4 March 2009
Auto sales plunge 42 percent
US slump, Wall Street slide deepen
By Patrick Martin, 4 March 2009
A 42 percent fall in new car sales in February was one of a series of negative economic indicators, including a sharp fall in construction spending, new mass layoffs, further shrinkage in manufacturing, and a gloomy forecast from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
US plans for military intervention in Sri Lanka
By Wije Dias, 4 March 2009
Sri Lanka’s Sunday Times has revealed plans for a US-led military mission into the island’s northern war zone in the guise of evacuating civilians trapped by intense fighting between the army and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Pakistan: Terrorist attack targets international cricket match
By Keith Jones, 4 March 2009
Eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured when unidentified terrorists mounted a commando-style raid Tuesday morning on a convoy of vehicles carrying players and umpires to a Pakistani-Sri Lankan cricket match in Lahore.
Polish economy tumbles as global investors take flight
By Marius Heuser, 4 March 2009
Twenty years after the restoration of capitalism, the Polish economy is facing economic collapse as foreign capital flows out of the country.
Russian government moves to save big business, suppress opposition
By Vladimir Volkov, 4 March 2009
The Kremlin’s initial declarations about Russia’s supposed immunity from the global economic crisis have been replaced with statements of fear about economic destabilization and social unrest.
Britain: Ex-boss of failed RBS bank awarded £25 million pension
By Niall Green, 4 March 2009
The row over the pension awarded the former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), Sir Fred Goodwin, has become ever more charged.
Australia: Reject backroom deals! Launch an independent struggle to defend Pacific Brands jobs!
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 4 March 2009
Pacific Brands workers should reject the closed-door talks underway between the company, the Rudd government and the clothing union, and launch an independent struggle to save the more than 2,700 jobs and ten factories being axed by the company in Australia, New Zealand and China.
7.3 million in the US prison system
By Kate Randall, 4 March 2009
A study released this week by the Pew Center on the States delivers a staggering statistic: 7.3 million Americans—or 1 in every 31 adults—are in the nation’s prison system. No other country comes close to matching this number. If these individuals were grouped together, they would number more than the entire populations of Israel or Honduras, or all of the residents of Washington state.
Amid continued US looting of cultural materials:
Iraqi museum reopens
By Sandy English, 4 March 2009
The National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, which has been closed since it was looted and vandalized in the first days of the American invasion in 2003, reopened last week to pronounced controversy.
New in German
Europa-Parteitag der Linken in
Essen
Trotz Klage gegen Lissabon-Vertrag: Unterstützung für die
EU
Von Dietmar Henning, 4. März 2009
Auf ihrem Parteitag in Essen zur Europawahl hat sich die Linke trotz radikaler Phrasen klar hinter die Europäische Union gestellt.
Brüssel: Differenzen bestimmen EU-Krisengipfel
Von Stefan Steinberg, 4. März 2009
Beim EU-Gipfel in Brüssel konnten sich die Mitgliedsländer auf keinerlei konkrete Maßnahmen gegen die Wirtschaftskrise einigen.
Berliner Finanzsenator Sarrazin wird belohnt
Von Emma Bode, 4. März 2009
Der Finanzsenator der rot-roten Landesregierung Berlins wird zum 1. Mai diesen Jahres in den Vorstand der deutschen Bundesbank wechseln. Sarrazin wird von der SPD mit diesem lukrativen Posten für seine erfolgreiche Politik der vergangenen Jahre, zugunsten der Reichen und Mächtigen, belohnt.
Der Wirtschaftszusammenbruch von 2008 und seine revolutionäre Bedeutung - Teil 4
Von Nick Beams, 4. März 2009
Der Zusammenbruch des Kapitalismus ist nicht einfach eine Wirtschaftskrise. Er bedeutet den Beginn einer neuen Epoche, in der das Schicksal der Gesellschaft für die nächsten Jahrzehnte entschieden wird. Wir sind jetzt in eine solche Periode eingetreten. Das Jahr 1914 signalisierte den ersten großen Zusammenbruch der kapitalistischen Ordnung. Das Jahr 2008 markiert den zweiten.
New in French
Le sommet financier européen dominé par les divisions nationales
Par Stefan Steinberg, 4 mars 2009
Les tentatives crispées des leaders européens le 22 février à Berlin de montrer qu’ils étaient unis tenaient un peu de la farce. Ils échangèrent bien salutations et baisers devant les caméras, se tapant mutuellement sur l’épaule, mais, dans les coulisses, les divisions entre les principales puissances européennes vont s’aggravant.
New in Russian
Латвийское правительство заявляет о своей отставке на фоне углубления кризиса в Восточной Европе
Маркус Зальцманн, 4 марта 2009 г.
В прошедшую пятницу латвийское правоцентристское правительство заявило о своей отставке на фоне углубляющегося экономического кризиса. Это уже второй случай распада правительства европейской страны в результате международного финансового кризиса - первый имел место в Исландии, где правительство ушло в отставку в январе после того, как массовые акции протеста заполнили улицы Рейкьявика.
Perspective
US Justice Department memos: the specter of military dictatorship
4 March 2009
The nine Bush era memos released Monday by the US Justice Department represent a legal brief for military dictatorship, a threat that has not gone away with the coming into office of the Obama administration.
Arts Review
WSWS arts editor David Walsh speaks at meetings in San Diego and Los Angeles
By our correspondents,
4 March 2009
In meetings at San Diego State University and at the Santa Monica Public Library in the Los Angeles last week, WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh addressed students, artists and workers on “The future of art in an age of crisis.”
Socialist Equality Party
World Socialist Web Site and SEP/ISSE conference
The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism, and the Case
for Socialism
2 March 2009
The World Socialist Web Site, the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the International Students for Social Equality are sponsoring this conference to examine the origins of the economic crisis and discuss the necessary program and perspective for a new socialist movement of the American and international working class.
Workers Struggles
Reject UAW sellout at Ford! Mobilize autoworkers to defend jobs and living standards!
26 February 2009
Ford workers should reject the sellout agreement negotiated by the United Auto Workers union and fight to mobilize the strength of all autoworkers against the attack on jobs, living standards and working conditions.
Videos and Images
GM workers denounce concession demands

Chrysler workers oppose pay cuts, concession demands

Over 100,000 demonstrate in London against Sri Lankan war

Funeral for Michigan man frozen following utility shut-off

Exposing Franco's mass graves

Bay City, Michigan residents speak on death from utility shut-off

WSWS interviews London protesters

London demonstrators protest Israeli assault on Gaza

Chrysler workers denounce pay cuts

The Writer and Revolution: A conversation with Trevor Griffiths

WSWS report on Chicago factory occupation

The rise and fall of Highland Park, Michigan

UK photographic exhibition: Images of War

Kandy O'Neill speaks to the WSWS
Thousands mourn Detroit firefighter

Wilmington, Ohio residents speak on DHL job cuts

WSWS interviews workers at Detroit poverty summit

SEP Candidate Jerry White speaks in Chicago

WSWS speaks with family members of Michigan fire victims

Detroit residents denounce social decay in fire deaths

Highland Park, Michigan residents speak on deadly fire

Northern Territory intervention: Comments from an Aboriginal town

New York workers denounce Wall Street bailout

SEP presidential candidate speaks with workers in Detroit

WSWS interviews director of homeless shelter in Los Angeles

SEP presidential candidate denounces Wall Street bailout

SEP presidential candidate speaks on financial crisis

New York City taxi drivers speak to WSWS on gas prices
Northern Territory intervention: Photographs by John Hulme

Social crisis in Detroit: Food banks struggle to meet needs

Social crisis in Detroit: "We don't take that Sunday drive"

Arrests on American Axle picket line in Detroit
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