Archive: 05/2009
2009-05-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Video: Chrysler workers speak on concessions vote
- Why did France resort to violence off the coast of Somalia?
- Solomon Islands report demands legal immunity of RAMSI occupation force be revoked
- May Day 2009
- German trade union implements wage cuts at Opel
- Unemployment takes growing toll in New York City
- May Day 2009: Reports on rising class struggle from around the world
- Spanish judge launches new torture probe of Bush officials
- The credit card crisis and the false promise of the Obama administration
- Chrysler declares bankruptcy
- Algerian presidential election gives Bouteflika a third term in office
2009-05-02
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany: ThyssenKrupp shareholders receive millions while workers face the sack
- US Supreme Court hears challenge to Voting Rights Act
- Sri Lankan SEP and ISSE hold May Day meeting in Colombo
- Spain: Zapatero government sends more troops to Afghanistan
- Australian Labor government escalates military involvement in Afghanistan
- The Chrysler bankruptcy
- Obama administration seeks extraordinary military powers in Pakistan
- Workers march in May Day demonstrations around the world
- France: Up to a million people on May Day protests
- Military investigations whitewash Israeli war crimes
- Tamil Nadu parties posture over plight of Sri Lankan Tamils
- France: Reports of police beatings at March 19 demonstrations
- Letters from our readers
- Workers denounce UAW concessions
- Australia: Unemployment study highlights “new face of disadvantage”
2009-05-04
- Britain: Police to be investigated after wrongful arrest of Cardiff man
- US Supreme Court Justice Souter to retire
- New evidence of Sri Lankan army atrocities
- Appeals court rejects Obama state secrets claim in rendition case
- Media sensationalism, corporate power and the swine flu outbreak
- “Socialism in One Country” and the Soviet economic debates of the 1920s
- US Senate rejects anti-foreclosure measure opposed by banks
- Obama administration indicates military commission trials to resume
- May Day in France: Protests hit unemployment, government austerity
- Fijian military defiance triggers Australian foreign policy debate
2009-05-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Obama administration spearheads wage cuts for American workers
- What is the United States preparing in Pakistan?
- New Zealand unions scapegoat immigrant workers
- Questions following not guilty verdicts in July 2005 London bombing case
- Spain: Garzón investigation reveals abuse suffered by Guantánamo detainees
- A socialist answer to the capitalist crisis: Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
- Letters from our readers
- Former Australian intelligence officer faces jail over Bali bombing documents
- Chrysler bankruptcy sets stage for assault on GM workers
2009-05-06
- Australia: Rudd Labor targets jobless youth in welfare cut
- Tulpan: Poverty and unrequited dreams on the Kazakh steppes
- Obama proposes token measures to close foreign tax loopholes
- Fierce offensive continues in northern Sri Lanka
- The Obama recovery
- Germany: IG Metall union backs Magna bid to acquire Opel
- “Socialism in One Country” and the Soviet economic debates of the 1920s
- Ireland: Unemployment expected to reach 17 percent
- Boston Globe shutdown averted for now
- Film director Sergey Dvortsevoy speaks with WSWS
- Canada’s ruling elite asserts its predatory Arctic ambitions
- US airstrikes kill scores of civilians in Afghanistan
2009-05-07
- China takes steps towards full convertibility of the yuan
- Visteon workers maintain action after accepting redundancy offer
- Official figures obscure rapidly rising joblessness in Australia
- US Justice Department report urges no prosecution over torture memos
- Berlin: Pro-religion referendum suffers resounding defeat
- Oppose the Afghanistan-Pakistan war
- North Korea threatens new nuclear tests
- With its state debt ballooning, German government prepares social cuts
- French “left” parties trail in European election campaign
- Letters from our readers
- British Prime Minister Brown faces possible leadership challenge
2009-05-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sri Lankan government whips up communal hysteria as war reaches climax
- Australia: Victorian bushfire royal commission—another whitewash in the making
- US bank stress tests rigged to benefit Wall Street
- Pakistani military intensifies its offensive
- Nepal’s Maoist prime minister steps down
- Bank demolishes new Southern California homes, citing low profit-potential
- California: Charges brought in death of teenage farm worker
- Mass abstention in Detroit mayoral election
- Protesting Continental workers occupy Sarreguemines factory
- Massacre of civilians overshadows “AfPak” summit
2009-05-09
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Los Angeles School Board eliminates thousands of teachers’ jobs
- Sri Lankan president prepares for “economic war” on workers
- British Labour’s divisive Equality Bill
- Germany: Neo-Nazis attack May Day demonstration in Dortmund
- CIA memo cites 40 Congressional briefings on torture
- US shed another half-million jobs in April
- Britain: ISSE to hold meetings on Charles Darwin
- UN’s Ban Ki Moon comes to the defence of Israel
- Five years after entry to the EU: Eastern European countries in crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Huge GM losses push automaker towards bankruptcy
2009-05-11
- Renowned pianist Krystian Zimerman protests US militarism during concert
- War crime in Sri Lanka: Civilians slaughtered by army shelling
- Sri Lanka: Arrested Tamil editor speaks to the WSWS
- Scottish Socialist Party denounces No2EU campaign—a tale of rival nationalisms
- Pakistan war fuels international tensions
- Indian election campaign enters final phase
- The Haymarket frame-up and the origins of May Day
- US: 12 million children face hunger and food insecurity
- Australia: Labor to take a knife to welfare in 2009 budget
2009-05-12
- A tribute to James Yancey: Volumes 5 and 6 of Madlib’s Beat Konducta series
- Danger of major swine flu outbreak continues
- Sri Lankan government defends army massacre
- After Afghan massacre, Washington says airstrikes will go on
- New York transit imposes fare hikes with deeper cuts still to come
- The Haymarket frame-up and the origins of May Day
- Canada’s Prime Minister inspects neocolonial occupation force in Afghanistan
- Finnish government slashes social spending
- Fiat plans mass sackings and plant closures throughout Europe
- SEP candidate certified for Detroit mayoral election
- Banks move to shake off government restrictions
2009-05-13
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- Massacre in Kurdish area highlights Turkey’s “village guard” system
- Obama prepares to resume military commissions of Guantánamo Bay prisoners
- Army’s war crimes continue in northern Sri Lanka
- Spain: Migrant workers spend years stranded outside “Fortress Europe”
- Seven Days in May, 2009
- Pentagon changes Afghanistan commander as military’s crisis deepens
- New insights derived from the hobbits of Flores
- The Haymarket frame-up and the origins of May Day
- Chicago suburb provided contaminated water
- China’s rich list continues to grow
2009-05-14
- Obama bows to Republican right and military on torture photos
- US: Cuts in Social Security, Medicare to pay for bank bailouts
- Families of dead Sri Lankan soldiers speak with WSWS
- Samson and Delilah: a searing portrait of life for Central Australian Aboriginal youth
- GM Europe and the global fight for jobs
- Pakistan government prepares for long-term war
- New York City demands rent from the homeless
- Warwick Thornton discusses Samson and Delilah with the WSWS
- India’s election ends, horse-trading begins
- “Green Shoots Withering”
- Letters from our readers
- Hearing on Buffalo air crash—schedules, conditions, pay: “a recipe for an accident”
- Australia: Labor’s budget reveals unprecedented revenue collapse
2009-05-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Steel workers storm ArcelorMittal headquarters in Luxembourg
- Sri Lankan military again shells hospital in no-fire zone
- Home of Slumdog Millionaire child actor destroyed by Mumbai authorities
- Sweden: Uncertainty over future of Saab
- Obama on torture photos: cover-up and complicity
- Political turmoil wracks northern state in Malaysia
- At least nine Haitian immigrants drown off Florida coast
- Australian government announces more pro-business concessions on carbon trading
- France: Caterpillar withdraws offer to reduce redundancies
- Unions, Democrats sponsor reactionary “Keep it Made in America” rallies
- A socialist strategy for American Axle workers
2009-05-16
- South Africa: Zuma appoints cabinet to please investors
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Uncertainty over IMF bailout deepens Sri Lankan financial crisis
- The lies of the CIA and Nancy Pelosi
- Britain: Labour government steps up plan to privatise Royal Mail
- Chapter Five: Pabloites cover up Stalinist treachery
- Chapter Four: Pabloite accomplices of counter-revolution
- Chapter Three: 1965—Stalinism’s bloody legacy
- Chapter Two: Stalinists betray the mass movement
- Chapter One: The historical background
- Australia: Royal Commission inquiry forced to investigate “stay or go” bushfire policy
- Closures of US auto dealerships will cost tens of thousands of jobs
- Letters from our readers
- Obama restarts military commission trials
- German cabinet agrees “bad banks” plan for unloading “toxic assets”
2009-05-18
- The California special election and its ramifications
- Political implications of the Sri Lankan war
- Right-wing rampage by Obama administration
- Britain: MPs’ expenses provoke outrage
- Australian government announces military buildup as strategic dilemma intensifies
- LA Times “special investigation” on teachers covers up assault on public education
- India: Re-elected Congress-led government to accelerate pace of pro-investor “reforms”
- The Idea Man at the Elephant Theatre Company in Los Angeles
- German state uses piracy as pretext to amend the constitution
- SEP and WSWS hold regional conferences in US
2009-05-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Unite trade union “March for Jobs”
- White House relies on UAW to ram through GM job cuts, concessions
- Sri Lankan army slaughters LTTE leaders
- Killing of Afghan civilians covered-up by Australian military
- The economic crisis and the resurgence of class conflict in the United States
- Obama’s sermon at Notre Dame
- The eight-hour-day movement and the birth of American labor
- The ETUC’s Days of Action—a cynical manoeuvre by Europe’s trade union bureaucracies
- Slide show: SEP mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier campaigns in Detroit
- China emerges as a major exporter of capital
- SEP candidate for Detroit mayor campaigns among auto workers, city residents
2009-05-20
- Turkish unemployment soars to record level
- Sri Lanka: Victory speech signals new assault on working people
- Part 1: Painful truths
- Panetta and Washington’s endless war
- Internationalism and the struggle for socialism
- Britain: House of Commons speaker resigns as MPs expenses row continues
- Indian Stalinist leader defends alliances with Congress and rightwing regional parties
- Communist Party of India (Marxist): a key prop of Indian bourgeois rule
- Germany: The Greens as a big business party
- US treasury secretary rejects limits on executive pay
- Unemployed graduates in China to reach 3 million in 2009
- US Supreme Court shields Bush administration officials from torture lawsuit
2009-05-21
- Teachers protest in Los Angeles as more budget cuts loom
- The Soloist: Strife and despair in the City of Angels
- Eyewitness account of Sri Lankan detention camps
- Senate Democrats block funding for Guantánamo Bay closure
- The world economic crisis, the failure of capitalism and the case for socialism
- Sri Lanka: the defeat of the LTTE and the dead-end of nationalism
- Australian Federal Police chief quits 18 months early
- Israeli police target young people for refusing military service
- Italy: Fiat workers protest against management and their union leadership
- US military denies atrocity in Afghanistan’s Farah province
- Video: Protesting students and parents speak to the WSWS
- Detroit students demonstrate against school restructuring
- Oppose school closures! Stop the shut down of Detroit!
- Biden in the Balkans: US asserts interests in shattered region
2009-05-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- London hearing in Ivory Coast toxic dumping lawsuit
- Sri Lankan government blocks international aid to detention camps
- Sri Lankan students protest against education privatisation
- Part 2: Human drama, partially treated
- Mass layoffs threaten San Francisco city workers
- The Obama-Cheney “debate” and the threat of dictatorship in America
- Japan’s economy suffers record contraction
- World economy in freefall
- Canada’s political elite spearheads attack on GM workers
- Polish PPP congress marks lurch to the right by the new European left
2009-05-23
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama’s AfPak war engulfs Pakistan’s Swat Valley
- Sri Lankan elites press for greater economic sacrifice
- UAW, Inc.
- Stoking hunger and homelessness: North Carolina jobless rate remains in double-digits
- Iceland: Social democrats and Left Greens finalise coalition agreement
- Letters from our readers
- California social programs threatened with devastation following special election
- Olivier Besancenot in Poland
2009-05-25
- London 7/7 bombing investigation a “whitewash”
- Australia: Evidence points to Labor cover-up over refugee boat deaths
- 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival Part 3: The trauma produced by events
- Pro-Israel forces attempt to silence University of California Santa Barbara professor
- Sri Lanka becomes a diplomatic battleground
- Two million rendered refugees by fighting in Pakistan
- Mexico’s “war on drugs” employs army torture and police-state tactics
- Obama offers nothing to the Palestinians
- Letters on the Obama administration, the CIA, and democratic rights
- Senate approves $91 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
2009-05-26
- D’Artagnan Collier visits striking city workers in Windsor, Ontario
- Spain: Unemployment could soar to one-in-four next year
- New evidence of Sri Lankan army war crimes
- The European election: Trade unions and the necessity for socialism
- Opel rescue plan: German unions offer wage cuts
- Former Lehman Brothers banker to head New York City’s Housing Authority
- Irish child abuse: The Ryan Report cover-up
- Stalinist Left Front suffers debacle in its West Bengal bastion
- For the unity of Canadian and American workers
- China and Russia forge closer military cooperation
- Growing calls for early general election in Britain
- Australia: James Hardie court ruling another affront to asbestosis victims
2009-05-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- French university strikes end in union betrayal
- 75th anniversary of the Toledo Auto-Lite strike
- Unions and Detroit school board hold meeting to prepare for concessions
- Star Trek: Boldly going where no man has gone before, again
- Doctor condemns conditions in Sri Lankan detention camps
- Obama names Sonia Sotomayor to US Supreme Court
- US media ignores threat to democratic rights
- Stop the shutdown of Detroit!
- Stop the shutdown of Detroit!
- France: Port of Marseille hit by economic crisis
- North Korean nuclear test triggers international tensions
- Britain: Job losses escalate across all sectors
- Fijian military junta faces economic and social turmoil
- French “anti-capitalist” Olivier Besancenot justifies collaboration with reformists and Polish nationalists
- Reject GM-government-UAW blackmail!
2009-05-28
- New York “terror” arrests: another government-orchestrated plot
- Thousands of soldiers perished in Sri Lankan war
- The issues facing Screen Actors Guild members
- Australian bushfire royal commission: Survivors expose “stay or go” policy
- The fundamental social division is class, not race or gender
- Millions displaced as Pakistani military extends its offensive
- The German Left Party loses support and two prominent members
- US Supreme Court ruling curbs “identity theft” arrests of immigrants
- The Grundgesetz: 60 years of Germany’s post-war constitution
- Credit card “bill of rights” puts few restraints on banks
- Grim forecasts for British economy
- GM workers speak out on concessions contract
2009-05-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Torture photos: US soldiers raped, sodomized Iraqi prisoners
- Thai economy contracts, exacerbating political tensions
- US: Army base ordered on stand-down after multiple suicides
- UN body covers up Sri Lankan government’s war crimes
- Wall Street throws General Motors into bankruptcy
- US Army chief sees Iraq, Afghanistan occupations continuing for a decade
- Poland: Last shipyards in Gdansk threatened with closure
- French Socialist Party considers alliances to the left and to the right
- “England People” deeply flawed
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: Furor over soaring federal budget deficit
2009-05-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan government prepares broad attack on democratic rights
- Obama administration targets the working class
- The Opel rescue plan: Who is being rescued?
- Solomon Islands: Julian Moti challenges Australian government’s “politically-motivated” prosecution
- Capitalist breakdown and the need for a socialist Europe
- Lymelife: How filmmakers look at recent American life
- Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic claims US granted him immunity
- India’s Congress-led government to do big business’ bidding
- US cybersecurity plan poses new war threats, attacks on democratic rights
- More letters on Obama, Cheney and democratic rights
- Auto parts maker Visteon files for bankruptcy
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