Archive: 11/2014
2014-11-01
- Australia: Wages slashed to boost corporate profits
- Republican-led purge of voter rolls targets seven million people
- Report to UN condemns US government’s “international criminal program of torture”
- Deadly SpaceShipTwo crash follows explosion of unmanned Antares rocket
- Top officials at New York City’s Rikers Island prison resign amid brutality scandal
- Putin points to growing war dangers
- Capitalism and the Ebola crisis
- UK Lloyds Banking Group to shed another 9,000 jobs and close 200 branches
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Top US general calls for “advisers” in Iraq combat zone
- Hungarian government temporarily withdraws Internet tax after mass protests
- Standoff continues between Hong Kong government and protesters
- The HANDY model of human and nature dynamics: A critical review
- Fury: What is “realism”? What is an “anti-war” film?
- US election campaign staggers to the finish line
- Egyptian military regime steps up repression
- Detroit Medical Center to outsource housekeeping in cost-cutting drive
2014-11-03
- This week in history: November 3-9
- Film director Roman Polanski questioned, released in Poland
- Obama in Detroit
- BP oil spill left massive “bathtub ring” in Gulf of Mexico
- New Zealand Labour Party stages election leadership charade
- Australia: Two NSW by-elections reveal the rot of official politics
- Pennsylvania fifth grader still in prison
- “Now we’re fighting for decent homes for everybody”
- Justice Department seeks massive expansion of FBI hacking powers
- France, Italy vow more social cuts as EU approves their 2015 budgets
- Popular opposition grows to London Newham council’s social cleansing policies
- The literary impact and social concerns of American novelist Dave Eggers
- Bank of Japan’s shock stimulus further destabilizes global economy
- Military launches coup amid mass protests in Burkina Faso
- Australian law to protect spy operations triggers media debate
- Last British combat troops leave Camp Bastion in Afghanistan
2014-11-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Mass water shutoffs continue in Detroit
- Warner Brothers to slash over 10 percent of its workforce
- Twenty five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall: A balance sheet
- US, Europe issue new threats after elections in Ukraine’s separatist regions
- South Africans under 60 disqualified from state-funded housing
- Research confirms harshness of sentences handed out to youth following the 2011 UK riots
- Poland to send troops to eastern border
- The political issues posed by the US midterm elections
- Sri Lankan pseudo-lefts promote right-wing UNP leader as presidential candidate
- Captain of South Korean sunken ferry faces death penalty
- Washington-backed “rebels” surrender US arms to Al Qaeda in Syria
- France’s Socialist Party cracks down on protests against police murder of Rémi Fraisse
- Canada imposes draconian travel restrictions citing Ebola crisis
- US military’s Defense Clandestine Service to deploy hundreds of international spies
- US blocks Australian participation in China-backed bank
- US state prison population soars as education spending plummets
2014-11-05
- Another shakeup hits US nuclear missile command
- Heavy military presence at G20 summit in Australia
- UK Tories in conflict with Merkel government over limiting EU immigration
- Republicans win control of Senate in US congressional elections
- Undocumented immigrants make up 10 percent of California’s workforce
- German labour minister presents legislation on comprehensive pay agreements
- Portland, Maine: Five young workers die in apartment fire
- Federal agency conspired with police to keep media out of Ferguson airspace
- The European Union uses death to deter immigrants
- New York Times column advocates ending midterm elections in America
- State education cuts reduce share of low-income students going to college
- Canada launches first air strikes in Iraq
- Massive power outage in Bangladesh
- New warnings of war in Asia
2014-11-06
- Minimum wage increase passes in five states
- Australian government warns of more police anti-terror raids
- Portsmouth, Virginia school bus drivers stage sick out
- Podemos party tops opinion poll in Spain
- The Democratic Party implosion
- Washington moving towards wider war in Iraq and Syria
- Republicans, Obama prepare post-election escalation of war, social attacks
- Trade unions and media denounce German train drivers
- Detroit auctions city assets for pennies on the dollar
- Cronyism paralyses South African state-owned enterprises
- Broken Nation: A glimpse of Australian anti-war sentiment in World War I
- Bloomberg report names Atlanta and New Orleans as the most unequal cities in the US
2014-11-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Students respond to Obama’s claim that this is the “best time in human history”
- AT&T and Verizon use “supercookies” to track users’ online activities
- German train drivers strike in first day
- After elections, Washington plans escalation of Middle East war
- More than 100,000 march in Mexico City over disappeared students
- The Nation and the International Socialist Organization respond to the 2014 elections
- Obama’s letter to Iranian leader complicates nuclear talks
- Climate report warns of “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts”
- French President Hollande’s mid-term TV appearance: No shift in right-wing policies
- Further job cuts in European auto industry
- European Central Bank seeks to reassure financial markets
- New York Governor Cuomo wins reelection in record low turnout
- Prehistoric rock art in Indonesia dated to 40,000 years ago
- Catalan regional government proceeds with alternative referendum despite new suspension
- Justice Department imposes wrist-slap “reforms” on Albuquerque police after series of shootings
- Australia’s WWI Albany commemoration: All about the future, not the past
2014-11-08
- Twenty five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall: A balance sheet
- Central bank decisions deepen global capitalist disorder
- Why is the media silent on the continuing shakeup in the US nuclear command?
- The death of German writer Siegfried Lenz (1926-2014)
- Germany: Left Party attacks striking train drivers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama doubles US troop strength in Iraq
- German train drivers continue strike
- FBI director defends media impersonation by bureau agents
- Low-paying service-sector jobs predominate in October US jobs report
- Judge approves Detroit bankruptcy plan
- UK teenage killer named publicly and sentenced to 20 years
- University of California president proposes new fee hikes
- Imperialist powers, bourgeois “opposition” reach out to military junta in Burkina Faso
- Mass protest strike against austerity staggers new Belgian government
- US general suggests delaying troop withdrawals from Afghanistan
2014-11-10
- Australia: Victorian state government facing electoral defeat
- This week in history: November 10-16
- India criticises Chinese submarine visits to Colombo
- Scottish National Party benefits from Labour’s collapse
- UK postal workers take unofficial strike action
- After the US elections: An intensification of war and social counterrevolution
- US Supreme Court to hear challenge to Obamacare subsidies
- Australian mining fatalities on the rise
- HBO’s Olive Kitteridge: Why are these people so unhappy?
- Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, Amnesty International finds
- US steps up military operations in Iraq, Syria
- German NATO general announces plans for military maneuvers against Russia
- German GDL union shuts down train drivers’ strike
- French Senate votes law facilitating impeachment of the president
- Canada’s NDP promotes Remembrance Day as celebration of militarism
- AIG lawsuit reveals global economy on the brink
2014-11-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Peña Nieto implicated in rail contract scandal
- Obama calls for more Australian, allied troops for Middle East war
- Dozens of “near miss” incidents bring NATO and Russia to brink of war
- Angry protests sweep Mexico after government says 43 students are dead
- ICFI/WSWS public meeting in India on the danger of world war
- Japanese and Chinese leaders hold first meeting in Beijing
- Harvard’s new sexual harassment policy, democratic rights and the new right
- Students occupy hundreds of schools throughout Greece
- US federal appeals court upholds state bans on same-sex marriages
- Ford uses automated phone messages to fire Chicago workers
- Catalan independence poll mobilises core nationalist vote
- New York State grants third round of charter school proposals for Buffalo
- American Airlines flight attendants reject contract
- Obama escalates pressure on China at APEC summit
2014-11-12
- Australia: Vocation Ltd affair exposes impact of privatisation
- US Veterans Affairs head announces restructuring, firings
- Kiev escalates war in eastern Ukraine
- David North to speak November 15 in Toronto on “Imperialism and the World Wars of the Twentieth Century”
- Capitalism and the space program
- Australian prime minister demands apology from Russia on MH17
- The Detroit bankruptcy ruling: A new chapter in the class war against workers
- New Zealand government to send troops to Iraq
- US Medicare “open enrollment” period highlights attacks on health care
- Protests mount in Italy against Renzi government
- Local government unions push acceptance of poverty pay in the UK
- US troops sent to Iraq’s Anbar province
- Ninety-four percent of child migrants deported from US lack attorneys
- New head of Britain’s GCHQ demands Internet companies act as state informers
- Missouri governor vows to deploy National Guard against protesters
- French students protest police murder of Rémi Fraisse
- Anderson: Artists and the Stasi in Stalinist East Germany
- France’s pseudo-left NPA backs restoration of law and order in Burkina Faso
2014-11-13
- Video: Defend the social rights of Detroit workers!
- Russian Central Bank floats ruble
- Small audiences mark Remembrance Day in Australia
- Violent clashes erupt at Poland Independence Day rally
- Philae spacecraft lands successfully on comet
- The illegitimate US election
- Obama-Xi talks underscore US war threat in Asia
- Mumia Abu-Jamal, rights groups sue over Pennsylvania’s “Mumia Law”
- Young people in Brisbane denounce “population control”
- German army prepares for civil war
- Neo-fascist National Front calls for rearming of French imperialism
- Banks get token fines for rigging global foreign exchange rates
- Harper’s Beijing trip highlights Canadian-Chinese tensions
- Brisbane, Australia in lockdown for G20 summit
- Former South African police boss exploits footballer’s murder in comeback bid
- Atlanta Symphony musicians agree to concessions after nine-week lockout
- ASEAN summit opens in Myanmar
- UK parliament backs anti-democratic European Arrest Warrant
2014-11-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- German train drivers face political struggle
- The struggle against war and the tasks of the PSG
- Russian strategic bombers to patrol off US coastlines
- The Detroit bankruptcy ruling: Suspending democracy to impose the dictates of Wall Street
- Fatal police shooting in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Obama at APEC: US steps up economic offensive against China
- The disappeared students and Mexico’s deepening political crisis
- Lectures in Australia and New Zealand postponed
- The Death of Klinghoffer dramatizes 1985 hijacking of Achille Lauro
- Luxembourg tax avoidance scandal rocks European Union
- Corporatist agenda of trade unions on display at G20 summit
- India and Vietnam build closer economic and military ties
- French Socialist Party covered up its role in police murder of Rémi Fraisse
- Australia: Silence on G20 lockdown at “Peoples Summit” forum on civil liberties
- Florida governor presides over 20th execution in first term
- Canada deeply implicated in US anti-China “pivot”
- German intelligence agency plans major expansion of spying powers
- Bank of Canada governor tells youth to work “for free”
- Threat of war hangs over ASEAN summit
- After flight attendants reject contract, American Airlines makes offer to pilots
2014-11-15
- NATO intensifies threats against Russia over Ukraine
- UN hearing: US acknowledges it “crossed the line” on torture
- Huge growth in China’s shadow banking system
- UK government assumes control of Tower Hamlets local authority
- The comet landing: A new milestone in space exploration
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Sham promises on jobs crisis in state election
- Top general says US troops may be needed to retake Iraqi cities
- Stage set for confrontation, not cooperation, at G20
- Decision imminent on whether to indict Ferguson cop in killing of Michael Brown
- European Court rules governments can refuse migrants social welfare
- Still The Enemy Within: The 1984-85 British miners’ strike according to the pseudo-left
- Amid meager international assistance, Ebola death toll in Africa surges past five thousand
- City workers denounce Detroit bankruptcy ruling
- Volkswagen opens backdoor entry for UAW at Tennessee plant
- Port truck drivers strike in southern California
- Right-wing minority government formed in Bulgaria
2014-11-17
- This week in history: November 17-23
- Spain boosts military spending
- South African banking in crisis as furniture unit threatened with closure
- G20 summit held under police-state conditions
- Obama’s speech in Australia: A threat of war against China
- Cost of Obamacare coverage to rise in 2015
- Toxic gas leak at Texas Dupont plant kills four
- 100,000 fewer US families receive housing aid due to budget cuts
- Empty commitment by G20 to boost global growth
- Police prepare crackdown in advance of Michael Brown ruling
- IYSSE (UK) public meetings: Imperialism and the Ebola crisis
- Auto workers, bus riders denounce Detroit bankruptcy ruling
- US Justice Department uses spy planes in mass surveillance of cellphones
- California Nurses Association backs Democrats with Ebola protest
- Sham opposition on display at Brisbane G20 protests
2014-11-18
- Chinese president seeks to use trade to counter US “pivot”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Cameron announces plans to remove British passports from suspected terrorists
- Sri Lanka’s court rubberstamps Rajapakse’s bid for third presidential term
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE public lecture series: Fifty years since the LSSP’s betrayal
- Scottish National Party budget delivers another round of cuts
- Director Carlos Reygadas at the Colombo film festival: But what is cinematic art?
- Why did the poppy war commemoration at the Tower of London become a mass event?
- G-20 summit intensifies threat of war against Russia
- Witness implicates German intelligence agency at neo-Nazi murder trial
- Japan slides back into recession
- Obama envisions “circumstances” requiring US ground troops in Iraq
- Workers, youth comment on World War I installation: “Young people must oppose war”
- Ferguson residents condemn mobilization of National Guard against protests
- Child homelessness at all-time high in US
- Obamacare adviser: Administration exploited “the stupidity of the American voter”
- Financial Review Commission continues bankers’ control of Detroit
- Missouri governor declares state of emergency, mobilizes National Guard ahead of protests
- Australian “Direct Action” climate plan to reward corporate polluters
- Token charges filed against coal executive in West Virginia mine disaster
2014-11-19
- Video: National Guard arrives in St. Louis, Missouri
- US Defense Department organizing covert operations against "the general public"
- James Risen on war and the US financial aristocracy
- Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work: A biography of the remarkable actor
- New UK study finds 300,000 more people living in poverty
- Preemptive state of emergency in Missouri
- Meeting in Montreal this Sunday: Oppose Canada’s participation in the new Mideast War
- Delinquent US mines allowed to continue dangerous operations
- Merkel’s “Hun Speech” against Russia
- Latvia’s new government promotes austerity policies and war propaganda
- Japan’s snap election: A sign of economic and political crisis
- Growing protests in Italy against austerity policies
- Israel’s Netanyahu threatens clampdown after synagogue killing
- Detroit Workers Action Committee meeting: Lessons of the Detroit bankruptcy
- UK faces further round of austerity measures
- Canada’s Prime Minister spearheads attack on Russia at G-20 summit
2014-11-20
- Kiev, NATO step up threats against Russia
- Senate blocks any limit to NSA spying on phone calls
- Spanish military prepares for domestic repression
- Big business candidate wins Romanian presidential elections
- The “rescue” of the Detroit Institute of Arts has resolved nothing
- Sri Lankan plantation workers denounce government over landslide tragedy
- Global economy falls deeper into slump
- US government, corporations preparing new offensive against workers’ pensions
- German military to lead NATO rapid response force
- Australian government embraces security pact with India
- Australia’s housing bubble fuels a social disaster
- UK to expand fracking despite pollution and safety concerns
- US media silent over “state of emergency” declaration in Missouri
- Distortion and dishonesty: Ukrainian films at the Cottbus Film Festival
- French-backed army junta sets up figurehead regime in Burkina Faso
- Police in Brazil kill six people a day
- American Airlines flight attendants and the global airline industry
2014-11-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Russia and China expand economic cooperation
- Jon Stewart’s Rosewater: Fatal sins of omission
- Australia: Police violence in Queensland sparks outrage
- Wall Street banks and commodities fraud
- Obama announces right-wing immigration “reform” in national address
- India: Unions betray contract workers’ strike
- Los Angeles schools superintendent backs “parent trigger” privatization scheme
- Tories and Labour compete to scapegoat migrants for British social crisis
- Police arrest Ferguson protesters ahead of ruling in Michael Brown case
- Missouri carries out ninth execution of the year
- Russian conductor barred from German music festival
- University of California’s regents approve tuition hikes
- Massive snowstorm cripples Buffalo, kills ten
- Swedish court upholds vendetta against Julian Assange
- Australian government outlines major cuts to public broadcasters
2014-11-22
- UK Independence Party wins Rochester by-election
- Los Angeles: One thousand protest Mexican student massacre and disappearances
- Greek riot police attack protesters
- Obama’s “reform” and the criminalization of immigrants
- Film and theater director Mike Nichols dies at 83
- Netherlands covers up secret pact controlling investigation of MH17 crash
- Mexican military threatens intervention against mass protests
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- North Korea releases two jailed Americans
- ICFI/WSWS supporters in India hold public meeting on danger of world war
- Australian mining services workers reject 25 percent pay cut
- German Greens parade pro-business, pro-war credentials
- Obama administration dispatches 100 FBI agents to St. Louis
- US manufacturing wages plummet
- New York police kill unarmed man in Brooklyn housing project
- UK paved way for Sweden’s new demand for Assange’s extradition
- Right-wing protests against the Czech president
2014-11-24
- In Ukraine, US Vice President Biden issues new threats against Russia
- This week in history: November 24-30
- Sri Lankan minister quits ruling party to contest presidential election
- Who is responsible for violence in Ferguson?
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1: More battle scenes and bloodshed—to what end?
- Mehring Books launches holiday sale
- Israel steps up repression against Palestinians
- Iranian nuclear talks at impasse as deadline approaches
- British health unions carrying out fraudulent “fair pay fight”
- Twelve-year-old boy killed by police in Cleveland, Ohio
- Chicago commuter rail agency approves a decade of fare hikes
- Teamsters sell out strike by port truck drivers in southern California
- After historic blizzard, death toll rises and floods threaten Buffalo, New York
- Senate hearings on Wall Street crimes: The bankers rule
- German army opens “career centre” in the heart of Berlin
- Obama authorizes wider war in Afghanistan
2014-11-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A live Q&A discussion with David North
- SEP & IYSSE public meetings: Why have Australia’s parliamentary parties all signed up for war?
- Scottish National Party’s Salmond and Sturgeon pitch to Labour and the ex-left
- The impoverishment of industrial workers in America
- Israel Nash on the way to excellence with Rain Plans
- Markets rise as global economic outlook worsens
- “Red-Red-Green” coalition in Thuringia: Welfare cuts and heightened state powers
- Iran nuclear talks extended
- Report calls for ending guaranteed affordable housing for Washington, DC residents
- Obama fires Defense Secretary Hagel
- No indictment for Ferguson cop who killed Michael Brown
- Care UK workers asked to vote for massive pay cut
- Brooklyn residents outraged at police killing of Akai Gurley
- Split from right-wing party intensifies Australian government’s impasse
- Australia: Rallies against ABC/SBS cuts promote Labor and Greens
2014-11-26
- Economic blockade of Ukrainian rebel regions inflicts mass suffering
- Sri Lankan SEP to contest presidential election
- Former Portuguese Prime Minister Sócrates held on corruption charges
- US intervenes in South China Sea dispute
- Two more Australian police killings in working-class areas
- Political wrangling continues over Keystone pipeline
- Political lessons of the Ferguson whitewash
- Night Will Fall: A powerful depiction of Nazi atrocities
- Meryl Streep, Stevie Wonder receive Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama
- Germany: ThyssenKrupp returns to profitability and steps up its cuts program
- Protests against Hungarian government continue
- Missouri governor triples national guard force in Ferguson
- Franco-German reform plan calls for deep social cuts, wage freeze in France
- Demonstrations across the US against Michael Brown decision
- Protesters condemn exoneration of cop who killed Michael Brown
- Cleveland police defend shooting death of 12-year-old boy
- Texas woman exonerated 10 years after fatal crash
- Death of 15-year-old exposes growing use of child labour by Canadian employers
2014-11-27
- New coalition plans to expand war against eastern Ukraine
- India: Open rift in Stalinist CPM
- 150 years since Sherman’s March to the Sea
- UK report on murder of soldier drives calls for deeper state repression
- SEP meeting and discussion in Stuttgart
- Australian meat workers to face new attacks after JBS buys Primo Group
- Political dissidents to be rendered stateless
- OECD report highlights deepening economic breakdown
- Public Meeting December 4: The attack on democratic rights in Ferguson and Detroit
- Humboldt University seeks to ban criticism of right-wing professor
- Police crack down on Hong Kong protest site
- The $35,000 Thanksgiving dinner
- Chinese and Indian leaders hold competing visits to Fiji
- Hundreds arrested in US protests against Ferguson whitewash
- As snow melts, social conditions in Buffalo area remain dire
- “Justifiable homicides” by police at record high
2014-11-28
- Australia: Major parties prepare further austerity after Victorian state election
- Washington denounces Syrian air strikes on ISIS
- India: Open rift in Stalinist CPM
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- One year since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine
- OPEC decision a shot in oil price war
- More than 300 arrested in Los Angeles during Ferguson protests
- Workers denounce phony “jobs” promises ahead of state election
- New Indonesian president raises fuel prices
- The reactionary politics of German Greens on display at party congress
- Home fires in the US kill 125 people in just two weeks
- Video shows Cleveland cop killed 12-year-old boy in under two seconds
- The fight against war and the political tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
- Union seeks to smother opposition to unsafe conditions in West Virginia mines
- Cables document relations between Castro and Argentine junta
2014-11-29
- UK workers see six years of falling wages
- Protests, building occupations follow California tuition hike
- Australia: East-West toll road provides multi-billion dollar handout to corporate elite
- New Australian terrorism bill to facilitate targeted military killings
- Sri Lankan SEP holds press conference to announce its presidential campaign
- Report of Russian warship manoeuvres in English Channel highlights growing war danger
- UN report documents torture, police violence in US
- France balks on delivery of Mistral helicopter-carrier to Russia
- Mexican President Peña Nieto announces police-state plan as more bodies are discovered
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Housing rights campaigners speak out on UK government’s social cleansing
- Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar: A mess in space
- The Australian Greens and “human rights” imperialism
- German constitutional court increases the power of the church
- Democrats back union-organized Wal-Mart protests
- French automaker Peugeot-Citroën plans new mass layoffs
- Canada preparing to expand its role in Mideast war
- Denver police caught on video beating suspect, tripping pregnant woman
- Former Washington mayor Marion Barry mourned in US ruling class circles
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