Archive: 09/2007
2007-09-01
- The case of NFL football star Michael Vick
- Sri Lankan government’s “peace” committee on point of collapse
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New York City: Right-wing Zionist witch-hunt ousts principal of new Arabic school
- Hurricane Katrina two years on
- Bush rejects “bailout” for homeowners, vows aid to Wall Street
- Berlin: Left Party opposes wage demand of public service workers
- The social toll of the US home mortgage crisis
- The affair of US Senator Craig: Media sensationalism and political hypocrisy
- UK: The attempt to deport Learco Chindamo
2007-09-03
- France: Sarkozy calls for European military build up
- British government faces legal action over refusal to hold inquiry into London bombings
- Bush administration to “ratchet up pressure” on Iran
- White Light, Black Rain: powerful HBO film about atomic bombing of Japanese cities
- US: Right-wing campaign launched to counter opposition to Iraq war
- Edinburgh Film Festival: Two antiwar films
- US housing crisis could spark serious economic downturn
- The Canadian Arar affair—censored report released
- Protests in Aboriginal communities as Australian parliament passes military takeover bills
2007-09-04
- Wall Street hides impact of subprime mortgage meltdown
- Tensions with the US sharpen as Britain begins handover of Basra
- Canada: Police agent-provocateurs unmasked at Montebello summit protests
- Profiteering and the Gulf Opportunity Zone
- Hurricane Katrina two years on
- Japanese cabinet reshuffle points to deepening political crisis
- Bush presses campaign for open-ended war in Iraq
- Greek government under pressure following forest fires
- Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?
- Australia: Extraordinary security operation shuts down central Sydney for APEC summit
- Australia’s corporate media praises Labor’s modified IR package
2007-09-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- An interview with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan
- Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
- Review: At My Age by Nick Lowe
- RMT union suspends strike by London Underground maintenance workers
- Australian legal academics accept arrest of antiwar colleague
- Labor Day in America: Two unions endorse Edwards, one spews anti-Mexican poison
- German bank loss only the start
- US Congress reconvenes for phony debate on Iraq war
- Cholera outbreak in northern Iraq
2007-09-06
- Turkey: Abdullah Gül sworn in as president
- Key naval witness in disappearance of Sri Lankan SEP member fails to appear in court
- US seeks to save Pakistani dictator, thwart democracy
- Hurricane Katrina two years on
- Germany: train drivers’ union capitulates
- New York’s Deutsche Bank fire deaths
- New push for military draft in US
- Britain’s bosses take record £26.4 billion in bonuses: City takes lion’s share
- Australia: Police mobilised against high school students at APEC demonstration
2007-09-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Germany: Terror plot carried out under police observation
- Why was a nuclear-armed bomber allowed to fly over the US?
- Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
- As congressional debate opens, US escalates military operations in northern Iraq
- Top US hedge fund managers earn 22,255 times pay of average worker
- World economy: Credit crunch could bring recession
- US-Australia defence deal underlines regional rivalry at APEC summit
- Socialist strategy needed to oppose war and social inequality
2007-09-08
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Government and media rail against “selfish” strikes
- France: The LCR sets a new political trap for the working class
- 18 US troops killed in Iraq in first week of September
- Haneef police transcript exposes Australian government’s “terrorist conspiracy” claims
- France: Unions passive on public sector job cuts
- Prospects for US recession increase as jobs report shows first decline in four years
- Australian comedy team exposes APEC security hype
- Towards the legalization of torture in Canada?
- Bush, Bremer clash over decision to disband Iraq’s army
2007-09-10
- Bush administration pushes for looser mining regulations
- Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
- US Congressional hearings to set stage for continued war in Iraq
- Former US Marine Matt Howard speaks with WSWS
- French police attacked in Guinea while expelling two immigrants
- Britain: Brown’s “new politics” a cynical cover for authoritarianism
- Massive police-state mobilisation for Sydney APEC demonstration
2007-09-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Workers strike for cost of living at University of Minnesota
- Democrats arrest protesters, praise US commander in Iraq
- German Left Party leadership forces Hesse state candidate to resign
- British academics warn US is preparing “shock and awe” attack on Iran
- Differing motives propel India and US to finalize nuclear agreement
- Gleichheit editorial: “A socialist strategy against militarism and war”
- US professor critical of Zionism resigns after tenure denial
- Australian Labor promises “reliable hands” in time of war
2007-09-12
- US auto union prepares to hand over historic concessions
- Britain: Brown gets smooth ride at Trades Union Congress
- US congressional hearings reveal consensus that Iraq war will continue
- Sri Lankan military launches northern offensive against LTTE
- US seeks legal expert to oversee plunder of Iraqi oil
- South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan ends
- California budget deadlock broken as Democrats accede to right-wing demands
2007-09-13
- GDF-Suez merger and the global scramble for energy
- A socialist perspective for striking Sri Lankan teachers
- Pakistani regime mounts massive security operation in Sharif deportation
- Disarray in Putin regime’s cover-up of murder of Anna Politkovskaya
- Amid mounting defections, French Socialist Party veers to the right
- Democrats prostrate as Bush, generals vow Iraq war will continue for years
- US steps up push for Kosovo independence
- Australia: In face of deepening opposition, Howard government implodes
- US military pre-trial hearings end in Haditha civilian massacre case
- Letters from our readers
2007-09-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US auto union poised to accept sweeping concessions
- Two soldiers critical of Iraq war among its latest casualties
- Australian government to leave Tamil refugees detained on Nauru
- Media, politicians maintain silence on flight of US nuclear bomber
- Japanese prime minister resigns abruptly
- British troops in Iraq deployed to Iranian border
- Germany: Greens to hold special party congress on Afghanistan
- Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq in nationally televised address
2007-09-15
- An exchange with New York Post reporter on witch-hunt of school principal
- British polling agency: More than one million Iraqi deaths since US invasion
- California mental health care cuts: a cynical attack on the poor
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel’s neo-Nazi gang: A symptom of a deeper malaise
- Strike by India’s unorganised sector workers
- Bush-linked Texas company signs oil deal with Iraqi Kurds
- German candidate pushes suicide device for Hamburg elderly
- “Dr. Profit” named head of the Canadian Medical Association
2007-09-17
- Washington, DC: Organizers seek to subordinate September 15 antiwar protest to Democrats
- US auto union extends contracts as deadline passes
- Credit crisis spreads as British bank collapses
- A deafening silence on report of one million Iraqis killed under US occupation
- The Jena Six in Louisiana: Convictions overturned in Mychal Bell case
- ISSE: Nick Beams to address University of New South Wales meeting
- Israeli air raid in Syria heightens Middle East tensions
- Bush administration consolidates plans for war against Iran
- DC antiwar protesters: Democrats and Republicans are “two sides of same coin”
- A Democratic general’s prescription for winning “the next war”
2007-09-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Romulus, My Father: a compassionate film about immigrant life in Australia
- Democrats back Bush’s new pick for attorney general
- Closing of Monroe, Michigan, factory marks the end of a way of life
- Berlin: SPD and Left Party extend state surveillance
- Israel’s air raid on Syria: another threat to Iran
- Britain: Foot and mouth disease strikes again
- University of California, Irvine hires constitutional scholar
- A fighter for Marxism in America
- US mercenary firm denounced after civilian killings in Baghdad
- Baghdad residents protest US-erected dividing wall
2007-09-19
- ISSE condemns police assault on University of Florida student
- Sri Lankan government imposes new taxes to fund war
- France: Sarkozy, unions collaborate in attack on pensions
- Mexican president deploys troops in wake of oil pipeline bombings
- From the horse’s mouth: Greenspan says Iraq war was for oil
- Why is the German press silent on US preparations for war against Iran?
- Fijian military regime reimposes emergency rule
- US Fed rate cut fires up Wall Street
- Democrats pack in their antiwar charade
- Letters on the New York Post witch-hunt of school principal
2007-09-20
- Taiwan’s UN bid increases friction with China
- Musharraf regime seeks to stave off collapse
- Media, Democrats silent on police attack on University of Florida student
- Washington’s proxy war inside Kurdish Iran
- Conservatives gain at expense of PASOK
- France: Communist Party mayor calls police on the homeless
- Contradictions mount in US and world economy in wake of Fed rate cut
- After the storm: James Lee Burke answers Katrina’s wrath with his own
- Britain: Government attempts to stem banking crisis
- Australia: Bipartisan political praise for police violence at APEC summit
- Report shows Afghanistan mired in corruption
2007-09-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Well-attended ISSE meeting discusses US war threat on Iran
- New Turkish government prepares assault on working conditions
- Sri Lankan unions prepare to cave in following widespread teachers’ strike
- The media’s obsession with O.J. Simpson
- Dan Rather sues CBS for making him a “scapegoat” to appease Republican right
- The Simpson trial in perspective
- Dee McLachlan writer/director of The Jammed speaks with WSWS
- Thousands demonstrate in support of “Jena Six”
- The Jammed—the dark side of Australian immigration
- International Students for Social Equality to hold series of meetings in Britain
- Charges dismissed against another officer in Haditha war crimes case
2007-09-22
- The world is so poorly understood—or is it?
- Bush calls for expansion of “Protect America” spy bill
- New York Times praises Bush nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey
- US Senate censure of MoveOn.org: An attack on free speech in the service of militarism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- On eve of UN general assembly, US military arrests Iranian official in Iraq
- Mounting press speculation India will face early elections
- Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza
2007-09-24
- US autoworkers angered as negotiations drag on
- Use, exchange, literary values and an American classic: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road turns fifty
- Report exposes massive looting of Kenyan state funds
- “Jena Six” teen still in prison after conviction dismissed
- UN General Assembly meets under shadow of US threats against Iran
- Indonesian authorities review case of murdered human rights activist
- Hungarian extreme right set up paramilitary “Guard”
- Letters from our readers
- Blackwater mercenaries resume patrols in wake of Baghdad civilian killings
2007-09-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Youth convicted under antidemocratic terrorism acts
- Bengali writer, Taslima Nasreen assaulted by mob led by Indian legislators
- New York Times public editor repudiates MoveOn.org ad on General Petraeus
- Iranian president speaks at Columbia University amidst media frenzy
- Video: General Motors strikers in Michigan speak to WSWS
- GM workers in Detroit voice frustration at UAW leadership
- Signs of leadership infighting ahead of Chinese Communist Party congress
- US auto workers shut down General Motors
- German Greens hold special congress on Afghanistan
2007-09-26
- Urgency about human matters
- Socialist Equality Party in Australia achieves party registration
- An interview with Ramin Bahrani, director of Chop Shop
- Polish city council employs goons against striking bus drivers
- Japan’s new prime minister: a recipe for another short-lived government
- General Motors workers oppose threats to retiree health care, jobs
- Arctic sea ice reaches record minimum
- GM strikers confront intransigence of US auto giant
- Bush at the UN: a war criminal lectures the world on “human rights”
- Britain: Brown makes election appeal to Conservative voters
2007-09-27
- Britain: Unions responsible for harsh conditions facing temporary agency workers
- Former CBS anchor Dan Rather: big corporations, government interfering in news
- The New York Times and Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia University
- Total surrender by US auto union
- Chilean court extradites ex-Peruvian President Fujimori
- Letters from our readers
- Burmese military cracks down on escalating protests
- “Policing the neighbourhood”—Australia’s new para-military police
- AFL-CIO leaders pledge $200 million to Democratic Party campaigns
2007-09-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- An audience of “big fat suckers”?
- Interview with Bryan Palmer, biographer of James P. Cannon, founder of American Trotskyism—Part 1
- With US backing, Musharraf presses ahead with bogus presidential election
- US Joint Chiefs chairman declares homosexuality “counter to God’s law”
- State of Michigan faces government shutdown
- Australia: Riot police attack sacked transport workers
- France: political fall-out from Kouchner’s calls for aggression against Iran
- Democratic presidential candidates: US troops could stay in Iraq until 2013
- General Motors worker: “The UAW doesn’t lose, but the workers do”
- Details of General Motors contract underscore UAW betrayal
- Trial exposes Pentagon “baiting” program in Iraq
- “Policing the neighbourhood”—Australia’s new para-military police
2007-09-29
- UAW local presidents ratify historic betrayal of US auto workers
- Compassion toward the most despised and other matters
- US prison population at all time high
- Polish elections offer no alternative for the broad masses
- Interview with Bryan Palmer, biographer of James P. Cannon, founder of American Trotskyism—Part 2
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The Bush-Aznar tapes: glimpse of a gangster preparing for war
- Burmese troops gun down protestors
- Devastating floods sweep across Africa
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