Archive: 04/2008
2008-04-01
- Workers struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Postal unions push through attack on pensions
- A crise mundial do capitalismo e as perspectivas do socialismo
- Sobe o preço dos alimentos e aumenta a fome em todo o mundo
- US Treasury plan shields Wall Street speculators
- Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
- Bush housing secretary resigns amid mounting corruption charges
- US-backed assault on Basra ends in humiliation for Maliki government
- Letters from our readers
- South Australian Labor government to slash payments to injured workers
- Canada: By stealth, Ottawa seeks to censor film and television production
- Governor’s budget results in layoff notices for thousands of California teachers
- Video: WSWS at American Axle picket line in Detroit 3/31/08
2008-04-02
- Talks on power handover continue after Zimbabwe elections
- Turkey’s chief prosecutor seeks to ban the ruling AKP
- Independent truckers stage slowdowns, strike in US
- Sri Lankan local polls: a travesty of democracy
- Australia: SBS television’s bogus debate on Northern Territory intervention
- US, Germany clash over NATO expansion plan
- US food stamp use projected to swell to record levels
- Judge temporarily halts Australian terrorist trial over mistreatment of prisoners
- American Axle strike at the crossroads
2008-04-03
- Netherlands: Geert Wilders releases his anti-Islamic film
- Independent truckers stage protests in US
- Actor Paul Scofield (January 21, 1922-March 19, 2008): “I’m an actor because I’m good at it”
- High school drop-out rate in major US cities at nearly 50 percent
- Australian unions seek to accommodate on NSW power privatisation
- Jules Dassin, victim of the anti-communist witch-hunt, dies at 96
- Letters from our readers
- Australian Labor leaders plan “third wave” of free-market measures
- Canadian Auto Workers leaders court financiers
- Congressional Democrats defer to Fed Chairman Bernanke on Wall Street bailout
- American Axle strikers in Buffalo determined to resist wage cuts
- Argentina: Truce in three-week agricultural strike
2008-04-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- United Arab Emirates: Over 600 construction workers arrested after protest
- Goodyear worker in Kansas dies after tasering by police
- Police break up picket line at Philippine port
- Bush snubbed at NATO summit
- 2003 Justice Department memo justifies torture, presidential dictatorship
- Iraqi prime minister pledges new offensives in Basra and Baghdad
- American Axle workers in Detroit determined to resist sellout
- US financial system faced collapse, bank regulators tell Senate hearing on Bear Stearns bailout
- Video: American Axle Strike in Danger
- Reject UAW plans to sell out American Axle strike
2008-04-05
- Election standoff in Zimbabwe: The threat of imperialist intervention
- Sri Lankan president nervously assesses military stalemate
- Northern Ireland: The significance of Paisley’s resignation and Adams’s regret
- New pamphlet from Mehring Books in Australia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US jobless figures: The specter of a new depression
- India: While waving red-flags, the Stalinist CPM lurches further right
- US Senate leaders agree on pro-industry housing bill
- Haiti: Thousands protest over growing hunger
- German public sector pay dispute: Workers need a new political perspective
- France: Political fallout from troop deployment to Afghanistan
- Letters from our readers
- Video: WSWS at American Axle in Cheektowaga, New York
2008-04-07
- Hundreds of homeless forcibly evicted from Southern California refuge
- Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos rechaza la ley internacional y decide en contra de mejicanos bajo pena de muerte
- Romanian autoworkers strike against rock-bottom wages
- Australian court quashes convictions of protesters for entering US spy base
- SEP/ISSE meeting: Which way forward? The American Axle strike and the political issues facing the working class
- Forty years on, some lessons from the life—and death—of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- US congressional hearings on Iraq foreshadow aggressive stance against Iran
- Ten die in western Pennsylvania house fire
- An interview: Filmmaker Jules Dassin, witch-hunting and Hollywood’s blacklists
- Letters on art and culture
- Video: WSWS speaks with American Axle strikers in Detroit
- Conditions of Aboriginal people in Alice Springs and the town camps
2008-04-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Richard Widmark (1914-2008)
- Britain: Tax credit system plunges families into debt
- Rice shortages heighten political crisis in the Philippines
- On eve of Petraeus testimony, US launches raids on Baghdad’s Sadr City
- The Clintons cash in: Wealth and American politics
- UAW president backs “real sacrifices” for American Axle workers
- East Timor: Former PM Alkatiri claims alleged assassination attempt on Xanana Gusmao was faked
2008-04-09
- Iraq war vet: We’ve heard enough from the generals and the politicians
- General Petraeus gives Senate a blueprint for an unending occupation of Iraq
- CAAMA radio interviews WSWS on NT intervention
- Britain: Mortgage drought as economy faces plunge into recession
- Stop-Loss: A serious and moving effort, but what about that three-letter word?
- Israeli minister threatens “destruction of the Iranian nation”
- California teachers protest budget cuts
- US State Department renews contract with Blackwater mercenaries
- American Axle workers denounce UAW concessions offer
2008-04-10
- Senior Sri Lankan minister killed in bomb blast
- Rodchenko: The impact of revolution and counterrevolution
- The dubious politics behind the Beijing Olympics protests
- New Zealand universities shed “non-core” courses
- Congressional hearings set stage for wider war—inside and outside of Iraq
- A political balance sheet of the German train drivers strike
- Letters from our readers
- Despite spreading recession, US CEOs rake in huge pay raises
- US airline chaos: thousands of flights canceled for inspections
2008-04-11
- Zimbabwe: Mugabe government responds to mass opposition with repression
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Anger grows over rising prices in Sri Lanka
- Germany: Bavarian bank hit hard by financial crisis
- Australian government moves to impose further hardship on low-paid
- Egypt: Mass protests over price hikes
- Bush orders Iraq escalation to continue
- Jerry White reports for WSWS from American Axle strike
- UAW makes proposal in American Axle negotiations
2008-04-12
- Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House
- Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton and the corporate domination of the Democratic Party
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italian elections: polls favour Berlusconi comeback
- India: Rising food prices threaten social calamity
- IMF cuts US growth forecast, warns of global slump
- French high school students protest education cuts
- Australia: Families hit by rising bankruptcies and home repossessions
- Letters on the Beijing Olympics protest
- WSWS writer Jerry White speaks on American Axle strike
- American Airlines cancels hundreds more flights
- Adding Machine: Musical version of a 1920s play reverberates in the 21st century
2008-04-14
- Constitutional amendments stoke tensions in Thai ruling circles
- French government slashes public spending
- US media, Clinton assail Obama for “bitter” truth
- Britain: Law Lords reject mothers’ appeal for Iraq war inquiry
- European Court of Justice supports cheap wages and limits the right to strike
- Letters on the American Axle strike
- Losses mount in Chinese export industry
2008-04-15
- Repression in Tibet: the class issues
- Australian Federal Police still pursuing Mohamed Haneef
- Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton y el dominio empresarial del Partido Demócrata
- Service employees union organizes thug attack at Detroit Labor Notes conference
- Five years since the US-led invasion of Iraq
- Court proceedings begin in Texas polygamy sect case
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- May-June 1968—The lessons 40 years on
- Amid mounting food crisis, governments fear revolution of the hungry
- Recession takes hold in US
- Letters on art and culture
- 西藏的镇压: 阶级问题
- Britain: High Court rules government acted unlawfully in stopping BAe-Saudi arms inquiry
- American Axle, UAW continue negotiations over concessions contract
2008-04-16
- Sixty-five years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
- France: Le Monde journalists on strike
- Kosovo: The Hague acquits former PM Haradinaj of war crimes amid alleged witness intimidation
- Collapse of “left” parties enables Berlusconi to win Italian election
- US and Iraqi military continue push into Sadr City
- Notas sobre la crisis político-económica del sistema mundial capitalista: perspectivas y misión del Socialist Equality Party [Partido Socialista por la Igualdad]
- A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs’ pursuit of wealth
- Airline giants Delta and Northwest agree to merger
2008-04-17
- UAW calls off rally, prepares sellout of American Axle strike
- Britain: Science cuts threaten Jodrell Bank radio telescope
- Australian prime minister’s world trip: “a bright new image” for US alliance
- Papua New Guinea government signs $10 billion gas deal with US-Australian consortium
- The Obama “mistake”: Breaking the taboo on discussing class in America
- Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
- US Supreme Court upholds lethal injection, opening way to resumed executions
- In midst of recession, multi-billion-dollar paydays for US hedge fund managers
- Cuban “reforms” promote private property and social inequality
- Letters from our readers
2008-04-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- After election landslide, Nepalese Maoists reassure investors and major powers
- Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
- Second mistrial in Liberty City “terror” case
- Charlton Heston and postwar American filmmaking
- German business leaders and politicians denounce pension increase
- Obama-Clinton debate: A whiff of McCarthyism as media pushes Democratic campaign to the right
- Video: WSWS reporting from American Axle strike in Detroit
- UAW sellout of American Axle strike imminent
- “Big Boy” Canada demands changes in Afghan government
2008-04-19
- German SPD opens the door for rail privatisation
- Pakistan: Textile workers’ protests convulse Multan
- France: Strikes continue at Le Monde
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- As losses mount, US banks cut thousands of jobs
- IMF and OECD: Europe will be hit hard by US recession
- Letters from our readers
- Hugo Claus 1929-2008: “Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth at the injustice of things”
- Australia: Fears of job losses grow amid signs of slowing economy
2008-04-21
- Australian Labor government’s “2020 summit”: more political spin to package right-wing agenda
- US: Largest student lenders halt private, consolidation loan programs
- The pope’s US visit: Media, White House, Congress embrace spokesman for religious obscurantism
- US military tightens siege of Sadr City as cleric warns of war
- Housing slump hits Spain
- Censorship in Troy, New York: an interview with Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal
- Video: UAW officials try intimidation at American Axle meeting
- Despite UAW wage-cut offers, no agreement yet in American Axle strike
2008-04-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Supreme Court denies 11 death penalty appeals, states prepare to resume executions
- Sri Lanka: Acrimonious feuding inside JVP as party’s support slides
- Western Pennsylvania workers speak on struggling economy
- The global implications of the US banking collapse
- Rice, US generals signal stepped-up bloodletting in Iraq
- British government lied about 2007 Persian Gulf naval incident
- Behind the US stock market rally
- Dark clouds gather over Australian economy
- Letters from our readers
2008-04-23
- Australia: Rudd Labor government suppresses documents on 1998 waterfront dispute
- Britain’s teachers and civil servants to take one-day strike action
- Clinton extends Democratic presidential contest with victory in Pennsylvania primary
- Paraguay: Election ends six decades of one-party rule
- At least 14 Haitian migrants drowned off the coast of the Bahamas
- Israel escalates offensive against Palestinians with Egypt’s assistance
- Body of War: a wounded veteran and, disgracefully, a defense of the Democrats
2008-04-24
- Berlin referendum directed against the Senate
- Colombia’s President Uribe implicated in paramilitary death squad probe
- Australia: Latest “terror plot” claims unravel in court
- US student held in solitary confinement on terrorism charges
- Detroit-area school districts vote to privatize support staff
- Under the Same Moon: Something lost en route
- Life expectancy declines for women in Southern US counties: a consequence of widening inequality
- Middle Eastern regimes line up behind US military crackdown in Baghdad and Basra
- Hillary Clinton threatens to “obliterate” Iran
- Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger
- What does the hunger strike by Belfast shop stewards say about the trade unions?
- Appeal to working class, not corporate shareholders, to back American Axle strike
- American Axle strikers rally outside shareholders' meeting
2008-04-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- France: Union reforms highlight Sarkozy-CGT alliance
- US-backed crackdown in Basra paves way for opening up Iraq’s oil and gas
- Maoists emerge as largest parliamentary bloc in Nepal
- How the Pentagon manipulated the media to promote the Iraq war
- The collapse of Rifondazione Comunista in Italy
- French immigration policy and the death of Baba Traoré
- Global food crisis grips Latin America
- Detroit schools to be “reconstituted,” as calls for privatization increase
- UK, Birmingham City Council workers strike in “Single Status” dispute
- Detroit: American Axle workers hold protest amidst heavy police presence
2008-04-26
- US: Emails suggest Veterans Administration cover-up of suicide rate
- Britain: Size of teachers’ strike exceeds predictions
- French school students maintain protests against Sarkozy’s education reforms
- May Day 2008: Capitalism, socialism and the working class
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Siege continues in Iraq as US escalates threats against Iran
- Hamburg: First-ever state coalition between Greens and the CDU
- The Pennsylvania primary and the crisis of the Democratic Party
- Australia: Inflation soars and thousands more face losing their homes
- Letters from our readers
- The Sean Bell verdict—assuring that New York City’s police can kill with impunity
- British government commits taxpayers to bailing out the banks
2008-04-28
- Germany: The SPD’s bogus minimum wage campaign
- US intelligence on Syrian reactor: justifying last year’s crime to prepare for new ones
- SEP/ISSE May Day meeting in Colombo
- Spain’s “water wars”: A scramble for essential resources
- Britain: Scottish refinery workers strike
- Sarkozy television interview seeks to reassure French corporate elite
- Toronto Transit workers forced back to work by strike-breaking law
2008-04-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan soldiers and families speak to the WSWS
- Sri Lankan army suffers a debacle as a northern offensive collapses
- Obama vows to back Bush’s war commander
- BBC documentary reveals government reckless in drive for nuclear weapons
- Nearly 1000 unmarked graves discovered in Indian-occupied Kashmir
- US Supreme Court upholds anti-democratic voter ID law
- Letters from our readers
- Verdi union sabotages Berlin transport workers’ strike
- Anti-Karzai attack in Kabul shakes US puppet government
2008-04-30
- Another Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan
- US escalates siege in Baghdad’s Sadr City
- Strike wave continues in Romania
- New Zealand appliance manufacturer closes plants in three countries
- As gas prices and oil profits soar, Bush promotes giveaways to corporations
- CAW agrees to massive concessions with Ford Canada
- Tensions mount as American Axle strike enters 10th week
- A political balance sheet of the battle at American Axle
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