Archive: 01/2007
2007-01-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sellout at Brussels Volkswagen plant
- US death toll reaches 3,000 in Iraq, with no let-up in sight
- Saddam Hussein execution: A sectarian lynching
- New York Times celebrates mindless Hollywood fare
- Medicare premiums to rise significantly for 1.6 million in US
- Iraq: Violence against journalists at record high last year
- Australia: A bleak outlook for jobs despite official figures
- Japan’s “education reform” to indoctrinate nationalism
- US Goodyear strike ends
- Ford’s funeral: the hollow pomp of a corrupt and crisis-ridden establishment
2007-01-04
- Solomon Islands’ government dismisses Australian police chief
- Letter on cancellation of “My Name is Rachel Corrie” in Toronto
- Edouard Manet and France’s ill-fated puppet
- Libyan court confirms death sentence against medical workers
- Thousands of African migrants drown trying to reach Europe
- Hunger strike by detainees at “Canada’s Guantánamo”
- Social inequality on the increase in Germany and Europe
- Letters on the execution of Saddam Hussein
- Bush seeks bipartisan backing from Democratic Congress
- Canada’s antidemocratic “national security certificates” and the impotence of official liberalism
- Former separatist wins governorship in Indonesian province of Aceh
2007-01-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sri Lankan military carries out another atrocity against civilians
- France indicts president of Rwanda
- Seven New Orleans police officers indicted for post-Katrina killings
- NDP rallies to the defence of Canadian imperialism
- The Bush administration’s committee for regime change in Iran
- White House, US military respond to outrage over Hussein’s execution
- Flags of Our Fathers: not what we might have expected
- Democrats take control of Congress with pledge to work with Bush
- Brookings Institution preview of the Democratic Congress: Snapshot of an establishment in crisis
2007-01-06
- Vote against the sell-out organised by the unions and works councils!
- Behind the New Year’s Eve bombings in Thailand
- Experts describe UK as world’s “first onshore tax haven”
- Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush purges Iraq command to prepare military escalation
- Volkswagen workers in Brussels speak to the WSWS: the unions’ role is “shameful”
- The Good German: the cost of playing fast and loose with big questions
- Letters on the death of Gerald Ford
- Howard government unveils new “Australian values” citizenship test
2007-01-08
- The Good Shepherd: Robert De Niro’s portrait of the CIA
- German chancellor Merkel snuggles up to Bush
- Israel has plans for nuclear attack on Iran
- Ousted Home Depot CEO hauls off $210 million severance package
- Newly released FBI files document widespread torture at Guantánamo
- Britain: Employment tribunal rules Gate Gourmet strike illegal
- David Hicks enters his sixth year of detention at Guantánamo Bay
- Observations on the opening of the 110th US Congress
2007-01-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New York City’s new transit boss gets $40,000 raise
- Taiwan earthquake triggers a “digital tsunami” in Asia
- The pathetic end of the French “anti-capitalist left”
- Hundreds missing after Indonesian ferry sinks
- Gazprom wrests control of Sakhalin-2 gas project from Shell
- Medical research and big business: The case of Sir Richard Doll
- Democrats criticize Iraq “surge”, but won’t cut war funds
- An incident that says much about the US capital
- Letters from our readers
2007-01-10
- Australia: Murdoch media attacks 1976 Lebanese refugee intake
- In defiance of 2006 vote, Bush will escalate Iraq war
- Two bus bombs kill more than 20 in Sri Lanka
- Air strikes on Somalia: A new stage in Washington’s illegal “terror” war
- Russian oil pipeline interruption intensifies struggle for raw materials
- Trabalhadores da Volkswagen em Bruxelas falam ao WSWS: o papel dos sindicatos é “vergonhoso”
- O Funeral de Ford: a glória vazia de um governo envolvido em crise e corrupção
- US military asks deceased officers to re-enlist
- On eve of London bombings: MPs told Britain faced no imminent threat
- Bush asserts expanded surveillance powers over US mail
2007-01-11
- Collateral damage—Texas child hangs himself after viewing Saddam Hussein lynching
- Sri Lankan march to protest against Hussein’s execution
- Iraqi regime set to hand over oil reserves to US energy giants
- Into the depths of Franco’s Spain: Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)
- German interior minister seeks to introduce martial law measures
- Australian government to fund chaplains in public and private schools
- In speech on Iraq escalation, Bush promises more bloodshed, wider war
2007-01-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US forces carry out provocative raid on Iran’s consulate in northern Iraq
- An exchange on the presidential campaign of Dennis Kucinich
- US offensive in Baghdad begins surge of killing and repression
- Australian prime minister welcomes US “surge” in Iraq
- European press reacts negatively to Bush proposals on Iraq
- WSWS arts editor David Walsh to speak at York University in Toronto
- Democratic Congressman reintroduces bill for military draft in US
- Canada: Cabinet shuffle points to spring elections
2007-01-13
- Iraq escalation heightens political crisis in Washington
- Mob attacks Sri Lankan antiwar rally
- Demócratas critican aumento de tropas, pero rehusan reducir fondos para la guerra
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Report details spread of global AIDS epidemic
- Silent protesters harassed, ejected from US Senate hearings
- Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism: global warming and its market fix
- Paris court defends racist provocateurs exploiting plight of homeless
- Crisis in Germany’s Christian Social Union
- Readers protest exclusion of WSWS reporter from DC conference
- Cuarón’s Children of Men: Despair and hope in the near future
- Bush’s Iraq “surge” met with despair in Britain
2007-01-15
- Australian government cuts thousands of welfare recipients off benefits
- Final New York ballot count gives SEP Senate candidate more than 11,000 votes
- Bush administration threatens Iraqi prime minister as Baghdad bloodbath is prepared
- Letters from our readers
- Bangladeshi president postpones election and imposes state of emergency
2007-01-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Military, CIA prying into Americans’ financial records
- New Zealand PM quashes criticism of US military escalation in Iraq
- White House propaganda campaign: Bush, Cheney smear opponents of US war in Iraq
- Poll shows 82 percent of Germans feel politically disenfranchised
- Fiji’s army commander unveils new military regime
- Hillary Clinton: Congressional debate on Iraq is over means, not ends
2007-01-17
- Washington admits role in illegal war: US troops took part in invasion of Somalia
- Germany: How “Socialist Alternative” blocks the building of an independent socialist movement
- Civilian contractors in Iraq placed under US military law
- David North to address WSWS/SEP Sydney public meeting on Bush’s Iraq escalation
- James Brown, one of the greats of post-war American popular music
- Two more barbaric state executions in Iraq
2007-01-18
- Volkswagen workers in Belgium end their strike and occupation
- Australian PM outlines indefinite military agenda in South Pacific
- Britain: Leaked report details plans to cut jobs and pay in National Health Service
- UN report: More than 34,000 Iraqi civilian deaths in 2006
- Letters from our readers
- China’s defence report highlights growing dangers of war
- The significance of Venezuela’s and Ecuador’s nationalizations
2007-01-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sri Lankan police drag out their inquiries into the murder of SEP supporter
- Bush administration gets secret court’s sanction for illegal spying operation
- Rice’s Middle East tour: Arab regimes back US war drive in Iraq and Iran
- Japan establishes first postwar defence ministry
- Australia: Labor refashions industrial relations policy to suit big business
2007-01-20
- Thai junta under fire over economic policies
- Informe de la ONU: más de 34,000 muertos iraquíes civiles en 2006
- The coronation of Nicolas Sarkozy
- To speak the truth without being afraid: My Name Is Rachel Corrie on stage in New York
- Canada’s social democrats lend support to the Conservative government in the name of the environment
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The war in Iraq and American democracy
- Britain: New crime bill flouts presumption of innocence
- Grand coalition government formed in Austria
2007-01-22
- Film, history and socialism
- For an international mobilization of workers and youth against the war in Iraq
- US auto union tells members to “expect sacrifices” in new contracts
- Sri Lankan unions end pay campaign in the interests of “national security”
- Prisoners continue hunger strike at Canada’s Guantánamo
- Pentagon official witch-hunts Guantánamo detainees’ lawyers
- The Gates Foundation and the rise of “free market” philanthropy
2007-01-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Somalia: African Union force agreed
- US occupation turns 3.7 million Iraqis into refugees
- Questions and answers at David Walsh’s talk at York University in Toronto
- Germany: War, social cuts and the role of the Left Party-PDS
- US political crisis mounts over Iraq war escalation
- The Trial of Tony Blair: What would it take to put the prime minister in the dock?
2007-01-24
- Observations on Washington-style democracy
- Bush’s State of the Union speech highlights crisis of US ruling elite
- The surface of a frantic, unusual adolescence: Running with Scissors
- Musharraf’s reform of Pakistan’s rape law-a cynical manoeuvre
- 79th Academy Award nominations: a disparate group of films
- Nathaniel Abraham released from state custody in Michigan
- Iranian president faces mounting internal opposition
- European Union announces new energy strategy
- Brazil: The WTO and Lula’s “struggle” for the G-20
2007-01-25
- Sri Lankan military captures strategic eastern town from LTTE
- European Union demands speedy formation of unity coalition in Serbia
- After Stephen Colbert’s performance in 2006: White House press corps learns its lesson
- Western powers accuse Iran and Syria of masterminding Lebanese general strike
- Germany’s former SPD-Green government blocked release of Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz
- Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler: Ignorance of the subject is not a good starting point
- A warning from Senator Webb: Democrat cites danger of deepening “class lines” in America
2007-01-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Amusing, but no triumph—Almodóvar’s Volver
- Britain’s senior prosecutor: no such thing as a “war on terror”
- Global poll condemns Bush administration on Iraq war and global militarism
- German chancellor assures Bush of “broad support”
- In the face of mounting opposition, Australian government backs new Guantánamo courts
- US: Threadbare “college affordability” bill passes in the House
- Letters from our readers
- West Bengal Left Front’s pro-investor land grab results in deadly clashes
2007-01-27
- Top Volkswagen executives on trial for corruption in Germany
- The background to the murder of Turkish journalist Hrant Dink
- El gobierno de Bush amenaza al Primer Ministro de Irak mientras prepara un baño de sangre en Baghdad
- Study finds substantial rise in cigarette nicotine content
- A letter on popular opinion, the media, and Bush’s plans for escalation in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Freedom Writers: Truly no child left behind
- The struggle against war requires a break with the Democrats
- Le Carré points to looting of Congo by mining corporations
2007-01-29
- Belgium Volkswagen workers resume strike
- Canada’s Liberals make pro-war Ignatieff their second-in-command
- Italian court considers trial against CIA agents in rendition case
- Bush authorizes shoot-to-kill policy against Iranians in Iraq
- Students, veterans, workers denounce Iraq war at Saturday protests
- Organizers channel antiwar protest behind Democrats
- China’s anti-satellite missile test points to developing space weapons race
2007-01-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Army officer faces court martial for refusing Iraq deployment order
- Hundreds die as US military steps up operations in Iraq
- Iraq’s colonial occupier, the US, denounces “foreign meddling”
- Australian court upholds unbridled right to hire and fire
- Repression in Brazil: University students sentenced for protest against Lula government
- Britain: OECD rebukes Blair government for dropping Saudi bribery investigation
2007-01-31
- Violence escalates against students and teachers in Iraq
- Tens of thousands affected by Sri Lankan floods and landslides
- Poland: Archbishop’s resignation exposes crisis of Catholic Church
- Libby perjury trial puts spotlight on US Vice President Cheney
- Japan’s defence minister strikes an anti-US posture
- Record losses for US automaker Ford
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