Archive: 08/2009
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.
August 1, 2009 (front page)
- Factional struggles deepen within Iranian ruling elites
- Vote for D’Artagnan Collier, SEP Candidate for Detroit Mayor
- Billions in bonuses for bailed-out bankers
- Honduran coup regime launches brutal crackdown
- Obama’s diplomatic offensive in the Middle East
- States cut social programs as deficits deepen
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Michigan House Democratic leader proposes assault on public employee health care
Seeks to slash $900 million - Great power rivalries and the Nabucco pipeline project
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Who is Klaus Franz?
The evolution of the Opel union leader - Australia: Business lending dries up
- Is Chéri genuinely ‘subversive’?
- Sri Lanka: ISSE-SEP meeting in Colombo on Karl Marx and Charles Darwin
- Letters on the Gates arrest
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
August 3, 2009 (front page)
- Civilian death toll soaring in Afghanistan
- Obama touts economic “recovery”
- Fresh evidence of British collusion in torture
- Sri Lankan government launches “war on the underworld”
- Pennsylvania state workers speak out on payless paydays
- Germany: Management speculation threatens survival of Porsche car works
- Somalia: Obama administration sends arms to prop up Islamist government
- Indonesian president’s re-election disputed
- US: Florida economy hit by housing collapse
- 500 Days of Summer: The eternally sunlit paradise that is Los Angeles
August 4, 2009 (front page)
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As US, NATO casualties mount
Pentagon to press for more troops in Afghan war - CIA director issues a warning to Congress
- Sri Lankan government stalls on release of Tamil detainees
- Britain: National Health Service hospital faces privatisation
- Australia: Labor conference endorses war and “sacrifice”
- Australian unions endorse Labor’s draconian industrial relations laws
- German unions sell out childcare staff
- Los Angeles: immigrant workers protest layoffs, repression
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Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, 1933-2009
Part one - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
August 5, 2009 (front page)
- Unemployment rises sharply across Europe
- Australian police carry out sweeping new “anti-terror” raids
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A further step toward a police state
Obama seeks to institutionalize indefinite detention - Iranian election crisis continues amid growing US threats
- US health care lobby pumps millions into Obama’s cost-cutting drive
- US military base plan fuels Latin American tensions
- Elderly man resisting eviction shot by Detroit police
- Israel: The significance of the Bar-Noah gay shooting
- Mass arrests at Malaysian protest
- New York hospital workers face massive concessions in reopened contract
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Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, 1933-2009
Part two - Australia: Victorian paramedics protest for safer conditions
August 6, 2009 (front page)
- Bill Clinton’s visit to North Korea: a tactical shift in US foreign policy
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Stocks, profits up—Jobs, income down
Whose recovery? - South Korea: Violent police operation mounted against Ssangyong auto occupation
- Coup regime steps up repression in Honduras
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Mass abstention in Detroit mayoral elections
SEP candidate wins significant vote - Germany: 6 million unemployed
- US House passes toothless CEO pay law
- Obama mortgage plan aids banks, not homeowners
- Australia: Labor’s “reform” to further privatise health care
- Mauritania: Western rapprochement after coup leader Aziz wins election
- The political lessons of the Detroit mayoral elections
- Britain: Visteon workers appoint solicitor to investigate pensions rip-off
- Letters from our readers
August 7, 2009 (front page)
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One year since Russian-Georgian war
Georgia remains focus of Washington-Moscow tensions - Mounting popular opposition to the war in Afghanistan
- Korean unions end Ssangyong occupation on company terms
- The drug lobby demands, and gets, Obama pledge to protect health care profits
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Not supporting anyone “in particular”
State Department spells out US stand on Honduran coup - Obama continues brutal immigrant detention policies
- Sri Lankan plantation unions undermine workers’ pay
- Writer Budd Schulberg, unrepentant informer, dead at 95
- Gurrumul: an evocative and unique musical contribution
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
August 8, 2009 (front page)
- US soldier who opposes Afghan war sentenced
- US: Report details immigrant abuse by government authorities
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As long-term joblessness soared
US payrolls fell another quarter-million in July - The assassination of Baitullah Mehsud
- Parliamentary committee for inquiry into British complicity in torture
- Australia: Rudd government urges employers and unions to cut hours and wages
- Nancy Pelosi’s summer vacation
- Republic of Moldova: Pro European Union forces win parliamentary election
- A Thousand Splendid Suns: The plight of Afghan women only partially depicted
- Unions isolate Sri Lankan nurses’ campaign for safety measures
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
August 10, 2009 (front page)
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72 failures so far this year
Three more US banks collapse - A corrupt election in Afghanistan
- China’s dubious statistics cover up economic crisis
- US cities criminalize homelessness
- Ireland’s “bad bank” becomes a €90 billion property speculator
- Britain: Government plans further fund cuts in elderly care
- Grief turns to anger over Tongan ferry tragedy
- The Hurt Locker: Part of a deplorable trend
August 11, 2009 (front page)
- US military and intelligence agencies identify climate change as “national security” threat
- Letters from our readers
- Paulson and Goldman Sachs: A dirty secret of the Wall Street bailout
- China carries out mass arrests in Xinjiang
- Australia: Media promotes sensationalised “terror” claims
- US: Pennsylvania's Democratic governor vetoes social spending
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UNESCO Report on Babylon
US occupation caused “major damage” to historic site in Iraq - German worker dismissed for “stealing electricity” at work for cell phone
- Sri Lanka: Jaffna University students speak to WSWS
- Lithuania leads Baltic economic slump
- Germany: Berlin cinema shows films commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
August 12, 2009 (front page)
- Massive abstention in Sri Lankan local elections
- US corporations squeezing more output from workers and paying lower wages
- What is behind the opposition to the Obama healthcare plan?
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German federal election
SPD leader presents “Germany Plan” - Australian jobless statistics reveal deep cuts to hours
- New Zealand government redeploys elite SAS troops to Afghanistan
- Scottish Nationalist, Labour hypocrisy over Diageo job losses
- The Google Book Search copyright settlement and the future of information—Part 1
August 13, 2009 (front page)
- Pentagon to Obama: Send more troops or lose war in Afghanistan
- Obama’s Abu Ghraib solution
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Maneuvers continue in GM-Opel takeover
IG Metall sanctioning destruction of thousands of jobs -
Prison riot in California
Budget crisis to make inhumane conditions worse - Swine flu infections spread to 160 countries
- US Marine Corps renews ban on social networking sites
- Australia: Media buries fake email scandal
- The Google Book Search copyright settlement and the future of information—Part 2
- Letters from our readers
August 14, 2009 (front page)
- New evidence shows Bush White House orchestrated purge of US attorneys
- British homeowners fall prey to “sale and rent back” scams
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As layoffs, foreclosures mount
US Federal Reserve hails prospects for a business recovery -
The Massachusetts model
The New York Times and Obama’s health care counterrevolution - British Army chief says military may have 40-year Afghan role
- NAFTA summit papers over divisions between US, Mexico and Canada
- Chinese labour report points to rising discontent
- Australian government tightens grip over Pacific Islands Forum
- Australian officials exclude WSWS from reporting on Pacific Islands Forum
- Funny People: Requiem for a paperweight
- Australia: West Gate employer uses Rudd government’s new laws to attack workers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
August 15, 2009 (front page)
- Violence sweeps northwest Pakistan in wake of Mehsud assassination
- Economic nationalism on the rise in Europe
- China-India border talks highlight rising tensions
- Fatah’s congress followed by hollow claims of a “new beginning”
- Sri Lanka kidnaps LTTE leader
- Britain: Report into police killing of Ian Tomlinson handed to Crown Prosecution Service
- Four hundred years since Galileo’s astronomical discoveries
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
August 17, 2009 (front page)
- Hillary Clinton seeks to strengthen US imperialism’s position in Africa
- The failure of Russia’s free-market pension reform
- Another major US bank collapses
- Typhoon Morakot devastates Taiwan
- Official unemployment in Britain tops 2.4 million
- Germany: Klaus Ernst and the Left Party support drastic wage cuts
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Thousands line up at Los Angeles free clinic
Healthcare and the social crisis in America - Balibo: A war crime exposed
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“The Balibo deaths represented part of the broader tragedy that befell East Timor”
Director Robert Connolly speaks with WSWS
August 18, 2009 (front page)
- White House drops public health care option
- Interviews at Los Angeles health care clinic
- South Korea: The political lessons of the Ssangyong occupation
- Obama pledges intensified war in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Sri Lanka: Thousands protest against police killings
- Thousands attend free health clinic in Los Angeles
- US soldier sentenced to year in prison for refusing to fight in Afghanistan
- Talks on labour relations in Spain break down
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Vote for the Socialist Equality Party in the German parliamentary elections
For a socialist answer to the capitalist crisis - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
August 19, 2009 (front page)
- Stock market gyrations reflect fears of protracted global slump
- US income gap widest since 1917
- US health care row spreads to UK
- Australia: Rudd government toughens anti-terror laws
- Federal regulators covered up Ponzi scheme at Stanford bank
- Britain: What can be learned from the occupation of Vestas?
- Balkan governments introduce harsh austerity measures
- Washington, D.C., track worker killed in accident
- For a united movement of Detroit workers! Form rank-and-file committees to oppose concessions!
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Obituary
Les Paul: A legacy of ground-breaking musical invention
August 20, 2009 (front page)
- Economic recovery in Europe: Rhetoric and reality
- One in nine Americans uses food stamps
- New AIG head to get at least $7 million annually
- Sri Lanka: Police state measures against nurses
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“The government is not reducing the gap between the communities but increasing it”
Indian students in Australia speak to WSWS about recent racist attacks - US-British conflict over release of Libyan convicted of Lockerbie bombing
- Calls for spending cuts and tax hikes in wake of Toronto municipal strike
- Afghanistan’s gunpoint election
- Letters from our readers
August 21, 2009 (front page)
- Baghdad bombings cast doubt on US troop withdrawals
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Mass abstention and vote rigging in Afghanistan election
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Initial jobless claims rise unexpectedly
2008 US Census shows sharp increase in poverty - US Supreme Court orders new hearing for Georgia death row inmate
- Indonesian court rejects election challenge
- Canada: Federal Court of Appeal upholds order to repatriate Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr
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One in three youth in Berlin living on welfare
Bitter outcome of the Left Party-SPD coalition - Australia: Aboriginal residents of Ampilatwatja walk out over housing conditions
- America’s Death Squads Inc.
- Detroit city workers oppose concessions, layoffs
- Britain: Postal union attempts to control escalating strike wave
August 22, 2009 (front page)
- Obama administration uses Blackwater in drone killings
- Washington praises Afghan election fiasco to justify war escalation
- US presses Pakistan for offensive in South Waziristan
- US workplace suicides up by 28 percent
- China: Protesting steel workers halt plant privatisation
- Sri Lanka: Detention of Tamil civilians to continue indefinitely
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Ridge’s “revelations” on US terror alerts
What the World Socialist Web Site said - Britain: Government sued over illegal detentions in Afghanistan
- Texas judge on trial for refusing to hear death row inmate’s appeal
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
August 24, 2009 (front page)
- War to escalate after Afghan election
- 70 years since the Hitler-Stalin Pact
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German magazine reports
Blackwater mercenaries used for CIA renditions - South Korean government witch-hunts Ssangyong workers
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Hydroelectric catastrophe in Russia
Latest industrial accident points to serious infrastructure failures - Iceland: Bank bailout and corruption scandals fuel protests
- US: New revelations on immigrant detainee abuse
- Australian teachers union calls for streamlined dismissals
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The firing of a German supermarket cashier: A case of class justice
An answer to Professor Rieble -
Former Wehrmacht officer condemned as war criminal
Italian civilians massacred in June 1944
August 25, 2009 (front page)
- Internal CIA report shows agents tortured, killed prisoners
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Nearly one year since the crash of 2008
Bernanke's apologia for the Fed - Wildfires threaten Greek capital
- Japan’s fragile economy overshadows general election
- California braces for new round of budget cuts
- Lockerbie: Transatlantic row worsens over Megrahi release
- Massive police mobilization prepared for G20 summit in Pittsburgh
- Riot breaks out in Kentucky prison
- Unite all Detroit area workers to defend public education and defeat the attack on jobs and living standards!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Growing opposition among Victorian paramedics to Brumby-union sell out deal
August 26, 2009 (front page)
- US fears mount over Afghan election travesty
- Obama, rendition, and the decay of American democracy
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Council of Economic Advisers analysis
Obama health care overhaul based on cost-cutting and deficit reduction - The bidding war for Opel and German-Russian relations
- Mexican economy in free-fall
- Britain: High Court hears evidence on police violence against G20 protest
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Revolutionary leadership and the struggle of 1934
75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike–Part one - Detroit teachers rally against concessions and layoffs
- Australia: Court case against West Gate workers ends in plea bargain
- Australia: Bus drivers strike in defiance of union
August 27, 2009 (front page)
- CIA probe shields architects of US torture regime
- Ted Kennedy and the decay of American liberalism
- Afghan war escalating in defiance of popular opposition
- Obama reappoints Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman
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US state, city budget crises deepen
Rhode Island to shut down for 12 days - Union calls off protest by unemployed graduates in Sri Lanka
- Sweden: Koenigsegg bid to buy Saab under threat
- Italy: Xenophobic immigration policy leads to hundreds of deaths in the Mediterranean
- Detroit teachers denounce pay cuts
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Revolutionary leadership and the struggle of 1934
75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike—Part two - Letters from our readers
August 28, 2009 (front page)
- US debt to hit $20 trillion by 2020
- Japan’s elections: the Communist Party’s role
- Putin’s ten years in power
- Union official takes the helm at New York Federal Reserve
- Bing administration issues layoff ultimatum to Detroit city workers
- Sri Lankan government to impose onerous restrictions on political parties
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Detroit teachers’ union blocks strike action against wage cuts, layoffs
DFT committed to implement Obama’s school “reform” - Thousands denied child care due to Pennsylvania budget cuts
- GM and Opel: the struggle for dominance in the global auto market
- Australia: NSW teachers union censors debate at mass meeting
- Washington’s double standard: The elections in Iran and Afghanistan
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Revolutionary leadership and the struggle of 1934
75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike—Part three - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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Defeat Labor’s pro-market “education revolution”!
For a national boycott of NAPLAN by teachers, parents and students!
August 29, 2009 (front page)
- More details of immigration raid in Mississippi, US
- Georgian crisis heightens US-Russian tensions over Ukraine
- Obama’s AfPak war intensifies on both sides of border
- Coup in Honduras enters its third month
- US government list of “problem banks” tops 400
- Japanese government faces landslide electoral defeat
- Video evidence of Sri Lankan government war crimes
- 2009 German parliamentary election: a conspiracy of silence on the implications of the economic crisis
- Scotland: Report exposes bankruptcy of official campaign over Diageo jobs
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Revolutionary leadership and the struggle of 1934
75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike—Part four - Letters on the death of Kennedy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
August 31, 2009 (front page)
- Japanese voters sweep Liberal Democrats from office
- Germany: SEP begins crucial phase of federal election campaign
- Cheney defends torture policy and CIA torturers
- Ten years since East Timor’s independence vote
- Turkey: The Kurdish question takes centre stage
- Britain to continue privately run school academies
- Report exposes abuse at New York youth prisons
- Sri Lankan power workers strike for pay increase
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Revolutionary leadership and the struggle of 1934
75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike
