Archive: 12/2007
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.
December 1, 2007
- Labor expected to send more troops as Australian casualties grow in Afghanistan
- Britain: government cuts funding as bird flu outbreak is confirmed
- The Darjeeling Limited from Wes Anderson: It’s time to do more interesting work
- The Left Party and the German train drivers strike—an exchange of letters
- Police maintain their occupation of Paris working class suburb
- US House passes Democrat-crafted “homegrown terrorism prevention” legislation
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International support for striking US writers
Pickets in Los Angeles speak to WSWS -
Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
Part 2: Eurasian geopolitics and US threats against Iran - Bush pressures Congressional Democrats on war funding
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The parliamentary elections and the crisis of the authoritarian regime in Russia
- After four weeks: studios and networks offer striking writers a “massive rollback”
December 3, 2007
- The Amis-Eagleton controversy: The British literary elite and the “war on terror”
- Australia: Asbestos sufferer and campaigner Bernie Banton dies at 61
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Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
Part 3: Globalization, Iran, and the dollar crisis - Police attack ethnic Indian protestors in Malaysia
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The artist Henry Moore: Power and humanity
Moore at Kew, London exhibition until March 30, 2008 - Bush applauds Musharraf as he makes himself Pakistan’s President till 2012
- Somalia: growing insurgency and humanitarian crisis
- French student mobilisation at an impasse
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Plan to freeze some subprime mortgage rates
Bush administration intervenes to shield Wall Street from housing meltdown - The politicization of the writers’ struggle: the New York Times and an interview with striker David Wyatt
December 4, 2007
- Former SEP gubernatorial candidate speaks on California radio: “Writers strike is part of growing international resistance by workers”
- US military judge orders witness names withheld from Guantánamo detainee
- School’s collapse leaves foreign teachers stranded, homeless in Japan
- Australia: Rudd Labor government commits to “economic conservativism”
- British Labour Party under police investigation over illegal donations
- Extremely weak results in Robert Redford’sLions for Lambs
- Germany: Union agrees fundamental restructuring at Siemens
- Sri Lanka: Armed gang sets fire to newspaper printshop
- Union bureaucracy betrays Turk Telekom strike
- The referendum defeat in Venezuela: A warning to the working class
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Interview with a striking writer: a candid conversation about US television
December 5, 2007
- Letters from our readers
- Gone Baby Gone: a moral mystery
- German Socialist Equality Party certified to participate in Hesse state elections
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In run-up to Gujarat elections
Magazine exposé shows BJP state government organized 2002 pogrom - A prelude to confrontation with Iran: the US arms Sunni militia in Iraq
- Britain: The postal workers dispute and the role of “left” groups in the CWU
- US intelligence report shows war drive against Iran based on lies
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SEP-ISSE memorial meeting
Twenty years since the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist leader Keerthi Balasuriya - Sri Lankan military conducts massive anti-Tamil sweep through Colombo
- Writers’ strike in fifth week: the political discussion continues
December 6, 2007
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Interview with a French Airbus worker
“All the parties, even the far left parties, are moving to the right” -
Following intelligence report exposing administration’s lies
Bush continues threats against Iran - US Supreme Court hears arguments on habeas corpus for Guantánamo prisoners
- Anti-immigrant demagogue Lou Dobbs speaks in Detroit
- Another Guantánamo Bay prisoner attempts suicide
- US intelligence report heightens danger of Israeli strike on Iran
- Letter from a worker in the UK sub-prime mortgages sector
- Royal visit revives tensions between Spain and Morocco
- Papua New Guinea flood leaves thousands homeless
- The privatisation of the German railways system and the train drivers strike
- Russian parliamentary elections: Putin’s party retains control
- One month of the US film and television writers’ strike
December 7, 2007
- Without new government, Belgium faces threat of break-up
- Amid global financial instability: China-EU trade tensions intensify
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
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Despite US intelligence shift:
European powers back continued sanctions against Teheran - Collapse of California’s housing market reveals underlying social inequality
- US: Nine dead in Omaha, Nebraska mall shooting
- Australia: Qantas-union deal will set new benchmark to cut pay and conditions
- US presidential campaign: Romney denounces secularism in bid for Christian fundamentalist backing
- National miners strike in South Africa
- Fear and greed: The financial crisis driving Bush’s subprime mortgage plan
- Bush unveils subprime mortgage scheme to bail out banks
- Turkey: Assaults on freedom of expression continue
December 8, 2007
- Australia: Labor government moves to ratify Kyoto Protocol ahead of Bali climate change conference
- CIA destroyed torture tapes
- Food prices rise, living standards fall for US families
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GDL leadership prepares sell-out
German train drivers must take strike into their own hands - US employment report shows recessionary impact of housing and credit crisis
- US intelligence agency uses Jordan for torture of prisoners
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Spain: 16-year-old murdered by fascist
- Writers strike: studios and networks dig in their heels
December 10, 2007
- China’s blocking of US aircraft carrier highlights naval tensions in the Pacific
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More revelations concerning CIA destruction of torture tapes
Both parties supported US interrogation program - A letter on “US Supreme Court hears arguments on habeas corpus for Guantánamo prisoners”
- Australia: Howard government knew of Guantánamo detainee’s torture complaints
- West Bengal: Left Front government rattled by popular outrage over Nandigram massacre
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Discussion on the lessons of the French strikes
Workers must have “a way of acting politically on a global scale” - Talks break down in Hollywood writers’ strike
December 11, 2007
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To explore another level of society
Hotel Obsino writer Adam Broinowski speaks with WSWS -
New revelation regarding CIA destruction of torture tapes
Former CIA agent acknowledges use of water-boarding in interrogations - Democrats propose deal to extend Iraq war funding
- New York scaffolding collapse kills one immigrant worker, injures another
- Iranian government cracks down on student protests
- “Marx is a must” conference in Berlin: Providing cover for the social democratic bureaucracies
- China’s latest coal mine explosion kills at least 105
- Hotel Obsino: inner-city poverty and despair
- TV celebrity Oprah stumps for Barack Obama
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
December 12, 2007
- CIA director testifies behind closed doors on destroyed tapes
- An evening with the Cleveland Orchestra
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead: What are the dark forces at work?
- US stocks plunge on Federal Reserve rate cut announcement
- US-Mexico border fence almost doubles
- War danger grows after Kosovo status talks collapse
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PSG election meeting in Frankfurt
For a socialist answer to the social disaster - Solomon Islands government in crisis after parliamentarians join opposition
- LTTE leader makes desperate appeal to “world powers”
- Attorneys demand preservation of evidence of detainee torture
December 13, 2007
- Recapture of Afghan town highlights crisis of US, NATO occupation
- Central banks coordinate actions amid fears of a global financial breakdown
- Australia: Labor government to boost military spending
- Ex-Peruvian president Fujimori jailed after first trial
- Germany: a positive response to the PSG election campaign in Hesse
- Gujarat elections: BJP chief minister reverts to Muslim-baiting
- Ice storm leaves half million without power in Central US
- France: Socialist Party, “far left” move towards electoral alliance
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New York meeting on the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century - Trump, Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party’s scramble for investment
- Suicides by US soldiers and war veterans surge
December 14, 2007
- Bush administration isolated at Bali climate conference
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Labor’s “education revolution” to deliver for business
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The Hesse state election:
The Left Party offers its services to the SPD - Pakistan’s opposition parties capitulate to Musharraf and Bush
- France: One-day rail strikes in defence of pensions called off
- Solomon Islands government ousted through parliamentary vote
- European Union treaty signed at Lisbon: A constitution in all but name
- Scores of migrants drown as boat sinks off Turkish Aegean coast
- Writers’ strike reveals profound cultural and social divide
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
December 15, 2007
- Australia: Police attack African youth at public housing estate
- The Golden Compass and the religious right
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Mychal Bell pleads guilty to reduced charge
Jena Six defendant sentenced to 18 months in prison - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Miami: Collapse of Liberty City 7 case exposes fraud of “war on terror”
- US Supreme Court rulings give judges more discretion in sentencing
- Der Spiegel churns out old lies on the October Revolution
- US: Baseball steroid report—reflection of a diseased social order
- Britain: First woman convicted under Terrorism Act
December 17, 2007
- Bali climate conference ends in farce as US vetoes emission targets
- Bush administration moves to block inquiries into CIA’s destruction of torture tapes
- Germany: PSG holds first election meeting in Hesse
- Australia: Labor government proceeds with pro-business industrial relations agenda
- Scottish human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar prosecuted
- US: Student loan debt bearing down on graduates
- Impasse in writers’ strike poses need for new political struggle
December 18, 2007
- Canada: Judge rules the return of political refugees to the US illegal
- Letters from our readers
- New Jersey abolishes the death penalty
- Dresden: Over 10,000 students rally against new state education law
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Twenty years since the death of Keerthi Balasuriya
Part one - South Korean presidential election: right-wing candidate poised to win
- Lieberman’s endorsement of McCain exposes bipartisan support for war
- Corporate oil giants scramble to plunder Iraq’s energy reserves
- Das Reichsorchester—The Berlin Philharmonic and the Nazis
- Russian President Putin names his putative successor
- Australia: Socialist Party lashes out at the SEP’s election intervention
- Switzerland: Right-wing populist Blocher voted out of government
- UK water companies fined millions after fiddling accounts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
December 19, 2007
- Reports document deepening social catastrophe in Afghanistan
- Congress votes to fund war, bows to Bush on domestic policy
- Detroit: second highest foreclosure rate in US
- Blair’s international donors’ conference: Another conspiracy against the Palestinian people
- Germany: The sale of SachsenLB bank—bailing out speculators at public expense
- UN representative expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture, Guantánamo hearings
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Twenty years since the death of Keerthi Balasuriya
Part two - British students respond to ISSE showing of From Tsar to Lenin
- US backs Turkish military attacks on northern Iraq
December 20, 2007
- Letters from our readers
- France: A sharp increase in police repression
- Record inequality in the US: Billions for Wall Street bosses as workers’ share of income shrinks
- Homeowners in Detroit suburb demand protection from foreclosures
- Sri Lankan SEP marks 20th anniversary of Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
- Russia orders closure of British Council offices
- Britain: Socialist Equality Party condemns arrest of Tommy Sheridan on perjury charges
- JVP assists the Sri Lankan government to pass its war budget
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Report indicates White House encouraged torture tape destruction
Administration demands retraction, calling news story “pernicious” - Inflation surge hits consumers, compounds global banking crisis
December 21, 2007
- Australian media uses Aurukun Aboriginal child rape case to push right-wing agenda
- One year of the Democratic 110th Congress: A record of duplicity, cowardice and political reaction
- The debate in Germany over executive compensation and the minimum wage
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US Federal Reserve’s subprime regulations shield Wall Street banks
- New York Times bows to White House pressure over CIA tapes story
- Woman accuses US contractors in Iraq of rape as Justice Department shuns hearing
- Britain: Northern Rock crisis deepens
- Keerthi Balasuriya as revolutionary fighter during 1970-1971
- Film and television writers confront big political and cultural issues
December 22, 2007
- South Africa: conflict in ANC signals deepening social tensions
- Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population
- German train drivers union announces new strikes
- One-day general strike in Greece
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New Orleans police attack residents protesting public housing demolition
- Thai military junta stages carefully managed election
- Zuma’s election heralds instability
December 24, 2007
- An analysis of the 9/11 Commission memo on interrogation tapes
- Letters from our readers
- Australian Labor government endorses further punitive measures against David Hicks
- Israel says strikes on Gaza will be ongoing
- FBI’s Hoover proposed internment of 12,000 “disloyal” Americans in 1950
- What has the US “surge” in Iraq accomplished?
- Right-wing candidate wins South Korean presidential poll
- European Union sends “rule of law” mission to prepare for Kosovan independence
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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A criminal conspiracy
White House, CIA hid torture tapes from 9/11 Commission - The Walker: A shamefaced political critique
December 27, 2007
- US prepares to increase occupation forces in Afghanistan
- Russia-Belarus talks signal renewed cooperation against US
- Letters from our readers
- Record fall in US home prices
- Greetings to Colombo memorial meeting for Keerthi Balasuriya
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SEP-ISSE memorial meeting in Colombo
Commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the death of Keerthi Balasuriya - Record Christmas bonuses on Wall Street
December 28, 2007
- In wake of assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Bush administration rushes to defense of Musharraf
- Germany: BMW announces 8,000 job cuts
- Soaring inflation sparks social unrest in China
- Bob Dylan as a psychological pastiche: I’m Not There
- Scores killed in Indonesian Boxing Day landslides
- US agency OKs slashing of health benefits for over-65 retirees
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SEP-ISSE memorial meeting in Colombo
WSWS speaks to workers and youth about Keerthi Balasuriya - Turkey: 15-month strike ends with betrayal by union bureaucracy
- The reality behind Britain’s claims of military success in Iraq and Afghanistan
December 29, 2007
- Bhutto assassination heightens threat of US intervention in Pakistan
- Danish elections: Government remains dependent on far right
- US occupation prepares Basra operation following British withdrawal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US mayors’ report: Hunger and homelessness intensify in US cities
- Turkey continues its incursions into northern Iraq
December 31, 2007
- Britain: Arts Council to cut funds to 194 organisations
- David Walsh selects his favorite films of 2007
- US presidential candidates pledge support to Pakistani dictator
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Germany: PSG election meeting in Giessen
“Everything depends on a new political development by the working class” - Australian Labor government steps up vendetta against former Solomon Islands attorney-general
- Pakistan: Violent state repression of protests over Bhutto assassination
- Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
