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World Socialist Web Site Archive: March 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.

31 March 2007
Guantánamo prisoner charges confession extracted through torture
Guantánamo's kangaroo court convicts Australian David Hicks
Sri Lankan SEP holds media conference over disappearance of party member
Presidential elections in France: The nationalism of the Workers Party
Britain: Multimillionaire warns poverty threatens "violent reactions"--but don't tax the rich!
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
History cut off at the pass: Zach Snyder's 300

30 March 2007
Bush vilifies Democrats, vows veto of Iraq war funding bill
Sri Lanka: SEP public meeting to demand inquiry into party member's disappearance
Ex-aide contradicts Attorney General Gonzales on US attorney firings
As French presidential elections approach - Massive police mobilisation in central Paris
Iraq: US occupation sets off sectarian atrocities in Tal Afar
2005 US income figures: top 10 percent had largest share of national wealth since 1928
Welsh Assembly elections: Burberry closes its Treorchy plant in area blighted by unemployment
US: Circuit City fires 3,400 better-paid store workers
EU celebrations in Berlin - Germany pushes for great power politics behind a European facade
China passes private property law for capitalist elite
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

29 March 2007
Britain heightens confrontation with Iran over detained sailors
Memorial meeting planned in Paris for Comrade Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
Hundreds attend funeral of Senthil Ravee
The anti-democratic agenda behind the US attorney firings
After seven months
Sri Lankan authorities fail to investigate murder of SEP supporter
Pat Tillman's family speaks out against latest whitewash of "friendly fire" killing in Afghanistan - "Human beings continue to be sacrificed on the altar of a dual military occupation"
Russian trans-Balkan pipeline to skirt Turkey
Zimbabwe: Resistance to Mugabe's rule deepens
Britain: What is revealed by Labour's leadership contest?
57th Berlin Film Festival--Part 2 - Some rumblings in German film

28 March 2007
David Hicks bullied into guilty plea at Guantánamo kangaroo court
Sri Lankan defence ministry stalls on inquiry into missing SEP member
US Senate votes $122 billion in war funding while suggesting withdrawal "goal"
British government scientists vouched for validity of study estimating 655,000 war deaths in Iraq
New York police conducted massive international spying on anti-Bush demonstrators
Elizabeth Edwards' cancer and the remorselessness of US political life
Quebec elections: Right-wing populist ADQ benefits from mass disaffection with establishment
US auto executives grant themselves millions in bonuses
New Zealand prime minister ingratiates herself with Bush White House
IMF and Turkish government agree to new attacks on workers

27 March 2007
Election manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain
Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
Attack on major Sri Lankan airforce base as civil war continues to escalate
WSWS interviews NSW voters - Anger, resentment and discontent in Australian state election
CIA document links Colombian army chief to right-wing "terrorists"
Redistribution from the bottom to the top - German parliament cuts corporate taxes
Former government lawyer describes Bush administration meddling in landmark tobacco suit
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letter from an Israeli reader on the recent strike in Israel

26 March 2007
UN agrees to new Iran sanctions as military tensions mount in Gulf
Sri Lankan SEP demands urgent inquiry into disappearance of party member
NSW election: Labor government returned despite popular disaffection
Quebec state yields to right-wing provocation on eve of provincial election - A warning to workers
Parti Quebecois stumbles through Quebec election campaign
New documents expose White House, Justice Department lies in firing of US attorneys
Federal judge rules terrorism trial against Jose Padilla to proceed
Letters from our readers

24 March 2007
Democrats pass "anti-war" bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Australia: Why you should vote for the SEP in the New South Wales election
New South Wales March 24 election: - How to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
A tale of two cases in US "war on terror": Jose Padilla and Chiquita Brands
Political prisoner Sami Al-Arian's hunger strike enters third month
The Madrid bombing trial: what has been revealed so far
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler

23 March 2007
The US attorneys "showdown"--Democrats seek to evade a confrontation
In wake of West Bengal massacre: Indian workers must advance an independent socialist programme
Australia: Why you should vote for the SEP in the New South Wales election
Australia: Newcastle newspaper distorts SEP's position on law and order
Australian Greens election campaign: silence on the Iraq war and a grubby deal with Labor
Joschka Fischer calls for European great power politics under German leadership
Canadian abuse of Afghan POWs - Harper smears his critics as pro-Taliban
Japan-Australia security declaration strengthens US encirclement of China
Britain: Brown delivers a budget for the rich that penalizes the poor
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

22 March 2007
Bush administration steps up economic pressure on Iran
Proposed new powers for bailiffs in Britain: an attack on the poor and indebted
Bush's "aid" to Latin America mirrors national programs to mask oppression
New South Wales March 24 election: - How to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Australian SEP election campaign wins appreciative response
Congressional hearings detail political tampering in US climate research
The Forbes list of billionaires - Wealth piles up for the German elite

21 March 2007
Iraq: Protests against US operations in Sadr City
Russia: Deadliest mining disaster in 60 years claims 107 lives
Dispute over US missile plan - German foreign minister warns against return to the Cold War
Jerusalem and Washington bring Palestinians to the brink of starvation
Turkey: Kurdish nationalists and left groups move towards electoral bloc
Australian government condemns Tamil refugees to years of incarceration
Hundreds of thousands hit by anti-immigrant measure - US: Medicaid recipients denied benefits under proof of citizenship law
A demonstration against the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR)

20 March 2007
The human costs of four years of war - The US invasion has caused nearly three-quarter million Iraqi deaths
An appeal to WSWS readers: Attend the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
Rome: Thousands demonstrate against US war policy and the Prodi government - Rifondazione Comunista boycotts protest
New Zealand government announces extension of Afghanistan military operations
Australia: The true face of the "war on terror" - Anti-terror police raid homes of Sydney University students
SEP demands immediate release of Australian citizen David Hicks from Guantánamo
A lesson from history regarding Mr. Blair - Edward Pearce's The Great Man, Sir Robert Walpole
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

19 March 2007
Protests mount against Musharraf attempt to sack Pakistan's chief justice
Nandigram massacre
Leading Indian intellectuals condemn West Bengal's Stalinist-led government
Day of action in Hamburg - Airbus union leaders turn rally over to right-wing politicians
US antiwar demonstrations mark four years since Iraq invasion
Another damning admission from the New York Times: whitewashing Iraq war
NSW (Australia) election: - SEP candidates address Sydney election meeting
Nick Beams outlines socialist perspective to fight war and militarism
Sri Lankan defence ministry extends police state moves
Homeless in the US: Underfunded and brutalized
Three New York City cops indicted in last year's killing of unarmed Queens man

17 March 2007
If elected, Hillary Clinton vows to keep US troops in Iraq
Planned US missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic intensify European tensions
French elections--Olivier Besancenot: "I was never a Trotskyist"
Australia: SEP candidate Noel Holt raises vital issues at Newcastle business forum
US auto union prepares to hand over massive concessions
Assam, India: Separatists' killing of migrants provides pretext for continuing state repression
"But the Emperor has no clothes!" - French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies in Paris
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Ghosts--a harrowing and honest depiction of modern slavery
Letters from our readers

16 March 2007
Washington exploits Guantánamo "confession" to justify its crimes
The Bush administration manoeuvres to unseat Iraqi government
Condolences on the death of Comrade Senthil from the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
A visit to the Airbus factory in Méaulte, France - Workers reject nationalism of the trade unions
Eric Hobsbawm on the Spanish Civil War: an anti-historical tirade
West Bengal Stalinist regime perpetrates peasant massacre
The significance of the World Court ruling on genocide in Bosnia
Australian state election: Major parties ignore public school decay
Mass outpouring of support for victims of New York City fire
Under pressure from investors, Thai junta continues to back pedal on economic policy
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

15 March 2007
Demands mount for Gonzales's resignation over US attorneys purge
Condolences on the death of Comrade Senthil from the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka
Soldiers, families speak at Walter Reed public hearing - Government indifference, cost-cutting compound ravages of war for wounded US troops
Presidential election contest in France: Panic grips the Socialist Party
Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French nation
Stop the carve-up of Chrysler! For workers' control and public ownership of the auto industry!
Germany to deploy Tornado jet fighters to Afghanistan
India's burgeoning ambitions in space
Science, religion and society: Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion

14 March 2007
Big fall on Wall Street as mortgage debt problems grow
Democrats drop demand that Bush seek approval for war on Iran
Targetting Tehran: the case of the missing Iranian general
Southern Poverty Law Center report - Slave labor conditions under US guestworker program
US Joint Chiefs chairman declares homosexuality "immoral"
UN rapporteur says Israel's occupation of Palestine resembles apartheid
24, torture and prime-time US television
Quebec elections 2007: Quebec Federation of Labour officially backs Parti Québécois
Australia: Labor and Liberal plan NSW public sector job cuts

13 March 2007
Demands additional 8,200 troops, $3.2 billion - Bush calls Democrats bluff on war funding resolution
Right-wing furor demanding pardon for convicted Cheney aide
Mass strike movement in Guinea
Australian troops escalate repression in East Timor
Australia: "Brian Burke affair" reveals decay of establishment parties
Deutsche Telekom to outsource 55,000 jobs - Increased working hours and wage cuts
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Black Snake Moan and Zodiac: No diamonds in the rough

12 March 2007
No easing of US-Iranian tensions after Baghdad conference
A revealing encounter in the halls of Congress - Leading Democrat denounces "idiot liberals" for demanding cutoff of war funds
FBI conducted illegal spying on tens of thousands
Detention of three leftists by Sri Lankan government signals new round of state repression
Grief, shock and anger over New York fire that killed 10
New Yorkers speak out about Bronx House Fire: - "It's like the devil is running the country."
Blair's offensive against welfare - Government by the rich, for the rich
Turkey: depressed prices sparking farmers protests

10 March 2007
US military begins operations in Baghdad's Sadr City
15,000 take to streets of Sao Paulo against Bush, as protest leaders defend Lula
Walter Reed scandal lifts lid on neglect of wounded US troops
Under pressure from Washington, IAEA votes to penalise Iran
New York Times promotes "escape" to Israel
Forbes 2007 list: Nearly one thousand billionaires in the world, a misfortune for humanity
London: The rich get so much richer under Blair
Germany: New university tuition fees threaten students with poverty
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler

9 March 2007
Democrats "withdrawal" plan paves way to escalation of Iraq war
Press barred from Guantánamo hearings
Vermont towns vote for Bush-Cheney impeachment
Iraq war resister convicted in Germany - Increasing numbers of US soldiers refuse to serve in Iraq
The NSW state elections and the climate change debate
New York City fire tragedy kills eight children, one adult
More than 300 seized in Massachusetts immigration raid
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
An exchange of letters on the role of religion in the US

8 March 2007
An answer to the attacks launched by Airbus
France: Thousands of Airbus workers strike and demonstrate in defence of jobs
ISSE/SEP meetings on the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq - Iraq, Iran and the eruption of American militarism
Inaugural ISSE meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
World Socialist Web Site publishes antiwar statement in Farsi
Australia: Damning report on IR laws' impact on wages and conditions
British Army used under-18-year-old soldiers in Iraq occupation
Germany: Release of ex-Red Army Faction terrorists sparks hysterical debate
Allies in imposing misery and reaction - Bush and Lula meet to discuss biofuel deal
China boosts military spending: signs of a US-fuelled arms race
Letters from our readers
An exchange on Amazing Grace and the British slave trade

7 March 2007
Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee - October 12, 1969-February 28, 2007
Washington jury convicts top Cheney aide of four felonies
Bush mouths support for "social justice" while asserting US interests in Latin America
Victim of 1974 frame-up in Louisiana - Renewed calls for the freedom of Gary Tyler
Australian government declares it owes no legal duty to Guantánamo detainee David Hicks
International Students for Social Equality - Australia: ISSE holds meetings at New South Wales campuses
Former Japanese PM advises unpopular Abe to ignore public opinion
Antiwar forum in Berlin: silence on role of US Democrats in Iraq war
One-quarter or one-third of an understanding: Breaking and Entering; not much of anything: Breach

6 March 2007
Wall Street drools over prospect of capturing Iraq oil wealth
The March 26 Quebec elections and the Canadian elite's turn to the right
Australia: SEP public meetings launch NSW state election campaign
Socialism and the struggle against US militarism
New Zealand's Labour-led government loses parliamentary majority
Fijian military junta imposes austerity budget
Los Angeles hospitals investigated for "dumping" homeless patients
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

5 March 2007
Highway massacre sparks anti-US protests in Afghanistan
Iranian president's Saudi Arabian visit fails to lessen tensions
Thai junta's "reconciliation" fails to stem separatist insurgency
Food industry implicated in Britain's bird flu outbreak
US severe poverty highest in three decades
57th Berlin Film Festival--Part 1 - Stumbling over political and historical themes

3 March 2007
Army Secretary resigns, soldiers gagged - Washington tries to quash scandal over neglect of wounded troops
Prominent French intellectuals rally to presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy
Sri Lankan government exploits attack on foreign delegation to intensify war
NSW state election campaign: - Morris Iemma, Bob Carr and the "war on terror"
India's Congress Party suffers major election reversals
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

2 March 2007
US to join Iran at international talks: another round of threats and ultimatums
Campaign builds for ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
Wild swings on Wall Street
Two East Timorese protestors killed by Australian troops
Italian Pabloites back Prime Minister Prodi in Senate confidence vote
Judge rules Jose Padilla competent for trial
The JetBlue fiasco: Private profit vs. the public interest
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the struggle to end the British slave trade

1 March 2007
Airbus workers in France, Germany strike against massive job cuts
ISSE meeting in Richmond, Virginia: "Iraq, Iran and the eruption of American militarism"
A third Renault worker commits suicide in France
Cheney huddles with Musharraf and Karzai - US faces mounting crisis in Afghanistan
US soldiers detain prominent Iraqi ally: a warning to governing parties to toe the line
Britain: Blair seeks to deepen military alliance with Washington
Fiji: Pacific Islands Forum report urges coup leader to stand aside
New Zealand prime minister "abstains" over Iraq occupation

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