Archive: 01/2008
2008-01-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak out
- Sri Lankan president marks tsunami anniversary by beating the war drums
- French President Sarkozy visits Afghanistan
- Germany: Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party) manifesto for Hesse state elections
- The state of Iraq as it enters 2008
- Corporate money, media manipulation and the US elections
- Watchdog warns that corporations’ financial viability is at risk
2008-01-03
- Pakistani regime announces lengthy election delay
- New York Times to feature neo-conservative war advocate William Kristol as op-ed columnist
- Kenya: Violence spreads following presidential elections
- Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with WSWS
- France: social cuts announced over Christmas holidays
- New York City: With hunger on the rise, food banks supplies running low
- “Antiwar” candidate Kucinich backs leading Democrat in Iowa primary
- Australia: Political vendetta resumes as David Hicks leaves prison
- Letters from our readers
2008-01-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Thai election commission casts doubt over poll outcome
- Qantas prepares strike-breaking operation against licensed engineers
- The art of Oscar Peterson: legacy of a jazz piano virtuoso
- Detained immigrants on hunger strike in France: “We refuse to be treated as sub-humans”
- German SEP candidate condemns anti-immigrant campaign in Hesse
- Report documents growth of social inequality in France
- Britain: Gifted young footballer fights deportation
- US Justice Department opens criminal investigation into CIA tape destruction
2008-01-05
- A socialist perspective for the film and television writers strike
- Spain: Socialist Party capitulates to right wing anti-abortionists
- Russia’s presidential candidate D. Medvedev and the Kremlin’s “national projects”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US jobs report shows slide into recession
- Cutbacks to Iraqi food rations threaten malnutrition and starvation
- Obama, Huckabee finish first in Iowa Democratic, Republican caucuses
- US poor and uninsured suffer substantially worse health outcomes
- India: Hindu-communalist BJP wins assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh
- California prepares massive cuts in response to budget crisis and economic woes
2008-01-07
- Tamil opposition MP assassinated in Sri Lankan capital
- Beleaguered Pakistani president lashes out at critics
- Secret White House meeting plans US military escalation in Pakistan
- German state premier campaigns against “foreign criminals”
- France: Students need a socialist perspective and a turn to the working class
- New Hampshire debates: Democrats and Republicans embrace US militarism
- Canadian university locks out faculty
- Belgium: Interim government appointed
2008-01-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US judge imposes gag order against retired auto workers in UAW-GM case
- Declassified letter exposes Democratic Party complicity in CIA torture
- Britain: Brown government slashes science budget
- Naval encounter highlights tensions stoked by Bush trip to Middle East
- I am Legend: Apocalypse soon
- Kenya: Social disintegration in country touted as African “success” story
- Australia: NSW Labor government unveils electricity sell-off
- A warning to the American people: “Thinking the unthinkable” at the Democratic presidential debate
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: Brown government slashes science budget
2008-01-09
- US Supreme Court hears challenge to lethal injection procedure
- Sri Lankan government pulls out of 2002 ceasefire agreement
- Sentencing begins in Jose Padilla trial
- New Hampshire primary foreshadows protracted contest for US presidential nominations
- The fight for equal pay for women: Britain’s Guardian defends union’s dirty deals
- Australian shopping centre investment trust, Centro, faces collapse
- US illegally detains more Afghans than ever at Bagram military base
2008-01-10
- Film and television writers’ strike: picketing resumes and so does the political discussion
- US Supreme Court reviews Indiana voter ID law
- Rock-bottom wages for German postal workers
- Death toll continues to rise as US military launches new offensive in Iraq
- Britain: Once again on the role of the “left” within the trade unions
- The India-Australia cricket conflict: sport, profits and nationalism
- Letters from our readers
- France: Top union pension negotiator gets lucrative promotion
2008-01-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Turkey: Workers protest against betrayal by trade union confederation
- US judge denies request for hearings on CIA torture tapes
- Notes on the political and economic crisis of the world capitalist system and the perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- The family as the root of all evil: Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding
- Shiite powersharing deal exacerbates sectarian divisions in Iraq
- Bush exploits Strait of Hormuz incident to threaten Iran
- Germany: Right-wing campaign in the Hesse state election
- The US elections: In whose interest is the campaign for “bipartisan unity”?
2008-01-12
- Lahore bombing casts pall over Pakistani election
- Germany: PSG candidate challenges chairman of the Left Party
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush’s vision of a Palestinian state: Subservient to Israel and policed by the major powers
- La situación de Iraq mientras empieza el año 2008
- Viabilidad económica de las empresas en riesgo
- Republican candidates deny recession, hail Iraq war as “success”
- US Federal Reserve chairman warns of recession danger, promises more rate cuts
- Charlie Wilson’s War: Mike Nichols’s pro-war film
- US carries out massive bombing on outskirts of Baghdad
2008-01-14
- Film and television writers plan “Strike TV” Internet programming
- New study estimates more than 150,000 violent deaths in Iraq over three years
- Nevada teachers union challenges Democratic caucus rules
- Beijing delays direct elections in Hong Kong for another decade
- Western powers rush to recognise result of Georgian presidential election
- Australian Labor government threatens to censor Internet
- Bush uses Abu Dhabi speech to escalate threats against Iran
- Philip Agee, former agent who exposed CIA crimes, dies in Cuba
2008-01-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US film studios and television networks announce layoffs and cutbacks
- Sri Lankan government imposes new anti-strike measures on health workers
- US bank losses intensify recession fears
- Italian judge seeks trial of 140 over Operation Condor repression
- Australia: Labor’s Julia Gillard threatens legal action against strikes
- Britain: Brown government set for conflict with public sector over pay and cuts
- California: Schwarzenegger administration presents austerity budget
2008-01-16
- A comment: What will be the impact of the writers’ strike on the writers themselves?
- Britain: Who and what is the Policy Exchange think tank?
- Britain: Prosecution of civil servant under Official Secrets Act fails
- German Left Party seeking a deal with the SPD in Hesse
- Credit crunch impacts on South Korea
- A letter and reply on Pakistan
- US appellate court rejects British victims’ suit for Guantánamo torture damages
- France: Police-state measures against immigrants provoke resistance
- Clinton-Obama row over Iraq record masks consensus on continued occupation
2008-01-17
- Bomb blast marks formal end of Sri Lankan ceasefire agreement
- “Muslims in Germany” study: State-propagated racism under the guise of science
- Michigan primary vote shows political impact of US slide into recession
- NBC excludes Kucinich from debate: a gross violation of democratic rights
- Kentucky faces budgetary crisis, shortfall in state pension funds
- “De-Baathification” laws modified by Iraq’s parliament
- Letters from our readers
- Tony Blair and the business of making money
2008-01-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US: Oregon refunds over a billion tax dollars while programs suffer
- Nepali Maoists rejoin interim government to contest elections
- Japanese government pushes through law to allow naval support for Afghan occupation
- Québec: To counter the assault on education, a new political perspective is needed
- As Wall Street posts sharp losses, Washington promotes “stimulus package”
- Britain: Terminally ill Ghanaian woman deported and denied medical care
- Letters from our readers
2008-01-19
- Omagh bombing trial: Hoey cleared, but little else clarified
- “Neon Bible” by the Arcade Fire: Where to from here?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany: Train drivers union submits to government and management
- Possible flu pandemic: US government plans to treat sick people “like potential enemies”
- Bush announces “stimulus” plan as recession fears grip Washington
- Cholesterol-lowering drug linked to increased risk of heart attack
- Canada’s colonial-style, “embedded” Afghan advisors subject of bureaucratic squabble in Ottawa
- Bush orders “mini-surge” of US troops to Afghanistan
2008-01-21
- Media, employers use Directors Guild deal as a battering ram against striking writers
- A lively and engaging walk through history for children
- Pakistan roiled by flour and electricity shortages, food price rises
- Germany: Nokia announces closure of its Bochum factory
- French revisionist Pierre Lambert dies aged 87
- US: General Motors to offer more job buyouts
- US presidential nomination campaigns remain deadlocked after January 19 votes
- Billions wiped off Australian share market
- Amid record losses, Wall Street awarded itself $39 billion
2008-01-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Medvedev’s presidential campaign and the growing social crisis in Russia
- Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao accused of instigating 2006 political crisis in East Timor
- Antiwar “Lefts” embrace ultra-right Republican candidate Ron Paul
- Britain: “Liar loans” drive hundreds of thousands into debt
- US-backed Israeli siege creates humanitarian disaster in Gaza
- France: the politics of the National Student Coordinating Committee and the role of the LCR
- Threat of US recession panics global stock markets
- Letters from our readers
- Further war threatens in Congo as rivalry for resources intensifies
2008-01-23
- Taiwan’s ruling party suffers major defeat in parliamentary election
- US “enemy combatant” Jose Padilla sentenced to 17 years in prison
- Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on—Part one
- Britain: Thousands still displaced from homes flooded last summer
- Shielding Wall Street, US Supreme Court rejects Enron fraud case
- US cuts interest rates amid fears of global financial collapse
- Democrats squabble but offer no solution to war and economic crisis
2008-01-24
- France obtains energy deals, establishes first military base in Persian Gulf
- Australia: Demands grow for closure of Villawood detention centre
- NATO must prepare for nuclear first strike, report urges
- Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on—Part two
- Kenya: post-election violence continues
- PSG candidate demands immediate withdrawal of German army from Afghanistan
- In face of Israeli repression, tens of thousands of Palestinians force their way into Egypt
- US recession fears provoke continued market turmoil
- Another timeless love affair: Joe Wright’s Atonement
2008-01-25
- The film and television writers’ strike: the dead-end of the trade union perspective
- Congressional Democrats embrace Bush’s economic stimulus plan
- Desperate plight facing millions of Iraqi refugees
- Fishing for coalition partners, German Greens intervene in Hesse elections
- France’s second-largest bank blames “rogue” trader for $7.2 billion loss
- France: Unions, employers sign labour reform gutting workers’ rights
- More US job cuts coming at Ford
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Trying too hard in the wrong places: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Canada: Government panel urges increased Canadian role in Afghan war
2008-01-26
- US Senate moves to grant immunity to telecoms complicit in illegal wiretapping
- Fighting in Sri Lanka continues unabated as ceasefire expires
- ISSE intervenes in student assembly at Québec university
- Pentagon chief says US ready to deploy combat troops in Pakistan
- Year Zero: Trent Reznor looks outside himself
- Study documents nearly 1,000 lies from Iraq war propaganda campaign
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany holds state elections in shadow of world financial crisis
- Germany: PSG candidate speaks at student demonstration—“Education is a fundamental right!”
2008-01-28
- New York City mayor announces budget cuts
- Beleaguered Pakistani President visits Europe to shore up support for military regime
- Government crisis in Italy
- Iranian government intensifies crackdown on left-wing opposition
- An interview with an Iranian activist on arrests of left-wing students
- Obama wins South Carolina Democratic presidential primary
- Canadian university forces locked-out faculty to vote on “final offer”
- Continuing turbulence on Australian share markets
- 80th Academy Award nominations: a very poor showing
2008-01-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- France: Trader accuses Société Générale of using him as a “smokescreen”
- South Africa hit by power cuts
- UK minister resigns in another funding scandal
- Letters from our readers
- Bush’s last State of the Union speech overshadowed by deepening crisis
- Two more elderly men die alone in Sydney
- British plans to arm Afghan militias reignite tensions with US
2008-01-30
- Once again, the fundamental questions in the writers’ strike
- Government leaders pay tribute to Indonesia’s former dictator Suharto
- Right-wing nationalist leads in Serbian presidential elections
- Filipino nurses face trumped-up charges in New York
- Iraq: US military extends its offensive into the northern city of Mosul
- Indian prime minister’s visit to China seeks to boost bilateral ties, but tensions persist
- US home foreclosures rise by 75 percent in 2007
- German state elections reveal pronounced shift to the left by electorate
2008-01-31
- Professor sentenced for criticising Turkish founder
- US: Fed rate cut fails to stem recession fears
- McCain leads race for Republican presidential nomination after Florida vote
- The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
- UNICEF report: Infant mortality rates still high
- Top West Virginia judge vacations with coal boss defendant
- Heath Ledger dead at 28: a life tragically cut short
- France: Pierre Lambert’s funeral underscores OCI’s long-standing opportunism
- The Australian Labor Party and Indonesia’s dictator Suharto
- An exchange on “Kenya: Social disintegration in country touted as African ‘success’ story”
- Colombian rebel leader sentenced to 60 years over captured contractors
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