4 November 2009
Workers’ wages to fall further, International Labour Organization warns
By Barry Grey, 4 November 2009
The International Labour Organization (ILO) warned Tuesday that global growth in workers’ real wages, which fell sharply in 2008, will decline even more in 2009, despite what is being touted by governments around the world as an economic recovery.
Japan’s new government seeks to refashion US alliance
By John Chan, 4 November 2009
In the lead-up to US President Barack Obama’s first visit to Japan, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has signalled that his government is wanting to readjust the country’s longstanding alliance with the US.
Australia: Latest refugee deaths—the Rudd government’s SIEV X
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 4 November 2009
The tragic drowning of 12 Sri Lankan Tamils northwest of the Cocos Islands on Sunday is another grim reminder that the election of the Rudd Labor government in November 2007 has changed nothing for refugees and asylum seekers.
FBI knew of CIA torture, considered prosecution
By Tom Eley, 4 November 2009
FBI agents witnessed torture at CIA prisons in 2002, new documents released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal.
US executives’ pensions soar in value
More Americans have to work past 65
By David Walsh, 4 November 2009
Workers in the US are increasingly giving up on the idea of retiring at 65, or even 67, while top CEOs are planning to quit their positions and live like royalty.
Scotland: Growing calls for tuition fees as universities face funding crisis
By Jordan Shilton, 4 November 2009
The higher education sector in Scotland is facing hundreds of job cuts, as universities declare they are facing a funding crisis.
Julian Moti defence counsel attacks Australian government’s “politically driven prosecution”
By Patrick O’Connor, 4 November 2009
In Queensland’s Supreme Court, defence counsel for former Solomon Islands’ attorney general Julian Moti condemned Australian authorities for “bringing the administration of justice into disrepute”.
Michigan woman dies after Medicaid dental care is cut
By Hiram Lee, 4 November 2009
A Michigan woman died from a severe dental infection after adult dental Medicaid benefits were cut in the state.
New in German
Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg: Der neue Kriegsminister
Von Ulrich Rippert, 4. November 2009
Die Tatsache, dass der neue Verteidigungsminister auf die 800-jährige Tradition einer deutschen Adelsfamilie zurückblickt, spielt keine unerhebliche Rolle bei seiner Popularität im Offizierscorps.
Die Bedeutung von Europas "Kurswechsel" in Afghanistan
Von Chris Marsden, 4. November 2009
Die Europäische Union hat einen Aktionsplan für Afghanistan und Pakistan beschlossen, um den neokolonialen Krieg in dieser Region zu unterstützen.
Amerikanische Fordarbeiter stimmen gegen Lohnsenkung mit "Nein"
Von Joe Kishore, 4. November 2009
Die Fordarbeiter in den USA haben mit großer Mehrheit gegen die Annahme des Tarifvertrags gestimmt, den die UAW mit dem Unternehmen ausgehandelt hatte. Er hätte Einbußen bei Löhnen und Arbeitsbedingungen sowie Entlassungen und Neueinstellung zu Niedriglöhnen bedeutet.
20 Jahre seit dem
Mauerfall
Der Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter und das Ende der
DDR
4. November 2009
Am 4. November 1989 fand in Ost-Berlin die größte Demonstration in der Geschichte der DDR statt. Der BSA vertrat als einzige politische Strömung ein Programm, das die Opposition gegen den Stalinismus mit einer internationalen sozialistischen Perspektive verband.
Perspective
One year since the election of Barack Obama
4 November 2009
One year ago today, on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the US presidential election in what was, for all practical purposes, a political rout.
This Week in History: November 2-9
In the wake of the assassination of Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984, pogroms targeting the religious minority kill 3,000 and leave tens of thousands more homeless. Most of the violence takes place in Delhi.
On November 7, 1959, the nationwide steel strike involving 500,000 workers comes to end on its 116th day after the US Supreme Court upholds by an eight-to-one margin President Eisenhower's invocation of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the US president to end strikes if he declares that they threaten a national emergency.
The Democratic Party increases sizable majorities in both houses of Congress in the 1934 off-year elections. The result indicates popular support for government intervention to create jobs in the midst of the Great Depression, policies associated with the “New Deal” reformist measures proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt.
In an address to the Academy of American Political and Social Sciences in Philadelphia on November 6, 1909, Germany’s ambassador to the US attempts to reassure Washington that Germany’s rise to world power will not necessarily lead to war.
Workers Struggles
Transit workers strike in Philadelphia
By Bill Van Auken, 4 November 2009
More than 5,000 Philadelphia transit workers struck early Tuesday morning over wages and benefits. The action was denounced by Democratic officials, who invoked the economic crisis and rising unemployment in demanding that the workers settle for less.
Video: Ford workers speak on contract rejection
4 November 2009
The WSWS spoke to workers at the Ford Dearborn Truck plant in Michigan on the rejection of contract revisions backed by the company and the UAW.
The “No” vote at Ford
2 November 2009
The decisive vote by Ford workers against contract concessions backed by the UAW is a major advance for the working class internationally.
Book Review
The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions:
Part 2
A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
By Alexander Fangmann, 4 November 2009
Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. The volumes of the Cambridge Companion series contain collections of essays by scholars working on a particular philosopher or subject area.
History
European Trotskyists mark seventieth anniversary of World War II
Whole families were forced into exile due to their anti-Nazism
By Françoise Thull, 4 November 2009
On October 11 in London, the European sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International held a joint meeting on the lessons of the Second World War. We publish here the remarks made by Françoise Thull, a member of the Socialist Equality Party in Germany (Partei Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, PSG), who spoke on the experiences of her family in France during that period.
Political Commentary
Australian imperialism, the 1999 East Timor intervention and the pseudo-left
By Patrick O’Connor, 2 November 2009
September marked the tenth anniversary of the Australian-led military intervention into East Timor. It is also a decade since a layer of pseudo “left” groups organised “troops in” demonstrations—performing a vital service for the Howard government and the Australian ruling elite.
Arts Review
The postwar novelist in regression: Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
By Andras Gyorgy, 3 November 2009
As we approach the second anniversary of American novelist Norman Mailer’s death, there appear more and more articles assessing his work over a lifetime. They mention only in passing, usually without comment, that Mailer was a socialist once.
Videos and Images
Ford workers speak out against concessions contract
50,000 line up for housing assistance in Detroit
ISSE members speak on education cuts at rally
Detroit residents speak on utility bills, social crisis
Michigan’s Oakland University faculty strike has student support
Detroit teachers denounce pay cuts
Detroit city workers oppose concessions, layoffs
Interviews at Los Angeles health care clinic
Workers continue Vestas occupation on Isle of Wight
A conversation with Windsor municipal workers
NYC workers speak against cuts in social services
Flint, Michigan and the bankruptcy of General Motors
GM workers on bankruptcy and plant closings
Michigan auto workers and families speak on plant closures
GM workers speak out on concessions contract
Protesting students and parents speak to the WSWS
Chrysler workers speak on concessions vote
UK Visteon workers speak on occupation
GM and Chrysler workers oppose more concessions
Chrysler workers oppose Obama auto plan
WSWS interviews G20 protesters in London
Pontiac residents speak on schools crisis
Workers interviewed at Detroit jobs fair
Ford workers: “Now the fight is with our own union.”
GM workers denounce concession demands 
Chrysler workers oppose pay cuts, concession demands
Over 100,000 demonstrate in London against Sri Lankan war
Funeral for Michigan man frozen following utility shut-off
Exposing Franco's mass graves
Bay City, Michigan residents speak on death from utility shut-off
WSWS interviews London protesters
London demonstrators protest Israeli assault on Gaza
Chrysler workers denounce pay cuts
The Writer and Revolution: A conversation with Trevor Griffiths
Other Languages
- Deutsch
- Obamas Besuch in China (21.11.2009)
- Obama verhindert Abkommen zum Klimaschutz (21.11.2009)
- Der australische Imperialismus, die Intervention in Osttimor im Jahr 1999 und die so genannte "Linke" (21.11.2009)
- Krebs und Klassengesellschaft (20.11.2009)
- Schwarz-Gelb nimmt Kurs auf sozialen Kahlschlag (20.11.2009)
- Der amerikanisch-chinesische Gipfel beleuchtet scharfe Gegensätze (19.11.2009)
- Großbritannien: Der Cambridge-Report (19.11.2009)
Eine vernichtende Widerlegung der Lügen Labours über den Zustand des Bildungswesens - PSG-Veranstaltung in Leipzig
Zwanzig Jahre seit dem Mauerfall (19.11.2009) - Schüler und Studenten protestieren in ganz Deutschland (18.11.2009)
- BBC-Umfrage enthüllt weit verbreitete Unzufriedenheit mit dem Kapitalismus (18.11.2009)
- Français
- Pour un mouvement indépendant de la classe ouvrière pour la défense de l’éducation (23.11.2009)
- De tragédies à propagande pour la guerre (21.11.2009)
- La chute du Mur de Berlin (20.11.2009)
- France : les affaires que le procès Clearstream tente de passer sous silence (19.11.2009)
- Le procès Clearstream : un conflit au sein de la bourgeoisie française (18.11.2009)
- Vingt ans depuis la chute du Mur de Berlin
Déclaration du Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, 18 octobre 1989 Troisième partie (18.11.2009) - Deuxième Conférence de l’université d’été 2007 du SEP (USA)
« Le socialisme dans un seul pays » et les débats sur l'économie soviétique des années 1920 — Deuxième partie (17.11.2009) - Deuxième conférence de l’université d’été 2007 du SEP (USA)
« Le socialisme dans un seul pays » et les débats sur l'économie soviétique des années 1920 — Première partie (16.11.2009)
- Español
- La respuesta socialista al desempleo y la pobreza (26.10.2009)
- Capitalism: A Love Story, de Michael Moore (22.10.2009)
- Huelga general en Puerto Rico contra los despidos en masa (19.10.2009)
- La devaluación del dólar y la clase trabajadora (19.10.2009)
- El Premio Nobel de la Guerra (17.10.2009)
- A un año del colapso de Lehman Brothers (12.10.2009)
- Se le niega fianza a Roman Polanski mientras la prensa sigue con la histeria (09.10.2009)
- Únanse a los Estudiantes Internacionales por la Igualdad Social (EIIS)
Establecer clubes del EIIS en las universidades y las escuelas o liceos (07.10.2009) - Lecciones para la clase trabajadora sesenta años después de la Revolución China (06.10.2009)
- Sindicatos españoles y el gobierno del PSOE preparan medidas de austeridad (06.10.2009)
- El director Roman Polanski enfrenta meses de cárcel en Suiza (02.10.2009)
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- Нобелевская премия войны (14.10.2009)
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- Экономический кризис и геополитическое соперничество определяют ход избирательной кампании на Украине (02.10.2009)
- Историческое поражение социал-демократов на всеобщих выборах в Германии (29.09.2009)
- В защиту исторической правды: Партия расстрелянных Вадима Роговина (18.09.2009)
- Исторический упадок Либерально-демократической партии Японии (15.09.2009)
- 70 лет пакту Гитлера-Сталина (09.09.2009)
- Документы учредительного съезда ПСР: Заявление о принципах (26.08.2009)
- Português
- Recuperação especulativa prepara catástrofe econômica ainda maior (17.11.2009)
- Seção pablista da Austrália prepara dissolução similar à da LCR (17.11.2009)
- Após trabalhadores derrotarem sindicato conciliador
Ford dos EUA relata US$ 1 bilhão em lucros no terceiro trimestre (11.11.2009) - Um ano desde a eleição de Barack Obama (10.11.2009)
- Taxa oficial de desemprego nos EUA atinge o maior nível em 26 anos (10.11.2009)
- A reforma financeira (burguesa) de Obama (05.11.2009)
- Carteiros britânicos realizam greve nacional (05.11.2009)
- Washington pressiona por acordo com golpistas em Honduras (03.11.2009)
- Irã faz concessão significativa para desarmar acordo nuclear (03.11.2009)
- Honduras: estariam os EUA apoiando a eleição do "estado de sítio"? (28.10.2009)
- Pressão dos EUA cresce nas negociações com o Irã em Viena (20.10.2009)
- A Desvalorização do dólar e a classe trabalhadora (20.10.2009)
- Türkçe
- SEP (Almanya) yürütmekte olduğu seçim kampanyası için uluslararası destek çağrısı yapıyor (17.09.2009)
- Alman parlamento seçimlerinde oyunu Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi’ne ver
Kapitalist krize sosyalist bir yanıt için (28.08.2009) - Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi’nin Tarihsel ve Uluslararası Temelleri (19.08.2009)
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- İran: Batı baskıyı artırırken seçim çatışmaları tırmanıyor (30.06.2009)
- Obama’nın ziyareti Türkiye’nin oynadığı rolün artacağının ve daha büyük gerilimlerin sinyalini verdi (26.06.2009)
- Trotskiy’in mirasını ve 20. yüzyıl tarihindeki yerini yeniden ele almaya doğru (23.06.2009)
David North tarafından verilmiş bir konferans - Dünya ekonomik krizi, kapitalizmin başarısızlığı ve sosyalizmin gerekliliği (13.06.2009)
- Sri Lanka: LTTE’nin yenilgisi ve milliyetçiliğin çıkmazı (26.05.2009)
- Paris'te yapılan toplantı Sri Lanka'daki savaşı sona erdirmek için sosyalist bir program öne sürdü (19.05.2009)
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