Archive: June 2014
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 June 2014 (front page)
- US defense secretary menaces China at Singapore forum
- The drive to privatize US veterans’ health care
- Pentagon pressures South Korea to join anti-missile system
- Turkey: Massive police operation against protesters
- Suspect in Brussels shooting linked to Western-backed Syrian opposition
- Emergency manager threatens Detroit retirees at policy conference
- NSA collects facial images of hundreds of millions of people
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European elections
Support for Portugal government nosedives - Sixteen-year-olds recruited to British Army
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Six months after Typhoon Haiyan
Woman and six children killed in fire in tent city in Philippines - Thousands more layoffs imminent for New York school bus workers
- FBI arrests acquaintance of Boston Marathon bombing suspect
- New US coal dust standards leave thousands of miners at risk for black lung
- This week in history: June 2-8
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Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Film portrait of an American radical iconoclast
3 June 2014 (front page)
- Obama heads to Europe for week of meetings directed against Russia
- Washington boasts of military buildup against China
- Thai junta puts off elections for at least 15 months
- German firm Siemens to eliminate a further 11,600 jobs
- US Supreme Court rejects appeal by New York Times reporter James Risen
- US auto union meets to install new president
- New York’s Working Families Party once again backs Democrat Cuomo
- Migrant workers face brutal conditions at NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus
- UK referred to International Criminal Court for war crimes in Iraq
- Indonesian presidential election campaign gets underway
- SEP meetings in Australia discuss budget attacks and drive to war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Students and workers consider SEP’s analysis
4 June 2014 (front page)
- Obama escalates NATO confrontation with Russia
- Police violence and the American gulag
- Spanish King Juan Carlos abdicates amid growing unpopularity of the monarchy
- US media campaign targets released Afghan war POW Bowe Bergdahl
- Obama administration global warming regulation incorporates shift already underway
- New Orleans Recovery School District set to convert entirely to charter schools
- US economy contracts as tens of thousands are laid off
- UK Chilcot Inquiry: cover-up continues over war against Iraq
- Austria: Far-right FPÖ gains support in European elections
- Fascist propaganda on the front page of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Striking Holcim workers in Sri Lanka occupy cement plants
- Sri Lankan president seeks improved relations with India
- Australian “exceptionalism”, the budget and the demands of finance capital
- Twenty-five years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
- So Bright is the View: A serious film from Romania
- Bankruptcy court approves new appraisal of Detroit Institute of Arts collection
- UK SEP National Secretary interviewed on BBC Daily Politics
5 June 2014 (front page)
- International Labor Organization details impact of global austerity
- The US media and the release of POW Bowe Bergdahl
- Obama backs state terror against eastern Ukraine
- Fighting between militias intensifies in Libya
- US auto union installs long-time wage-cutter as new president
- Michigan Senate passes Detroit “Grand Bargain” package
- Wisconsin youths charged as adults in attempted murder case
- No replacement jobs for most workers laid off from Bochum plant in Germany
- German foreign intelligence service plans real-time surveillance of social networks
- Medical co-payments and the assault on public health in Australia
- The Medical Research Future Fund: A hand-out to corporate Australia
- NZ opposition parties wage xenophobic campaign against Asian immigrants
- Global electronics giant NXP sacks union officials in the Philippines
6 June 2014 (front page)
- G7 unity shows cracks on Russia sanctions
- One year of Edward Snowden’s revelations
- European Central Bank cuts interest rate below zero
- Internal GM report shields top executives for cover-up of deadly car defects
- Workers at Detroit retiree meetings voice anger over pension cuts
- Bipartisan deal on US veterans’ health care includes step toward privatization
- Michigan steel worker crushed to death on the job
- California governor Jerry Brown calls for raising teachers’ pension contributions
- Teachers and transit workers ratify New York City contract deals
- Australia: Three-fold rise in long-term youth unemployment since 2008
- Widespread disaffection in South Korean regional elections
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Four weeks after announcing austerity budget
Leadership tensions erupt in Australian government - Ontario NDP and unions in spat over what rightwing road to follow
7 June 2014 (front page)
- Wealth report shows deepening social polarization in US
- D-Day anniversary: Commemorating the Second World War and preparing the Third
- Tepid employment report masks depth of US jobs crisis
- Thai opposition forms overseas anti-coup organisation
- Collapse of Kosovo government leads to early elections
- Labour embraces UK Independence Party’s right-wing nationalism
- British care home scandal deepens
- Washington DC veterans and residents speak out against privatization of VA health care
- Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy to close by end of June
- Australian industrial watchdog goes after West Australian construction workers’ homes
- Infant still in critical condition after Georgia police raid
- New Zealand historian discusses government’s book glorifying World War I
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 June 2014 (front page)
- Newly installed President Poroshenko pledges to militarise Ukraine and crush rebellion in the east
- The UAW vs. the auto workers
- Right-wing campaign intensifies against family of American POW Bergdahl
- Immigrant children held at Arizona detention center in deplorable conditions
- Vodafone privacy report reveals state access to its networks
- US prepares to fine major French bank
- Death toll of migrants seeking to enter Europe via Mediterranean mounts
- Closure of UK colliery exposes role of miners’ union
- The Value of Water Coalition: Corporate greed masquerading as activism
- Massive cuts to education, pensions and social services expected in Pennsylvania state budget
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Nationalism and fascism in Ukraine: A historical overview
Part one - This week in history: June 9-15
- A crude celebration of Australian militarism
10 June 2014 (front page)
- Brazilian workers clash with police on eve of World Cup
- ILO report: A world blighted by poverty and inequality
- Appeals court backs executive branch whitewash of Wall Street
- Seattle’s $15-an-hour minimum wage of little benefit to workers
- Head of US Chamber of Commerce visits Cuba
- Austerity forces British children into record levels of poverty
- New research documents heightened social inequality in Britain
- Australian minimum wage ruling grants a pittance
- Australian mining companies push for suppression of port workers’ dispute
- Federal judge blocks rule lowering drug prices for poor hospitals
- Freedom of speech and the debate over Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act
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Nationalism and fascism in Ukraine: A historical overview
Part two - Workers Struggles: The Americas
11 June 2014 (front page)
- Al Qaeda offshoot ISIS captures Mosul from Iraqi government forces
- The Australian budget and the fight for social equality
- US air strike kills five special operations troops in Afghanistan
- Australian Senate committee discusses threat of US-China war
- Pakistan’s largest airport attacked by Taliban group
- VA audit shows nearly 60,000 US veterans face delays receiving health care
- Relatives of GM crash victims hold Detroit protest
- Obama signs executive order on student loans
- Warehousing of Central American children in Arizona continues
- Italy after the European elections
- Budget cuts threaten scientific and cultural projects at London’s Kew Gardens
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The diary of Lena Mukhina: An important document on the Leningrad blockade
Lenas Tagebuch, translated by Lena Gorelik and Gero Fedtke, Munich, 2013 -
Fifty years since the LSSP’s Great Betrayal in Sri Lanka
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
12 June 2014 (front page)
- California court ruling signals nationwide attack on teacher tenure, seniority rights
- The fall of Mosul and the crimes of imperialism
- Illinois Democrats gut Chicago city worker pensions
- US House Republican leader defeated in primary election
- UK schools witchhunted by government to foster anti-Muslim sentiment
- British NHS patients left without medications by private contractor
- Ten years since the neo-Nazi attack in Cologne, Germany
- Detroit officials agree at DIA press conference: Workers must pay for bankruptcy
- More Detroit schools threatened with closure
- Unrest grows as Mexico’s economy goes into slump
11 June 2014 (front page)
12 June 2014 (front page)
- Fight budget austerity! A socialist perspective for Australian workers
- Satchmo at the Waldorf in New York: The life and times of jazz great Louis Armstrong
- New Zealand: Socialist Aotearoa endorses Mana-Internet Party alliance
13 June 2014 (front page)
- Iraq crisis threatens to ignite regional war
- The California teacher tenure ruling and the war against public education
- Global private financial wealth surges by 14.6 percent in 2013
- On opening day of the World Cup, protests continue in Brazil
- Federal judge allows US government to destroy evidence in suit against NSA
- Washington drives escalating tensions in South China Sea
- Australia: Thousands protest against budget
- One quarter of people in San Diego cannot make ends meet
- Survey finds huge disillusionment with capitalism in Serbia
- Thai junta holds talks with Chinese military, investors
12 June 2014 (front page)
13 June 2014 (front page)
- Millions in US fall into Medicaid gap
- New round of job cuts in New Zealand
- Million Dollar Arm and Words and Pictures: Two Australian directors in Hollywood, for better or worse
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
14 June 2014 (front page)
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After the European elections
EU torn by conflict over European Commission president - The debacle in Iraq
- Ukraine regime claims control of key port city
- Obama administration says child immigrants are “priorities for removal” from US
- Internal report details GM ignition cover-up
- Australian PM intensifies commitment to US war preparations
- Australia, Japan forge closer military ties
- China seeks to woo India’s new right-wing government
- Greece faces more austerity, while EU professes its reliance on the unions
- Luxury apartment complex in London uses spikes to deter homeless
- Ontario: Liberals regain majority with union support
- Colombian left backs Santos in election’s second round
13 June 2014 (front page)
14 June 2014 (front page)
- Ruby Dee, American actress and activist, dead at 91
- Beyoncé, the new album
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
16 June 2014 (front page)
- Civil war escalates in Iraq amid reports of sectarian massacres
- Obama responds to Iraq debacle with military escalation
- US-backed rightists attack Russian embassy in Kiev
- Instability set to continue after Afghan presidential election
- Obama administration halts Philadelphia railway strike
- French rail workers, artists protest social cuts
- Militarization of police in America
- Pennsylvania: Mother of seven dies while jailed for unpaid fines
- Bank of England governor warns of threat to capitalism
- Germany: Ford works council agrees to flexible working and job cuts
- Sri Lankan students’ union promotes illusions in protest campaign
- This week in history: June 16-22
- Classic jazz from Detroit’s Royal Garden Trio
- Australian treasurer defends austerity budget as “fair”
17 June 2014 (front page)
- Washington seeks alliance with Tehran as civil war in Iraq intensifies
- The US media and the debacle in Iraq
- IMF cuts projection for US economic growth
- The German president’s call to arms
- Hungarian government intensifies attack on press freedom
- House fire in Newark, New Jersey kills six family members
- Workers killed on the job at online retailer Amazon
- Pentagon begins Bergdahl investigation
- Detroit retirees denounce plan to raid city workers’ savings accounts
- Australian general blames 2003 invasion for Iraq civil war
- Murder trial of Sewol captain begins in South Korea
- Australia authorities violently suppress refugee hunger strike
- Sri Lanka: Sinhala-Buddhist mobs unleash violence against Muslims
- September 11 Museum: An exercise in historical falsification
18 June 2014 (front page)
- Obama orders nearly 300 US troops to Iraq
- Facing a debacle in Iraq, the US turns for help to Iran
- Iraq’s civil war provokes UK political crisis
- German media clamours for a new Iraq war
- CIA planned rendition of Edward Snowden
- Ukrainian military kills Russian journalists in assault on rebel-held town
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State killing machine resumes in US
Executions in Georgia, Missouri and Florida - Mentally ill in the US: Ten times more in prisons than in hospitals
- Detroit city worker union pushes bankruptcy restructuring plan
- Ford announces 250 forced redundancies in Australia
- Australia Post slashes 900 jobs in preparation for privatisation
- 200,000 Cambodians flee Thailand amid military crackdown
- Socialist Party government ignores mass protest to attack French culture workers’ jobless benefits
- French president backs generals’ revolt against cuts to military budget
- Timothy Geithner’s Stress Test: Confessions of a Wall Street bag-man
- 1928-2014: Maya Angelou, writer, performer and participant in the civil rights movement
- Jürgen Habermas—Germany's state philosopher turns 85
19 June 2014 (front page)
- General cites official request from Iraqi government for US air strikes against Sunni insurgents
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Two years of asylum in Ecuadorian embassy
Defend Julian Assange! - Saudi Arabia warns of civil war in Iraq with “unpredictable consequences”
- The crisis in Iraq and the response of the Turkish ruling class
- More questions than answers after US commandos seize Benghazi attack suspect
- Workers speak out against privatization of French railways
- US appeals court rules defendant has no right to secret surveillance documents
- Charter school companies in US face corruption charges
- Retired Detroit bus mechanics denounce cuts to pensions and transportation services
- Sri Lankan government tries to whitewash anti-Muslim attacks
- Bulgaria suspends construction of South Stream pipeline
- Australia: NSW budget to sell off $20 billion in public assets
- Irish Labour Party members hold ballot for new leader
- New York’s Metropolitan Opera cancels broadcasts of The Death of Klinghoffer
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A great Soviet film about World War II
No more war! The anti-war message of The Cranes Are Flying (1957) - A further comment on The Cranes Are Flying
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A damning exposure of the assault on public education in the US
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools
20 June 2014 (front page)
- Obama exploits Iraq crisis as pretext for war against Syria
- Economy slumps, Wall Street booms
- German foreign minister Steinmeier agitates for war
- Ukraine regime launches military blitz after floating ceasefire plan
- Roma boy attacked by lynch mob in northern Paris
- Greek public building cleaners defy police repression, demand reinstatement
- US Congressional committee gives GM a pass on deadly ignition defect
- A new wave of US school shootings and other violent acts
- Low-income UK residents pay higher tax rates than the wealthy
- UK: Hillsborough disaster inquest reveals safety violations by stadium operator
- Growing social inequality in Australia
- IG-Metall holds bogus “youth protest” at GM-Opel in Rüsselsheim, Germany
- Australian High Court sanctions indefinite offshore refugee detention
- Netflix’s Orange is the New Black: Humanity inside a US women’s prison
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Dilapidated, overcrowded public schools in the Philippines
21 June 2014 (front page)
- Washington escalates intervention in region-wide Middle East war
- The Metropolitan Opera’s censorship of The Death of Klinghoffer
- German militarism and the US debacle in Iraq
- Iraq crisis exacerbates divisions within Iranian elite
- Obama administration steps up attacks on undocumented immigrants
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Impact of war and persecution
More than 50 million displaced persons worldwide - Study ranks US health care system last among 11 nations
- Former Goldman trader involved in fraudulent activities says $8 million bonus too low
- German interior minister warns of threat of lethal attacks by Islamists
- Pakistan military and US drones pound North Waziristan
- Poll spotlights British economic insecurity
- South Korean president carries out cabinet reshuffle
- South Australian Labor’s budget imposes “cruel” federal cuts
- Vote “no” in the Scottish referendum—Fight for a socialist Britain
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At the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto
Making sense of human suffering: Francis Bacon and Henry Moore — Terror and Beauty - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 June 2014 (front page)
- Kerry affirms US support for Egyptian junta
- Democracy and the debacle in Iraq
- US moves inciting sectarian warfare throughout the Middle East
- Detroit workers oppose return of US forces to Iraq
- Government military offensive in eastern Ukraine continues
- Sri Lankan Muslims protest Buddhist extremist attacks
- US workers speak on gas prices related to renewed conflict in Iraq
- Mass graves of undocumented migrants found in Texas
- Every Internet user in the UK can be spied on without a warrant
- GM-Opel: Union “social wage contract” splits German auto workers
- Fifty years since the murder of the Mississippi civil rights workers
- Australia: Sunday penalty rates slashed for hospitality workers
- Oppose the attacks on Muslims in Sri Lanka
- This week in history: June 23-29
- Entre Nos (Between US) and Red Father: Aspects of US life and history
24 June 2014 (front page)
- Memo on drone killings of US citizens makes case for presidential dictatorship
- Washington’s persecution of immigrant children
- In Baghdad, Kerry threatens US military action
- Egypt jails Al Jazeera journalists after show trial
- Journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks in California
- British Columbia teachers’ strike enters second week
- US Supreme Court backs hedge fund against Argentina
- Supreme Court limits federal regulation of greenhouse gases
- Growing social inequality in Germany
- UK’s People’s Assembly stages anti-austerity protest
- China’s premier signs major trade deals with Greece
- China-Vietnam talks fail to end tensions over oil rig
- New Zealand forestry inquiry into workers’ deaths
- Prolific composer and master jazz pianist Horace Silver dies at 85
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 June 2014 (front page)
- Kurdish region rebuffs US appeals for unity with Iraqi government
- The Obama drone murder memo
- Israel stoking conflict in Iraq, Iran, Syria and the Occupied Territories
- Bugging affair unleashes government crisis in Poland
- New reports confirm economic stagnation in Europe
- Multi-millionaire Hillary Clinton denies she is part of the “truly well-off”
- Albuquerque, New Mexico rally to protest police brutality
- New revelations of neglect and coverup at US veterans health care facilities
- Energy Department report calls New Mexico radiation leak “preventable”
- Australian shift on East Jerusalem provokes diplomatic furore
- Australian government plans new citizenship and surveillance powers
- Jobs losses at Kellogg’s UK part of global profit drive
- ISIS offensive in Iraq exposes French pseudo-left’s support for Syria war
- “Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
26 June 2014 (front page)
- US economic output tumbled by 2.9 percent in the first quarter
- The fiasco of Kerry’s Middle East tour
- EU summit in Ypres: The end of the European Union in its current form
- Recent report confirms: US depleted uranium weapons targeted civilian areas in Iraq war
- Child labour: A global scourge
- Australian government’s phony defence of journalist jailed in Egypt
- German Social Democrats, Greens, Left Party support German war policy
- Sri Lankan Muslims describe brutal communal violence
- Recall delayed because General Motors refused to call power steering failure a safety issue
- US primary elections show low level of popular interest
- US Supreme Court rejects unlimited warrantless cell phone searches
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SEP & IYSSE public meetings
The imperialist debacle in Iraq and the struggle against war - Sister of man fatally shot by Albuquerque Police: “They treated him like a terrorist”
- New studies reveal further details of Higgs particle
- Hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan to release “secret” album to highest-paying bidder
27 June 2014 (front page)
- Region-wide war threatens as Iraqi state disintegrates
- Detroit water shutoffs violate human rights
- US, NATO deliver fresh ultimatums to Russia over Ukraine
- ACLU report exposes US federal government’s role in creating “paramilitary police”
- The return of the state secret police in Germany
- Chicago Public Schools lays off 1,150 workers
- Inequality doubles in the US between 2003-2013
- Pennsylvania school district contract to cut 15 percent of teachers
- News of the World hacking trial ends: Scandal still poses threat to Britain’s ruling elite
- South African platinum miners return to work
- Australian government faces parliamentary logjam over austerity budget
- Anti-Chinese campaign backfires on New Zealand Labour Party
- Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys: The story of The Four Seasons on screen
- New York’s Metropolitan Opera demands major givebacks from thousands of employees
- Eli Wallach (1915-2014): Major character actor of stage, screen and television
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
28 June 2014 (front page)
- Ukraine’s EU Association Agreement a prelude to further bloodshed
- One hundred years since Sarajevo
- Kiev deploys fascists against political opponents
- US escalates intervention in Mideast crisis
- Blackwater mercenaries on trial in US court for 2007 Iraq massacre
- Union-sponsored bill to fast track the firing of teachers signed by California governor
- Education “reform” group to file lawsuit against teacher tenure in New York State
- Puerto Rico’s governor seeks to placate bond markets with austerity measures
- SNP presents draft constitution for independent Scotland
- Australia: Western Sydney residents denounce budget assault on health care
- Official Japanese report whitewashes wartime sexual slavery
- “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video” at New York’s Guggenheim Museum
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
30 June 2014 (front page)
- Obama seeks $2 billion to speed up deportation of child immigrants
- Who is responsible for the catastrophes in the Middle East?
- Another global financial crisis in the making, Bank for International Settlements warns
- Regional powers drawn into Iraq civil war
- German politicians, media seek to criminalize opponents of war
- Ukraine’s economic crisis to intensify
- UK journalist threatened with arrest under Terrorism Act for filming protest
- Workers on Detroit water shutoffs: “They are making it so you can’t live”
- How Bill Clinton cashed in after leaving White House
- Pennsylvania budget: Layoffs, cuts to education and pensions
- Maryland governor blocks strike by Johns Hopkins Hospital workers
- German automaker BMW reports record sales, prepares attacks on workers
- Sri Lankan president warns against protests over anti-Muslim attacks
- EU summit in Ypres: National conflicts and militarism
- … And Then You Shoot Your Cousin: The Roots satirize the hip hop world
- Oppose police sabotage of SEP workers’ inquiry in Sri Lanka
- US Supreme Court strikes down abortion clinic “buffer zone”
- This week in history: June 30-July 6
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