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World Socialist Web Site Archive: June 2007

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.

30 June 2007
US: Senate Republicans kill plan to overhaul immigration law
Padilla "terrorism support trial" unravels
Divisions erupt in the French Socialist Party
The new Sarkozy government hosts conference on Darfur
East Timor's election held under shadow of Australian military
Australian government takeover of Aboriginal communities: the real content of the "Children are Sacred" report
US Senate Republicans block union-sponsored bill
German government complicity in CIA abductions: The case of Khaled al-Masri
Italy: Trial of CIA agents deferred until October
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

29 June 2007
US Supreme Court rules school districts cannot consider race in integration plans
White House rebuffs congressional subpoenas, escalating confrontation over attorney purge and domestic spying
US: Northwest Airlines cancels flights amid pilot shortage
North Korea announces shut down of nuclear reactor
Blair leaves office and becomes Bush's "peace envoy": - Sycophancy in parliament and an insult to world opinion
Former EPA head defends US government lies about post-9/11 safety conditions Australian journalist Glenn Milne's "twisted logic" on Northern Territory deployment
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Édith Piaf's life in La Vie en Rose: a modern biopic

28 June 2007
CIA documents point to massive and ongoing government criminality
Decisions on campaign finance, speech and religion - US Supreme Court rulings mark a swing to the right
Iraqi court hands down 22 death sentences in four weeks
Antiwar coalition attempts to prop up Democratic Party: United for Peace and Justice holds conference in Chicago
Germany: The founding of the "Left Party" - Oskar Lafontaine's demagogic clichés
Australian neo-colonialism comes home: The Northern Territory and the Solomon Islands
Britain: Postal workers set for first national strike in 11 years
Sri Lankan government cracks down on protesting farmers

27 June 2007
Two Republican senators attack Bush's "surge" in Iraq
Iraqi general "Chemical Ali" condemned to death
Guantánamo military tribunals exposed by military officer
Australia: Growing opposition to police-military takeover of Aboriginal communities
"The sit-downers did everything they did for nothing" --Flint Delphi worker - UAW moves to ram through massive Delphi concessions
Brussels treaty reveals divisions in the European Union
Canadian Supreme Court ruling in BC hospital dispute - A boost for the union bureaucracy
Sweatshop scandal puts black mark over Beijing Olympics

26 June 2007
White House, Democrats reported in "compromise" talks on Iraqi partition
Doha Round trade talks collapse amid recriminations
Britain: New Labour's right-wing course to continue under Brown
The New York Times has to correct itself again, this time on Iran
Police spy agencies target Australian universities
Northern Ireland: Apparent suicide and destruction of records mark opening of Billy Wright inquiry
Detroit Riverview Hospital to close: "Losing this hospital will devastate this community"
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Damien Hirst's main obsession is wealth, not mortality

25 June 2007
US military prepares Fallujah-style bloodbath in Iraqi city of Baqubah
US auto union accepts massive wage cuts and layoffs in tentative pact with Delphi
The Blackstone IPO: $4 billion payday for private equity bosses
Germany: Union sells out Deutsche Telekom strike--agrees to wage cuts and longer working hours - Vote "no" on the contract!
Bear Stearns organises bailout but concerns remain
US Supreme Court continues pattern of pro-corporate rulings
Sri Lankan unions betray university workers' struggle
Storm wreaks havoc across Australia's Hunter Valley and Central Coast
Report reveals UK youth abandoned by education system
Letters on "Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan's departure from the Democratic Party"

23 June 2007
The secret government of Dick Cheney: US vice president claims to be outside the law
At least 25 Afghan civilians killed in US bomb attack
Australian government imposes military-police regime on Aborigines
CIA to release 1970s documents on agency's crimes
Take Back America conference: Democratic candidates seek "progressive" support
FBI targets universities in new scheme to recruit informers
Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with WSWS - "People are now waking up..."
Britain: Dispatches programme exposes US renditions
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

22 June 2007
Fourteen US troops killed in two days of Iraq fighting
The Iraq orphanage story: US troops "rescue" 24 as thousands remain in the streets
Slave labour scandal erupts in China
Opinion polls provoke bewilderment in lead-up to Australian election
German-Polish conflict dominates EU summit
Bush administration rushes to Pakistani dictator's aid
Lawyers claim British government approved systematic policy of torture in Iraq
Death in Los Angeles hospital exposes social crisis in US
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Steven Soderbergh and Ocean's Thirteen

21 June 2007
An "independent" voice of Wall Street - Billionaire New York mayor may run in US presidential campaign
US: Nine firefighters perish in warehouse fire in Charleston, South Carolina
Religious backwardness trumps science as Bush vetoes stem cell bill
British university teachers' union votes for boycott of Israeli academics
Bear Stearns funds collapse hits subprime securities market
Sri Lankan president's "peace" mask starts to slip off
Thai junta cracks down on ousted prime minister
Twenty-five years since the Malvinas war
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007) - Ex-UN chief's Nazi past covered up

20 June 2007
US military launches massive assault in Iraq
The Gaza crisis and the failure of Palestinian nationalism
Death penalty on the rise in US-occupied Iraq
Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base
Germany: Huge security operation exposed in wake of G8 summit
Washington Post's Richard Cohen offers "liberal" case for Lewis Libby's freedom
Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan's departure from the Democratic Party--Part three
New study documents increasing income inequality in Canada
Australian government's water plan to benefit major agribusinesses

19 June 2007
Setback for Sarkozy in second round of French legislative elections
Former US general confirms high-level knowledge of Abu Ghraib torture
US missile strike kills seven children in Afghanistan
Spate of antidemocratic rulings by US Supreme Court - Right-wing majority consolidated
Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan's departure from the Democratic Party--Part two
Devastating floods hit six Chinese provinces
Australia: report exposes government's foreign "aid" program
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters and a reply on the Kucinich presidential campaign

18 June 2007
US commander warns Iraq war will go on for a decade
US intensifies pressure on Iraqi government to meet "benchmarks"
Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan's departure from the Democratic Party - Part one
Forty years on: The bitter legacy of the 1967 Middle East war
Germany: What does the "Left Party" want to achieve?
An attack on academic freedom - Critic of Zionism denied tenure at US university
US Senate stalls on corporate-driven energy bill
China's "pork crisis": the capitalist market at work

16 June 2007
IAEA chief declares any attack on Iran "an act of madness"
Senator Reid's remarks on US generals prompt right-wing furor
Judge orders former Cheney aide Lewis Libby to begin serving prison sentence
The struggle against war demands a break with the Democratic Party - The ISO and the dead-end of protest politics
Deadly fire kills five children in Pittsburgh home
Britain: Labour's deputy leader challengers present their tarnished wares
Canada: Report on police killing at Ipperwash masks state crimes
US: Education no escape from stagnant wages
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 June 2007
Palestinian president declares emergency after Hamas routs Fatah forces in Gaza
Pentagon admits US "surge" in Iraq has yielded only more carnage
US: New polls reveal mass opposition to Democrats and Republicans
ISSE to hold first meeting in Vienna
Statement of the International Students for Social Equality to the students of the University of Sao Paulo
Critic of warlords murdered in Afghanistan
Heavy fighting continues in the North and East of Sri Lanka
Australia: Why Rudd forced the resignation of union official Dean Mighell
US military officials knew about contaminated water at Marine base
General strike hits South Africa
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

14 June 2007
Democrats subpoena former White House officials in probe of US attorney firings
Four days after the G8 summit - German police raid eleven premises on suspicion of "terrorism"
Iraq on edge following second bombing of Shiite Al-Askariya mosque
Statue unveiling in Washington: - Bush, Democrats resurrect anticommunism in service of US "war on terror"
Conditions worsen at UK asylum-seeker detention centres
Spanish property boom ends amidst share panic
Two Sri Lankan Red Cross workers abducted in central Colombo
Australia: Fatal train accident highlights infrastructure decay
Forbidden Hollywood: three films from Hollywood's pre-Production Code era

13 June 2007
Appellate court slams Bush Administration for holding al-Marri as "enemy combatant"
Bush administration embarks on reckless new tactic in Iraq
Senator Lieberman calls for US military attack on Iran
US leads push for Kosovo independence
German Greens on the road to coalitions with the conservative CDU
Australia: Labor endorses Howard government's "fairness test" fraud
Ousmane Sembène, major figure in African cinema, dead at 84
More letters on the Paris Hilton affair

12 June 2007
French "left" defeated in parliamentary elections
After G8 summit: Conflict between US and Russia intensifies
Senate Democrats fail in slap against Bush attorney general
Sri Lanka: Hundreds of Tamils forcibly expelled from Colombo
Brazil's social and political crisis deepens in Lula's second term
Australia: Financial collapses devastate small investors
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A reply to letters on "The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it"
Letters on the Paris Hilton case

11 June 2007
Top US general ousted in Pentagon shakeup
US: CEO pay climbs to "stratospheric heights"
A socialist perspective to defend Sri Lankan university workers
Hillary Clinton in Detroit: Democrat preaches American nationalism to union bureaucracy
France's asylum procedures condemned by the European Court of Human Rights
Europe's carbon-trading scheme - Corporate bonanza fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Opel strike ends in Poland as GM cuts more jobs in Belgium
Waitress and Mr. Brooks: Somewhere in America...

9 June 2007
G8 summit: Climate compromise masks mounting conflicts
Senate immigration overhaul blocked by Republican right
A victim of "extraordinary rendition" - Trial of CIA agents for abduction of expatriate Egyptian imam opens in Milan
Report details CIA prisons in Europe
The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it
Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria
Iraqi oil workers strike in Basra
India-US nuclear agreement at an impasse
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

8 June 2007
French parliamentary elections: The collapse of the "left"
German high court upholds police ban on G8 summit protest
Pakistan's US-backed dictator lashes out - Repression fails to staunch anti-Musharraf protests
Lawsuit to be filed in federal court - Human rights groups list detainees in secret US prisons
Antiwar US Marine veteran stripped of honorable discharge status
British Army chiefs urge pullout from Iraq within 12 months
Wealth of Australia's super rich up by 26 percent
Argentina: 13 years of pension "reform" boosts profits, impoverishes older workers
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

7 June 2007
Republican presidential candidates back nuclear strike against Iran
Turkish military flexes its muscles in northern Iraq
World Socialist Web Site publishes Chinese translation of ISSE resolution
Anti-G8 demonstration violence in Rostock: questions and contradictions
US Navy bombards Somalia
Testimony by Justice Department official sheds light on White House conspiracy to manipulate elections
"JFK plot": Is Washington trying to open a Caribbean front in war on terror?
Report challenges US claims of Iranian sponsorship of Iraq insurgency
Report to ISSE meeting in Warsaw: Nationalism and internationalism in Poland
ISSE holds successful campaign and meeting in Warsaw, Poland

6 June 2007
Global social, political tensions dominate G8 summit
Military judges dismiss war crimes charges against Guantánamo prisoners
G8 fails to meet aid pledges to Africa
Former Cheney aide sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison
US attacks Venezuela: "press freedom" as a pretext for intervention
US talks of "reconciliation" with Sunni insurgents in Iraq
India's prime minister warns big business of threat of social unrest
Indian industrialist to build $1 billion "home" amidst Mumbai's multimillion slumdwellers
ISSE meetings held in Australia and New Zealand
Knocked Up and a certain generation's "family values"

5 June 2007
Democrats pose as Iraq war opponents in New Hampshire debate
The JFK "plot": another grossly inflated threat
First days of June claim 17 more US soldiers in Iraq
Bush denounces detention of US-Iranian citizens
As Bush administration prepares to issue new guidelines for CIA interrogation - New admissions of widespread prisoner abuse
Humanitarian disaster looms as Lebanese attack on Palestinian camp continues
Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks incarcerated in high-security Australian jail
Detroit town hall meeting on impeachment provides political cover for the Democratic Party
Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 June 2007
On eve of G8 summit - Tensions between US and Russia erupt in mutual recriminations
Germany: Police use massive force against G8 demonstrators in Rostock
South Africa: Public sector workers strike demands pay increase
New wave of political arrests in Bangladesh
Turkey: Political allies of military move to unseat moderate Islamist government
Nigeria brings criminal charges against Pfizer over 1996 drug test
Another threat to democratic rights - Australia: protesters face jail for opposing spy base's role in Iraq war
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Spider-Man 3 - The dilemma of blockbuster filmmaking

2 June 2007
Lebanese military resumes shelling of Palestinian camp
As May death toll of US soldiers hits 124 - Bush administration calls for permanent US military presence in Iraq
US antiwar protest groups silent on Cindy Sheehan's resignation from Democratic Party
The G8 summit and the Left Party of Germany
US: Dell, Motorola, IBM announce new job cuts
The US media "discovers" Pakistan's Musharraf is a dictator--why now?
France: Guy Môquet, Sarkozy and the Stalinist school of falsification
Fianna Fail wins Irish election
Australia: Former PM Whitlam testifies on 1975 murder of "Balibo Five" journalists
Brazilian cane cutter died from working 70 days without break
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

1 June 2007
Tens of thousands to protest on eve of G8 summit - Fight against war and social reaction requires a socialist strategy
The Bush administration's new "model" in Iraq's Anbar province
As part of CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program
Boeing subsidiary accused of profiting from torture
Michigan Democrats, Republicans agree on deep cuts Massive deficit still looms
Protests in China over the one child policy
Mexico: Calderon uses drug violence as pretext for militarizing society
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Fallujah: Sympathy alone is not enough

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