Archive: 03/2007
2007-03-01
- ISSE meeting in Richmond, Virginia: “Iraq, Iran and the eruption of American militarism”
- A third Renault worker commits suicide in France
- New Zealand prime minister “abstains” over Iraq occupation
- US soldiers detain prominent Iraqi ally: a warning to governing parties to toe the line
- Fiji: Pacific Islands Forum report urges coup leader to stand aside
- Britain: Blair seeks to deepen military alliance with Washington
- Airbus workers in France, Germany strike against massive job cuts
- US faces mounting crisis in Afghanistan
2007-03-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Wild swings on Wall Street
- Judge rules Jose Padilla competent for trial
- The JetBlue fiasco: Private profit vs. the public interest
- Italian Pabloites back Prime Minister Prodi in Senate confidence vote
- Campaign builds for ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
- US to join Iran at international talks: another round of threats and ultimatums
- Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the struggle to end the British slave trade
- Two East Timorese protestors killed by Australian troops
2007-03-03
- Sri Lankan government exploits attack on foreign delegation to intensify war
- Washington tries to quash scandal over neglect of wounded troops
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India’s Congress Party suffers major election reversals
- Morris Iemma, Bob Carr and the “war on terror”
- Prominent French intellectuals rally to presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy
- Letters from our readers
2007-03-05
- Thai junta’s “reconciliation” fails to stem separatist insurgency
- US severe poverty highest in three decades
- Iranian president’s Saudi Arabian visit fails to lessen tensions
- Food industry implicated in Britain’s bird flu outbreak
- Stumbling over political and historical themes
- Highway massacre sparks anti-US protests in Afghanistan
2007-03-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The March 26 Quebec elections and the Canadian elite’s turn to the right
- Wall Street drools over prospect of capturing Iraq oil wealth
- New Zealand’s Labour-led government loses parliamentary majority
- Australia: SEP public meetings launch NSW state election campaign
- Los Angeles hospitals investigated for “dumping” homeless patients
- Fijian military junta imposes austerity budget
- Letters from our readers
- Socialism and the struggle against US militarism
2007-03-07
- Renewed calls for the freedom of Gary Tyler
- Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
- Washington jury convicts top Cheney aide of four felonies
- Former Japanese PM advises unpopular Abe to ignore public opinion
- Australia: ISSE holds meetings at New South Wales campuses
- Australian government declares it owes no legal duty to Guantánamo detainee David Hicks
- Bush mouths support for “social justice” while asserting US interests in Latin America
- One-quarter or one-third of an understanding: Breaking and Entering; not much of anything: Breach
- Antiwar forum in Berlin: silence on role of US Democrats in Iraq war
2007-03-08
- Germany: Release of ex-Red Army Faction terrorists sparks hysterical debate
- Inaugural ISSE meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
- ISSE/SEP meetings on the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq
- Bush and Lula meet to discuss biofuel deal
- Australia: Damning report on IR laws’ impact on wages and conditions
- World Socialist Web Site publishes antiwar statement in Farsi
- Letters from our readers
- British Army used under-18-year-old soldiers in Iraq occupation
- China boosts military spending: signs of a US-fuelled arms race
- An exchange on Amazing Grace and the British slave trade
- France: Thousands of Airbus workers strike and demonstrate in defence of jobs
- An answer to the attacks launched by Airbus
2007-03-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vermont towns vote for Bush-Cheney impeachment
- An exchange of letters on the role of religion in the US
- More than 300 seized in Massachusetts immigration raid
- Press barred from Guantánamo hearings
- New York City fire tragedy kills eight children, one adult
- Australia: SEP candidate addresses climate change meeting
- The NSW state elections and the climate change debate
- Democrats “withdrawal” plan paves way to escalation of Iraq war
- Iraq war resister convicted in Germany
2007-03-10
- Germany: New university tuition fees threaten students with poverty
- 15,000 take to streets of Sao Paulo against Bush, as protest leaders defend Lula
- US military begins operations in Baghdad’s Sadr City
- Walter Reed scandal lifts lid on neglect of wounded US troops
- London: The rich get so much richer under Blair
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New York Times promotes “escape” to Israel
- Under pressure from Washington, IAEA votes to penalise Iran
- Letters demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler
- Forbes 2007 list: Nearly one thousand billionaires in the world, a misfortune for humanity
2007-03-12
- Blair’s offensive against welfare
- Turkey: depressed prices sparking farmers protests
- Detention of three leftists by Sri Lankan government signals new round of state repression
- Leading Democrat denounces “idiot liberals” for demanding cutoff of war funds
- New Yorkers speak out about Bronx House Fire:
- FBI conducted illegal spying on tens of thousands
- No easing of US-Iranian tensions after Baghdad conference
- Grief, shock and anger over New York fire that killed 10
2007-03-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Deutsche Telekom to outsource 55,000 jobs
- Black Snake Moan and Zodiac: No diamonds in the rough
- Right-wing furor demanding pardon for convicted Cheney aide
- Bush calls Democrats bluff on war funding resolution
- Mass strike movement in Guinea
- Australian troops escalate repression in East Timor
- Australia: “Brian Burke affair” reveals decay of establishment parties
2007-03-14
- 24, torture and prime-time US television
- Big fall on Wall Street as mortgage debt problems grow
- Quebec elections 2007: Quebec Federation of Labour officially backs Parti Québécois
- US Joint Chiefs chairman declares homosexuality “immoral”
- Australia: Labor and Liberal plan NSW public sector job cuts
- UN rapporteur says Israel’s occupation of Palestine resembles apartheid
- Targetting Tehran: the case of the missing Iranian general
- Democrats drop demand that Bush seek approval for war on Iran
- Slave labor conditions under US guestworker program
2007-03-15
- Condolences on the death of Comrade Senthil from the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka
- Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French nation
- Presidential election contest in France: Panic grips the Socialist Party
- Government indifference, cost-cutting compound ravages of war for wounded US troops
- Demands mount for Gonzales’s resignation over US attorneys purge
- India’s burgeoning ambitions in space
- Science, religion and society: Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion
- Stop the carve-up of Chrysler! For workers’ control and public ownership of the auto industry!
- Germany to deploy Tornado jet fighters to Afghanistan
2007-03-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Under pressure from investors, Thai junta continues to back pedal on economic policy
- Washington exploits Guantánamo “confession” to justify its crimes
- The Bush administration manoeuvres to unseat Iraqi government
- The significance of the World Court ruling on genocide in Bosnia
- Eric Hobsbawm on the Spanish Civil War: an anti-historical tirade
- Mass outpouring of support for victims of New York City fire
- Australian state election: Major parties ignore public school decay
- Condolences on the death of Comrade Senthil from the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
- West Bengal Stalinist regime perpetrates peasant massacre
- A visit to the Airbus factory in Méaulte, France
2007-03-17
- US auto union prepares to hand over massive concessions
- Australia: SEP candidate Noel Holt raises vital issues at Newcastle business forum
- Planned US missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic intensify European tensions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ghosts—a harrowing and honest depiction of modern slavery
- Letters from our readers
- If elected, Hillary Clinton vows to keep US troops in Iraq
- French elections—Olivier Besancenot: “I was never a Trotskyist”
- French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies in Paris
- Assam, India: Separatists’ killing of migrants provides pretext for continuing state repression
2007-03-19
- Sri Lankan defence ministry extends police state moves
- Protests mount against Musharraf attempt to sack Pakistan’s chief justice
- Another damning admission from the New York Times: whitewashing Iraq war
- Nick Beams outlines socialist perspective to fight war and militarism
- SEP candidates address Sydney election meeting
- Homeless in the US: Underfunded and brutalized
- US antiwar demonstrations mark four years since Iraq invasion
- Three New York City cops indicted in last year’s killing of unarmed Queens man
- Leading Indian intellectuals condemn West Bengal’s Stalinist-led government
- Airbus union leaders turn rally over to right-wing politicians
2007-03-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Edward Pearce’s The Great Man, Sir Robert Walpole
- Rome: Thousands demonstrate against US war policy and the Prodi government
- Anti-terror police raid homes of Sydney University students
- New Zealand government announces extension of Afghanistan military operations
- US: Medicaid recipients denied benefits under proof of citizenship law
- The US invasion has caused nearly three-quarter million Iraqi deaths
- SEP demands immediate release of Australian citizen David Hicks from Guantánamo
- Letters from our readers
- An appeal to WSWS readers: Attend the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
2007-03-21
- Turkey: Kurdish nationalists and left groups move towards electoral bloc
- Australian government condemns Tamil refugees to years of incarceration
- Iraq: Protests against US operations in Sadr City
- Russia: Deadliest mining disaster in 60 years claims 107 lives
- Jerusalem and Washington bring Palestinians to the brink of starvation
- German foreign minister warns against return to the Cold War
- US: Medicaid recipients denied benefits under proof of citizenship law
- A demonstration against the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR)
2007-03-22
- Bush administration steps up economic pressure on Iran
- Wealth piles up for the German elite
- Congressional hearings detail political tampering in US climate research
- Australian SEP election campaign wins appreciative response
- Bush’s “aid” to Latin America mirrors national programs to mask oppression
- How to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
- Proposed new powers for bailiffs in Britain: an attack on the poor and indebted
2007-03-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The US attorneys “showdown”—Democrats seek to evade a confrontation
- Australia: Why you should vote for the SEP in the New South Wales election
- Australia: Newcastle newspaper distorts SEP’s position on law and order
- Australian Greens election campaign: silence on the Iraq war and a grubby deal with Labor
- Joschka Fischer calls for European great power politics under German leadership
- Canadian abuse of Afghan POWs
- Britain: Brown delivers a budget for the rich that penalizes the poor
- In wake of West Bengal massacre: Indian workers must advance an independent socialist programme
- Japan-Australia security declaration strengthens US encirclement of China
2007-03-24
- Letters demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler
- The Madrid bombing trial: what has been revealed so far
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Democrats pass “anti-war” bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- A tale of two cases in US “war on terror”: Jose Padilla and Chiquita Brands
- Political prisoner Sami Al-Arian’s hunger strike enters third month
2007-03-26
- NSW election: Labor government returned despite popular disaffection
- Sri Lankan SEP demands urgent inquiry into disappearance of party member
- Quebec state yields to right-wing provocation on eve of provincial election
- Federal judge rules terrorism trial against Jose Padilla to proceed
- UN agrees to new Iran sanctions as military tensions mount in Gulf
- Letters from our readers
- Parti Quebecois stumbles through Quebec election campaign
- New documents expose White House, Justice Department lies in firing of US attorneys
2007-03-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Former government lawyer describes Bush administration meddling in landmark tobacco suit
- Attack on major Sri Lankan airforce base as civil war continues to escalate
- Anger, resentment and discontent in Australian state election
- Election manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain
- Letter from an Israeli reader on the recent strike in Israel
- German parliament cuts corporate taxes
- Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
- CIA document links Colombian army chief to right-wing “terrorists”
2007-03-28
- IMF and Turkish government agree to new attacks on workers
- Sri Lankan defence ministry stalls on inquiry into missing SEP member
- US Senate votes $122 billion in war funding while suggesting withdrawal “goal”
- Quebec elections: Right-wing populist ADQ benefits from mass disaffection with establishment
- New York police conducted massive international spying on anti-Bush demonstrators
- New Zealand prime minister ingratiates herself with Bush White House
- British government scientists vouched for validity of study estimating 655,000 war deaths in Iraq
- David Hicks bullied into guilty plea at Guantánamo kangaroo court
- Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer and the remorselessness of US political life
- US auto executives grant themselves millions in bonuses
2007-03-29
- Zimbabwe: Resistance to Mugabe’s rule deepens
- The anti-democratic agenda behind the US attorney firings
- Pat Tillman’s family speaks out against latest whitewash of “friendly fire” killing in Afghanistan
- Sri Lankan authorities fail to investigate murder of SEP supporter
- Memorial meeting planned in Paris for Comrade Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
- Russian trans-Balkan pipeline to skirt Turkey
- Britain: What is revealed by Labour’s leadership contest?
- Britain heightens confrontation with Iran over detained sailors
- Hundreds attend funeral of Senthil Ravee
- 57th Berlin Film Festival—Part 2
2007-03-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lanka: SEP public meeting to demand inquiry into party member’s disappearance
- Ex-aide contradicts Attorney General Gonzales on US attorney firings
- Massive police mobilisation in central Paris
- Iraq: US occupation sets off sectarian atrocities in Tal Afar
- 2005 US income figures: top 10 percent had largest share of national wealth since 1928
- Germany pushes for great power politics behind a European facade
- US: Circuit City fires 3,400 better-paid store workers
- China passes private property law for capitalist elite
- Bush vilifies Democrats, vows veto of Iraq war funding bill
- Welsh Assembly elections: Burberry closes its Treorchy plant in area blighted by unemployment
2007-03-31
- Britain: Multimillionaire warns poverty threatens “violent reactions”—but don’t tax the rich!
- Guantánamo prisoner charges confession extracted through torture
- Sri Lankan SEP holds media conference over disappearance of party member
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Guantánamo’s kangaroo court convicts Australian David Hicks
- Presidential elections in France: The nationalism of the Workers Party
- History cut off at the pass: Zach Snyder’s 300
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