Archive: 02/2008
2008-02-01
- Top West Virginia judge vacations with coal boss appealing legal verdict
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- British-Iraqi survey confirms one million deaths as a result of US invasion
- The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
- Malaysian police crack down on protest over price rises
- More signs of US recession as jobless claims jump
- Bush rejects congressional ban on permanent bases in Iraq
- France: Attali report calls for free-market reforms
- Five more Republicans join exodus from House of Representatives
- Snowstorms and blackouts create chaos in China
2008-02-02
- Why the writers’ strike never came up in the Democrats’ Los Angeles debate
- US: 17,000 jobs lost in January
- New Solomon Islands prime minister kowtows to Canberra
- Mounting calls from Pakistan’s military and judicial establishments for Musharraf to quit
- As layoffs and prices rise, Big Oil posts record profits
- The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UN secretary-general arrives in Kenya in attempt to restart talks
- Corporate America honors US auto union president
- Britain: Rising fuel prices blight millions
2008-02-04
- Sri Lankan independence: 60 years of communalism, social decay and war
- US political establishment lines up behind Barack Obama
- The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
- Letters opposing the arrest of Iranian students
- Juno: an “apolitical” film about teen pregnancy
- France: Mass demonstrations against social austerity plans
- Britain: Arts Council confirms cuts
- Australian police chief calls for media blackout on terrorism cases
2008-02-05
- Grave dangers in the film and television writers strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Europe: Nokia unions side with management
- The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
- WSWS speaks to striking writers
- On eve of “Super Tuesday” primaries, Wall Street casts the money ballot
- Letters from our readers
- Hawaii climate change summit ends without agreement on emission cuts
- Bush budget: programs slashed to pay for tax cuts and war
- US blocks scientific report on Arctic environment
- Ahead of NATO meeting: New US reports warn of failure in Afghanistan
2008-02-06
- There Will Be Blood: a promising subject, but terribly weak results
- Suicide bombing at crowded station in Sri Lankan capital
- Spain: Catholic Church renews offensive against abortion rights
- “Super Tuesday” primaries leave Democratic presidential contest unresolved
- US military admits to a dozen civilian deaths in Iraq
- France: Thousands of retail workers strike for better wages and conditions
- Joschka Fischer demands German combat troops be sent to southern Afghanistan
- Decline in US service industries heightens recession fears, sparks stock sell-off
- Letters from our readers
- China enacts new labour law amid rising discontent
2008-02-07
- Mounting social distress among returning US troops
- After “Super Tuesday,” dead heat in contest for Democratic presidential nomination
- Bush administration acknowledges and defends use of torture technique
- Tornadoes kill at least 54 in Southern US states
- New Thai government installed, but army hovers in the political background
- Serbian government faces collapse following presidential election
- A socialist perspective for film and television writers
- Turkish military again strikes Kurdish areas in northern Iraq
- Berlin transport workers strike
2008-02-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Turkey: Amnesty International documents attacks on democratic rights
- Mitsubishi axes its last Australian car plant
- British Army accused of “off the scale” abuses in southern Iraq
- Slumping sales signal US recession; slowdown spreads to Europe
- Chinese leaders react nervously to ongoing “snow havoc”
- Hitler’s “intelligible response” to the contradictions of global capitalism
2008-02-09
- Film and television writers should reject the contract deal
- US attorney general rejects investigation into use of waterboarding
- Democrats overwhelmingly vote to pass Bush’s economic stimulus bill
- Communalism and militarism on display at Sri Lanka’s independence day celebrations
- Romney withdraws, ensuring McCain the Republican presidential nomination
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Striking writer speaks to the WSWS
- German train drivers oppose contract deal
- US: Six dead, dozens injured in Georgia sugar plant explosion
- Canada’s Conservative government threatens Afghan war election
- Rice and Miliband visit Afghanistan as US demands more European troops
2008-02-11
- US film and television writers to vote on end to strike
- Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America
- Tricom breakdown exposes fragility of Australian share market
- The Savages: Throwing away the aged
- Iraqi parliament in turmoil as sectarian rivalries flare
- Chad regime survives rebel attack on capital
- Britain: Labour government minister bugged by police
- Eddie Benjamin: January 2, 1953—February 5, 2008
2008-02-12
- US: 2,600 strike Volvo Trucks in Dublin, Virginia
- International condolences and tributes to Eddie Benjamin
- Spanish economy dominates election
- Australian federal parliament’s “sorry” resolution: the real agenda
- Clinton campaign in crisis after Obama sweeps five weekend contests
- Elections called in Italy
- West Bengal’s Left Front government presides over another police massacre
- Germany: Nine Turkish immigrants die in house fire
- US to hold 9/11 show trial at Guantánamo
2008-02-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Victorian teachers face fight with Labor governments over pay and conditions
- Recent tornadoes in the Southern US: both a natural and social disaster
- A very strange “coup attempt” in East Timor
- Australian Prime Minister apologises to “stolen generation”: rhetoric versus reality
- British government widens police stop-and-search powers
- NATO security conference: US demands more European troops in Afghanistan
- 30 years since Sydney’s Hilton Hotel bombing—the unanswered questions
- Obama sweeps Potomac primaries, deepening Clinton’s crisis
- The Great Debaters: An enlightened struggle against racial oppression during the Depression
- Connecticut, US: local police deputized to pursue immigrants
- Militarism, hypocrisy, and the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton speaks to students in San Diego
2008-02-14
- US writers vote to end 100-day strike
- The Death of Margaret Thatcher—a play by Tom Green
- The two faces of Barack Obama
- ISSE meetings in Britain to mark fifth anniversary of US-led invasion of Iraq
- Demonstration in New York to protest arrest of Iranian students
- Australia: “Stolen generations” speak out in Canberra
- Bush administration, banks announce another token measure on home foreclosures
- An exchange on the result of the election in Hesse, Germany
- US Defense Secretary sides with military opposition to troop drawdown in Iraq
- Congress moves toward expanding government spying, with immunity for telecoms
- Letters from our readers
2008-02-15
- WSWS arts editor speaks in Los Angeles on implications of screen writers’ strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan government proposes phony solution to communal conflict
- The “circularity” of hope: The Nation endorses Barack Obama
- Australia: Press blacks out Aboriginal protest over Northern Territory intervention
- Australia: Prime Minister Rudd backs NSW state power sell-off in face of growing opposition
- French housing report exposes government inaction
- Germany’s Left Party woos the SPD
- GM offers buyouts to entire US hourly workforce
- After the Gaza breakout: Israel launches sustained hostilities
- Congress grills baseball star Roger Clemens
- Canada’s Liberals rally behind plan to expand Canadian role in Afghan War
2008-02-16
- Canada: Fredericton ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
- Six dead after yet another US school shooting
- Bush approves shoot-down of satellite by Navy missile cruiser
- Britain again comes to Musharraf’s aid
- Britain’s foreign secretary urges no retreat on imperialist militarism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ahmadinejad under fire in lead up to Iran’s parliamentary election
- France: Sarkozy wins vote on EU treaty with help of Socialist Party
- Bush defends torture
2008-02-18
- Needs outstrip military health services for returning US veterans
- Washington returns to business as usual with Thai military
- New details on gunman in US university shooting
- Australia: Unions collaborate with Qantas to slash wages and conditions
- Pakistan’s military regime stages sham election
- Kosovo’s declaration of independence destabilises Europe
- Obama, Clinton admit primaries may not settle nomination fight
- ISSE demonstrates in New York to demand release of jailed Iranian students
- The impact of the credit crunch on British workers
2008-02-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- East Timor: Official “assassination” claims collapse
- Australia: Labor “rank and file” meeting—no perspective to fight electricity privatisation
- A shot across the bow against Barack Obama
- Deep divisions in Europe over Kosovo independence
- French municipal elections expose crisis of the political establishment
- Germany: Turkish prime minister incurs wrath of politicians and the media
- US: Cities, education funds, transport authorities hit by credit crisis
- ISSE demonstration to free Iranian students calls for international unity of workers
- Largest beef recall in US history reveals compromised food supply
2008-02-20
- Obama defeats Clinton by wide margin in Wisconsin primary
- Pakistanis overwhelmingly reject US-backed strongman Musharraf
- US Supreme Court refuses to hear case against warrantless wiretapping
- The case of Kosovo: “Self-determination” as an instrument of imperialist policy
- Detroit: highest home foreclosure rate in US
- France: Massive police raid on Villiers-le-Bel
- Fidel Castro retires as Cuban president after 49 years in power
- Sino-Australian relations complicated by BHP’s attempted merger with Rio Tinto
- Spain: Government tries to ban Basque separatist parties from election
- After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War
2008-02-21
- An exchange on the break-up of Yugoslavia
- Works by Trevor Griffiths
- US Supreme Court Justice Scalia defends torture
- Risk of cholera multiplied by sewage collapse in Baghdad
- Obama’s Texas speech: Populist appeals with reassurances to big business
- Germany: Union and works council announce final shutdown of Nokia factory
- Iraq: US occupation faces crisis of its own making
- An interview with playwright Trevor Griffiths
- Trevor Griffiths’ These are the Times: a Life of Thomas Paine
- France: Marseilles retail strike called off after two weeks
- Letters from our readers
2008-02-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan government plans sham local elections in eastern Batticaloa
- Serbs protesting Kosovo independence attack US embassy in Belgrade
- UK government nationalises Northern Rock
- In Texas debate, Obama counters Clinton attack by asserting his readiness to use military force
- US satellite strike escalates military space race
- An exchange on Australia’s “Sorry Day”
- Czech Republic: Mudslinging dominates presidential election
- Canada’s Chalk River nuclear crisis: “market planning” produces a fiasco
- Kosovo “independence” brings new uncertainties in Asia
2008-02-23
- Tax evasion in Germany and the campaign for “moral leadership”
- Turkish jobless rate increases dramatically
- Pakistan’s leading opposition parties to form national coalition government
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Turkish troops invade northern Iraq
- Indian high court bolsters press censorship on TV, Internet
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: government targets child asylum seekers
- Attacks announce insurgent “spring offensive” in Afghanistan
2008-02-25
2008-02-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Federal Reserve downgrades economic growth forecast for 2008
- The 80th Annual Academy Awards: A mostly routine affair
- Malaysia to go to polls one year early
- Germany’s role in the secession of Kosovo
- Public meeting in Paris: Twentieth anniversary of the death of Trotskyist leader Keerthi Balasuriya
- US auto union leader Douglas Fraser dead at 91
- Australia: Victorian teachers’ union blocks discussion on strategy to oppose government attacks
- Letters from our readers
- Some alarm signals in contemporary film
- Berkeley City Council caves on anti-recruiting resolution
- Bush’s Africa tour: US seeks to counter growing Chinese influence
2008-02-27
- Sweden: Economic turmoil hits privatisation drive
- Former Prime Minister de Villepin signs appeal directed against French President Sarkozy
- Australia: Power workers oppose NSW Labor government’s privatisation bid
- The New York Times and the 2008 elections: What the McCain “exposé” reveals
- US Senator Carl Levin speaks on torture at the University of Michigan
- Kosovo independence fuels regionalist divisions in Spain
- A superficial analysis of global capitalism—Part 1
- US military announces 10,000 more post-“surge” troops in Iraq
- Germany: Unemployed man starves himself to death
- Mining firms impose huge price hike on Chinese steelmakers: a sign of global inflation
- Video: WSWS Interviews Striking American Axle Workers
- American Axle workers strike against massive wage cut
2008-02-28
- US district court judge orders shutdown of whistleblower web site
- Siemens axes 7,000 jobs worldwide
- Reader’s letter on the closure of the Nokia factory in Bochum, Germany
- Obama, Clinton debate in Ohio: What accounts for the bitter struggle within the Democratic Party?
- Australia: State Labor government moves to dismantle public school staffing system
- A superficial analysis of global capitalism—Part 2
- Germany: CDU woos the Greens in Hamburg state election
- Denmark’s media mount a provocation by reprinting Mohammed cartoons
2008-02-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Brutal police attack on striking shipyard workers
- Turkey rejects timetable to end invasion of northern Iraq
- Marine exercise in Toledo, Ohio: an attack on democratic rights
- Sri Lanka: Escalating war fuels rising prices
- Kosovan independence could ignite new conflicts in territories of former Soviet Union
- UK: Unions prepare to sell out jobs fight at Rolls-Royce
- US leads world in imprisoning its people
- Lust, Caution: political intrigue in Japanese-occupied China
- Bush renews demands for telecom immunity as Democrats seek compromise on spy bill
- Video: WSWS speaks to striking auto workers in Detroit
- American Axle strikers defy UAW wage-cutting pattern
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