Archive: 09/2007
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.
September 1, 2007
- UK: The attempt to deport Learco Chindamo
- The affair of US Senator Craig: Media sensationalism and political hypocrisy
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The social toll of the US home mortgage crisis
Part 2 - Berlin: Left Party opposes wage demand of public service workers
- Bush rejects “bailout” for homeowners, vows aid to Wall Street
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Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 3: New Orleans levees still not rebuilt - New York City: Right-wing Zionist witch-hunt ousts principal of new Arabic school
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan government’s “peace” committee on point of collapse
- The case of NFL football star Michael Vick
September 3, 2007
- Protests in Aboriginal communities as Australian parliament passes military takeover bills
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The Canadian Arar affair—censored report released
How the practice of torture hides behind the slogan of “national security” - US housing crisis could spark serious economic downturn
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Edinburgh Film Festival: Two antiwar films
Beaufort by Joseph Cedar and Extraordinary Rendition by Jim Threapleton - US: Right-wing campaign launched to counter opposition to Iraq war
- White Light, Black Rain: powerful HBO film about atomic bombing of Japanese cities
- Bush administration to “ratchet up pressure” on Iran
- British government faces legal action over refusal to hold inquiry into London bombings
- France: Sarkozy calls for European military build up
September 4, 2007
- Australia’s corporate media praises Labor’s modified IR package
- Australia: Extraordinary security operation shuts down central Sydney for APEC summit
- Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?
- Greek government under pressure following forest fires
- Bush presses campaign for open-ended war in Iraq
- Japanese cabinet reshuffle points to deepening political crisis
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The “Katrina gold rush”
Profiteering and the Gulf Opportunity Zone - Canada: Police agent-provocateurs unmasked at Montebello summit protests
- Tensions with the US sharpen as Britain begins handover of Basra
- Wall Street hides impact of subprime mortgage meltdown
September 5, 2007
- Cholera outbreak in northern Iraq
- US Congress reconvenes for phony debate on Iraq war
- German bank loss only the start
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Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 4: The Katrina gold rush—profiteering and the Gulf Opportunity Zone - Labor Day in America: Two unions endorse Edwards, one spews anti-Mexican poison
- Australian legal academics accept arrest of antiwar colleague
- RMT union suspends strike by London Underground maintenance workers
- Review: At My Age by Nick Lowe
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 14-16 - An interview with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
September 6, 2007
- Australia: Police mobilised against high school students at APEC demonstration
- Britain’s bosses take record £26.4 billion in bonuses: City takes lion’s share
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Time magazine calls for “universal national service”
New push for military draft in US -
New York’s Deutsche Bank fire deaths
Scapegoating of firefighters exposes official corruption and hypocrisy - Germany: train drivers’ union capitulates
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Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 5: Mississippi Gulf Coast—Casinos thrive while homeowners languish -
US seeks to save Pakistani dictator, thwart democracy
Musharraf-Bhutto negotiations near end-game - Key naval witness in disappearance of Sri Lankan SEP member fails to appear in court
- Turkey: Abdullah Gül sworn in as president
September 7, 2007
- Socialist strategy needed to oppose war and social inequality
- US-Australia defence deal underlines regional rivalry at APEC summit
- World economy: Credit crunch could bring recession
- Top US hedge fund managers earn 22,255 times pay of average worker
- As congressional debate opens, US escalates military operations in northern Iraq
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 17-19 - Why was a nuclear-armed bomber allowed to fly over the US?
- Germany: Terror plot carried out under police observation
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
September 8, 2007
- Bush, Bremer clash over decision to disband Iraq’s army
- Towards the legalization of torture in Canada?
- Australian comedy team exposes APEC security hype
- Prospects for US recession increase as jobs report shows first decline in four years
- France: Unions passive on public sector job cuts
- Haneef police transcript exposes Australian government’s “terrorist conspiracy” claims
- 18 US troops killed in Iraq in first week of September
- France: The LCR sets a new political trap for the working class
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As bosses’ pay soars
Britain: Government and media rail against “selfish” strikes - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
September 10, 2007
- Massive police-state mobilisation for Sydney APEC demonstration
- Britain: Brown’s “new politics” a cynical cover for authoritarianism
- French police attacked in Guinea while expelling two immigrants
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Former US Marine Matt Howard speaks with WSWS
“No-one is talking about the real violence” - US Congressional hearings to set stage for continued war in Iraq
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 20-22 - Bush administration pushes for looser mining regulations
September 11, 2007
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Iraq forum in Howard’s electorate
Australian Labor promises “reliable hands” in time of war - US professor critical of Zionism resigns after tenure denial
- Gleichheit editorial: “A socialist strategy against militarism and war”
- Differing motives propel India and US to finalize nuclear agreement
- British academics warn US is preparing “shock and awe” attack on Iran
- German Left Party leadership forces Hesse state candidate to resign
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Gen. Petraeus testifies before Congress
Democrats arrest protesters, praise US commander in Iraq - Workers strike for cost of living at University of Minnesota
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
September 12, 2007
- California budget deadlock broken as Democrats accede to right-wing demands
- South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan ends
- US seeks legal expert to oversee plunder of Iraqi oil
- Sri Lankan military launches northern offensive against LTTE
- US congressional hearings reveal consensus that Iraq war will continue
- Britain: Brown gets smooth ride at Trades Union Congress
- US auto union prepares to hand over historic concessions
September 13, 2007
- Letters from our readers
- US military pre-trial hearings end in Haditha civilian massacre case
- Australia: In face of deepening opposition, Howard government implodes
- US steps up push for Kosovo independence
- Democrats prostrate as Bush, generals vow Iraq war will continue for years
- Amid mounting defections, French Socialist Party veers to the right
- Disarray in Putin regime’s cover-up of murder of Anna Politkovskaya
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With Washington’s blessing
Pakistani regime mounts massive security operation in Sharif deportation - A socialist perspective for striking Sri Lankan teachers
- GDF-Suez merger and the global scramble for energy
September 14, 2007
- Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq in nationally televised address
- Germany: Greens to hold special party congress on Afghanistan
- British troops in Iraq deployed to Iranian border
- Japanese prime minister resigns abruptly
- Media, politicians maintain silence on flight of US nuclear bomber
- Australian government to leave Tamil refugees detained on Nauru
- Two soldiers critical of Iraq war among its latest casualties
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As contract deadline approaches
US auto union poised to accept sweeping concessions - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
September 15, 2007
- “Dr. Profit” named head of the Canadian Medical Association
- German candidate pushes suicide device for Hamburg elderly
- Bush-linked Texas company signs oil deal with Iraqi Kurds
- Strike by India’s unorganised sector workers
- Israel’s neo-Nazi gang: A symptom of a deeper malaise
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- California mental health care cuts: a cynical attack on the poor
- British polling agency: More than one million Iraqi deaths since US invasion
- An exchange with New York Post reporter on witch-hunt of school principal
September 17, 2007
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Wesley Clark gives a glimpse of the future
A Democratic general’s prescription for winning “the next war” - DC antiwar protesters: Democrats and Republicans are “two sides of same coin”
- Bush administration consolidates plans for war against Iran
- Israeli air raid in Syria heightens Middle East tensions
- ISSE: Nick Beams to address University of New South Wales meeting
- The Jena Six in Louisiana: Convictions overturned in Mychal Bell case
- A deafening silence on report of one million Iraqis killed under US occupation
- Credit crisis spreads as British bank collapses
- US auto union extends contracts as deadline passes
- Washington, DC: Organizers seek to subordinate September 15 antiwar protest to Democrats
September 18, 2007
- Baghdad residents protest US-erected dividing wall
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Iraq suspends license of Blackwater USA
US mercenary firm denounced after civilian killings in Baghdad -
A fighter for Marxism in America
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, by Bryan D. Palmer. University of Illinois Press, 2007, 542 pp. -
Following fight over academic freedom
University of California, Irvine hires constitutional scholar - Britain: Foot and mouth disease strikes again
- Israel’s air raid on Syria: another threat to Iran
- Berlin: SPD and Left Party extend state surveillance
- Closing of Monroe, Michigan, factory marks the end of a way of life
- Democrats back Bush’s new pick for attorney general
- Romulus, My Father: a compassionate film about immigrant life in Australia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
September 19, 2007
- Letters on the New York Post witch-hunt of school principal
- Democrats pack in their antiwar charade
- US Fed rate cut fires up Wall Street
- Fijian military regime reimposes emergency rule
- Why is the German press silent on US preparations for war against Iran?
- From the horse’s mouth: Greenspan says Iraq war was for oil
- Mexican president deploys troops in wake of oil pipeline bombings
- France: Sarkozy, unions collaborate in attack on pensions
- Sri Lankan government imposes new taxes to fund war
- ISSE condemns police assault on University of Florida student
September 20, 2007
- Report shows Afghanistan mired in corruption
- Australia: Bipartisan political praise for police violence at APEC summit
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Northern Rock
Britain: Government attempts to stem banking crisis - After the storm: James Lee Burke answers Katrina’s wrath with his own
- Contradictions mount in US and world economy in wake of Fed rate cut
- France: Communist Party mayor calls police on the homeless
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Parliamentary elections in Greece
Conservatives gain at expense of PASOK - Washington’s proxy war inside Kurdish Iran
- Media, Democrats silent on police attack on University of Florida student
- Musharraf regime seeks to stave off collapse
- Taiwan’s UN bid increases friction with China
September 21, 2007
- Charges dismissed against another officer in Haditha war crimes case
- International Students for Social Equality to hold series of meetings in Britain
- The Jammed—the dark side of Australian immigration
- Thousands demonstrate in support of “Jena Six”
- Dee McLachlan writer/director of The Jammed speaks with WSWS
- The Simpson trial in perspective
- Dan Rather sues CBS for making him a “scapegoat” to appease Republican right
- The media’s obsession with O.J. Simpson
- Sri Lankan unions prepare to cave in following widespread teachers’ strike
- New Turkish government prepares assault on working conditions
- Well-attended ISSE meeting discusses US war threat on Iran
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
September 22, 2007
- Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza
- Mounting press speculation India will face early elections
- On eve of UN general assembly, US military arrests Iranian official in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Senate censure of MoveOn.org: An attack on free speech in the service of militarism
- New York Times praises Bush nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey
- Bush calls for expansion of “Protect America” spy bill
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Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 1
The world is so poorly understood—or is it?
September 24, 2007
- Blackwater mercenaries resume patrols in wake of Baghdad civilian killings
- Letters from our readers
- Hungarian extreme right set up paramilitary “Guard”
- Indonesian authorities review case of murdered human rights activist
- UN General Assembly meets under shadow of US threats against Iran
- “Jena Six” teen still in prison after conviction dismissed
- Report exposes massive looting of Kenyan state funds
- Use, exchange, literary values and an American classic: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road turns fifty
- US autoworkers angered as negotiations drag on
September 25, 2007
- Signs of leadership infighting ahead of Chinese Communist Party congress
- German Greens hold special congress on Afghanistan
- US auto workers shut down General Motors
- Signs of leadership infighting ahead of Chinese Communist Party congress
- GM workers in Detroit voice frustration at UAW leadership
- Video: General Motors strikers in Michigan speak to WSWS
- Iranian president speaks at Columbia University amidst media frenzy
- New York Times public editor repudiates MoveOn.org ad on General Petraeus
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A blatant attack on artistic freedom:
Bengali writer, Taslima Nasreen assaulted by mob led by Indian legislators - Britain: Youth convicted under antidemocratic terrorism acts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
September 26, 2007
- Britain: Brown makes election appeal to Conservative voters
- Bush at the UN: a war criminal lectures the world on “human rights”
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As impact of walkout spreads
GM strikers confront intransigence of US auto giant - Arctic sea ice reaches record minimum
- General Motors workers oppose threats to retiree health care, jobs
- Japan’s new prime minister: a recipe for another short-lived government
- Polish city council employs goons against striking bus drivers
- An interview with Ramin Bahrani, director of Chop Shop
- Socialist Equality Party in Australia achieves party registration
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Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 2
Urgency about human matters
September 27, 2007
- AFL-CIO leaders pledge $200 million to Democratic Party campaigns
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“Policing the neighbourhood”—Australia’s new para-military police
Part 1 - Burmese military cracks down on escalating protests
- Letters from our readers
- Chilean court extradites ex-Peruvian President Fujimori
- Total surrender by US auto union
- The New York Times and Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia University
- Former CBS anchor Dan Rather: big corporations, government interfering in news
- Britain: Unions responsible for harsh conditions facing temporary agency workers
September 28, 2007
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“Policing the neighbourhood”—Australia’s new para-military police
Part 2 - Trial exposes Pentagon “baiting” program in Iraq
- Details of General Motors contract underscore UAW betrayal
- General Motors worker: “The UAW doesn’t lose, but the workers do”
- Democratic presidential candidates: US troops could stay in Iraq until 2013
- France: political fall-out from Kouchner’s calls for aggression against Iran
- Australia: Riot police attack sacked transport workers
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State of Michigan faces government shutdown
Legislators debate massive cuts - US Joint Chiefs chairman declares homosexuality “counter to God’s law”
- With US backing, Musharraf presses ahead with bogus presidential election
- Interview with Bryan Palmer, biographer of James P. Cannon, founder of American Trotskyism--Part 1
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The Simpsons Movie
An audience of “big fat suckers”? - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
September 29, 2007
- Devastating floods sweep across Africa
- Burmese troops gun down protestors
- The Bush-Aznar tapes: glimpse of a gangster preparing for war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Interview with Bryan Palmer, biographer of James P. Cannon, founder of American Trotskyism--Part 2
- Polish elections offer no alternative for the broad masses
- US prison population at all time high
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Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 3
Compassion toward the most despised and other matters - UAW local presidents ratify historic betrayal of US auto workers
