Archive: 05/2008
2008-05-01
- Somalia: Scores dead as Ethiopian troops push further into Mogadishu
- France: CGT union betrays port workers’ strike
- Pakistan’s new coalition government close to breakup
- Obama repudiates Reverend Wright in bid for support from the political establishment
- A barrage of US threats against Iran
- Australia: Haneef “terrorism” inquiry to be conducted behind closed doors
- France: Thousands of high school students protest cuts in education
- US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates as housing slump, recession deepen
- Letters from our readers
2008-05-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- San Diego State University ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
- Health care strikes in Scandinavia
- France: Undocumented immigrants strike wins support
- Japan: By-election defeat points to growing crisis of Fukuda government
- Five years after “mission accomplished,” sharp rise in Iraqi and US casualties
- WSWS interviews victimized North Carolina Freightliner workers
- New French labour law attacks workers’ rights
- Agricultural corporations boast huge profits in midst of food crisis
- East Timor: Plot thickens as leader of alleged “coup” attempt surrenders
- US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war
2008-05-03
- La caída de la vivienda golpea a España
- Former fascist elected mayor of Rome
- Tens of thousands march against immigration raids in the US
- London Olympics terror threat used to vastly increase surveillance powers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US payrolls shrank by 20,000 jobs in April
- The California budget and the crisis of public education
- Letters from our readers
- Another political show trial in Baghdad: Tariq Aziz charged with genocide
- UAW preparing agreement to slash American Axle workers’ wages, close plants
2008-05-05
- Turkey: May Day demonstration in Istanbul brutally suppressed
- Democrats win Republican House seat in Louisiana special election
- Australia: NSW Labor Premier prepares to privatise electricity despite party conference defeat
- Hospital struck as US military tightens siege of Baghdad’s Sadr City
- Montreal: Establishment calls for increased police powers after mini-riot
- Journalist released from Guantánamo details abuse
- France: Government, unions prepare large-scale pension cut
- Democratic candidates agree on expanded US military aggression in the Middle East
2008-05-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP/ISSE holds May Day meeting in Colombo
- Australia: Unions use anti-privatisation rally as leverage for negotiations with Labor government
- New York Times exposé on immigrant deaths in custody
- Lawyer speaks to WSWS: “David Hicks was a pawn in a political process”
- Leatherheads: A failed comedy, and a talent at war with itself
- Undocumented workers occupy CGT union hall in Paris
- Former prosecutor testifies that Guantánamo military commissions are show trials
- Former German president urges no let-up in right-wing agenda
- Bush, Democrats seek to fund Iraq war into next administration
- Letters from our readers
2008-05-07
- Obama builds lead over Clinton after North Carolina, Indiana primaries
- US Navy resurrects Fourth Fleet to police Latin America
- Mexico: Election dispute threatens breakup of PRD
- Hungarian ruling coalition collapses
- Georgia inmate put to death, ending seven-month halt to US executions
- Britain: Labour’s electoral meltdown continues to worsen
- The EU strengthens “Fortress Europe” against migration due to climate change
- Bush administration moves to exploit Burma cyclone disaster
- A new Asian disaster: Cyclone kills tens of thousands in Burma
- Fighting intensifies across Afghanistan
2008-05-08
- Verdi agrees to sell-out in Berlin transport workers strike
- The Price of Sugar: Horrifying conditions exposed—and a legal counterattack
- Amnesty International denounces war crimes by US-backed forces in Somalia
- Guantánamo judge rules Omar Khadr, arrested at 15, can be tried as war criminal
- SEP meeting in New York City
- Deep unease as Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary
- Australia: NSW Labor MPs unanimously endorse premier’s defiance of anti-privatisation vote
- Letters from our readers
- Major train crash causes anger in China
- Death toll in Burma rises, as major powers press to intervene
- Wage-cutting in the US auto parts industry: The background to the American Axle strike
2008-05-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US congressional hearings expose stonewalling on veteran suicide data
- Toronto Transit workers threatened with loss of right to strike
- Qantas chief threatens “showdown" with workers over pay
- Mildred Loving, civil rights-era pioneer, dies at 68
- Lebanon on brink of civil war
- House of Representatives passes Democratic home mortgage bill backed by the Fed and banking industry
- Battle for Haditha: A remarkable film about the Iraq war
- 1968: The lessons for today
- Bush speech on Latin America—defense of a failed policy
2008-05-10
- Part 1: Some interesting films from newer directors
- Germany: Verdi blocks postal strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Russia and Georgia on the brink of armed conflict over Abkhazia
- Tensions rise in Democratic contest as Obama nears nomination
- Unprecedented opposition to CAW’s concession-filled deal with Ford Canada
- Why the propaganda campaign for international intervention in Burma?
- Britain: Welfare Reform Act to force sick and vulnerable into work
- GM offers $200 million in bid to end American Axle strike
- Australia: Teachers’ union moves to shut down industrial campaign
2008-05-12
- Mary Tillman denounces cover-up of son’s “friendly fire” killing in Afghanistan
- Sombras del 1929: las repercusiones mundiales del colapso del sistema bancario de Estados Unidos
- Lebanon: Hezbollah makes show of strength against Siniora government
- ISSE meeting in Delaware: The financial crisis and the threat of another Great Depression
- Iraq: Agreement struck to end fighting in Sadr City
- US environmental regulatory official forced out after dispute with Dow Chemical
- Letters from our readers
- Cyclone disaster worsens in Burma
2008-05-13
- Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai agrees to second round of elections
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Utah mine officials lied to federal agency before Crandall Canyon disaster
- More than 20 killed as tornadoes strike the southern US
- Sombras del 1929: las repercusiones mundiales del colapso del sistema bancario de Estados Unidos
- New Zealand student debt levels reach $10 billion mark
- Malaysia’s ruling coalition rattled after election debacle
- Germany: From union boss to company executive—the case of Norbert Hansen
- Congressional Democrats plan three-stage charade to pass Iraq war funds
- Massive earthquake in China kills at least 10,000
- American Axle threatens additional plant closure
2008-05-14
- The tsunami in Sri Lanka: A case study in US humanitarian missions
- Part 2: Dramas about poverty and war
- Britain’s rich get richer even as recession begins to bite
- US: Nearly 400 immigrant workers arrested in slaughterhouse raid
- Defend public education against Sarkozy’s cuts!
- Death toll, economic consequences mount from China earthquake
- GM Canada announces closure of last Windsor plant
- Australia: Rudd Labor’s budget delivers for business and the wealthy
2008-05-15
- The WSWS editorial board replies to a Verdi shop steward
- Turkish government pledges new attacks on workers
- Britain: How the Socialist Workers Party rooted for Livingstone and Labour
- Systematic discrimination faces Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
- Republicans lose Mississippi House seat despite anti-Obama campaign
- Five charges approved and one rejected in 9/11 show trials
- East Timor: Rice rations for internal refugees cut off
- Clinton wins West Virginia primary but Obama nears nomination
- Colombian extraditions aimed at covering up Uribe’s death squad ties
- As death toll climbs, Chinese earthquake exposes deep social divide
- Bush Middle East trip highlights crisis of US policy
- My Blueberry Nights: Not very much there, but was there ever?
- UAW president’s radio comments underscore union-management gang-up against American Axle strikers
2008-05-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Turkish youth hit hardest by unemployment
- Part 3: Not genuinely “close to life”
- Empty rhetoric from Obama on American Axle strike
- Bush backs Israel as Palestinians mark 60 years of exile and oppression
- Australia: $50,000 for a kidney? Doctor’s proposal highlights desperate health, social crisis
- Chinese president visits Japan: Tensions remain beneath talk of warmer ties
- Italy: Berlusconi’s new government promotes xenophobia
- Israel’s crisis and the historic contradictions of Zionism
- India’s Stalinists mount innocuous protests as masses confront spiraling food prices
- US workers paying the price for Wall Street’s debacle
- Canada: CAW tries to stampede GM and Chrysler workers into making huge concessions
2008-05-17
- Australia: Peak union body calls off Qantas stoppages
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Major Greek unions strike to protest privatization
- France: One million strike in defence of education and social services
- Letters from our readers
- Calling Pelosi’s bluff, Republicans temporarily block war-funding bill
- China quake rescue operations face rising toll, strained public services
- Death toll hits 78,000 in Burma as pressure mounts for international intervention
- Britain: Labour’s “re-launch” stymied by worsening economic forecast
- Berlin transport strike: Workers write to the WSWS about Verdi sell-out
- How should workers proceed?
2008-05-18
2008-05-19
- Sri Lankan government installs paramilitary leader as chief minister in the East
- Further job cuts at German-based Siemens
- But who, after all, was Victor Serge?
- Serbia: Pro-Western president attempts to form a government
- Backroom deals by US service unions strip workers of rights
- Deal for Newsday reflects concentration of ownership in US newspaper industry
- China’s earthquake: The most destructive in modern history
- Detroit American Axle Workers Speak on UAW Sellout
- “Appeasement” clash gives foretaste of McCain-Obama contest
- Anger in Detroit over UAW sellout at American Axle
- CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan
2008-05-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: ISSE addresses students during week of debates at the University of Sussex
- France: LCR backs the CGT against undocumented workers
- US soldier in Iraq disciplined for using Koran as target practice
- Global survey reveals growing anger over social inequality
- India: BJP seizes on Jaipur bombing to promote communalism and social reaction
- Australia: Haneef documents point to Howard cabinet’s role in witch-hunt
- Letters from our readers
- Over 500 juveniles held by US in Iraq and Afghanistan
- The New York Times and Washington’s new prison in Afghanistan
- Australia: Demand mass meetings to reject Victorian teachers’ union sell-out!
2008-05-21
- Forty years since May-June 1968: The lessons for today
- Britain: University students face worsening conditions, rising debt
- Violent attacks on immigrants in South Africa
- Rising death toll, popular anger in China quake
- Iraq: Mass detentions in Mosul as troops move into Sadr City
- Israeli press reports US pledge of war on Iran—is Bush preparing an October Surprise?
- Senate committee passes pro-business housing bill amidst foreclosure crisis
- German parliamentary deputies award themselves hefty pay rise
- Australia: NSW teachers strike but union prepares to deliver staffing changes
- Letters on the American Axle strike
- US and Israel refuse to attend international conference on cluster bomb ban
2008-05-22
- Australian Labor budget punishes society’s most disadvantaged
- The Visitor: “Human” or “political”?
- FBI agents created “war crimes file” documenting US torture
- Reject UAW sellout at American Axle! Mobilize auto workers against attacks on jobs and wages!
- Canada: Report whitewashes federal police’s intervention in 2006 elections
- US Congress proposes allowing antitrust suits against OPEC
- Credit crisis hits Iceland
- Despite evidence of mental retardation, Mississippi executes inmate by lethal injection
- Obama gains majority of elected Democratic Party delegates
- More threats of international intervention amid continuing Burmese cyclone disaster
- UAW pushes through sellout at smaller American Axle plants
2008-05-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Actors and Hollywood studios, networks far apart in negotiations
- Forty years since May-June 1968: The lessons for today
- As Senate approves new war funding, US massacres Iraqi civilians
- Sydney hospital nurses impose work bans: not enough beds for the mentally ill
- FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese leaders respond to anger over shoddy buildings and lack of help
- Berlusconi government incites racist pogroms
- Detroit American Axle workers speak out against UAW betrayal
2008-05-24
- Texas towns sue Homeland Security over border wall plans
- US Secretary of State Rice defends torture at Google event
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Forty years since May-June 1968: The lessons for today
- Germany: The growing gulf between rich and poor
- French workers’ protests say ‘No!’ to pension reform
- Australia: NSW Labor government presses ahead with electricity privatisation
- Russia, China denounce US missile shield at summit meeting
- Britain: Conservative victory in Crewe and Nantwich as Labour disintegrates
- Australia: Details of the proposed AEU-Victorian government sell-out teachers’ agreement
2008-05-26
- Israel and Syria announce negotiations amid ongoing US-Israeli threats to Iran
- Australia: Labor government backs witch-hunting of photographer Bill Henson
- Iron Man: Just what sort of hero is this?
- Aftermath of US slaughterhouse raid: Fear and repression grip Iowa town
- Britain: House repossessions rising sharply
- Chinese earthquake threatens wider economic dislocation
- Evidence of corruption during Cheney’s tenure
2008-05-27
- Australia: Escalating hostility among Victorian teachers to government-union deal
- Washington ratchets up pressure on Pakistan’s new government
- French media lay out the red carpet for Olivier Besancenot
- US military attempts to reignite fighting with Mahdi Army
- True to form, the Goodmans provide a fig leaf for the Democrats in Standing Up to the Madness
- France: Fishermen strike against rising energy prices
- Burma aid conference: Demands and ultimatums, but little money for the cyclone victims
- Belgium: Leterme government lurches from crisis to crisis
2008-05-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Latin America: What are the real interests behind the creation of the Union of South American Nations?
- Sri Lankan journalists protest against abduction and torture of colleague
- The slaying of Mark Saunders: An escalation of Britain’s “shoot to kill” policy
- Australia: NSW teachers strike against attacks on jobs and conditions
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Army chief sworn in as Lebanon’s new president
- Letters from our readers
- Large majority vote against deal following Berlin transport strike
- The politics of provocation: Clinton, Obama and the American media
2008-05-29
- Spiralling prices in Vietnam provoke fears of social unrest
- Turkey: Conflict escalates between government and judiciary
- The genealogy of torture
- Part 4: Other stories, varying degrees of success
- Sharp increase in mental illness among US troops during 2007
- 1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
- Iran: Inflation, privatization intensify working class struggles
- Bush administration uses IAEA report to make new demands and threats to Iran
- Ex-Bush spokesman: White House fed war propaganda to a “complicit” media
- Military contractor Blackwater files suit to push through new California facility
- Low pay leads to poverty in British Army
2008-05-30
- Britain: Oppose deportation of Hicham Yezza
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Why have the findings of the Solomon Islands Commission of Inquiry into the 2006 riots not been released?
- American filmmaker Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)
- End of Nepalese monarchy sets stage for new period of political instability
- Phoenix spacecraft lands near Mars polar icecap
- Canada complicit in illegal detention and torture of Omar Khadr
- Britain: An interview with the manager of Hicham Yezza’s defence campaign
- Australian photographer Bill Henson—scapegoat for a wider assault on democratic rights
- German Social Democrats put forward their own presidential candidate
- Dow Chemical announces massive price increase
- Fallout from McClellan book: The Iraq war’s “complicit enablers,” then and now
2008-05-31
- German Left Party holds its first congress
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Thousands of Iraqis protest agreement for indefinite US occupation
- French government prepares new cuts in unemployment compensation
- US academic Norman Finkelstein denied entry to Israel
- Australia: Unions call off rallies against NSW electricity privatisation
- New York construction workers killed and injured in another high-rise accident
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese earthquake victims face continuing hardship and new threats
- The political lessons of the American Axle strike
- US: AFTRA capitulates to the studios and networks, the pressure is on SAG
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