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Archive: 10/2007

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.

October 1, 2007

• Blackwater mercenaries’ record of murder in Iraq
• Brain injuries more prevalent among US troops than earlier estimates
• Letters from our readers
• Strong rank-and-file opposition to UAW sellout evident at local meetings
• German chancellor threatens Iran and demands seat on UN Security Council
• Widening rift between major powers over Iran’s nuclear programs
• The Ontario election: official politics shifts further right
• Philippines power grid to be contracted out to private operator
• Vote ‘no’ on UAW sellout at GM!
  Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
• 3:10 to Yuma: a new old Western

October 2, 2007

• Bush to veto expansion of children’s health coverage
• Spain: Revelations of obscene wealth inherited by former dictator Franco’s family
• Political tensions in Lebanon threaten civil war
• Sri Lanka: To defend democratic rights, workers must oppose war
• Payroll crisis causes hardship for Los Angeles teachers
• Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 4
  A remarkable film about the Iraq war
• UAW-GM deal means more plant closings
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

October 3, 2007

• Belgium threatened with break-up
• Letters on the General Motors contract
• Markets continue to rise but US dollar slides
• New Yorker article points to advanced US preparations for war on Iran
• Michigan budget deadlock broken through cutbacks, tax increases
  $435 million in additional cuts still threatened
• Sarkozy announces vast attacks on French workers’ rights and conditions
• Socialist Equality Party in Australia announces federal election candidates
• Following election of new leader, German CSU moves further to the right

October 4, 2007

• UN special envoy leaves Burma empty-handed
• Five dead in Colorado hydroelectric plant fire
• An interview with Philippe Faucon, director of Dans la vie
• Opposition to UAW-GM deal as workers vote on contract
• French immigration “reform”: an attack on basic human rights
• Indian Supreme Court outlaws Tamil Nadu political protest
• Australia: Transport union abandons McArthur Express workers
• SEP public meeting in Perth, Western Australia
  The socialist alternative in the 2007 federal election
• Retiring military chief declares: American people can’t vote to end Iraq war
• Britain: Post union calls strike over paltry wage offer at Royal Mail
  Works to sell “total flexibility” to membership
• Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 5
  The lives of two overlooked women
• Socialist Equality Party in Australia announces federal election candidates
• UAW officials threaten Socialist Equality Party members

October 5, 2007

• Fifty years since school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas
• In the Valley of Elah: reducing colonial war to personal trauma
• Germany: Train drivers need a new perspective
• Australia: Miscarriage tragedy highlights deliberate running down of public hospitals
• Senate Democrats approve half a trillion dollars for Pentagon, US spy agencies
• Sri Lankan president’s speech at the UN: lies in defence of war and human rights abuses
• Report details secret Bush administration memos authorizing torture
• Two-tier wage in UAW-GM contract means drastic pay cuts for US workers
• British Prime Minister Brown prepares for snap general election: A sign of mounting crisis
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

October 6, 2007

• Police ban London antiwar march
  New attack on democratic rights
• Bush defends torture
• Letters from our readers
• Video: UAW Officials in Michigan Threaten Socialist Equality Party
• Washington launches war on immigrants: thousands grabbed in nationwide raids
• Australia: New reports reveal impact of Howard’s IR laws
• International Students for Social Equality meetings in US
  Imperialism in the 21st century: Iraq, Iran, and the threat of world war
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Bush, Bhutto accomplices in Pakistan’s sham presidential election
• Turkey: Referendum planned for direct election of president
• Early GM contract vote shows widespread opposition to UAW sellout
• Recycling Stalinist lies about the Spanish Civil War

October 8, 2007

• Afghanistan: reports of record year for opium yield
• Iraqi probe finds Blackwater mercenaries fired without provocation in Baghdad massacre
• Australia: 25 years of Labor-Liberal “reform” wreaks havoc on public schools
• German court attacks train drivers strike
• Officer recommends dropping last murder charges in Haditha massacre
• Enigma and perhaps evasion (or “hide and seek”): the realism of German painter Neo Rauch
• Scandals, retirements decimate congressional Republicans
• Sri Lankan government silences journalist over defence corruption scandal
• Official investigation clears police in Indiana Taser attack

October 9, 2007

• Britain: Brown retreats from snap general election
• Letters from our readers
• Social theorist André Gorz dies, aged 84
• US general fires a new propaganda salvo against Iran
• Jim Lawrence, GM worker and 2004 SEP vice presidential candidate, speaks on UAW-GM contract
  “Workers can no longer afford this system”
• Video: Jim Lawrence, GM worker & 2004 SEP candidate, on GM pact
• Washington lauds Pakistan’s sham presidential election
• Australian SEP federal election campaign meetings
• Congressional Democrats to unveil new domestic spying bill
• Australia’s High Court rules that voting rights can be abolished
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

October 10, 2007

• Private security contractors in Baghdad kill two Iraqi women
• As General Motors contract vote proceeds, UAW prepares deeper concessions at Chrysler
• Democrats bow to Wall Street, saving tax break for billionaires
• British troops in Iraq to be cut to 2,500, states Brown
• Prodi government’s budget attacks the Italian working class
• Supreme Court refuses to hear case of German citizen tortured by US
• Uncertainty hangs over deal to disable North Korea’s nuclear facilities
• Liberal and Labor parties responsible for death of Australian soldier in Afghanistan
• Sri Lankan workers picket to defend right to industrial action
• WSWS replies to UAW local president on GM contract
• British troops in Iraq to be cut to 2,500, states Brown

October 11, 2007

• UAW stages six-hour strike to push through contract betrayal at Chrysler
• Criticized over war threat against Iran, Hillary Clinton sees conspiracy
• Support the German train drivers’ struggle against Deutsche Bahn!
• Chrysler strikers speak: “It’s time workers unite on a global basis, the same way the companies do”
• Haditha massacre defendant pursues defamation suit against US congressman
• Biographer of James Cannon, pioneer American Trotskyist, to speak Friday in New York
• Post workers face political struggle against Royal Mail/Labour government offensive
• Solomon Islands’ foreign minister condemns Australian occupation at UN General Assembly
• Sri Lankan military intensifies drive against LTTE
• Ukraine: Parliamentary election fails to resolve political crisis
• Germany: Real wages plunge

October 12, 2007

• Bush condemns House vote on Armenian genocide
• Chinese government acknowledges Three Gorges Dam “disaster”
• Letters from our readers
• France: The struggle against Sarkozy requires a new political perspective
• The middle-class “left” and the UAW-GM contract
• Britain: Demands for government intervention aimed at strangling post dispute
• Russia: Putin launches electoral bid to retain power
• Australian government resorts to anti-African witch hunt
• British livestock hit by bluetongue disease
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

October 13, 2007

• Anatomy of a political diversion
  The Australian Labor Party, the Bali bombings, and the death penalty
• German Socialist Equality Party election campaign: For a socialist answer to welfare cuts and war
• Nobel Prize for Al Gore: “Old Europe” fires back at the Bush administration
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• More migrant deaths as Europe tightens border controls
• Ontario Liberals retain power, as voter participation plummets
• German train drivers’ strike affects large part of rail network
  PSG leaflet provokes vital discussion
• New round of US shootings claims young lives

October 15, 2007

• Letters from US auto workers
• Australian election: an ominous silence on US war plans against Iran
• US air strikes kill 34 Iraqis
• New York meeting hears biographer of Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism
• House Speaker Pelosi lashes out at antiwar protesters
• Britain: Postal union agrees to sell-out deal with Royal Mail
• An anti-democratic tirade
  Former US commander blames “partisan” politics and “agenda-driven” media for Iraq debacle
• Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission stalls inquiry into disappeared SEP member
• Turkish government gives green light for military intervention in northern Iraq

October 16, 2007

• Eastern Promises and the continuing decline of David Cronenberg
• General Motors tells Wall Street: UAW deal will save billions
• Thirty years since the assassination of Tom Henehan
• New Zealand: Algerian asylum seeker wins appeal over security risk status
• Socialist Equality Party (Australia) 2007 federal election statement
  A socialist program to fight war, social inequality and the assault on democratic rights
• Socialist Equality Party in Australia launches new election web site
• Somalia: Humanitarian disaster looms as government clamps down on insurgency
• The political campaign to bring Tom Henehan’s killers to justice
• Social inequality in US hits new record
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

October 17, 2007

• US: Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell sent back to prison
• German train-drivers strike:
  Deutsche Bahn increases intimidation of train-drivers
• Australia: Howard’s Aboriginal “reconciliation” pledge a cynical fraud
• What drove Sean Penn Into the Wild?
• India’s Congress Party buckles to Hindu Supremacists’ communal campaign over Ram Sethu
• US and Israel maintain menacing silence over air raid on Syria
• Conflict between Turkey and the US intensifies

October 18, 2007

• US government brokers scheme to bail out Wall Street banks
• UAW deal opens door for Chrysler carve-up
• French workers oppose “tax” on medical treatment
• Former UN Official: US blocked certification that Iraq had no WMDs in 1990s
• An interview with JoJo Henrickson, screenwriter of Ladrón que roba a ladrón
• Putin in Tehran: US-Russia rift widens
• Ladrón que roba a ladrón: Sharply observed, if inconsistent, Spanish-language film
• British government accessing telephone records

October 19, 2007

• Teachers strike in Bulgaria
• Bush invokes threat of “World War III”
• Canada’s Conservative government outlines agenda of social reaction and war
• Vote ‘no’ on UAW sellout at Chrysler! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
• Democrats reach agreement with Bush administration on domestic spying bill
• Transport strike brings France to a standstill
• Train drivers step up strike action in Germany
• Australia: Rudd tries to fudge Labor’s agreement with WorkChoices
• Letter from a German train driver
• Bomb blasts hit Bhutto’s return to Pakistan
• Obituary: Grace Paley and political culture
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

October 20, 2007

• Bhutto implicates Pakistan’s military-security establishment in assassination attempt
• Large UAW local votes 80 percent to reject
  Chrysler sellout faces strong rank-and-file opposition
• French rail strike continues, despite union leaders’ efforts to end it
• French workers speak out against social welfare cuts
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Another letter from a German train driver
• Landmark study records visionary architecture from the early years of the Soviet Union
• Canadian Auto Workers union “partners” with Magna International
• Australia: McArthur Express workers face up to 10 years jail for protesting
• Senate hearings on Mukasey nomination
  Democrats prepare to install defender of torture, illegal spying as attorney general
• Swiss election campaign reveals profound social divisions

October 22, 2007

• Germany: Social Democratic chairman attacks train drivers
• More Chrysler locals reject UAW contract betrayal
• “We are sick of being lied to by the union”
  Detroit autoworkers speak out against UAW-Chrysler contract
• Letters from our readers
• Australian election debate: Howard and Rudd compete as economic conservatives
• IMF growth forecast not as good as it looks
• The Kingdom: Spinning reality any way one wants
• US secretary of state seeks to impose Israeli diktats on Palestinians
• US raid on Baghdad’s Sadr City leaves many dead and wounded
• France: corruption scandal hits employers’ federation, unions
• An exchange on sanctions against Zimbabwe

October 23, 2007

• Video: WSWS speaks to Detroit Chrysler workers
• As contract faces rejection
  UAW conspires with Chrysler to impose agreement
• G7 meetings highlight deepening problems for US and world economy
• US militarism threatens to unleash regional conflagration
• Letters on US auto workers’ struggle
• US: Bush administration fast-tracks relaxation of media ownership constraints
• Britain: Oppose efforts by Communication Workers Union to end postal strike
• Swiss elections witness turn to the right and growing polarisation
• Britain’s Socialist Workers Party collaborates in union’s betrayal of postal strikes
• Western Australian resources boom leads to deepening social inequality
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

October 24, 2007

• US government unable to account for $1.2 billion paid to Iraq contractor
• Wildfires engulf Southern California
  As many as 1 million flee as almost 500,000 acres burn
• French unions vote to end transport strikes
• German train drivers’ strike: GDL union leader appeals to the chancellor
• As Turkey-Iraq crisis escalates, US plans military strikes on PKK bases
• Nepalese Maoists quit government in bid to stem waning support
• Canberra weighs up “regime change” in Papua New Guinea
• Polish elections: a clear rebuff to the Kaczynskis
• Republican presidential candidates appeal to an ever-narrower right-wing base
• Northern Rock: the crisis mounts for British government
• UAW defends 50 percent wage cut for Chrysler workers
• Ninety percent of voting Writers’ Guild of America members authorize strike
• An Evening with Brian Wilson
  The Palace Theatre in Manchester, England—September 23, 2007

October 25, 2007

• Spain: Arrests of Batasuna leadership by Socialist Party ahead of elections
• British Columbia strikes show workers need new perspective
• Bush threatens escalation of aggression against Cuba
• The California wildfires and the American social crisis
• World War Z: Monsters of this society’s own making
• No convictions in US terror trial against Muslim charity
• Australia: Victorian Labor government uses Howard’s WorkChoices against nurses
• Pakistan: Musharraf regime reiterates martial law threat
  US-sponsored deal with Bhutto begins to unravel
• LTTE attack on Sri Lankan air force base
• Rep. Pete Stark apologizes to Bush: Another abject climbdown by the Democrats
• UAW moves to prevent defeat of Chrysler contract

October 26, 2007

• China’s Communist Party congress: a celebration of private wealth and market success
• How the UAW pushed through its sellout at Chrysler
• Letters from our readers
• US imposes unilateral sanctions on Iran: One step closer to war
• US: Maine nurses union agrees to demands of hospital administrators
• Merrill Lynch reports billions in losses amidst growing signs of US recession
• Socialist Equality Party meetings launch Australian election campaign
• How to fight militarism and war....
  Nick Beams addresses SEP election meetings
• US Senate confirms right-wing judge to federal appeals court
• SEP candidate explains why she joined the party
• European Court of Justice overturns “Volkswagen Law”
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

October 27, 2007

• The real face of Howard’s Northern Territory intervention: welfare cuts and community closures
• Strong opposition at final Chrysler plant voting on UAW contract
• European Union leaders agree to treaty in Lisbon
• Devastation from California wildfires comes into focus as some blazes are contained
• Democrats, Republicans back Bush war provocations against Iran
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Britain: Post workers speak out against union management agreement at Royal Mail
• German Socialist Equality Party (PSG) organizes meetings to support the train drivers’ strike
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2007—Part 1
  The “new seriousness” in cinema...
• German Social Democrats, unions fear losing control over the working class
• Sri Lanka: JVP-affiliated union issues threat against Socialist Equality Party

October 29, 2007

• UAW pushes through Chrysler betrayal in face of strong rank-and-file opposition
• Letters from our readers
• Firefighting shortages played role in California wild fire damage
• Israel’s power cuts to Gaza: Collective punishment with tacit US approval
• Demonstrators denounce Bush and Democrats over Iraq war
• More warnings of a US war on Iran
• Tens of thousands march in US cities
  Antiwar protest organizers promote Democratic Party
• One-third of Americans live with “extreme stress”
• Why both Labor and Liberal will provide billions for tax cuts, but not for social services
• Germany: Interviews with striking train drivers
• Nick Beams launches party’s election campaign on YouTube

October 30, 2007

• California wildfire victims speak to the WSWS
  “We’ve lost everything—we only have the clothes on our back”
• Worsening conflict between Russia and Georgia driven by Washington-Moscow rivalries
• Another Guantánamo military officer condemns prisoner tribunals
• Canada’s Conservative government rushes to reaffirm support for army champion of Afghan war
• New report exposes Labor-Liberal wrecking operation on public hospitals
• A case of déjà vu: Howard insists “no plans” for war with Iran
• Leading German politician issues alarm about threat of war with Iran
• International Students for Social Equality meetings in the US
  Racing toward disaster: War, inequality and the crisis of American democracy
• The rise and fall of Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O’Neal
• The New York Times and Bush’s threat of World War III
• Rendition: An open attack on the Bush administration’s system of torture
• US: Police cleared in Taser assault on Florida student
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

October 31, 2007

• Report: Strategic air base being readied for war on Iran
• International Students for Social Equality to hold meetings on campuses in Canada
• Socialist Equality Party challenges Greg Combet to debate industrial relations
• Letters from our readers
• Democrats debate in the shadow of US war threats against Iran
• Ford and UAW press for deeper concessions from US auto workers
• New Zealand: 17 arrests in nationwide “anti-terrorist” raids
• Saudi king alleges UK could have prevented July 7 bombings
• German Social Democratic congress upholds austerity program and coalition with conservatives