Archive: 02/2009
2009-02-02
- South Africa: Zuma faces corruption charges after court reverses previous judgment
- Valkyrie: A thriller, but not a historical film
- For top 400 Americans, combined income of $105 billion in 2006
- Video: Over 100,000 demonstrate in London against Sri Lankan war
- Over 100,000 demonstrate in London against Sri Lankan war
- Australia threatens Fiji with suspension from Pacific Islands Forum
- Thousands of Sri Lankan soldiers perish in northern offensive
- British unions back reactionary strikes against foreign workers
- US: Nationwide salmonella outbreak forces major recall, plant closure
- The world economic crisis and the return of history
- Large demonstration in India against Sri Lankan war
- Australian heat wave kills 60 people, triggers power and transport chaos
- Global crisis threatens to break up the Eurozone
2009-02-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ireland: Workers occupy Waterford crystal factory
- Australian unions impose wage cuts at Alcoa
- Sri Lankan war: At least nine dead in shelling of hospital
- The Russia-Ukraine gas conflict and the geopolitical struggle for control of energy resources
- Obama executive orders continue “extraordinary renditions,” secret CIA prisons
- Stalinists and Socialist Party defend “Britons first” refinery protest
- Obama prepares another trillion-dollar bank bailout
- Bloomberg demands huge cutbacks, tax hikes and contract givebacks
- Britain: Royal Mail faces privatisation and jobs massacre
- Akhnaten by Philip Glass, performed by the Atlanta Opera
- Letters from our readers
- US-China trade tensions set to escalate
- The Pope readmits Holocaust denier into the church
2009-02-04
- Socialist Party offers yet another apologia for “Britons first” refinery dispute
- US military suicide rate at record high
- A socialist perspective to end the war in Sri Lanka
- Australian PM announces $42 billion crisis stimulus package
- Sri Lanka’s independence anniversary: the emergence of a military/police state
- Obama names third Republican to cabinet
- The crash of 2008 and its revolutionary implications
- Tens of thousands more jobs eliminated in the US
- German Green Party program endorses militarism and social cuts
- Tom Daschle withdraws cabinet nomination amidst tax scandal
- British winter death rate predicted to rise
- California runs out of cash—$3.5 billion in state payments delayed
- The anti-communist purge of the American film industry
2009-02-05
- Sri Lankan government detains all Tamils fleeing war zone
- Britain: Refinery dispute becomes focus of shift to protectionism within Labour
- Nationalism and the British trade union strike
- Australia: Why NSW teachers should vote “no” to the NSWTF-Labor government agreement
- The crash of 2008 and its revolutionary implications
- New York City Macy’s workers speak out on economy
- Britain: Tamils demonstrate outside parliament
- France: What is the LCR’s New Anti-Capitalist Party?
- US: Power outages persist throughout Kentucky
- Low turnout in Iraqi provincial elections
- India: Statewide protest in Tamil Nadu against the war in Sri Lanka
- A socialist answer to the Gaza crisis
- Obama announces token executive pay limits
- Thousands protest in Paris and Berlin against war in Sri Lanka
- Retired GM worker speaks on freezing death of 93-year-old Michigan man
- Obama set to launch military “surge” in Afghanistan
2009-02-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Protest outside Australian parliament against Sri Lankan war
- SEP campaigns among Sri Lankan plantation workers
- Rail Maritime and Transport union puts Britain’s opportunist groups on notice
- The American ruling class
- The crash of 2008 and its revolutionary implications
- US-Russia tensions escalate over closure of Afghan supply base
- US jobless claims hit 26-year high
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: State forces end to York University and Ottawa transit strikes
- Automakers, UAW move to create low-wage workforce
2009-02-07
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Foreign Office colludes with US to cover-up torture of Binyam Mohamed
- Deepening global crisis shatters consensus over Australian stimulus package
- Dozens of civilians killed as Sri Lankan army continues its onslaught
- Senate agrees to pass reduced version of Obama “stimulus” plan
- Quebec’s new left party links hands with the political establishment
- The “Britons first” dispute: What constitutes a progressive defence of jobs?
- The crash of 2008 and its revolutionary implications
- The Munich Security Conference: a transatlantic trial of strength
- Architecture as the continuation of politics: White City, Dark City
- France: LCR dissolves itself to found New Anti-Capitalist Party
- US sheds 600,000 jobs in January
- Obama expands Bush’s “faith-based” initiative
- Germany: The role of the Left Party in the destruction of Berlin’s education
2009-02-09
- The end of the Sri Lankan “peace process”
- Obama’s economic “stimulus” paves way for multi-trillion-dollar handout to the banks
- Pentagon warns of US military intervention in Mexico’s “war on drugs”
- Frank Moorhouse speaks with WSWS
- Guadeloupe general strike isolated by French trade unions
- At least 128 dead in Australia’s worst ever bushfires
- Vice President Biden in Munich signals continuation of US aggression
- Australian artists face new censorship measures
2009-02-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ireland: Waterford occupation continues as protests grow against cuts and closures
- SEP campaigns in a Sri Lankan fishing village
- Obama administration defends torturers
- Obama paints a picture of economic catastrophe
- Unemployed in Michigan speak out
- ISSE/SEP meetings in the US
- Architecture as the continuation of politics: White City, Dark City
- Germany: Unemployment rises sharply in January
- Australia: Tragedy of child’s death sparks international response
- Letters on Obama and the American ruling class
- Millions of job losses threaten to trigger social unrest in China
- Forced furloughs begin for California state employees
2009-02-11
- Evidence mounts of lack of planning prior to Australia’s worst bushfire
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns in Puttalam
- The reactionary politics of independent “socialist” Bernie Sanders
- The Tragedy of the Iranian Revolution
- New Anti-Capitalist Party holds founding congress
- US general menaces North Korea with the “military option”
- Iceland: New government pledges continuation of IMF austerity programme
- GM slashes 10,000 jobs
- Obama administration announces plan to expand government bailout of the banks
2009-02-12
- Sri Lankan suicide bombing: more hypocrisy from Washington
- Obama, Congress agree on scaled-back stimulus bill
- In honor of the bicentenary of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin
- Correspondence on Australian bushfires
- France: A conversation with the NPA’s Alain Krivine
- Israeli election exposes social and political crisis
- Cash-starved Australian hospitals unable to pay for vital supplies
- What lies behind the change of leadership in the German Economics Ministry?
- US Supreme Court undermines constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures
- Letters on the anti-communist purge of the American film industry
- Britain: Bankers Treasury Select Committee “grilling” fails to materialise
- Congress on bended knee before Wall Street executives
- Afghanistan: Attacks in Kabul expose US occupation’s deepening crisis
2009-02-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Australian bushfires: the tragic outcome of government neglect
- French university teachers strike to defend working conditions
- Sri Lankan election: Vote for the Socialist Equality Party
- Letters on Rwanda
- A reply to correspondence on the Rwandan genocide
- Pontiac, Michigan: Half of district’s 20 schools to be closed
- The road forward for the working class of South Asia
- New York City: threat of transit fare hikes and service cuts spark outrage
- US jobless benefit rolls hit record high
- Britain: Casualisation in energy sector overseen by unions
2009-02-14
- Sri Lankan SEP holds final meetings of election campaign
- US Congress passes economic stimulus bill
- French President Sarkozy visits Baghdad
- Romanian government agrees to drastic austerity package
- US intelligence chief: World capitalist crisis poses greatest threat
- US: Tainted peanut butter scandal deepens
- Britain: Ken Livingstone and his “left” disciples
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- With US infrastructure in tatters, stimulus plan offers paltry sum
- Europe turns to protectionism as industry plummets
- California braces for impact of proposed budget cuts
- Asia’s export economies in free fall
2009-02-16
- Obama administration seeks to block lawsuit over illegal wiretapping
- Solomon Islands unprepared for flood disaster
- Sri Lankan government wins a hollow victory in provincial elections
- Global slump could throw 53 million more people into poverty
- Wall Street demands lifting of pay limits
- France: the bourgeoisie sizes up the New Anti-Capitalist Party
- Israel: European Union and Washington want national unity government
- “Hobbits” of Flores: Implications for the pattern of human evolution
- Demands for state repression of “insurrectionary” Guadeloupe and Martinique general strikes
- Shutdowns, production cuts hit German industry
- Australian bushfire victims speak with WSWS as evidence of government culpability grows
- Australian jobless figures point to worsening economic contraction
2009-02-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK government deports Dutch politician
- Thai court jails Australian writer for insulting the king
- Obama administration spearheads attack on auto workers
- Two US missile strikes in Pakistan in three days kill more than 60
- Britain: Police will not be prosecuted for Jean Charles de Menezes killing
- The American media and the Lincoln bicentenary
- Germany: Auto supply workers to pay for investors’ losses
- Massive cutbacks in arts funding by US companies, governments
- Letters from our readers
- The Class—inside a Parisian working class school
- Over ten thousand public school students homeless in Chicago
- The future of art in an age of crisis
- Australia: Bushfire relief volunteers speak with WSWS
2009-02-18
- 40,000 demonstrate against Turkish government as economic crisis deepens
- Australian PM’s essay: an exercise in ideological damage control
- US occupation of Iraq: An ongoing criminal enterprise
- Australian teachers union rams through regressive pay deal
- Mehring Books launches web site redesign
- Record slump in Japan: a sign of deepening global recession
- India: Intense maneuvering in run-up to spring elections
- London’s Globe Theatre to stage Trevor Griffiths’ A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine
- Toronto the Good: It needs to push harder in some very uncomfortable places
- Trade unions extend nationalist campaign to defend “British jobs”
- Britain: Anger boils over at union’s complicity in sacking of 850 BMW workers
2009-02-19
- Video: Chrysler workers oppose pay cuts, concession demands
- Chavez wins referendum vote as Venezuela’s crisis deepens
- Government measures fail to halt severe decline of British economy
- Demagogy and empty promises as Obama signs stimulus bill
- A tribute to the SEP election campaign in Sri Lanka
- Three killed by snow plows in Montreal: privatization to blame
- Italy: The case of Eluana Englaro
- Australian bushfires: Horsham residents given no warning
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese president demands army loyalty amid growing social discontent
- BHP mine closure devastates West Australian towns
- Lagging alarmingly behind the times
- US automakers outline massive attack on jobs, wages
- Obama orders 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan
2009-02-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Wendy and Lucy: A picture of American life
- Clean-up costs from Tennessee coal ash disaster could top $800 million
- Australia: Telstra unions call strike over new agreement
- Stanford International: $9 billion fraud triggers widening bank panic
- Sri Lanka: War refugees to be detained in huge “welfare camps”
- Spain: Major economic downturn predicted for 2009
- File-sharing trial against The Pirate Bay has wide-ranging implications
- The reactionary politics of economic nationalism
- Obama’s mortgage plan aims to bolster the banks
- India: Supreme Court judge advocates “animal rights” for alleged terrorists
- Obama administration deporting 30,000 Haitians
- Guadeloupe: Striker killed in repression of general strike
- Britain: University graduates face unemployment, low-paid jobs
- Support the European election campaign of the Socialist Equality Party!
- Nearly five million on jobless benefits in US
- California legislature passes massive austerity budget
- Australia: Bushfire expert exposes decades of government neglect
2009-02-21
- Zimbabwe: MDC proceeds with power-sharing fiasco
- Video: GM workers denounce concession demands
- Report exposes false claims of British unions’ “Britons First” campaign
- Obama’s housing plan and the American ruling class
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel: Netanyahu tapped as prime minister
- Indian government offers full support for Sri Lankan war
- Obama makes Ottawa his first foreign stop
- Letters from our readers
- General Motors workers speak out against pay cuts
- US commander warns American troops will be in Afghanistan for years
2009-02-23
- Human tragedy continues in northern Sri Lanka
- One month of the Obama administration
- Obama expands US military intervention in Pakistan
- Layoffs at GM Lordstown plant ravage Ohio communities
- Japanese government in crisis as recession deepens
- ICTU protest in Dublin: Workers angry over pension levy, jobs and wages
- Bailout of Germany’s Hypo Real Estate: A bottomless pit
- Ireland: over 100,000 march against government in Dublin
2009-02-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Obama’s Afghan “surge” sows seeds of new wars
- Obama outlines policy of austerity at budget summit
- European financial summit dominated by national divisions
- Britain: More charges of union complicity in mass sackings at BMW’s Oxford plant
- Letters from our readers
- Hillary Clinton presses China to keep buying US debt
- Coal mine explosion in China kills 74
- An unholy alliance at Australian Workers Union conference
- The 81st Annual Academy Awards: Lifeless for the most part
2009-02-25
- Ireland: Buyout by KPS would be a defeat for Waterford occupation
- Swedish automaker Saab seeks bankruptcy protection
- HRW report exposes Sri Lankan government’s war crimes
- The Revolution Betrayed and the fate of the Soviet Union
- The debate over the nationalization of the banks
- Obama pledges bigger Wall Street bailout
- Australia: Few attend Rudd’s much-hyped “National Day of Mourning”
- Australian prime minister toasts retail king while denouncing “extreme capitalism”
- Latvian government resigns as crisis deepens in Eastern Europe
- Iraqi elections underscore fragility of US occupation
- Canada: CAW vows to match UAW concessions to automakers
- White House weighs bankruptcy in attack on GM, Chrysler workers
2009-02-26
- UK: Jack Straw blocks release of cabinet minutes on Iraq
- Gunmen kill 16 Sri Lankan villagers
- Flight 1549 pilot tells Congress: Airline employees “hit by an economic tsunami”
- Obama’s Iraq withdrawal plan sets stage for continued war
- Australian banks dictate jobs axe at Pacific Brands
- Marxism and the world economic crisis
- Reject UAW sellout at Ford! Mobilize autoworkers to defend jobs and living standards!
- Australian bushfire victims and volunteers criticise government inaction
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: An opportunist defence of the union betrayal at BMW Cowley
- A few healthy shoots
- Economic slump deepens in Japan as exports collapse
2009-02-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian vigil denounces Sri Lankan government atrocities
- Britain: Senior police officer warns of “summer of rage”
- Obama’s open-ended bailout of the banks
- Italy: Berlusconi decree legalises anti-immigrant vigilantes
- Colombia rocked by wiretapping revelations
- China’s stimulus package threatens more economic turmoil
- Obama budget projects record deficits and borrowing
- Obama defends his “Guantánamo” in Afghanistan
2009-02-28
- Australian bush fire survivors speak with the World Socialist Web Site
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Fractious leadership contest in Unite union
- The poison of trade union nationalism
- Pakistan rocked by protests after opposition leaders stripped of political rights
- Australia: Labor government and unions seek to divert anger over Pacific Brands closures
- Germany: Union leaders call on workers to sacrifice to rescue Opel
- Obama announces plan to continue US military occupation of Iraq
- US economy shrinks at 6.2 percent rate
- Chicago: 16 more public schools slated for closures, cuts
- British auto union leaders claim it couldn't happen in Germany
- Bangladesh’s government ends revolt by border guards
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