Archive: 03/2009
2009-03-02
- Turkey: 12 years since the last military intervention, new coup feared
- With Iraq plan, Obama embraces US militarism
- “Enemy combatant” indicted to block Supreme Court review
- Police repression unleashed against Sri Lankan university students
- Ford workers oppose new concessions
- Washington in conflict with Afghan president over early poll
2009-03-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Rising unemployment in Taiwan as exports plunge
- Britain: Student meetings hear report on socialist perspective for the Middle East
- Sweden: Unions promote nationalism over Saab
- Hillary Clinton reprises “peace process” fraud
- New Zealand “Jobs Summit” places burden of recession on working people
- “I’ve never experienced a worse economy”
- Former Guantánamo guard details prisoner abuse
- US stocks hit lowest level in 12 years
- As unemployment hits double digits, California lurches towards depression
- Brussels: Divisions dominate EU summit in face of deepening crisis
- Obama administration announces billions more in bailouts to AIG
2009-03-04
- WSWS arts editor David Walsh speaks at meetings in San Diego and Los Angeles
- US plans for military intervention in Sri Lanka
- Russian government moves to save big business, suppress opposition
- Britain: Ex-boss of failed RBS bank awarded £25 million pension
- 7.3 million in the US prison system
- Polish economy tumbles as global investors take flight
- US Justice Department memos: the specter of military dictatorship
- Australia: Reject backroom deals! Launch an independent struggle to defend Pacific Brands jobs!
- Pakistan: Terrorist attack targets international cricket match
- Iraqi museum reopens
- US slump, Wall Street slide deepen
2009-03-05
- Gordon Brown's visit to Washington
- Germany: Left Party congress shows its support for the EU
- Obama, Democrats bow to banks on housing “rescue”
- Gaza donor conference: conspiracy wrapped up as compassion
- Australian economy heads into recession
- Letters from our readers
- The New York state budget crisis and the debate over the “millionaire’s tax”
- Binyam Mohamed free after years of imprisonment and torture
- Seattle, Wash.: Video captures attack on teenage girl at police station
- Bangladeshi government authorises arrest of 1,000 mutineers
- ASEAN summit: amid talk of cooperation, economic rivalry on the rise
2009-03-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- An interview with author Ruth White, author of Little Audrey
- Ireland: KPS unlikely to maintain production at occupied Waterford facility
- East Timor journalist faces jail over corruption allegations
- Retirement funds in danger for millions of Americans
- The collapse of General Motors
- Britain: 25 years since the year-long miners’ strike-Part 1
- Obama-linked think tank calls for US “nuclear umbrella” in Middle East
- Ford workers: “Now the fight is with our own union.”
- Worker opposition to Ford-UAW agreement reflected in votes
- Australia: Victorian bushfires demonstrate the need for a socialist perspective
- 10,000 steelworkers demonstrate in Duisburg against threatened job cuts
- Three more Canadian troops killed in Afghanistan
2009-03-07
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “Truth Commission” proposal on Bush crimes reveals precarious state of US democracy
- Civilian deaths mount amid intense Sri Lankan army shelling
- California’s new budget and the social crisis in San Diego
- The AFL-CIO and “nationalization”
- Australia: Union bankruptcy on display at Pacific Brands rallies
- Germany: Blackmail tactics against Opel workers
- Britain: 25 years since the year-long miners’ strike-Part 2
- US unemployment rate hits 8.1 percent
- White House Forum on Health Reform
- Bank of England cuts interest rates, turns to “quantitative easing”
- Austria: Socialist Party in free-fall in regional elections
2009-03-09
- Spain: Zapatero government accused of directing anti-immigrant crackdown
- Sri Lankan SEP stands in Colombo election against war and social inequality
- A specter haunts the ruling elite
- The world economic crisis and the return of history
- Oppose LTTE campaign of threats and violence against SEP supporters in Europe!
- Australian climate scientist discusses global warming impact on Victorian fires
- Obama administration backs immunity for author of Bush torture memos
- LKP calls off Guadeloupe general strike as walkouts spread to La Réunion
- Lindsey refinery dispute: A reply to the GMB union
- Germany: What lies behind the proposals for an “employee share scheme” at Opel?
- Cologne, Germany: Who is responsible for the collapse of the municipal archive building?
2009-03-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Top-level talks continue on US-led military intervention in Sri Lanka
- Britain: Dundee packaging factory occupied
- The war crimes indictment against Sudanese President Bashir
- Sri Lankan troops out of the north and east!
- Obama’s New York Times interview: Military aggression and attacks on democratic rights to continue
- Obama and US commander discuss military intervention in Mexico
- Germany: PSG European election campaign wins support
- Tens of thousands march in New York against budget cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese leaders face bleak economic prospects
- Oppose Canadian Auto Workers surrender to GM
- The victimization of public education in California
- World Bank predicts first decline in global output since WWII
2009-03-11
- The war in Sri Lanka: the political and class issues
- SEP media conference in Sri Lanka announces election campaign
- German union officials propose double-digit wage cuts for Opel-GM workers
- Obama scapegoats teachers, continues Bush education policies
- “There’s just nothing here—everybody is fighting for the same jobs”
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
- US companies slash thousands more jobs in early March
- Northern Ireland: Anxiety over “peace process” following shootings of soldiers, police officer
- Questions and answers on the Hollywood blacklists—Part 1
- France: Protests continue against Sarkozy’s university reforms
- Ford concessions contract ratified with 40 percent voting “no”
- US: Congressional Democrats balk at rescinding tax cuts for the rich
- Britain: Binyam Mohamed interview reveals MI5 collusion in torture and abuse
- Obama lays out Afghanistan war strategy
2009-03-12
- FBI terrorist watch list hits 1 million entries
- Key Obama economic adviser admits he has no answers
- Naval incidents highlight tense US-China relations
- United Nations condemns US, Britain and other states over rendition
- Sri Lankan parliament passes power reform bill
- Laying the foundations for a socialist movement
- Further protest letters against LTTE
- The German Left Party prepares to head off social protests
- Indian economy hammered by world economic crisis
- Questions and answers on the Hollywood blacklists—Part 2
- US bank regulator retires amid fraud scandal
- Homicidal rampage in Alabama kills 11
2009-03-13
- Pakistan’s government suppresses opposition protests
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Watchmen and Hollywood’s advanced state of decay
- Sri Lankan newspaper editor held without charge
- Spain: New Anti-Capitalist Left party to contest European elections
- Reject RMT’s attempt to isolate rail strikes
- A health care plan for big business
- Australia: Coroner’s findings whitewash Beaconsfield mine death
- Madoff jailed after pleading guilty to operating Ponzi scheme
- More protest letters against LTTE threats
- More than 5 million Americans collecting jobless benefits
- Australian High Court widens use of secret evidence
- Transatlantic divisions widen
- Thousands line up at Detroit job fair
- Castroite purge in Cuba as US slightly eases sanctions
2009-03-14
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Video: Workers interviewed at Detroit jobs fair
- Germany: Berlin city legislator gets his reward, joins Bundesbank
- Obama at the Business Roundtable
- US missiles kill 24 in Pakistan
- New Zealand unions collaborate in axing Pacific Brands jobs
- Nantes, France: Workers conduct five-day occupation of Goss International factory
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
- Australia: Sharp rise in job losses and unemployment
- Iraqi journalist jailed for throwing shoes at Bush
- Letters from our readers
- Chrysler Canada rejects GM-CAW “pattern,” demands even greater concessions
- AIG warns imminent failure will have global consequences
2009-03-16
- Letter: BBC program looks at the life of blacklisted actor Sam Wanamaker
- China premier warns of potential dollar collapse
- The AIG bonuses furor: the class issues
- Australia: Labor government, unions and “lefts” block fight to defend Pacific Brands jobs
- More letters on LTTE threats
- Ireland: Government to impose draconian austerity measures with opposition support
- Iceland: Government bank takeover increases threat of state bankruptcy
- British liberals seek alliance with right in name of defending liberty
- Great Power divisions persist following G20 summit
- Britain: What does the Convention on Modern Liberty represent?
- Obama administration ends use of “enemy combatant” designation
- Hundreds of students forced out of Chicago area school for unpaid fees
- California teachers protest mass layoffs
- Iraq’s former foreign minister sentenced to 15 years jail
2009-03-17
- US navy reinforces spying operation in South China Sea
- Britain: Unions agree cuts in hours and pay at Toyota
- Australia: Tamils face 10 years jail on revised terrorism charges
- Television satirist Jon Stewart takes on Wall Street’s media mouthpieces
- Sri Lankan government seeks IMF bailout
- Why Obama fears AIG “backlash”
- Pakistan’s government backs down under pressure from Washington and military
- Further letters against LTTE threats
- Red Cross: US tortured terror suspects
- Guinea Bissau: President assassinated in impoverished West African country
- What lies behind the latest school shooting in Germany?
- California: Thousands of unemployed workers line up at San Diego jobs fair
- Letters from our readers
- California unemployment statistics hide full impact of recession
2009-03-18
- Turkish unemployment at record rates
- Toronto: Mass protest against Sri Lankan state’s racist war
- Top UN human rights official raises the issue of war crimes in Sri Lanka
- New York Times columnist who demanded concessions from auto workers, “makes case” for AIG bonuses
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold election meeting in Colombo
- FMLN vows respect for private property and Washington
- Israeli crisis deepens
- Paris meeting advances socialist program to end war in Sri Lanka
- Australia: Unions promote demoralisation at Pacific Brands rally
- Australian state government in damage control over major oil spill
- Obama signing statement weakens “whistle-blower” protections
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
- Latin America hit hard by world crisis
- France: What are the politics of the March 19 demonstration?
- Will Ferrell says goodbye to the Bush Administration in You’re Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush
- US industrial production falls sharply as economic crisis deepens
- California: Thousands of unemployed workers line up at San Diego jobs fair
- Britain: Right-wing campaign waged against freed Guantánamo detainee
- Britain: Barclays gains gagging order against Guardian over tax avoidance claims
2009-03-19
- Britain: Massive abstention in Unite leadership contest
- Sri Lanka: New police-state measures follow suicide bombing
- East Timorese prosecutors charge 28 people over 2008 “coup attempt”
- Torture and the American ruling class
- France moves towards reintegration into NATO
- Pentagon drafts border plan as Mexico hits US protectionism
- Growing economic, social and political tensions in Egypt
- Intimations of changes to come—but nothing more
- Auto parts workers occupy closed plant in Windsor, Canada
- Obama defends Wall Street as anger grows over bonuses, bailouts
- Growing hostility in US to Afghanistan war
2009-03-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Autoworkers end factory occupation in Windsor, Ontario
- US Federal Reserve announces massive increase in government debt
- Scotland: Banking meltdown creates crisis for Scottish Nationalists
- Video: Pontiac residents speak on schools crisis
- Pontiac, Michigan “restructures” schools, fires entire education staff
- Australia: Rudd government attacks right to protest at Pine Gap spy base
- Six years of Washington’s war in Iraq
- Further protest letters against LTTE threats
- IMF report: World economy to shrink 1 percent this year
- Japanese opposition party in crisis
- France: Millions strike and march against austerity
- Germany: Berlin Public Transit faces dramatic financial losses
2009-03-21
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Record rise in unemployment to over 2 million
- SEP candidate addresses power workers in Sri Lanka
- China offers no fix for global slump
- The media defends executive bonuses
- More protest letters against LTTE threats
- Israeli troops detail Gaza atrocities as demand grows for war crimes probe
- A case of class law: harsh judgement against Berlin cashier
- Reports on the March 19 demonstrations in France
- US: Working families struggle to make ends meet
- Britain: The fraud of Brown’s “crusade” for social mobility
- Obama maneuvers to protect Wall Street bonuses
2009-03-23
- EU summit rejects US demand for increased stimulus packages
- Britain: The significance of the Scargill/Kinnock row
- Wall Street hysterics over the AIG bonus bill
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
- Australia: Economic crisis provokes turmoil within Liberal Party leadership
- Economic conditions worsen in Iraq
- Canada bars British anti-war MP Galloway
- Obama administration plan for “toxic assets”: A windfall for Wall Street
- Washington DC: Over 3 percent infected with HIV or AIDS
2009-03-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Wall Street celebrates government windfall for banks and big investors
- German-based tire maker announces European plant closures
- Bay City, Michigan: Fifteen-year-old dies after Taser shooting
- Australia: Labor clings to office in Queensland
- US, China and the war in Sri Lanka
- New space telescope to search for earth-sized planets
- Britain’s Guardian writes “in praise” of Lord Myners
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese central banker says US dollar should be replaced as global reserve currency
- Obama’s auto task force: a collection of Wall Street investors and asset strippers
- US prepares new escalation of Afghanistan intervention
2009-03-25
- Somalia: US policy shift towards Islamists after Ethiopian pullout
- Sweden: Saab announces more layoffs as unions agree to wage cuts
- Germany: Campaign to place the PSG on the ballot wins wide support
- IMF director warns of war
- Ontario: Growing numbers of “working poor”
- Obama press conference reveals right-wing consensus in Washington
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
- Obama’s “carrot and stick” approach to Iran
- Australia: Rudd government tries to block Guantánamo torture case
- Democrats prepare to ditch AIG bonus bill
- EU leaders cancel “jobs summit” to avoid protests
2009-03-26
- Sri Lanka: Two years since the disappearance of SEP member Nadarajah Wimaleswaran
- Two months on: The class agenda of the Obama administration
- The Opel crisis fuels divisions in Germany’s coalition government
- The world economic crisis and the socialist alternative
- US government department routinely ignores labor law violations
- Poverty, unemployment and homelessness hit Japanese workers
- Labor joins Netanyahu coalition as evidence of war crimes in Gaza mounts
- Global investors ponder implications of US dollar collapse
- The capitalist crisis and the return of history
- Letters from our readers
- Canada defends ban on British anti-war MP
- No answers for joblessness, austerity
- New York Times publishes “persecuted” AIG executive’s resignation letter
2009-03-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Turkish municipal elections dominated by economic, political crisis
- EU president declares US economic policy is the “road to hell”
- SEP public meeting launches provincial election campaign
- The return of Hoovervilles
- Nick Beams to speak at WSWS/SEP conferences in US
- Washington escalates “drug war” intervention in Mexico
- Obama administration calls for changes in financial regulation
- G20 summit protest: A socialist answer to the global crisis is needed
- Australia: The political issues behind the jailing of former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld
- Duplicity: The essential unseriousness of it
- Czech government ousted as economy flounders
- Reject CAW sellout at Chrysler! Mobilize autoworkers across North America to defend all jobs and oppose all concessions!
2009-03-28
- WTO forecasts huge drop in global trade
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Oppose Canada’s ban on British anti-war MP Galloway!
- Populist businessman takes power in Madagascar
- US: Unemployment hits double digits in seven states
- Ireland: Trade unions call off March 30 national strike
- Obama holds “very pleasant” meeting with top US bankers
- Obama announces escalation of war in Afghanistan, Pakistan
2009-03-30
- Video: WSWS interviews G-20 protesters in London
- Edward Upward: An artistic vision at odds with his politics
- Sri Lankan election: SEP campaigns among railway workers
- Obama escalates war in Central Asia
- London: 35,000 march in “Put People First” protest
- Germany: SAV promotes illusions in the Left Party
- Iraqi government turns on Sunni “Awakening” militias
- Indonesian dam collapse disaster leaves 100 dead
- European powers rebuff US, British proposals for economic stimulus
- Germany: Thousands demonstrate on eve of G-20 summit
- Workers denounce union for imposing concessions
- After the slaughter: political lessons of the Balkan War
2009-03-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lanka: School principals protest in Colombo over pay claim
- Australian airport death used to justify new police powers
- Obama declares war on auto workers
- American mayhem: Three horrible crimes over the weekend
- An interview with Jennifer Venditti, director of Billy the Kid
- Ireland: Taxi strike, student protests after unions call off national strike
- World economic crisis provokes fall of Hungary’s government
- Spanish court weighs torture charges against former US officials
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: Brown’s fiscal stimulus no longer an option for G20 summit
- British police to investigate MI5 over Binyam Mohamed's torture
- Billy the Kid: “Can you see inside me?”
- Obama demands deeper cuts in auto workers’ jobs, wages, benefits
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