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World Socialist Web Site Archive: March 2008

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 2008
Repeated US air strikes in Basra and Baghdad
Sarkozy strives to establish French-British axis
American Axle moves to hire strikebreakers
Britain: As Basra burns, Iraq inquiry call supported by just 12 Labour MPs
Charges dropped against third Marine in Haditha massacre case
Behind the California nurses' strike: putting profits ahead of patient needs
Australia: Murdoch-sponsored conference outlines "new agenda" for Rudd government
ISSE meeting at Wayne State University in Detroit - Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
Writer David Mamet: Man overboard

29 March 2008
The sieges of Basra and Sadr City: another US war crime in Iraq
Presidential candidates speak on housing and credit crises - Clinton, Obama, McCain defer to Wall Street
Global food prices rise and famine increases
US: Death sentence postponed for Mumia Abu-Jamal
American Axle CEO Richard Dauch and the "right" of private property
American Axle strikers in Detroit respond to plant closing threats
India: Stalinist CPM's triennial meeting to reiterate support for Congress Party-led government
Philippine president accused of "treason" over Spratlys deal with China
US: Returning veterans face mounting joblessness and low wages
ISSE meeting at Wayne State University in Detroit - Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Snow Angels: Unnecessarily slight insight into a dreary world
Letters from our readers

28 March 2008
Iraqi government offensive in Basra threatens to trigger Shiite uprising
US shipped fuses for nuclear-armed missiles to Taiwan
Why the Clintons' profiting off near-slavery is not a campaign issue
Strike wave continues in Greece
Ecuador: deepening crisis, floods trigger surge of inflation
Australia: Federal and NT Labor governments expand punitive measures in Aboriginal communities
Sri Lankan government deploys military to suppress striking television workers
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
More Funny Games from Michael Haneke

27 March 2008
US-Pakistan ties fray, as Washington seeks to bully new government
$10 million for American Axle CEO - Richard Dauch and the aristocratic principle in America
US: Hundreds of aging American Airlines planes grounded for inspection
The Kuomintang returns to power in Taiwan
Washington again forecasts ruin for Medicare and Social Security
Boeing challenges refueling contract to Airbus
Australia: National Union of Students promotes illusions in new Labor government
Britain: Police want children routinely put on DNA database
Canada: Kingston, Ontario, ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
Letters from our readers

26 March 2008
Cheney's tour of Middle East raises tensions with Iran
US Supreme Court rejects international law, ruling against Mexicans on death row
Iraqi regime launches assault on Basra
Social inequality leads to gap in US life expectancy
Brown government promotes patriotism and militarism
Home prices, consumer confidence plunge in US
Ex-SLA member Sara Jane Olson returned to prison
Blackwater abandons plans for California training camp
Australia: Haneef inquiry seeks to "restore confidence" in terror laws
Canada: Kingston, Ontario, ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
Letter from a Brazilian teacher - The same demands, on the other side of the world

25 March 2008
White House signals continued Iraq escalation as US death toll tops 4,000
Detroit mayor charged on eight criminal counts
Former Australian prime minister feted by US Republican right
Strike against wage cutting completes first month - Pay for American Axle CEO rises to $10.2 million
Germany: Turkish youth dies in police custody
Britain: Labour makes massive cuts in higher education
New York's premier library to be renamed for billionaire Wall Street speculator
Paris meeting commemorates the life and work of Keerthi Balasuriya
Sri Lankan ISSE meeting to demand release of jailed Iranian students
ISSE in US supports Sri Lankan demonstration
ISSE meetings in US - Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
Workers Struggles: The Americas
The Kite Runner: the Afghan tragedy goes unexplained
Letters from our readers

24 March 2008
US military deaths in Iraq reach 4,000 - Eight US soldiers and dozens of Iraqis killed in weekend violence
NY Times article questions official explanation of sex probe that forced New York governor to resign
Young Guantánamo detainee details abuse
US steps in to prevent collapse of gas pipeline project - Nabucco pipeline bypasses Russia
New Zealand economy sliding into recession
Taxi to the Dark Side: Murder of young Afghan driver exposes US torture policies
“It was grueling subject matter and seemed unending” - Documentary producer Eva Orner speaks with WSWS

22 March 2008
US financial crisis fuels social unrest - Workers protest rising prices in UAE, Egypt
Bush administration illegally examined Obama passport file
Bush, McCain "gaffes" on Iran echo Iraq war lies
Recessionary trends deepen, sparking gyrations on stock, commodities markets
Germany: The shrinking middle class and the rise of inequality
Canada's Liberals support war and social reaction
Australia: teachers continue strike action against Victorian Labor government
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
American painter Edward Hopper in Chicago

21 March 2008
Cheney's "peace" trip to Middle East prepares new wars
Britain: ISSE holds meetings on the fifth anniversary of Iraq war
Relations with China dominate Taiwanese presidential election
Alan Thornett's denunciation of Trotskyism - Part two
American Axle strikers in Detroit determined to halt wage-cutting
Housing stress at record levels in Australia
Interviews with Australian homebuyers - “We have a house, but we are very poor”
Widespread flooding hits the US Midwest
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
A letter on the "Cool/Cruel Britannia" trend
Letters from our readers

20 March 2008
On Iraq war's fifth anniversary, Bush says US troops must stay
Alan Thornett's denunciation of Trotskyism - Part one
Race, class and the politics of the Obama campaign
Mobilize auto workers behind the American Axle strike
Asian economies hit by US financial crisis and slowdown
Verdi trade union prepares sell-out of Berlin transport strike
The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
SEP-ISSE public meeting in Sydney on April 9 - Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
Nuance and depth needed: Persepolis

19 March 2008
Five years after the invasion of Iraq: A debacle for US imperialism
Iraq: a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic dimensions
In the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse - US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates again
Another US strike inside Pakistan's border region
China cracks down on Tibetan protests
The "White Season": The British Broadcasting Corporation's Pim Fortuyn moment
CIA transfers another detainee from secret prison system to Guantánamo
In Bruges

18 March 2008
Shades of 1929: Bear Stearns collapse signals deepest crisis since Great Depression
French local elections reveal discrediting of political establishment
Outcome of Iranian election points to simmering popular discontent
In face of New York City school cuts: a new strategy needed to defend public education
GDL union completes sell-out of German train drivers' struggle
British mercenary confesses role in Equatorial Guinea coup plot
US truck drivers squeezed by soaring diesel prices
Canada: Montreal ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Two new "cover albums": Shelby Lynne's Just a Little Lovin' and Cat Power's Jukebox

17 March 2008
After the Bear Stearns bailout: Fears of more Wall Street failures
Clashes and tensions in southern Iraq
New York City crane collapse kills at least four
Italy: parties shift to the right as election campaign begins
Brazil's ruling Workers Party pays homage to Pierre Lambert for services rendered
France: LCR leader Daniel Bensaïd reassures Socialist Party of his collaboration
Despite a nervous "backflip", Australian government plans deep welfare cuts
Rising costs throw Chinese manufacturing into crisis
Letters on the American Axle strike

15 March 2008
Fed rescue of Bear Stearns raises specter of Depression-era crash
House Democrats pass new spy bill without telecom immunity
Police arrest auto workers on American Axle picket line in Detroit
On the 20th anniversary of his death - SEP general secretary pays tribute to Keerthi Balasuriya
India: Congress Party delivers "populist" budget with a view to coming elections
After severe winter, floods threaten Afghanistan and Central Asia
Iran, Pakistan to hold pricing talks on gas pipeline
London Mayoral elections: Labour's neo-cons and the left apologists for Ken Livingstone--Part Two
Canada: Montreal ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 March 2008
Democratic Party divisions deepen as Obama parades military support
Gold and oil prices soar, dollar slumps, Carlyle Group fund collapses
American Axle workers in Detroit discuss political issues in strike
Left Party attacks striking transport workers in Berlin
Iranians vote amid concern about US aggression and falling living standards
Sri Lanka: ISSE demonstration demands the release of jailed Iranian students
"I've been tortured. I'm a human being. I have not violated any law" - Guantánamo prisoner refuses to cooperate with military show trial
London Mayoral elections: Labour's neo-cons and the left apologists for Ken Livingstone
Australia: Rudd government rejects emission targets in official climate change report
Afghan medical workers' strike called off
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

13 March 2008
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer forced to resign in sex scandal
Top US commander in Middle East quits over Iran war report
US Federal Reserve injects $200 billion into credit markets to avert financial meltdown
Australian PM marks first 100 days as Murdoch demands "stiff dose of Brutopia"
French municipal elections: A setback for President Sarkozy
Tensions between France and Germany intensify over foreign and economic policy
Germany: Roland Koch remains prime minister in Hesse - How the SPD right wing overturned an unwanted election result
Sri Lankan paramilitary leader convicted in Britain
Northern Ireland: More evidence of MI5's network of informers and provocateurs in the IRA
Australia: Unions rubber-stamp Mitsubishi closure
Letters from our readers

12 March 2008
Instability continues in Pakistan following formation of coalition government
Politically directed dragnet snares New York Governor Spitzer
Bitter strike by American Axle workers enters third week
Spain: Socialist Party wins a second term in government
Violence still threatens after Kenyan peace deal
Austrian grand coalition in crisis
US food prices increase sharply
France considers sending more troops to Afghanistan
China's National Peoples Congress haunted by the spectre of social unrest
Australian prime minister undertakes tactical shift in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Be Kind Rewind: Fast forward to Michel Gondry's utopia

11 March 2008
Massive NSA operation exposed as Congress prepares vote on domestic spying bill
Five US soldiers killed in Baghdad
Iraqi president visits Ankara in wake of Turkish incursion
Government election losses in Malaysia signal eruption of deep political crisis
English primary education criticised in report
Mexico: López Obrador may lose control of PRD to "new left" faction
Reject UAW plans to sabotage American Axle strike!
New York City Democratic politician and "labor" leader pleads guilty to corruption charges
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Correspondence on the impact of the credit crunch

10 March 2008
Clinton's national security campaign and Obama's political dilemma
Bush vetoes bill outlawing torture techniques
Democrats win congressional seat of former House Speaker Hastert
US plot to overthrow elected Palestinian government exposed - Part Two
Germany: Public sector strike needs a new political perspective
Lengthy terrorist trials underway in Australia
Reactionary musings from the Island on 60 years of Sri Lankan independence
France: political crisis destabilizes Sarkozy
Suicide rate at 25-year high for middle-aged Americans
Impact of American Axle strike spreads - Talks continue through weekend
ISSE meeting at University of Delaware - Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
A scholar's upside down pyramid scheme: Peter Gay's Modernism

8 March 2008
US: 63,000 jobs lost as economy continues downslide
US plot to overthrow elected Palestinian government exposed - Part One
The ramifications of Ahmadinejad's visit to Iraq
Germany: Public service workers strike - Explosive mood in factories, offices, nurseries and hospitals
Political instability and social struggles will follow Spain's general election
Democratic politicians rage against US Air Force contract with Airbus
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

7 March 2008
America's "Fortunate 400" control vast wealth
Drive mounts for US government bailout of banks
Latin American crisis triggered by an assassination "Made in the USA"
Striking Berlin transit workers speak out
US steps up pressure on India to wrap-up Indo-US nuclear treaty
ZTE-NBN scandal triggers political crisis in the Philippines
Australia: NSW Labor embroiled in corruption scandal
South Africa and the global economic downturn
Demonstration and meeting in Sri Lanka to protest prosecution of Iranian students
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

6 March 2008
Clinton victories in Ohio Texas intensify divisions in Democratic Party
Iraq: Civilian casualties spike in February
Berlin transit workers go on strike
Spain: United Left splits as it lurches further right
Canada: Liberals and Conservatives join forces to extend intervention in Afghan war
Malaysians due to vote after stunted 13-day election campaign
Sri Lankan military bogged down in northern offensives against the LTTE
Bank drops lawsuit against Wikileaks
An interview with Richard Pare, co-author and photographer of The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932
Letters from our readers

5 March 2008
Washington pushes through new UN resolution against Iran
US-backed border massacre brings South America to brink of war
William F. Buckley, longtime propagandist for US ultra-right, dies at 82
France: LCR congress decides to found new party
French lead European Union force to Chad/Sudan border
Oil-linked inflation destabilizes Africa, Middle East
Pakistani regime ban of YouTube highlights threat to free Internet
UAW offered wage cuts on eve of American Axle strike
Australia: Rudd government demands wage "restraint"
New Jersey Governor demands draconian budget cuts
The 58th Berlinale--Part 2 - Katyn--The political agenda of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda

4 March 2008
US missile strike kills women and children in Somalia
Putin-Medvedev tandem wins presidential election in Russia
Britain: Labour government gags "extraordinary renditions" whistleblower
Turkey hails Iraq incursion as success
Egypt: Strike wave throughout public and private sector
American Axle strike enters second week
US: Student loans costs to rise from credit crisis
Germany: SPD state minister berates welfare recipients
After Rudd's "apology" to indigenous people - Australian government extends welfare "quarantining" and land grab
Workers struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

3 March 2008
Israel mounts bloody offensive against Gaza
Poisoned dumplings incident reveals fragility of Sino-Japanese relations
Germany: What lies behind the attempts to ostracise the Left Party?
Commemoration of the first anniversary of the death of Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee held in Paris.
Britain's media fashions its "warrior prince"
Australian Federal Police commissioner reveals scale of Haneef frame-up
Puerto Rico: Teachers battle unionbusting
Letters on review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine

1 March 2008
Washington deploys warships off the coast of Lebanon
US stocks plunge following Fed Chairman Bernanke's testimony before Congress
Economist estimates cost of Iraq war to exceed $3 trillion
“Independent” Kosovo: Anatomy of a Western protectorate
BMW axes 8,100 jobs to increase profits
East Timorese government steps up repression in aftermath of alleged "coup attempt"
Librarians and archivists demand US return of stolen Iraqi documents
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Beowulf: tenuous relationship between movie and poem

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