Archive: 08/2009
2009-08-01
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Vote for D’Artagnan Collier, SEP Candidate for Detroit Mayor
- States cut social programs as deficits deepen
- Billions in bonuses for bailed-out bankers
- Great power rivalries and the Nabucco pipeline project
- Michigan House Democratic leader proposes assault on public employee health care
- Australia: Business lending dries up
- Sri Lanka: ISSE-SEP meeting in Colombo on Karl Marx and Charles Darwin
- Obama’s diplomatic offensive in the Middle East
- Factional struggles deepen within Iranian ruling elites
- Honduran coup regime launches brutal crackdown
- Who is Klaus Franz?
- Letters on the Gates arrest
- Is Chéri genuinely ‘subversive’?
2009-08-03
- Somalia: Obama administration sends arms to prop up Islamist government
- Sri Lankan government launches “war on the underworld”
- Germany: Management speculation threatens survival of Porsche car works
- Obama touts economic “recovery”
- Pennsylvania state workers speak out on payless paydays
- US: Florida economy hit by housing collapse
- Indonesian president’s re-election disputed
- Fresh evidence of British collusion in torture
- Civilian death toll soaring in Afghanistan
- 500 Days of Summer: The eternally sunlit paradise that is Los Angeles
2009-08-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- German unions sell out childcare staff
- Sri Lankan government stalls on release of Tamil detainees
- Australia: Labor conference endorses war and “sacrifice”
- CIA director issues a warning to Congress
- Australian unions endorse Labor’s draconian industrial relations laws
- Los Angeles: immigrant workers protest layoffs, repression
- Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, 1933-2009
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: National Health Service hospital faces privatisation
- Pentagon to press for more troops in Afghan war
2009-08-05
- Australian police carry out sweeping new “anti-terror” raids
- New York hospital workers face massive concessions in reopened contract
- Obama seeks to institutionalize indefinite detention
- Australia: Victorian paramedics protest for safer conditions
- Mass arrests at Malaysian protest
- US health care lobby pumps millions into Obama’s cost-cutting drive
- US military base plan fuels Latin American tensions
- Israel: The significance of the Bar-Noah gay shooting
- Iranian election crisis continues amid growing US threats
- Elderly man resisting eviction shot by Detroit police
- Unemployment rises sharply across Europe
- Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, 1933-2009
2009-08-06
- Britain: Visteon workers appoint solicitor to investigate pensions rip-off
- South Korea: Violent police operation mounted against Ssangyong auto occupation
- Whose recovery?
- Bill Clinton’s visit to North Korea: a tactical shift in US foreign policy
- Obama mortgage plan aids banks, not homeowners
- Australia: Labor’s “reform” to further privatise health care
- Mauritania: Western rapprochement after coup leader Aziz wins election
- Coup regime steps up repression in Honduras
- Germany: 6 million unemployed
- Mass abstention in Detroit mayoral elections
- The political lessons of the Detroit mayoral elections
- Letters from our readers
- US House passes toothless CEO pay law
2009-08-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan plantation unions undermine workers’ pay
- Korean unions end Ssangyong occupation on company terms
- Writer Budd Schulberg, unrepentant informer, dead at 95
- Mounting popular opposition to the war in Afghanistan
- State Department spells out US stand on Honduran coup
- Gurrumul: an evocative and unique musical contribution
- Georgia remains focus of Washington-Moscow tensions
- The drug lobby demands, and gets, Obama pledge to protect health care profits
- Obama continues brutal immigrant detention policies
2009-08-08
- US payrolls fell another quarter-million in July
- A Thousand Splendid Suns: The plight of Afghan women only partially depicted
- Unions isolate Sri Lankan nurses’ campaign for safety measures
- The assassination of Baitullah Mehsud
- Nancy Pelosi’s summer vacation
- Republic of Moldova: Pro European Union forces win parliamentary election
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Rudd government urges employers and unions to cut hours and wages
- US: Report details immigrant abuse by government authorities
- Letters from our readers
- Parliamentary committee for inquiry into British complicity in torture
- US soldier who opposes Afghan war sentenced
2009-08-10
- Grief turns to anger over Tongan ferry tragedy
- A corrupt election in Afghanistan
- Ireland’s “bad bank” becomes a €90 billion property speculator
- The Hurt Locker: Part of a deplorable trend
- US cities criminalize homelessness
- Britain: Government plans further fund cuts in elderly care
- China’s dubious statistics cover up economic crisis
- Three more US banks collapse
2009-08-11
- China carries out mass arrests in Xinjiang
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Media promotes sensationalised “terror” claims
- Sri Lanka: Jaffna University students speak to WSWS
- Paulson and Goldman Sachs: A dirty secret of the Wall Street bailout
- US: Pennsylvania's Democratic governor vetoes social spending
- German worker dismissed for “stealing electricity” at work for cell phone
- Germany: Berlin cinema shows films commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Letters from our readers
- US military and intelligence agencies identify climate change as “national security” threat
- Lithuania leads Baltic economic slump
- US occupation caused “major damage” to historic site in Iraq
2009-08-12
- US corporations squeezing more output from workers and paying lower wages
- SPD leader presents “Germany Plan”
- Massive abstention in Sri Lankan local elections
- What is behind the opposition to the Obama healthcare plan?
- New Zealand government redeploys elite SAS troops to Afghanistan
- Australian jobless statistics reveal deep cuts to hours
- The Google Book Search copyright settlement and the future of information—Part 1
- Scottish Nationalist, Labour hypocrisy over Diageo job losses
2009-08-13
- Australia: Media buries fake email scandal
- US Marine Corps renews ban on social networking sites
- Swine flu infections spread to 160 countries
- British homeowners fall prey to “sale and rent back” scams
- Prison riot in California
- Obama’s Abu Ghraib solution
- Maneuvers continue in GM-Opel takeover
- The Google Book Search copyright settlement and the future of information—Part 2
- Letters from our readers
- Pentagon to Obama: Send more troops or lose war in Afghanistan
2009-08-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: West Gate employer uses Rudd government’s new laws to attack workers
- US Federal Reserve hails prospects for a business recovery
- British homeowners fall prey to “sale and rent back” scams
- Australian officials exclude WSWS from reporting on Pacific Islands Forum
- Australian government tightens grip over Pacific Islands Forum
- The New York Times and Obama’s health care counterrevolution
- NAFTA summit papers over divisions between US, Mexico and Canada
- Funny People: Requiem for a paperweight
- Chinese labour report points to rising discontent
- New evidence shows Bush White House orchestrated purge of US attorneys
- British Army chief says military may have 40-year Afghan role
2009-08-15
- Britain: Report into police killing of Ian Tomlinson handed to Crown Prosecution Service
- Sri Lanka kidnaps LTTE leader
- Economic nationalism on the rise in Europe
- Violence sweeps northwest Pakistan in wake of Mehsud assassination
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- China-India border talks highlight rising tensions
- Four hundred years since Galileo’s astronomical discoveries
- Fatah’s congress followed by hollow claims of a “new beginning”
- Letters from our readers
2009-08-17
- Another major US bank collapses
- Official unemployment in Britain tops 2.4 million
- Typhoon Morakot devastates Taiwan
- Balibo: A war crime exposed
- The failure of Russia’s free-market pension reform
- Director Robert Connolly speaks with WSWS
- Healthcare and the social crisis in America
- Germany: Klaus Ernst and the Left Party support drastic wage cuts
- Hillary Clinton seeks to strengthen US imperialism’s position in Africa
2009-08-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Interviews at Los Angeles health care clinic
- Obama pledges intensified war in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Talks on labour relations in Spain break down
- Sri Lanka: Thousands protest against police killings
- Vote for the Socialist Equality Party in the German parliamentary elections
- South Korea: The political lessons of the Ssangyong occupation
- Thousands attend free health clinic in Los Angeles
- White House drops public health care option
- Letters from our readers
- US soldier sentenced to year in prison for refusing to fight in Afghanistan
2009-08-19
- Washington, D.C., track worker killed in accident
- Britain: What can be learned from the occupation of Vestas?
- Australia: Rudd government toughens anti-terror laws
- Federal regulators covered up Ponzi scheme at Stanford bank
- US income gap widest since 1917
- Les Paul: A legacy of ground-breaking musical invention
- US health care row spreads to UK
- Stock market gyrations reflect fears of protracted global slump
- For a united movement of Detroit workers! Form rank-and-file committees to oppose concessions!
- Balkan governments introduce harsh austerity measures
2009-08-20
- Calls for spending cuts and tax hikes in wake of Toronto municipal strike
- Sri Lanka: Police state measures against nurses
- Afghanistan’s gunpoint election
- US-British conflict over release of Libyan convicted of Lockerbie bombing
- Indian students in Australia speak to WSWS about recent racist attacks
- One in nine Americans uses food stamps
- Economic recovery in Europe: Rhetoric and reality
- Letters from our readers
- New AIG head to get at least $7 million annually
2009-08-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Britain: Postal union attempts to control escalating strike wave
- America’s Death Squads Inc.
- Baghdad bombings cast doubt on US troop withdrawals
- Indonesian court rejects election challenge
- Detroit city workers oppose concessions, layoffs
- US Supreme Court orders new hearing for Georgia death row inmate
- 2008 US Census shows sharp increase in poverty
- Canada: Federal Court of Appeal upholds order to repatriate Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr
- One in three youth in Berlin living on welfare
- Australia: Aboriginal residents of Ampilatwatja walk out over housing conditions
- Mass abstention and vote rigging in Afghanistan election
2009-08-22
- Texas judge on trial for refusing to hear death row inmate’s appeal
- US workplace suicides up by 28 percent
- China: Protesting steel workers halt plant privatisation
- Sri Lanka: Detention of Tamil civilians to continue indefinitely
- Ridge’s “revelations” on US terror alerts
- Britain: Government sued over illegal detentions in Afghanistan
- Washington praises Afghan election fiasco to justify war escalation
- US presses Pakistan for offensive in South Waziristan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
- Obama administration uses Blackwater in drone killings
2009-08-24
- Australian teachers union calls for streamlined dismissals
- South Korean government witch-hunts Ssangyong workers
- Hydroelectric catastrophe in Russia
- 70 years since the Hitler-Stalin Pact
- US: New revelations on immigrant detainee abuse
- Iceland: Bank bailout and corruption scandals fuel protests
- The firing of a German supermarket cashier: A case of class justice
- Former Wehrmacht officer condemned as war criminal
- Blackwater mercenaries used for CIA renditions
- War to escalate after Afghan election
2009-08-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Internal CIA report shows agents tortured, killed prisoners
- Unite all Detroit area workers to defend public education and defeat the attack on jobs and living standards!
- Riot breaks out in Kentucky prison
- Massive police mobilization prepared for G20 summit in Pittsburgh
- Bernanke's apologia for the Fed
- Australia: Growing opposition among Victorian paramedics to Brumby-union sell out deal
- Lockerbie: Transatlantic row worsens over Megrahi release
- Japan’s fragile economy overshadows general election
- Wildfires threaten Greek capital
- California braces for new round of budget cuts
2009-08-26
- Australia: Bus drivers strike in defiance of union
- Australia: Court case against West Gate workers ends in plea bargain
- Detroit teachers rally against concessions and layoffs
- Obama, rendition, and the decay of American democracy
- The bidding war for Opel and German-Russian relations
- 75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike–Part one
- Mexican economy in free-fall
- Obama health care overhaul based on cost-cutting and deficit reduction
- Britain: High Court hears evidence on police violence against G20 protest
- US fears mount over Afghan election travesty
2009-08-27
- Detroit teachers denounce pay cuts
- CIA probe shields architects of US torture regime
- Union calls off protest by unemployed graduates in Sri Lanka
- Sweden: Koenigsegg bid to buy Saab under threat
- Ted Kennedy and the decay of American liberalism
- 75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike—Part two
- Italy: Xenophobic immigration policy leads to hundreds of deaths in the Mediterranean
- Letters from our readers
- Rhode Island to shut down for 12 days
- Obama reappoints Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman
- Afghan war escalating in defiance of popular opposition
2009-08-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Detroit teachers’ union blocks strike action against wage cuts, layoffs
- Sri Lankan government to impose onerous restrictions on political parties
- For a national boycott of NAPLAN by teachers, parents and students!
- Putin’s ten years in power
- Washington’s double standard: The elections in Iran and Afghanistan
- GM and Opel: the struggle for dominance in the global auto market
- 75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike—Part three
- Australia: NSW teachers union censors debate at mass meeting
- Japan’s elections: the Communist Party’s role
- Union official takes the helm at New York Federal Reserve
- Bing administration issues layoff ultimatum to Detroit city workers
- US debt to hit $20 trillion by 2020
- Thousands denied child care due to Pennsylvania budget cuts
2009-08-29
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Video evidence of Sri Lankan government war crimes
- Coup in Honduras enters its third month
- 75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike—Part four
- Japanese government faces landslide electoral defeat
- 2009 German parliamentary election: a conspiracy of silence on the implications of the economic crisis
- Scotland: Report exposes bankruptcy of official campaign over Diageo jobs
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on the death of Kennedy
- US government list of “problem banks” tops 400
- Obama’s AfPak war intensifies on both sides of border
2009-08-31
- Turkey: The Kurdish question takes centre stage
- Sri Lankan power workers strike for pay increase
- Germany: SEP begins crucial phase of federal election campaign
- Report exposes abuse at New York youth prisons
- Ten years since East Timor’s independence vote
- 75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike
- Japanese voters sweep Liberal Democrats from office
- Cheney defends torture policy and CIA torturers
- Britain to continue privately run school academies
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