Archive: October 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 October 2012 (front page)
- Tens of thousands protest austerity policies in Portugal, Spain
- US increases support for Syrian opposition as Aleppo burns
- Detroit water workers go on strike
- SEP candidate speaks with striking Detroit city workers
- ACLU Report: Obama administration expands domestic spying
- One in five US households has student loan debt
- Minneapolis workplace shooting leaves six dead
- Sri Lankan government moves to revive the death penalty
- Quebec’s premier venture-capital fund controlled by Quebec Federation of Labour
- Netanyahu’s war ultimatum at the UN
- SEP candidate Jerry White to participate in online Q&A forum Tuesday
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Vote “no” on the Chicago teachers contract!
For a political offensive of the working class to defend public education -
“The apartment block was like a bomb ready to go off”
Australia: Terry Li, boyfriend of Connie Zhang, speaks about Bankstown fire - This week in history: October 1-7
- Singer Nick Lowe in Louisville, Kentucky
2 October 2012 (front page)
- Australia pressures refugees to return to Sri Lanka
- China’s sweatshops exploit students
- US troop deaths in Afghanistan top 2,000
- Striking Detroit water workers defy federal judge, union officials
- World economy slides deeper into slump
- COSATU federation leader expresses fear of social explosion in South Africa
- Vigilante mobs, right-wing protests target Roma in France
- Widow of Nazi victim wins partial victory in court
- Deutsche Bank announces hundreds of job cuts
- France, US step up pressure for military intervention in Mali
- Oppose the strikebreaking injunction! Defend the Detroit water and sewerage workers!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- California warehouse workers return to work
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 4
Far From Afghanistan: Significant, moving, uneven -
Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Interviews with John Gianvito, Minda Martin and Travis Wilkerson—co-directors of Far From Afghanistan
3 October 2012 (front page)
- Amid mass protests, Mexican deputies approve labor counter-reform
- Australia: Police called in against Bankstown fire survivor
- Democrats, Republicans plot post-election assault on Medicare, Social Security
- Incumbent President Saakashvili’s party defeated in Georgian election
- Libor reforms will not stop collusion
- Opposition parties, trade unions hold demonstrations in Germany
- Protests greet French government debate on pro-austerity European treaty
- The euro crisis and the lessons of the Weimar Republic
- UK local councils close remaining elderly care homes
- US removes Iranian MEK from terrorist list
- Barcelona workers and youth discuss austerity
- City threatens to fire striking Detroit sewerage workers
- New York City transit workers without a contract for over eight months
- Transit workers voice anger
- A special message from SEP presidential candidate Jerry White
- Scherrer wins support in Pittsburgh
- A comment on Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit
- Firefighters speak with the WSWS at Burn premiere
4 October 2012 (front page)
- Declining US doctor visits: A product of social decay and the assault on health care
- NHL lockout of players continues
- Obama and Romney: A “debate” without real differences
- Top-level Chinese delegation visits Fiji
- AFSCME regional, local leaders betray Detroit water workers strike
- Turkey attacks Syria after stray shelling
- SYRIZA deepens European Union ties as austerity intensifies in Greece
- Killing of two female officers used to demand greater UK police powers
- Pennsylvania judge postpones enforcement of anti-democratic voter ID law
- Democratic rights under threat as US Supreme Court opens new term
- Minnesota Orchestra musicians locked out
- Chicago: Evergreen Park teachers strike
- Los Angeles free clinic clients, volunteers discuss crisis of US health care
- Cyrano de Bergerac in New York: The tale of a gallant individual
- Lecture at Historians’ Convention: In Defense of Leon Trotsky
- Santiago Carrillo, butcher of the Spanish Revolution
- Warehouse workers in California speak to the WSWS
- Letters from our readers
5 October 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Workers warned to “brace for falling living standards”
- European Union demands further cuts in Greece
- SEP calls public meeting to initiate investigation into Bankstown fire
- Sri Lankan union prepares to sell out university strike
- Union capitulation deals blow to Detroit sewerage workers
- Ratification of Chicago teachers contract sets stage for assault on public education
- Venezuela’s Chavez turns further right in face of election challenge
- Barcelona’s unemployed detail social tragedy engulfing Spain
- Mass layoffs mount under Socialist Party government in France
- Charity launches first-ever appeal for British children living in poverty
- Poverty rises dramatically in Michigan
- Obama and the debate
- Jerry White talks to firefighters about Detroit water workers struggle
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 5
Detroit’s belated “renaissance”—on film
6 October 2012 (front page)
- 12,000 miners fired as South African strike wave grows
- Australian High Court strikes down ASIO-dictated detention of refugees
- New Zealand state coalminer axes hundreds of jobs
- South Korean government bolsters police powers
- US wages economic war on Iran
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mass protest against threatened Turkey-Syria war
- Obama seizes on flukish jobs report to defend right-wing policies
- Germany: SPD selects Peer Steinbrück as its candidate for chancellor
- UK Labour assumes “one nation” Tory mantle
- Hearings for victimized Detroit sewerage strikers
- New York Public Library backs off 42nd Street reconstruction plans
- Well-attended SEP election meeting at Oberlin College
- UAW pushes through contract ratification at Chrysler Dundee, Michigan Engine Plant
- Government subsidies funded Bankstown fire complex
- Letters from our readers
8 October 2012 (front page)
- 39 killed in Hong Kong ferry disaster
- China’s Foxconn rocked by more labour unrest
- Egyptian pseudo-left parties form new anti-working class alliance
- IMF chief warns: China-Japan dispute threatens world economy
- Residents find no answers at Bankstown Council’s safety expo
- South African unions, government seek to quell spreading wildcat strikes
- The US elections and the unemployed
- Turkish, Syrian armies clash along border
- Revealing study of “revolving door” between US government and big business
- Poverty up, income down in San Diego
- Phyllis Scherrer caps tour with meetings in Chicago and Milwaukee
- This week in history: October 8-14
- US SEP presidential candidate Jerry White to speak in Toronto
- British historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)
- Staff and residents speak out against closure of UK hospital unit
9 October 2012 (front page)
- Australia: Thousands of NSW public sector workers strike
- Bankstown fire exposes plight of international students
- Chinese student group condemns unsafe and over-crowded housing
- In bellicose speech, Romney outlines bipartisan drive to war
- US leaders fete Burma’s “democracy icon”
- Growing world slump overshadows IMF-World Bank meeting
- Greek police collude with fascist Golden Dawn group
- Deadly meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroids
- Chicago teachers docked pay, CTU still collects dues
- Illinois leads US in home foreclosures
- New report details huge rise in poverty in Detroit suburbs
- Silicosis rampant in South Africa’s mines
- German Left Party opposes religious circumcision
- The New York Times promotes the Syrian contras
- Former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer urges dictatorial powers for the EU
- In Defense of Leon Trotsky published in Greek
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 6
Interviews with five filmmakers about life and art in India, Ivory Coast, Guatemala, Angola and Haiti - Jerry White addresses workers and students in New York City
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 October 2012 (front page)
- German chancellor Angela Merkel visits Greece
- US, Israel plan joint strikes on Iran
- Venezuela’s Chavez wins election, but by narrower margin
- French government accused of ordering Libyan leader Gaddafi’s assassination
- Australia: Speaker’s resignation deepens Gillard government crisis
- Australian Treasury secretary outlines austerity offensive for Labor government
- US student loan lawsuits increase
- Campbell’s Soup to close California plant
- Scottish National Party prepares new round of cuts and job losses
- Court decision allows some London Metropolitan international students to remain in UK
- The end of Germany’s Neckermann mail order firm
- Foxconn strikes and the global class struggle
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Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume Two:
One excellent movie, several inspired performances, too much conventional storytelling - Socialist Equality Party gains ballot status in Louisiana
- Bankstown fire building residents still given no date to return
- SEP (Australia) meetings discuss how to fight austerity and war
- Workers and youth speak on the issues raised at SEP meetings
11 October 2012 (front page)
- Australian foreign minister suggests “assassination” of Syrian leaders
- Australian timber company Gunns collapses
- Eye-witnesses raise concerns about Bankstown fire tragedy
- In preparation for wider war, Pentagon deploys task force in Jordan
- Philippine president to sign Mindanao peace accord
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D.N. Wickremaratne 1950—2012
Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies - The class issues in the 2012 US elections
- Greek police torture anti-fascist protesters
- Strikes spread across South Africa despite mass sackings
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Irish financial elite presses government for deeper austerity
- SS massacre in Sant’Anna di Stazzema goes unpunished
- Boeing professional workers overwhelmingly reject proposed contract
- Detropia: A compassionate, confused study of a devastated city
- Wall Street vs. workers—the class gap widens
- Letters from our readers
12 October 2012 (front page)
- Bankstown fire victim deported from Australia
- IMF report points to growing financial instability
- Sri Lanka: Rift between president and judiciary
- Ten years since the Bali bombings
- Bipartisan Senate deficit deal to cut Medicare, slash taxes for the wealthy
- US vice-presidential debate: Demagogy and reaction
- French police kill one, arrest 11 in raid on alleged terror cell
- French Socialist Party’s austerity program expose bankruptcy of petty-bourgeois “left”
- UK Conservative Party calls for further cuts to welfare
- Federal home heating cuts spell hardship for US families this winter
- The diversionary debate over the Benghazi attack
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit’s imperialist “For Europe” manifesto
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 7
Underground: The Julian Assange Story and Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out - Mehring Publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
13 October 2012 (front page)
- Turkey’s hijacking of Syrian plane raises specter of wider war
- Spread of meningitis outbreak exposes lack of drug oversight in US
- Fiat truck subsidiary Iveco to close five plants in Europe
- UK: Closure of Trafford General A&E part of larger plan to close hospitals
- Philippine politicians declare candidacy for the 2013 election
- Five deaths in Baltimore row house fire
- The Australian Labor government and the “sexism” debate
- Spate of police shootings coincides with deepening social crisis in New York
- Detroit man killed in attempted copper theft
- EU austerity drives repression in Greece
- Attend the SEP regional conferences!
- She Town: a drama of working class life in pre-WW II Dundee
- Bankstown tragedy highlights fire service cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK showings of Tsar to Lenin
- Letters from our readers
15 October 2012 (front page)
- Friction at IMF meeting as global economic outlook worsens
- Students expose lack of decent, safe, affordable housing
- Three weeks to the US elections: The issues facing working people
- US extends permitted range of South Korean missiles
- US Defense Secretary warns of “Pearl Harbor” cyber attack by Iran
- Strikes continue in South Africa amid deepening repression
- Egyptian Islamists clash with liberals and pseudo-left groups on Tahrir Square
- London housing bubble expands as plutocrats buy up top properties
- Germany: Union agrees to flexible working at BMW
- Chicago mayor threatens to cut pensions of teachers and city workers
- Family protests after officials call off search for trapped worker in Florida garage collapse
- The European Union’s Nobel Peace Prize
- Jerry White addresses Toronto meeting
- This week in history: October 15-21
16 October 2012 (front page)
- Former Philippine president arrested on the charge of plunder
- Report details widespread poverty in Australia
- Sri Lankan union sells out three-month university strike
- US debate night number two
- US intelligence admits Syria arms aid goes to Al Qaeda
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- US stokes China-Japan dispute over Senkaku/Diaoyu islands
- Martelly government cracks down on Haitian protests
- Five British Royal Marines charged with murdering Afghan insurgent
- Man jailed in Greater Manchester, England, for shirt critical of police
- How Germany's super-rich benefit from the economic crisis
- Poverty rises sharply in Illinois
- 35 years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977)
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Tom Henehan: A revolutionary life
A tribute on the twentieth anniversary of his death -
US meningitis outbreak: A deadly product of deregulation
Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president - Antibalas: War, social crisis meet intricate musicianship
- Letters from our readers
- Residents speak to WSWS about the Euro Terraces fire
- SEP meeting resolution on the Bankstown fire
- SEP public meeting calls for Bankstown fire investigation
17 October 2012 (front page)
- Obama-Romney debate number two: Another stage-managed charade
- US prepares military strikes as Libya crisis deepens
- More contaminated drugs linked to US meningitis outbreak
- New evidence that US invasion has produced epidemic of birth defects in Iraq
- Deal finalised for referendum on Scottish independence
- Vion’s Broxburn plant in Scotland to close
- Economic fallout of Japan-China island dispute widens
- Rotherham locked down by police before English Defence League march
- Lufthansa threatens wage cuts and layoffs
- France ratifies European Stability and Growth Pact
- Australian government slashes benefits to single parent families
- Conflicts come to the surface at IMF-World Bank meeting
- Jerry White interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio
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Imperialism in the garb of human rights:
Washington seeks to exploit outrage over attack on Pakistani schoolgirl - Residents condemn Bankstown council and Labor Party
- Schutzengel (Guardian Angel): New film promotes German military
18 October 2012 (front page)
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Commentary from a building designer
Building regulations and the Bankstown fire - Former Australian PM promotes Pax Pacifica as US-China tensions rise
- Millions of Indonesian workers join one-day strike
- New Zealand government calls for war against Syria
- Turkey leads US-sponsored military encirclement of Syria
- US in talks on extending Afghanistan occupation past 2014 deadline
- EU Summit: German Finance Minister Schäuble calls for a commissioner for austerity
- Thousands demonstrate against new budget in Portugal
- The consequences of austerity in Latvia
- Morgan Stanley fine upheld in electricity price-fixing scam
- The Obama-Romney debate: Questions unasked and unanswered
- Jerry White speaks at University of Michigan on post-election war threats
- Phyllis Scherrer discusses social crisis with students and workers in upstate New York
- Mehring Books special offer – Free US shipping on Tsar to Lenin
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Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 8
Drama of modern-day life -
Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Interview with Damien Ounouri, director of Fidaï, and Mohamed El Hadi Benadouda
19 October 2012 (front page)
- Mass protests and police violence in Greece
- The meningitis outbreak and health care for profit
- Wall Street issues its orders to Obama, Romney
- FBI entraps Bangladeshi student in fake terror plot
- US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in affirmative action case
- Germany’s Left Party meets with the Syrian opposition
- China’s economic growth slows to lowest level in three years
- UK man charged with kidnapping journalists in Syria
- Flemish nationalist gains in regional elections renew pressure on Belgium
- Unprecedented military budget in Sri Lanka
- BHP chief demands assault on Australian miners’ conditions
- In Ithaca, New York appearance, Phyllis Scherrer responds to presidential debate
- India’s Kingfisher Airlines workers demand unpaid salaries
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
20 October 2012 (front page)
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Theater review
Adam Rapp’s Through the Yellow Hour: Doom and gloom pervades.... - California prison crisis foisted onto beleaguered counties
- Relative of Anthony Grainger speaks on UK police killing
- South African miners defy repression
- Obama prepares protracted Afghanistan occupation
- German-French tensions dominate European Union summit
- President Zuma calls on trade unions, state forces to end South Africa’s strike wave
- Trade unions and management negotiate on Opel “recovery plan”
- Atwater: Another California city on the verge of bankruptcy
- Australian PM visit to India bolsters new “strategic partnership”
- British bakery to close with 200 job losses
- Jerry White speaks on austerity and war at Monroe County Community College in Michigan
- Letters from our readers
- Building workers raise questions about Bankstown fire
- Sri Lanka: SEP holds Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha memorial lecture
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 October 2012 (front page)
- Amidst austerity drive, Ontario Premier resigns
- Australia to use UN Security Council seat to support US militarism
- Australia: Inquest exposes police brutality in death of Brazilian student
- Lebanon bombings linked to civil war in Syria
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On the spot report
Sri Lankan military forcibly “resettles” Tamil detainees - “The local council and governments have a lot to answer for with this fire.”
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Obama-Romney foreign policy debate
Two defenders of American imperialism - Turkey’s foreign minister demands war in the name of “human rights”
- German private health provider threatens Sylt strikers with the sack
- New York attorney general sues JPMorgan for mortgage fraud
- Federal court puts Florida execution of paranoid schizophrenic on hold
- Extensive coal ash contamination found in US water supply
- UK: South West Pay Cartel proposes 10 percent pay cut for health workers
- The Nation magazine and the campaign to reelect Obama
- Exhibition of photographer Agustí Centelles in Barcelona: Many unanswered questions about the Spanish Civil War
- This week in history: October 22-28
23 October 2012 (front page)
- Australian government imposes new spending cuts
- Obama and Romney concur on war, assassination and reaction
- Report highlights poverty in rural Pakistan
- The US re-engages with Burmese military
- The danger of fascism in Greece
- Egyptian liberal, pseudo-left groups demonstrate against Mursi
- Afghan schools and clinics built by British military to be closed down
- India: Jailed Maruti Suzuki workers subjected to torture
- Sharp fall in numbers on Trades Union Congress London demonstration
- “We’re the one’s who are suffering—the poor, the working class”
- New York City housing crisis reflects record inequality
- Poverty, budget cuts hit Syracuse, New York
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
24 October 2012 (front page)
- After the US presidential debates: The political issues facing the working class
- Four Afghan children killed in US raid
- Island dispute between Japan and China grows more tense
- Downturn to continue for a generation, Bank of England governor warns
- More cuts for German pensioners
- Poverty, hunger and inequality grow in Spain
- UK coal mine faces closure
- Russian President Putin advocates ban on headscarves in schools
- DuPont cutting 1,500 jobs
- Indian tire maker Apollo set to buy Cooper Tire
- Federal judge bans strike by Seattle airport refueling workers
- Largest tainted meat recall in Canadian history
- UAW skulduggery in Michigan Proposal 2
- Workers and students discuss upcoming SEP conference in Los Angeles
- Ben Affleck’s Argo: An embrace of US foreign policy
- Earth-mass planet found orbiting the nearest star
- Union prepares to sell out Western Australian port dispute
25 October 2012 (front page)
- Australian mining unions ram through new productivity agreement
- Deepening social inequality and poverty in New Zealand
- Obama institutionalizes state assassinations
- US-Israeli preparations for war against Iran
- BAE-EADS merger fails due to mounting antagonisms between major powers
- National Health Service facing deep cuts across Scotland
- Another EU memorandum for Greece
- French Socialist Party government endorses austerity in debate over Gallois report
- French government opens up public bank for small businesses
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- The International Socialist Organization and the 2012 US elections
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Auto workers and the 2012 elections
Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president - Romania: 3,500 jobs threatened at Oltchim chemical plant
- Letters from our readers
26 October 2012 (front page)
- South Africa's unions use mass sackings and murder to suppress miners
- Strike leaders arrested following testimony before Marikana massacre inquiry
- 80 top CEOs tell Obama, Romney to slash social spending
- Sudan accuses Israel of bombing military factory in Khartoum
- US seeks to bar testimony on torture in military trial of alleged 9/11 plotters
- EU and the US prepare military intervention in Mali
- Berlin protest against inhuman treatment of refugees in Germany
- European Central Bank chief Draghi reassures German parliament: Austerity will continue
- Australian opposition under fire over budget update response
- Sri Lankan defence secretary initiates communal campaign over 13th amendment
- Institutionalized state assassinations and the November 6 election
- George McGovern: Liberal standard-bearer at a turning point in US politics
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The issues facing teachers in the 2012 elections
Statement by Phyllis Scherrer, SEP US vice presidential candidate - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 October 2012 (front page)
- US sought use of British bases for war against Iran
- Further cuts leading to collapse of Greek health system
- Ford Europe plant closures threaten thousands of jobs
- French government bails out automaker PSA
- Dow Chemical to cut 2,400 jobs, close 20 plants
- US suit vs. Bank of America: No criminal charges despite “spectacularly brazen” fraud
- Cyclist Lance Armstrong stripped of Tour de France titles
- Texas police helicopter fires on immigrants, killing two
- Conflicts within EU stall Irish debt deal
- A new downturn in the global economy
- Hungarian premier steps up nationalist rhetoric
- No decision on coronial inquiry into Bankstown fire for months
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Arbitrage: False advertising
- Letters from our readers
29 October 2012 (front page)
- Striking South African miners oppose rally called by official unions
- Swiss Bank UBS to lay off 10,000 employees
- US health officials find mold at facility at center of meningitis outbreak
- Monument for Sinti and Roma victims of Nazis highlights German government hypocrisy
- French president Hollande acknowledges 1961 massacre of Algerians in Paris
- BBC program exposes 1984 police frame-up of striking miners
- Sri Lanka: Tamil party to resume talks with government
- Australian government’s new mining tax raises zero revenue
- Newark, New Jersey teachers union pushes “pay for performance” plan
- The New York Times and Washington Post endorsements of Obama
- Interview with historian James McPherson: 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation
- SEP campaign teams win support for Detroit regional conference
- This week in history: October 29-November 4
- A reader reviews Tsar to Lenin
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Book review
Wolfgang Brenner’s Hubert in Wonderland: A life in the shadow of Stalinism
30 October 2012 (front page)
- One week to Election Day in America: The real choice for workers
- South Korean unions enforce new auto productivity benchmarks
- The rise of separatist agitation in Europe
- US third party debate presents no alternative for working class
- Massive hurricane hits Northeastern US
- Poverty, hunger and inequality grow in Spain
- Lufthansa pushes ahead with job cuts
- Fighting erupts between Western-backed “rebels” and Syrian Kurds
- Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists ally with Sawiris tycoon, ex-Mubarak officials
- Australian government pledges further pro-business industrial relations reform
- Gillard government releases “Australia in the Asian Century” White Paper
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party conceals plans for historic attack on European auto workers
- SEP campaigns for November 3 regional conference in New York City
- The World Series and militarism
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
31 October 2012 (front page)
- American democracy and the “disposition matrix”
- Australian Labor government “excises” entire country to bar refugees
- Hurricane Sandy leaves 8 million without power in US
- New Zealand Maori business elite sues for water ownership
- Storm’s damage to aging infrastructure leaves New York City paralyzed
- SYRIZA supports Greek government as it negotiates new austerity measures
- A quarter of Spain now unemployed
- Separatist parties gain in Spanish regional elections
- Irish teachers demonstrate in Dublin against pay cuts
- US employs former child soldiers as mercenaries
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$100 million contribution to New York’s Central Park
Hedge fund billionaire Paulson spruces up the front lawn - SEP conferences in California outline the socialist perspective in the 2012 elections
- The New Anti-capitalist Party and the expulsion of the Roma from France
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