Archive: 12/2008
2008-12-01
- Britain: Woolworths and MFI go bust
- Airport occupations bring Thailand to political breaking point
- Sri Lankan SEP marks 70th anniversary of Fourth International
- First images taken of extrasolar planets
- Mumbai atrocity: the dead end of communal politics
- Obama’s cabinet selections win praise from the right
- Kosovo’s dirty secret: the background to Germany’s Secret Service affair
- Economic downturn produces budget crisis in Illinois
- Clever, all too clever: Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York
- New York City: Financial meltdown brings Bloomberg term-limit maneuvers into focus
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet Historiography, and the Fate of Classical Marxism
2008-12-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UAW pledges to impose further job losses and concessions on auto workers
- Revealing Australia’s dark past—The Secret War: A True History of Queensland’s Native Police
- Obama’s national security team and the failure of American democracy
- After the Mumbai siege, India-Pakistan tensions rise
- Pentagon to deploy 20,000 troops on domestic “anti-terror” mission
- Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky: A film about life and people being worth something
- Britain: The political issues raised by the arrest of Damian Green MP
- US stock market plunges 680 points on signs of severe recession
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s minority Conservative government on brink of collapse
- Berlin education senator and police criminalise student demonstration
2008-12-03
- Venezuela: Divided election points to sharpening social struggle
- Thai court dismisses the government
- More military vessels dispatched to Somalia
- Australia: State provocations, security and Socialist Alternative
- US Congress, Big Three, UAW conspire against auto workers
- Obama warns US governors of “hard choices”
- Sharp conflicts in Europe over economic stimulus program
- Canada’s “putsch”: Oppose Conservative power-grab! No support to Liberal-NDP coalition!
- Quantum of Solace: James Bond vs. imperialism
- Boeing: Professional workers vote to accept contract
2008-12-04
- Layoffs soar as US plunges deeper into recession
- Washington exploits Mumbai attack to promote “war on terror”
- Uncovering the truth about Trotsky and the Russian Revolution “continues to run my life”
- Security agreements mean Iraq occupation will continue to 2012 and beyond
- Republican wins Georgia Senate race as Obama lies low
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s “putsch”: Oppose Conservative power-grab! No support to Liberal-NDP coalition!
- The tragic death of Baby P
- In bid for loans, Detroit auto makers outline plans for drastic downsizing
- Australian economy on edge of recession
- 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror
2008-12-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Canada’s constitutional coup: A warning to the working class
- Germany: Jobs and wages cut at Opel
- Tensions between leading European nations and US following NATO meeting
- An interview with British filmmaker Mike Leigh
- Opel workers in Germany: “Nobody knows what will happen next”
- US backing for India fuels tensions with Pakistan
- Britain: Police broke the law in raid on Damian Green’s parliamentary office
- China’s economic growth rate continues to tumble
- Fiscal emergency declared in California
- Brazil-Ecuador clash bares tensions between “left” governments
- Senate hearing sets the stage for the impoverishment of US autoworkers
2008-12-06
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The rise and fall of Highland Park, Michigan
- New York Times bares Obama’s campaign lies on Iraq war
- Buyer beware! Obama named “Marketer of the Year”
- US payrolls shrank by more than half a million in November
- US: The social and historical roots of the Highland Park fire tragedy
- Crisis grips German auto industry
- Australia: The DSP split and Socialist Alliance—another opportunist debacle
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s “constitutional coup” and the corporate media
- The Canadian auto “bailout”: CAW to impose sweeping concessions
- Afghanistan: A rise in civilian deaths and foreign troop fatalities
2008-12-08
- Turkey hit hard by international finance crisis
- Québec solidaire: Quebec's “left” party in the orbit of the big business PQ
- Obama’s Team of Reactionaries
- Obama calls for “shared burdens” in US economic crisis
- In response to economic crisis, Australian government bolsters “national security”
- Tense India-Pakistan standoff continues
- Riots break out in Greece after police shoot 15-year-old boy
- US: Higher education costs soar
- Chicago workers occupy plant set to close
- British pound falls to new lows on currency markets
2008-12-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- War, poverty cause high rates of mental illness in Sri Lanka
- Sharp economic downturn in the Philippines
- A great step forward
- Milk, identity politics and Gus Van Sant’s art
- Reply to an anti-Trotskyist rant over SEP candidate’s appearance in Scotland
- Australia: Big business and unions line up behind Labor’s “fair work” laws
- US companies announce more mass layoffs
- German interior minister presses for new repressive police laws
- French government’s emergency budget deepens social divide
- Letters from our readers
- Insurgent attacks on NATO trucks highlight US military crisis in Afghanistan
2008-12-10
- Sydney Opera House architect, Jørn Utzon dies
- The US, Pakistan and the “terrorist” Hamid Gul
- Republic Windows and Door workers speak on their struggle
- 9/11 guilty pleas expose Guantánamo kangaroo court
- Protests and riots in Greece precipitate political crisis
- Spain: The collapse of the investigation into Franco-era crimes
- Canada: Liberal-NDP coalition would be a tool of big business
- Video: WSWS report on Chicago factory occupation
- Workers occupy Chicago factory for fifth day
- Canada: “Progressive coalition” rallies fail to denounce constitutional coup
- Five Blackwater mercenaries face manslaughter charges in Baghdad massacre
- “Car Czar” to slash wages, jobs of US autoworkers
- Australian SAS units function as death squads in Afghanistan
2008-12-11
- Thai military plays key role in forming new government
- Quebec elections: Liberals win bare majority in record-low turnout
- European Union in crisis
- Pakistan rounds up suspects in Mumbai attacks
- Britain: Labour seeks draconian congestion charge for Greater Manchester
- The Writer and Revolution: WSWS arts editor David Walsh in conversation with Trevor Griffiths
- Children displaced by Katrina face severe health risks
- Video: “The Writer and Revolution” Part 1
- General strike, spreading protests rock Greek government
- Rally for Republic Windows and Glass workers in Chicago
- Bush returns to West Point to defend doctrine of aggressive war
- Democratic governor arrested in Illinois corruption probe
- After billions in state aid, Bavarian State Bank sheds thousands of jobs
- Doctors declare Australian hospital system on the brink of collapse
2008-12-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian welfare agencies warn of growing social crisis
- Wije Dias addresses Sri Lankan university students on global economic crisis
- Lessons of the Chicago factory occupation
- Workers occupy auto parts plant in northern Germany
- Britain: Right wing newspapers demand massive cuts in public spending
- South Korean economy heading toward negative growth in 2009
- Video: “The Writer and Revolution” Part 2
- US: Relatives of September 11 victims condemn Guantánamo show trial
- Germany: Gulf between rich and poor is rapidly widening
- US jobless claims soar to 26-year high
- WSWS speaks with Greek protesters in Berlin
- Bush, Democratic auto bailout fails in Senate, talks continue
2008-12-13
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Senate torture report confirms Bush, top officials guilty of war crimes
- Thousands of jobs threatened in Swedish auto industry
- SAG to hold strike vote: the issues facing screen actors
- North Asian summit: an empty show of unity
- Germany: Opel works council demands planned wage cut be kept secret
- The deaths of singers Miriam Makeba and Odetta
- Nearly 1 billion of world’s people face chronic hunger
- New protests in Athens, solidarity actions across Europe
- National interests dominate at EU summit in Brussels
- Letters from our readers
- Canada in the week since the Conservatives’ constitutional coup
- White House signals aid after auto loan bill stalls in Senate
- US military prepares for Obama’s expansion of Afghan war
- Washington urges Canada to wage war in Afghanistan beyond 2011
2008-12-15
- Tribune Company files for bankruptcy
- Los Angeles teachers protest budget cuts
- US retail giants utilize software programs to drive productivity
- Court acquits police officers implicated in asylum-seeker’s death
- Europe’s ruling elite fear the “contagion” from Greece
- Britain: Financial crisis threatens pensions and retirement plans
- Nick Beams presents Marxist analysis of global economic breakdown to Australian audiences
- Audience members discuss Nick Beams’s lecture
- A public discussion on the crisis in the auto industry
- China on the verge of unemployment explosion
- 30 years since the death of Jacques Brel: his life, his art, his legacy
- Questions in the affair of Illinois Governor Blagojevich
- A socialist policy for auto workers
- Mining crash signals “unmitigated disaster” for Australian economy
2008-12-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Schumer vs. Blagojevich: No match when it comes to corruption
- The Madoff scandal
- Pakistan: Conditions attached to IMF “bailout” will exacerbate slump and poverty
- New Zealand: Job cuts mount as recession deepens
- Britain: Jury verdict over killing of Jean Charles de Menezes demolishes police lies
- Letters on WSWS arts editor David Walsh’s trip to Britain
- Eyewitness reports police violence against Athens protesters
- Greece: Police crack down as government and opposition seek to isolate mass protests
- Obama’s defence appointee signals continuing US belligerence
- Bush’s “victory” visit to Iraq meets with contempt and protest
- Major US publisher not buying new books
- US government bailouts: poverty wages for auto workers, trillions for bankers
2008-12-17
- Iraqi government seeks criminal prosecution of anti-Bush protestor
- Studs Terkel, American writer and documentarian, dead at 96
- University of Manchester ISSE hear report on international economic crisis
- Steelmakers threaten production cuts and plant closures worldwide
- Sri Lankan president issues threat against Supreme Court judges
- US: Blagojevich scandal points to unions’ corrupt relations with Democrats
- US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to near zero
- Concessions imposed on Pittsburgh, Penn. bus drivers
- Praise from Cheney for Obama’s national security team
- Wall Street’s crisis spells deepening attacks on average New Yorkers
- Australia: Police gun down 15-year-old boy
- “The bailout is for the rich, we are the ones who pay for it”
- China slumps as global recession deepens
- Canada plunging into recession
2008-12-18
- Utilities cut off to 1 in 20 US households in 2007
- British economy sinks like a stone
- Recession looms for Turkish economy as job losses accelerate
- Third new Thai government installed in four months
- Why the UAW and the Democrats are pushing economic nationalism
- Obama names more cabinet secretaries—a continued march to the right
- Madoff collapse has global impact
- Baz Luhrmann’s Australia: a superficial jumble
- Japanese government flounders amid worsening recession
- Hunger and homelessness grow across US cities
- Letters from our readers
- Video: Michigan Chrysler workers denounce pay cuts
- Britain: Brown announces pull-out from Iraq, more troops to Afghanistan
- Bush administration stalls on bailout
2008-12-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Obama, in a ‘slap in the face,’ invites right-wing evangelist to the inauguration
- German auto parts industry hit by bankruptcies
- Sri Lanka: Heavy fighting in battle for Kilinochchi
- Obama picks Wall Street insider to head main regulatory agency
- The political issues posed by the mass protests in Greece
- The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis
- France: The LCR and the unions betray planned rail strike
- Ontario auto sector report warns of catastrophic job losses
- Voters reject Hindu supremacist BJP’s attempt to exploit Mumbai atrocity
- Eyewitness report from Athens, Greece
- Border repression and Democratic hypocrisy:
- Government postpones French high school reform
- Dollar plunges after record rate cut by US Federal Reserve
- France: high school students protest education reform
- UK: Trade unions at Corus offer yet another pay cut
- WSWS speaks to Chrysler workers on plant closures
- Canadian auto workers must join with US and Mexican workers to advance a socialist alternative
- Australian building workers demand abolition of hated policing agency
2008-12-20
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan army head provokes diplomatic furore
- Capitalism and the auto crisis
- The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis
- Falling oil prices shatter Iraqi budget forecasts
- Iceland faces rising unemployment and rampant inflation
- Hunger mounts in the US
- Greece: Student protests target Karamanlis government
- German court provides legal stamp for hard labour
- Letters on Bush’s trip to Iraq
- California budget crisis triggers halt to infrastructure projects
- The blues in Chicago: Cadillac Records
- New York state budget cuts target working class
2008-12-22
- Report to SEP meeting: “Auto workers must resist government-corporate demand for poverty wages”
- Ukraine’s “Orange” elite reunites to impose IMF-dictated austerity measures
- “This is more than a protest, it is an anti-capitalist movement”
- Faces of foreclosure in Pittsburgh
- A union in name only
- The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis—Part 3
- SEP holds public meeting on crisis in the auto industry
- Mass layoffs expected in Greece
- French president proposes repressive “reform” of mental health care
- Historical usage of cluster munitions: a weapon to terrorize civilian populations
- Growing signs of workers’ unrest in China
- US, Israel, other military powers refuse to sign cluster munitions treaty
- US to double military forces in Afghanistan
- Australia: Hundreds of jobs to be axed as childcare centres close
2008-12-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pay cuts, layoffs mount in US
- Sri Lankan government and Supreme Court clash over fuel pricing
- US: The crisis in the Screen Actors Guild and the need for a new political perspective
- Obama, the military and the threat of dictatorship
- The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis—Part 4
- Indian minister condemned for urging probe into killing of police chief during Mumbai
- Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon: Trivializing a war criminal
- Letters from our readers
- Australian Labor government’s 2020 carbon emissions target: a declaration of impotence on climate change
- Britain: Labour government white paper introduces draconian attacks on benefit claimants
- UAW beginning talks with GM on concessions
- Australian job losses spread to mining sector
2008-12-24
- Waltz With Bashir: “Memory takes us where we need to go”
- Press reports document criminality of US financial elite
- US looks for other Afghan supply routes
- The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis
- To the memory of Adrian Mitchell
- Toyota losses highlight global auto collapse
- India: Honda workers wage tenacious struggle to defend their jobs
- Berlin Forum for Security Policy—popularising war once again
- Five New Jersey men convicted in FBI-concocted Fort Dix “terror” case
- Australian bank fiasco—a warning of “tougher times” ahead
- GM closes plants in Wisconsin and Ohio
- Canadian Auto Workers union embraces “bailout” and further concessions
- Britain: A revealing exchange on a national unity government
2008-12-27
- The Wrestler: Vigorous, but opaque
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lanka: The battle for Kilinochchi continues
- Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt, artists and opponents of imperialist war
- France: Jean-Luc Mélenchon launches the Left Party
- US: Christmas marked by declining sales as unemployment climbs
- Britain: New wave of human BSE/vCJD feared
- Australia: Growing opposition to Labor’s Internet censorship
- California: Budget crisis hits state employees with layoffs, unpaid furloughs
- Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British general strike
2008-12-29
- Turkish trade unions collaborate in imposing poverty wages
- American painter Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008: Avant-garde to Pop
- Australian police shoot another vulnerable person
- Washington bears guilt for Gaza war crimes
- Amid rising tensions, Pakistan moves troops to Indian border
- Indian parliament rushes through draconian “anti-terror” laws
- US: Homelessness on the rise in San Francisco
- Australia: Haneef “terrorism” inquiry produces a whitewash
- La Fille Coupée En Deux, the new film from Claude Chabrol
- Israel threatens ground invasion of Gaza
- House fire in Philadelphia kills seven
- Rates of hospital-acquired infection rising in Canada
2008-12-30
- Zimbabwe: Cholera death toll rises
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Demand for emergency welfare relief “dramatically spikes” in Sydney
- SAG leadership postpones strike authorization vote
- The Gaza crisis and the perspective of permanent revolution
- Third day of Israeli attacks deepens anger of Arab masses
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese regime rediscovers the working class
- Israel inflicts mass suffering on Palestinian population
- US: Economic stress drives rise in child abuse and domestic violence
2008-12-31
- New Thai prime minister takes office amid continuing protests
- The New York Times and Gaza: Justifying genocide
- Australia: Thousands rally against Israeli Gaza attacks
- Irish banks bailed out as economy unravels
- The crisis of the Greek government and the role of the “left”
- Israel continues to pound Gaza as troops mass on border
- David Walsh selects his favorite films of 2008
- East Timor: Political tensions mount over Greater Sunrise gas pipeline
- Year-end data shows deeper slump in US
- Protest in Dearborn, Michigan denounces Israeli attack on Gaza
- Canada’s ‘newspaper of record’ calls for Canada to wage Afghan war beyond 2011
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