promising continued austerity
- Contract settlements announced between nurses and two New York medical centers
- Letters from our readers
- New York building cleaners oppose two-tier wage system
- Rising tensions as actions of ultra-Orthodox Jews spark Israeli protests
- The ISO and the Cooper Tire lockout
- US threatens war in the Persian Gulf
- US unions aid in corporate wage-cutting campaign
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Yemen “unity” government shaken by mass protests
- For-profit company hosts “job fair” in Detroit area
- New Zealand: Occupy Auckland evicted from city square
- Cooper Tire lockout in second month
- Pop and rock music in 2011
- Favorite jazz recordings of 2011
- Advocates for people with disabilities speak out on Detroit transit cuts
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