Archive: 04/2009
2009-04-01
- British Army chief ready to send more UK troops to Afghanistan
- Turkey: Municipal elections reveal deep socio-political divisions
- SEP campaigns among Sri Lankan rubber plantation workers
- Corruption and capitalist Russia
- Media backs Obama’s assault on US auto workers
- Former Pacific Islands trade official denounces Australian bullying
- OECD paints bleak picture of global economy
- Lions roaring in a well
- Stalinists woo Congress Party and BJP allies
- The collapse of the Cologne state archive building could have been prevented
- Detroit auto workers denounce Obama's concession demands
- The future of art in an age of crisis
2009-04-02
- Scientists issue dire warning on rising sea levels
- The Nation and “socialism”
- Najib Razak to take over as Malaysian prime minister
- US-Europe tensions erupt on eve of G20 summit
- Israel: Netanyahu threatens war on Iran, spurns “two-state solution”
- IMF and World Bank reports predict bleak future for Africa
- More than one billion to go hungry in 2009
- Letters from our readers
- The Combination: Australian stereotypes reinforced
- Australian government dilemma over Chinese investment
- France: Caterpillar workers detain bosses
- US commander seeks 10,000 more troops for Afghanistan
2009-04-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Video: Chrysler workers oppose Obama auto plan
- Germany: Union collaborates in job cuts at steelmaker ThyssenKrupp
- Germany: PSG collects 4,680 signatures to support European election campaign
- NATO celebrates 60th anniversary by expanding Central Asian war
- Obama’s “Path to Viability for GM & Chrysler”: The ruthless language of Wall Street
- Impending North Korean missile test raises regional tensions
- G20 summit: US and Europe paper over divisions
- Australia: Relations with China behind defence minister scandal
- Wall Street celebrates accounting rule changes designed to hide losses
- Australian military intelligence agency emerges in “Fitzgibbon affair”
- Detroit schools plan new round of closings, layoffs
2009-04-04
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Spain: Big business demands savage attacks on working class following bank crash
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns at hard-hit industrial estate
- Behind the surge on Wall Street
- Workers occupy car parts factories in England and Northern Ireland
- US unemployment rate hits 8.5 percent
- OECD report: German jobless to top 5 million in 2010
- A letter on engineering and the financial aristocracy
- Australia: “Closing the Gap”—another Rudd Labor fraud
- Wall Street Journal report: US executive perks “flourished” in 2008
- Court rules detainees in Afghanistan can challenge imprisonment
2009-04-06
- Three more mass shootings in the US
- Australian PM walks tightrope between rival powers at G20 summit
- RMT union sabotages London Midland rail dispute
- Rising unemployment and poverty in the Philippines
- Obama's Wall Street cabinet
- New York state budget deal: the worst attacks still to come
- NATO backs US escalation of war in Central Asia
- UN Security Council convened over North Korean missile test
- Britain: Calls for public inquiry into police brutality at G20 summit
- US nonprofit groups, cities lose millions in Wall Street derivative scams
2009-04-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan military captures last LTTE town
- Britain: No2EU and its rightwing bedfellows
- Britain: RMT rail union launches nationalist platform for European elections
- More than 230 migrants drown off Libyan coast
- The mass shootings in America
- Obama pursues US strategic interests in Turkey
- US Supreme Court rejects appeal by Mumia Abu-Jamal for new trial
- New York: Magna auto parts workers reject cutbacks in face of shutdown threat
- Indonesia’s elections: a stage-managed affair
- Budget-strapped Chicago public schools to implement staggered class schedules
- Letters from our readers
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac executives to receive millions in bonuses
2009-04-08
- Occupations at UK Visteon plants continue despite legal threats
- Sunshine Cleaning: A misplaced sense of where the drama (or comedy) lies
- Over two hundred victims in Italian earthquake
- Antarctic ice shelf collapse: climate change and capitalism
- US expands war into Pakistan
- Obama stages surprise visit amid renewed bloodshed in Iraq
- Who is responsible for the Libyan refugee boat tragedy?
- Italy: Berlusconi sets up a new right-wing party
- Israel’s military police dismiss allegations of misconduct in Gaza
- More assertive Chinese diplomacy at the G20 summit
2009-04-09
- Red Cross report details CIA war crimes
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns in Tamil suburb in Colombo
- Peru: President promises to protect foreign capital from social unrest
- The UAW’s silence
- Pentagon budget envisions a series of Iraq-style wars
- Former chairman of GM financial arm charged in Madoff-related fraud
- Britain: Militant construction workers blacklisted and denied employment
- Thousands march in Los Angeles to support immigrant rights
- Letters from our readers
- Jury finds Colorado professor was fired for political views
- Australian government prepares deep budget cuts
2009-04-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Supreme Court limits right of union workers to sue for discrimination
- Hijacking of US ship raises threat of intervention in Somalia
- The deindustrialization of Detroit
- Detroit to close another 23 schools this fall
- The looting of America
- Ontario won’t abide by its pension guarantees to auto workers
- France: Strike and occupation at FCI factory in its 45th day
- Unresolved status of Kirkuk heightens tensions in Iraq
- Demands $20 million in concessions from unions by May 1
- Britain: Evidence of fatal police assault at G20 demonstration
- Peru: Ex-President Fujimori sentenced to 25 years for “dirty war” killings
- G8 document on world hunger warns of global instability
- Economic decline deepens in Europe, with German exports in free fall
2009-04-11
- Obama seeks $83.4 billion to continue US wars
- Germany: ThyssenKrupp workers demonstrate against job losses and wage cuts
- The Obama administration and torture
- Mass layoffs threaten New York state and city employees
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kosovo: Evidence of KLA torture and murders revealed by BBC
- Congress Party drops two candidates implicated in 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom
- Socialist Equality Party candidate for the European election speaks to German radio
- Letters from our readers
- Australian government tinkers with CEO pay
2009-04-13
- Australia: Labor government unveils free-market agenda for higher education
- Thai government besieged by pro-Thaksin protestors
- Britain: Mass demonstrations protest Sri Lankan government’s civil war
- Obama administration ends Somali pirate standoff with lethal force
- Market illusions vs. the reality of capitalist crisis
- New York police attack protesting New School students
- Moldova: Violent protests in aftermath of elections
- Pentagon holds war game simulating world financial crisis
2009-04-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Anti-government protestors clash with soldiers in Thai capital
- Sweden: Over half a million face unemployment
- Obama claims credit for killing Somalis
- Long Beach, California school board votes for deep cuts
- Earthquake in Abruzzo exposes corruption in Italian building industry
- Ireland: Government unveils major budget cuts
- Fiji’s military junta consolidates power in defiance of Australian government
- Obama moves to block court access for detainees in Afghanistan
- Letters from our readers
- White House pushing GM toward bankruptcy
2009-04-15
- The “anti-terror” arrests in northwest England: what really lies behind them?
- Sri Lankan “ceasefire” sets stage for bloody assault
- France: Ségolène Royal fears return of “class struggle”
- The lessons of Thailand’s political upheaval
- Obama pledges more bank bailouts, cuts in social programs
- Georgia: Mass protests highlight political crisis in the Caucasus
- The struggle against centrism and the founding of the Fourth International
- State budget cuts in US produce widespread suffering
- US airstrike kills six civilians in Afghanistan
2009-04-16
- Media attacks California teachers
- Michigan: 16-year-old dies after police Taser shooting
- Sugar: baseball and struggle
- Obama and the pirates: the glorification of state violence
- Japan’s alarmist reaction to North Korean missile test
- BJP combines rank communal appeals with populist posturing
- US banks step up home foreclosures
- Australian defence paper classifies China as strategic threat
- Obama, automakers step up blackmail of GM and Chrysler workers
- Britain: Police make mass “preemptive” arrest of protesters in Nottingham
2009-04-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Visteon workers reject “derisory” redundancy offer
- GM and Chrysler workers oppose more concessions
- Obama visit signals increased role for Turkey and greater tensions
- Obama exonerates CIA torturers
- Media promotes right-wing “tea parties”
- Inadequate schooling in Sri Lanka’s plantations
- Australian media whips up anti-refugee campaign after asylum seeker boat tragedy
- Britain: More video evidence of police brutality during G20 protests
- Poland: 21 die in homeless shelter fire
- Socialism and American public opinion
- Germany: Union demands auto workers give up wage rise
- Obama at the Americas summit: A bid to revive US hegemony
- Voting begins in India’s multi-phase election
- Surge in foreclosures, production cuts signal deepening slump in US
- Support D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor
- Australia: Rudd pledges billions to protect banks from property crash
2009-04-18
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK Visteon workers speak on occupation
- Spain: Zapatero sacks finance minister
- San Diego imposes drastic cuts on city workers
- Head of Obama’s auto task force linked to investment fraud
- Socialist Equality Party (Germany) on the ballot for European Elections
- The criminalisation of political dissent in Britain
- New NSA domestic spying exposed as Obama stonewalls court challenges
- Torture memos reveal brutality of US imperialism
- Parents occupying Glasgow schools speak out
- Iceland: Social democrats and Left Greens pledge to continue coalition after elections
- Britain: Glasgow schools occupied against Labour closure threat
- Tamils demonstrate in Canberra against Sri Lankan military assault
- Letters from our readers
- China’s economy continues to slow
- Canada: Conservative and Liberal governments gang up against auto workers
- Behind the US banks’ profit reports
2009-04-20
- Germany: Further job losses follow Woolworth’s insolvency
- More revelations from Bush torture memos
- White House bars prosecution of Bush officials who authorized torture
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold final election meeting in Colombo
- South Africa: Charges dropped against Zuma in run-up to election
- Australia: Rudd government and unions back Qantas as it axes 1,750 jobs
- Iraq: the forgotten war
- New preview feature on Mehring Books
- Indonesian election favours incumbent president
- “The Aftermath of the December Greek Riots”
- The Columbine High School Massacre: American Pastoral...American Berserk
2009-04-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Obama reassures CIA no prosecutions planned
- Americas Summit ends with no agreement on economic crisis
- British Trotskyists challenge falsification of Spanish Civil War history
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns in impoverished Colombo suburb
- Obama’s adviser in Trinidad: the real face of “change”
- The significance of the European election
- Summary executions mount in Philippine city
- Torture and the crisis of American democracy
- Opel-General Motors breakup will mean plant closures and mass redundancies
- Scotland: Fatal helicopter crash raises concerns over offshore safety
- Letters from our readers
- General Motors accelerates job cuts as bankruptcy deadline approaches
- The future of art in an age of crisis
2009-04-22
- Torture memos provoke deepening political crisis
- Spain: Police repression against student protests
- Hundreds dead as Sri Lankan army launches final assault
- “Shutting Detroit Down”: Country singer John Rich sings about the crisis, but also spreads confusion
- Australia: Racism and the 47 Afghan asylum seekers
- Confidential Intelligence Unit: Unaccountable spying operation established in Britain
- Democratic defender of NSA spying was wiretapped in Israeli spy probe
- Right-wing nationalists win Northern Cyprus elections
- What the New York Times unwittingly reveals about the war in Afghanistan
2009-04-23
- British chancellor releases austerity budget in worst crisis since WWII
- France: Tamils arrested in protest against Sri Lankan mass killings
- Halt the war crimes in Sri Lanka
- Somali teen faces life sentence on piracy charges
- Bush, top cabinet officials monitored torture of detainees
- Britain: Third autopsy into G20 victim Ian Tomlinson’s death
- Letters from our readers
- Ahmadinejad speech provokes walkout at UN anti-racism conference
- Auto workers need a socialist strategy
- BBC bows once again before the pro-Israel lobby
- German “bad banks” plan to boost financial profits
2009-04-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- New York makes students pay for budget crisis
- Sri Lanka: Vote for the SEP in the provincial election
- Sin Nombre: The fate of Central American youth on their way to the US
- Chrysler Financial executives refused loans to avoid compensation caps
- US: New Screen Actors Guild leadership caves in to studios
- Australia: Unanswered questions about refugee boat tragedy
- Britain: Propaganda campaign mounted to justify brutal G20 policing
- Right wing threatens Obama over torture charges
- Obama meets with bank, credit card executives
- IMF issues grim forecasts for 2009
- Hungary: Change of government head augurs massive social attacks
- Turkey: Metal workers protest threat of wage cut
- China challenges US dominance in Latin America
- Chrysler could file for bankruptcy as early as next week
2009-04-25
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama, Democrats move to block torture investigation
- Thousands rally in Toronto against Liberals’ rescinding of pension guarantee
- Mounting civilian death toll in Sri Lankan war
- Sri Lankan SEP holds final election meeting
- Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009): Leading US surrealist and anthologist of André Breton dies
- Spain’s Socialist Party government suppresses torture probe of Bush officials
- US escalates threats against Pakistan
- Sri Lanka: Vote for the SEP in the provincial election
- US jobless claims soar, home sales decline
- French and German Continental workers protest against plant closures
- Letters from our readers
- China’s naval display points to deepening global rivalries
2009-04-27
- Sri Lankan government wins provincial poll
- Torture and Washington's policy of aggressive war
- New York man receives 6-year “terror” sentence for Hezbollah TV broadcasts
- Millions of Iraqis displaced
- Germany: Union leader warns of social unrest
- Sydney’s blackouts: another sign of decaying infrastructure
- SEP and WSWS hold first of three regional conferences
- Hillary Clinton makes crisis visit to Iraq
- Canadian Auto Workers union imposes draconian concessions on Chrysler workers
2009-04-28
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Britain: Another “terror scare” revealed as baseless
- US college students face mounting debts, diminishing job prospects
- State of Play: More of Washington’s conspiracies
- Sri Lankan government rejects UN ceasefire call
- Wall Street pay back to pre-crash levels
- Further evidence of huge Iraqi death toll
- World Bank president warns economic crisis poses “human calamity”
- Europe faces ever deepening recession
- British government denounced by charities for neglect of the poor
- France: Caterpillar workers in revolt against the unions
- Australia: Survivors of Victorian bushfires receive minimal compensation
- Defend jobs, wages and benefits! Vote “No” on Chrysler-UAW concessions! Oppose job cuts at GM!
2009-04-29
- British police spying operation caught on audio
- Thai government offers a small olive branch to opposition parties
- Sri Lankan SEP and ISSE to hold May Day meeting
- Obama’s 100 days
- What happened in the skies over New York City?
- Australia: Unions to police Labor’s new, employer-friendly industrial laws
- Washington’s concerns grow amid Iraqi anger over US raid
- Michigan auto workers denounce Chrysler-UAW concessions
- “We wanted to make realistic films about the GDR”
- Iceland: Social Democratic-led coalition secures victory in early elections
- Contract betrayal will give UAW majority ownership in Chrysler
- Jadup and Boel: The last banned film from the former East Germany
2009-04-30
- South Africa: Zuma’s victory expresses deepening class tensions
- Britain: Tories pledge “age of austerity”
- Sri Lankan military continues shelling “no-fire zone”
- Politics and economics dominate response to swine flu epidemic
- Berlin meeting launches SEP European election campaign
- Imperialist hypocrisy over the Sri Lankan war
- Pakistan: Tens of thousands displaced by US-ordered offensive
- US requests New Zealand SAS troops for war in Afghanistan
- Mexico: Epidemic deepens the social crisis
- Everlasting Moments: The world to be explored and preserved
- Wall Street rallies despite sharp contraction in US economy
- Letters from our readers
- Detroit American Axle plant to close
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