Archive: 10/2007
2007-10-01
- 3:10 to Yuma: a new old Western
- Vote ‘no’ on UAW sellout at GM!
- Philippines power grid to be contracted out to private operator
- The Ontario election: official politics shifts further right
- Widening rift between major powers over Iran’s nuclear programs
- German chancellor threatens Iran and demands seat on UN Security Council
- Strong rank-and-file opposition to UAW sellout evident at local meetings
- Letters from our readers
- Brain injuries more prevalent among US troops than earlier estimates
- Blackwater mercenaries’ record of murder in Iraq
2007-10-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UAW-GM deal means more plant closings
- A remarkable film about the Iraq war
- Payroll crisis causes hardship for Los Angeles teachers
- Sri Lanka: To defend democratic rights, workers must oppose war
- Political tensions in Lebanon threaten civil war
- Spain: Revelations of obscene wealth inherited by former dictator Franco’s family
- Bush to veto expansion of children’s health coverage
2007-10-03
- Following election of new leader, German CSU moves further to the right
- Socialist Equality Party in Australia announces federal election candidates
- Sarkozy announces vast attacks on French workers’ rights and conditions
- Michigan budget deadlock broken through cutbacks, tax increases
- New Yorker article points to advanced US preparations for war on Iran
- Markets continue to rise but US dollar slides
- Letters on the General Motors contract
- Belgium threatened with break-up
2007-10-04
- UAW officials threaten Socialist Equality Party members
- Socialist Equality Party in Australia announces federal election candidates
- The lives of two overlooked women
- Britain: Post union calls strike over paltry wage offer at Royal Mail
- Retiring military chief declares: American people can’t vote to end Iraq war
- SEP public meeting in Perth, Western Australia
- Australia: Transport union abandons McArthur Express workers
- Indian Supreme Court outlaws Tamil Nadu political protest
- French immigration “reform”: an attack on basic human rights
- Opposition to UAW-GM deal as workers vote on contract
- An interview with Philippe Faucon, director of Dans la vie
- Five dead in Colorado hydroelectric plant fire
- UN special envoy leaves Burma empty-handed
2007-10-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- British Prime Minister Brown prepares for snap general election: A sign of mounting crisis
- Two-tier wage in UAW-GM contract means drastic pay cuts for US workers
- Sri Lankan president’s speech at the UN: lies in defence of war and human rights abuses
- Australia: Miscarriage tragedy highlights deliberate running down of public hospitals
- Germany: Train drivers need a new perspective
- In the Valley of Elah: reducing colonial war to personal trauma
- Fifty years since school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas
2007-10-06
- Recycling Stalinist lies about the Spanish Civil War
- Early GM contract vote shows widespread opposition to UAW sellout
- Turkey: Referendum planned for direct election of president
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Imperialism in the 21st century: Iraq, Iran, and the threat of world war
- Video: UAW Officials in Michigan Threaten Socialist Equality Party
- Letters from our readers
- Bush defends torture
- Police ban London antiwar march
2007-10-08
- Official investigation clears police in Indiana Taser attack
- Sri Lankan government silences journalist over defence corruption scandal
- Scandals, retirements decimate congressional Republicans
- Enigma and perhaps evasion (or “hide and seek”): the realism of German painter Neo Rauch
- Officer recommends dropping last murder charges in Haditha massacre
- German court attacks train drivers strike
- Australia: 25 years of Labor-Liberal “reform” wreaks havoc on public schools
- Iraqi probe finds Blackwater mercenaries fired without provocation in Baghdad massacre
- Afghanistan: reports of record year for opium yield
2007-10-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia’s High Court rules that voting rights can be abolished
- Congressional Democrats to unveil new domestic spying bill
- Australian SEP federal election campaign meetings
- Washington lauds Pakistan’s sham presidential election
- Video: Jim Lawrence, GM worker & 2004 SEP candidate, on GM pact
- Jim Lawrence, GM worker and 2004 SEP vice presidential candidate, speaks on UAW-GM contract
- US general fires a new propaganda salvo against Iran
- Social theorist André Gorz dies, aged 84
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: Brown retreats from snap general election
2007-10-10
- British troops in Iraq to be cut to 2,500, states Brown
- WSWS replies to UAW local president on GM contract
- Sri Lankan workers picket to defend right to industrial action
- Liberal and Labor parties responsible for death of Australian soldier in Afghanistan
- Uncertainty hangs over deal to disable North Korea’s nuclear facilities
- Supreme Court refuses to hear case of German citizen tortured by US
- Prodi government’s budget attacks the Italian working class
- British troops in Iraq to be cut to 2,500, states Brown
- Democrats bow to Wall Street, saving tax break for billionaires
- As General Motors contract vote proceeds, UAW prepares deeper concessions at Chrysler
- Private security contractors in Baghdad kill two Iraqi women
2007-10-11
- Germany: Real wages plunge
- Ukraine: Parliamentary election fails to resolve political crisis
- Sri Lankan military intensifies drive against LTTE
- Solomon Islands’ foreign minister condemns Australian occupation at UN General Assembly
- Post workers face political struggle against Royal Mail/Labour government offensive
- Biographer of James Cannon, pioneer American Trotskyist, to speak Friday in New York
- Haditha massacre defendant pursues defamation suit against US congressman
- Chrysler strikers speak: “It’s time workers unite on a global basis, the same way the companies do”
- Support the German train drivers’ struggle against Deutsche Bahn!
- Criticized over war threat against Iran, Hillary Clinton sees conspiracy
- UAW stages six-hour strike to push through contract betrayal at Chrysler
2007-10-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- British livestock hit by bluetongue disease
- Australian government resorts to anti-African witch hunt
- Russia: Putin launches electoral bid to retain power
- Britain: Demands for government intervention aimed at strangling post dispute
- The middle-class “left” and the UAW-GM contract
- France: The struggle against Sarkozy requires a new political perspective
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese government acknowledges Three Gorges Dam “disaster”
- Bush condemns House vote on Armenian genocide
2007-10-13
- New round of US shootings claims young lives
- German train drivers’ strike affects large part of rail network
- Ontario Liberals retain power, as voter participation plummets
- More migrant deaths as Europe tightens border controls
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Nobel Prize for Al Gore: “Old Europe” fires back at the Bush administration
- German Socialist Equality Party election campaign: For a socialist answer to welfare cuts and war
- The Australian Labor Party, the Bali bombings, and the death penalty
2007-10-15
- Turkish government gives green light for military intervention in northern Iraq
- Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission stalls inquiry into disappeared SEP member
- Former US commander blames “partisan” politics and “agenda-driven” media for Iraq debacle
- Britain: Postal union agrees to sell-out deal with Royal Mail
- House Speaker Pelosi lashes out at antiwar protesters
- New York meeting hears biographer of Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism
- US air strikes kill 34 Iraqis
- Australian election: an ominous silence on US war plans against Iran
- Letters from US auto workers
2007-10-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Social inequality in US hits new record
- The political campaign to bring Tom Henehan’s killers to justice
- Somalia: Humanitarian disaster looms as government clamps down on insurgency
- Socialist Equality Party in Australia launches new election web site
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) 2007 federal election statement
- New Zealand: Algerian asylum seeker wins appeal over security risk status
- Thirty years since the assassination of Tom Henehan
- General Motors tells Wall Street: UAW deal will save billions
- Eastern Promises and the continuing decline of David Cronenberg
2007-10-17
- Conflict between Turkey and the US intensifies
- US and Israel maintain menacing silence over air raid on Syria
- India’s Congress Party buckles to Hindu Supremacists’ communal campaign over Ram Sethu
- What drove Sean Penn Into the Wild?
- Australia: Howard’s Aboriginal “reconciliation” pledge a cynical fraud
- Deutsche Bahn increases intimidation of train-drivers
- US: Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell sent back to prison
2007-10-18
- British government accessing telephone records
- Ladrón que roba a ladrón: Sharply observed, if inconsistent, Spanish-language film
- Putin in Tehran: US-Russia rift widens
- An interview with JoJo Henrickson, screenwriter of Ladrón que roba a ladrón
- Former UN Official: US blocked certification that Iraq had no WMDs in 1990s
- French workers oppose “tax” on medical treatment
- UAW deal opens door for Chrysler carve-up
- US government brokers scheme to bail out Wall Street banks
2007-10-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Obituary: Grace Paley and political culture
- Bomb blasts hit Bhutto’s return to Pakistan
- Letter from a German train driver
- Australia: Rudd tries to fudge Labor’s agreement with WorkChoices
- Train drivers step up strike action in Germany
- Transport strike brings France to a standstill
- Democrats reach agreement with Bush administration on domestic spying bill
- Vote ‘no’ on UAW sellout at Chrysler! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
- Canada’s Conservative government outlines agenda of social reaction and war
- Bush invokes threat of “World War III”
- Teachers strike in Bulgaria
2007-10-20
- Swiss election campaign reveals profound social divisions
- Democrats prepare to install defender of torture, illegal spying as attorney general
- Australia: McArthur Express workers face up to 10 years jail for protesting
- Canadian Auto Workers union “partners” with Magna International
- Landmark study records visionary architecture from the early years of the Soviet Union
- Another letter from a German train driver
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- French workers speak out against social welfare cuts
- French rail strike continues, despite union leaders’ efforts to end it
- Chrysler sellout faces strong rank-and-file opposition
- Bhutto implicates Pakistan’s military-security establishment in assassination attempt
2007-10-22
- An exchange on sanctions against Zimbabwe
- France: corruption scandal hits employers’ federation, unions
- US raid on Baghdad’s Sadr City leaves many dead and wounded
- US secretary of state seeks to impose Israeli diktats on Palestinians
- The Kingdom: Spinning reality any way one wants
- IMF growth forecast not as good as it looks
- Australian election debate: Howard and Rudd compete as economic conservatives
- Letters from our readers
- Detroit autoworkers speak out against UAW-Chrysler contract
- More Chrysler locals reject UAW contract betrayal
- Germany: Social Democratic chairman attacks train drivers
2007-10-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Western Australian resources boom leads to deepening social inequality
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party collaborates in union’s betrayal of postal strikes
- Swiss elections witness turn to the right and growing polarisation
- Britain: Oppose efforts by Communication Workers Union to end postal strike
- US: Bush administration fast-tracks relaxation of media ownership constraints
- Letters on US auto workers’ struggle
- US militarism threatens to unleash regional conflagration
- G7 meetings highlight deepening problems for US and world economy
- UAW conspires with Chrysler to impose agreement
- Video: WSWS speaks to Detroit Chrysler workers
2007-10-24
- An Evening with Brian Wilson
- Ninety percent of voting Writers’ Guild of America members authorize strike
- UAW defends 50 percent wage cut for Chrysler workers
- Northern Rock: the crisis mounts for British government
- Republican presidential candidates appeal to an ever-narrower right-wing base
- Polish elections: a clear rebuff to the Kaczynskis
- Canberra weighs up “regime change” in Papua New Guinea
- Nepalese Maoists quit government in bid to stem waning support
- As Turkey-Iraq crisis escalates, US plans military strikes on PKK bases
- German train drivers’ strike: GDL union leader appeals to the chancellor
- French unions vote to end transport strikes
- Wildfires engulf Southern California
- US government unable to account for $1.2 billion paid to Iraq contractor
2007-10-25
- UAW moves to prevent defeat of Chrysler contract
- Rep. Pete Stark apologizes to Bush: Another abject climbdown by the Democrats
- LTTE attack on Sri Lankan air force base
- Pakistan: Musharraf regime reiterates martial law threat
- Australia: Victorian Labor government uses Howard’s WorkChoices against nurses
- No convictions in US terror trial against Muslim charity
- World War Z: Monsters of this society’s own making
- The California wildfires and the American social crisis
- Bush threatens escalation of aggression against Cuba
- Signs of leadership infighting ahead of Chinese Communist Party congress
- British Columbia strikes show workers need new perspective
- Spain: Arrests of Batasuna leadership by Socialist Party ahead of elections
2007-10-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- European Court of Justice overturns “Volkswagen Law”
- SEP candidate explains why she joined the party
- US Senate confirms right-wing judge to federal appeals court
- Nick Beams addresses SEP election meetings
- Socialist Equality Party meetings launch Australian election campaign
- Merrill Lynch reports billions in losses amidst growing signs of US recession
- US: Maine nurses union agrees to demands of hospital administrators
- US imposes unilateral sanctions on Iran: One step closer to war
- Letters from our readers
- How the UAW pushed through its sellout at Chrysler
- China’s Communist Party congress: a celebration of private wealth and market success
2007-10-27
- Sri Lanka: JVP-affiliated union issues threat against Socialist Equality Party
- German Social Democrats, unions fear losing control over the working class
- The “new seriousness” in cinema...
- German Socialist Equality Party (PSG) organizes meetings to support the train drivers’ strike
- Britain: Post workers speak out against union management agreement at Royal Mail
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Democrats, Republicans back Bush war provocations against Iran
- Devastation from California wildfires comes into focus as some blazes are contained
- European Union leaders agree to treaty in Lisbon
- Strong opposition at final Chrysler plant voting on UAW contract
- The real face of Howard’s Northern Territory intervention: welfare cuts and community closures
2007-10-29
- Nick Beams launches party’s election campaign on YouTube
- Germany: Interviews with striking train drivers
- Why both Labor and Liberal will provide billions for tax cuts, but not for social services
- One-third of Americans live with “extreme stress”
- Antiwar protest organizers promote Democratic Party
- More warnings of a US war on Iran
- Demonstrators denounce Bush and Democrats over Iraq war
- Israel’s power cuts to Gaza: Collective punishment with tacit US approval
- Firefighting shortages played role in California wild fire damage
- Letters from our readers
- UAW pushes through Chrysler betrayal in face of strong rank-and-file opposition
2007-10-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US: Police cleared in Taser assault on Florida student
- Rendition: An open attack on the Bush administration’s system of torture
- The New York Times and Bush’s threat of World War III
- Racing toward disaster: War, inequality and the crisis of American democracy
- Leading German politician issues alarm about threat of war with Iran
- A case of déjà vu: Howard insists “no plans” for war with Iran
- New report exposes Labor-Liberal wrecking operation on public hospitals
- Canada’s Conservative government rushes to reaffirm support for army champion of Afghan war
- Another Guantánamo military officer condemns prisoner tribunals
- Worsening conflict between Russia and Georgia driven by Washington-Moscow rivalries
- California wildfire victims speak to the WSWS
2007-10-31
- German Social Democratic congress upholds austerity program and coalition with conservatives
- Saudi king alleges UK could have prevented July 7 bombings
- New Zealand: 17 arrests in nationwide “anti-terrorist” raids
- Ford and UAW press for deeper concessions from US auto workers
- Democrats debate in the shadow of US war threats against Iran
- Letters from our readers
- Socialist Equality Party challenges Greg Combet to debate industrial relations
- Meet the candidates: Questions & Answers on the Socialist Equality Party’s program
- International Students for Social Equality to hold meetings on campuses in Canada
- Report: Strategic air base being readied for war on Iran
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