Archive: 07/2008
2008-07-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- More high-level threats against the Sri Lankan media
- Iraqi government claims Mahdi Army on verge of collapse
- Court verdict against former Pakistan prime minister threatens to split ruling coalition
- Film noir and postwar America
- Malaysian opposition leader threatened with spurious new charges
- US advisers steered Iraqi oil contracts to Western firms
- Britain’s Haltemprice and Howden by-election: Guardian divided on response to David Davis
- US: Consumer confidence hits lowest level in 28 years
- Letters from our readers
- World economy may be at “tipping point”
- American Axle CEO’s reward for slashing wages—$8.5 million bonus
- Britain: Scottish Labour Party leader Wendy Alexander resigns
2008-07-02
- Zimbabwe election: US and UK move to impose sanctions
- The BBC’s Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
- The Exxon Valdez ruling: the Supreme Court once again defends big business
- More high-level threats against the Sri Lankan media
- New round of job cuts at German-based Siemens
- Obama’s patriotism tour: the last refuge of a Democratic scoundrel
- A “third-world” health catastrophe
- US appeals court emphatically overturns military tribunal ruling
- Britain: SEP campaigns in Cottingham
2008-07-03
- Solomon Islands: RAMSI forces mobilised against Solomons workers
- South Korean government turns to repression to curb protests
- Britain: SATs school tests criticised by official report
- Conglomerates present Screen Actors Guild with their “final” offer
- The Australian Education Union, the Labor Party, and the political lessons of the Victorian teachers’ struggle
- India: Government crisis deepens over US nuclear deal
- Global food price rises exacerbate famine in Ethiopia and Somalia
- Florida stages first execution since 2006
- Job losses mount as US economy heads into virtual freefall
- Bush administration settles Hatfill suit, buries anthrax investigation
2008-07-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Obama continues lurch to the right on Iraq war and militarism
- New York court dismisses case against former stock exchange head
- New Zealand economy lurches sharply into reverse
- Bush administration encouraged oil deal in Kurdistan, undermining Iraqi “national unity”
- China: Guizhou riots over cover-up of teenager’s death
- Former German foreign minister demands more determination and less democratic scruples
- US: The Federal Reserve’s dilemma
- Britain: SEP speaks to voters in Cottingham and Willerby
- Letters on Obama’s “patriotism tour”
- Inflation worsens as China lifts petrol prices
2008-07-05
- Australia: Federal and state by-elections reveal growing disaffection with Labor
- Indian delegation visits Sri Lanka: A sign of rising regional rivalries
- Spain: Prime Minister Zapatero lashes out at European Central Bank
- Spain: Popular Party right-wing rejects “turn to the centre”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italy: Berlusconi government steps up its attacks on Roma and foreigners
- Bush reaffirms “all options on the table” over Iran
- A socialist answer to the global rise in gas prices
- 1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
- US: Mentally ill woman left to die in hospital waiting room
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Release of secret reports highlights Labor’s role in boosting spy agencies
2008-07-07
- Turkey: Coup plot arrests deepen political crisis
- España: El Partido Popular comienza a fracturarse
- La economía mundial al borde del precipicio
- Britain: Socialist Equality Party campaign wins support for Chris Talbot’s stand against David Davis
- London Mayor Boris Johnson’s return to “traditional Tory values”
- Britain: Hundreds of Hull residents still suffering from last year’s floods
- Racist, reactionary and defender of dictatorships: Former Senator Jesse Helms dead at 86
- Australia: Rudd government tries to suppress Haneef frame-up documents
- 1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
- Mounting questions about Colombian hostage operation
- Civilian and military deaths at new highs in Afghan war
2008-07-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lanka: A socialist program to fight for wages and conditions
- Britain: The economic downturn and the threat to civil liberties
- Another huge demonstration demands South Korean president’s resignation
- Facing bankruptcy threat, General Motors to slash thousands more jobs
- German army takes command of strike force in northern Afghanistan
- A reply to an attack on the Socialist Equality Party for standing in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election
- Long-term unemployment in the US climbs 37 percent in one year
- US: Mass layoffs, cutbacks signal further disintegration of Detroit public schools
- Letters from our readers
- Rising inflation and unemployment in Chile drive workers into debt and poverty
- Australia: Why Victorian teachers ratified the AEU’s sell-out industrial agreement
2008-07-09
- Sri Lankan government spreads bomb scare to scuttle general strike
- French president lashes out at popular opposition
- Immigrants’ occupation of CGT hall in Paris under immense pressure from unions
- Obama’s swing to right sparks warnings from “left” backers
- G8 summit marked by impotence and division
- Britain: Socialist Equality Party outlines differences with the Greens
- Denmark officially in recession: Europe to follow
- Chicago families face mounting economic hardship
- An exchange on Frank Buchman and the Nazis
2008-07-10
- Australia: Labor government introduces draconian police powers for Pope’s visit
- High-level panel urges new law to regulate how US goes to war
- Britain: Vote Socialist Equality Party
- New Zealand truck drivers hold mass protests against road user charges
- Obama joins Senate vote to legitimize Bush’s domestic spying operation
- Britain: SEP candidate Chris Talbot addresses school students
- US: White House suppressed climate change testimony
- Bernanke, Paulson outline strategy to make working class pay for Wall Street crisis
- Britain: Socialist Equality Party and Greens banned from David Davis eve-of-poll meeting on democratic rights
- American Federation of Radio and Television Artists approves new contract on terms set by media conglomerates
- Bomb blast in Kabul points to rising Indian-Pakistani tensions
2008-07-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Armed attack on US consulate in Istanbul
- Sri Lanka: Low turnout in general strike expresses lack of confidence in unions
- Sri Lanka: SEP marks 40 years of struggle for socialist internationalism
- Britain: SEP candidate Chris Talbot speaks at eve-of-poll meeting
- Mongolia declares state of emergency following violent protests
- Mexican torture videos reveal ties with US military contractors
- India’s Left Front withdraws from government over US nuclear deal
- US foreclosure filings rose 53 percent in June
- Executions by lethal injection in Texas and Virginia
- Letters from our readers
2008-07-12
- War Inc.: Strengths and weaknesses of the Hollywood left
- Britain: Socialist Equality Party cheated of at least 50 votes
- WSWS speaks to Sri Lankan workers about general strike
- Australia: Unions give Qantas a “breathing space” to prepare fresh assault on engineers
- French LCR-PCF debate: A dialog of political opportunists
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Jesse Jackson’s self-criticism and the state of American politics
- Reactions to Iranian missile tests underscore danger of war
- Britain: The significance of the Haltemprice and Howden by-election
- Federal judge says US Department of Justice must give priority to Guantánamo cases
- Germany: The campaign for euthanasia
- Bernanke, Paulson testify before Congress: Democrats cower before Wall Street
2008-07-14
- Further escalation of tensions in the Caucasus between Russia and Georgia
- Economic troubles mark the end of Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger”
- Negotiations continue over long-term US presence in Iraq
- An interview with an Iranian student activist
- Aumentan las dudas sobre la liberación de rehenes colombianos
- La respuesta socialista al aumento mundial del precio de la gasolina
- US government bails out mortgage giants
- Letters from our readers
- Palestinian political prisoner now charged with criminal contempt
- US airline CEOs call for controls on oil speculation
2008-07-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Hollywood studios and networks issue threats to Screen Actors Guild
- Returning US veterans’ lives shattered: the growing toll of PTSD
- Manipulating social tragedies for political gain
- Why India’s Stalinists oppose the US nuclear deal
- An exchange with an ex-Maoist booster for Obama
- Vídeocintas mexicanas de tortura revelan lazos con contratistas militares de EE.UU.
- China steps up investment in Congo as war in east continues
- US bailout of mortgage giants: The politics of plutocracy
- US/NATO casualties climb in Afghanistan
2008-07-16
- Thai government clings to office amid continuing political turmoil
- Savage Grace: Yet another American tragedy
- Obama outlines policy of endless war
- France bids to extend its influence through founding of Mediterranean Union
- Southern California depositors could lose $500 million in IndyMac bank failure
- GM continues job slashing in effort to stave off bankruptcy
- Australia’s “two-track” economy: super-profits and falling living standards
- Letters from our readers
2008-07-17
- Sydney’s World Youth Day: a spectacle of state-sponsored obscurantism
- Australian court finds anti-democratic World Youth Day “annoyance” law invalid
- Australia: Rail unions cave in amid furor over disruption to Pope’s visit
- US court upholds president’s power to detain Americans as “enemy combatants”
- Malaysian opposition leader arrested: an act of political desperation
- One million names on US government “terrorist” watch list
- Italian court to allow claims by Nazi victims
- US: Amid surging prices, Fed raises specter of renewed class struggle
- Britain: Local authority workers walk out over pay cut
2008-07-18
- World Court orders US to stay execution of Mexicans in Texas
- The missile defense scheme and the sharpening of US-Russian geopolitical tensions
- US sends senior diplomat to nuclear talks with Iran
- Failed IndyMac Bank under investigation for lending fraud
- Barney Frank and the putrefaction of American liberalism
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Canada hands US Iraq war resister over to Pentagon for punishment
- Brick Lane: Immigrants in East London
- Austria: End of the grand coalition
- US continues its killing of Afghan civilians
2008-07-19
- “Measure of America” report documents social decay of the United States
- California: University service workers struggle against poverty wages
- Widespread protests against Swedish wire-tapping law
- Study tracks the fate of German shipyard workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Canada reaffirms support for Khadr’s Guantánamo Bay detention and prosecution
- Istanbul police attack municipal workers
- Communalism dominates run up to Iraqi provincial elections
- Longtime Canadian Auto Workers union chief to retire
- US judge rules Guantánamo military tribunal can proceed
- Letters from our readers
2008-07-21
- New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on Zimbabwe: A case of unclean hands
- International greetings to the Sri Lankan SEP
- Sri Lankan Trotskyists mark 40 years of struggle for socialist internationalism
- Spanish government uses tragedy of African boat people to strengthen anti-immigration policies
- Screen Actors meeting in Los Angeles: still no way forward
- Real Emotional Trash from Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
- Four workers dead in Texas crane disaster
- The Obama candidacy and the new consensus on Afghanistan
- US airlines escalate attacks on workers as losses mount
2008-07-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan unions call for further strikes and protests over pay
- Spanish government uses tragedy of African boat people to strengthen anti-immigration policies
- Germany: Job destruction at Siemens heralds a new stage of social attacks
- China’s Olympic security measures reveal a regime under siege
- Top US commander publicly criticizes Obama Iraq policy
- India: Parliamentary “trust vote“ to determine fate of UPA government and Indo-US nuclear treaty
- What does British Tory MP David Davis stand for?—Part 1
- Letters from our readers
- US-led forces kill more Afghan civilians
2008-07-23
- Indian parliament gives green light to Indo-US nuclear treaty
- Obama in Iraq underscores his commitment to US militarism
- Bush administration ratchets up diplomatic pressure on Iran
- Amiens, France: Goodyear tyre workers face attacks on jobs and conditions
- Labour facing by-election disaster in Glasgow
- France: Sarkozy government implements repressive police measures
- Bush: ‘Human life is precious’—EPA: ‘Less than you might think’
- What does British Tory MP David Davis stand for?—Part 2
- Chicago: “Life-threatening deficiencies” found in largest US jail
- Boy A: An antidote to the “law and order” mania
2008-07-24
- White Paper on defense: the French bourgeoisie prepares for war
- What accounts for Europe’s love affair with Obama?
- Aboriginal oppositional voices ignored and censored by the media
- South Korean economy faces mounting problems
- ISSE lecture tour of six German universities
- Bridge collapse at Indiana casino construction site injures workers
- Glasgow East by-election: Stark social problems, poverty
- US: Executions in Texas and Mississippi
- Letters from our readers
- New York Times boosts Pentagon push for wider bombing in Afghanistan
2008-07-25
- Merrill Lynch pulls out of World Trade Center redevelopment
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Pay decision maintains poverty level wages
- Louisiana, US: Death of man tased nine times by police ruled homicide
- Pakistan faces mounting US demands to suppress “terrorism”
- Obama promotes wider war in Afghanistan: Another presidential race between pro-war candidates
- State violence at 2001 G8 summit in Genoa goes unpunished
- Military show trial of Hamdan opens at Guantánamo Bay
- Banks sharply increased fees as US households fell deeper into debt
- The Dark Knight: Striving to be impressive, but essentially empty
- San Diego, CA: “America’s Finest City” not immune to social crisis
- Bush on the financial crisis: “Wall Street got drunk”
2008-07-26
- Memos show Bush administration sanctioned torture
- Indonesian and Timorese leaders join hands to sanctify 1999 atrocities
- France: Sarkozy embarrasses his allies in the trade union bureaucracy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Labour faces wipe-out after defeat in Glasgow East
- End of the 35-hour week in France: Sarkozy handed victory by the unions and “left” parties
- US housing slump “without precedent”: foreclosures up 121 percent over 2007
- Letters from our readers
- Obama demands Europe send more troops to Afghanistan
2008-07-28
- US: Veteran turned away from military hospital commits suicide
- Bush administration seeking to block regulation of workplace toxins
- Malaysian government persists with bogus charges against Anwar
- Islamophobia in the British media
- Australian Labor government unveils carbon trading scheme that shields corporate polluters
- US Congress approves government bailout of mortgage giants
- California governor threatens to reduce state workers’ pay to minimum wage
2008-07-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Turkish prime minister blames PKK for Istanbul terror attacks
- Australia: Jack Thomas appeals against retrial on terrorist charges
- Top US general hints at refocused “war on terror” in Afghanistan
- Porgy and Bess in Berlin
- Obama backs long-term US military presence in Iraq
- Japan: Rising fuel prices lead to largest ever fishermen’s strike
- US military admits soldiers killed unarmed Iraqi civilians
- US: Ford posts record quarterly loss
- Letters from our readers
- British government implicated in abuse of refugees and asylum seekers
2008-07-30
- Australia: Qantas engineers’ union brokers another shabby pay deal
- Iraq: Kirkuk on edge following suicide bombing
- The arrest of Radovan Karadzic and the complicity of the West in Bosnia’s civil war
- After immigration raid, workers protest conditions in Iowa meatpacking plant
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson—a documentary
- Germany: Praising Obama, Joschka Fischer calls for increased militarism
- Bush approves execution of army prisoner
- Massive US deficit spells austerity policy for next administration
2008-07-31
- Inflation fuels social unrest in Vietnam
- Global trade talks collapse
- Sri Lankan defence ministry evicts poor families as part of war drive
- German: IG Metall employs splitting tactics at Siemens
- Britain: Tommy Sheridan makes his pitch to the Scottish National Party
- Knoxville, Tennessee: Unemployed man targets liberals in church shooting
- Letters on The Dark Knight
- Military censorship of the war in Iraq
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