Archive: 06/2007
2007-06-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Boeing subsidiary accused of profiting from torture
- Michigan Democrats, Republicans agree on deep cuts
- Mexico: Calderon uses drug violence as pretext for militarizing society
- Fight against war and social reaction requires a socialist strategy
- Fallujah: Sympathy alone is not enough
- Protests in China over the one child policy
- The Bush administration’s new “model” in Iraq’s Anbar province
2007-06-02
- Australia: Former PM Whitlam testifies on 1975 murder of “Balibo Five” journalists
- US antiwar protest groups silent on Cindy Sheehan’s resignation from Democratic Party
- The US media “discovers” Pakistan’s Musharraf is a dictator—why now?
- France: Guy Môquet, Sarkozy and the Stalinist school of falsification
- The G8 summit and the Left Party of Germany
- Lebanese military resumes shelling of Palestinian camp
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US: Dell, Motorola, IBM announce new job cuts
- Fianna Fail wins Irish election
- Bush administration calls for permanent US military presence in Iraq
- Brazilian cane cutter died from working 70 days without break
2007-06-04
- Turkey: Political allies of military move to unseat moderate Islamist government
- South Africa: Public sector workers strike demands pay increase
- Tensions between US and Russia erupt in mutual recriminations
- Germany: Police use massive force against G8 demonstrators in Rostock
- The dilemma of blockbuster filmmaking
- Australia: protesters face jail for opposing spy base’s role in Iraq war
- Nigeria brings criminal charges against Pfizer over 1996 drug test
- New wave of political arrests in Bangladesh
2007-06-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New admissions of widespread prisoner abuse
- Humanitarian disaster looms as Lebanese attack on Palestinian camp continues
- Humanitarian disaster looms as Lebanese attack on Palestinian camp continues
- The JFK “plot”: another grossly inflated threat
- First days of June claim 17 more US soldiers in Iraq
- Bush denounces detention of US-Iranian citizens
- Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks incarcerated in high-security Australian jail
- Detroit town hall meeting on impeachment provides political cover for the Democratic Party
- Democrats pose as Iraq war opponents in New Hampshire debate
2007-06-06
- India’s prime minister warns big business of threat of social unrest
- US attacks Venezuela: “press freedom” as a pretext for intervention
- Indian industrialist to build $1 billion “home” amidst Mumbai’s multimillion slum-dwellers
- Former Cheney aide sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison
- Knocked Up and a certain generation’s “family values”
- ISSE meetings held in Australia and New Zealand
- US talks of “reconciliation” with Sunni insurgents in Iraq
- Military judges dismiss war crimes charges against Guantánamo prisoners
- La lucha contra la guerra y la reacción social requieren una estrategia socialista
- Global social, political tensions dominate G8 summit
- G8 fails to meet aid pledges to Africa
2007-06-07
- Turkish military flexes its muscles in northern Iraq
- US Navy bombards Somalia
- Anti-G8 demonstration violence in Rostock: questions and contradictions
- Republican presidential candidates back nuclear strike against Iran
- Report to ISSE meeting in Warsaw: Nationalism and internationalism in Poland
- ISSE holds successful campaign and meeting in Warsaw, Poland
- Testimony by Justice Department official sheds light on White House conspiracy to manipulate elections
- “JFK plot”: Is Washington trying to open a Caribbean front in war on terror?
- Report challenges US claims of Iranian sponsorship of Iraq insurgency
- 结束对伊拉克的占领！坚决制止对伊朗的战争威胁！争取国际社会主义反战运动！
- World Socialist Web Site publishes Chinese translation of ISSE resolution
2007-06-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Wealth of Australia’s super rich up by 26 percent
- Pakistan’s US-backed dictator lashes out
- Antiwar US Marine veteran stripped of honorable discharge status
- British Army chiefs urge pullout from Iraq within 12 months
- German high court upholds police ban on G8 summit protest
- French parliamentary elections: The collapse of the “left”
- Human rights groups list detainees in secret US prisons
- Argentina: 13 years of pension “reform” boosts profits, impoverishes older workers
2007-06-09
- Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria
- Trial of CIA agents for abduction of expatriate Egyptian imam opens in Milan
- Iraqi oil workers strike in Basra
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India-US nuclear agreement at an impasse
- Senate immigration overhaul blocked by Republican right
- The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it
- G8 summit: Climate compromise masks mounting conflicts
- EUA: Dell
- Letters from our readers
- Report details CIA prisons in Europe
2007-06-11
- Waitress and Mr. Brooks: Somewhere in America...
- A socialist perspective to defend Sri Lankan university workers
- Top US general ousted in Pentagon shakeup
- Opel strike ends in Poland as GM cuts more jobs in Belgium
- France’s asylum procedures condemned by the European Court of Human Rights
- Hillary Clinton in Detroit: Democrat preaches American nationalism to union bureaucracy
- US: CEO pay climbs to “stratospheric heights”
- Europe’s carbon-trading scheme
2007-06-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- After G8 summit: Conflict between US and Russia intensifies
- Sri Lanka: Hundreds of Tamils forcibly expelled from Colombo
- México: Calderón se aprovecha de la violencia del narcotráfico para justificar la militarización de la sociedad
- Letters on the Paris Hilton case
- A reply to letters on “The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it”
- Senate Democrats fail in slap against Bush attorney general
- French “left” defeated in parliamentary elections
- Brazil’s social and political crisis deepens in Lula’s second term
- Australia: Financial collapses devastate small investors
2007-06-13
- Ousmane Sembène, major figure in African cinema, dead at 84
- Appellate court slams Bush Administration for holding al-Marri as “enemy combatant”
- US leads push for Kosovo independence
- Bush administration embarks on reckless new tactic in Iraq
- Senator Lieberman calls for US military attack on Iran
- Australia: Labor endorses Howard government’s “fairness test” fraud
- More letters on the Paris Hilton affair
- German Greens on the road to coalitions with the conservative CDU
2007-06-14
- Democrats subpoena former White House officials in probe of US attorney firings
- Bush, Democrats resurrect anticommunism in service of US “war on terror”
- Two Sri Lankan Red Cross workers abducted in central Colombo
- Australia: Fatal train accident highlights infrastructure decay
- German police raid eleven premises on suspicion of “terrorism”
- Iraq on edge following second bombing of Shiite Al-Askariya mosque
- Spanish property boom ends amidst share panic
- Forbidden Hollywood: three films from Hollywood’s pre-Production Code era
- Conditions worsen at UK asylum-seeker detention centres
2007-06-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- ISSE to hold first meeting in Vienna
- Heavy fighting continues in the North and East of Sri Lanka
- General strike hits South Africa
- Australia: Why Rudd forced the resignation of union official Dean Mighell
- US: New polls reveal mass opposition to Democrats and Republicans
- US military officials knew about contaminated water at Marine base
- Pentagon admits US “surge” in Iraq has yielded only more carnage
- Palestinian president declares emergency after Hamas routs Fatah forces in Gaza
- Statement of the International Students for Social Equality to the students of the University of Sao Paulo
- Critic of warlords murdered in Afghanistan
2007-06-16
- US: Education no escape from stagnant wages
- Senator Reid’s remarks on US generals prompt right-wing furor
- Deadly fire kills five children in Pittsburgh home
- Judge orders former Cheney aide Lewis Libby to begin serving prison sentence
- Britain: Labour’s deputy leader challengers present their tarnished wares
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The struggle against war demands a break with the Democratic Party
- IAEA chief declares any attack on Iran “an act of madness”
- Canada: Report on police killing at Ipperwash masks state crimes
2007-06-18
- Forty years on: The bitter legacy of the 1967 Middle East war
- Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party
- Germany: What does the “Left Party” want to achieve?
- US commander warns Iraq war will go on for a decade
- Critic of Zionism denied tenure at US university
- US Senate stalls on corporate-driven energy bill
- China’s “pork crisis”: the capitalist market at work
- US intensifies pressure on Iraqi government to meet “benchmarks”
2007-06-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Former US general confirms high-level knowledge of Abu Ghraib torture
- Spate of antidemocratic rulings by US Supreme Court
- Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party
- Letters and a reply on the Kucinich presidential campaign
- Setback for Sarkozy in second round of French legislative elections
- Devastating floods hit six Chinese provinces
- Australia: report exposes government’s foreign “aid” program
- US missile strike kills seven children in Afghanistan
2007-06-20
- Australian government’s water plan to benefit major agribusinesses
- Germany: Huge security operation exposed in wake of G8 summit
- Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party
- US military launches massive assault in Iraq
- Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base
- The Gaza crisis and the failure of Palestinian nationalism
- Death penalty on the rise in US-occupied Iraq
- Washington Post’s Richard Cohen offers “liberal” case for Lewis Libby’s freedom
- New study documents increasing income inequality in Canada
2007-06-21
- Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007)
- Thai junta cracks down on ousted prime minister
- Sri Lankan president’s “peace” mask starts to slip off
- Twenty-five years since the Malvinas war
- US: Nine firefighters perish in warehouse fire in Charleston, South Carolina
- Religious backwardness trumps science as Bush vetoes stem cell bill
- British university teachers’ union votes for boycott of Israeli academics
- Billionaire New York mayor may run in US presidential campaign
- Bear Stearns funds collapse hits subprime securities market
2007-06-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Lawyers claim British government approved systematic policy of torture in Iraq
- German-Polish conflict dominates EU summit
- Opinion polls provoke bewilderment in lead-up to Australian election
- The Iraq orphanage story: US troops “rescue” 24 as thousands remain in the streets
- Steven Soderbergh and Ocean’s Thirteen
- Bush administration rushes to Pakistani dictator’s aid
- Fourteen US troops killed in two days of Iraq fighting
- Death in Los Angeles hospital exposes social crisis in US
- Slave labour scandal erupts in China
2007-06-23
- Australian government imposes military-police regime on Aborigines
- Britain: Dispatches programme exposes US renditions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with WSWS
- FBI targets universities in new scheme to recruit informers
- Take Back America conference: Democratic candidates seek “progressive” support
- Letters from our readers
- CIA to release 1970s documents on agency’s crimes
- The secret government of Dick Cheney: US vice president claims to be outside the law
- At least 25 Afghan civilians killed in US bomb attack
2007-06-25
- Germany: Union sells out Deutsche Telekom strike—agrees to wage cuts and longer working hours
- Storm wreaks havoc across Australia’s Hunter Valley and Central Coast
- Sri Lankan unions betray university workers’ struggle
- US military prepares Fallujah-style bloodbath in Iraqi city of Baqubah
- Report reveals UK youth abandoned by education system
- US auto union accepts massive wage cuts and layoffs in tentative pact with Delphi
- US Supreme Court continues pattern of pro-corporate rulings
- Letters on “Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party”
- The Blackstone IPO: $4 billion payday for private equity bosses
- Bear Stearns organises bailout but concerns remain
2007-06-26
- Northern Ireland: Apparent suicide and destruction of records mark opening of Billy Wright inquiry
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Police spy agencies target Australian universities
- The New York Times has to correct itself again, this time on Iran
- Damien Hirst’s main obsession is wealth, not mortality
- Detroit Riverview Hospital to close: “Losing this hospital will devastate this community”
- Doha Round trade talks collapse amid recriminations
- White House, Democrats reported in “compromise” talks on Iraqi partition
- Britain: New Labour’s right-wing course to continue under Brown
2007-06-27
- Two Republican senators attack Bush’s “surge” in Iraq
- Guantánamo military tribunals exposed by military officer
- UAW moves to ram through massive Delphi concessions
- Sweatshop scandal puts black mark over Beijing Olympics
- Canadian Supreme Court ruling in BC hospital dispute
- Brussels treaty reveals divisions in the European Union
- Iraqi general “Chemical Ali” condemned to death
- Australia: Growing opposition to police-military takeover of Aboriginal communities
2007-06-28
- Antiwar coalition attempts to prop up Democratic Party: United for Peace and Justice holds conference in Chicago
- US Supreme Court rulings mark a swing to the right
- Sri Lankan government cracks down on protesting farmers
- Britain: Postal workers set for first national strike in 11 years
- Australian neo-colonialism comes home: The Northern Territory and the Solomon Islands
- Germany: The founding of the "Left Party"
- Iraqi court hands down 22 death sentences in four weeks
- CIA documents point to massive and ongoing government criminality
2007-06-29
- Former EPA head defends US government lies about post-9/11 safety conditions
- US Supreme Court rules school districts cannot consider race in integration plans
- White House rebuffs congressional subpoenas, escalating confrontation over attorney purge and domestic spying
- Édith Piaf’s life in La Vie en Rose: a modern biopic
- US: Northwest Airlines cancels flights amid pilot shortage
- Australian journalist Glenn Milne’s “twisted logic” on Northern Territory deployment
- North Korea announces shut down of nuclear reactor
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sycophancy in parliament and an insult to world opinion
2007-06-30
- Australian government takeover of Aboriginal communities: the real content of the “Children are Sacred” report
- Divisions erupt in the French Socialist Party
- Padilla “terrorism support trial” unravels
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German government complicity in CIA abductions: The case of Khaled al-Masri
- Italy: Trial of CIA agents deferred until October
- US: Senate Republicans kill plan to overhaul immigration law
- East Timor’s election held under shadow of Australian military
- The new Sarkozy government hosts conference on Darfur
- Letters from our readers
- US Senate Republicans block union-sponsored bill
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