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World Socialist Web Site Archive: September 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.

30 September 2008
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party--Part 2
Stocks plunge on Wall Street as bailout fails in Congress
US government brokers Citigroup takeover of Wachovia Bank
US-Pakistani skirmish points to threat of wider war
Israel's plan to attack Iran confirmed
Germany: Left Party leader supports Wall Street bailout
Political power struggle in Malaysia continues unabated
Amid allegations of Enron-style fraud - Major Australian child care corporation at risk of bankruptcy
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

29 September 2008
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party--Part 1
Democrats take charge of pushing through Bush's bailout of Wall Street
The Obama-McCain debate: Right-wing politicians agree on bailout and militarism
Fighting intensifies as Sri Lankan army advances on LTTE stronghold
Finland: Second school shooting in less than a year
Afghanistan: US, NATO, Karzai regime investigate Azizabad massacre
Indian CEO killed after negotiations with group of dismissed workers go awry
Philippine government renews its communal war in Mindanao
Toronto International Film Festival 2008--Part 5 - The Dardenne brothers: but what about the "extenuating circumstances"?
Interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, directors of Lorna's Silence

27 September 2008
A travesty of democracy - Democrats, Republicans conspire to remove Wall Street bailout from election campaign
Washington Mutual assets acquired by JPMorgan Chase - Biggest US bank failure ever
Taro Aso: third Japanese prime minister in two years
Britain's Chancellor Alistair Darling and the International Marxist Group
Bavarian election reveals deep divisions within German right
California: foreclosures and homeless on the rise
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

26 September 2008
Documents of the SEP Founding Congress: Statement of Principles--Part 2
Democrats push for quick adoption of Bush plan to bail out Wall Street
European reactions to the financial crisis - Covering their tracks and distancing themselves from the US
Chrysler 1979: Lessons from an early corporate "bailout"
Broken US promises undermine North Korean nuclear agreement
Canadian elections - Bloc Québécois covers up its support for the Harper Conservative government
Livni's election and the ongoing shift to the right in Israeli politics
German radicals provide political cover for Left Party
Contradictory verdicts in Australia's largest terrorism trial
SEP presidential candidate Jerry White addresses ISSE meeting at the University of Michigan
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Toronto International Film Festival 2008--Part 4 - Some urgency about the state of the world

25 September 2008
Documents of the SEP Founding Congress: Statement of Principles--Part 1
Evasions, half-truths and lies - Bush demands passage of Wall Street bailout
Obama's embrace of bailout wins favor on Wall Street
Sri Lankan police release arrested SEP member
Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest
French parliament votes for continued military presence in Afghanistan
WHO report discloses extent of global health inequality
Australia: Methane gas landfill leak forces residents to evacuate suburb
World's largest particle accelerator begins operations - Scientists to gain greater understanding of the mysteries of the universe
New documentary on Pinochet's dictatorship: Some wounds should not heal
Letters on the Wall Street bailout

24 September 2008
Democrats signal support for Wall Street bailout at Senate hearing
The ties that bind: Dodd, Schumer and Wall Street
Obama says bailout will postpone spending plans
Wall Street falls reflect concerns over bailout and fears for US economy
As economic crisis deepens, rich get richer- Forbes publishes list of 400 wealthiest Americans
Brown at Britain's Labour conference: Bailout for banks, nothing for jobless and homeowners
Canada: Financial crisis intrudes on federal election campaign
Britain: Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes--"We fear another cover-up"
Germany's war in Afghanistan
The LCR covers for "left" supporters of French imperialism in Afghanistan
China's milk crisis: another disaster unleashed by the capitalist market
West Bengal: Standoff continues over Stalinists' land seizure for Tata Motors
French postal service to be privatised
SEP election meetings - The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
Sydney and Melbourne meetings to commemorate... - The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
Toronto International Film Festival 2008--Part 3 - Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, Terence Davies' Of Time and the City: What the filmmakers now see
An interview with Chus Gutiérrez, director of Return to Hansala
Letters and a reply on Zimbabwe

23 September 2008
Obama demands deep cutbacks to pay for Wall Street bailout
Paulson warns: No limits on CEO pay
Banks race to profit from US bailout
Who is Henry Paulson?
Sri Lankan police detain SEP member for over a week
Georgia death row prisoner faces execution following denial of clemency
France: Union thugs threaten immigrants at a Communist Party fair
Statement of the International Students for Social Equality (Britain) - Oppose attacks on democratic rights on campus
Workers Struggles: The Americas
55th Sydney Film Festival-Part 6 - Deborah Kerr: an actor with genuine subtlety and integrity
Letters from our readers

22 September 2008
No to Wall Street bailout! The socialist answer to the financial crisis
Marriott Hotel bombing: another sign of Pakistan's deepening crisis
Germany: The international financial crisis and illusions in an enlightened capitalism
Ethiopia threatens to withdraw from Somalia
Row over Internet "war plans" highlights China-Vietnam tensions
Scotland: Alex Salmond and Thatcherism
California budget: $7 billion in cuts, tax breaks for big business
Safety incidents plague Australian airline
55th Sydney Film Festival--Part 5 - Yung Chang speaks with WSWS about Up the Yangtze

20 September 2008
US government to bail out Wall Street
Withdraw all troops from Afghanistan and Iraq! A socialist answer to war and militarism
Sri Lankan police continue to detain SEP member
Lloyds TSB takeover of HBOS leaves Britain's banks in trouble
US-Pakistani relations remain on the boil
Japan's ruling party to select new prime minister as economy slides into recession
Germany: Power struggle at Volkswagen
Canadian Medical Association Journal attacks Harper government for listeria epidemic
Western Australian Labor government thrown out as state election delivers hung parliament
Public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne to commemorate... - The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Toronto International Film Festival 2008--Part 2 - Social drama

19 September 2008
Socialist Equality Party holds founding Congress
Obama's response to financial meltdown: Deception and subservience to Wall Street
Why is American liberalism bankrupt? A history lesson for New York Times columnist Bob Herbert
Global financial storm hits Australian economy
Power-sharing deal signed in Zimbabwe
New Thai prime minister installed amid continuing political turmoil
The financial crisis and the comeback of Gerhard Schröder
Irish government neglect flood victims and infrastructure
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
55th Sydney Film Festival-Part 4 - Contemporary dramas from Israel, Australia and South Africa

18 September 2008
Europe gripped by fear of global crash
Panic sell-off on Wall Street
The American "financial tsunami" hits Asia
Sri Lankan SEP demands release of arrested member
Canadian elections: NDP serves up thin gruel at Toronto kick-off rally
Unemployment and poverty grip New York State
South Africa: Court case against ANC President Zuma withdrawn
Victims blamed in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike
Socialist Equality Party launches new election web site
Toronto International Film Festival 2008--Part 1 - Glimpses of life, if not the essential facts of the world
55th Sydney Film Festival--Part 3 Noteworthy documentaries—from Australia and Canada
Letters from our readers

17 September 2008
No return to the 1930s! For the public ownership of the banks! - Statement of SEP presidential candidate Jerome White
US Federal Reserve announces $85 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG
Nuclear Supplier Group gives India unique "waiver," but only after row between Delhi and Beijing
Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD - The role of the Left Party
France: Token resistance by the unions to new Renault job cuts
Australia: Climate change, the Garnaut report, and the profit system
Illinois prepares wide-ranging budget cuts
The Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan - Britain's Socialist Workers Party lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War-Part 2
55th Sydney Film Festival-Part 2 - Socially meaningful, but limited
An exchange on Bertolt Brecht's Arturo Ui

16 September 2008
The Wall Street crisis and the failure of American capitalism
More US corporate bailouts on the way
Latin American presidents meet with Bolivia on brink of civil war
Italy: Berlusconi government seeks to rehabilitate fascism
Machinists strike at Boeing begins second week
Bomb blasts kill 30 in Indian capital
Germany: New study shows "upturn" only benefits the wealthy
Reject Obama and McCain!
Support the socialist alternative in 2008!
Build the Socialist Equality Party!
From Pabloism to the Greens - Peter Camejo dead at 68
The Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan
Britain's SWP lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War--Part 1
Workers Struggles: The Americas
55th Sydney Film Festival--Part 1 - A few intelligent movies, but lost in an increasingly industry-oriented event
Complete print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis discovered in Argentina

15 September 2008
The Palin interviews: Ignorance in the service of the ultra-right
Another unnecessary tragedy: Deadly train crash in California kills at least 25
Texas hit hard by Hurricane Ike
Canada: While CAW bleats, Harper offers aid to automakers and endorses job-cutting
French President Sarkozy visits Syria to seek new alliances
Sri Lankan provincial elections reveal widespread alienation and discontent
Britain: Union leaders stifle growing militancy of London Underground workers
New Zealand police to be armed with Tasers

13 September 2008
Reject Obama and McCain! Support the socialist alternative in 2008! Build the Socialist Equality Party!
National service forum at Columbia University - Obama calls for US military mobilization
Declassified grand jury transcripts confirm frame-up of Ethel Rosenberg
Canada: Electioneering cannot obscure major parties' support for Afghan war
War in Georgia: French LCR mimics Sarkozy's foreign policy
Britain's Trades Union Congress: Left talk but no fight against Labour government
Rampant corruption at US agency responsible for collecting oil royalties
Indonesia: Senior intelligence official charged with murder
Australia: Police drop 14-month investigation into Mohamed Haneef
Corruption scandal shakes Turkish building workers union
Join the International Students for Social Equality!
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

12 September 2008
Obama and McCain on 9/11: "unity" in support of war and repression
President Bush authorises US ground operations inside Pakistan
US bailout of mortgage giants sets stage for wider financial crisis
Chinese economists warn of the "biggest adjustment" in 30 years
Humanitarian crisis worsens in Haiti
Boeing machinists strike continues
Britain: Jury in alleged transatlantic bomb plot trial fails to convict on central charges
Australia: The 2008 Victorian teachers' dispute, Teachers Alliance and the Socialist Equality Party
Join the International Students for Social Equality!
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

11 September 2008
Obama denounces Bush for sending too few troops to Afghanistan
Thai court sacks prime minister over cooking show "corruption"
Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD
Political dissent as terrorism: "Minnesota Patriot Act" charges filed against RNC Eight
Australia: "Lefts" called in as NSW Labor government implodes
Sri Lankan university meeting discusses: Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
Social reality in an Australian mining town
Join the International Students for Social Equality!
Ken Campbell (1941-2008): A unique theatrical talent
Letters from our readers

10 September 2008
Record corporate bailout reveals the bankruptcy of American capitalism
Another criminal US missile strike inside Pakistan
Obama in Michigan: economic nationalism and "reformism" without reforms
Nader in Detroit: watered-down reformism and an appeal to the Democrats
Ukraine: US-Russia conflict provokes government collapse
Strike of machinists at Boeing continues
Amid rising casualties, Australian establishment debates a wider engagement in Afghanistan
Stockholm conference told 1 billion people without access to safe water
The Way of the World by Ron Suskind - Revelations of war crimes and moralizing idealism

9 September 2008
Obama vows not to rescind tax cuts for the rich if recession deepens
PPP leader to be sworn in as new Pakistani president
Georgian conflict poses dilemma for Turkey
Canada: Conservatives call federal election for October 14
France: Socialist Party and unions support government cheap labour scheme
Britain: Labour to introduce work for benefits programme
Philippine power grid privatisation threatens jobs and conditions
New York: city and state universities face deep budget cuts
Public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne to commemorate... - The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
Workers Struggles: The Americas
The play's the thing: Andrew Fleming's Hamlet 2
Letters on the US presidential elections

8 September 2008
US government takes over mortgage giants to stave off financial meltdown
Afghan president blames "the West" for Islamic extremism
Controversy continues over French soldiers' deaths in Afghanistan
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Libya
Haiti devastated by hurricanes
US aircraft machinists strike Boeing
Australia: Unemployment rises as major companies axe jobs
Former Argentine generals sentenced to life
Britain: Union seeks to suppress postal workers' opposition to Royal Mail attacks
1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France - Part 8: The centrist line of the OCI (4)

6 September 2008
McCain launches fall campaign as Obama embraces Iraq "surge"
US jobless rate soars as foreclosures break new record
Amid mass arrests and suppression of media - RNC in Twin Cities: Eight protesters charged with terrorism under Patriot Act
Iraq: Handover in devastated Anbar hailed as a victory
Pakistan's parliament says future US raids should be repelled "with full force"
Britain: Alistair Darling and the implosion of the Labour government
Germany: Left Party issues blank cheque to SPD in Hesse
Detroit Democratic mayor resigns, faces jail
Canada: Steelworkers and CAW officials tussle over dues base at Magna
1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France - Part 7: The centrist line of the OCI (3)
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

5 September 2008
US attack inside Pakistan threatens dangerous new war
The Sarah Palin speech: - Democrats and media cower in face of Republicans' right-wing demagogy
Cheney in Georgia: Gunboat diplomacy in pursuit of oil
Productivity rises as US workers see real income cut
Protests in West Bengal threaten to derail CPI (M)-sponsored Nano car project
Former Yugoslav war crimes tribunal spokeswoman indicted for contempt
Malaysia proposes limited changes to ban on political activity at universities
Australia: Labor uses Howard's construction industry watchdog to attack building workers
Australian media union refuses to challenge job cuts at Fairfax
1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France - Part 6: The centrist line of the OCI (2)
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

4 September 2008
As Republicans unveil VP candidate - Democrats silent on threat from religious right
Thai prime minister imposes state of emergency but political crisis continues
Mass arrests of protesters at Republican National Convention
Canada's Conservatives to call national election before economic downturn worsens
New York Times' Roger Cohen on Georgian crisis: A case of deliberate deception
Millions affected by flooding in India and Nepal
Angola becomes Africa's largest oil producer
High fuel prices impoverish New York City taxi drivers
New York City taxi drivers speak on gas prices
Australia: Labor to strip welfare from parents of truant children
British government moots passport and ID controls between UK and Ireland
1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France - Part 5: The centrist line of the OCI (1)

3 September 2008
New revelations on VP choice heighten crisis of McCain campaign
Obama's abbreviated Labor Day in Detroit: A sop to the bureaucracy
Japan's prime minister quits amid signs of economic downturn
US Gulf Coast deals with aftermath of Hurricane Gustav
Belgium: Undocumented workers' hunger strikes reach critical point
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation cautiously endorses Russia over Georgia
US: Abuse charged in New Jersey prison
Global downturn begins to puncture Australian mining boom
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

2 September 2008
European Union summit sides with Georgia
A bloody month in Afghanistan
Police raid protest headquarters as Republican National Convention opens
Alaska Republican senator renominated despite indictment
World Bank: Two and a half billion people live on less than $2 a day
France: trade unions warn government against social explosion
Indian government mounts brutal campaign of repression in Kashmir
New Maoist-led government installed in Nepal
East Timor: Leaked autopsy report shows alleged "coup" leader Reinado shot at point-blank range

1 September 2008
Danger grows of NATO-Russian clash in Black Sea
As Republican convention opens - McCain bows to ultra-right with Palin selection
Obama's Denver speech: Populist demagogy in the service of militarism
Hurricane Gustav threatens New Orleans, Gulf Coast
Standoff intensifies between Thai government and protesters
Pentagon denies responsibility for US massacre of Afghan villagers
Australia: NSW government unveils "Plan B" to sell electricity assets

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