Archive: 09/2008
2008-09-01
- Standoff intensifies between Thai government and protesters
- McCain bows to ultra-right with Palin selection
- Hurricane Gustav threatens New Orleans, Gulf Coast
- Danger grows of NATO-Russian clash in Black Sea
- Australia: NSW government unveils “Plan B” to sell electricity assets
- Pentagon denies responsibility for US massacre of Afghan villagers
2008-09-02
- East Timor: Leaked autopsy report shows alleged “coup” leader Reinado shot at point-blank range
- Police raid protest headquarters as Republican National Convention opens
- World Bank: Two and a half billion people live on less than $2 a day
- New Maoist-led government installed in Nepal
- Indian government mounts brutal campaign of repression in Kashmir
- European Union summit sides with Georgia
- France: trade unions warn government against social explosion
- Alaska Republican senator renominated despite indictment
- A bloody month in Afghanistan
2008-09-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- High fuel prices impoverish New York City taxi drivers
- US: Abuse charged in New Jersey prison
- New revelations on VP choice heighten crisis of McCain campaign
- Obama’s abbreviated Labor Day in Detroit: A sop to the bureaucracy
- Japan’s prime minister quits amid signs of economic downturn
- US Gulf Coast deals with aftermath of Hurricane Gustav
- Letters from our readers
- Shanghai Cooperation Organisation cautiously endorses Russia over Georgia
- Belgium: Undocumented workers’ hunger strikes reach critical point
- Global downturn begins to puncture Australian mining boom
2008-09-04
- Australia: Labor to strip welfare from parents of truant children
- Thai prime minister imposes state of emergency but political crisis continues
- High fuel prices impoverish New York City taxi drivers
- Mass arrests of protesters at Republican National Convention
- British government moots passport and ID controls between UK and Ireland
- Democrats silent on threat from religious right
- New York Times’ Roger Cohen on Georgian crisis: A case of deliberate deception
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Millions affected by flooding in India and Nepal
- Canada’s Conservatives to call national election before economic downturn worsens
- Angola becomes Africa’s largest oil producer
2008-09-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Democrats and media cower in face of Republicans’ right-wing demagogy
- US attack inside Pakistan threatens dangerous new war
- Malaysia proposes limited changes to ban on political activity at universities
- Australian media union refuses to challenge job cuts at Fairfax
- Former Yugoslav war crimes tribunal spokeswoman indicted for contempt
- Productivity rises as US workers see real income cut
- Cheney in Georgia: Gunboat diplomacy in pursuit of oil
- Protests in West Bengal threaten to derail CPI (M)-sponsored Nano car project
- Australia: Labor uses Howard’s construction industry watchdog to attack building workers
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
2008-09-06
- RNC in Twin Cities: Eight protesters charged with terrorism under Patriot Act
- Pakistan’s parliament says future US raids should be repelled “with full force”
- McCain launches fall campaign as Obama embraces Iraq “surge”
- Germany: Left Party issues blank cheque to SPD in Hesse
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Detroit Democratic mayor resigns, faces jail
- Iraq: Handover in devastated Anbar hailed as a victory
- US jobless rate soars as foreclosures break new record
- Britain: Alistair Darling and the implosion of the Labour government
- Canada: Steelworkers and CAW officials tussle over dues base at Magna
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
2008-09-08
- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Libya
- Britain: Union seeks to suppress postal workers’ opposition to Royal Mail attacks
- Afghan president blames “the West” for Islamic extremism
- Australia: Unemployment rises as major companies axe jobs
- Haiti devastated by hurricanes
- US government takes over mortgage giants to stave off financial meltdown
- US aircraft machinists strike Boeing
- Former Argentine generals sentenced to life
- Controversy continues over French soldiers’ deaths in Afghanistan
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
2008-09-09
- Britain: Labour to introduce work for benefits programme
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Georgian conflict poses dilemma for Turkey
- Philippine power grid privatisation threatens jobs and conditions
- PPP leader to be sworn in as new Pakistani president
- Obama vows not to rescind tax cuts for the rich if recession deepens
- The play’s the thing: Andrew Fleming’s Hamlet 2
- France: Socialist Party and unions support government cheap labour scheme
- The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
- New York: city and state universities face deep budget cuts
- Letters on the US presidential elections
- Canada: Conservatives call federal election for October 14
2008-09-10
- Stockholm conference told 1 billion people without access to safe water
- Ukraine: US-Russia conflict provokes government collapse
- WSWS interviews director of homeless shelter in LA
- Obama in Michigan: economic nationalism and “reformism” without reforms
- Nader in Detroit: watered-down reformism and an appeal to the Democrats
- Another criminal US missile strike inside Pakistan
- Record corporate bailout reveals the bankruptcy of American capitalism
- Revelations of war crimes and moralizing idealism
- Strike of machinists at Boeing continues
- Amid rising casualties, Australian establishment debates a wider engagement in Afghanistan
2008-09-11
- Social reality in an Australian mining town
- Thai court sacks prime minister over cooking show “corruption”
- Sri Lankan university meeting discusses Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
- Obama denounces Bush for sending too few troops to Afghanistan
- Political dissent as terrorism: “Minnesota Patriot Act” charges filed against RNC Eight
- Australia: “Lefts” called in as NSW Labor government implodes
- Join the International Students for Social Equality!
- Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD
- Letters from our readers
- Ken Campbell (1941-2008): A unique theatrical talent
2008-09-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US bailout of mortgage giants sets stage for wider financial crisis
- Britain: Jury in alleged transatlantic bomb plot trial fails to convict on central charges
- Australia: The 2008 Victorian teachers’ dispute, Teachers Alliance and the Socialist Equality Party
- Obama and McCain on 9/11: “unity” in support of war and repression
- President Bush authorises US ground operations inside Pakistan
- Humanitarian crisis worsens in Haiti
- Chinese economists warn of the “biggest adjustment” in 30 years
- Boeing machinists strike continues
2008-09-13
- Corruption scandal shakes Turkish building workers union
- Britain’s Trades Union Congress: Left talk but no fight against Labour government
- Declassified grand jury transcripts confirm frame-up of Ethel Rosenberg
- Obama calls for US military mobilization
- Indonesia: Senior intelligence official charged with murder
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Police drop 14-month investigation into Mohamed Haneef
- War in Georgia: French LCR mimics Sarkozy’s foreign policy
- Rampant corruption at US agency responsible for collecting oil royalties
- Reject Obama and McCain! Support the socialist alternative in 2008! Build the Socialist Equality Party!
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: Electioneering cannot obscure major parties’ support for Afghan war
2008-09-15
- Britain: Union leaders stifle growing militancy of London Underground workers
- Another unnecessary tragedy: Deadly train crash in California kills at least 25
- Sri Lankan provincial elections reveal widespread alienation and discontent
- French President Sarkozy visits Syria to seek new alliances
- The Palin interviews: Ignorance in the service of the ultra-right
- New Zealand police to be armed with Tasers
- Texas hit hard by Hurricane Ike
- Canada: While CAW bleats, Harper offers aid to automakers and endorses job-cutting
2008-09-16
- Workers struggles: The Americas
- Britain’s SWP lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War—Part 1
- A few intelligent movies, but lost in an increasingly industry-oriented event
- Complete print of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis discovered in Argentina
- The Wall Street crisis and the failure of American capitalism
- Italy: Berlusconi government seeks to rehabilitate fascism
- Bomb blasts kill 30 in Indian capital
- Germany: New study shows “upturn” only benefits the wealthy
- Peter Camejo dead at 68
- Latin American presidents meet with Bolivia on brink of civil war
- Machinists strike at Boeing begins second week
- More US corporate bailouts on the way
2008-09-17
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War—Part 2
- No return to the 1930s! For the public ownership of the banks!
- Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD
- Socially meaningful, but limited
- Nuclear Supplier Group gives India unique “waiver,” but only after row between Delhi and Beijing
- Illinois prepares wide-ranging budget cuts
- France: Token resistance by the unions to new Renault job cuts
- US Federal Reserve announces $85 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG
- Australia: Climate change, the Garnaut report, and the profit system
- An exchange on Bertolt Brecht’s Arturo Ui
2008-09-18
- South Africa: Court case against ANC President Zuma withdrawn
- Socialist Equality Party launches new election web site
- Panic sell-off on Wall Street
- Glimpses of life, if not the essential facts of the world
- Sri Lankan SEP demands release of arrested member
- Noteworthy documentaries—from Australia and Canada
- Unemployment and poverty grip New York State
- Canadian elections: NDP serves up thin gruel at Toronto kick-off rally
- Victims blamed in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike
- Europe gripped by fear of global crash
- Letters from our readers
- The American “financial tsunami” hits Asia
2008-09-19
- Power-sharing deal signed in Zimbabwe
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New Thai prime minister installed amid continuing political turmoil
- The financial crisis and the comeback of Gerhard Schröder
- Contemporary dramas from Israel, Australia and South Africa
- Obama’s response to financial meltdown: Deception and subservience to Wall Street
- SEP presidential candidate speaks on financial crisis
- Irish government neglect flood victims and infrastructure
- Why is American liberalism bankrupt? A history lesson for New York Times columnist Bob Herbert
- Global financial storm hits Australian economy
- Socialist Equality Party holds founding Congress
2008-09-20
- Western Australian Labor government thrown out as state election delivers hung parliament
- Germany: Power struggle at Volkswagen
- Social drama
- Sri Lankan police continue to detain SEP member
- US-Pakistani relations remain on the boil
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan’s ruling party to select new prime minister as economy slides into recession
- Lloyds TSB takeover of HBOS leaves Britain’s banks in trouble
- US government to bail out Wall Street
- Canadian Medical Association Journal attacks Harper government for listeria epidemic
- Withdraw all troops from Afghanistan and Iraq! A socialist answer to war and militarism
2008-09-22
- Row over Internet "war plans" highlights China-Vietnam tensions
- Yung Chang speaks with WSWS about Up the Yangtze
- SEP presidential candidate denounces Wall Street bailout
- Scotland: Alex Salmond and Thatcherism
- Safety incidents plague Australian airline
- Germany: The international financial crisis and illusions in an enlightened capitalism
- Marriott Hotel bombing: another sign of Pakistan’s deepening crisis
- Ethiopia threatens to withdraw from Somalia
- No to Wall Street bailout! The socialist answer to the financial crisis
- California budget: $7 billion in cuts, tax breaks for big business
2008-09-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan police detain SEP member for over a week
- Deborah Kerr: an actor with genuine subtlety and integrity
- Who is Henry Paulson?
- Obama demands deep cutbacks to pay for Wall Street bailout
- Statement of the International Students for Social Equality (Britain)
- France: Union thugs threaten immigrants at a Communist Party fair
- Banks race to profit from US bailout
- Georgia death row prisoner faces execution following denial of clemency
- Letters from our readers
- Paulson warns: No limits on CEO pay
2008-09-24
- Letters and a reply on Zimbabwe
- West Bengal: Standoff continues over Stalinists’ land seizure for Tata Motors
- Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, Terence Davies’ Of Time and the City: What the filmmakers now see
- French postal service to be privatised
- Obama says bailout will postpone spending plans
- China’s milk crisis: another disaster unleashed by the capitalist market
- Britain: Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes—“We fear another cover-up”
- The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
- Wall Street falls reflect concerns over bailout and fears for US economy
- The LCR covers for “left” supporters of French imperialism in Afghanistan
- An interview with Chus Gutiérrez, director of Return to Hansala
- Forbes publishes list of 400 wealthiest Americans
- The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
- The ties that bind: Dodd, Schumer and Wall Street
- Canada: Financial crisis intrudes on federal election campaign
- Brown at Britain’s Labour conference: Bailout for banks, nothing for jobless and homeowners
- Democrats signal support for Wall Street bailout at Senate hearing
- Germany’s war in Afghanistan
2008-09-25
- Sri Lankan police release arrested SEP member
- Documents of the SEP Founding Congress: Statement of Principles
- New documentary on Pinochet’s dictatorship: Some wounds should not heal
- Obama’s embrace of bailout wins favor on Wall Street
- Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest
- Australia: Methane gas landfill leak forces residents to evacuate suburb
- WHO report discloses extent of global health inequality
- French parliament votes for continued military presence in Afghanistan
- World’s largest particle accelerator begins operations
- Bush demands passage of Wall Street bailout
2008-09-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Some urgency about the state of the world
- Contradictory verdicts in Australia’s largest terrorism trial
- German radicals provide political cover for Left Party
- Bloc Québécois covers up its support for the Harper Conservative government
- Documents of the SEP Founding Congress: Statement of Principles—Part 2
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White addresses ISSE meeting at the University of Michigan
- Broken US promises undermine North Korean nuclear agreement
- Livni’s election and the ongoing shift to the right in Israeli politics
- European reactions to the financial crisis
- Letters on the Wall Street bailout
- Chrysler 1979: Lessons from an early corporate “bailout”
- Democrats push for quick adoption of Bush plan to bail out Wall Street
2008-09-27
- Biggest US bank failure ever
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Taro Aso: third Japanese prime minister in two years
- California: foreclosures and homeless on the rise
- Britain’s Chancellor Alistair Darling and the International Marxist Group
- Letters from our readers
- Bavarian election reveals deep divisions within German right
- Democrats, Republicans conspire to remove Wall Street bailout from election debate
2008-09-29
- The Dardenne brothers: but what about the “extenuating circumstances”?
- Fighting intensifies as Sri Lankan army advances on LTTE stronghold
- Philippine government renews its communal war in Mindanao
- Indian CEO killed after negotiations with group of dismissed workers go awry
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 1
- Finland: Second school shooting in less than a year
- The Obama-McCain debate: Right-wing politicians agree on bailout and militarism
- Interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, directors of Lorna’s Silence
- Democrats take charge of pushing through Bush’s bailout of Wall Street
- Afghanistan: US, NATO, Karzai regime investigate Azizabad massacre
2008-09-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US government brokers Citigroup takeover of Wachovia Bank
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party--Part 3
- US-Pakistani skirmish points to threat of wider war
- Political power struggle in Malaysia continues unabated
- Germany: Left Party leader supports Wall Street bailout
- Israel’s plan to attack Iran confirmed
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 2
- Letters from our readers
- Stocks plunge on Wall Street as bailout fails in Congress
- Major Australian child care corporation at risk of bankruptcy
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