Archive: 12/2007
2007-12-01
- After four weeks: studios and networks offer striking writers a “massive rollback”
- The parliamentary elections and the crisis of the authoritarian regime in Russia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush pressures Congressional Democrats on war funding
- Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
- International support for striking US writers
- US House passes Democrat-crafted “homegrown terrorism prevention” legislation
- Police maintain their occupation of Paris working class suburb
- The Left Party and the German train drivers strike—an exchange of letters
- The Darjeeling Limited from Wes Anderson: It’s time to do more interesting work
- Britain: government cuts funding as bird flu outbreak is confirmed
- Labor expected to send more troops as Australian casualties grow in Afghanistan
2007-12-03
- The politicization of the writers’ struggle: the New York Times and an interview with striker David Wyatt
- Bush administration intervenes to shield Wall Street from housing meltdown
- French student mobilisation at an impasse
- Somalia: growing insurgency and humanitarian crisis
- Bush applauds Musharraf as he makes himself Pakistan’s President till 2012
- The artist Henry Moore: Power and humanity
- Police attack ethnic Indian protestors in Malaysia
- Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
- Australia: Asbestos sufferer and campaigner Bernie Banton dies at 61
- The Amis-Eagleton controversy: The British literary elite and the “war on terror”
2007-12-04
- Interview with a striking writer: a candid conversation about US television
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The referendum defeat in Venezuela: A warning to the working class
- Union bureaucracy betrays Turk Telekom strike
- Sri Lanka: Armed gang sets fire to newspaper printshop
- Germany: Union agrees fundamental restructuring at Siemens
- Extremely weak results in Robert Redford’sLions for Lambs
- British Labour Party under police investigation over illegal donations
- Australia: Rudd Labor government commits to “economic conservativism”
- School’s collapse leaves foreign teachers stranded, homeless in Japan
- US military judge orders witness names withheld from Guantánamo detainee
- Former SEP gubernatorial candidate speaks on California radio: “Writers strike is part of growing international resistance by workers”
2007-12-05
- Writers’ strike in fifth week: the political discussion continues
- Sri Lankan military conducts massive anti-Tamil sweep through Colombo
- Twenty years since the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist leader Keerthi Balasuriya
- US intelligence report shows war drive against Iran based on lies
- Britain: The postal workers dispute and the role of “left” groups in the CWU
- A prelude to confrontation with Iran: the US arms Sunni militia in Iraq
- Magazine exposé shows BJP state government organized 2002 pogrom
- German Socialist Equality Party certified to participate in Hesse state elections
- Gone Baby Gone: a moral mystery
- Letters from our readers
2007-12-06
- One month of the US film and television writers’ strike
- Russian parliamentary elections: Putin’s party retains control
- The privatisation of the German railways system and the train drivers strike
- Papua New Guinea flood leaves thousands homeless
- Royal visit revives tensions between Spain and Morocco
- US intelligence report heightens danger of Israeli strike on Iran
- Another Guantánamo Bay prisoner attempts suicide
- Anti-immigrant demagogue Lou Dobbs speaks in Detroit
- US Supreme Court hears arguments on habeas corpus for Guantánamo prisoners
- Bush continues threats against Iran
- Interview with a French Airbus worker
2007-12-07
- Turkey: Assaults on freedom of expression continue
- Bush unveils subprime mortgage scheme to bail out banks
- Fear and greed: The financial crisis driving Bush’s subprime mortgage plan
- National miners strike in South Africa
- US presidential campaign: Romney denounces secularism in bid for Christian fundamentalist backing
- Australia: Qantas-union deal will set new benchmark to cut pay and conditions
- US: Nine dead in Omaha, Nebraska mall shooting
- Collapse of California’s housing market reveals underlying social inequality
- European powers back continued sanctions against Teheran
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Letters from our readers
- Amid global financial instability: China-EU trade tensions intensify
- Without new government, Belgium faces threat of break-up
2007-12-08
- Writers strike: studios and networks dig in their heels
- Nueva ley condenando los crímenes de Franco continua polarizando a España
- Spain: 16-year-old murdered by fascist
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US intelligence agency uses Jordan for torture of prisoners
- US employment report shows recessionary impact of housing and credit crisis
- GDL leadership prepares sell-out
- Food prices rise, living standards fall for US families
- CIA destroyed torture tapes
- Australia: Labor government moves to ratify Kyoto Protocol ahead of Bali climate change conference
2007-12-10
- Talks break down in Hollywood writers’ strike
- Workers must have “a way of acting politically on a global scale”
- West Bengal: Left Front government rattled by popular outrage over Nandigram massacre
- Australia: Howard government knew of Guantánamo detainee’s torture complaints
- A letter on “US Supreme Court hears arguments on habeas corpus for Guantánamo prisoners”
- Both parties supported US interrogation program
- China’s blocking of US aircraft carrier highlights naval tensions in the Pacific
- China’s blocking of US aircraft carrier highlights naval tensions in the Pacific
2007-12-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- TV celebrity Oprah stumps for Barack Obama
- Hotel Obsino: inner-city poverty and despair
- China’s latest coal mine explosion kills at least 105
- “Marx is a must” conference in Berlin: Providing cover for the social democratic bureaucracies
- Iranian government cracks down on student protests
- New York scaffolding collapse kills one immigrant worker, injures another
- Democrats propose deal to extend Iraq war funding
- Former CIA agent acknowledges use of water-boarding in interrogations
- Hotel Obsino writer Adam Broinowski speaks with WSWS
2007-12-12
- Attorneys demand preservation of evidence of detainee torture
- LTTE leader makes desperate appeal to “world powers”
- Solomon Islands government in crisis after parliamentarians join opposition
- For a socialist answer to the social disaster
- War danger grows after Kosovo status talks collapse
- US-Mexico border fence almost doubles
- US stocks plunge on Federal Reserve rate cut announcement
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead: What are the dark forces at work?
- An evening with the Cleveland Orchestra
- CIA director testifies behind closed doors on destroyed tapes
2007-12-13
- Suicides by US soldiers and war veterans surge
- Trump, Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party’s scramble for investment
- New York meeting on the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
- France: Socialist Party, “far left” move towards electoral alliance
- Ice storm leaves half million without power in Central US
- Gujarat elections: BJP chief minister reverts to Muslim-baiting
- Germany: a positive response to the PSG election campaign in Hesse
- Ex-Peruvian president Fujimori jailed after first trial
- Australia: Labor government to boost military spending
- Central banks coordinate actions amid fears of a global financial breakdown
- Recapture of Afghan town highlights crisis of US, NATO occupation
2007-12-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Writers’ strike reveals profound cultural and social divide
- Scores of migrants drown as boat sinks off Turkish Aegean coast
- European Union treaty signed at Lisbon: A constitution in all but name
- Solomon Islands government ousted through parliamentary vote
- France: One-day rail strikes in defence of pensions called off
- Pakistan’s opposition parties capitulate to Musharraf and Bush
- The Left Party offers its services to the SPD
- Australia: Labor’s “education revolution” to deliver for business
- Letters from our readers
- Bush administration isolated at Bali climate conference
2007-12-15
- Britain: First woman convicted under Terrorism Act
- US: Baseball steroid report—reflection of a diseased social order
- Der Spiegel churns out old lies on the October Revolution
- US Supreme Court rulings give judges more discretion in sentencing
- Miami: Collapse of Liberty City 7 case exposes fraud of “war on terror”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Jena Six defendant sentenced to 18 months in prison
- The Golden Compass and the religious right
- Australia: Police attack African youth at public housing estate
2007-12-17
- Impasse in writers’ strike poses need for new political struggle
- US: Student loan debt bearing down on graduates
- Scottish human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar prosecuted
- Australia: Labor government proceeds with pro-business industrial relations agenda
- Germany: PSG holds first election meeting in Hesse
- Bush administration moves to block inquiries into CIA’s destruction of torture tapes
- Bali climate conference ends in farce as US vetoes emission targets
2007-12-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK water companies fined millions after fiddling accounts
- Switzerland: Right-wing populist Blocher voted out of government
- Ladrón que roba a ladrón: película en español de mucha perspicacia pero no del todo coherente.
- Australia: Socialist Party lashes out at the SEP’s election intervention
- Russian President Putin names his putative successor
- Das Reichsorchester—The Berlin Philharmonic and the Nazis
- Corporate oil giants scramble to plunder Iraq’s energy reserves
- Lieberman’s endorsement of McCain exposes bipartisan support for war
- South Korean presidential election: right-wing candidate poised to win
- Twenty years since the death of Keerthi Balasuriya
- Dresden: Over 10,000 students rally against new state education law
- New Jersey abolishes the death penalty
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: Judge rules the return of political refugees to the US illegal
2007-12-19
- US backs Turkish military attacks on northern Iraq
- British students respond to ISSE showing of From Tsar to Lenin
- Twenty years since the death of Keerthi Balasuriya
- UN representative expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture, Guantánamo hearings
- Germany: The sale of SachsenLB bank—bailing out speculators at public expense
- Blair’s international donors’ conference: Another conspiracy against the Palestinian people
- Detroit: second highest foreclosure rate in US
- Congress votes to fund war, bows to Bush on domestic policy
- Reports document deepening social catastrophe in Afghanistan
2007-12-20
- Inflation surge hits consumers, compounds global banking crisis
- Report indicates White House encouraged torture tape destruction
- JVP assists the Sri Lankan government to pass its war budget
- Britain: Socialist Equality Party condemns arrest of Tommy Sheridan on perjury charges
- Russia orders closure of British Council offices
- Sri Lankan SEP marks 20th anniversary of Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
- Homeowners in Detroit suburb demand protection from foreclosures
- Record inequality in the US: Billions for Wall Street bosses as workers’ share of income shrinks
- France: A sharp increase in police repression
- Letters from our readers
2007-12-21
- Film and television writers confront big political and cultural issues
- Keerthi Balasuriya as revolutionary fighter during 1970-1971
- Britain: Northern Rock crisis deepens
- Woman accuses US contractors in Iraq of rape as Justice Department shuns hearing
- New York Times bows to White House pressure over CIA tapes story
- US Federal Reserve’s subprime regulations shield Wall Street banks
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- The debate in Germany over executive compensation and the minimum wage
- One year of the Democratic 110th Congress: A record of duplicity, cowardice and political reaction
- Australian media uses Aurukun Aboriginal child rape case to push right-wing agenda
2007-12-22
- Zuma’s election heralds instability
- Thai military junta stages carefully managed election
- New Orleans police attack residents protesting public housing demolition
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- One-day general strike in Greece
- German train drivers union announces new strikes
- Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population
- South Africa: conflict in ANC signals deepening social tensions
2007-12-24
- The Walker: A shamefaced political critique
- White House, CIA hid torture tapes from 9/11 Commission
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- European Union sends “rule of law” mission to prepare for Kosovan independence
- Right-wing candidate wins South Korean presidential poll
- What has the US “surge” in Iraq accomplished?
- FBI’s Hoover proposed internment of 12,000 “disloyal” Americans in 1950
- Israel says strikes on Gaza will be ongoing
- Australian Labor government endorses further punitive measures against David Hicks
- Letters from our readers
- An analysis of the 9/11 Commission memo on interrogation tapes
2007-12-27
- Record Christmas bonuses on Wall Street
- Commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the death of Keerthi Balasuriya
- Greetings to Colombo memorial meeting for Keerthi Balasuriya
- Record fall in US home prices
- Letters from our readers
- Russia-Belarus talks signal renewed cooperation against US
- US prepares to increase occupation forces in Afghanistan
2007-12-28
- The reality behind Britain’s claims of military success in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Turkey: 15-month strike ends with betrayal by union bureaucracy
- WSWS speaks to workers and youth about Keerthi Balasuriya
- US agency OKs slashing of health benefits for over-65 retirees
- Scores killed in Indonesian Boxing Day landslides
- Bob Dylan as a psychological pastiche: I’m Not There
- Soaring inflation sparks social unrest in China
- Germany: BMW announces 8,000 job cuts
- In wake of assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Bush administration rushes to defense of Musharraf
2007-12-29
- Turkey continues its incursions into northern Iraq
- US mayors’ report: Hunger and homelessness intensify in US cities
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US occupation prepares Basra operation following British withdrawal
- Danish elections: Government remains dependent on far right
- Bhutto assassination heightens threat of US intervention in Pakistan
2007-12-31
- El informe sobre el uso de esteroides en el béisbol de Estados Unidos refleja un orden social enfermizo
- Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Aguda escasez de alimentos y los aumentos de precios amenazan a la población mundial
- Pakistan: Violent state repression of protests over Bhutto assassination
- Australian Labor government steps up vendetta against former Solomon Islands attorney-general
- ¿Qué ha logrado la escalada militar estadounidense en Iraq?
- Germany: PSG election meeting in Giessen
- US presidential candidates pledge support to Pakistani dictator
- David Walsh selects his favorite films of 2007
- Britain: Arts Council to cut funds to 194 organisations
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