Archive: 10/2008
2008-10-01
- Turkish economy falters
- Arrested SEP member speaks to the WSWS following his release
- World financial crisis reveals vulnerability of Russia’s economy
- Paul Newman (1925-2008)
- Future conditional: The Nation counsels Washington on the financial crisis
- SEP candidate Jerry White to speak on crisis of US and world capitalism
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 3
- Benelux countries intervene to bail out Fortis
- Australia: Shares crash amid warnings of prolonged recession
- The Democratic Party and Wall Street
- Washington imposes sanctions on Bolivia
- Boeing strikers continue fight to defend jobs
- Electoral debacle for conservatives in Bavaria
- Angolan election: MPLA party consolidates control and eyes role as regional power
2008-10-02
- Australia: Public meetings mark 70th anniversary of the Fourth International
- US Senate passes Wall Street bailout bill
- BBC reveals how Britain’s spies monitored Omagh bombers
- Canadian elections: NDP platform highlights “fiscal responsibility”
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 4
- Germany: 130,000 demonstrate against rundown of health care system
- Bradford and Bingley: British government nationalises second failing bank
- Banking crisis hits Germany with full force
- The Wall Street bailout and the threat of dictatorship
- Asian stocks tumble after rejection of US bailout package
2008-10-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US congressman: “If we don't pass this bill, we’re going to have martial law in the United States”
- Neanderthals and modern humans--a key to understanding human evolution
- The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
- South African President Thabo Mbeki resigns
- Iraq parliament enacts partial provincial election law
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 5
- First Minister Alex Salmond pleads for Scottish finance to be saved
- The enduring significance of the founding of the Fourth International
- Britain: Forty percent of children live in poverty
- The Senate bailout bill: How the Democrats do the bidding of Wall Street
- SEP brings campaign to American Axle workers in Detroit
- Austrian elections: rightist forces benefit from decline of social democracy
2008-10-04
- Neanderthals and modern humans--a key to understanding human evolution
- Capitalist breakdown and the revolutionary perspective of the Fourth International
- The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian government retains key “Work Choices” measures against workers
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 6
- 159,000 drop in US payrolls signals deepening recession
- US vice-presidential debate: A window on the right-wing character of an Obama-Biden administration
- Britain: “Convention of the Left” promotes nationalism
- The Convention of the Left: Britain's radical groups lurch to the right
- Leaders’ debates underscores parties have no progressive solution to economic crisis
- The Boeing strike and the Wall Street bailout
- Democrats credit Obama with shifting vote
2008-10-06
- Obama and McCain agree on Wall Street bailout and war
- Sri Lankan president at the UN seeks to justify communal civil war
- Scandinavian countries respond to Russia-Georgia conflict
- New York City workers condemn Wall Street bailout
- Germany: union organises celebration for Chancellor Merkel at VW works
- Irish government organises massive support package for banks
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 7
- European leaders fail to agree on a common strategy for the financial crisis
- New York’s Mayor Bloomberg cites financial crisis in bid for third term
- British diplomat paints bleak view of Afghan war
2008-10-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan officials offer empty reassurances over the global financial crisis
- Panic grips global financial markets
- The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
- India: Hindu communalists target Christian minority in Orissa and other states
- Germany: IG Metall union calls for 8 percent wage increase—and prepares sellout
- Iceland suspends trading in bank shares as financial crisis hits Scandinavia hard
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 8
- European stock markets in freefall following Paris financial summit
- Letters from our readers
- Boeing machinists in Washington discuss their strike
2008-10-08
- US stocks plunge amid mounting signs of global recession
- California father, despondent over financial losses, kills family and himself
- US: Screen Actors Guild may organize a strike vote
- The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
- Picked to direct the Wall Street bailout: Who is Neel Kashkari?
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 9
- Canada’s Greens: an aspirant establishment party
- European Union remains paralysed in face of market turmoil
- Australian central bank interest rate cut reveals fears of global recession
- California seeks massive loan from US Treasury to deal with financial crisis
- Asian markets continue to fall
2008-10-09
- Continuing US air strikes in Pakistan’s tribal agencies
- Rate cuts, UK bank bailout fail to stem global financial panic
- Germany: Government fears crisis will spur political radicalisation
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 10
- Support the SEP campaign fund!
- Obama, McCain offer platitudes in the face of an economic disaster
- Letters from our readers
- Fears in China about the impact of global economic crisis
- Canada’s prime minister admits jobs and savings in peril
- Europe Between the Oceans by Barry Cunliffe
- Labour government pledges up to £500 billion for Britain’s banks
- Special prosecutor appointed to investigate US attorney firings
2008-10-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- More than 300 workers arrested in immigration raid on South Carolina plant
- McCain-Palin campaign’s attacks on Obama: a whiff of fascism
- Iceland faces national bankruptcy
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 11
- Fiji: Military junta pushes pro-investor “Peoples Charter” reforms
- Wall Street crashes amid mounting signs of global recession
- The art of Gustave Courbet in his epoch and in ours
- Machinists union to resume talks with Boeing
- World financial crisis leads to auto industry layoffs across Europe
2008-10-11
- Turkish manufacturing sector hit hard by financial crisis
- As share market plunges, political crisis in Thailand deepens
- Widespread public support for teachers strike in Detroit, Michigan, suburb
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Worst week for global markets since 1929
- A discussion on Ethiopia’s role in Somalia
- Ethiopian famine significantly worsens as Western powers fail to respond
- Australian share market’s “black Friday”: another sign of economic crisis
- Letters from our readers
- A Comment on Art and the Marxist Party
- Canada: Afghan war could cost in excess of $18 billion
- India: Tata Motors announces pullout from West Bengal
- US intelligence, military deliver dire estimates of Afghanistan war
- The Aesthetic Component of Socialism
2008-10-13
- Wall Street demands free hand with funding from US Treasury
- Vancouver International Film Festival 2008—Part 1
- US heating and power costs to rise, utility cutoffs to follow
- Britain: Brown’s National Economic Council consolidates government by the super-rich
- International financial crisis exposes vulnerability of Indian economy
- Britain and Iceland in bitter conflict over banking collapse
- Germany: Left Party supports austerity measures in Hesse
- China’s first space walk signals new rivalry in outer space
- Reject “Anybody but Conservative” trap
- The revolutionary implications of the decline of American capitalism
- Washington’s “shock” over AIG’s post-bailout junket
2008-10-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Labour government to buy majority stakes in failing banks
- Solomon Islands’ parliamentary review highlights illegality of Australian occupation
- 70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity
- The Communist Manifesto
- Canada: Listeriosis epidemic continues—Liberal and Tory policies culpable
- France: LCR holds meeting for New Anti-Capitalist Party in St. Denis
- Britain and Iceland in bitter conflict over banking collapse
- Robert Hughes: A refreshingly frank comment on the art market
- Australia: A revealing day at the Haneef “terrorism” inquiry
- Fires claim lives of seven in New York City
- The G7 and the Euro Group agree to pour billions into banks
- Letters from our readers
- The revolutionary implications of the decline of American capitalism—Part 2
- Banks dictate conditions of US financial bailout
2008-10-15
- US government expands bank bailout on Wall Street’s terms
- Turkey: Another political detainee tortured and killed in prison
- New US Supreme Court term opens
- The international financial crisis and its implications for South Asia
- Socialism vs. the government bailout of capitalism
- No sacrifice for the bankers
- Obama floats economic plan: tax breaks and austerity
- The stock market’s false rallies--what history tells us
- The German bailout of the banks and the role of the Left Party
- Bush administration belatedly takes North Korea off terrorism list
- SEP candidate Jerry White addresses successful meetings in Britain
- Burn After Reading: Another “league of morons” from the Coen brothers
- Talks collapse in Boeing strike
- Canadian elections: Whose class interests does the Bloc Québécois defend?
- Afghanistan: Growing talk of a political deal with the Taliban
2008-10-16
- Redesigned World Socialist Web Site begins Wednesday, October 22
- “Working Poor” report: Nearly 30 percent of US families subsist on poverty wages
- Art, artists, the difficulties of the 20th century
- Australia: Rio Tinto hints at a new round of government-backed strike breaking
- US Treasury meeting: How the financial aristocracy laid down the law
- Stock markets fall as global recession takes hold
- Austrian right-wing politician Jörg Haider dies in car crash
- US Supreme Court clears way for execution of likely innocent death row inmate
- Letters from our readers
- Corruption and shoddy construction behind school collapses in China earthquake
- Canada: Conservatives lose votes, but retain power
- New York Times demands escalation of Afghanistan war
2008-10-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Britain: Lies begin to unravel in police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
- German government rushes through €500 billion rescue package
- EU call for global financial regulation masks intra-European and international tensions
- A political farce, not a debate
- Behind the creationism controversy at Britain's Royal Society
- China’s land reform will deepen the gulf between rich and poor
- In defense of Bill Ayers
- Asian markets plummet amid fears of global recession
2008-10-18
- The Washington Post endorses Obama
- US Republicans target ACORN: the great “voter fraud” fraud
- Britain: Brown government caves in to banks’ demands
- Australian government props up banks as signs of a deep global recession emerge
- US infant mortality rate now worse than 28 other countries
- Plant closures, layoffs mount in US and Europe
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
- US bank losses wipe out years of paper profits
- Jerry White in Berlin: “At the heart of the financial crisis lies the historical decline of US imperialism”
2008-10-20
- The oppressed and excluded
- Stalinism and Bolshevism - 1937
- IMF: Spain to be hit hard by recession
- Pakistan facing bankruptcy as world financial crisis deepens
- Colin Powell endorses Obama
- US Supreme Court denies Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal for new trial
- Malaysia’s prime minister to step down next year
- An interview with Li Yifan, director of The Longwang Chronicles
- France: €360 billion to bail out the banks
- Detroit residents speak on economic crisis and US elections
2008-10-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- East Timor: Political crisis deepens as divisions in police force re-emerge
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
- US: Screen Actors leadership calls for federal mediator
- Three Conceptions of the Russian Revolution (1939)
- Leon Trotsky - Report on the World Economic Crisis and the New Tasks of the Communist International - 1921
- Leon Trotsky - The Transitional Program - 1938
- A Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the SWP - 1939
- A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World - 1953
- Iraqis protest against proposed security agreement with US
- India: Police accused of summarily executing “terrorist suspects”
- Britain: Labour scapegoats immigrants for the financial crash
- Housing crisis accelerates blight in Detroit neighborhoods
- Leon Trotsky - In Defense of October - 1932
- Letters from our readers
- Sex, consolation for misery: Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke comes to the big screen
2008-10-22
- An introduction to the new World Socialist Web Site
- Under cover of “voter fraud” allegations, Republicans suppress the vote—Part 1
- The Democrats’ “economic recovery” fraud
- Stella D’oro strikers rally in the Bronx, New York
- Welcome the redesigned World Socialist Web Site
- OECD report ranks US third worst in inequality and poverty
- Leon Trotsky - Lessons of October - 1924
- More signs of recession in Japan
- Irish government imposes harsh budget cuts
- The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner
- Fiji: High Court rejects former prime minister’s legal challenge to military junta
- W: A crude approach is not good for grasping much of anything
- What “incredibly tough” foreign policy actions is Obama preparing?
2008-10-23
- Letters on the World Socialist Web Site redesign
- Under cover of “voter fraud” allegations, Republicans suppress the vote—Part 2
- Repentance, betrayal and the less dramatic
- “Socialism” intrudes on the 2008 elections
- Australian by-elections record massive anti-Labor swings
- Vladimir Lenin - Karl Marx - 1914
- General strike in Greece amid deepening financial crisis
- The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 2
- Detroit area house fire kills four
- Job cuts mount as global recession takes hold
- Eastern European economies face bankruptcy
- Leon Trotsky - Culture and Socialism - 1927
- Letters on “In defense of Bill Ayers,” and a reply by David Walsh
- Can China fund the US and European bailouts?
- Canada’s shame: the incarceration, torture, and exile of Abousfian Abdelrazik
- Germany: Parliament authorises €500 billion bank bailout
2008-10-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Highland Park, Michigan residents speak on deadly fire
- Britain in recession: Mervyn King’s moment of clarity
- Canada: Toronto transit system avoids essential service designation
- Indian politicians threaten to resign over Sri Lankan war
- German Social Democrats meet in the shadow of the financial crisis
- The economic crisis and war
- US layoffs mount, home foreclosures rise
- Mass strike in Italy against Berlusconi government
- Britain: Millions threatened with negative home equity and repossession
- The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 3
- Little Audrey by Ruth White: a family in postwar Virginia
- Fearing default, Argentina moves to nationalize private pension funds
- French Airbus worker: “Boeing and Airbus workers have the same enemy—we should fight them together”
- More recriminations over US/NATO quagmire in Afghanistan
2008-10-25
- More letters on the World Socialist Web Site redesign
- Warnings of recession send global share markets plunging
- Britain: Labour, the Conservatives and the oligarchs
- The New York Times’ endorsement of Obama
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- More setbacks for Guantánamo show trials
- European auto industry in crisis
- Art and Socialism—a talk by David Walsh, WSWS arts editor
- US federal appeals court stays Troy Davis execution
- SEP candidates to speak in Canada
2008-10-27
- Six films: problems of perspective, passivity
- An interview with Azharr Rudin, director of This Longing
- The “dirty little secret” of the US bank bailout
- Pakistan forced to seek IMF bailout package
- Economic crisis overshadows New Zealand elections
- 70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity
- Martti Ahtisarri: Advocate of imperialist intervention awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- Warnings of deep recession as US layoffs spread coast-to-coast
- Conservatives to press ahead with right-wing tax-cutting agenda
- Political furore over Australian government’s bank guarantee
2008-10-28
- US military forces attack Syrian village, killing eight
- Scottish nationalism’s perspective in tatters
- Marxism and Science: An addendum to “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism”
- One week until the US elections
- US carries out fresh air strike in Pakistan
- Increasing social inequality and poverty in Germany
- Living on thin ice: Frozen River
- Letters from our readers
- Global recession threatens mass lay-offs in China
- Britain: Socialist Workers Party member becomes government adviser
2008-10-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- What is behind US-Taliban talks?
- Sarkozy intends to partly nationalise “strategically important” companies
- Britain: the SWP and Galloway’s Respect Renewal on the economic crisis
- Global economic crisis hits Japanese banks, exporters
- Oil price drop undermines stability of Iranian regime
- New York City cops arrest immigrant day laborers
- Detroit residents and firemen denounce social decay in fire deaths
- Machinists union accepts job-cutting deal in bid to end Boeing strike
- German economics expert compares bank managers to persecuted Jews
- Alaska Senator convicted on seven corruption charges
2008-10-30
- Detroit residents denounce social decay in fire deaths
- US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates as recession deepens
- Turkish court provides explanation of its ban on headscarves
- World Bank places Sri Lanka among the “highly vulnerable” countries
- Opportunism versus socialism: lessons of two “left” conferences in Britain
- US defense secretary expands pre-emptive war doctrine to include nuclear strikes
- Ford Australia sackings signal a wave of auto job losses
- Letters from our readers
- Canadian Government defends export of asbestos to poorer nations
- The Baader Meinhof Complex
- Advocate of Afghan “troop surge” selected as head of British Army
- The German October: The missed revolution of 1923
2008-10-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- GDP, consumer spending contract as US plunges into recession
- Evidence grows that UK is entering a sharp recession
- After six years, Australian jury clears Jack Thomas of all terrorism charges
- History and the revolutionary party
- Italy: Protests and strikes against Berlusconi education cuts
- Iraqi cabinet stalls on US security agreement
- The Historical & International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party
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