Archive: March 2007
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
1 March 2007
- A third Renault worker commits suicide in France
- Airbus workers in France, Germany strike against massive job cuts
- Britain: Blair seeks to deepen military alliance with Washington
- Fiji: Pacific Islands Forum report urges coup leader to stand aside
- ISSE meeting in Richmond, Virginia: “Iraq, Iran and the eruption of American militarism”
- New Zealand prime minister “abstains” over Iraq occupation
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Cheney huddles with Musharraf and Karzai
US faces mounting crisis in Afghanistan - US soldiers detain prominent Iraqi ally: a warning to governing parties to toe the line
2 March 2007
- Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the struggle to end the British slave trade
- Campaign builds for ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
- Italian Pabloites back Prime Minister Prodi in Senate confidence vote
- Judge rules Jose Padilla competent for trial
- The JetBlue fiasco: Private profit vs. the public interest
- Two East Timorese protestors killed by Australian troops
- US to join Iran at international talks: another round of threats and ultimatums
- Wild swings on Wall Street
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
3 March 2007
- India’s Congress Party suffers major election reversals
- Letters from our readers
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NSW state election campaign:
Morris Iemma, Bob Carr and the “war on terror” - Prominent French intellectuals rally to presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy
- Sri Lankan government exploits attack on foreign delegation to intensify war
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Army Secretary resigns, soldiers gagged
Washington tries to quash scandal over neglect of wounded troops - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 March 2007
- Food industry implicated in Britain’s bird flu outbreak
- Highway massacre sparks anti-US protests in Afghanistan
- Iranian president’s Saudi Arabian visit fails to lessen tensions
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57th Berlin Film Festival—Part 1
Stumbling over political and historical themes - Thai junta’s “reconciliation” fails to stem separatist insurgency
- US severe poverty highest in three decades
6 March 2007
- Australia: SEP public meetings launch NSW state election campaign
- Fijian military junta imposes austerity budget
- Letters from our readers
- Los Angeles hospitals investigated for “dumping” homeless patients
- New Zealand’s Labour-led government loses parliamentary majority
- Socialism and the struggle against US militarism
- The March 26 Quebec elections and the Canadian elite’s turn to the right
- Wall Street drools over prospect of capturing Iraq oil wealth
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 March 2007
- Antiwar forum in Berlin: silence on role of US Democrats in Iraq war
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International Students for Social Equality
Australia: ISSE holds meetings at New South Wales campuses - Australian government declares it owes no legal duty to Guantánamo detainee David Hicks
- Bush mouths support for “social justice” while asserting US interests in Latin America
- Former Japanese PM advises unpopular Abe to ignore public opinion
- One-quarter or one-third of an understanding: Breaking and Entering; not much of anything: Breach
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Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
October 12, 1969-February 28, 2007 -
Victim of 1974 frame-up in Louisiana
Renewed calls for the freedom of Gary Tyler - Washington jury convicts top Cheney aide of four felonies
8 March 2007
- An answer to the attacks launched by Airbus
- An exchange on Amazing Grace and the British slave trade
- Australia: Damning report on IR laws’ impact on wages and conditions
- British Army used under-18-year-old soldiers in Iraq occupation
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Allies in imposing misery and reaction
Bush and Lula meet to discuss biofuel deal - China boosts military spending: signs of a US-fuelled arms race
- France: Thousands of Airbus workers strike and demonstrate in defence of jobs
- Germany: Release of ex-Red Army Faction terrorists sparks hysterical debate
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ISSE/SEP meetings on the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq
Iraq, Iran and the eruption of American militarism - Inaugural ISSE meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
- Letters from our readers
- World Socialist Web Site publishes antiwar statement in Farsi
9 March 2007
- An exchange of letters on the role of religion in the US
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A revealing political divide
Australia: SEP candidate addresses climate change meeting - Democrats “withdrawal” plan paves way to escalation of Iraq war
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Iraq war resister convicted in Germany
Increasing numbers of US soldiers refuse to serve in Iraq - More than 300 seized in Massachusetts immigration raid
- New York City fire tragedy kills eight children, one adult
- Press barred from Guantánamo hearings
- The NSW state elections and the climate change debate
- Vermont towns vote for Bush-Cheney impeachment
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
10 March 2007
- 15,000 take to streets of Sao Paulo against Bush, as protest leaders defend Lula
- Forbes 2007 list: Nearly one thousand billionaires in the world, a misfortune for humanity
- Germany: New university tuition fees threaten students with poverty
- Letters demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler
- London: The rich get so much richer under Blair
- New York Times promotes “escape” to Israel
- US military begins operations in Baghdad’s Sadr City
- Under pressure from Washington, IAEA votes to penalise Iran
- Walter Reed scandal lifts lid on neglect of wounded US troops
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 March 2007
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Blair’s offensive against welfare
Government by the rich, for the rich - Detention of three leftists by Sri Lankan government signals new round of state repression
- FBI conducted illegal spying on tens of thousands
- Grief, shock and anger over New York fire that killed 10
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A revealing encounter in the halls of Congress
Leading Democrat denounces “idiot liberals” for demanding cutoff of war funds -
New Yorkers speak out about Bronx House Fire:
“It’s like the devil is running the country.” - No easing of US-Iranian tensions after Baghdad conference
- Turkey: depressed prices sparking farmers protests
13 March 2007
- Australia: “Brian Burke affair” reveals decay of establishment parties
- Australian troops escalate repression in East Timor
- Black Snake Moan and Zodiac: No diamonds in the rough
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Demands additional 8,200 troops, $3.2 billion
Bush calls Democrats bluff on war funding resolution -
Deutsche Telekom to outsource 55,000 jobs
Increased working hours and wage cuts - Mass strike movement in Guinea
- Right-wing furor demanding pardon for convicted Cheney aide
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 March 2007
- 24, torture and prime-time US television
- Australia: Labor and Liberal plan NSW public sector job cuts
- Big fall on Wall Street as mortgage debt problems grow
- Democrats drop demand that Bush seek approval for war on Iran
- Quebec elections 2007: Quebec Federation of Labour officially backs Parti Québécois
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Southern Poverty Law Center report
Slave labor conditions under US guestworker program - Targetting Tehran: the case of the missing Iranian general
- UN rapporteur says Israel’s occupation of Palestine resembles apartheid
- US Joint Chiefs chairman declares homosexuality “immoral”
15 March 2007
- Condolences on the death of Comrade Senthil from the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka
- Demands mount for Gonzales’s resignation over US attorneys purge
- Germany to deploy Tornado jet fighters to Afghanistan
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Soldiers, families speak at Walter Reed public hearing
Government indifference, cost-cutting compound ravages of war for wounded US troops - India’s burgeoning ambitions in space
- Presidential election contest in France: Panic grips the Socialist Party
- Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French nation
- Science, religion and society: Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion
- Stop the carve-up of Chrysler! For workers’ control and public ownership of the auto industry!
16 March 2007
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A visit to the Airbus factory in Méaulte, France
Workers reject nationalism of the trade unions - Australian state election: Major parties ignore public school decay
- Condolences on the death of Comrade Senthil from the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
- Eric Hobsbawm on the Spanish Civil War: an anti-historical tirade
- Mass outpouring of support for victims of New York City fire
- The Bush administration manoeuvres to unseat Iraqi government
- The significance of the World Court ruling on genocide in Bosnia
- Under pressure from investors, Thai junta continues to back pedal on economic policy
- Washington exploits Guantánamo “confession” to justify its crimes
- West Bengal Stalinist regime perpetrates peasant massacre
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
17 March 2007
- Assam, India: Separatists’ killing of migrants provides pretext for continuing state repression
- Australia: SEP candidate Noel Holt raises vital issues at Newcastle business forum
- French elections—Olivier Besancenot: “I was never a Trotskyist”
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“But the Emperor has no clothes!”
French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies in Paris - Ghosts—a harrowing and honest depiction of modern slavery
- If elected, Hillary Clinton vows to keep US troops in Iraq
- Letters from our readers
- Planned US missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic intensify European tensions
- US auto union prepares to hand over massive concessions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 March 2007
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Day of action in Hamburg
Airbus union leaders turn rally over to right-wing politicians - Another damning admission from the New York Times: whitewashing Iraq war
- Homeless in the US: Underfunded and brutalized
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Nandigram massacre
Leading Indian intellectuals condemn West Bengal’s Stalinist-led government - Nick Beams outlines socialist perspective to fight war and militarism
- Protests mount against Musharraf attempt to sack Pakistan’s chief justice
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NSW (Australia) election:
SEP candidates address Sydney election meeting - Sri Lankan defence ministry extends police state moves
- Three New York City cops indicted in last year’s killing of unarmed Queens man
- US antiwar demonstrations mark four years since Iraq invasion
20 March 2007
- An appeal to WSWS readers: Attend the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
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Australia: The true face of the “war on terror”
Anti-terror police raid homes of Sydney University students -
A lesson from history regarding Mr. Blair
Edward Pearce’s The Great Man, Sir Robert Walpole - Letters from our readers
- New Zealand government announces extension of Afghanistan military operations
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Rome: Thousands demonstrate against US war policy and the Prodi government
Rifondazione Comunista boycotts protest - SEP demands immediate release of Australian citizen David Hicks from Guantánamo
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The human costs of four years of war
The US invasion has caused nearly three-quarter million Iraqi deaths -
Hundreds of thousands hit by anti-immigrant measure
US: Medicaid recipients denied benefits under proof of citizenship law - Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 March 2007
- A demonstration against the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR)
- Australian government condemns Tamil refugees to years of incarceration
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Dispute over US missile plan
German foreign minister warns against return to the Cold War - Iraq: Protests against US operations in Sadr City
- Jerusalem and Washington bring Palestinians to the brink of starvation
- Russia: Deadliest mining disaster in 60 years claims 107 lives
- Turkey: Kurdish nationalists and left groups move towards electoral bloc
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Hundreds of thousands hit by anti-immigrant measure
US: Medicaid recipients denied benefits under proof of citizenship law
22 March 2007
- Australian SEP election campaign wins appreciative response
- Bush administration steps up economic pressure on Iran
- Bush’s “aid” to Latin America mirrors national programs to mask oppression
- Congressional hearings detail political tampering in US climate research
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New South Wales March 24 election:
How to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) - Proposed new powers for bailiffs in Britain: an attack on the poor and indebted
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The Forbes list of billionaires
Wealth piles up for the German elite
23 March 2007
- Australia: Newcastle newspaper distorts SEP’s position on law and order
- Australia: Why you should vote for the SEP in the New South Wales election
- Australian Greens election campaign: silence on the Iraq war and a grubby deal with Labor
- Britain: Brown delivers a budget for the rich that penalizes the poor
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Canadian abuse of Afghan POWs
Harper smears his critics as pro-Taliban - In wake of West Bengal massacre: Indian workers must advance an independent socialist programme
- Japan-Australia security declaration strengthens US encirclement of China
- Joschka Fischer calls for European great power politics under German leadership
- The US attorneys “showdown”—Democrats seek to evade a confrontation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
24 March 2007
- A tale of two cases in US “war on terror”: Jose Padilla and Chiquita Brands
- Democrats pass “anti-war” bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Letters demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler
- Political prisoner Sami Al-Arian’s hunger strike enters third month
- The Madrid bombing trial: what has been revealed so far
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
26 March 2007
- Federal judge rules terrorism trial against Jose Padilla to proceed
- Letters from our readers
- NSW election: Labor government returned despite popular disaffection
- New documents expose White House, Justice Department lies in firing of US attorneys
- Parti Quebecois stumbles through Quebec election campaign
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Quebec state yields to right-wing provocation on eve of provincial election
A warning to workers - Sri Lankan SEP demands urgent inquiry into disappearance of party member
- UN agrees to new Iran sanctions as military tensions mount in Gulf
27 March 2007
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WSWS interviews NSW voters
Anger, resentment and discontent in Australian state election - Attack on major Sri Lankan airforce base as civil war continues to escalate
- CIA document links Colombian army chief to right-wing “terrorists”
- Election manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain
- Former government lawyer describes Bush administration meddling in landmark tobacco suit
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Redistribution from the bottom to the top
German parliament cuts corporate taxes - Letter from an Israeli reader on the recent strike in Israel
- Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 March 2007
- British government scientists vouched for validity of study estimating 655,000 war deaths in Iraq
- David Hicks bullied into guilty plea at Guantánamo kangaroo court
- Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer and the remorselessness of US political life
- IMF and Turkish government agree to new attacks on workers
- New York police conducted massive international spying on anti-Bush demonstrators
- New Zealand prime minister ingratiates herself with Bush White House
- Quebec elections: Right-wing populist ADQ benefits from mass disaffection with establishment
- Sri Lankan defence ministry stalls on inquiry into missing SEP member
- US Senate votes $122 billion in war funding while suggesting withdrawal “goal”
- US auto executives grant themselves millions in bonuses
29 March 2007
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57th Berlin Film Festival—Part 2
Some rumblings in German film - Britain heightens confrontation with Iran over detained sailors
- Britain: What is revealed by Labour’s leadership contest?
- Hundreds attend funeral of Senthil Ravee
- Memorial meeting planned in Paris for Comrade Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
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Pat Tillman’s family speaks out against latest whitewash of “friendly fire” killing in Afghanistan
“Human beings continue to be sacrificed on the altar of a dual military occupation” - Russian trans-Balkan pipeline to skirt Turkey
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After seven months
Sri Lankan authorities fail to investigate murder of SEP supporter - The anti-democratic agenda behind the US attorney firings
- Zimbabwe: Resistance to Mugabe’s rule deepens
30 March 2007
- 2005 US income figures: top 10 percent had largest share of national wealth since 1928
- Bush vilifies Democrats, vows veto of Iraq war funding bill
- China passes private property law for capitalist elite
- Ex-aide contradicts Attorney General Gonzales on US attorney firings
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EU celebrations in Berlin
Germany pushes for great power politics behind a European facade - Iraq: US occupation sets off sectarian atrocities in Tal Afar
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As French presidential elections approach
Massive police mobilisation in central Paris - Sri Lanka: SEP public meeting to demand inquiry into party member’s disappearance
- US: Circuit City fires 3,400 better-paid store workers
- Welsh Assembly elections: Burberry closes its Treorchy plant in area blighted by unemployment
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
31 March 2007
- Britain: Multimillionaire warns poverty threatens “violent reactions”—but don’t tax the rich!
- Guantánamo prisoner charges confession extracted through torture
- Guantánamo’s kangaroo court convicts Australian David Hicks
- History cut off at the pass: Zach Snyder’s 300
- Presidential elections in France: The nationalism of the Workers Party
- Sri Lankan SEP holds media conference over disappearance of party member
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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