Archive: 05/2007
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.
May 1, 2007
- NATO troops launch new offensives in Afghanistan
- Canadian Auto Workers bureaucrats fete Ontario’s Liberal Premier
- Australian Labor Party conference: a right-wing stampede for office
- Letters from our readers
- More than 100 US soldiers in Iraq killed in April
- Britain: Irish model for Scotland and Wales means widening gap between rich and poor
- Further letters demanding investigation into disappearance of Sri Lankan SEP member
- Ex-CIA director Tenet admits lies told on war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
May 2, 2007
- Britain: Building society says housing beyond reach of majority
- Hundreds of thousands march across US for immigrant rights
- Australia: Unions embrace Labor’s anti-working class industrial relations laws
- Following Bush veto, Democrats prepare war-spending bill with no timeline
- Union pressures Air New Zealand workers to accept loss of jobs and conditions
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Renzi, Doolittle, and the “DC Madam”
Capitol Hill awash in corruption and criminality - The Bush administration slashes public services for rural America
- Pressure mounts on Iraqi government as Sunni bloc threatens to pull out
- Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections: How to vote for the Socialist Equality Party
May 3, 2007
- Australia: Labor conference outlines pro-war agenda
- Britain: Why you should vote Socialist Equality Party on May 3
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Infant mortality rates rising in US
Southern states hardest hit - Two New York City transit workers killed in less than a week
- US: Los Angeles police violently disperse immigrant rights demonstration
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Posada Carriles case
US government moves to gag terrorist on CIA ties - Bush officials defend proposal to expand domestic spying powers
- Belated report of Australian soldier’s suicide after serving in Afghanistan
- Turkey: Constitutional Court stops presidential election
May 4, 2007
- Iraq’s “stable” south descends into political chaos
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Following political and legal campaign
PSG hosts successful May 1 lecture at Schöneberg city hall, Berlin - Britain: Daily Record follows the Scotsman in misrepresenting Socialist Equality Party
- Corporate asset strippers vie for Chrysler
- After Bush veto, Democrats prepare further retreat on war funding bill
- French presidential debate: Royal and Sarkozy spar over right-wing agendas
- Class issues in the French presidential election
- Israel: Government on ropes after report condemns Olmert and Peretz over Lebanon war
- LTTE air raid on Sri Lankan capital
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
May 5, 2007
- US massacres of civilians spark protests in Afghanistan
- Letters from our readers
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US jobless rate increases
Falling employment, stagnant wages fuel US corporate profits - Report warns of civil war spreading to Kurdish north of Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Judith Miller defends New York police repression of antiwar “terrorists”
- First Republican presidential debate displays a party in deepening crisis
- Britain’s elections: a debacle for Labour and an indictment of nationalism
May 7, 2007
- The John Edwards campaign: A representative of the American ruling elite postures as a working class populist
- Nicolas Sarkozy wins French presidential election
- German Interior Minister questions the presumption of innocence—with support from the SPD
- Scores of Haitian refugees killed in shark-infested waters
- SEP candidate replies to letter on housing crisis in Wales
- International conference on Iraq: bitter antagonisms on display
- US: Circle of corruption widens in student loan investigation
- Tamils arrested in Australia under Howard’s draconian “anti-terrorism” laws
May 8, 2007
- New York electric company seeks 17 percent rate hike
- The French “far left” learns nothing from the presidential election
- Iraq war “surge” claims lives of 12 more US soldiers
- Geo-politics and oil: Japanese leader visits the US and Middle East
- Starting Wednesday, WSWS to publish lecture: “Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification”
- SEP holds May Day meeting in Colombo
- The Unknown Terrorist: A novel about the “war on terror”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
May 9, 2007
- Australian budget: massive vote-buying accelerates “free market” agenda
- India: Gujarat police murders covered up as terrorist “encounters”
- Iraqi infant mortality soars by 150 percent—a damning revelation of US war crimes
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Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 1: Seventy years since Stalin’s year of terror - British terror trial raises question of what MI5 knew about 2005 London bombings
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Pentagon survey exposes deep demoralization of US occupation troops
Support for torture, routine abuse of Iraqi civilians - Sarkozy’s electoral victory and the bankruptcy of the French “left”
- Iraq: clashes mount between US forces and Sadrist militia
- East Timor: final round of presidential elections
- Kansas tornado recovery hampered by dispatch of National Guard to Iraq
May 10, 2007
- Chinese government imposes nationwide military training for students
- Letters from our readers
- Beyond the hyperbole, what next for Northern Ireland?
- Top Justice Department aide to testify in probe of US attorney firings
- German Left Party honours the founding of the centrist Independent Social Democratic Party
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Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 2: The study of Trotsky after the fall of the USSR - US court drops all charges against Posada Carriles—terrorist killer set free
- Sri Lankan ruling party issues phony constitutional plan for ending war
- The New Jersey jihadists: another strange alleged terrorist plot
May 11, 2007
- Afghanistan: 40 civilians killed in US strike
- House Democrats pass new measure to fund US war in Iraq
- Blair’s legacy: Militarism abroad, social devastation at home
- US Vice President attempts to strongarm Iraqi political leaders
- Harsh sentences handed out to anti-Sarkozy protesters in France
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Under the pretext of the “struggle against terror”
German police conduct massive operation against G8 protesters -
Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 3: The method of Ian Thatcher - Police attack May Day protesters in Macau
- After the storm: a New Jersey town struggles to recover
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
May 12, 2007
- Canada’s Supreme Court authorizes secret trials and arbitrary, indefinite detention
- Cheney threatens Iran from US aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf
- Italy’s former Communist Party shifts further to the right
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 4: The relevance of Trotsky -
A response to “Two New York City transit workers killed in less than a week”
Artist Marvin Franklin dead in accident - Michigan Democrats prepare to slash social spending
- Corporate raid on Australian airline collapses
- Scottish election fiasco casts doubt over new parliament
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 1: For honesty and urgency in filmmaking - Top federal student loan official in US resigns amid controversy
May 14, 2007
- Brazil: Bush-Lula biofuel plans based on conditions worse than slavery
- Emily Carr: Painter, writer ... symbol
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Germany: Essen meeting discusses establishing International Students for Social Equality
A movement against war must be a movement against capitalism -
Gunbattles in Karachi
Pakistani president seeks to drown mounting opposition in blood -
“He was a revolutionary in the absolute best sense of the word.”
70th anniversary meeting honors the life and work of Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin - Sri Lankan magistrate directs police to investigate disappearance of SEP member
- East Timor: Ramos-Horta wins presidential election
May 15, 2007
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A historic betrayal of auto workers
United Auto Workers capitulates to carve-up of Chrysler - France: Sarkozy woos Socialist Party and trade unions
- Gas prices rise as oil companies take in record profits
- Australian hospitals unable to cope with major emergency
- Iran and US to hold limited talks in Baghdad
- John Henry: From folk legend to Communist superhero
- Britain: SEP leader addresses students on the legacy of Trotskyism
- US: Opening statements delivered in Jose Padilla trial
- Germany: Deutsche Telekom workers begin strike against lower wages and longer hours
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
May 16, 2007
- Bremen: Massive opposition to the German government expressed in local election
- Britain: Department of Health tries to suppress facts about Private Finance Initiative
- Voters in India’s most populous state spurn traditional parties
- US soldiers captured as “surge” provokes greater Iraqi resistance
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After resignation of Gonzales deputy
Bush Justice Department cover-up unraveling -
Behind Negroponte’s trip to Latin America
Mounting crisis in Yankee imperialism’s ‘back yard’ - Germany: Background to the debate over child care
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 2: An artist’s circle of hell - Sri Lankan Central Bank report covers up economic problems
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Pizza for the homeless
US: Condemned man’s last request denied by state, realized by public -
A new business model emerges
Why the United Auto Workers supports Cerberus’ take-over of Chrysler
May 17, 2007
- The Cerberus takeover of Chrysler—what it means for auto workers
- China’s “mad” stock market spiralling out of control
- Former Justice Department official describes illegal actions by Bush administration in defense of domestic spying
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Prelude to deal with Bush on war-funding
More antiwar posturing from Senate Democrats - Jerry Falwell, founder of the right-wing Moral Majority, dead at 73
- A response from Iraq Body Count
- Debate over Iran’s nuclear programs heats up again
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Britain: Two imprisoned for violating Official Secrets Act
Punished for exposing Bush and Blair’s crimes in Iraq - Support the Deutsche Telekom strikers! Build a mass movement against the German grand coalition!
May 18, 2007
- US government to set up new military command in Africa
- Britain: Brown crowned as Blair’s successor after no contest
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Former Justice Department official’s testimony raises question:
How extensive is police state spying in the US? - Letters from our readers
- Hundreds of sit-in strikes shake Egypt
- Bipartisan Senate plan would deepen exploitation of immigrant workers
- Bush administration hosts meeting of Pacific Island governments
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 3: Smiling through the pain - Sri Lankan police harass witnesses in case of murdered SEP supporter
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
May 19, 2007
- US demands lead to border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Britain: The Guardian whitewash of Mr Blair
- Britain: Charges dropped against police in de Menezes shooting
- Demonstrations greet new French president
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After 94-1 “support the troops” vote in Senate
Congressional Democrats, Republicans begin talks with White House on war spending bill -
The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society
Part one - ISSE meetings to be held in Poland and Austria
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- OxyContin manufacturer reaches $600 million plea deal over false marketing practices
- Historical issues raised as ISSE members build for Warsaw meeting
- The Parti Québécois loses another leader: what’s behind the crisis?
- European Union-Russia summit a diplomatic debacle
- A letter from Professor Geoffrey Swain and a reply by David North
- Behind the World Bank’s ouster of Paul Wolfowitz
May 21, 2007
- Australia: Police-state measures for APEC summit in Sydney
- US military blocks soldiers’ access to blogs, popular social sites
- Former US President Jimmy Carter blasts Bush and Blair over Iraq
- After the Chrysler sale—Cerberus set to demand massive concessions
- ISSE meeting planned at Florida State University
- Israel stokes up Hamas-Fatah strife in Gaza, considers ground invasion
- Senate immigration “compromise”: Democrats join Bush in assault on democratic rights
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The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society
Part two - US envoy raises muted concerns about democratic rights in Sri Lanka
May 22, 2007
- Australian nursing home deaths reveal chronic under-funding
- Evo Morales and the fraud of “nationalization” in Bolivia
- Mother, three children perish in Detroit house fire
- Detroit-area hospital shake-up fueled by drive for profit
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The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society
Part three - Lebanese army lays siege to Palestinian refugee camp
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Following bloodbath in Karachi
US reaffirms support for Musharraf - Scotland: Minority SNP government seeks pro-business “consensus”
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Germany: Deutsche Telekom strike enters second week
Strikers protest in Munich -
American military deaths soar as US extends its “surge” in Iraq
“Second Fallujah” plan for Baghdad’s Sadr City - Workers Struggles: The Americas
May 23, 2007
- Iraq: British troops battle Shiite militia in Basra
- Britain’s Guardian promotes Bush administration war propaganda against Iran
- Democrats drop “withdrawal” deadlines as administration mulls post-surge Iraq
- Irish election likely to be close
- Trains cross the Korean border for the first time in six decades
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Quebec’s parliament reopens:
Full speed ahead to the right, damn the public - France: Sarkozy concentrates power in his own hands
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 4: Films on Africa—“ The problem always comes back to poverty”
May 24, 2007
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Three German soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Grand coalition pushes ahead with military deployment - Contract talks break down at Southern California supermarkets
- Australia: Behind the $33.49 million package for Macquarie Bank’s chief executive
- Fijian military junta targets bloggers
- Democratic Party completes its capitulation on Iraq
- Britain: Funding crisis in higher education
- Gonzales aide stonewalls on White House role in firing of US attorneys
- US officials guilty of “sociocide” in Iraq must be held accountable
- New York: another fatal shooting of an unarmed man sparks outrage
May 25, 2007
- Letters from our readers
- US Congress ratifies Democratic cave-in on Iraq war funding
- France: Sarkozy selects Socialist Party’s Bernard Kouchner as foreign minister
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Heiligendamm’s “Green Zone”
Massive security preparations for upcoming G8 summit in Germany - Bush authorises covert CIA operations to destabilise Iran
- Bush administration endorses anti-Palestinian, anti-Syrian offensive in Lebanon
- Russian mine disaster kills at least 38
- Death threats against protesters in northern Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
May 26, 2007
- US: FDA accused of negligence over diabetes drug
- Poverty, dilapidated housing behind rash of deadly fires in US cities
- US steps up threats against Iran over nuclear programs
- ISSE meeting to be held in Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Michigan school districts impose job, wage and benefits cuts
- Montreal transit mechanics’ union capitulates before threat of strikebreaking law
- The Nation magazine offers an alibi for Democrats’ support of Iraq war
- Solidarity and the Scottish Socialist Party: What will follow from the collapse of the Scottish left?
May 28, 2007
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Candidates file personal finance disclosure reports
The American presidency: Only millionaires need apply - France: Sarkozy prepares shock therapy
- India: Art student targeted by Hindu right and Gujarat authorities
- Bush administration failing to achieve its “benchmarks” in Iraq
- Israel targets Hamas’s political leadership
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 5: Serious, but flawed - Sri Lankan court case exposes police investigation into missing SEP member
- ISSE meeting planned Wednesday at University of California, Los Angeles
May 29, 2007
- Inquiry shows Canadian state was forewarned of Air India bombings
- US big business funnels hundreds of millions into presidential campaigns
- Tense siege continues at Lebanon’s Nahr al-Bared refugee camp
- Possible habitable planet discovered: Extending the horizons of humanity
- Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr makes bid for greater role in US-occupied Iraq
- LTTE overruns naval outpost on key Sri Lankan island
- Germany: Verdi prepares sell-out of Telekom workers strike
May 30, 2007
- More civilians killed by US/NATO forces as fighting intensifies in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: war crimes amnesty prepares further atrocities
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Six months after entering the EU
Political crises deepen in Romania and Bulgaria - The Cerberus-Chrysler deal: The case for public ownership of the auto industry
- ISSE holds public meeting at Florida State University
- May death toll spikes as 10 US soldiers die on Memorial Day
- Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan resigns from the Democratic Party
- Bush decrees new sanctions against Sudan
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
May 31, 2007
- Letters from our readers
- Spain: Socialist Party government and unions sell out struggle against Delphi plant closure
- Two poor US efforts: Disturbia and Georgia Rule
- Britain: Parliament votes to exempt itself from Freedom of Information legislation
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Asia-Europe summit in Hamburg
Germany: Huge police deployment in run-up to G8 summit - Gasoline prices and the “free market”: Refiners profit after reducing capacity
- US Defense Secretary warns new naval officers on civilian control of military
- The US holds talks with Iran in Baghdad
- Sri Lankan university workers protest against punitive measures
- US Supreme Court curbs workers’ ability to sue for pay discrimination
