Archive: 05/2007
2007-05-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ex-CIA director Tenet admits lies told on war
- Further letters demanding investigation into disappearance of Sri Lankan SEP member
- Britain: Irish model for Scotland and Wales means widening gap between rich and poor
- More than 100 US soldiers in Iraq killed in April
- Letters from our readers
- Australian Labor Party conference: a right-wing stampede for office
- Canadian Auto Workers bureaucrats fete Ontario’s Liberal Premier
- NATO troops launch new offensives in Afghanistan
2007-05-02
- Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections: How to vote for the Socialist Equality Party
- Pressure mounts on Iraqi government as Sunni bloc threatens to pull out
- The Bush administration slashes public services for rural America
- Capitol Hill awash in corruption and criminality
- Union pressures Air New Zealand workers to accept loss of jobs and conditions
- Following Bush veto, Democrats prepare war-spending bill with no timeline
- Australia: Unions embrace Labor’s anti-working class industrial relations laws
- Hundreds of thousands march across US for immigrant rights
- Britain: Building society says housing beyond reach of majority
2007-05-03
- Turkey: Constitutional Court stops presidential election
- Belated report of Australian soldier’s suicide after serving in Afghanistan
- Bush officials defend proposal to expand domestic spying powers
- US government moves to gag terrorist on CIA ties
- US: Los Angeles police violently disperse immigrant rights demonstration
- Two New York City transit workers killed in less than a week
- Infant mortality rates rising in US
- Britain: Why you should vote Socialist Equality Party on May 3
- Australia: Labor conference outlines pro-war agenda
2007-05-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- LTTE air raid on Sri Lankan capital
- Israel: Government on ropes after report condemns Olmert and Peretz over Lebanon war
- Class issues in the French presidential election
- French presidential debate: Royal and Sarkozy spar over right-wing agendas
- After Bush veto, Democrats prepare further retreat on war funding bill
- Corporate asset strippers vie for Chrysler
- Britain: Daily Record follows the Scotsman in misrepresenting Socialist Equality Party
- PSG hosts successful May 1 lecture at Schöneberg city hall, Berlin
- Iraq’s “stable” south descends into political chaos
2007-05-05
- Britain’s elections: a debacle for Labour and an indictment of nationalism
- First Republican presidential debate displays a party in deepening crisis
- Judith Miller defends New York police repression of antiwar “terrorists”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Report warns of civil war spreading to Kurdish north of Iraq
- Falling employment, stagnant wages fuel US corporate profits
- Letters from our readers
- US massacres of civilians spark protests in Afghanistan
2007-05-07
- Tamils arrested in Australia under Howard’s draconian “anti-terrorism” laws
- US: Circle of corruption widens in student loan investigation
- International conference on Iraq: bitter antagonisms on display
- SEP candidate replies to letter on housing crisis in Wales
- Scores of Haitian refugees killed in shark-infested waters
- German Interior Minister questions the presumption of innocence—with support from the SPD
- Nicolas Sarkozy wins French presidential election
- The John Edwards campaign: A representative of the American ruling elite postures as a working class populist
2007-05-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Unknown Terrorist: A novel about the “war on terror”
- SEP holds May Day meeting in Colombo
- Starting Wednesday, WSWS to publish lecture: “Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification”
- Geo-politics and oil: Japanese leader visits the US and Middle East
- Iraq war “surge” claims lives of 12 more US soldiers
- The French “far left” learns nothing from the presidential election
- New York electric company seeks 17 percent rate hike
2007-05-09
- Kansas tornado recovery hampered by dispatch of National Guard to Iraq
- East Timor: final round of presidential elections
- Iraq: clashes mount between US forces and Sadrist militia
- Sarkozy’s electoral victory and the bankruptcy of the French “left”
- Pentagon survey exposes deep demoralization of US occupation troops
- British terror trial raises question of what MI5 knew about 2005 London bombings
- Iraqi infant mortality soars by 150 percent—a damning revelation of US war crimes
- India: Gujarat police murders covered up as terrorist “encounters”
- Australian budget: massive vote-buying accelerates “free market” agenda
2007-05-10
- The New Jersey jihadists: another strange alleged terrorist plot
- Sri Lankan ruling party issues phony constitutional plan for ending war
- US court drops all charges against Posada Carriles—terrorist killer set free
- German Left Party honours the founding of the centrist Independent Social Democratic Party
- A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
- Top Justice Department aide to testify in probe of US attorney firings
- Beyond the hyperbole, what next for Northern Ireland?
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese government imposes nationwide military training for students
2007-05-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- After the storm: a New Jersey town struggles to recover
- Police attack May Day protesters in Macau
- German police conduct massive operation against G8 protesters
- Harsh sentences handed out to anti-Sarkozy protesters in France
- US Vice President attempts to strongarm Iraqi political leaders
- Blair’s legacy: Militarism abroad, social devastation at home
- House Democrats pass new measure to fund US war in Iraq
- Afghanistan: 40 civilians killed in US strike
2007-05-12
- Top federal student loan official in US resigns amid controversy
- Part 1: For honesty and urgency in filmmaking
- Scottish election fiasco casts doubt over new parliament
- Corporate raid on Australian airline collapses
- Michigan Democrats prepare to slash social spending
- A response to “Two New York City transit workers killed in less than a week”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italy’s former Communist Party shifts further to the right
- Cheney threatens Iran from US aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf
- Canada’s Supreme Court authorizes secret trials and arbitrary, indefinite detention
2007-05-14
- East Timor: Ramos-Horta wins presidential election
- Sri Lankan magistrate directs police to investigate disappearance of SEP member
- “He was a revolutionary in the absolute best sense of the word.”
- Pakistani president seeks to drown mounting opposition in blood
- Germany: Essen meeting discusses establishing International Students for Social Equality
- Emily Carr: Painter, writer ... symbol
- Brazil: Bush-Lula biofuel plans based on conditions worse than slavery
2007-05-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany: Deutsche Telekom workers begin strike against lower wages and longer hours
- US: Opening statements delivered in Jose Padilla trial
- Britain: SEP leader addresses students on the legacy of Trotskyism
- John Henry: From folk legend to Communist superhero
- Iran and US to hold limited talks in Baghdad
- Australian hospitals unable to cope with major emergency
- Gas prices rise as oil companies take in record profits
- France: Sarkozy woos Socialist Party and trade unions
- United Auto Workers capitulates to carve-up of Chrysler
2007-05-16
- Why the United Auto Workers supports Cerberus’ take-over of Chrysler
- US: Condemned man’s last request denied by state, realized by public
- Sri Lankan Central Bank report covers up economic problems
- Part 2: An artist’s circle of hell
- Germany: Background to the debate over child care
- Mounting crisis in Yankee imperialism’s ‘back yard’
- Bush Justice Department cover-up unraveling
- US soldiers captured as “surge” provokes greater Iraqi resistance
- Voters in India’s most populous state spurn traditional parties
- Britain: Department of Health tries to suppress facts about Private Finance Initiative
- Bremen: Massive opposition to the German government expressed in local election
2007-05-17
- Support the Deutsche Telekom strikers! Build a mass movement against the German grand coalition!
- Britain: Two imprisoned for violating Official Secrets Act
- Debate over Iran’s nuclear programs heats up again
- A response from Iraq Body Count
- Jerry Falwell, founder of the right-wing Moral Majority, dead at 73
- More antiwar posturing from Senate Democrats
- Former Justice Department official describes illegal actions by Bush administration in defense of domestic spying
- China’s “mad” stock market spiralling out of control
- The Cerberus takeover of Chrysler—what it means for auto workers
2007-05-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan police harass witnesses in case of murdered SEP supporter
- Part 3: Smiling through the pain
- Bush administration hosts meeting of Pacific Island governments
- Bipartisan Senate plan would deepen exploitation of immigrant workers
- Hundreds of sit-in strikes shake Egypt
- Letters from our readers
- How extensive is police state spying in the US?
- Britain: Brown crowned as Blair’s successor after no contest
- US government to set up new military command in Africa
2007-05-19
- Behind the World Bank’s ouster of Paul Wolfowitz
- A letter from Professor Geoffrey Swain and a reply by David North
- European Union-Russia summit a diplomatic debacle
- The Parti Québécois loses another leader: what’s behind the crisis?
- Historical issues raised as ISSE members build for Warsaw meeting
- OxyContin manufacturer reaches $600 million plea deal over false marketing practices
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- ISSE meetings to be held in Poland and Austria
- The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society
- Plan bipartita del Senado explotaría a los trabajadores inmigrantes aún más
- Congressional Democrats, Republicans begin talks with White House on war spending bill
- Demonstrations greet new French president
- Britain: Charges dropped against police in de Menezes shooting
- Britain: The Guardian whitewash of Mr Blair
- US demands lead to border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan
2007-05-21
- US envoy raises muted concerns about democratic rights in Sri Lanka
- The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society
- Senate immigration “compromise”: Democrats join Bush in assault on democratic rights
- Israel stokes up Hamas-Fatah strife in Gaza, considers ground invasion
- ISSE meeting planned at Florida State University
- After the Chrysler sale—Cerberus set to demand massive concessions
- Former US President Jimmy Carter blasts Bush and Blair over Iraq
- US military blocks soldiers’ access to blogs, popular social sites
- Australia: Police-state measures for APEC summit in Sydney
2007-05-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- American military deaths soar as US extends its “surge” in Iraq
- Germany: Deutsche Telekom strike enters second week
- Scotland: Minority SNP government seeks pro-business “consensus”
- US reaffirms support for Musharraf
- Lebanese army lays siege to Palestinian refugee camp
- The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society
- Detroit-area hospital shake-up fueled by drive for profit
- Mother, three children perish in Detroit house fire
- Evo Morales and the fraud of “nationalization” in Bolivia
- Australian nursing home deaths reveal chronic under-funding
2007-05-23
- Part 4: Films on Africa—“ The problem always comes back to poverty”
- France: Sarkozy concentrates power in his own hands
- Full speed ahead to the right, damn the public
- Trains cross the Korean border for the first time in six decades
- Irish election likely to be close
- Democrats drop “withdrawal” deadlines as administration mulls post-surge Iraq
- Britain’s Guardian promotes Bush administration war propaganda against Iran
- Iraq: British troops battle Shiite militia in Basra
2007-05-24
- New York: another fatal shooting of an unarmed man sparks outrage
- US officials guilty of “sociocide” in Iraq must be held accountable
- Gonzales aide stonewalls on White House role in firing of US attorneys
- Britain: Funding crisis in higher education
- Democratic Party completes its capitulation on Iraq
- Fijian military junta targets bloggers
- Australia: Behind the $33.49 million package for Macquarie Bank’s chief executive
- Contract talks break down at Southern California supermarkets
- Three German soldiers killed in Afghanistan
2007-05-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Death threats against protesters in northern Sri Lanka
- Russian mine disaster kills at least 38
- Bush administration endorses anti-Palestinian, anti-Syrian offensive in Lebanon
- Bush authorises covert CIA operations to destabilise Iran
- Massive security preparations for upcoming G8 summit in Germany
- France: Sarkozy selects Socialist Party’s Bernard Kouchner as foreign minister
- US Congress ratifies Democratic cave-in on Iraq war funding
- Letters from our readers
2007-05-26
- Solidarity and the Scottish Socialist Party: What will follow from the collapse of the Scottish left?
- The Nation magazine offers an alibi for Democrats’ support of Iraq war
- Montreal transit mechanics’ union capitulates before threat of strikebreaking law
- Michigan school districts impose job, wage and benefits cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- ISSE meeting to be held in Sri Lanka
- US steps up threats against Iran over nuclear programs
- Poverty, dilapidated housing behind rash of deadly fires in US cities
- US: FDA accused of negligence over diabetes drug
2007-05-28
- ISSE meeting planned Wednesday at University of California, Los Angeles
- Sri Lankan court case exposes police investigation into missing SEP member
- Part 5: Serious, but flawed
- Israel targets Hamas’s political leadership
- Bush administration failing to achieve its “benchmarks” in Iraq
- India: Art student targeted by Hindu right and Gujarat authorities
- France: Sarkozy prepares shock therapy
- The American presidency: Only millionaires need apply
2007-05-29
- Germany: Verdi prepares sell-out of Telekom workers strike
- LTTE overruns naval outpost on key Sri Lankan island
- Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr makes bid for greater role in US-occupied Iraq
- Possible habitable planet discovered: Extending the horizons of humanity
- Tense siege continues at Lebanon’s Nahr al-Bared refugee camp
- US big business funnels hundreds of millions into presidential campaigns
- Inquiry shows Canadian state was forewarned of Air India bombings
2007-05-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Bush decrees new sanctions against Sudan
- Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan resigns from the Democratic Party
- May death toll spikes as 10 US soldiers die on Memorial Day
- ISSE holds public meeting at Florida State University
- The Cerberus-Chrysler deal: The case for public ownership of the auto industry
- Political crises deepen in Romania and Bulgaria
- Afghanistan: war crimes amnesty prepares further atrocities
- More civilians killed by US/NATO forces as fighting intensifies in Afghanistan
2007-05-31
- US Supreme Court curbs workers’ ability to sue for pay discrimination
- Sri Lankan university workers protest against punitive measures
- The US holds talks with Iran in Baghdad
- US Defense Secretary warns new naval officers on civilian control of military
- Gasoline prices and the “free market”: Refiners profit after reducing capacity
- Germany: Huge police deployment in run-up to G8 summit
- Britain: Parliament votes to exempt itself from Freedom of Information legislation
- Two poor US efforts: Disturbia and Georgia Rule
- Spain: Socialist Party government and unions sell out struggle against Delphi plant closure
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