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Archive: 06/2007

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.

June 1, 2007

• The Bush administration’s new “model” in Iraq’s Anbar province
• Protests in China over the one child policy
• Fallujah: Sympathy alone is not enough
• Tens of thousands to protest on eve of G8 summit
  Fight against war and social reaction requires a socialist strategy
• Mexico: Calderon uses drug violence as pretext for militarizing society
• Michigan Democrats, Republicans agree on deep cuts
  Massive deficit still looms
• As part of CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program
  Boeing subsidiary accused of profiting from torture
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

June 2, 2007

• Brazilian cane cutter died from working 70 days without break
• As May death toll of US soldiers hits 124
  Bush administration calls for permanent US military presence in Iraq
• Fianna Fail wins Irish election
• US: Dell, Motorola, IBM announce new job cuts
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Lebanese military resumes shelling of Palestinian camp
• The G8 summit and the Left Party of Germany
• France: Guy Môquet, Sarkozy and the Stalinist school of falsification
• The US media “discovers” Pakistan’s Musharraf is a dictator—why now?
• US antiwar protest groups silent on Cindy Sheehan’s resignation from Democratic Party
• Australia: Former PM Whitlam testifies on 1975 murder of “Balibo Five” journalists

June 4, 2007

• New wave of political arrests in Bangladesh
• Nigeria brings criminal charges against Pfizer over 1996 drug test
• Another threat to democratic rights
  Australia: protesters face jail for opposing spy base’s role in Iraq war
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Spider-Man 3
  The dilemma of blockbuster filmmaking
• Germany: Police use massive force against G8 demonstrators in Rostock
• On eve of G-8 summit
  Tensions between US and Russia erupt in mutual recriminations
• South Africa: Public sector workers strike demands pay increase
• Turkey: Political allies of military move to unseat moderate Islamist government

June 5, 2007

• Democrats pose as Iraq war opponents in New Hampshire debate
• Detroit town hall meeting on impeachment provides political cover for the Democratic Party
• Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks incarcerated in high-security Australian jail
• Bush denounces detention of US-Iranian citizens
• First days of June claim 17 more US soldiers in Iraq
• The JFK “plot”: another grossly inflated threat
• Humanitarian disaster looms as Lebanese attack on Palestinian camp continues
• Humanitarian disaster looms as Lebanese attack on Palestinian camp continues
• As Bush administration prepares to issue new guidelines for CIA interrogation
  New admissions of widespread prisoner abuse
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

June 6, 2007

• G8 fails to meet aid pledges to Africa
• Global social, political tensions dominate G8 summit
• Military judges dismiss war crimes charges against Guantánamo prisoners
• US talks of “reconciliation” with Sunni insurgents in Iraq
• ISSE meetings held in Australia and New Zealand
• Knocked Up and a certain generation’s “family values”
• Former Cheney aide sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison
• Indian industrialist to build $1 billion “home” amidst Mumbai’s multimillion slum-dwellers
• US attacks Venezuela: “press freedom” as a pretext for intervention
• India’s prime minister warns big business of threat of social unrest

June 7, 2007

• World Socialist Web Site publishes Chinese translation of ISSE resolution
• Report challenges US claims of Iranian sponsorship of Iraq insurgency
• “JFK plot”: Is Washington trying to open a Caribbean front in war on terror?
• Testimony by Justice Department official sheds light on White House conspiracy to manipulate elections
• ISSE holds successful campaign and meeting in Warsaw, Poland
• Report to ISSE meeting in Warsaw: Nationalism and internationalism in Poland
• Republican presidential candidates back nuclear strike against Iran
• Anti-G8 demonstration violence in Rostock: questions and contradictions
• US Navy bombards Somalia
• Turkish military flexes its muscles in northern Iraq

June 8, 2007

• Argentina: 13 years of pension “reform” boosts profits, impoverishes older workers
• Lawsuit to be filed in federal court
  Human rights groups list detainees in secret US prisons
• French parliamentary elections: The collapse of the “left”
• German high court upholds police ban on G8 summit protest
• British Army chiefs urge pullout from Iraq within 12 months
• Antiwar US Marine veteran stripped of honorable discharge status
• Pakistan’s US-backed dictator lashes out
  Repression fails to staunch anti-Musharraf protests
• Wealth of Australia’s super rich up by 26 percent
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

June 9, 2007

• Report details CIA prisons in Europe
• Letters from our readers
• G8 summit: Climate compromise masks mounting conflicts
• The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it
• Senate immigration overhaul blocked by Republican right
• India-US nuclear agreement at an impasse
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Iraqi oil workers strike in Basra
• A victim of “extraordinary rendition”
  Trial of CIA agents for abduction of expatriate Egyptian imam opens in Milan
• Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria

June 11, 2007

• Europe’s carbon-trading scheme
  Corporate bonanza fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• US: CEO pay climbs to “stratospheric heights”
• Hillary Clinton in Detroit: Democrat preaches American nationalism to union bureaucracy
• France’s asylum procedures condemned by the European Court of Human Rights
• Opel strike ends in Poland as GM cuts more jobs in Belgium
• Top US general ousted in Pentagon shakeup
• A socialist perspective to defend Sri Lankan university workers
• Waitress and Mr. Brooks: Somewhere in America...

June 12, 2007

• Australia: Financial collapses devastate small investors
• Brazil’s social and political crisis deepens in Lula’s second term
• French “left” defeated in parliamentary elections
• Senate Democrats fail in slap against Bush attorney general
• A reply to letters on “The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it”
• Letters on the Paris Hilton case
• Sri Lanka: Hundreds of Tamils forcibly expelled from Colombo
• After G8 summit: Conflict between US and Russia intensifies
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

June 13, 2007

• German Greens on the road to coalitions with the conservative CDU
• More letters on the Paris Hilton affair
• Australia: Labor endorses Howard government’s “fairness test” fraud
• Senator Lieberman calls for US military attack on Iran
• Bush administration embarks on reckless new tactic in Iraq
• US leads push for Kosovo independence
• Appellate court slams Bush Administration for holding al-Marri as “enemy combatant”
• Ousmane Sembène, major figure in African cinema, dead at 84

June 14, 2007

• Conditions worsen at UK asylum-seeker detention centres
• Forbidden Hollywood: three films from Hollywood’s pre-Production Code era
• Spanish property boom ends amidst share panic
• Iraq on edge following second bombing of Shiite Al-Askariya mosque
• Four days after the G8 summit
  German police raid eleven premises on suspicion of “terrorism”
• Australia: Fatal train accident highlights infrastructure decay
• Two Sri Lankan Red Cross workers abducted in central Colombo
• Statue unveiling in Washington:
  Bush, Democrats resurrect anticommunism in service of US “war on terror”
• Democrats subpoena former White House officials in probe of US attorney firings

June 15, 2007

• Critic of warlords murdered in Afghanistan
• Statement of the International Students for Social Equality to the students of the University of Sao Paulo
• Palestinian president declares emergency after Hamas routs Fatah forces in Gaza
• Pentagon admits US “surge” in Iraq has yielded only more carnage
• US military officials knew about contaminated water at Marine base
• US: New polls reveal mass opposition to Democrats and Republicans
• Australia: Why Rudd forced the resignation of union official Dean Mighell
• General strike hits South Africa
• Heavy fighting continues in the North and East of Sri Lanka
• ISSE to hold first meeting in Vienna
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

June 16, 2007

• Canada: Report on police killing at Ipperwash masks state crimes
• IAEA chief declares any attack on Iran “an act of madness”
• The struggle against war demands a break with the Democratic Party
  The ISO and the dead-end of protest politics
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Britain: Labour’s deputy leader challengers present their tarnished wares
• Judge orders former Cheney aide Lewis Libby to begin serving prison sentence
• Deadly fire kills five children in Pittsburgh home
• Senator Reid’s remarks on US generals prompt right-wing furor
• US: Education no escape from stagnant wages

June 18, 2007

• US intensifies pressure on Iraqi government to meet “benchmarks”
• China’s “pork crisis”: the capitalist market at work
• US Senate stalls on corporate-driven energy bill
• An attack on academic freedom
  Critic of Zionism denied tenure at US university
• US commander warns Iraq war will go on for a decade
• Germany: What does the “Left Party” want to achieve?
• Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party
  Part one
• Forty years on: The bitter legacy of the 1967 Middle East war

June 19, 2007

• US missile strike kills seven children in Afghanistan
• Australia: report exposes government’s foreign “aid” program
• Devastating floods hit six Chinese provinces
• Setback for Sarkozy in second round of French legislative elections
• Letters and a reply on the Kucinich presidential campaign
• Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party
  Part two
• Spate of antidemocratic rulings by US Supreme Court
  Right-wing majority consolidated
• Former US general confirms high-level knowledge of Abu Ghraib torture
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

June 20, 2007

• New study documents increasing income inequality in Canada
• Washington Post’s Richard Cohen offers “liberal” case for Lewis Libby’s freedom
• Death penalty on the rise in US-occupied Iraq
• The Gaza crisis and the failure of Palestinian nationalism
• Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base
• US military launches massive assault in Iraq
• Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party
  Part three
• Germany: Huge security operation exposed in wake of G8 summit
• Australian government’s water plan to benefit major agribusinesses

June 21, 2007

• Bear Stearns funds collapse hits subprime securities market
• An “independent” voice of Wall Street
  Billionaire New York mayor may run in US presidential campaign
• British university teachers’ union votes for boycott of Israeli academics
• Religious backwardness trumps science as Bush vetoes stem cell bill
• US: Nine firefighters perish in warehouse fire in Charleston, South Carolina
• Twenty-five years since the Malvinas war
• Sri Lankan president’s “peace” mask starts to slip off
• Thai junta cracks down on ousted prime minister
• Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007)
  Ex-UN chief’s Nazi past covered up

June 22, 2007

• Slave labour scandal erupts in China
• Death in Los Angeles hospital exposes social crisis in US
• Fourteen US troops killed in two days of Iraq fighting
• Bush administration rushes to Pakistani dictator’s aid
• Steven Soderbergh and Ocean’s Thirteen
• The Iraq orphanage story: US troops “rescue” 24 as thousands remain in the streets
• Opinion polls provoke bewilderment in lead-up to Australian election
• German-Polish conflict dominates EU summit
• Lawyers claim British government approved systematic policy of torture in Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

June 23, 2007

• At least 25 Afghan civilians killed in US bomb attack
• The secret government of Dick Cheney: US vice president claims to be outside the law
• CIA to release 1970s documents on agency’s crimes
• Letters from our readers
• Take Back America conference: Democratic candidates seek “progressive” support
• FBI targets universities in new scheme to recruit informers
• Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with WSWS
  “People are now waking up...”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Britain: Dispatches programme exposes US renditions
• Australian government imposes military-police regime on Aborigines

June 25, 2007

• Bear Stearns organises bailout but concerns remain
• The Blackstone IPO: $4 billion payday for private equity bosses
• Letters on “Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party”
• US Supreme Court continues pattern of pro-corporate rulings
• US auto union accepts massive wage cuts and layoffs in tentative pact with Delphi
• Report reveals UK youth abandoned by education system
• US military prepares Fallujah-style bloodbath in Iraqi city of Baqubah
• Sri Lankan unions betray university workers’ struggle
• Storm wreaks havoc across Australia’s Hunter Valley and Central Coast
• Germany: Union sells out Deutsche Telekom strike—agrees to wage cuts and longer working hours
  Vote “no” on the contract!

June 26, 2007

• Britain: New Labour’s right-wing course to continue under Brown
• White House, Democrats reported in “compromise” talks on Iraqi partition
• Doha Round trade talks collapse amid recriminations
• Detroit Riverview Hospital to close: “Losing this hospital will devastate this community”
• Damien Hirst’s main obsession is wealth, not mortality
• The New York Times has to correct itself again, this time on Iran
• Police spy agencies target Australian universities
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Northern Ireland: Apparent suicide and destruction of records mark opening of Billy Wright inquiry

June 27, 2007

• Australia: Growing opposition to police-military takeover of Aboriginal communities
• Iraqi general “Chemical Ali” condemned to death
• Brussels treaty reveals divisions in the European Union
• Canadian Supreme Court ruling in BC hospital dispute
  A boost for the union bureaucracy
• Sweatshop scandal puts black mark over Beijing Olympics
• “The sit-downers did everything they did for nothing”—Flint Delphi worker
  UAW moves to ram through massive Delphi concessions
• Guantánamo military tribunals exposed by military officer
• Two Republican senators attack Bush’s “surge” in Iraq

June 28, 2007

• CIA documents point to massive and ongoing government criminality
• Iraqi court hands down 22 death sentences in four weeks
• Germany: The founding of the "Left Party"
  Oskar Lafontaine's demagogic clichés
• Australian neo-colonialism comes home: The Northern Territory and the Solomon Islands
• Britain: Postal workers set for first national strike in 11 years
• Sri Lankan government cracks down on protesting farmers
• Decisions on campaign finance, speech and religion
  US Supreme Court rulings mark a swing to the right
• Antiwar coalition attempts to prop up Democratic Party: United for Peace and Justice holds conference in Chicago

June 29, 2007

• Blair leaves office and becomes Bush’s “peace envoy”:
  Sycophancy in parliament and an insult to world opinion
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• North Korea announces shut down of nuclear reactor
• Australian journalist Glenn Milne’s “twisted logic” on Northern Territory deployment
• US: Northwest Airlines cancels flights amid pilot shortage
• Édith Piaf’s life in La Vie en Rose: a modern biopic
• White House rebuffs congressional subpoenas, escalating confrontation over attorney purge and domestic spying
• US Supreme Court rules school districts cannot consider race in integration plans
• Former EPA head defends US government lies about post-9/11 safety conditions

June 30, 2007

• US Senate Republicans block union-sponsored bill
• Letters from our readers
• The new Sarkozy government hosts conference on Darfur
• East Timor’s election held under shadow of Australian military
• US: Senate Republicans kill plan to overhaul immigration law
• Italy: Trial of CIA agents deferred until October
• German government complicity in CIA abductions: The case of Khaled al-Masri
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Padilla “terrorism support trial” unravels
• Divisions erupt in the French Socialist Party
• Australian government takeover of Aboriginal communities: the real content of the “Children are Sacred” report