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Archive: 04/2009

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.

April 1, 2009 (front page)

• OECD paints bleak picture of global economy
• British Army chief ready to send more UK troops to Afghanistan
• Indian Elections:
  Stalinists woo Congress Party and BJP allies
• Corruption and capitalist Russia
• Detroit auto workers denounce Obama's concession demands
• Turkey: Municipal elections reveal deep socio-political divisions
• The collapse of the Cologne state archive building could have been prevented
• Former Pacific Islands trade official denounces Australian bullying
• Media backs Obama’s assault on US auto workers
• Lions roaring in a well
  Vince Melocchi’s Lions at the Pacific Resident Theatre
• The future of art in an age of crisis
  David Walsh, WSWS arts editor, to speak in Virginia
• SEP campaigns among Sri Lankan rubber plantation workers

April 2, 2009 (front page)

• US-Europe tensions erupt on eve of G20 summit
• The Nation and “socialism”
• Israel: Netanyahu threatens war on Iran, spurns “two-state solution”
• US commander seeks 10,000 more troops for Afghanistan
• IMF and World Bank reports predict bleak future for Africa
• France: Caterpillar workers detain bosses
• More than one billion to go hungry in 2009
• Scientists issue dire warning on rising sea levels
• Najib Razak to take over as Malaysian prime minister
• Australian government dilemma over Chinese investment
• The Combination: Australian stereotypes reinforced
• Letters from our readers

April 3, 2009 (front page)

• G20 summit: US and Europe paper over divisions
• Wall Street celebrates accounting rule changes designed to hide losses
• Impending North Korean missile test raises regional tensions
• Obama’s “Path to Viability for GM & Chrysler”: The ruthless language of Wall Street
• Germany: Union collaborates in job cuts at steelmaker ThyssenKrupp
• Detroit schools plan new round of closings, layoffs
• Germany: PSG collects 4,680 signatures to support European election campaign
• Australia: Relations with China behind defence minister scandal
• NATO celebrates 60th anniversary by expanding Central Asian war
• Australian military intelligence agency emerges in “Fitzgibbon affair”
• Video: Chrysler workers oppose Obama auto plan
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

April 4, 2009 (front page)

• US unemployment rate hits 8.5 percent
• Behind the surge on Wall Street
• Court rules detainees in Afghanistan can challenge imprisonment
• OECD report: German jobless to top 5 million in 2010
• Wall Street Journal report: US executive perks “flourished” in 2008
• Spain: Big business demands savage attacks on working class following bank crash
• Workers occupy car parts factories in England and Northern Ireland
• Australia: “Closing the Gap”—another Rudd Labor fraud
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• A letter on engineering and the financial aristocracy
• Sri Lankan SEP campaigns at hard-hit industrial estate

April 6, 2009 (front page)

• NATO backs US escalation of war in Central Asia
• UN Security Council convened over North Korean missile test
• Britain: Calls for public inquiry into police brutality at G20 summit
• Three more mass shootings in the US
• US nonprofit groups, cities lose millions in Wall Street derivative scams
• Australian PM walks tightrope between rival powers at G20 summit
• New York state budget deal: the worst attacks still to come
• Rising unemployment and poverty in the Philippines
• Obama's Wall Street cabinet
• RMT union sabotages London Midland rail dispute

April 7, 2009 (front page)

• Obama pursues US strategic interests in Turkey
• The mass shootings in America
• US Supreme Court rejects appeal by Mumia Abu-Jamal for new trial
• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac executives to receive millions in bonuses
• Indonesia’s elections: a stage-managed affair
• Sri Lankan military captures last LTTE town
• Britain: RMT rail union launches nationalist platform for European elections
• More than 230 migrants drown off Libyan coast
• Britain: No2EU and its rightwing bedfellows
• Budget-strapped Chicago public schools to implement staggered class schedules
• New York: Magna auto parts workers reject cutbacks in face of shutdown threat
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

April 8, 2009 (front page)

• Obama stages surprise visit amid renewed bloodshed in Iraq
• US expands war into Pakistan
  Missile strikes to be intensified
• Antarctic ice shelf collapse: climate change and capitalism
• Warnings suppressed
  Over two hundred victims in Italian earthquake
• Italy: Berlusconi sets up a new right-wing party
• Israel’s military police dismiss allegations of misconduct in Gaza
• Who is responsible for the Libyan refugee boat tragedy?
• More assertive Chinese diplomacy at the G20 summit
• Occupations at UK Visteon plants continue despite legal threats
• Sunshine Cleaning: A misplaced sense of where the drama (or comedy) lies

April 9, 2009 (front page)

• Thousands march in Los Angeles to support immigrant rights
• Pentagon budget envisions a series of Iraq-style wars
• The UAW’s silence
• Red Cross report details CIA war crimes
• Former chairman of GM financial arm charged in Madoff-related fraud
• Britain: Militant construction workers blacklisted and denied employment
• Australian government prepares deep budget cuts
• Peru: President promises to protect foreign capital from social unrest
• Ward Churchill wins wrongful termination suit
  Jury finds Colorado professor was fired for political views
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan SEP campaigns in Tamil suburb in Colombo

April 10, 2009 (front page)

• Britain: Evidence of fatal police assault at G20 demonstration
• Hijacking of US ship raises threat of intervention in Somalia
• Economic decline deepens in Europe, with German exports in free fall
• G8 document on world hunger warns of global instability
• Unresolved status of Kirkuk heightens tensions in Iraq
• Supreme Court limits right of union workers to sue for discrimination
• Peru: Ex-President Fujimori sentenced to 25 years for “dirty war” killings
• Ontario won’t abide by its pension guarantees to auto workers
• Up to 600 teachers face layoffs
  Detroit to close another 23 schools this fall
• Times Co. threatens shutdown of Boston Globe
  Demands $20 million in concessions from unions by May 1
• The looting of America
• The deindustrialization of Detroit
• France: Strike and occupation at FCI factory in its 45th day
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

April 11, 2009 (front page)

• Obama seeks $83.4 billion to continue US wars
• The Obama administration and torture
• Kosovo: Evidence of KLA torture and murders revealed by BBC
• Indian elections:
  Congress Party drops two candidates implicated in 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom
• Australian government tinkers with CEO pay
• Mass layoffs threaten New York state and city employees
• Socialist Equality Party candidate for the European election speaks to German radio
• Germany: ThyssenKrupp workers demonstrate against job losses and wage cuts
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters from our readers

April 13, 2009 (front page)

• Obama administration ends Somali pirate standoff with lethal force
• Thai government besieged by pro-Thaksin protestors
• Britain: Mass demonstrations protest Sri Lankan government’s civil war
• Moldova: Violent protests in aftermath of elections
• Pentagon holds war game simulating world financial crisis
• New York police attack protesting New School students
• Australia: Labor government unveils free-market agenda for higher education
• Market illusions vs. the reality of capitalist crisis

April 14, 2009 (front page)

• Anti-government protestors clash with soldiers in Thai capital
• Obama claims credit for killing Somalis
• White House pushing GM toward bankruptcy
• Obama moves to block court access for detainees in Afghanistan
• Fiji’s military junta consolidates power in defiance of Australian government
• Earthquake in Abruzzo exposes corruption in Italian building industry
• Sweden: Over half a million face unemployment
• Ireland: Government unveils major budget cuts
• Long Beach, California school board votes for deep cuts
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

April 15, 2009 (front page)

• Obama pledges more bank bailouts, cuts in social programs
• State budget cuts in US produce widespread suffering
• The lessons of Thailand’s political upheaval
• US airstrike kills six civilians in Afghanistan
• Georgia: Mass protests highlight political crisis in the Caucasus
• Sri Lankan “ceasefire” sets stage for bloody assault
• The “anti-terror” arrests in northwest England: what really lies behind them?
• France: Ségolène Royal fears return of “class struggle”
• The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
  Part one

April 16, 2009 (front page)

• As Obama pledges more bailouts
  US banks step up home foreclosures
• Obama and the pirates: the glorification of state violence
• Indian elections:
  BJP combines rank communal appeals with populist posturing
• Japan’s alarmist reaction to North Korean missile test
• Obama, automakers step up blackmail of GM and Chrysler workers
• Britain: Police make mass “preemptive” arrest of protesters in Nottingham
• Australian defence paper classifies China as strategic threat
• Michigan: 16-year-old dies after police Taser shooting
• Media attacks California teachers
• The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
  Part two
• Sugar: baseball and struggle

April 17, 2009 (front page)

• Obama exonerates CIA torturers
• Obama at the Americas summit: A bid to revive US hegemony
• Voting begins in India’s multi-phase election
• Media promotes right-wing “tea parties”
• Surge in foreclosures, production cuts signal deepening slump in US
• Britain: More video evidence of police brutality during G20 protests
• Poland: 21 die in homeless shelter fire
• Germany: Union demands auto workers give up wage rise
• Australian media whips up anti-refugee campaign after asylum seeker boat tragedy
• Australia: Rudd pledges billions to protect banks from property crash
• Obama visit signals increased role for Turkey and greater tensions
• GM and Chrysler workers oppose more concessions
• Socialism and American public opinion
• Inadequate schooling in Sri Lanka’s plantations
• Support D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor
• Visteon workers reject “derisory” redundancy offer
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
  Part three

April 18, 2009 (front page)

• Torture memos reveal brutality of US imperialism
• The criminalisation of political dissent in Britain
• Head of Obama’s auto task force linked to investment fraud
• Behind the US banks’ profit reports
• China’s economy continues to slow
• New NSA domestic spying exposed as Obama stonewalls court challenges
• Canada: Conservative and Liberal governments gang up against auto workers
• Spain: Zapatero sacks finance minister
• Tamils demonstrate in Canberra against Sri Lankan military assault
• Britain: Glasgow schools occupied against Labour closure threat
• Parents occupying Glasgow schools speak out
• Iceland: Social democrats and Left Greens pledge to continue coalition after elections
• San Diego imposes drastic cuts on city workers
• Socialist Equality Party (Germany) on the ballot for European Elections
• UK Visteon workers speak on occupation
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters from our readers

April 20, 2009 (front page)

• White House bars prosecution of Bush officials who authorized torture
• Iraq: the forgotten war
• More revelations from Bush torture memos
• Indonesian election favours incumbent president
• South Africa: Charges dropped against Zuma in run-up to election
• Ten years since the mass killings in Colorado
  The Columbine High School Massacre: American Pastoral...American Berserk
• Germany: Further job losses follow Woolworth’s insolvency
• Australia: Rudd government and unions back Qantas as it axes 1,750 jobs
• “The Aftermath of the December Greek Riots”
• New preview feature on Mehring Books
• Sri Lankan SEP to hold final election meeting in Colombo

April 21, 2009 (front page)

• Americas Summit ends with no agreement on economic crisis
• Torture and the crisis of American democracy
• Obama’s adviser in Trinidad: the real face of “change”
• The significance of the European election
• Obama reassures CIA no prosecutions planned
  Revelations that two prisoners were waterboarded 266 times
• General Motors accelerates job cuts as bankruptcy deadline approaches
• Opel-General Motors breakup will mean plant closures and mass redundancies
• Summary executions mount in Philippine city
• Scotland: Fatal helicopter crash raises concerns over offshore safety
• British Trotskyists challenge falsification of Spanish Civil War history
• The future of art in an age of crisis—Part 1
• Sri Lankan SEP campaigns in impoverished Colombo suburb
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

April 22, 2009 (front page)

• Australia: Racism and the 47 Afghan asylum seekers
• Hundreds dead as Sri Lankan army launches final assault
• Democratic defender of NSA spying was wiretapped in Israeli spy probe
• Torture memos provoke deepening political crisis
• What the New York Times unwittingly reveals about the war in Afghanistan
• Confidential Intelligence Unit: Unaccountable spying operation established in Britain
• Spain: Police repression against student protests
• Right-wing nationalists win Northern Cyprus elections
• The future of art in an age of crisis—Part 2
• “Shutting Detroit Down”: Country singer John Rich sings about the crisis, but also spreads confusion

April 23, 2009 (front page)

• Britain: Third autopsy into G20 victim Ian Tomlinson’s death
• Bush, top cabinet officials monitored torture of detainees
• Halt the war crimes in Sri Lanka
• France: Tamils arrested in protest against Sri Lankan mass killings
• Somali teen faces life sentence on piracy charges
• Ahmadinejad speech provokes walkout at UN anti-racism conference
• German “bad banks” plan to boost financial profits
• British chancellor releases austerity budget in worst crisis since WWII
• BBC bows once again before the pro-Israel lobby
• Defend pensions, jobs, and wages! No concessions!
  Auto workers need a socialist strategy
• Letters from our readers

April 24, 2009 (front page)

• IMF issues grim forecasts for 2009
• Chrysler could file for bankruptcy as early as next week
• Right wing threatens Obama over torture charges
• Chrysler Financial executives refused loans to avoid compensation caps
• As watchdog warns of bailout fraud
  Obama meets with bank, credit card executives
• Britain: Propaganda campaign mounted to justify brutal G20 policing
• China challenges US dominance in Latin America
• Australia: Unanswered questions about refugee boat tragedy
• Hungary: Change of government head augurs massive social attacks
• New York makes students pay for budget crisis
• Sri Lanka: Vote for the SEP in the provincial election
• Sin Nombre: The fate of Central American youth on their way to the US
• US: New Screen Actors Guild leadership caves in to studios
• Turkey: Metal workers protest threat of wage cut
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

April 25, 2009 (front page)

• US escalates threats against Pakistan
• Spain’s Socialist Party government suppresses torture probe of Bush officials
• Obama, Democrats move to block torture investigation
• Mounting civilian death toll in Sri Lankan war
• French and German Continental workers protest against plant closures
• China’s naval display points to deepening global rivalries
• US jobless claims soar, home sales decline
• Sri Lankan SEP holds final election meeting
• Sri Lanka: Vote for the SEP in the provincial election
• Thousands rally in Toronto against Liberals’ rescinding of pension guarantee
• Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009): Leading US surrealist and anthologist of André Breton dies
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters from our readers

April 27, 2009 (front page)

• Hillary Clinton makes crisis visit to Iraq
• Canadian Auto Workers union imposes draconian concessions on Chrysler workers
• Millions of Iraqis displaced
• Sri Lankan government wins provincial poll
• Germany: Union leader warns of social unrest
• Sydney’s blackouts: another sign of decaying infrastructure
• New York man receives 6-year “terror” sentence for Hezbollah TV broadcasts
• Torture and Washington's policy of aggressive war
• SEP and WSWS hold first of three regional conferences

April 28, 2009 (front page)

• Europe faces ever deepening recession
• Wall Street pay back to pre-crash levels
• Sri Lankan government rejects UN ceasefire call
• Further evidence of huge Iraqi death toll
• World Bank president warns economic crisis poses “human calamity”
• Britain: Another “terror scare” revealed as baseless
• US college students face mounting debts, diminishing job prospects
• British government denounced by charities for neglect of the poor
• Australia: Survivors of Victorian bushfires receive minimal compensation
• Defend jobs, wages and benefits! Vote “No” on Chrysler-UAW concessions! Oppose job cuts at GM!
• France: Caterpillar workers in revolt against the unions
• Workers Struggles, the Americas
• State of Play: More of Washington’s conspiracies

April 29, 2009 (front page)

• Contract betrayal will give UAW majority ownership in Chrysler
• Iceland: Social Democratic-led coalition secures victory in early elections
• Washington’s concerns grow amid Iraqi anger over US raid
• What happened in the skies over New York City?
• Thai government offers a small olive branch to opposition parties
• Australia: Unions to police Labor’s new, employer-friendly industrial laws
• British police spying operation caught on audio
• Obama’s 100 days
• Michigan auto workers denounce Chrysler-UAW concessions
• The 59th Berlinale—Part 4
  Jadup and Boel: The last banned film from the former East Germany
• Sri Lankan SEP and ISSE to hold May Day meeting
• An interview with former East German director Rainer Simon
  “We wanted to make realistic films about the GDR”

April 30, 2009 (front page)

• Politics and economics dominate response to swine flu epidemic
• Imperialist hypocrisy over the Sri Lankan war
• Mexico: Epidemic deepens the social crisis
• Wall Street rallies despite sharp contraction in US economy
• Pakistan: Tens of thousands displaced by US-ordered offensive
• Sri Lankan military continues shelling “no-fire zone”
• Bitter outcome of UAW sabotage of 2008 strike
  Detroit American Axle plant to close
• South Africa: Zuma’s victory expresses deepening class tensions
• Britain: Tories pledge “age of austerity”
• US requests New Zealand SAS troops for war in Afghanistan
• Berlin meeting launches SEP European election campaign
• Everlasting Moments: The world to be explored and preserved
• Letters from our readers