Archive: 11/2008
2008-11-01
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- WSWS speaks with family members of Michigan fire victims
- Leon Trotsky - Marxism in Our Time - 1939
- Hundreds dead in earthquake in Pakistan
- Wall Street’s Great Heist of 2008
- Obama begins to “lower expectations” for a Democratic White House
- Political stalemate forces general election in Israel
- Huge IMF bailout for emerging economies
- A fierce response by Georgian nationalists
- A letter on Canada, South Africa and deadly asbestos
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: The furore over the BBC’s Brand and Ross broadcast
2008-11-03
- Australia: NSW Labor’s pay offer to teachers foreshadows savage spending cuts
- Spain: Investigation launched into Franco’s crimes
- On the eve of the US elections
- US carries out more airstrikes in Pakistan
- “Socialism and the Future of Humanity”— SEP (US) meeting on 70th anniversary of the Fourth International
- SEP candidates complete successful campaign tour
- Britain: GMB trade union works with JCB to slash jobs and pay
- New South Wales teachers speak out: “We’re starving the public schools”
- On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
- SEP candidates speak to workers in Toronto and Montreal
- Boeing machinists ratify contract
- Body of Lies and Flash of Genius: One closer to the truth than the other
2008-11-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Video: SEP Candidate Jerry White speaks in Chicago
- NATO warships head to Somalia
- Songs from a modern lover: Jonathan Richman at The Southgate House
- Election Day 2008: The class issues
- More job losses, plant closures and company failures loom in Australia
- US and India forge a strategic partnership with globally disruptive nuclear treaty
- Indian prime minister warns of “severe and prolonged” global downturn
- Jerry White addresses students at candidates’ forum in Dayton, Ohio
- Czech government in crisis following election debacles
- Letters from our readers
- Britain’s largest corporations pay no tax
- Circuit City to close stores, lay off thousands in US
- GM-Chrysler merger: United Auto Workers union prepares another betrayal
2008-11-05
- Half of the Zimbabwe population faces starvation
- Thailand’s political crisis intensifies amid economic slowdown
- The election of Barack Obama
- Passchendaele: Politics by other means
- The German Left Party in Hesse: open to the highest bidder
- Germany: SPD right wing sabotages change of government in Hesse
- Australia: New evidence of political manipulation in Haneef case
- Spain: What the Garzon indictment states about the crimes of the Franco era
- Three men convicted over 2002 Bali bombings set to be executed
- Collapse of US auto sales points to deep recession
2008-11-06
- Class divisions begin to emerge in Obama coalition
- Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran
- India army officers linked to Hindu supremacist terrorism
- Australia: New evidence of political manipulation in Haneef case
- Hopes and illusions dominate European reaction to Obama victory
- Behind the nationwide sweep by Democratic Party
- Utility cut-offs on the rise in the US
- Letters from our readers
- Renewed war in Congo as conflict over minerals spirals
2008-11-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US, world stock markets plummet on global recession forecasts
- A closer look at Obama’s transition team
- Sri Lankan military drives closer to LTTE stronghold
- France: Train drivers strike against attacks on working conditions
- Quebec election called for December 8
- Reflections on class and race in America
- Obama administration begins to take shape
- Europe plunges into recession
- Chinese manufacturing in free fall as export markets collapse
2008-11-08
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sweden bails out banks as economy enters recession
- Britain: Labour beats off Scottish National Party challenge in Glenrothes by-election
- A damning admission on the Georgian war
- Obama reassures big business on economic policy
- US jobless rate hits 14-year high
- Lessons from Hesse: The Left Party and the debacle of the SPD
- Letters on “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism”
- Layoffs and plant closures ravage Canada’s auto industry
- PSG member stands for staff council at Berlin Urban Transit Company
- Another US massacre in Afghanistan
2008-11-10
- European Union summit in Brussels: The EU prepares for Obama
- World financial crisis bankrupts Eastern Europe: The toll of capitalist restoration
- Australia: Aboriginal man sentenced to seven years’ jail for protest over police killing
- Guardian journalist on Obama’s election: An “armed insurrection” averted
- War in Sri Lanka heightens tensions with India
- IMF update underlines speed of slide into global recession
- BBC describes evidence of Georgian war crimes in South Ossetia
- Australia: Labor government forced to revise economic forecasts as global crisis deepens
2008-11-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- British banks: Feeding frenzy at taxpayers’ expense
- Turkey: Financial crisis hits textile industry
- Another major terrorist trial begins in Australia
- One week since the election of Obama
- Washington secretly authorized military raids on 20 countries since 2004
- Death toll, public outrage rise in aftermath of Haiti school collapse
- Layoffs mount, economic crisis deepens in the US
- Letters from our readers
- China’s huge stimulus package: Another sign of economic crisis
- City workers demonstrate against SPD-Left Party Senate policies in Berlin
2008-11-12
- Seven US executions scheduled in next 10 days
- Declining social conditions of students and youth in the US
- Sri Lankan police re-arrest relative of SEP member
- World financial crisis undercuts Russia’s economic boom
- France: Renault workers march to defend jobs as recession deepens
- Bailouts for banks: Layoffs for workers
- Labour government dumped in New Zealand elections
- Italy: Student protests escalate
- French Socialist Party to elect new leadership
- Widespread unease, opposition as Indonesian government executes Bali bombers
2008-11-13
- Turkish economy heading toward recession
- Trevor Griffiths and David Walsh discuss “The Writer and Revolution”
- Illegal tax scheme gives $140 billion to biggest US banks
- Auto workers to pay for Big Three bailout
- Paulson announces shift in Wall Street bailout scheme
- Pakistan to impose IMF-approved economic restructuring program
- Australia: Northern Territory teachers resist Labor government’s attack on public education
- Germany: IG Metall Union sells out wages movement
- Iranian regime reacts to Obama’s election
- Spain: Supreme Court halts investigation into Franco-era crimes
- Letters from our readers
- Feeling around in the dark: Blindness and Quarantine
2008-11-14
- World Bank forecasts falling trade, global recession and rising poverty
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Chicago mayor warns of “huge layoffs” in a “frightening” economy
- Former Taiwanese president arrested over corruption allegations
- Growing tensions in lead-up to G20 summit in Washington
- Obama transition points to more war and repression
- Australian Greens pledge fiscal responsibility: we are “sensible and mainstream”
- Changeling: more cult of the individual
- Spanish Stalinist leader Carrillo opposes Garzón indictment
2008-11-15
- Strike cancels classes at Toronto’s York University
- An interview with Ying Liang, director of Good Cats
- Social workers at Detroit “poverty summit” describe impact of layoffs, foreclosures, utility shutoffs
- Police provocateur infiltrates political and protest groups in Australia
- Philippines: Employee association presses for quick electricity privatisation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US retail sales plunge as layoffs mount
- Letters from our readers
- Bush cheers “free enterprise” as US capitalism goes bust
- British corporate giants axe thousands of jobs
- G-20 summit: More like London 1933 than Bretton Woods 1944
2008-11-17
- British court ruling increases risk of home repossession
- The US auto bailout and the socialist alternative to concessions
- Pakistani military launches new offensive in border areas
- The black “insiders” and the Obama administration
- India: Graziano workers target of management harassment and state repression
- Amid ongoing tensions, G-20 takes few concrete decisions
- WSWS interviews workers at Detroit “poverty summit”
- Boeing: engineers’ union sellout follows betrayal of machinists’ strike
- BMW plans early halt in production at German plants
- Australia: Labor to hand over billions to car giants
2008-11-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- David Walsh on “Art and Socialism”
- Australia: Retirement savings decimated as stock market plummets
- Sri Lanka’s crisis budget: government imposes new war burdens
- France: Transport workers mobilise against privatisation
- Obama’s “seamless transition” to endless war
- Germany: IG Metall agrees to sell-out contract
- Britain: Eyewitnesses reveal Jean Charles De Menezes shot without warning
- French railway workers: “An international struggle is necessary”
- French Socialist Party remains deeply divided following Reims congress
- Wildfires cause massive destruction in Southern California
- Letters from our readers
- Financial giant Citigroup cuts 53,000 jobs
2008-11-19
- New York transit union president signs no-strike pledge
- South Africa: Behind the ANC breakaway
- Obama’s transition: A who’s who of imperialist policy
- Impact of the General Motors crisis in Germany
- Australia: Labor’s reviled Aboriginal “intervention” to continue
- Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist: What five years of “development” can do to an artist
- The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis
- Senate Democrats cave in to pro-war, pro-McCain Joseph Lieberman
- Japan sinks into recession
- US-Iraq security agreement set to be ratified
- Mounting signs of protracted world recession
- Canadian Auto Workers union presses for bailout of auto bosses
- Senate hearing on US auto bailout signals new attacks on workers
2008-11-20
- Sri Lankan troops capture LTTE stronghold of Pooneryn
- Obama’s attorney general pick and the illusion of change
- Child hunger in US rose by 50 percent in 2007
- German Greens prepare for coalition with CDU
- Letters from our readers
- South Texas county indicts Cheney, Gonzales
- Detroit autoworkers denounce demands for job, wage cuts
- Backroom inquiry rubberstamps false imprisonment, kidnapping and coercion by Australian intelligence agency
2008-11-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Quebec elections: Unprecedented alienation from big business parties
- Auto bailout provides pretext for assault on US workers
- US missiles strike deeper inside Pakistan
- David Walsh in the UK: Intense discussion at London School of Economics meeting
- France: Alain Krivine explains the role of the "New Anti-Capitalist Party"
- Italy: Student protests continue against cuts in education
- Hong Kong enters recession
- Obama and Guantánamo
- Florida teen charged as adult in school shooting death
- Global markets plunge on fears of deflation and depression
- WSWS interviews Wilmington, Ohio residents on DHL job cuts
- DHL closing to devastate Ohio town
- Berlin: Anger and indignation over new public sector deal
2008-11-22
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Few surprises in What Just Happened
- US auto union offering major contract concessions
- Photographs from the centre of Thailand’s political storm
- Sri Lankan SEP to commemorate 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
- California: Passage of proposition banning same-sex marriage sparks protests
- Obama’s “left” cheerleaders and the right-wing transition
- Germany: Opel works councils and IG Metall propose wage cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US court orders release of six Guantánamo detainees after seven years
- Spain: Judge Garzón abandons investigation into Franco-era crimes
- France: Hundreds of thousands strike and march against education cuts
2008-11-24
- US: University presidents’ pay rises to record levels
- In Spitting Distance: war, exile and other daily realities for Palestinians
- Auto workers need an international strategy
- German media, political parties debate Opel rescue package
- Obama’s jobs plan: A band-aid for an economic catastrophe
- Britain: New round of job losses announced as part of global cutbacks
- Signs of political radicalisation in Japan, despite its confused direction
- Italy: Judgement in G8 police raid trial
- An interview with Khalifa Natour and Ofira Henig
2008-11-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Thousands mourn Detroit Firefighter
- Verizon cuts 2,700 jobs the day after Thanksgiving
- Obama holds press conference, promises “whatever is required” for Wall Street
- A tale of two bailouts
- Britain: More revelations about secret shoot-to-kill policy at de Menezes inquest
- Death of Detroit firefighter: victim of a city’s social decay
- Letters from our readers
- US bails out Citigroup and prepares to give trillions more to banks
- China’s stimulus package threatens greater economic chaos
- California budget in free-fall as new round of cuts is proposed
- A Woman in Berlin: Germany at the end of World War II
- A look at Obama’s “economic team”
2008-11-26
- Sweden: Left Party seeks coalition with Social Democrats
- Obama appointees signal continuing aggression and war
- A Marxist perspective on jurisprudence
- Obama vows to slash federal budget
- Iraq veteran convicted in Colorado murder of fellow soldier
- Art and socialism: the real premises
- France: Thousands demonstrate against postal service privatisation
- A budget for British business from Darling and Brown: Too little, far too late
- Berlin: Teachers denounce union leaders over contract deal
2008-11-27
- Airport siege heightens Thailand’s political crisis
- Behind the crisis in the French Socialist Party
- US commits $800 billion more to bail out consumer credit and mortgage market
- Video: Kandy O'Neill speaks to the WSWS
- Michigan GM worker answers attack by New York Times columnist
- India: Hindu supremacist terror network had ties to military
- Poverty and hunger on the rise in the US
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: Lord Bingham says Iraq invasion was a violation of international law
- Australia: Key economic indices indicate slide towards recession
2008-11-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- UK photographic exhibition: Images of War
- Britain: Labour’s secret plans for tax hikes and spending cuts revealed
- German rail union Transnet embroiled in scandal
- Sri Lankan soldiers and their families speak to the WSWS
- The Gates appointment: Obama slaps antiwar voters in the face
- As oil prices plummet, OPEC meets to consider another production cut
- Terrorist atrocity in Mumbai
- US: Muslim charity and five leaders convicted after witch-hunt trial
- CEOs “cashed out” prior to economic crisis
- Australian biotechnology company enforces cancer gene patent, restricting medical scanning
- UK photographic exhibition: Images of War
- Brighton Biennial exhibition focuses on war photography
2008-11-29
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Who is Paul Volcker? Obama appoints a longtime enemy of the working class
- Conservative Minister Damian Green’s arrest highlights worsening threat to democratic rights
- Terrorist siege of Mumbai ends after 59 hours
- Rachel Getting Married: Something, but not everything
- The Silence of the Quandts: The history of a wealthy German family
- Iceland: A portent of the future
- Iceland: Street protests against government and economic meltdown
- Australia: Control order to be lifted on David Hicks
- Britain: Hicham Yezza threatened with imminent deportation to Algeria
- Czech trade unions support mass redundancies in the auto industry
- Chinese president tours America’s “backyard”
- Canada: Conservatives provide austerity to workers, aid to banks
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