Archive: 11/2007
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.
November 1, 2007
- “Big Tobacco” cuts arts funding in New York City
- Protests by former Chinese soldiers: another source of political instability
- Near-unanimous vote at UN to repudiate US blockade of Cuba
- US Federal Reserve accedes to Wall Street demands with another interest rate cut
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German court to decide on right to strike:
“If the right to strike is being trampled underfoot then I expect support”
Interview with two striking train drivers - Howard government caught out lying over Hicks release from Guantánamo
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An historic betrayal
Canadian Auto Workers union “partners” with Magna International - Auto workers oppose CAW’s sweetheart deal with Magna
- US State Department offered immunity to Blackwater mercenaries
- US attorney general nominee refuses to condemn torture techniques
- European Union clears final hurdle to postal privatisation
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2007—Part 2
... And the new problems - Terry Hicks, father of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with the WSWS
November 2, 2007
- Bitter outcome of UAW contract betrayal: Chrysler to cut 12,000 more jobs
- Michael Clayton: The man who comes in from the cold
- Germany: Court to rule on train drivers strike
- US intensifies push for further UN sanctions on Iran
- Australia: Coroner exonerates police over fatal Macquarie Fields car chase
- French President Sarkozy visits Morocco
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SEP-ISSE meeting in Sri Lanka
A socialist program to oppose war and its economic burdens -
New terror scare from the White House
Bush invokes 9/11 to justify torture, domestic spying and war - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Broader issues facing US film and television writers
November 3, 2007
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“The UAW knew what was coming, but they got a good deal out of it for themselves.”
Chrysler workers react to job cuts, denounce union betrayal - Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Jean Charles de Menezes shooting: Metropolitan police found guilty of endangering the public
- Democrats cave in on torture: Key senators back attorney general nominee
- Strong opposition to CAW leadership voiced by Oshawa GM workers
- The real issues in the controversy over the Tasmanian pulp mill
- Detroit suburb to vote on measure to restrict democratic rights
- Sri Lankan trade unions betray teachers strike
- Stock market gyrations fueled by credit, housing market crises
- US film and television writers will walk out Monday
November 5, 2007
- Abortion rights under attack in Britain
- Vote “no” on UAW betrayal at Ford! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
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SEP candidate Alex Safari speaks at election forum in Maroubra
Labor’s Peter Garrett presents his pro-war credentials -
France: Immigration history museum opens without official inauguration
A sign of mounting opposition to Sarkozy’s policies - With Washington’s complicity, Musharraf imposes martial law in Pakistan
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Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Sydney, Perth & Melbourne
On the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution: the prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century - Sri Lankan military assassinates LTTE political leader in air strike
- Germany: Court lifts strike ban against train drivers
- Determined, angry mood among US film and television writers
November 6, 2007
- Citigroup ousts CEO, warns of billions more in subprime losses
- Letters from our readers
- Vote “no” on UAW betrayal at Ford! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
- An exchange with the Australian Greens on their complicity in Howard’s anti-terror laws
- Interviews with striking writers and supporters
- Japan withdraws naval support for US war in Afghanistan
- Union shuts down Victorian nurses campaign
- As Pakistanis battle martial law, US vows continued aid to Musharraf
- US consumer safety head opposes strengthening agency’s powers
- May 2007 Scottish election fiasco: Report finds voters “treated as an afterthought”
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US auto workers denounce UAW betrayal at Ford
“The union is so intertwined with the company they are giving away the whole store” - US film and television writers launch their struggle
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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Nick Beams on YouTube
The Socialist Alliance and East Timor - Meet the candidates: Questions & Answers on the Socialist Equality Party’s program
November 7, 2007
- One year since the 2006 election: The Democratic Congress and the war in Iraq
- US troop deaths in Iraq set yearly record
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Climate change, Kyoto, and carbon trading
Part 1: The Howard government and the Kyoto Protocol -
Madrid bombing convictions despite flimsy evidence
Informant gave advance warning to Civil Guard - Moroccan elections reveal gulf between regime and the population
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Bipartisan support for authoritarian measures
Democratic senator defends vote for Bush’s attorney general nominee - As Pakistanis risk life and limb to oppose Musharraf, US elite rallies round military regime
- Majority of Southern US public school students are poor
- The SEP and preferences in the 2007 election
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Writers’ strike in its second day
More strikers speak with the WSWS
November 8, 2007
- Letters from our readers
- The Democratic Party candidates and the writers’ strike
- The European Union, railway privatisation and the attack on workers’ living standards
- Britain: Declining hygiene standards lead to 90 deaths at three hospitals from C. difficile
- Writers and supporters speak out in Los Angeles and New York City
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Climate change, Kyoto, and carbon trading
Part 2: The orientation of Labor and the Greens - France: Teachers resist Sarkozy’s manipulation of Guy Môquet history
- Howard, Rudd hypocrisy on martial law in Pakistan
- Quebec’s commission on “Reasonable Accommodation” and the growth of anti-Muslim chauvinism
- Off-year elections in US show continued hostility to Bush, Republicans
November 9, 2007
- Near-panic atmosphere as US Federal Reserve chairman testifies before Congress
- Bolsheviks in Power - Professor Alexander Rabinowitch’s important study of the first year of soviet power
- Chicago-area high school students face expulsion for antiwar sit-in
- The plight of the UAE’s migrant workers: the flipside of a booming economy
- US auto workers vote on contract betrayal at Ford
- Democrats scuttle Cheney impeachment measure: fraud turns into farce
- SEP demands the dropping of charges against McArthur Express workers
- Deepening political crisis in Pakistan
- Congress proposes $50 billion more in Iraq war funding
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Support for writers’ strike outrages Hollywood elite
November 10, 2007
- Exposé of Gap’s use of child labor part of a broader social phenomenon
- More writers and their supporters in Los Angeles and New York speak to the WSWS
- Bernard Kerik indicted on federal fraud, conspiracy charges
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Bush gives green light for Turkey to attack PKK in Iraq
Historical, political issues in the Turkish-Kurd conflict - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Senate confirms Mukasey as attorney general
- With tacit US support, Pakistan’s military regime intensifies repression
- Rudd and Murdoch: the fashioning of a Blair-style “Labor moderniser”
- Sri Lanka: Oppose the JVP threats against the SEP
- At mass rally, Writers Guild leaders attempt to lull strikers to sleep
November 12, 2007
- Ford Rouge workers denounce UAW sellout
- Video: WSWS Speaks to Ford Workers
- Police and thieves: Ridley Scott’s American Gangster
- French student protesters: “Everything is directed at the government’s policy of social destruction”
- US prepares for tougher action against Iran
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Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: from Whitlam to Rudd
Part 1 - Bush reaffirms support for Musharraf as Pakistani dictator intensifies military repression
- French President Sarkozy goes to Washington: A vassal pays homage
- Ethiopia steps up military occupation of Mogadishu
- Stagehands shut down Broadway over producers’ takeaways
- French students mobilise against university reform
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Sixty-nine percent of those polled in Los Angeles support walkout
Writers strike enters second week -
James Cogan on YouTube
Rudd and Howard prepare to back US attack on Iran
November 13, 2007
- Bankrupt US auto parts giant seeks $216 million for executive bonuses
- Poor planning compounds problems as drought plagues Southeast US
- For a socialist and internationalist perspective to fight French President Sarkozy’s social cuts
- Indo-US nuclear deal could be casualty of India’s fractured domestic politics
- Britain: Inquiry to be held into Stockline factory blast
- US: New developments in the case of the ‘Jena Six’
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Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: from Whitlam to Rudd
Part 2 -
Government campaign launch
Howard’s desperate appeal to big business -
German Chancellor Merkel sides with Bush
US president repeats “Third World War” warning - US, British and Australian forces build oil-protection base in Iraq
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SEP’s Patrick O’Connor speaks at Grayndler forum
Socialist Alliance and Greens back Labor - Sri Lankan president hands down war budget
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Increasing bitterness in film and television writers strike
November 14, 2007
- An explosion of billionaires in China
- Letters from our readers
- France: Sarkozy seeks confrontation with the working class
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International Students for Socialist Equality meetings in Britain
90 Years since the Russian Revolution -
Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: From Whitlam to Rudd
Part 3 -
More in regret than anger
Bhutto calls for Pakistan’s US-backed military strongman to resign -
SEP’s Patrick O’Connor speaks at Grayndler forum
Socialist Alliance and Greens back Labor - Britain: Queen’s Speech signals attack on civil liberties
- Turkish union bureaucracy adds its voice to nationalist campaign
- Congressional report puts cost of US wars at $1.6 trillion
- Film and television celebrities express support for striking writers
November 15, 2007
- West Bengal’s Stalinist government mounts terror campaign to quash peasant unrest
- US home foreclosures nearly double from a year ago
- France: Despite success of strike, trade unions prepare a sellout
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Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: From Whitlam to Rudd
Part 4 -
Germany: The resignation of Franz Müntefering
The beginning of the end for the grand coalition - New York police shoot down disturbed youth—thought hairbrush was a gun
- Pakistani regime continues crackdown on opponents
- Britain’s Respect-Unity coalition split: The collapse of an opportunist bloc
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“Reckless spending must stop”
Labor leader’s campaign launch pledge to corporate Australia - US federal court blocks second court martial against Army war resister
- Striking television writers discuss political issues with the WSWS
November 16, 2007
- Two months after deadly shooting, no charges against Blackwater mercenaries
- Congressional Democrats resume phony “antiwar” votes
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Multi-millionaire “populist” to appear on writers’ picket line
Who is John Edwards? - French union leaders seek to strangle rail strike
- Malaysia: Large protest in Kuala Lumpur demands electoral reforms
- Quebec: Parti Québécois introduces bill to restrict the rights of non-francophones
- France: Railway workers resist unions’ plan for sell-out
- New York’s Democratic governor bows to anti-immigrant hysteria over license plan
- “Terrorist” cases unravel, exposing government-police frame-ups and lies
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Pickets at CBS discuss perspectives for writers’ strike
November 17, 2007
- Debt crisis deepens, as Howard launches another interest rate scare campaign
- Democratic presidential debate: Right-wing consensus boosts Hillary Clinton
- US Congress moves toward passage of domestic spy bill
- France: Rank-and-file workers force continuation of rail strike
- German train drivers intensify their strike
- German rail strike: report from Berlin and Frankfurt-Main
- US dismisses IAEA report of “progress” over Iran’s nuclear programs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iraqi archivist demands US return seized documents
- Britain: Vote ‘no’ and mobilize rank-and-file against CWU sell-out of postal workers
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Writers’ strike ends its second week
Mr. Edwards goes to the picket line
November 19, 2007
- The AEU and the Victorian teachers’ wage rise campaign
- Political lessons of the UAW contract betrayal
- Top general urges Brazil to develop nuclear weapons
- UN-backed Cambodian trials of Khmer Rouge leaders set to start
- Letters on Brian Wilson
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Teachers, public employees to join rail workers on strike
French workers need a new political strategy - All workers must mobilize behind German train drivers’ strike
- Student volunteers and the Katrina recovery: Some reflections after visiting New Orleans
- Appeals court panel bars key evidence from lawsuit against NSA spying
- US envoy lauds Pakistani dictator’s “democratic vision”
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As Broadway stagehand talks resume
IATSE president blasts writers’ strike - Terry Cook, SEP candidate for Charlton, speaks on YouTube
- Studios and striking writers to resume negotiations November 26
November 20, 2007
- Thousands die in devastating cyclone in Bangladesh
- Britain: Brown reaffirms his pro-US credentials on Iran and Europe
- The China resources boom and the gathering clouds of global recession
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On eve of Thanksgiving holiday
Food banks running out of supplies in Detroit - France: Vast mobilisation expected November 20 against Sarkozy’s policies
- US steps up plans for military intervention in Pakistan
- New pro-business government takes office in Poland
- Strike at Russian Ford plant—a sign of renewed struggle by Russian workers
- US veteran population: a mounting social catastrophe
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
November 21, 2007
- France: 1.5 million strike against Sarkozy’s policies
- Indian Stalinists reverse course, allow Indo-US nuclear deal go to IAEA
- New law condemning Franco’s crimes further polarises Spain
- Mexico: Aftermath of the Tabasco floods—another manmade “natural” disaster
- British obesity levels the highest in Europe
- Labor, Liberal and the revival of colonialism in the South Pacific
- SEP-ISSE meeting in Sri Lanka: the lessons of the Russian Revolution
- Broadway remains dark another week after strike talks break down
- University authorities use police repression against striking French students
- Los Angeles school district threatens teachers with financial punishment over payroll glitch
- The wrongful detention of Tony Tran: yet another immigration cover-up
- US recession fears grow as bank losses mount
November 22, 2007
- Socialist candidate warns Victorian teachers of union betrayal
- Rail workers, public service employees and students demonstrate in Amiens, France
- Bulgaria: Right-wing makes gains in local elections
- Letters from our readers
- “GetUp! Action for Australia”: Protest politics in support of Labor
- More public hospital cutbacks in Sydney’s west
- American liberalism and the Iraq War: The New York Times gives its blessing to Bush “surge”
- Kosovo Assembly election result deepens crisis over independence
- France: 5,000 demonstrate in Strasbourg against Sarkozy
- Striking writers protest in Hollywood
November 23, 2007
- Jury awards damages to Central American Dole workers
- Finland: What are the social roots of school gunman’s murderous rage?
- Socialist Equality Party How To Vote cards available in PDF
- Germany: Left Party opposes train drivers’ strike
- Thoughtful response at SEP election meetings on the Russian Revolution
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The only genuine alternative for the working class
Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party on November 24 - Sri Lankan government rams war budget through parliament
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
November 24, 2007
- Major parties treat carers with contempt
- French railway strike betrayed
- Oligarchs vie for power in Georgia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Ninety years since the Russian Revolution: The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
Part 1 - The banality of evil: No Country for Old Men
- Britain: No central control over nuclear arsenal
- SEP holds public meeting in Colombo to oppose the war in Sri Lanka
November 26, 2007
- Annapolis talks: A cover for fomenting Palestinian civil war and preparing assault on Iran
- Letters from our readers
- A life as a revolutionary
- An example to the new generation
- Australian voters speak to WSWS on polling day
- Voters explain why they supported the Socialist Equality Party
- Ten years since the death of Jean Brust, veteran Trotskyist
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Ninety years since the Russian Revolution: The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
Part 2 - Bhutto and Sharif decry dictatorship, while seeking a deal with Pakistan’s US-backed military regime
- Redacted: Outraged but schematic
- Australian voters throw Howard government out of office
November 27, 2007
- US Army reports rising desertion rates
- Australian Labor prime minister elect reassures “our great friend and ally the United States”
- The sell-off of Britain Plc: Revenue and Customs loses personal details of 25 million
- Credit crisis reveals widespread accounting manipulation by top US banks
- The filthy rich: Forbes lists America’s top 400 for 2007
- France: Riots break out in Paris suburbs after police crash kills youth
- Germany: Neo-Nazi attack in Dortmund restaurant
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Ninety years since the Russian Revolution: The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
Part 3 - Another slap in the face to antiwar voters: Democrats embrace former Iraq commander
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
November 28, 2007
- Canada’s Supreme Court opens door to deportation of US “war resisters”
- US signs deal for long-term occupation of Iraq
- Election defeat causes meltdown in Australia’s Liberal and National parties
- Britain: The real issues in the Oxford Union “free speech” debate
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2007—Part 3
Some of the old problems, too -
ISSE meetings in Britain to screen Tsar to Lenin
Documenting the last days of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the new Soviet Union - Venezuela: the class issues in Chavez’s constitutional referendum
- Striking writers are determined, wary as contract negotiations restart
November 29, 2007
- US bombing kills 14 construction workers in Afghanistan
- Annapolis: US prepares Palestinian civil war and rallies Arab support against Iran
- Citigroup deal highlights US banking crisis
- Big Three automakers prepare attack on Canadian workers
- The betrayal of the French rail workers strike and the role of the LCR
- An open letter to striking train drivers from the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
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Massive police deployment in Villiers-le-Bel
France: Three nights of rioting in response to youths’ deaths - An assessment of the SEP’s vote and campaign in the 2007 Australian election
- Sri Lanka: Central Bank union demands retraction of threats against SEP
November 30, 2007
- UN report into worst Afghan atrocity implicates security forces
- Australian Labor prime minister-elect unveils new pro-business cabinet
- Letter from the children of Jean Brust, veteran Trotskyist
- France: drumhead tribunals and threats of police state repression
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Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
Part 1: Iran’s strategic position - Meeting in US to commemorate 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
- The Jena Six: Mychal Bell’s case to be opened to the public
- Report shows US coal mines not properly inspected due to cutbacks, mismanagement at safety agency
- New Zealand: Charges dropped after “anti-terror” police raids
- Broadway stagehands return to work after union accepts concessions
- More than 100 dead in Ukraine mine disaster
- Edmund Wilson’s literary essays and reviews from 1920 to 1950: Just in time
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
