Archive: October 2013
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 2013 (front page)
- US shutdown targets workers and poor people
- The Obamacare fraud and the case for socialized medicine
- Obama, Netanyahu stress war against Iran “still on the table”
- Banks and European Union demand further austerity in Irish budget
- UK unions promote Labour at health care march in Manchester
- South Korean government threatens to ban teachers union
- Indonesian and Australian leaders tone down refugee dispute
- Australia: Telstra announces 1,100 more job cuts.
- Coalition negotiations in German state of Hesse
- French Interior Minister Manuel Valls proposes mass deportation of Roma
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“All the beautiful things are being taken away from us”
Workers speak out against threat to sell off the DIA - Millions in consultancy fees paid out by Detroit emergency manager
- Support grows for campaign to defend the DIA
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SEP (Australia) public meetings
Syria, Iran and the geopolitics of American militarism - Minnesota Orchestra hangs in the balance as management rejects contract offers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 October 2013 (front page)
- US government shutdown hits social services
- US shutdown: A bipartisan war against the working class
- Greek pseudo-lefts support state ban on fascist Golden Dawn
- Minnesota Orchestra musicians mark anniversary of lockout with large demonstration
- Germany: Siemens to cut 15,000 jobs
- German Greens shift further to the right after federal election
- Maduro expels US officials as Venezuela’s economic crisis deepens
- New York City Opera announces bankruptcy
- Social inequality widens in New Zealand
- Amid government shutdown, US officials push “pivot to Asia”
- Sri Lanka: Mullaivaikkal residents face desperate plight
- Australia: Fair Work tribunal rubberstamps pay-cutting at Brisbane meatworks
- Thirteen thousand hospital operations cancelled in Wales
- Priory Hall housing scandal impacts Irish government
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“The art at the DIA belongs to the people, not to the rich!”
SEP and IYSSE hold press conference to announce October 4 rally to defend the DIA - More endorsements of the “Defend the DIA” campaign
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Toronto International Film Festival 2013
An interview with Dyana Gaye, director of Under the Starry Sky -
Toronto International Film Festival 2013—Part 5
A filmmaker sees and does something important - SEP and IYSSE in Southern California hold public meetings on US war drive
3 October 2013 (front page)
- US shutdown a smokescreen for assault on Social Security, Medicare
- The Detroit Institute of Arts and the defense of culture in the US
- Amid government shutdown, Obama cancels trip to Malaysia, Philippines
- Italian government survives confidence vote
- Inspectors arrive amid revelations of Syrian opposition atrocities
- Two years after US-NATO war, torture rampant in Libya
- German critic of NSA surveillance denied entry to US
- Socialist Party officials call for drone patrols inside France
- Staggering growth of billionaires in China
- Australian government meets General Motors executives amid closure threat
- Australian filmmaker condemns moves to sell DIA collection
- New York City throws Hurricane Sandy victims out on the street
- Second stage in civil trial over BP oil spill opens
- Video: Press conference held for “Defend the DIA” demonstration
- Detroit area residents speak against sale of DIA art and budget cuts
- Visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art condemn the sale of DIA artwork
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The working class and the Detroit Industry murals at the DIA
Diego Rivera’s “Battle of Detroit”
4 October 2013 (front page)
- Day three of US shutdown: Talks focus on cuts to Medicare and Social Security
- The return of the Euro crisis
- Washington DC chase ends in shooting death of driver
- US-Japan ministerial meeting strengthens military stance against China
- Greek authorities release three fascist Golden Dawn deputies from custody
- Syrian “rebel” factions battle each other on Turkish border
- Migrant laborers building 2022 World Cup facilities worked to death in Qatar
- Revealed: Australian Labor government’s record spending cuts
- Reputed head of Iran’s cyberwar program assassinated
- Fearing war and social unrest, Iran’s bourgeois regime seeks rapprochement with Washington
- More than 130 dead after boat capsizes off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa
- Fighting in Southern Philippines creates humanitarian crisis
- Tensions over the formation of new German government
- Detroit emergency manager escalates threats against DIA art
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”To sell off any of its assets is to rob us all!”
Endorsements flood in on eve of DIA demonstration - Downtown Detroit tenants facing eviction support demonstration to save the DIA
- The Minnesota Orchestra lockout and the defense of culture in the US
- University of Minnesota students speak out in defense of locked-out orchestra musicians
- UK teachers in regional strikes as unions seek accommodation with government
- UK regional teachers strike provides no answers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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NASA scientists announce historic leap in human exploration
Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space
5 October 2013 (front page)
- Hundreds rally to oppose sale of art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
- US-Japan talks escalate war preparations against China
- Workers and young people at demonstration speak out in defense of the DIA
- With US shutdown in fourth day, Wall Street signals concern on debt ceiling
- Washington, DC workers, youth speak out against federal shutdown
- Obama cancels entire Asia trip as government shutdown continues
- Strikes and protests break out in Ireland despite sabotage by trade unions
- UK Conservatives set out election agenda of austerity until 2020
- German President Gauck calls for aggressive foreign policy
- German Green Party ditch any attachment to social reform
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan chief justice backs Colombo evictions
- Video: Excerpts from the demonstration to defend the DIA
- Western Australian credit downgrade signals greater austerity
- Governing parties suffer losses in Austrian elections
- Obamacare to leave 31 million uninsured
- Drug maker Merck announces 8,500 more layoffs
- Letters from our readers
7 October 2013 (front page)
- US budget and debt talks to focus on cutting Social Security, Medicare
- The significance of the rally to defend the Detroit Institute of Arts
- US government shutdown closes the National Park Service
- Egyptian junta launches crackdown on protests commemorating 1973 war
- US raids Libya and Somalia, capturing alleged Al Qaeda planner
- Manoeuvres between Greece’s major parties accompany clampdown on Golden Dawn
- An additional 25 million Europeans face poverty
- German state intelligence agency spies on journalists
- Germany: Orchestra musicians protest against job and pay cuts
- The real causes of the New York City Opera bankruptcy
- Burma struggles to attract foreign investment
- Youth and workers denounce Syrian war plans
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A fighter for revolutionary socialism
Raúl Rizik: 1947-2013 - SEP rallies in Sydney and Melbourne oppose US war drive against Syria
- Video: Hundreds rally to defend the Detroit Institute of Arts
- More endorsements for DIA campaign against the sale of art
- Downtown Detroit tenants rally to demand decent and affordable housing
- This week in history: October 7-13
- Public meeting in Paris marks the 15th Anniversary of the WSWS
8 October 2013 (front page)
- US government shutdown reaches second week
- The US raid on Libya and the fraud of the war on terror
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Government shutdown hinders safety probe
Maintenance accident kills worker on DC subway - Fears of Asian economic slowdown, US debt default hit APEC summit
- Greek university strike enters fifth week
- Germany: Controlled detonation results in death of three miners
- Air France to lay off 2,800 workers
- Embittered row between UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband and Daily Mail over his father Ralph
- General Electric announces 400 layoffs in upstate New York
- Australia: A rising tide of job losses
- Australian PM dismisses Indonesian human rights abuses
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“Without the DIA we would not know anything about culture”
Workers and students speak out in defense of the DIA -
New SEP pamphlet available at Mehring Books
The Defense of Culture and the Crisis in Detroit -
How have artists responded to political and social developments?
An exhibition at International Print Center New York - Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 October 2013 (front page)
- Amid government shutdown, Obama signals cuts to Social Security, Medicare
- The UAW and “21st Century industrial relations”
- Boston school bus drivers take wildcat action
- China-US rivalry simmers at APEC summit
- Mass anger builds in Libya after US Special Forces raid
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei issues caution on moves for US-Iran talks
- Egyptian military persecutes filmmaker who witnessed crackdown
- Protests mount as Lampedusa migrant death toll expected to hit 400
- German firm Siemens intensifies job cuts
- Australia: Abbott government starts to impose sweeping austerity agenda
- Canada spied on Brazil’s government as part of global commercial espionage campaign
- Indian cabinet decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh sparks mass protests
- Ed Dorn and the politics of the New American Poetry
- New York museumgoers oppose the threat to sell DIA artwork
- Britain: Labour council destroys Newport Chartist uprising mural
- New support for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
10 October 2013 (front page)
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After calling for Medicare, Social Security cuts
Obama’s Federal Reserve pick reassures Wall Street of continued bank bailouts - IMF report points to deepening recessionary trends in global economy
- Washington stokes conflict with China at ASEAN summit
- Boston school bus drivers end wildcat strike
- Sixty-day strike ban ending for northern California transit workers
- German defence minister praises German deployment to Afghanistan
- Wall Street coalesces around “progressive activist, fiscal conservative” mayoral candidate
- Foxconn imposes Chinese-style sweatshop conditions in Europe
- Right-wing minority government takes shape in Norway
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court hands land powers to central government
- New Zealand PM re-affirms commitment to war drive against Syria
- French austerity budget raises taxes on workers
- Video: Rally participants speak on the demonstration in defense of the DIA
- Endorsements for Defend the DIA campaign
- Detroit firefighters call for defense of the DIA
- The bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi
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Socialist Equality Party Public Meetings
UK workers and young people discuss Syria and the threat of war
11 October 2013 (front page)
- Republicans, White House move toward deal to extend debt ceiling, cut social programs
- The Boston school bus drivers’ wildcat strike
- Millions face loss of day care and food as shutdown drags on
- US shutdown cripples investigation of salmonella outbreak
- Union reps suspended over Boston school bus drivers wildcat strike
- US-China tensions flare over South China Sea
- Libyan prime minister abducted in retaliation for US raid on Tripoli
- US moves to cut some of its military aid to Egypt
- US and Iran at loggerheads over Syria conference
- Australia: Threat to shut GMH car plants grows
- Fortress Europe’s rising death toll
- Hungarian government adopts law against homeless
- Sydney’s week-long military extravaganza foreshadows new wars
- The German Left Party after the elections
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Toronto International Film Festival 2013—Part 6
Disappointments, blind alleys and other problems - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
12 October 2013 (front page)
- Report finds US-backed Syrian opposition responsible for sectarian atrocity
- Regional tensions to rise after Obama’s no-show in Asia
- Republicans, White House move closer toward debt deal
- New reports warn of mass poverty and social decline in Europe
- Fifty dead as another migrant ship sinks off Italy
- Kerry in Afghanistan to salvage US occupation treaty
- Shakeup continues in US nuclear command
- Unions delay strike for Northern California transit workers
- Germany: Formation of new government drags on
- New Australian government faces sharp economic downturn
- German technology manufacturer Loewe declares bankruptcy
- Australian politician justifies Pinochet’s coup in Chile
- Spanish train companies implicated in rail crash that killed 79
- Unarmed Connecticut woman killed by police in Washington, DC: Collateral damage of the “war on terror”
- 7th Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928): two silent films by Frank Borzage
- UK: Trafford Council drops challenge to local Accident & Emergency closure
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 October 2013 (front page)
- Watchdog group issues damning report on Obama administration’s war on journalists and whistleblowers
- Behind the US government shutdown
- Edward Snowden and Guardian witch-hunted by UK government, MI5 and media
- UK Ministry of Defence seeks to counter growing opposition to war
- Mahalla textile workers strike amid rising opposition to Egyptian junta
- Shutdown of National Institutes of Health imperils critical medical research
- Social conflicts intensifying in Greece
- French neo-fascists win Brignoles local by-election
- Australian PM embraces Japanese remilitarisation
- Australian meetings discuss US war drive in Middle East
- Philippine president consolidates power through corruption scandal
- Australian Labor Party installs Bill Shorten as leader
- Born again: Gravity directed by Alfonso Cuarón
- New research sheds light on a key dietary change in early human evolution
- This week in history: October 14-20
15 October 2013 (front page)
- US government shutdown impacts millions of workers
- Obama backs Detroit bankruptcy
- Fifty eight million US retirees to receive negligible Social Security COLA increases
- Washington, DC Metro faces funding shortfall
- Middle East wars drive refugee flows, Mediterranean migrant deaths
- A disastrous start for Obamacare health exchanges
- California Bay Area transit workers strike delayed for at least one more day
- US miners’ union reaches settlement with Patriot Coal and Peabody Energy
- Australia: Business steps up campaign for austerity and restructuring
- International talks begin on Iran’s nuclear program
- US secretary of state hails autocratic Malaysian government
- Video: Auto workers defend Detroit Institute of Arts
- Tunisian political parties organize “national dialogue”
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Vo Nguyen Giap (1911-2013)
Military leader of Vietnamese anti-colonial struggle - Britain’s Socialist Workers Party endorses Scottish capitalism
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
16 October 2013 (front page)
- NSA “harvesting” electronic address books and contact lists
- Obamacare and the assault on workers’ health benefits
- Talks continue on deal to fund US government, raise debt ceiling
- Washington, DC workers speak out against government shutdown
- US sequestration, shutdown cuts target scientific research
- EU tightens barriers against migrants after Lampedusa tragedy
- Asylum seekers in Berlin on hunger strike
- Main UK parties agree on statutory press control
- Iran offers “new beginning” in hope of some respite from punitive US-led sanctions
- British local councils petition government to sell off art works
- Indian foreign minister’s unproductive visit to Sri Lanka
- Anti-immigrant pogroms in Moscow
- Taiwan’s ruling party mired in political crisis
- Toyota Australia slashes jobs, demands cost-cutting
- As closures continue, Chicago expands private charter schools
- Detroit emergency manager eliminates retiree health care benefits
- CBS “60 Minutes” report on Detroit: An apologia for Wall Street looting
- Two films, and the limits of mere sympathy: The Girl and Dragon Girls
- Lives of the Scientists and U.S. Presidents
17 October 2013 (front page)
- US budget deal sets stage for intensified assault on social programs
- Lampedusa migrant deaths: The real face of the European Union
- Chicago mayor announces elimination of retiree health care subsidies
- Further talks scheduled on Iran’s nuclear programs
- Australia: Documents prove former Labor government knew about PRISM
- Australian treasurer pledges austerity during US trip
- German conservative parties and social democrats discuss grand coalition pledged to deeper social attacks
- Siemens awards works council chair a handsome salary
- Irish government unveils new austerity budget
- UK unions colluded with police and employers in construction blacklist
- Sri Lankan government bans protests over clean water
- With BART struggle looming, Democratic governor halts California bus strike
- Salinger: Phony stuff
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“Art, socialism, and the working class”
WSWS arts editor David Walsh to speak October 24 at Toronto’s York University - Emergency manager continues threat to “monetize” DIA art treasures
- Letters from our readers
18 October 2013 (front page)
- NSA surveillance programs facilitate global drone war
- The US budget deal: A new stage in the attack on the working class
- Family of Boston Marathon bombing witness killed by FBI denounces federal harassment
17 October 2013 (front page)
18 October 2013 (front page)
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Asylum seekers set up camps in German cities
Berlin: “Refugees continue to die due to the NATO war in Libya” - BlackBerry, erstwhile Canadian high-tech icon, slashing 4,500 jobs
- Closure of coal mine near Ostrava in Czech Republic threatens 3,000 jobs
- French students protest deportation of immigrants
- Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations
- Indian government covers up military’s anti-constitutional activities
- Major bushfires hit Australia’s most populous state
- Australian election results in unstable Senate
- New Zealand unions mount bogus “Fairness at Work” campaign
- UK firefighters demonstrate against pension cuts
- Obamacare “rollout” events held in Detroit
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Unite the working class behind Bay Area transit workers!
- Australia: IYSSE anti-war rally wins support in Newcastle
- 12 Years a Slave: Unrelenting violence, not real history
19 October 2013 (front page)
- Obama, Democrats offer deeper social cuts in new budget talks
- The political issues in the Bay Area, California transit strike
- Nearly half of US public school children are poor
- Bay Area, California transit workers strike against wage, benefit cuts
- Sri Lankan army commander issues threat against “separatists”
- Over 150 dead in earthquake in the central Philippines
- UK’s “Plebgate” scandal: Police go unpunished for set-up of Conservative MP
- Waiting times at five-year high in British National Health Service
- US government, media silent on sacking of top nuclear officers
- Social inequality in Russia reaches record levels
- Australian Labor Party infighting erupts after leadership ballot
- One in two children impoverished after “economic recovery” in upstate New York
- Union-backed mayoral candidate proposes selloff of DIA artwork
- Third regional teachers’ strike in UK
- UK teachers: “Something needs to change in the way we oppose the government”
- Captain Phillips: A hijacking drama unfolds
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Public meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
Syria, Iran and the geopolitics of American militarism
21 October 2013 (front page)
- Two workers killed by management-run train during Bay Area transit strike
- Blanket settlement with JPMorgan: A $13 billion cover-up
- Top Senate Democrat backs Medicare, Social Security cuts
- German Social Democrats, conservatives agree on talks to form coalition government
- Lancet report supports accusation that Yasser Arafat was poisoned
- Australian agency integrated into NSA spying operations
- Italian government adopts austerity budget
- Britain: INEOS launches assault on Grangemouth refinery workers
- PQ pushing ahead with implementation of chauvinist Quebec Charter of Values
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TV Review
Sleepy Hollow: A mix of legends and myths punctuated by gunfire - Australia: Bushfire emergency in New South Wales
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Socialist Equality Party public meeting
The Minnesota Orchestra lockout and the defense of the right to culture
Build a committee to mobilize workers, youth, and musicians in defense of the musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra! - Grambling State University football program goes on strike
- Peter Higgs and François Englert awarded 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
- This week in history: October 21-27
- Detroit residents forced to wait hours for buses
- Germany: The Left Party embarks on a war course
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New SEP pamphlet available at Mehring online
Hegel, Marx, Engels and the Origins of Marxism
22 October 2013 (front page)
- New evidence of NSA spying on France, Mexico
- The witch-hunt of Britain’s Guardian newspaper
- Unions end Bay Area, California transit strike
- Mass student protests in France against deportation of Roma schoolgirl
- Replacement worker was driving train that killed two workers during California transit strike
- Obama downplays health exchange debacle
- California Bay Area transit workers speak out on strike
- California truckers close Port of Oakland terminal
- Witness in German NSU investigation dies in car fire
- Saudi Arabia turns down UN Security Council seat
- Spain blocks Argentinian attempts to prosecute Franco-era fascists
- Australia: Escalating need for food handouts
- New York City: Hundreds protest city agency’s order that tenants must move
- Philadelphia student dies from asthma attack after schools cut nursing staff
- Driver sickout halts bus service in Detroit
- The Fifth Estate: A dishonest film about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New fossil skull find may revolutionize view of early human evolution
- Letters from our readers
23 October 2013 (front page)
- Reports document US slaughter of civilians in drone strikes
- Lessons of the Bay Area transit strike
- Lackluster US jobs report points to ongoing slump
- Brazil’s Workers Party government mobilizes troops against striking oil workers
- German Social Democrats’ convention backs coalition talks with conservative parties
- Swedish police collect illegal database of Roma
- Netherlands government unites with opposition on austerity budget
- Despite $500 million price tag, Obamacare web site still failing
- Australia: Queensland government legislates draconian “anti-bikie” laws
- Report shows more than half of US fast food workers receive government aid
- Romanian government and unions carve up the health system
- Australian government unveils budget “audit” to advance austerity agenda
- California: Study exposes record levels of poverty in Silicon Valley
- Australia: “Red October” bushfires continue in New South Wales
- Canada’s Conservatives to intensify assault on working people
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Los Angeles museum visitors oppose sell-off of DIA artwork
“More people should be educated about art today, not less” - “The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 1
- UK postal workers vote to strike
24 October 2013 (front page)
- Top ten American CEOs take home over $100 million each
- Political lessons of the Leonarda affair
- After calling off strike, Bay Area transit unions move to push through concessions contract
- Four coal miners killed during government shutdown
- Iran’s government criticised over nuclear talks
- Refugees in Berlin call off hunger strike
- US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in affirmative action case
- UK Labour seeks to outdo Conservatives with right-wing policies
- Scottish National Party’s bogus anti-austerity posture
- France to intensify military intervention in Central African Republic
- Protests grow as Western powers, rival militias loot Libyan oil industry
- Seven die in suicide attack in southern Russia
- Victims of Haiti cholera epidemic sue the United Nations
- Shutdown punishes Native American tribes
- Trial on Detroit bankruptcy begins
- Workers World Party: The pseudo-left face of the Democratic Party
- “The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 2
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Mining giant Peabody locks out workforce
- University of Western Sydney academics strike over worsening conditions
25 October 2013 (front page)
- Germany charges US with tapping Chancellor Merkel’s cell phone
- Wealth and poverty in America
- UK government uses parliament to accuse Guardian newspaper of treason
- Obamacare premiums higher in rural areas, more costly than quoted in others
- Massachusetts 14-year-old to be tried as adult in slaying of teacher
- Bay Area, California court imposes 60-day strike ban on bus workers
- Saudi officials vent anger over US failure to attack Syria
- The German Green Party: New leadership praises conservatives and big business
- The Australian bushfires and the climate change “debate”
- Australia: Blue Mountains fires ignited by power lines and military exercise
- Study reports growing poverty in San Diego
- Day two of Detroit bankruptcy hearings: Unions urge liquidation of city assets, including DIA
- ISO lines up behind Democrats in New York mayoral election
- Wealth and status under fire: Lorde’s Pure Heroine
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 October 2013 (front page)
- US food stamp assistance to be slashed next week
- German government talks: A grand coalition of social cuts and imperialist foreign policy
- NSA wiretapping scandal dominates European Union summit
- Pakistani prime minister holds talks in Washington
- US stages show of naval force in the South China Sea
- Australia: Investment figures highlight recessionary trends
- Irish pensioners protest in Dublin
- Trade unions pave way for job and wage cuts at Spain’s largest bakery
- Sri Lankan government prepares for Commonwealth summit
- Davis, California firefighters hit by budget cuts
- Kansas suicide rate jumps more than 30 percent in one year
- Top banker, emergency manager testify in third day of Detroit bankruptcy trial
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 October 2013 (front page)
- Obamacare prompts insurers to drop hundreds of thousands from coverage
- NSA head demands end to spying revelations
- Scandal grows over NSA wiretapping of German Chancellor Merkel
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On-the-spot report
House fire caused by utility shutoff kills three young children in the Bronx - EU border agency Frontex guilty of massive breach of human rights
- Unite union hands victory to INEOS in Scotland’s Grangemouth refinery lockout
- French unions downplay revelations they are financed by employers groups
- Chinese court rejects Bo Xilai’s appeal
- Mounting government crisis in Slovenia
- Chinese premier visits Vietnam
- India: Multiple bomb blasts at rally for BJP’s Modi kill five
- Officer who pepper sprayed UC Davis students awarded $38,000
- Bankruptcy proceedings in Detroit: The looting of an American city
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Tokyo International Film Festival 2013—Part 1
Two films from China: One is honest and sympathetic, the other is not - This week in history: October 28-November 3
29 October 2013 (front page)
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Amid new revelations of NSA spying on Europe
German press, politicians warn of rupture in US-German relations - Japanese PM foreshadows tougher action over disputed islets
- Cutting food stamps: The ruthlessness of the American ruling class
- German state parliament persecutes refugees
- Kremlin dismantles Russian Academy of Sciences
- US: Anger on first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy
- Fatal Bronx fire exposes appalling social conditions
- Congressional quota drives US immigration detentions to record highs
- Canada’s Conservative government sideswiped by Senate expenses scandal
- Emergency manager, Michigan governor testify in Detroit bankruptcy case
- Australian state government announces “performance pay” school regime
- American musician, performer Lou Reed dead at 71
- The pseudo-left Russian Socialist Movement and the dead end of the anti-Putin protests
- David Walsh delivers lecture “Art, Socialism, and the Working Class” at Toronto’s York University
- eBook versions of second edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky now available
- Government demands third year of pay freeze in British health service
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IYSSE/SEP public meeting November 9
New York mayoral election: The tasks facing the working class - Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 October 2013 (front page)
- US spy chiefs defend wiretapping of foreign leaders, mass surveillance programs
- The global NSA spying scandal
- NATO reform strengthens Germany’s role
- US-China tensions drive Philippine political opposition
- Bangladesh government suppresses opposition protests
- Australian PM visits Afghanistan to mark troop withdrawal
- Australia: “Market rents” imposed on public housing tenants
- Sydney public housing residents denounce rent rises and poor conditions
- Thousands protest police shooting of 13-year-old boy in California
- Unions push for concessions contract for Bay Area, California transit workers
- More testimony from Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr in Detroit bankruptcy case
- Robert Reich’s Inequality for All: A friendly warning to the powers that be
31 October 2013 (front page)
- Secret NSA program gains “bulk access” to Google, Yahoo data centers
- Two years since the end of the US-NATO war in Libya
- Diplomatic crisis grows over NSA spying in Europe
- President Obama, administration officials defend pro-corporate health care overhaul
- US Federal Reserve continues massive subsidy for financial markets
- US vows to enforce punitive sanctions until Iran brought to heel
- Top British educational advisor insists achievement is genetically determined
- Irish prime minister denounces “welfare culture”
- Australian government maintains ban on Chinese telecommunications firm
- Over 1,000 jobs to be axed at New Zealand Post
- Ford, Chrysler and GM rack up profits from wage-cutting
- Northern Virginia public schools face budget crisis, layoffs
- Emergency manager and Michigan governor follow Jones Day blueprint to gut pensions
- On the death of literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013): A passionate advocate of literature—Part 1
- Protest strikes at German department store chain
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