Archive: 03/2008
2008-03-01
- Economist estimates cost of Iraq war to exceed $3 trillion
- Washington deploys warships off the coast of Lebanon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “Independent” Kosovo: Anatomy of a Western protectorate
- Librarians and archivists demand US return of stolen Iraqi documents
- East Timorese government steps up repression in aftermath of alleged “coup attempt”
- US stocks plunge following Fed Chairman Bernanke’s testimony before Congress
- BMW axes 8,100 jobs to increase profits
- Beowulf: tenuous relationship between movie and poem
2008-03-03
- Commemoration of the first anniversary of the death of Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee held in Paris.
- Puerto Rico: Teachers battle unionbusting
- Britain’s media fashions its “warrior prince”
- Germany: What lies behind the attempts to ostracise the Left Party?
- Israel mounts bloody offensive against Gaza
- Poisoned dumplings incident reveals fragility of Sino-Japanese relations
- Letters on review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
- Australian Federal Police commissioner reveals scale of Haneef frame-up
2008-03-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US missile strike kills women and children in Somalia
- Germany: SPD state minister berates welfare recipients
- Putin-Medvedev tandem wins presidential election in Russia
- Britain: Labour government gags “extraordinary renditions” whistleblower
- US: Student loans costs to rise from credit crisis
- Turkey hails Iraq incursion as success
- Egypt: Strike wave throughout public and private sector
- Letters from our readers
- Australian government extends welfare “quarantining” and land grab
- American Axle strike enters second week
2008-03-05
- Pakistani regime ban of YouTube highlights threat to free Internet
- Australia: Rudd government demands wage “restraint”
- US-backed border massacre brings South America to brink of war
- New Jersey Governor demands draconian budget cuts
- France: LCR congress decides to found new party
- Washington pushes through new UN resolution against Iran
- Oil-linked inflation destabilizes Africa, Middle East
- French lead European Union force to Chad/Sudan border
- William F. Buckley, longtime propagandist for US ultra-right, dies at 82
- Katyn—The political agenda of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda
- UAW offered wage cuts on eve of American Axle strike
2008-03-06
- Bank drops lawsuit against Wikileaks
- Sri Lankan military bogged down in northern offensives against the LTTE
- Spain: United Left splits as it lurches further right
- Clinton victories in Ohio, Texas intensify divisions in Democratic Party
- An interview with Richard Pare, co-author and photographer of The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932
- Malaysians due to vote after stunted 13-day election campaign
- Iraq: Civilian casualties spike in February
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: Liberals and Conservatives join forces to extend intervention in Afghan war
- Berlin transit workers go on strike
2008-03-07
- America’s “Fortunate 400” control vast wealth
- ZTE-NBN scandal triggers political crisis in the Philippines
- US steps up pressure on India to wrap-up Indo-US nuclear treaty
- Australia: NSW Labor embroiled in corruption scandal
- Striking Berlin transit workers speak out
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Demonstration and meeting in Sri Lanka to protest prosecution of Iranian students
- Latin American crisis triggered by an assassination “Made in the USA”
- Drive mounts for US government bailout of banks
- South Africa and the global economic downturn
2008-03-08
- US plot to overthrow elected Palestinian government exposed
- Political instability and social struggles will follow Spain’s general election
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US: 63,000 jobs lost as economy continues downslide
- The ramifications of Ahmadinejad’s visit to Iraq
- Germany: Public service workers strike
- Democratic politicians rage against US Air Force contract with Airbus
2008-03-10
- US plot to overthrow elected Palestinian government exposed
- Lengthy terrorist trials underway in Australia
- Reactionary musings from the Island on 60 years of Sri Lankan independence
- France: political crisis destabilizes Sarkozy
- A scholar’s upside down pyramid scheme: Peter Gay’s Modernism
- Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
- Democrats win congressional seat of former House Speaker Hastert
- Germany: Public sector strike needs a new political perspective
- Bush vetoes bill outlawing torture techniques
- Clinton’s national security campaign and Obama’s political dilemma
- Impact of American Axle strike spreads
2008-03-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Iraqi president visits Ankara in wake of Turkish incursion
- New York City Democratic politician and “labor” leader pleads guilty to corruption charges
- Massive NSA operation exposed as Congress prepares vote on domestic spying bill
- Mexico: López Obrador may lose control of PRD to “new left” faction
- Government election losses in Malaysia signal eruption of deep political crisis
- Five US soldiers killed in Baghdad
- English primary education criticised in report
- Correspondence on the impact of the credit crunch
- Reject UAW plans to sabotage American Axle strike!
2008-03-12
- Politically directed dragnet snares New York Governor Spitzer
- Spain: Socialist Party wins a second term in government
- Australian prime minister undertakes tactical shift in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
- Instability continues in Pakistan following formation of coalition government
- Australia: Unions rubber-stamp Mitsubishi closure
- Be Kind Rewind: Fast forward to Michel Gondry’s utopia
- Violence still threatens after Kenyan peace deal
- France considers sending more troops to Afghanistan
- US food prices increase sharply
- China’s National Peoples Congress haunted by the spectre of social unrest
- Bitter strike by American Axle workers enters third week
- Austrian grand coalition in crisis
2008-03-13
- Sri Lankan paramilitary leader convicted in Britain
- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer forced to resign in sex scandal
- French municipal elections: A setback for President Sarkozy
- Australia: Unions rubber-stamp Mitsubishi closure
- Germany: Roland Koch remains prime minister in Hesse
- Northern Ireland: More evidence of MI5’s network of informers and provocateurs in the IRA
- Tensions between France and Germany intensify over foreign and economic policy
- US Federal Reserve injects $200 billion into credit markets to avert financial meltdown
- Top US commander in Middle East quits over Iran war report
- Letters from our readers
- Australian PM marks first 100 days as Murdoch demands “stiff dose of Brutopia”
2008-03-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lanka: ISSE demonstration demands the release of jailed Iranian students
- Democratic Party divisions deepen as Obama parades military support
- London Mayoral elections: Labour’s neo-cons and the left apologists for Ken Livingstone—Part One
- Left Party attacks striking transport workers in Berlin
- Iranians vote amid concern about US aggression and falling living standards
- Guantánamo prisoner refuses to cooperate with military show trial
- Australia: Rudd government rejects emission targets in official climate change report
- Gold and oil prices soar, dollar slumps, Carlyle Group fund collapses
- Letters on the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
- American Axle workers in Detroit discuss political issues in strike
- Arrests on American Axle picket line in Detroit
- Afghan medical workers’ strike called off
2008-03-15
- SEP general secretary pays tribute to Keerthi Balasuriya
- Canada: Montreal ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
- Iran, Pakistan to hold pricing talks on gas pipeline
- London Mayoral elections: Labour’s neo-cons and the left apologists for Ken Livingstone—Part Two
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India: Congress Party delivers “populist” budget with a view to coming elections
- House Democrats pass new spy bill without telecom immunity
- Fed rescue of Bear Stearns raises specter of Depression-era crash
- Police arrest auto workers on American Axle picket line in Detroit
- After severe winter, floods threaten Afghanistan and Central Asia
2008-03-17
- Despite a nervous “backflip”, Australian government plans deep welfare cuts
- France: LCR leader Daniel Bensaïd reassures Socialist Party of his collaboration
- Italy: parties shift to the right as election campaign begins
- Clashes and tensions in southern Iraq
- New York City crane collapse kills at least four
- Letters on the American Axle strike
- Rising costs throw Chinese manufacturing into crisis
- Brazil’s ruling Workers Party pays homage to Pierre Lambert for services rendered
- After the Bear Stearns bailout: Fears of more Wall Street failures
- Video: American Axle Strikers in Detroit Defy Wage-Cut Demands
2008-03-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US truck drivers squeezed by soaring diesel prices
- In face of New York City school cuts: a new strategy needed to defend public education
- French local elections reveal discrediting of political establishment
- British mercenary confesses role in Equatorial Guinea coup plot
- Outcome of Iranian election points to simmering popular discontent
- GDL union completes sell-out of German train drivers’ struggle
- Shades of 1929: Bear Stearns collapse signals deepest crisis since Great Depression
- Two new “cover albums”: Shelby Lynne’s Just a Little Lovin’ and Cat Power’s Jukebox
2008-03-19
- China cracks down on Tibetan protests
- España: El gobierno intenta prohibir la asistencia de los partidos separatistas vascos a las elecciones.
- Another US strike inside Pakistan’s border region
- Five years after the invasion of Iraq: A debacle for US imperialism
- Iraq: a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic dimensions
- CIA transfers another detainee from secret prison system to Guantánamo
- US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates again
- Taxi to the Dark Side: Murder of young Afghan driver exposes US torture policies
- In Bruges: neither especially fresh nor insightful
- The “White Season”: The British Broadcasting Corporation’s Pim Fortuyn moment
2008-03-20
- Verdi trade union prepares sell-out of Berlin transport strike
- Alan Thornett’s denunciation of Trotskyism
- The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
- Nuance and depth needed: Persepolis
- Race, class and the politics of the Obama campaign
- Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
- España: Izquierda Unida se escinde a la vez que deriva más hacia la derecha.
- On Iraq war’s fifth anniversary, Bush says US troops must stay
- Mobilize auto workers behind the American Axle strike
- Asian economies hit by US financial crisis and slowdown
2008-03-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Alan Thornett’s denunciation of Trotskyism
- Relations with China dominate Taiwanese presidential election
- Britain: ISSE holds meetings on the fifth anniversary of Iraq war
- “We have a house, but we are very poor”
- Housing stress at record levels in Australia
- Widespread flooding hits the US Midwest
- Letters from our readers
- Cheney’s “peace” trip to Middle East prepares new wars
- A letter on the “Cool/Cruel Britannia” trend
- American Axle strikers in Detroit determined to halt wage-cutting
2008-03-22
- Workers protest rising prices in UAE, Egypt
- Bush administration illegally examined Obama passport file
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush, McCain “gaffes” on Iran echo Iraq war lies
- American painter Edward Hopper in Chicago
- Germany: The shrinking middle class and the rise of inequality
- Australia: teachers continue strike action against Victorian Labor government
- Recessionary trends deepen, sparking gyrations on stock, commodities markets
- Canada’s Liberals support war and social reaction
- Video: American Axle and Chrysler workers in Detroit speak out
2008-03-24
- NY Times article questions official explanation of sex probe that forced New York governor to resign
- US steps in to prevent collapse of gas pipeline project
- New Zealand economy sliding into recession
- Eight US soldiers and dozens of Iraqis killed in weekend violence
- Young Guantánamo detainee details abuse
- Documentary producer Eva Orner speaks with WSWS
- Taxi to the Dark Side: Murder of young Afghan driver exposes US torture policies
2008-03-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan ISSE meeting to demand release of jailed Iranian students
- ISSE in US supports Sri Lankan demonstration
- New York’s premier library to be renamed for billionaire Wall Street speculator
- The Kite Runner: the Afghan tragedy goes unexplained
- Paris meeting commemorates the life and work of Keerthi Balasuriya
- Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
- White House signals continued Iraq escalation as US death toll tops 4,000
- Britain: Labour makes massive cuts in higher education
- Germany: Turkish youth dies in police custody
- Detroit mayor charged on eight criminal counts
- Letters from our readers
- Pay for American Axle CEO rises to $10.2 million
- Former Australian prime minister feted by US Republican right
2008-03-26
- US Supreme Court rejects international law, ruling against Mexicans on death row
- Ex-SLA member Sara Jane Olson returned to prison
- Brown government promotes patriotism and militarism
- Social inequality leads to gap in US life expectancy
- Canada: Kingston, Ontario, ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
- Iraqi regime launches assault on Basra
- Australia: Haneef inquiry seeks to “restore confidence” in terror laws
- Home prices, consumer confidence plunge in US
- Cheney’s tour of Middle East raises tensions with Iran
- Letter from a Brazilian teacher
- Blackwater abandons plans for California training camp
- Video: The WSWS reports from the American Axle strike in Detroit
2008-03-27
- The Kuomintang returns to power in Taiwan
- El bloqueo de China de un portaaviones de EE.UU. destaca las tensiones navales en el Pacífico
- US-Pakistan ties fray, as Washington seeks to bully new government
- Australia: National Union of Students promotes illusions in new Labor government
- Washington again forecasts ruin for Medicare and Social Security
- Britain: Police want children routinely put on DNA database
- Richard Dauch and the aristocratic principle in America
- Letters from our readers
- Boeing challenges refueling contract to Airbus
- US: Hundreds of aging American Airlines planes grounded for inspection
2008-03-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sri Lankan government deploys military to suppress striking television workers
- US shipped fuses for nuclear-armed missiles to Taiwan
- Australia: Federal and NT Labor governments expand punitive measures in Aboriginal communities
- Iraqi government offensive in Basra threatens to trigger Shiite uprising
- Strike wave continues in Greece
- More Funny Games from Michael Haneke
- Ecuador: deepening crisis, floods trigger surge of inflation
- Why the Clintons’ profiting off near-slavery is not a campaign issue
- Video: WSWS reports from American Axle strike in Detroit
2008-03-29
- US: Returning veterans face mounting joblessness and low wages
- American Axle strikers in Detroit respond to plant closing threats
- Philippine president accused of “treason” over Spratlys deal with China
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US: Death sentence postponed for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
- India: Stalinist CPM’s triennial meeting to reiterate support for Congress Party-led government
- Global food prices rise and famine increases
- Letters from our readers
- American Axle CEO Richard Dauch and the “right” of private property
- Clinton, Obama, McCain defer to Wall Street
- The sieges of Basra and Sadr City: another US war crime in Iraq
- Snow Angels: Unnecessarily slight insight into a dreary world
2008-03-31
- Sarkozy strives to establish French-British axis
- Writer David Mamet: Man overboard
- Repeated US air strikes in Basra and Baghdad
- Britain: As Basra burns, Iraq inquiry call supported by just 12 Labour MPs
- Charges dropped against third Marine in Haditha massacre case
- Australia: Murdoch-sponsored conference outlines “new agenda” for Rudd government
- Behind the California nurses’ strike: putting profits ahead of patient needs
- American Axle moves to hire strikebreakers
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