Archive: 11/2007
2007-11-01
- Terry Hicks, father of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with the WSWS
- ... And the new problems
- European Union clears final hurdle to postal privatisation
- US attorney general nominee refuses to condemn torture techniques
- US State Department offered immunity to Blackwater mercenaries
- Auto workers oppose CAW’s sweetheart deal with Magna
- Canadian Auto Workers union “partners” with Magna International
- Howard government caught out lying over Hicks release from Guantánamo
- “If the right to strike is being trampled underfoot then I expect support”
- US Federal Reserve accedes to Wall Street demands with another interest rate cut
- Near-unanimous vote at UN to repudiate US blockade of Cuba
- Protests by former Chinese soldiers: another source of political instability
- “Big Tobacco” cuts arts funding in New York City
2007-11-02
- Broader issues facing US film and television writers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Bush invokes 9/11 to justify torture, domestic spying and war
- A socialist program to oppose war and its economic burdens
- French President Sarkozy visits Morocco
- Australia: Coroner exonerates police over fatal Macquarie Fields car chase
- US intensifies push for further UN sanctions on Iran
- Germany: Court to rule on train drivers strike
- Michael Clayton: The man who comes in from the cold
- Bitter outcome of UAW contract betrayal: Chrysler to cut 12,000 more jobs
2007-11-03
- US film and television writers will walk out Monday
- Stock market gyrations fueled by credit, housing market crises
- Sri Lankan trade unions betray teachers strike
- Detroit suburb to vote on measure to restrict democratic rights
- The real issues in the controversy over the Tasmanian pulp mill
- Strong opposition to CAW leadership voiced by Oshawa GM workers
- Democrats cave in on torture: Key senators back attorney general nominee
- Jean Charles de Menezes shooting: Metropolitan police found guilty of endangering the public
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
- Chrysler workers react to job cuts, denounce union betrayal
2007-11-05
- Determined, angry mood among US film and television writers
- Germany: Court lifts strike ban against train drivers
- Sri Lankan military assassinates LTTE political leader in air strike
- On the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution: the prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
- With Washington’s complicity, Musharraf imposes martial law in Pakistan
- France: Immigration history museum opens without official inauguration
- Labor’s Peter Garrett presents his pro-war credentials
- Vote “no” on UAW betrayal at Ford! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
- Abortion rights under attack in Britain
2007-11-06
- The Socialist Alliance and East Timor
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US film and television writers launch their struggle
- US auto workers denounce UAW betrayal at Ford
- May 2007 Scottish election fiasco: Report finds voters “treated as an afterthought”
- US consumer safety head opposes strengthening agency’s powers
- As Pakistanis battle martial law, US vows continued aid to Musharraf
- Union shuts down Victorian nurses campaign
- Japan withdraws naval support for US war in Afghanistan
- Interviews with striking writers and supporters
- An exchange with the Australian Greens on their complicity in Howard’s anti-terror laws
- Vote “no” on UAW betrayal at Ford! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
- Letters from our readers
- Citigroup ousts CEO, warns of billions more in subprime losses
2007-11-07
- Writers’ strike in its second day
- The SEP and preferences in the 2007 election
- Majority of Southern US public school students are poor
- As Pakistanis risk life and limb to oppose Musharraf, US elite rallies round military regime
- Democratic senator defends vote for Bush’s attorney general nominee
- Moroccan elections reveal gulf between regime and the population
- Madrid bombing convictions despite flimsy evidence
- Climate change, Kyoto, and carbon trading
- US troop deaths in Iraq set yearly record
- One year since the 2006 election: The Democratic Congress and the war in Iraq
2007-11-08
- Off-year elections in US show continued hostility to Bush, Republicans
- Quebec’s commission on “Reasonable Accommodation” and the growth of anti-Muslim chauvinism
- Howard, Rudd hypocrisy on martial law in Pakistan
- France: Teachers resist Sarkozy’s manipulation of Guy Môquet history
- Climate change, Kyoto, and carbon trading
- Writers and supporters speak out in Los Angeles and New York City
- Britain: Declining hygiene standards lead to 90 deaths at three hospitals from C. difficile
- The European Union, railway privatisation and the attack on workers’ living standards
- The Democratic Party candidates and the writers’ strike
- Letters from our readers
2007-11-09
- Support for writers’ strike outrages Hollywood elite
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Congress proposes $50 billion more in Iraq war funding
- Deepening political crisis in Pakistan
- SEP demands the dropping of charges against McArthur Express workers
- Democrats scuttle Cheney impeachment measure: fraud turns into farce
- US auto workers vote on contract betrayal at Ford
- The plight of the UAE’s migrant workers: the flipside of a booming economy
- Chicago-area high school students face expulsion for antiwar sit-in
- Bolsheviks in Power - Professor Alexander Rabinowitch’s important study of the first year of soviet power
- Near-panic atmosphere as US Federal Reserve chairman testifies before Congress
2007-11-10
- At mass rally, Writers Guild leaders attempt to lull strikers to sleep
- Sri Lanka: Oppose the JVP threats against the SEP
- Rudd and Murdoch: the fashioning of a Blair-style “Labor moderniser”
- With tacit US support, Pakistan’s military regime intensifies repression
- Senate confirms Mukasey as attorney general
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Historical, political issues in the Turkish-Kurd conflict
- Bernard Kerik indicted on federal fraud, conspiracy charges
- More writers and their supporters in Los Angeles and New York speak to the WSWS
- Exposé of Gap’s use of child labor part of a broader social phenomenon
2007-11-12
- Rudd and Howard prepare to back US attack on Iran
- Writers strike enters second week
- French students mobilise against university reform
- Stagehands shut down Broadway over producers’ takeaways
- Ethiopia steps up military occupation of Mogadishu
- French President Sarkozy goes to Washington: A vassal pays homage
- Bush reaffirms support for Musharraf as Pakistani dictator intensifies military repression
- Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: from Whitlam to Rudd
- US prepares for tougher action against Iran
- French student protesters: “Everything is directed at the government’s policy of social destruction”
- Police and thieves: Ridley Scott’s American Gangster
- Video: WSWS Speaks to Ford Workers
- Ford Rouge workers denounce UAW sellout
2007-11-13
- Increasing bitterness in film and television writers strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan president hands down war budget
- Socialist Alliance and Greens back Labor
- US, British and Australian forces build oil-protection base in Iraq
- German Chancellor Merkel sides with Bush
- Howard’s desperate appeal to big business
- Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: from Whitlam to Rudd
- US: New developments in the case of the ‘Jena Six’
- Britain: Inquiry to be held into Stockline factory blast
- Indo-US nuclear deal could be casualty of India’s fractured domestic politics
- For a socialist and internationalist perspective to fight French President Sarkozy’s social cuts
- Poor planning compounds problems as drought plagues Southeast US
- Bankrupt US auto parts giant seeks $216 million for executive bonuses
2007-11-14
- Film and television celebrities express support for striking writers
- Congressional report puts cost of US wars at $1.6 trillion
- Turkish union bureaucracy adds its voice to nationalist campaign
- Britain: Queen’s Speech signals attack on civil liberties
- Socialist Alliance and Greens back Labor
- Bhutto calls for Pakistan’s US-backed military strongman to resign
- Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: From Whitlam to Rudd
- International Students for Socialist Equality meetings in Britain
- France: Sarkozy seeks confrontation with the working class
- Letters from our readers
- An explosion of billionaires in China
2007-11-15
- Striking television writers discuss political issues with the WSWS
- US federal court blocks second court martial against Army war resister
- Labor leader’s campaign launch pledge to corporate Australia
- Britain’s Respect-Unity coalition split: The collapse of an opportunist bloc
- Pakistani regime continues crackdown on opponents
- New York police shoot down disturbed youth—thought hairbrush was a gun
- Germany: The resignation of Franz Müntefering
- Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: From Whitlam to Rudd
- France: Despite success of strike, trade unions prepare a sellout
- US home foreclosures nearly double from a year ago
- West Bengal’s Stalinist government mounts terror campaign to quash peasant unrest
2007-11-16
- Pickets at CBS discuss perspectives for writers’ strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “Terrorist” cases unravel, exposing government-police frame-ups and lies
- New York’s Democratic governor bows to anti-immigrant hysteria over license plan
- France: Railway workers resist unions’ plan for sell-out
- Quebec: Parti Québécois introduces bill to restrict the rights of non-francophones
- Malaysia: Large protest in Kuala Lumpur demands electoral reforms
- French union leaders seek to strangle rail strike
- Who is John Edwards?
- Congressional Democrats resume phony “antiwar” votes
- Two months after deadly shooting, no charges against Blackwater mercenaries
2007-11-17
- Mr. Edwards goes to the picket line
- Las grabaciones de Bush-Aznar: la revelación de un gangster preparando la guerra
- Britain: Vote ‘no’ and mobilize rank-and-file against CWU sell-out of postal workers
- Iraqi archivist demands US return seized documents
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US dismisses IAEA report of “progress” over Iran’s nuclear programs
- German rail strike: report from Berlin and Frankfurt-Main
- German train drivers intensify their strike
- France: Rank-and-file workers force continuation of rail strike
- US Congress moves toward passage of domestic spy bill
- Democratic presidential debate: Right-wing consensus boosts Hillary Clinton
- Debt crisis deepens, as Howard launches another interest rate scare campaign
2007-11-19
- Studios and striking writers to resume negotiations November 26
- Terry Cook, SEP candidate for Charlton, speaks on YouTube
- As Broadway stagehand talks resume
- US envoy lauds Pakistani dictator’s “democratic vision”
- Student volunteers and the Katrina recovery: Some reflections after visiting New Orleans
- French workers need a new political strategy
- Letters on Brian Wilson
- UN-backed Cambodian trials of Khmer Rouge leaders set to start
- Top general urges Brazil to develop nuclear weapons
- Political lessons of the UAW contract betrayal
- The AEU and the Victorian teachers’ wage rise campaign
2007-11-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US veteran population: a mounting social catastrophe
- Strike at Russian Ford plant—a sign of renewed struggle by Russian workers
- New pro-business government takes office in Poland
- US steps up plans for military intervention in Pakistan
- France: Vast mobilisation expected November 20 against Sarkozy’s policies
- Food banks running out of supplies in Detroit
- The China resources boom and the gathering clouds of global recession
- Britain: Brown reaffirms his pro-US credentials on Iran and Europe
- Thousands die in devastating cyclone in Bangladesh
2007-11-21
- US recession fears grow as bank losses mount
- The wrongful detention of Tony Tran: yet another immigration cover-up
- Los Angeles school district threatens teachers with financial punishment over payroll glitch
- University authorities use police repression against striking French students
- Broadway remains dark another week after strike talks break down
- SEP-ISSE meeting in Sri Lanka: the lessons of the Russian Revolution
- Labor, Liberal and the revival of colonialism in the South Pacific
- British obesity levels the highest in Europe
- Mexico: Aftermath of the Tabasco floods—another manmade “natural” disaster
- New law condemning Franco’s crimes further polarises Spain
- Indian Stalinists reverse course, allow Indo-US nuclear deal go to IAEA
- France: 1.5 million strike against Sarkozy’s policies
2007-11-22
- Striking writers protest in Hollywood
- France: 5,000 demonstrate in Strasbourg against Sarkozy
- Kosovo Assembly election result deepens crisis over independence
- American liberalism and the Iraq War: The New York Times gives its blessing to Bush “surge”
- More public hospital cutbacks in Sydney’s west
- “GetUp! Action for Australia”: Protest politics in support of Labor
- Letters from our readers
- Bulgaria: Right-wing makes gains in local elections
- Rail workers, public service employees and students demonstrate in Amiens, France
- Socialist candidate warns Victorian teachers of union betrayal
2007-11-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan government rams war budget through parliament
- Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party on November 24
- Thoughtful response at SEP election meetings on the Russian Revolution
- Germany: Left Party opposes train drivers’ strike
- Socialist Equality Party How To Vote cards available in PDF
- Finland: What are the social roots of school gunman’s murderous rage?
- Jury awards damages to Central American Dole workers
2007-11-24
- SEP holds public meeting in Colombo to oppose the war in Sri Lanka
- Britain: No central control over nuclear arsenal
- The banality of evil: No Country for Old Men
- Ninety years since the Russian Revolution: The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Oligarchs vie for power in Georgia
- French railway strike betrayed
- Major parties treat carers with contempt
2007-11-26
- Australian voters throw Howard government out of office
- Redacted: Outraged but schematic
- Bhutto and Sharif decry dictatorship, while seeking a deal with Pakistan’s US-backed military regime
- Ninety years since the Russian Revolution: The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
- Ten years since the death of Jean Brust, veteran Trotskyist
- Voters explain why they supported the Socialist Equality Party
- Australian voters speak to WSWS on polling day
- Jean Brust: An example to the new generation
- Jean Brust: A life as a revolutionary
- Letters from our readers
- Annapolis talks: A cover for fomenting Palestinian civil war and preparing assault on Iran
2007-11-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- España: Revelaciones de la obscena riqueza heredada por la familia del anterior dictador Franco
- Another slap in the face to antiwar voters: Democrats embrace former Iraq commander
- Ninety years since the Russian Revolution: The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
- Germany: Neo-Nazi attack in Dortmund restaurant
- France: Riots break out in Paris suburbs after police crash kills youth
- The filthy rich: Forbes lists America’s top 400 for 2007
- Credit crisis reveals widespread accounting manipulation by top US banks
- The sell-off of Britain Plc: Revenue and Customs loses personal details of 25 million
- Australian Labor prime minister elect reassures “our great friend and ally the United States”
- US Army reports rising desertion rates
2007-11-28
- Striking writers are determined, wary as contract negotiations restart
- Venezuela: the class issues in Chavez’s constitutional referendum
- ISSE meetings in Britain to screen Tsar to Lenin
- Some of the old problems, too
- Britain: The real issues in the Oxford Union “free speech” debate
- Election defeat causes meltdown in Australia’s Liberal and National parties
- US signs deal for long-term occupation of Iraq
- Canada’s Supreme Court opens door to deportation of US “war resisters”
2007-11-29
- Sri Lanka: Central Bank union demands retraction of threats against SEP
- An assessment of the SEP’s vote and campaign in the 2007 Australian election
- France: Three nights of rioting in response to youths’ deaths
- An open letter to striking train drivers from the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
- The betrayal of the French rail workers strike and the role of the LCR
- Big Three automakers prepare attack on Canadian workers
- Citigroup deal highlights US banking crisis
- Annapolis: US prepares Palestinian civil war and rallies Arab support against Iran
- US bombing kills 14 construction workers in Afghanistan
2007-11-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Edmund Wilson’s literary essays and reviews from 1920 to 1950: Just in time
- More than 100 dead in Ukraine mine disaster
- Broadway stagehands return to work after union accepts concessions
- Reciclando mentiras estalinistas sobre la guerra civil española
- New Zealand: Charges dropped after “anti-terror” police raids
- Report shows US coal mines not properly inspected due to cutbacks, mismanagement at safety agency
- The Jena Six: Mychal Bell’s case to be opened to the public
- Meeting in US to commemorate 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
- Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
- France: drumhead tribunals and threats of police state repression
- Letter from the children of Jean Brust, veteran Trotskyist
- Australian Labor prime minister-elect unveils new pro-business cabinet
- UN report into worst Afghan atrocity implicates security forces
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