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Archive: 02/2008

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.

February 1, 2008

• Snowstorms and blackouts create chaos in China
• Five more Republicans join exodus from House of Representatives
• France: Attali report calls for free-market reforms
• Bush rejects congressional ban on permanent bases in Iraq
• More signs of US recession as jobless claims jump
• Malaysian police crack down on protest over price rises
• The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
  Part two
• British-Iraqi survey confirms one million deaths as a result of US invasion
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• On the French Riviera
  Top West Virginia judge vacations with coal boss appealing legal verdict

February 2, 2008

• Britain: Rising fuel prices blight millions
• Corporate America honors US auto union president
• UN secretary-general arrives in Kenya in attempt to restart talks
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
  Part three
• As layoffs and prices rise, Big Oil posts record profits
• Mounting calls from Pakistan’s military and judicial establishments for Musharraf to quit
• New Solomon Islands prime minister kowtows to Canberra
• US: 17,000 jobs lost in January
• Why the writers’ strike never came up in the Democrats’ Los Angeles debate

February 4, 2008

• Australian police chief calls for media blackout on terrorism cases
• Britain: Arts Council confirms cuts
• France: Mass demonstrations against social austerity plans
• Juno: an “apolitical” film about teen pregnancy
• Letters opposing the arrest of Iranian students
• The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
  Part four
• US political establishment lines up behind Barack Obama
• Sri Lankan independence: 60 years of communalism, social decay and war

February 5, 2008

• Ahead of NATO meeting: New US reports warn of failure in Afghanistan
• US blocks scientific report on Arctic environment
• Bush budget: programs slashed to pay for tax cuts and war
• Hawaii climate change summit ends without agreement on emission cuts
• Letters from our readers
• On eve of “Super Tuesday” primaries, Wall Street casts the money ballot
• WSWS speaks to striking writers
• The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
  Part five
• Europe: Nokia unions side with management
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Grave dangers in the film and television writers strike

February 6, 2008

• China enacts new labour law amid rising discontent
• Letters from our readers
• Decline in US service industries heightens recession fears, sparks stock sell-off
• Joschka Fischer demands German combat troops be sent to southern Afghanistan
• France: Thousands of retail workers strike for better wages and conditions
• US military admits to a dozen civilian deaths in Iraq
• “Super Tuesday”primaries leave Democratic presidential contest unresolved
• Spain: Catholic Church renews offensive against abortion rights
• Suicide bombing at crowded station in Sri Lankan capital
• There Will Be Blood: a promising subject, but terribly weak results

February 7, 2008

• Berlin transport workers strike
• Turkish military again strikes Kurdish areas in northern Iraq
• February 13 meeting in Los Angeles
  A socialist perspective for film and television writers
• Serbian government faces collapse following presidential election
• New Thai government installed, but army hovers in the political background
• Tornadoes kill at least 54 in Southern US states
• Bush administration acknowledges and defends use of torture technique
• After “Super Tuesday,” dead heat in contest for Democratic presidential nomination
• Mounting social distress among returning US troops

February 8, 2008

• 75 years since the Nazi assumption of power
  Hitler’s “intelligible response” to the contradictions of global capitalism
  The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
• Chinese leaders react nervously to ongoing “snow havoc”
• Slumping sales signal US recession; slowdown spreads to Europe
• British Army accused of “off the scale” abuses in southern Iraq
• Mitsubishi axes its last Australian car plant
• Turkey: Amnesty International documents attacks on democratic rights
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

February 9, 2008

• Rice and Miliband visit Afghanistan as US demands more European troops
• Canada’s Conservative government threatens Afghan war election
• US: Six dead, dozens injured in Georgia sugar plant explosion
• German train drivers oppose contract deal
• Striking writer speaks to the WSWS
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Romney withdraws, ensuring McCain the Republican presidential nomination
• Communalism and militarism on display at Sri Lanka’s independence day celebrations
• Democrats overwhelmingly vote to pass Bush’s economic stimulus bill
• US attorney general rejects investigation into use of waterboarding
• Film and television writers should reject the contract deal

February 11, 2008

• Eddie Benjamin: January 2, 1953—February 5, 2008
• Britain: Labour government minister bugged by police
• Chad regime survives rebel attack on capital
• Iraqi parliament in turmoil as sectarian rivalries flare
• The Savages: Throwing away the aged
• Tricom breakdown exposes fragility of Australian share market
• Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America
• US film and television writers to vote on end to strike

February 12, 2008

• US to hold 9/11 show trial at Guantánamo
• Germany: Nine Turkish immigrants die in house fire
• West Bengal’s Left Front government presides over another police massacre
• Elections called in Italy
• Clinton campaign in crisis after Obama sweeps five weekend contests
• Australian federal parliament’s “sorry” resolution: the real agenda
• Spanish economy dominates election
• International condolences and tributes to Eddie Benjamin
• US: 2,600 strike Volvo Trucks in Dublin, Virginia

February 13, 2008

• Militarism, hypocrisy, and the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton speaks to students in San Diego
• Connecticut, US: local police deputized to pursue immigrants
• The Great Debaters: An enlightened struggle against racial oppression during the Depression
• Obama sweeps Potomac primaries, deepening Clinton’s crisis
• 30 years since Sydney’s Hilton Hotel bombing—the unanswered questions
• NATO security conference: US demands more European troops in Afghanistan
• British government widens police stop-and-search powers
• Australian Prime Minister apologises to “stolen generation”: rhetoric versus reality
• A very strange “coup attempt” in East Timor
• Recent tornadoes in the Southern US: both a natural and social disaster
• Australia: Victorian teachers face fight with Labor governments over pay and conditions
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

February 14, 2008

• Letters from our readers
• Congress moves toward expanding government spying, with immunity for telecoms
• US Defense Secretary sides with military opposition to troop drawdown in Iraq
• An exchange on the result of the election in Hesse, Germany
• Bush administration, banks announce another token measure on home foreclosures
• Australia: “Stolen generations” speak out in Canberra
• Demonstration in New York to protest arrest of Iranian students
• ISSE meetings in Britain to mark fifth anniversary of US-led invasion of Iraq
• The two faces of Barack Obama
• Trying to understand
  The Death of Margaret Thatcher—a play by Tom Green
• US writers vote to end 100-day strike

February 15, 2008

• Canada’s Liberals rally behind plan to expand Canadian role in Afghan War
• Congress grills baseball star Roger Clemens
• After the Gaza breakout: Israel launches sustained hostilities
• After $39 billion loss
  GM offers buyouts to entire US hourly workforce
• Hesse after the election
  Germany’s Left Party woos the SPD
• French housing report exposes government inaction
• Australia: Prime Minister Rudd backs NSW state power sell-off in face of growing opposition
• Australia: Press blacks out Aboriginal protest over Northern Territory intervention
• The “circularity” of hope: The Nation endorses Barack Obama
• Sri Lankan government proposes phony solution to communal conflict
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• WSWS arts editor speaks in Los Angeles on implications of screen writers’ strike

February 16, 2008

• Bush defends torture
• France: Sarkozy wins vote on EU treaty with help of Socialist Party
• Ahmadinejad under fire in lead up to Iran’s parliamentary election
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Britain’s foreign secretary urges no retreat on imperialist militarism
• Scotland Yard’s report on Bhutto assassination
  Britain again comes to Musharraf’s aid
• Bush approves shoot-down of satellite by Navy missile cruiser
• Six dead after yet another US school shooting
• Canada: Fredericton ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin

February 18, 2008

• The impact of the credit crunch on British workers
• ISSE demonstrates in New York to demand release of jailed Iranian students
• Obama, Clinton admit primaries may not settle nomination fight
• Kosovo’s declaration of independence destabilises Europe
• Pakistan’s military regime stages sham election
• Australia: Unions collaborate with Qantas to slash wages and conditions
• New details on gunman in US university shooting
• Washington returns to business as usual with Thai military
• Needs outstrip military health services for returning US veterans

February 19, 2008

• Largest beef recall in US history reveals compromised food supply
• ISSE demonstration to free Iranian students calls for international unity of workers
• US: Cities, education funds, transport authorities hit by credit crisis
• Germany: Turkish prime minister incurs wrath of politicians and the media
• French municipal elections expose crisis of the political establishment
• Deep divisions in Europe over Kosovo independence
• Washington Post criticizes populist rhetoric
  A shot across the bow against Barack Obama
• Australia: Labor “rank and file” meeting—no perspective to fight electricity privatisation
• East Timor: Official “assassination” claims collapse
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

February 20, 2008

• From the archive of the WSWS
  After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War
• Spain: Government tries to ban Basque separatist parties from election
• Sino-Australian relations complicated by BHP’s attempted merger with Rio Tinto
• Fidel Castro retires as Cuban president after 49 years in power
• France: Massive police raid on Villiers-le-Bel
• Detroit: highest home foreclosure rate in US
• The case of Kosovo: “Self-determination” as an instrument of imperialist policy
• US Supreme Court refuses to hear case against warrantless wiretapping
• Pakistanis overwhelmingly reject US-backed strongman Musharraf
• Obama defeats Clinton by wide margin in Wisconsin primary

February 21, 2008

• Letters from our readers
• France: Marseilles retail strike called off after two weeks
• Trevor Griffiths’ These are the Times: a Life of Thomas Paine
  A great film yet to be made
• An interview with playwright Trevor Griffiths
• Iraq: US occupation faces crisis of its own making
• Germany: Union and works council announce final shutdown of Nokia factory
• Obama’s Texas speech: Populist appeals with reassurances to big business
• Risk of cholera multiplied by sewage collapse in Baghdad
• US Supreme Court Justice Scalia defends torture
• Works by Trevor Griffiths
• An exchange on the break-up of Yugoslavia

February 22, 2008

• Kosovo “independence” brings new uncertainties in Asia
• Canada’s Chalk River nuclear crisis: “market planning” produces a fiasco
• Czech Republic: Mudslinging dominates presidential election
• An exchange on Australia’s “Sorry Day”
• US satellite strike escalates military space race
• In Texas debate, Obama counters Clinton attack by asserting his readiness to use military force
• UK government nationalises Northern Rock
• Serbs protesting Kosovo independence attack US embassy in Belgrade
• Sri Lankan government plans sham local elections in eastern Batticaloa
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

February 23, 2008

• Attacks announce insurgent “spring offensive” in Afghanistan
• Britain: government targets child asylum seekers
• Letters from our readers
• Indian high court bolsters press censorship on TV, Internet
• Turkish troops invade northern Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Pakistan’s leading opposition parties to form national coalition government
• Turkish jobless rate increases dramatically
• Tax evasion in Germany and the campaign for “moral leadership”
  The case of Klaus Zumwinkel

February 24, 2008

• Quebec’s winter storm: the social issues

February 25, 2008

• Millions denied access to dentistry in the UK
• Food prices continue to rise worldwide
• Turkish forces push deeper into Kurdish northern Iraq
• Australia: “Lefts” sign-up with Rudd Labor
• Ralph Nader announces 2008 presidential campaign
• US trade unions shift behind Obama

February 26, 2008

• Bush’s Africa tour: US seeks to counter growing Chinese influence
• Berkeley City Council caves on anti-recruiting resolution
• The 58th Berlinale—Part 1
  Some alarm signals in contemporary film
• Letters from our readers
• Australia: Victorian teachers’ union blocks discussion on strategy to oppose government attacks
• US auto union leader Douglas Fraser dead at 91
• Public meeting in Paris: Twentieth anniversary of the death of Trotskyist leader Keerthi Balasuriya
• Germany’s role in the secession of Kosovo
• Malaysia to go to polls one year early
• The 80th Annual Academy Awards: A mostly routine affair
• US Federal Reserve downgrades economic growth forecast for 2008
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

February 27, 2008

• American Axle workers strike against massive wage cut
• Video: WSWS Interviews Striking American Axle Workers
• Mining firms impose huge price hike on Chinese steelmakers: a sign of global inflation
• Germany: Unemployed man starves himself to death
• US military announces 10,000 more post-“surge” troops in Iraq
• A superficial analysis of global capitalism—Part 1
  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, Allen Lane: 2007
• Kosovo independence fuels regionalist divisions in Spain
• US Senator Carl Levin speaks on torture at the University of Michigan
• The New York Times and the 2008 elections: What the McCain “exposé” reveals
• Australia: Power workers oppose NSW Labor government’s privatisation bid
• Divisions in ruling party
  Former Prime Minister de Villepin signs appeal directed against French President Sarkozy
• Sweden: Economic turmoil hits privatisation drive

February 28, 2008

• Denmark’s media mount a provocation by reprinting Mohammed cartoons
• Germany: CDU woos the Greens in Hamburg state election
• A superficial analysis of global capitalism—Part 2
  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, Allen Lane: 2007
• Australia: State Labor government moves to dismantle public school staffing system
• Obama, Clinton debate in Ohio: What accounts for the bitter struggle within the Democratic Party?
• Reader’s letter on the closure of the Nokia factory in Bochum, Germany
• Siemens axes 7,000 jobs worldwide
• US district court judge orders shutdown of whistleblower web site

February 29, 2008

• Detroit News warns of “labor unrest” in auto industry
  American Axle strikers defy UAW wage-cutting pattern
• Video: WSWS speaks to striking auto workers in Detroit
• Bush renews demands for telecom immunity as Democrats seek compromise on spy bill
• Lust, Caution: political intrigue in Japanese-occupied China
• US leads world in imprisoning its people
  More than one in 100 adults behind bars
• UK: Unions prepare to sell out jobs fight at Rolls-Royce
• Kosovan independence could ignite new conflicts in territories of former Soviet Union
• Sri Lanka: Escalating war fuels rising prices
• Marine exercise in Toledo, Ohio: an attack on democratic rights
• Turkey rejects timetable to end invasion of northern Iraq
• Brutal police attack on striking shipyard workers
  On-the-spot report from Istanbul
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa