Archive: July 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.
2 July 2012 (front page)
- Bloody fighting in Syria as US pushes for intervention
- Japan’s lower house doubles consumption tax
- US and EU impose crippling sanctions on Iran
- Spain: Unions send striking miners on phoney jobs march
- German parliament votes for European fiscal pact
- State raids in Germany fuel Islamophobia
- US appeals court upholds vindictive ten-year sentence against civil liberties attorney Lynne Stewart
- Storms, record heat kill 14 across eastern US
- Saudi Arabia—a social tinderbox
- New York Public Library plan provokes opposition
- EU summit measures mean deeper attacks on the working class
- SEP vice presidential candidate campaigns in Highland Park, Michigan
- Con Ed locks out 8,500 workers in New York
- Massachusetts: Entergy suspends health care for locked-out Pilgrim power workers
- SEP holds election campaign meeting
- The Quebec Student Strike and the global struggle to defend education
- This week in history: July 2-8
- The reactionary politics of Grace Lee Boggs
3 July 2012 (front page)
- Japanese nuclear reactor re-activated despite mass protest
- Political turmoil continues in Thailand
- Record unemployment in euro zone
- The Paraguayan coup
- Mexico: Enrique Peña Nieto wins presidential race
- Greek government presses ahead with austerity
- German Opel worker: “For nearly 10 years, it’s all been downhill”
- Detroit schools emergency manager imposes contract on teachers
- Chicago steps up police crackdown
- Heavy hand of military at veterans job fair in Detroit
- Detroit workers speak with SEP vice presidential candidate about heat wave
- New York City: Con Ed workers locked out for second day
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
4 July 2012 (front page)
- Germany: Secret service chief resigns following scandal over destruction of neo-Nazi files
- US escalates military threat against Iran
- European crisis sets off slide to global slump
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As Barclays CEO resigns
Libor manipulation scandal engulfs 16 top banks - German defence minister restructuring army for worldwide operations
- Islamist President Mursi takes office in Egypt
- US death toll rises from heat wave and power outages
- Indonesia to join US-Australia military exercises
- Japan’s ruling Democratic Party splits
- US expands military intervention into Yemen
- Boston transit fare hikes, service cuts go into effect
- The Fourth of July
- Con Ed lockout puts New York in danger of power outages during heat wave
- Video: SEP candidate defends WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange at Melbourne rally
- Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson’s latest wispy, wistful adventure
- Sri Lankan unions betray university workers’ strike
5 July 2012 (front page)
- British Medical Association winds down action against pension cuts
- CERN discovers new fundamental particle
- Construction workers protest in Melbourne
- Continued isolation of Caterpillar strike poses grave danger to workers
- European vehicle manufacturer Iveco to shutter five plants
- French Socialist Party government works with auto companies to attack workers
- Obama to sign bill with cuts to student loans
- Paltry pay rise for workers in Philippine capital
- Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline fined $3 billion
- Troika arrives in Athens to organise looting of Greece
- UK doctors speak out against cuts in NHS
- UK report reveals yet another scandal of children in care
- US states to opt out of Medicaid expansion under health care law
- US-Iran confrontation enters dangerous new stage
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The definitive film record of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Mehring Books announces release of Tsar to Lenin in DVD format
6 July 2012 (front page)
- US and Pakistan end standoff over Afghan supply routes
- Allegations of government collusion in Libor fixing raised in UK Parliament
- Palestinian Authority to exhume Yasser Arafat’s body to test polonium murder claim
- President Gauck demands more support for Germany’s army
- The social issues behind the shooting in Karlsruhe, Germany
- Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness greets British monarch
- New austerity package in Slovenia
- Pepco cuts exacerbate Washington, DC power outages
- Libor scandal exposes banks’ rigging of global rates
- Pontiac, Michigan: The destruction of an American city
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The heat wave in the US and the decay of infrastructure
Statement by Phyllis Scherrer, SEP candidate for US vice president - The Labor-Greens carbon tax hoax
- Thousands of locked out Con Edison workers rally as New York City faces brownouts
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
7 July 2012 (front page)
- US jobs report for June shows continued economic stagnation
- Japanese report blames government/corporate nexus for Fukushima disaster
- French Socialist Party government presents initial austerity budget
- Mexican officials to recount votes in last week’s election
- Unemployed worker sets himself on fire outside UK Jobcentre
- $40 million cable project points to Guantánamo’s permanence
- NATO-installed regime seeks “democratic” cover in Libyan elections
- Concessions contract imposed by arbitrator on US postal union
- New Zealand: New evidence about US operation to shut down Megaupload
- Left Party defends the German secret service
- Spokeswoman for CLASSE: “We have shaken Quebec’s government”
- Middle-class protest politics or a socialist orientation to the working class: A critique of the politics of CLASSE
- The Late Henry Moss: Sam Shepard’s final exorcism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 July 2012 (front page)
- Corporations find cheap labor haven in US
- Fresh arrests of police, journalists, public officials in UK hacking/bribery scandal
- Germany: Mass layoffs at the Neckermann mail order company
- Greek government announces further austerity
- Inequality fuels mass protest in Hong Kong
- SEP speaks to Detroit workers and youth about power outages, heat wave
- San Diego teachers vote for concessions to “save” jobs
- Syria prepares for possible invasion
- The legal implications of the Supreme Court ruling on the Obama health care law
- Further US demands for espionage charges against Assange
- This week in history: July 9-15
- Socialist Equality Party wins support in Melbourne election campaign
- Pseudo-left apologists for unions’ betrayal of Spanish miners
- Con Edison continues lockout of New York utility workers
- Final SEP Melbourne election meeting on July 15
10 July 2012 (front page)
- Afghanistan aid conference signals indefinite foreign occupation
- Did Neanderthals create cave art?
- Fukushima: A disaster produced by capitalism
- Massive expansion of domestic spying under Obama
- Italian prime minister to cut additional €26 billion
- Over 170 die in floods in southern Russia
- Peru’s President Humala imposes another state of emergency against mine protests
- Canadian Auto Workers officials prepare 2012 contract surrender
- Voting period extended in Papua New Guinea election
- Two die following Chicago train derailment
- US extreme weather causes new power outages
- Video: SEP candidate opposes Ford Australia stand-downs
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Letters from our readers
11 July 2012 (front page)
- The real significance of Libya’s elections
- Egyptian Islamists accept army dissolution of parliament
- Euro zone finance ministers demand more austerity
- Obama campaigns for “tax fairness”
- Scranton, Pennsylvania mayor cuts public workers to minimum wage
- Mass protests force Chinese authorities to scrap industrial project
- British democracy in “terminal decline,” report finds
- UK Twitter joke conviction appealed at High Court
- Schlecker worker wins court case against dismissal
- Credit agency rates Sri Lanka “very high risk”
- Coles warehouse strikers speak with Patrick O’Connor
- India: The lessons of the NLC betrayal
- Interview with Jack Shepherd, British actor and playwright
- Valley of the Shadow: A drama about art, society and revolution
12 July 2012 (front page)
- Europe’s austerity zone
- Global economic slowdown hits Germany
- Melbourne election triggers federal Labor government infighting
- Clinton stirs tensions with China ahead of ASEAN summit
- France: Social Conference outlines massive attacks on the working class
- Kremlin prepares for a second economic crisis
- Stockton bankruptcy signals attack on US pensions
- Parti Québécois distances itself from student strike to reassure big business
- London Olympic missile sites confirmed despite protests
- Massive growth of executive pay in US capital
- Sri Lankan SEP meeting discusses socialist policy for fishermen
13 July 2012 (front page)
- Quebec student strike at the crossroads
- Spain unveils new raft of brutal austerity measures
- French automaker PSA to cut 8,000 jobs, close Aulnay plant
- South Korea postpones military pact with Japan
- New Zealand signs new defence agreement with US
- Another California city files for bankruptcy
- Foreclosures rise after bank settlement
- Scottish meat processing plant closure threatens 1,700 jobs
- Sri Lankan government moves to extend the police custody period
- German trade union functions as management consultant at BMW
- Stop the assault on public employees and social services!
- SEP candidate outlines socialist perspective at residents’ forum
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
14 July 2012 (front page)
- ASEAN summit breaks up amid feuding over South China Sea
- Australia: 700 jobs threatened at confectioner Darrell Lea
- Australian government proposes sweeping Internet surveillance
- Cyprus the focus of escalating regional tensions
- Germany: IG Metall prepares further job cuts at GM-Opel
- Los Angeles police riot leads to arrests, injuries
- Main UK unions seek to impose government attack on pensions
- Romanian elite erupts in sordid infighting
- Rupert Murdoch rows with former editor over deals with UK politicians
- Spanish miners’ “black march” attacked in Madrid
- Washington seizes on alleged massacre in Syria to promote war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Detroit financial advisory board approves huge cuts in worker pay
- Dramatic increase in worldwide illegal organ trade
- Voting rights in America under attack
- LO, NPA block struggle against PSA job cuts in France
- Fantastic version of post-Katrina Louisiana in Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Hedge fund billionaire named as buyer of “The Scream” for $120 million
- Letters from our readers
16 July 2012 (front page)
- Clinton backs Egyptian military junta, Islamist president
- Chinese economy slows to three-year low
- Germany: Fierce controversy over banking union
- Neo-Nazi murders in Germany: What role did the intelligence agencies play?
- US treasury secretary covered up banks’ rigging of global rates
- Report details desperate conditions confronting US youth
- Suicide crisis mounts for US soldiers and veterans
- Bangladesh and Assam devastated by floods
- British trade unions push productivity deals and enforced arbitration during Olympics
- New York City transit workers go six months without a contract
- The police state 2012 Olympics
- This week in history: July 16-22
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“It’s like they want to go back to the slavery days”
Workers speak on budget cuts and the social crisis in Detroit - SEP holds final election campaign meeting
- Con Ed union appeals to state commission to end lockout
- Con Ed workers speak out as lockout enters third week
- Unions block fightback at Ireland’s Bord Na Mona
- The Amazing Spider-Man: A play on formulas
17 July 2012 (front page)
- Australian Greens manoeuvre for coalition government in Victoria
- Clinton renews military threat against Iran
- Huge credit card settlement conceals fraud and criminality
- Letters from our readers
- Mass demonstrations against Spain’s latest austerity package
- New Zealand household finances increasingly precarious
- US Supreme Court ruling opens door for states to reject Medicaid expansion
- JPMorgan scandal: The tip of the iceberg
- France’s Socialist Party government backs job cuts at automaker PSA
- A revealing exposé of the US assets leading the Syrian opposition
- Former Indian finance minister Mukherjee runs for presidency
- US presidential campaign: Cynical and reactionary “debate” over Bain Capital
- For-profit education industry preys on returning US veterans
- Western powers preparing intervention in Mali
- The Con Ed struggle and fight for public ownership
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Janitors in Houston, Texas go on strike
18 July 2012 (front page)
- Worst US drought since 1950s threatens to drive up global food prices
- Israeli man immolates himself over social crisis
- Egyptian workers mount mass strikes against US-backed junta
- US Fed chairman gives grim economic forecast in Senate testimony
- UN expert calls on US states to halt impending executions of mentally disabled prisoners
- Orange march triggers riot in Belfast
- Trade unions facilitate closure of two German solar energy plants
- New Serbian government commits to austerity measures
- South Korea: Dictator’s daughter announces presidential bid
- Australia: Ford announces 440 job cuts in Victoria
- Corruption scandal threatens to implicate DC mayor
- New Zealand rail union collaborates with job cuts
- Hillary Clinton’s incendiary global tour
- Ruth Keedy Benjamin (June 4, 1947—June 29, 2012)
- SEP launches drive to place candidates on Wisconsin ballot
- Newfoundland wildcat strikers return to work
- End the blight of homelessness and housing stress
19 July 2012 (front page)
- Relatives of American citizens killed in drone strikes sue US officials
- Suicide bombing kills top Syrian officials
- US navy fires on fishing vessel in Persian Gulf
- The self-immolation of Moshe Silman
- New report foreshadows post-election assault on pensions, social programs in US
- Texas executes mentally disabled prisoner using one-drug lethal injection
- Greek government lays out fresh cuts, privatisations
- Opel CEO’s resignation heralds fresh round of cuts
- SPD-Left Party state government in Brandenburg, Germany passes austerity budget
- City College of San Francisco threatened with loss of accreditation
- The New York Times makes the “moral case” for drones
- Con Ed workers rally against lockout
- Illinois CAT workers, isolated by union, discuss new way forward
- Australia: Coles-Toll workers continue picket at Somerton
20 July 2012 (front page)
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Bipartisan war on public employees
Detroit mayor imposes 10 percent pay cut, layoffs - Economic downturn in China worse than official data
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Interview with Tony Kevin
Retired diplomat points to Australian culpability for refugee deaths - The Australian pseudo-left and Greece’s SYRIZA
- Vote 1 for Patrick O’Connor and the SEP in Melbourne
- Obama collaborates in Florida attack on right to vote
- Stalinist CPM backs ruling Indian Congress party’s presidential candidate
- BBC’s drama on UK riots banned
- Flooding in Krymsk: Kremlin covers up causes and consequences
- Merck Serono closes its factory in Geneva
- Popular confidence in new French president already falling
- Washington’s proxy terrorist war in Syria
- SEP presidential and vice presidential candidates speak to teachers at Detroit rally
- “The 1968 Exhibit” in Oakland: What was that year really about?
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
21 July 2012 (front page)
- A portrait of a “people smuggler”
- Aurora, Colorado tragedy: The latest mass shooting in the US
- Part-time USA
- The New York Times hails terror bombing in Damascus
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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From the WSWS archive
The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral… American Beserk - Mass protests throughout Spain against government cuts
- Stepped-up calls for military intervention in wake of terrorist bombing in Damascus
- Israel threatens Iran over Bulgarian bombing
- Finance ministers tie bailout of Spanish banks to deeper cuts
- CLASSE representatives speak on Quebec student strike
- Grain prices spike as US crops fail
- Wave of strikes across Norway
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Defend the right to vote! Down with photo ID laws!
Statement by Phyllis Scherrer, SEP candidate for vice president - Letters from our readers
23 July 2012 (front page)
- Australia’s spies active in world’s strategic hotspots
- Ex-army chief calls for regime change in Sri Lanka
- Labor Party narrowly wins Melbourne election
- Melbourne voters speak to WSWS
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After veto of UN war resolution
Washington steps up drive to overthrow Syrian regime - SYRIZA backs Greek government’s capitulation to the EU
- India: Maruti Suzuki launches witch-hunt against workers
- Protesters opposing police killing attacked in Anaheim, California
- JPMorgan Chase investigated for manipulating California energy market
- Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary arrested in Budapest
- Mounting evidence of international collusion in Libor rigging
- The Aurora Massacre: Once again, evasions rather than explanations
- SEP kicks off Wisconsin campaign
- This week in history: July 23-29
- European auto crisis requires a socialist answer
- UK ex-left groups cover up collapsing support for education unions
- Kitty Wells, “Queen of Country Music” (1919-2012)
24 July 2012 (front page)
- Australian PM pledges further spending cuts as Rudd prepares challenge
- Beijing floods kill at least 37
- Ex-prime minister joins Japanese anti-nuclear protest
- Global markets fall as fears grow over Spanish debt crisis
- Sri Lankan SEP to contest provincial council election
- $129 million pay package for new Yahoo CEO
- Quebec students seek to broaden strike, but CLASSE leaders capitulate to union opposition
- Fourteen immigrants killed in Texas highway accident
- Report details victimization of students by US private lenders
- Georgia Supreme Court grants stay of execution to mentally disabled prisoner
- Germany: Karstadt department store to shed 2,000 jobs
- ISO complicit in drive to strangle New York Con Ed workers’ struggle
- SEP candidates speak to workers at Caterpillar plant in South Milwaukee
- UK police officer cleared of the manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters on the Aurora, Colorado shooting
25 July 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Union shuts down warehouse strike, imposes sell out
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Cisco announces 1,300 job cuts
Layoffs mount in slumping US economy - US demands greater Australian military spending
- Former aide to British PM criminally charged in Murdoch phone-hacking scandal
- Spain’s regional governments seek bailouts
- EU representatives discuss withdrawal of Greece from the euro zone
- Anaheim, California residents speak out on police killing
- US Food and Drug Administration spies on scientists to shield GE
- German state premier functions as marionette of Morgan Stanley
- Mass opposition to austerity deepens power struggle in Romanian ruling elite
- Netanyahu government in crisis over drafting orthodox Jews
- Crime, punishment and hypocrisy in the Penn State scandal
- The SEP campaigns at Master Lock: The reality behind Obama’s “insourcing”
26 July 2012 (front page)
- A new stage in the euro crisis
- Brutal police attack on steel strike in Greece
- Forecasters warn of end to Australia’s mining boom
- Tensions heighten in South China Sea
- US uses WMD pretext to push for war against Syria
- World social inequality more pronounced than ever
- Protests, police repression continue in Anaheim, California
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Twelve weeks into Joliet strike against wage-cutting
Caterpillar announces record profits - Cortland, New York residents discuss jobs crisis
- New Pennsylvania budget cuts education, social programs
- US: National Football League officials locked out
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Police violence in Anaheim: The class issues
Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president - SEP campaign team speaks with students and workers at Milwaukee Area colleges
- New York Times’ David Brooks: Aurora tragedy has nothing to do with American society
- UK: Sheffield recycling workers strike sold out
- Letters from our readers
27 July 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Caltex announces closure of Kurnell refinery
- East Timorese election bolsters ruling party
- Greek government, European officials plan billions in new social cuts
- Hundreds killed and wounded in Iraq bombings, ambushes
- Overcrowding, budget cuts strain Illinois prisons
- Tensions at China-Africa summit
- The Caterpillar strike and the impoverishment of the American working class
- Global elite descend on East London for Olympics
- Union agrees to Con Ed demands to end lockout in New York
- US states’ opt-out of Medicaid expansion could deny coverage to six million
- New bankruptcy law strengthens German employers
- Britain: Closure of hospital heart units will cost more children’s lives
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks in Ypsilanti, Michigan
- South Milwaukee Caterpillar workers speak out in support of Joliet strikers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
28 July 2012 (front page)
- Another Australian auto parts maker collapses
- Australian TV program exposes Assange frame-up
- Conflict between Pakistan’s Supreme Court and government intensifies
- Consumer spending slowdown hits US economy
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The “cost of doing business”:
Court rules on Toronto construction worker deaths - Devastating US drought heralds global food inflation
- Imperialist powers unveil their proposed Syrian military strongman
- Underfunded California pensions stoke calls for benefit cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK in double-dip recession
- Scottish National Party lurches right on social care and militarism
- Video: Which way forward for the Quebec student strike?
- SEP ballot drive in Wisconsin surpasses signature requirement
30 July 2012 (front page)
- Papua New Guinea: Rival ex-prime ministers unite in bid to form new government
- Signs of a North Korean power shift
- Spanish unemployment nears 25 percent
- Syrian ethnic, sectarian conflicts deepen as US plots to install client regime
- Widespread support as SEP concludes Wisconsin petition drive
- Book on Mossad confirms Israel assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists
- The unions’ role in isolating the Caterpillar strike
- Union accepts major concessions according to leaked summary of Con Ed agreement
- WSWS interviews tortured Tamil political refugee
- French unions sign concession deal with automaker PSA
- The jobs crisis and the 2012 elections
- This week in history: July 30-August 5
- Oliver Stone’s Savages and the war on drugs
- “Save Our Schools” webinar: ISO shills for the AFT bureaucracy
- Thousands demonstrate to save children’s heart surgery in Leeds
31 July 2012 (front page)
- Australian government forcibly deports Tamil asylum seeker
- Chinese regime indicts wife of fallen party leader
- Massive police deployment against Anaheim, California protests
- SEP campaign team visits striking Caterpillar workers in Joliet
- Sri Lankan SEP candidate speaks to WSWS
- US Defense Secretary Panetta threatens Syria, Iran in Middle East tour
- Ex-TARP overseer denounces US government cover-up of Wall Street crimes
- Germany participates in war preparations against Syria
- Beaverton, Oregon school district cuts 10 percent of its teachers
- New report shows rising US child poverty
- Reports reveal City of London lobbyists have carte blanche
- South West England hospitals seek to slash wages
- Waste Management brings in strikebreakers against Seattle drivers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
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