Archive: 01/2009
2009-01-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Britain: Financial pain and insecurity for millions of families in 2009
- Bad Faith: Bill Maher’s Religulous
- The crash of 2008 and the prospects for 2009
- German Chancellor Merkel defends Israeli onslaught on Gaza
- Israel rejects ceasefire calls and escalates attacks in Gaza
- Steiner, Brenner and Neo-Marxism: The Marcusean Component
- Australian university review proposes student vouchers
2009-01-03
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Russia cuts off Ukrainian gas supply
- Cuba marks 50th anniversary of revolution in shadow of world crisis
- US and global manufacturing collapsing
- Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dies at 70
- US blocks cease-fire, gives Israel carte blanche to continue killing in Gaza
- Six die in New Year’s Day house fire in Washington DC
- Doubt: Nothing ‘beautiful’ about this ‘question’
- Letters from our readers
- The decline of Austrian social democracy
- Bangladesh: Awami League wins election landslide after military regime relinquishes power
2009-01-05
- Sri Lanka: Fall of Kilinochchi marks turning point in civil war
- Harold Pinter: Independent and critical to the last
- Hands off Gaza!
- Thousands march through New York City as Israel invades Gaza
- Video: London demonstrators protest Israeli assault on Gaza
- The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
- Most job losses in US last year since 1945, with more to come
- India: Stalinists proclaim right-wing AIADMK a pillar of their “Third Front”
- Mary Elise Henehan (1925-2008)
- Civilian casualties mount as Israeli army slices through Gaza
- Australian demonstrations show solidarity with Palestinian people
2009-01-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Strathclyde Telegraph defends inflammatory attack on SEP as “fair comment”
- Obama stimulus plan to include major corporate tax cuts
- US: New reports of police spying on activist groups
- Rwanda: Perpetrators of genocide jailed
- US “surge” in Afghanistan threatens wider war
- Adam Haig responds to Alex Steiner’s burst of outrage
- Israel spreads death and destruction as it advances into Gaza
- More than 60 dead in New Year’s Eve fire in Bangkok
- Letters on some recent films: Religulous, Doubt, and Milk
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Too little made of a life led in reverse
2009-01-07
- Eyewitness report of metal factory occupation in Turkey
- Worldwide protest against Israeli violence in Gaza
- Israeli atrocities in Gaza: a political impasse and moral collapse
- Sri Lanka: SEP and ISSE public meeting to launch provincial election campaign
- New York concerts examine “lost music” of twentieth century
- Latvia bailed out by IMF and European Union
- General Motors cashes in on Australian car industry fund
- Germany: Open questions in the stabbing of police chief in Bavaria
- European diplomacy in Gaza crisis prepares trap for Palestinians
- France: Sarkozy moves to control public television
- Alcoa lays off 15,000, US economy moves toward depression
- US Congress opens under Democratic control
2009-01-08
- Ukraine-Russia gas dispute disrupts European supply
- Bush pushes through scores of reactionary “midnight regulations”
- Obama prepares sweeping cuts in social programs
- Obama inauguration: The rich and famous throw a $45 million party
- Recession in New Zealand deepens
- Nick Beams answers letters on Keynesianism
- India stages “martial law” elections in Kashmir
- Former Japanese air force chief justifies colonialism and militarism
- German Left Party creates new opportunity for the right in Hesse election
- Gaza death toll tops 700 as Israel prepares new escalation
- Letters on Israel’s assault on Gaza
- UAW opens concession talks with US automakers
- John Adams: A serious rendering of the American Revolution
2009-01-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- The brutal face of Israel’s “total war” on Gaza
- Russia-Ukraine gas dispute leaves thousands without heat
- Australia: Labor government backs Israeli assault on Gaza
- Britain: Bankruptcy and administration affect thousands of retail workers
- Obama’s stimulus plan: Another windfall for big business
- Senate Democrats endorse Israeli war crimes
- India ratchets up tensions with Pakistan over Mumbai attack
- Greek protest movement requires a socialist perspective
- Gran Torino: What school have film writers and directors passed through?
- Layoffs sweep through US corporations and small businesses
- Detroit: Hundreds rally against Israel atrocities
- Letters on Steiner, Brenner and Neo-Marxism: The Marcusean Component
- Millions face starvation in Afghanistan
2009-01-10
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Worst coal ash spill in US history ruins huge area in Tennessee
- Sri Lankan SEP stands in provincial elections to oppose war and attacks on democratic rights
- Russia-Ukraine gas dispute leaves thousands without heat
- The Reader: Entering into history light-mindedly
- A socialist answer to the Gaza crisis
- French Communist Party congress reveals advanced crisis
- US unemployment rate at 7.2 percent after biggest yearly job loss since 1945
- Israel rejects UN cease-fire, continues Gaza assault
- Gaza: The massacre in Zeitoun
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s government and opposition trumpet Israel’s “right” to wage endless war in Gaza
- Britain: Brown’s “New Deal” scuppered as it is launched
2009-01-12
- New US media campaign promotes military strike on Iran
- Washington’s criminal role in the Sri Lankan state’s anti-Tamil war
- California: Police shooting of unarmed man provokes outrage, fuels protests
- Britain: Tens of thousands protest Gaza assault
- Israel prepares to escalate its war on Gaza
- Germany: Temporary workers are first victims of recession
- Mass demonstrations in France against the Israeli assault on Gaza
- Thousands march in Washington and New York against Gaza assault
- 40,000 demonstrate in Germany against Israeli invasion of Gaza
- Belgium: New Year, new government, continuing crisis
- Falling exports and home sales: recession “baked in Australia’s cake”
2009-01-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Further slump in Turkey’s industrial output
- Perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party in 2009
- Sri Lankan death squads kill editor and ransack TV station
- Russian gas supplies through Ukraine resume
- Obama signals continuity with US torture regime
- The New York Times and the Gaza crisis: Israeli war propaganda in the guise of news
- Trotsky’s home in exile in Norway
- US: Carbon monoxide deaths on the rise as economy sours
- Merkel’s stimulus package: a pact with German big business
- World economic crisis and the perspective of Marxism
- Protests denounce Israeli assault on Gaza and Canadian government complicity
- Eighth Australian soldier dies in Afghanistan amid calls to boost troop numbers
2009-01-14
- Obama, Bush team up behind another $350 billion for the banks
- Israel’s war on Gaza and the role of the Middle East bourgeoisie
- Greek prime minister reshuffles cabinet
- German navy in operations off Somalia
- Israeli military escalates assault on Gaza City
- France: Dray scandal hits student, anti-racist groups
- No fanfare to mark 30 years of China’s market reform
- Sculptor Louise Bourgeois: A year of events celebrating her life and work
- Australian government calls for wage cuts to “save jobs”
2009-01-15
- US tortured Guantanamo prisoners, Army judge admits
- It’s all right to be resigned to your fate: Sam Mendes’s Revolutionary Road
- UAW accepts government ban on strikes
- Indonesian courts acquit general of killing human rights activist
- US Justice Department rulings target immigrants’ legal rights
- Britain: Free school meals denied to one million children
- Left Party in Berlin supports Israeli war on Gaza
- Indian government savagely suppresses oil and truck-driver strikes
- Britain: Prince Harry and the “P” word
- Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza
- Thousands displaced in Fiji by severe flooding
- Citigroup downsizes as US and global bank crisis deepens
- Hillary Clinton touts “smart power” in pursuit of US imperialist aims
2009-01-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Eastern Europe left in the cold
- US Senate votes another $350 billion to bail out the banks
- The school of hard knocks: Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire
- Sarkozy's “new capitalism”
- New York state workers rally against Paterson’s budget cuts
- An exercise in delusion: Murdoch lauds a new “golden age” of the “free market”
- Latvia rocked by protests
- Israeli military lays siege to Gaza City
- At least 200 drown in latest Indonesian ferry disaster
- In farewell speech, Bush insists “war on terror” must continue
2009-01-17
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lanka: SEP and ISSE hold meeting in Colombo to launch election campaign
- Students at two London universities occupy campuses in protest at Gaza attacks
- The social paradox in the “miraculous” rescue on the Hudson
- From Bush to Obama: On the eve of a “seamless transition”
- Build a socialist alternative for the working class
- Amid talk of cease-fire, eyewitness accounts describe Israel’s destruction of Gaza
- US home foreclosures mount as recession deepens
- A chronicle of US war crimes
- Letters from our readers
- German government takes stake in Commerzbank
- Canadian Auto Workers union dismantles blockade at parts plant
2009-01-19
- The case for nationalizing the banks
- Obama’s team: A right-wing cabinet for a government of big business
- Video: WSWS interviews London protesters
- Irish economy disintegrates
- Immokalee U.S.A.: Bleak but sympathetic view of migrant farmworkers’ conditions
- Protests held in UK cities in solidarity with people of Gaza
- German government adopts second stimulus package
- Israel to keep troops in Gaza following ceasefire announcement
- Cold snap cuts water, power to thousands in US
- Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
- Australia: Thousands rally for Gaza in nationwide demonstrations
- Behind Apple’s decision to drop anti-copying measures in iTunes
2009-01-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Government report calls for scrapping cap on university fees
- Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
- Salute: A moving tribute
- Once more on the crisis in the Screen Actors Guild
- US: Pittsburgh protest against atrocities in Gaza
- On the eve of Obama’s inauguration
- Film director Matt Norman speaks with WSWS
- Letters on “The social paradox in the ‘miraculous’ rescue on the Hudson”
- Germany: Hesse Left Party in crisis
- Reports reveal devastation wreaked by Israeli military in Gaza
- Donate to the World Socialist Web Site
- France: Thousands demonstrate against education cuts
- Poverty wages for day laborers recruited for inauguration
- UNICEF report: Half a million women die from pregnancy complications each year
- Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
- Britain: Local authorities slash jobs and social services
- More civilian casualties in Afghanistan
2009-01-21
- Prayers for Bobby: Blurring out the most painful aspects
- Obama’s inaugural address: Amid banalities, a call for austerity
- The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
- State election in Hesse: A vote against the German grand coalition
- Israeli military says complete withdrawal from Gaza “out of the question”
- US markets plummet as banks falter and world slump deepens
- Thousands demonstrate in German city of Duisburg against Gaza onslaught
- Bush commutes sentences of two US Border Patrol agents
- China dispatches warships to Somali waters
- California in dire financial straits
- Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
- British government mounts new bank bailout amid warnings of economic collapse
- British defence secretary prepares escalation in Afghanistan
2009-01-22
- Bertrand Tavernier speaks with the WSWS
- Bowing to the right on Inauguration Day
- Letters on WSWS coverage of the incoming Obama administration
- Britain: Auto industry and suppliers shed jobs
- The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
- Mass layoffs predicted as Indonesian economy slows
- Israel withdraws from Gaza as evidence of war crimes emerges
- Obama pick for treasury secretary tells Senate: Trillions for the banks, austerity for the people
- More letters from our readers
- Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
- The Bolsheviks in Power
- The rebuilding of the Berlin City Palace
- Belarus receives $2.5 billion IMF loan
2009-01-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Obama’s libel against the American people
- The New York Times and Obama’s inauguration
- Lawyer and human rights activist Stanislav Markelov murdered in Moscow
- Obama's orders leave framework of torture, indefinite detention intact
- German banks demand billions more from the government
- World Court rules US execution of Mexican national defied international law
- Latest US housing, jobless figures far worse than economists anticipated
- A letter on cutbacks at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Second Danish bank bailout in four months
- Behind the times: the nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards
2009-01-24
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Britain: Demands for nationalization of banks from sections of big business
- The rise and fall of Wall Street’s John Thain
- SEP opposes Sri Lankan government’s ban on LTTE
- New York governor taps right-wing Democrat to fill Clinton’s Senate seat
- Obama administration stokes up trade tensions with China
- The New York Times and Obama’s inauguration
- Iceland: Angry protests over economy force early elections
- Obama’s new foreign policy team prepares escalated bloodletting in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Widespread anger in Egypt at Mubarak regime
- Canadian Auto Workers union lobbies for military contracts
2009-01-26
- Ukraine and Russia reach gas agreement
- US moves to consolidate new supply routes to Afghanistan
- Obama stimulus plan won’t meet job-creation target
- The Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front
- The New York Times’ Frank Rich: Obama is right—the people are to blame
- The crisis in Eastern Europe and the lessons of 1989
- US: Economic crisis forces families to cut back on healthcare
- Economic crisis unleashes violent protests across Eastern Europe
- Canada: Vital lessons from last month’s political crisis
- Australian government hopes recession will produce military “recruitment bonanza”
- Afghanistan civilians killed in US military raid
2009-01-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP holds election meeting in Sri Lankan plantation district
- The capitalist market and Obama’s stimulus plan
- Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer: Documentary on famed vocalist
- Ireland: Anglo Irish Bank taken into state ownership
- India: Gigantic corporate fraud at Satyam Computers deals body-blow to Indian elite’s global ambitions
- Greek farmers protest government and EU policies
- Spain: Montserrat Martínez and her campaign to discover the truth about Franco’s mass graves
- Bloody Monday: 74,000 layoffs announced in one day
- Ground zero: the impact of the DHL shutdown on Wilmington, Ohio
- Letters from our readers
- Global recession triggers sharp downturn in Australia
2009-01-28
- Video: “So many thousands of unknown nameless people”—Franco's mass graves
- UK: Thousands more workers lose their jobs
- Hundreds dead as Sri Lankan military creates humanitarian disaster
- Insolvency of German microchip manufacturer threatens 12,000 jobs
- Investigate US torture and prosecute those responsible
- Protests over economic crisis topple Icelandic government
- Spain: Montserrat Martínez and her campaign to discover the truth about Franco’s mass graves
- BBC refuses to show emergency relief appeal for Gaza
- French workers need a socialist perspective to fight the economic crisis
- More major layoffs hit US economy
- Video: Bay City, Mich.: “Shutting somebody's electricity off in the dead of winter is criminal”
- Michigan man, 93, freezes to death after city cuts off electricity
- French car industry bailout: a new attack on the working class
2009-01-29
- Funeral for Michigan man frozen following utility shut-off
- Novelist John Updike dead at 76: Was he a “great novelist”?
- Murder-suicide in Southern California leaves seven family members dead
- House of Representatives passes Obama “stimulus” bill
- The firing of Screen Actors Guild chief negotiator Doug Allen
- Hundreds of refugees perish at hands of Thai army
- Troops out of north and eastern Sri Lanka!
- Growing opposition to Italian government’s xenophobic campaign
- Over 170,000 on short-time working in German auto industry
- Israel bombs Gaza-Egypt border
- Obama’s program of war
- IMF expects global economy to come to “virtual halt” in 2009
- Letters on a tragic death
- Canada: Liberals to support Conservative budget
- Unanswered questions remain in freezing death of 93-year-old Michigan man
2009-01-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Britain: Student occupations protest Gaza war
- Union bureaucracy victimizes militants at Turkish factories
- Journalists flee Sri Lanka amid violent attacks and government threats
- The rising tide of economic nationalism
- Oregon unemployment hits 9 percent with worse expected
- Michigan unemployment benefits system in crisis
- France’s Left Party tries to reorganize French bourgeois left
- Mass strikes and protests in France against joblessness and austerity measures
- Detroit area electricians protest job cuts
- Latest US economic data confirms accelerating contraction
- California pension funds close to bankruptcy
- After freezing death of 93-year-old, Michigan city suspends electricity shutoffs
2009-01-31
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan SEP takes election campaign to Puttalam
- Los Angeles public school teachers protest budget cuts and layoffs
- Gloom, perplexity, divisions dominate World Economic Forum in Davos
- More than a million without power in US following major ice storm
- Obama’s calculated anger over Wall Street bonuses
- Social democrats to lead new Icelandic government
- France: Socialist Party proposes “counter stimulus plan”
- France: Ruling circles shaken by the extent of January 29 protests
- Worst US economic contraction in quarter century
- Defiance: Those who did not “wait for God”
- Letters from our readers
- Removal of Illinois governor leaves unanswered questions
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