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Archive: June 2012

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 June 2012 (front page)

• Australia: Unions oversee the axing of Hastie Group jobs
• Australian protests demand release of WikiLeaks founder
• New Zealand budget deepens austerity measures
• Newspaper staff strike in Australia against job losses
• US steps up pressure for intervention in Syria
• “The Labor government just wants to shut Assange up”
• Quebec government scuttles talks to end 16-week student strike
• SYRIZA leader Tsipras backs the Greek military
• Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists endorse Islamist presidential candidate
• Result of Ireland’s referendum on EU fiscal treaty due today
• One-third of elderly Americans die in medical debt
• Obama’s role in the selection of drone missile targets
• Obama bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom on singer Bob Dylan
• Video: SEP candidate Jerry White speaks at site of Memorial Day massacre
• SEP (UK) public meetings
  Defend the Greek working class
  For the United Socialist States of Europe
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Remembering the Ludlow Massacre
  Part 4: The Ludlow memorial

2 June 2012 (front page)

• Australian government backs US campaign against Syria
• Further political turmoil in Papua New Guinea
• Political turmoil in Nepal as interim parliament dissolved
• US jobs report points to renewed global crisis
• Uncertainties mount over Chinese economy
• The Quebec student strike and the need for a socialist program
• Greece: SYRIZA presents its economic programme
• Indian workers, youth, rural poor join bandh against fuel price hikes
• Ireland votes “Yes” to fiscal treaty amid deepening economic crisis
• Earthquakes shake northern Italy
• Muskegon Heights, Michigan to convert entire school district to charters
• Chicago mayor Emanuel plans attack on firefighters
• Video: SEP candidate speaks to striking Caterpillar workers in Joliet, Illinois
• SEP public meetings in Australia
  Defend WikiLeaks’ editor Julian Assange
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

4 June 2012 (front page)

• Mass protests erupt after Mubarak verdict in Egypt
• New book confirms US-Australia plans for war on China
• Obama oversees cyber warfare against Iran
• Singh promotes Indian interests in Burma
• As tensions mount with China
  US to shift bulk of Navy ships to Asia-Pacific
• A new stage in the global crisis
• Conflict over Syria threatens Lebanon’s stability
• US launches new drone attacks on Pakistan
• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania schools eliminate kindergarten
• Thousands join protest in defiance of Quebec’s Bill 78
• Spanish banking crisis threatens euro collapse
• Former UK prime minister’s aide Andy Coulson charged with perjury
• Germany: The bitter end of the Schlecker drugstore chain
• This week in history: June 4 - June 10
• SEP campaigners in Michigan discuss Obama’s drone assassinations

5 June 2012 (front page)

• Aluminium producer closes smelter in regional Australia
• Chinese workers storm local government office
• India: NLC contract workers oppose union sell-out
• Syrian army casualties rise as West inflames civil war
• US defence secretary increases military ties with Vietnam
• The Mubarak verdict
• “Casserole” protests in support of Quebec students spread across Canada
• Muskegon Heights, Michigan residents speak on conversion of public schools to charters
• New York City high school students speak on school closings
• New York City teachers’ union collaborates in assault on education
• Growing tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan
• Thousands of UK rail jobs threatened
• Catastrophic conditions in the Bulgarian health system
• Obama’s “kill list” and the decay of democracy in America
• Paul Krugman shills for Obama and capitalism
• Accepting the monarchy: The jubilee and conformity
• The 2012 transit of Venus
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

6 June 2012 (front page)

• Australia: School teachers to strike in Victoria
• G7 holds emergency meeting amid deepening European banking crisis
• US “pivot” to Asia threatens war with China
• Republican governor wins recall election in Wisconsin
• German Left Party congress exposes divisions and crisis
• The Diamond Jubilee: A glorification of wealth and privilege
• UK: Brent Council conducts night-time raid to force library closure
• Opposition grows to school privatization scheme in Detroit
• Peruvian government imposes state of emergency to quell mine protests
• Australia: New disability scheme to cut long-term costs
• New York school budget votes deepen attack on public education
• Private health management company slashes Kentucky Medicaid services
• SYRIZA leader Tsipras lays out right-wing policies for Greek crisis
• AIG chief executive complains: Workers are living too long
• Video: SEP candidate discusses experiences of election campaign
• Pablo Picasso at the Art Gallery of Ontario: An artist apart
• SEP meeting on Quebec student strike: Socialism and the defence of public education

7 June 2012 (front page)

• Australian broadcaster promotes anti-refugee hysteria
• Australian state government axes 750 rail jobs
• Non-academic university staff strike in Sri Lanka
• Quebec legislator arrested as state repression of student strike continues
• Senior Chinese official detained over spy allegations
• US airstrike kills 18 Afghan civilians
• The lessons of Wisconsin
• Half of Americans in households receiving government aid
• Libyan elections postponed amid mounting violence
• Russian president in talks with Berlin and Paris on Syria
• Warsi scandal shows Britain’s Conservatives rent by factional conflicts
• Buffalo, New York teachers oppose state evaluation plan
• Remembering Maurice Sendak
• Jerry White campaigns at Wayne State University in Detroit
• Letters on Obama’s Medal of Freedom and Bob Dylan

8 June 2012 (front page)

• Australia: Victorian teachers strike over pay and conditions
• Burmese opposition leader visits Thailand
• New Zealand police attack protest against education budget cuts
• Sri Lanka: Plantation workers oppose tea factory closure
• Tensions mount as European leaders scramble to avert Spanish banking collapse
• Fresh state provocation
  Police raid Quebec Solidaire leader’s home
• Second week of Canada-wide “casserole” protests
• US Defense Secretary Panetta threatens ground intervention into Pakistan
• Bill Clinton: Extend Bush tax cuts
• Socialist Party leads in French parliamentary elections
• UK National Health Service workers suffer 21 percent wage cut
• Safety concerns after Lagos plane crash kills 170
• SEIU trade union supports California budget cuts
• The euro crisis and the role of SYRIZA
• Political lessons of the break-up of the Schlecker drugstore chain
• Germany: Creditors decide to break up Schlecker drugstore chain
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Guitar and folk music great Doc Watson dead at 89

9 June 2012 (front page)

• Defend Julian Assange
• Indian government prepares mass sacking of Air India pilots
• Putin’s visit to China signals sharpening global tensions
• US military lobbies for war with Syria
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Calls for deployment of German navy against Syria
• German chancellor rejects US-British demands for “immediate response” to the euro crisis
• Obama hails record corporate profits at press conference on the economy
• Democrats, Republicans criticize leaks, not drone murders
• Athens court declares two strikes illegal
• Young people in US face bleak job prospects
• Widening social inequality in US capital
• The Wisconsin election: The political lessons
  Statement by Jerry White, Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president
• Hemingway and Gellhorn on HBO: A lost opportunity
• Letters from our readers

11 June 2012 (front page)

• Fighting intensifies in Syria as US pushes for expanded intervention
• IAEA talks on Iran’s nuclear program collapse
• Japan’s South Pacific summit directed against China
• Philippine President Aquino in Washington boosts military ties
• Stop state suppression of Quebec student strike!
• US-backed Syrian opposition appoints new leader
• Bourgeois “left” wins plurality in first round of French legislative elections
• More US military suicides than combat deaths in 2012
• Bradley Manning’s motions to dismiss charges rejected
• Notes on the social crisis in America
• Deepening euro crisis increases fears over Ireland
• Pregnant Chicago woman tasered by police
• The Spanish bailout and the specter of the 1930s
• New York City workers discuss American militarism and Obama’s role in drone attacks
• This week in history: June 11-17
• Entergy locks outs nuclear power plant workers in Massachusetts
• For Greater Glory and the falsification of Mexican history

12 June 2012 (front page)

• Australian military plans for invasion of Fiji and PNG
• Bailout of Spanish banks will “tighten the austerity thumbscrew”
• SEP public meetings pass resolutions defending Assange
• US declares India a “lynchpin” in its Asian strategy
• Workers and youth denounce government attacks on Julian Assange
• Romney, Obama trade charges of being “out of touch”
• British journalist “set up to be shot” by Syrian rebels
• Russia prepares army for Syrian deployment
• Nazi war criminal Klaas Carel Faber dies unpunished
• Increasing number of strikes in Russia
• In lead-up to climate summit, scientists issue warning of biosphere collapse
• US: Life-threatening violations rampant in Alpha coal mines
• Greek crisis exposes bankruptcy of petty-bourgeois ex-left
• Southern California public education unions agree to attacks on membership
• New Anti-capitalist Party presses for Socialist Party government in France
• SEP campaigns in Ypsilanti, Michigan for meeting on US elections
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Caterpillar steps up strike-breaking effort in Illinois
• Letters from our readers
• State of Michigan threatens cutoff of funds to Detroit

13 June 2012 (front page)

• Houla massacre carried out by Free Syrian Army, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Philippine government presides over schools in crisis
• US excludes China from Iran sanctions waiver
• Union mouthpiece denounces Quebec student strike
• Greece: Fascists step up assaults on political opponents and migrants
• German finance minister threatens Greek voters
• Cyprus prepares for euro bailout
• US Supreme Court rejects appeals by Guantanamo detainees and Jose Padilla
• The closing of Charles F. Kettering High School on Detroit’s east side
• Workers speak on California unemployment crisis
• Fed report shows
  Crisis has thrown back US families 20 years
• ISO silent on Obama’s kill list
• Schlecker drug store worker: “It is like organizing one’s own funeral”
• Mary Shelley—A new play about her remarkable life and times
• An interview with Helen Edmundson, author of Mary Shelley

14 June 2012 (front page)

• Australia: NSW state budget axes thousands of public sector jobs
• Global crisis deepens after Spanish bailout
• Quebec artists denounce governments’ smear campaign against student strike
• South Korean university students fined over fees protest
• Sydney rally against workers’ compensation cuts
• Imperialism and the Houla massacre
• Three anti-NATO protesters brought to Chicago court in chains
• New wave of sectarian violence in Iraq kills more than 70
• Greece: University of Athens students speak to WSWS
• SYRIZA’s Tsipras pledges to save Greek and European capitalism
• Miners strike escalates in Spain
• JPMorgan CEO uses Senate hearing to denounce bank regulations
• US Attorney General Holder faces contempt of Congress vote
• JPMorgan’s investment in the Senate Banking Committee
• Egyptian presidential elections expose bourgeois ex-left
• For a struggle against the bankers’ dictatorship in Detroit
• Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury: 1920-2012
• Science fiction writer Steven Brust on the death of Ray Bradbury
• Chicago teachers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike

15 June 2012 (front page)

• Egyptian junta stages coup against parliament
• Obama, Romney spell out right-wing economic programs in Ohio
• British court rejects WikiLeaks editor’s final extradition appeal
• BBC world news editor: Houla massacre coverage based on opposition propaganda
• Threat of war grows in the Caucasus
• How the NDP helps suppress the Quebec student strike and strengthens Harper
• E-mails detail Obama White House collusion with drug industry
• The Chicago frame-up: The “war on terror” comes home
• Australia: GDP growth obscures economic contradictions
• SEP campaign wins strong support in western New York
• Australian government’s culpability in refugee boat disaster—Part 1
• Socialist Equality Party (Australia) launches Melbourne by-election campaign
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Delaware Symphony Orchestra suspends 2012-2013 season

16 June 2012 (front page)

• Bleak prospects for talks on Iran’s nuclear program
• Oppose the Ford Australia shutdown
• The political issues in the Greek elections
• SYRIZA’s final election rally in Athens
• Greece: WSWS interviews Athens workers and youth
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung confirms: Houla massacre committed by Syrian “rebels”
• US expands covert military surveillance in Africa
• North Carolina legislature moves to gut Racial Justice Act, resume executions
• Protests in Russia: Liberals, pseudo-left march alongside far right
• Australian government’s culpability in refugee boat disaster—Part 2
• Quebec: Protests continue against Bill 78 and the attack on education
• Ireland: Unions complicit in job cuts at Pfizer
• The Egyptian coup
• Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists’ reaction to army coup: Complacency and tacit support
• The bankers rule: Jamie Dimon at the US Senate
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• SEP candidate Jerry White holds “meet and greet” in Detroit
• Letters from our readers

18 June 2012 (front page)

• Communal clashes in Burma
• Conservatives narrowly win Greek election
• Major powers demand release of ICC lawyer from Libya
• Ratings agency warns of Sri Lanka’s exposure to European crisis
• SEP campaigns at Melbourne’s Victoria Markets
• Greek Communist Party holds final election rally
• Greek workers, students discuss election with WSWS in Athens
• Egyptian presidential elections marked by mass abstention and fraud
• Thousands of military drones to be deployed over US mainland
• Socialist Party wins absolute majority in French legislative elections
• UK Prime Minister Cameron given kid gloves treatment at Leveson inquiry
• Stockton, California moves closer to bankruptcy
• Obama’s cynical gesture to immigrant youth
• SEP campaigners win support in Chelsea, Massachusetts
• This week in history: June 18-24

19 June 2012 (front page)

• Australian newspaper chain unveils job-cutting restructuring
• Egyptian junta proclaims a military dictatorship
• Japanese PM orders restart of nuclear reactors
• “Capitalism has failed. The only viable alternative is socialism”
  Patrick O’Connor speaks with WSWS about key issues in by-election
• What way forward in Greece?
• Athens workers and youth discuss Greek election result
• Gloom, recriminations at G20 summit in Mexico
• UN suspends Syria mission amid escalating civil war
• Québec Solidaire open to an electoral alliance with the Parti Québécois
• No end in sight for Sudan/South Sudan conflict
• EU steps up internal border controls
• Notes on the social crisis in America
• San Jose, California, leads assault on public pensions
• New from Mehring Books
  Yakhot’s history of early Soviet philosophy
• SEP campaigns in California
• Exhibition of Russian-Soviet artist Vladimir Tatlin in Basel—Part 1
  Tatlin’s “new art for a new world”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 June 2012 (front page)

• Print workers denounce Fairfax closures
  Australian unions block fight against media job destruction
• Mass protests in Egypt against military rule
• Quebec student associations make appeal for fresh talks
• WikiLeaks founder Assange seeks asylum in Ecuadorian embassy in London
• Prospective coalition parties in Greece pledged to impose deeper cuts
• The human cost of Greece’s austerity measures
• Massive support for June 18 general strike in Spain’s mining regions
• French President Hollande prepares assault on the working class
• Opposition to GM plan to dump white collar pensions
• March protests New York City police “stop-and-frisk” policy
• Illinois governor signs bills approving savage Medicaid cuts
• Background to Entergy’s lockout at Massachusetts nuclear power plant
• The G20 debacle in Mexico
• Washington’s “democratic” hypocrisy: The cases of Egypt and Iran
• Jerry White campaigns in Montreal
• US SEP presidential candidate Jerry White to address Montreal meeting
• Negotiations planned in nine-week Lockheed Martin strike
• Exhibition of Russian-Soviet artist Vladimir Tatlin in Basel—Part 2
  An interview with Roland Wetzel, director of the Museum Tinguely

21 June 2012 (front page)

• Chinese leaders brace for European crisis
• International talks on Iran’s nuclear program fail
• Murdoch’s News Ltd intensifies media restructuring in Australia
• New Democracy heads austerity coalition in Greece
• The Australian Labor government—a key accomplice in the vendetta against Julian Assange
• WikiLeaks’ editor Julian Assange threatened with arrest
• Drones over America
• Egyptian military threatens crackdown over disputed presidential elections
• Despite bleak report on US economy, Fed makes minimal moves to avert deflation
• State and local cutbacks add to US joblessness and suffering
• IG Metall union backs rationalization plans for Opel
• Ireland: Disgraced property developer Mick Wallace and the United Left Alliance
• Illinois foreclosures skyrocket
• Obama's economic “vision”
• Rodney King: An individual and social tragedy
• “The banks don’t want human beings, they want indentured servants”
  Jerry White talks to Montreal students and workers
• Exhibition of Russian-Soviet artist Vladimir Tatlin in Basel—Part 3
  WSWS arts editor David Walsh on Vladimir Tatlin and the October Revolution
• Sheffield UK recycling workers strike to go indefinite
• Caterpillar strikers face isolation and danger of defeat
• Letters from our readers

22 June 2012 (front page)

• Billionaire Oracle CEO buys Hawaiian island
• CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebels”
• Pakistan Supreme Court ousts prime minister
• Australian and US governments “playing word games”
  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from Ecuadorian embassy
• House Republicans back contempt charges against US Attorney General
• France’s New Anti-capitalist Party backs pro-imperialist guerrillas in Syria
• German trade unions do the dirty work for Manroland management
• New Zealand signs NATO partnership deal
• Massachusetts: Locked-out nuclear power plant workers reject contract
• A global slide into depression
• The way forward for the Quebec student strike
• A modest proposal for indentured servitude
• Oppose the exploitation of international students
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

23 June 2012 (front page)

• Protests continue in Cairo amid threats of crackdown by military junta
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Massive demonstrations in support of Quebec’s striking students
• Credit rating agency downgrades 15 global banks
• Greek crisis stokes geopolitical rivalries
• Many feared dead in Australian refugee disaster
• Sri Lanka tilts toward the US
• Rally against police killing of Anthony Grainger in Manchester, UK
• Nokia dismisses 10,000 employees
• California budget agreement imposes huge cuts in welfare and health care
• Japan’s nuclear restart
• Assault on Louisiana schools escalates
• University of Kentucky cuts workforce, hikes tuition
• Washington’s hypocrisy over Russian arms in Syria
• Thirty years since the murder of Vincent Chin
• SEP candidate speaks at Quebec meeting on student strike
• Letters from our readers

25 June 2012 (front page)

• A brutal abortion calls into question China’s “one child” policy
• Christine Assange, mother of WikiLeaks’ founder, speaks with the WSWS
• Egyptian junta installs Islamist Mursi as figurehead president
• Mexican presidential candidates have no answers to social crisis
• Obama administration lauds coal giant Alpha after deadly conditions exposed
• Paraguay’s president ousted in parliamentary coup
• The Liberal-Labor-Greens austerity consensus
• UK government seeks to justify child poverty and welfare cuts
• US states carry out European-style attacks on jobs and services
• Quebec student strike:
  “This is not only against the students, it is against the working population”
• US escalates war threats against Syria in response to downed plane
• Anti-regime “rebels” accused of massacre in northern Syria
• Greek government haggles over terms of debt repayment
• Tens of thousands die in the US due to lack of health insurance
• Preface to Yakhot’s history of early Soviet philosophy
• In Defense of Leon Trotsky published in French
• This week in history: June 25-July 1
• Jerry White speaks in New York on the crisis of American democracy
• Exhibition of Russian-Soviet artist Vladimir Tatlin in Basel—Part 4
  Interview with Dmitrii Dimakov, expert on Tatlin’s work

26 June 2012 (front page)

• New Zealand: Labour, Greens continue “Keep Our Assets” diversion
• Public housing residents speak with Patrick O’Connor
• Sri Lankan SEP to hold meeting on fishermen’s struggle
• Arizona v. United States
  Supreme Court unanimously upholds antidemocratic attack on immigrant workers
• The Egyptian election
• US seeks casus belli
  Downed Turkish jet pretext for new provocations against Syria
• Protests in Sudan against austerity
• Germany: IhrPlatz and SchleckerXL drugstores face closure
• Michigan meeting marks 30th anniversary of murder of Vincent Chin
• James Shimoura, attorney for the mother of Vincent Chin, speaks to WSWS
• Kentucky health departments make severe cuts to services, staff
• White House strikes deal to expand school vouchers in nation’s capital
• Film critic Andrew Sarris 1928-2012: An appreciation
  An interview with film critic Andrew Sarris
• SEP campaigns against budget cuts in California
• Film critic Andrew Sarris 1928-2012: An appreciation
  Andrew Sarris and American filmmaking
• US: Locked-out sugar workers reject concessions contract for the third time
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

27 June 2012 (front page)

• Australian editors quit as media restructuring continues
• Fighting breaks out in Syrian capital as Turkey, NATO threaten war
• New evidence of US operation against Julian Assange
• Conflicts emerge in formation of new Greek government
• On eve of EU summit
  Europe at loggerheads as crisis spreads
• German finance minister publicly rebuffs US president
• Israeli police arrest social protest movement leader and break up demonstrations
• Kentucky coal miner killed
• Detroit to lay off 164 firefighters
• Britain’s Labour Party leader Ed Miliband fuels anti-immigrant prejudice
• Tunisian ruling seeks to exonerate Ben Ali police officials
• Ex-US president indicts Obama as assassin
• No to school privatization!
  Statement by Phyllis Scherrer, SEP candidate for US vice president
• Ridley Scott’s Prometheus: Shutting Pandora’s box?

28 June 2012 (front page)

• At least four dead in latest Australian refugee disaster
• Biggest ever US municipal bankruptcy
  Stockton, California slashes workers’ health benefits ahead of bankruptcy filing
• The reactionary politics of Australian “border protection”
• Vietnam’s maritime claim provokes standoff with China
• The new aristocracy
• US-backed gunmen stage massacre at Syrian TV station
• A barbarous dissent: The US Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama
• Quebec union head condemns “social strike” against Charest government
• Blair blocked legal advice on invasion of Iraq
• Air France announces 5,000 job cuts
• US-backed Bahrain regime upholds jail sentences for doctors and nurses
• Rio+20 climate conference: “An epic failure”
• Exhibition of Russian-Soviet artist Vladimir Tatlin in Basel—Part 5
  An interview with Gian Casper Bott, curator of the Tatlin exhibition
• Letters from our readers

29 June 2012 (front page)

• Australian ex-military chief to advise parliament on new anti-refugee laws
• New Zealand government drops school class size increases
• Sri Lanka: Pro-government thugs kill two JVP supporters
• Teachers strike across Australia’s largest state
• US Supreme Court upholds Obama’s health care law
• Germany takes hard line in advance of EU summit
• Colorado battered by devastating wildfires
• Judge orders prosecution to explain stonewalling in Bradley Manning case
• Billionaires bid for “trophy homes” in New York while homelessness rises
• Destitute asylum seekers face eviction in Glasgow, Scotland
• Former Romanian PM suffers gunshot wound hours after prison sentencing
• Igniting the Syrian powder keg
• Sacramento meeting reviews socialist perspective against California budget cuts
• Britain: Thomas Cook announces closure of Bradford-based operations centre
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s classic still scalds

30 June 2012 (front page)

• EU summit averts split with deal to bail out Spanish, Italian banks
• Egypt: Islamist president takes symbolic oath of office in Tahrir Square
• US House votes contempt citation for attorney general
• Police lock down Chinese factory town to suppress protests
• Court refuses to suspend Quebec’s Bill 78
• New Pakistani prime minister appointed
• Britain’s Leveson Inquiry hit by allegations of political interference
• UK prime minister outlines massive cuts in welfare benefits
• Calls for debt restructuring grow as Ireland faces recession
• Michigan House of Representatives passes anti-abortion bill
• Deep budget cuts in Los Angeles, California court system
• The Supreme Court ruling on Obama’s health care overhaul
• New York Times lauds Supreme Court’s “exquisite delicacy” in health care decision
• The Stockton, California bankruptcy: A warning to all workers
• SEP candidate speaks with high school teachers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Book Review:
  Canadian imperialism’s intervention in the Russian Civil War
• Exhibition of Russian-Soviet artist Vladimir Tatlin in Basel—Part 6
  An interview with Anna Szech, art historian at the Museum Tinguely
• Letters from our readers