Archive: 04/2007
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
April 2, 2007
- Shoddy structures led to workers’ deaths during West Australian cyclone
- Wide popular interest, deep political tensions dominate French presidential election
- Indigènes: The French army’s exploited North African soldiers
- International Students for Social Equality/Socialist Equality Party conference adopts socialist internationalist perspective to oppose war
- Poverty rises in Britain as money poured into Iraq war
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A wanton cover-up
No British soldiers found guilty in murder of Iraqi worker
April 3, 2007
- Democratic cave-in on White House testimony in US attorney firings
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Welsh Assembly elections:
SEP candidate discusses lessons of Burberry factory closure with workers - Bush skips baseball’s opening day
- Letters from our readers
- 2008 election campaign: Hillary Clinton claims lead in the “money primary”
- Sri Lankan government jails former minister on trumped up charges
- Australia: Union’s refusal to defend jobs leaves Tristar workers in limbo
- A damning report on attacks against free speech in Turkey
- Workers struggles: The Americas
April 4, 2007
- Behind Washington “showdown” on Iraq: Democrats to fully fund the war
- Standoff over detained British sailors occasions US threats against Iran
- US demands bring Iraqi government to brink of collapse
- Whom is John McCain trying to fool?
- Australian immigration detainees launch hunger strike
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Resolution adopted by the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
End the occupation of Iraq! No to war against Iran! For an international socialist movement against war! - US Supreme Court refuses to hear Guantánamo appeals
April 5, 2007
- Socialist Equality Party of Britain on the ballot for May 3 elections
- Record US presidential fund-raising: The best elections money can buy
- Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”: Fifty years later and in its own time
- Iran’s release of sailors: A humiliating episode for Britain
- Germany: Arbeiterpresse Verlag presents its 2007 publishing programme at the Leipzig Book Fair
- Solomon Islands: tsunami causes humanitarian disaster
- Sri Lankan authorities continue to stall over disappearance of SEP member
April 6, 2007
- Canberra prepares rapprochement with Fijian military junta
- France: Police attack defenders of immigrant school children
- Exchange of letters with Iraq Body Count on Johns Hopkins study estimating 650,000 Iraqi war dead
- Iran charges Washington with sponsoring terrorist attacks
- David North to refute falsifications of Trotsky’s life at lectures in Scotland and Wales
- North Korea nuclear talks break down over funds transfer
- Resolution adopted by the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War on the disappearance of SEP member in Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
April 7, 2007
- Egypt: New constitution makes martial law permanent
- New Ford CEO received $39.1 million in 2006
- Amnesty International report: conditions for Guantánamo prisoners worsening
- British marine admitted that captured patrol was spying on Iran
- As US, British death toll rises: Pentagon orders 14,000 National Guard troops to Iraq
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Opening remarks to the conference
The political foundation for a movement against war - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The Namesake: for the most part, a failure to “concentrate on the things that matter”
April 9, 2007
- More calls for attorney general to resign over firings of US attorneys
- Contributions to ISSE/SEP conference: David North and Patrick Martin
- Germany: Left Party and Election Alternative seal their merger
- East Timor: Presidential election campaign held under ongoing Australian occupation
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SEP election campaign: Welsh Labour denounces antiwar opposition
Local residents respond - US government admits backing Zimbabwe’s opposition
April 10, 2007
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No free speech for “Voices in Conflict”:
US: High school play about Iraq war cancelled -
Despite interference from US and other countries
Climate change report outlines dire impact of global warming -
India: Five years after 2002 Gujarat pogrom
While the victims languish, the perpetrators go unpunished - Hundreds of thousands march in Iraq to demand end of US occupation
- Contributions to the ISSE/SEP conference: David Walsh and Joanne Laurier
- Senate Democrats pledge funding to continue Iraq war
- Freed British sailors allege torture by Iran: Why do the media ask no questions?
- Tommy Sheridan’s big hint that he will back the Scottish National Party
- Bush administration backs Canberra’s campaign against Solomon Islands’ government
- Sri Lankan authorities provide no answers over disappearance of SEP member
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 11, 2007
- Police killing of teacher provokes national strike in Argentina
- Brazil: Workers occupy factory where Lula once worked
- Hunger strike expanding despite repression at Guantánamo prison camp
- Iranian diplomat accuses US of detention and torture
- After mass protest in Iraq: US forces press attack on Sadrist movement
- Contributions to the ISSE/SEP conference: Jerome White and Helen Halyard
- US: Investigation exposes extensive corruption in student loan dealings
- Deported refugee commits suicide in Romania
- An exchange on the Spanish Civil War: Socialism or a bourgeois republic?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 12, 2007
- US raid on mosque leads to massacre in Baghdad
- Britain: Anger at sailors selling stories forces government U-turn
- US steps up trade pressure on China
- Letters from our readers
- French presidential elections: Four in ten voters undecided
- Contributions to the ISSE/SEP conference: Bill Van Auken and Barry Grey
- Italy: Hostile reception in Rome for a leader of Communist Refoundation
- Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting to demand inquiry into member’s disappearance
- Scottish Socialist Party election manifesto—a nationalist diatribe
April 13, 2007
- Banking giant Citigroup to cut 17,000 jobs
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After racial slur against women athletes
US talk show host Don Imus taken off the air - Pentagon extends tours for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
- ISSE/SEP Conference: Report on the work of the International Students for Social Equality
- Abe’s denial of Japan’s wartime sex slavery provokes tensions
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French police arrest dozens of Sri Lankan Tamils
Raids target LTTE - John McCain at VMI: A blunt statement of US imperialism’s stake in Iraq
- US judge rejects demand to dismiss Padilla case on grounds of torture
- Scottish National Party—still Tartan Tories beneath the left veneer
- Uncertain East Timorese presidential election outcome foreshadows further instability
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
April 14, 2007
- As fatalities mount, Canada’s Conservative government moves to extend Afghan intervention
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Detroit Chrysler worker speaks out on impact of mass layoffs
“This is a major change in our lives and we have no control over it” -
John Edwards’ “Other America”
Democratic presidential hopeful moves into 28,200 square foot mansion - A number of new films: Offside; The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair; Bamako; Daratt (Dry Season); The Lives of Others
- German media, politicians launch chauvinist campaign over a “Muslim takeover” of Germany
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Guantánamo Bay detainee railroaded into guilty plea
The issues of principle in the case of David Hicks - Civilian compensation claims: a glimpse into US crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Contributions to the ISSE/SEP Conference on student work
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Scotland: Debate on independence sidelines Iraq war
- SEP candidate in Wales demands the return of missing Tamil socialist
April 16, 2007
- Fiji: Public sector workers vote to strike despite military regime’s threats
- Bush administration seeking to expand spying powers
- Atheism in the service of political reaction: A comment on author Sam Harris
- Socialist Labour League of India to hold public meeting on Nandigram peasant massacre
- Report to the ISSE/SEP Conference: On the political situation in Europe
- Pakistan: Will Bhutto’s PPP come to Musharraf’s rescue?
- War crimes investigation after Ethiopia shells civilians in Somali capital
- Abduction of journalist exposes police-state tactics in Sri Lanka
- Political tensions increase as Turkish presidential elections approach
- Scandal, political tensions spur demands for Wolfowitz’s ouster at World Bank
April 17, 2007
- Military-backed regime in Bangladesh postpones elections for 18 months
- Letters from our readers
- Eight killed as oil rig support vessel capsizes off coast of Scotland
- Military and money dominate opening of US 2008 presidential campaign
- Will White House sacrifice Gonzales to save Rove?
- Iraqi parliament bombing: a sign of deepening crisis
- Report to the ISSE/SEP Conference: On internationalism and the political situation in Australia
- Trial of “enemy combatant” Jose Padilla begins
- What are Britain’s special-forces doing in northern Iraq?
- Two American universities clamp down on student anti-sweatshop protests
- Ukrainian political crisis deepens after Yushchenko dissolves parliament
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More than 30 dead at Virginia Tech
Worst shooting incident in US history - Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 18, 2007
- Australia: bipartisan support for media instigator of Cronulla race riot
- India’s Hindu-chauvinist BJP attempts to incite communal riots ahead of pivotal state election
- Further lurch to the right in French election campaign
- Germany: Green Party attacks peace marches
- Israel: One third of Holocaust survivors live in poverty
- Reports to the ISSE/SEP Conference: Canada and Italy
- ICFI holds Paris memorial meeting for Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
- Court appeal scheduled for US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Poland’s new “lustration” law—a profound attack on democratic rights
- Under pressure from below, Sadrist ministers withdraw from Iraqi cabinet
- The Virginia Tech massacre—social roots of another American tragedy
- Labour plans to gut National Health Service in Wales
April 19, 2007
- US Supreme Court rules in favor of abortion restrictions
- Australia dispatches more troops for phoney “war on terror” in Afghanistan
- Bush, Democrats meet on war funding as violence soars in Iraq
- US continues detention of five Iranian officials in Iraq
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Four years since the looting of the National Museum
The plunder of Iraqi antiquities continues - Report to the ISSE conference: on the political situation in Sri Lanka and the disappearance of SEP member Nadarajah Wimaleswaran
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French presidential election
Extreme right candidate Le Pen profits from the bankruptcy of the “left” - Oil company CEO nets $460 million in 2006
- Solidarity and the Scottish Socialist Party: Programmes for a capitalist Scotland
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Balance sheet of the German trade unions
Wages for workers sink, salaries for managers skyrocket
April 20, 2007
- Anger erupts in Iraq over Baghdad bombings
- The malignant resentments that erupted into mass murder in Virginia
- Letters on the tragedy at Virginia Tech
- Greetings to the ISSE/SEP Conference: Britain
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Presidential election in France
The dismal world of Lutte Ouvrière and Arlette Laguiller - Posada Carriles: terrorist who killed 73 in plane bombing walks free
- The Scotsman newspaper misrepresents SEP campaign
- East Timor: Hunt for “rebel” military leader called off
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
April 21, 2007
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Sydney inquest produces new evidence
Australian governments covered up 1975 execution of “Balibo Five” newsmen -
French presidential election
Bayrou poses as alternative to Sarkozy -
In wake of Nandigram massacre
West Bengal’s Stalinist chief minister invited to Washington - Leading Democrats posture on abortion ruling
- Gonzalez before the Senate Judiciary Committee: The Bush clique on life support
- US steps up pressure on Iran’s nuclear programs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Stop the War Coalition’s humble appeal to Labour’s “new Prime Minister”
- Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia
April 23, 2007
- Berlin district office cancels meeting room for PSG meeting on May 1
- Canada’s Green leader backs the Liberals
- Britain: Socialist Equality Party distributes election statement
- Study details US junk food industry’s targeting of youth through TV ads
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French presidential election
Sarkozy and Royal to compete in second round - Wen’s visit fails to end Sino-Japanese tensions
- International conference highlights plight of Iraqi refugees
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An attack on the World Socialist Web Site in the Boston Globe
US media hides behind the Virginia Tech tragedy
April 24, 2007
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Austria: 100 days of the grand coalition government
Militarization and social redistribution of wealth continue - Climate change seen as “security threat” by UN Security Council, US military experts
- More letters on the tragedy at Virginia Tech
- After strong growth, world economy at a “turning point”
- Haditha massacre report: US commanders see killing Iraqi civilians as “cost of doing business”
- Call for Nigerian presidential election to be annulled after massive corruption
- Huge sewage pollution in Scotland linked to Thames Water’s cost-cutting
- Sri Lankan defence secretary menaces newspaper editor
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Jack Thomas “control order” case
Australian government argues for mass detention power in “war on terror” - Torture exposed in new US-Iraqi “security stations”
- Welsh voters denounce main parties
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 25, 2007
- Iraqis oppose US plan to divide Baghdad into ghettos
- Iraq: Nine US troops dead, 20 wounded in Baqubah
- Washington’s Iraq funding “confrontation:” a dispute over tactics for continuing the war
- Scottish Greens vie for coalition with a pledge to abandon protest politics
- Who missed the deadline on the North Korean nuclear deal?
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Australia:
Final votes counted in New South Wales election campaign - The Situation: a drama of the Iraq war
- India’s elite touts Tata’s Corus Steel takeover as proof India a “global player”
April 26, 2007
- Letters from our readers
- After first round of French election: the contest for the “centre”
- Britain: Labour whips up anti-immigrant prejudice
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UN warns of growing humanitarian crisis in occupied Iraq
Iraqi government withholds civilian death count - British Lancet medical journal calls for defeat of Australian government
- PSG takes legal action against Berlin district office over meeting ban
- The bitter legacy of Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007)
- Regional powers provide a pittance in aid to tsunami victims in Solomon Islands
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold May Day meeting in Colombo
- Pat Tillman’s brother denounces the US military’s “deliberate and calculated lies”
- Toyota surpasses GM in global auto sales
April 27, 2007
- Reports confirm Canada’s complicity in Afghan state torture
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Berlin district council meeting upholds ban on PSG meeting
Councillor admits decision politically motivated - Workers Struggles: Europe
- US moves to limit lawyers’ access to Guantánamo inmates
- Top hedge-fund managers average $540 million in income
- US, Japan and India flex naval muscle in the Pacific
- Senate passes Iraq war spending bill, paving way to Bush veto
- Sri Lanka: LTTE mounts second air attack as government forces intensify offensive
- Obituary: Kurt Vonnegut, satirist and pessimist
April 28, 2007
- Democratic presidential candidates debate where to wage war next
- US: FDA knew of food contamination for years
- US economic growth slows as housing bubble deflates
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Massacre in Mogadishu—war crime made in the USA
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Millionaire landowner to save the National Health Service?
The bankrupt alliance of Scottish Voice and NHS First -
French presidential elections
Royal moves into the camp of Bayrou - Australian Labor leader’s US trip: a nod from Murdoch and the Washington establishment
- SEP writes to Sri Lankan defence secretary demanding answers on disappearance of party member
April 30, 2007
- US analyst derides ineffective US-created Iraqi military
- David North refutes falsifications of Trotsky’s life at lectures in Scotland and Wales
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Strikes against job cuts in Belgium, Spain, Russia
International resistance grows to auto industry downsizing -
PSG May 1 meeting to be held in Schöneberg city hall
Berlin Court rules against district office - SEP candidate speaks at election meeting on Scottish island of Arran
- Sri Lanka: military intelligence involved in “terrorist conspiracy”
- David North refutes falsifications of Trotsky’s life at lectures in Scotland and Wales
- Andrew Young, bagman for US capitalism in Africa
