Archive: May 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 May 2007
- Australian Labor Party conference: a right-wing stampede for office
- Britain: Irish model for Scotland and Wales means widening gap between rich and poor
- Canadian Auto Workers bureaucrats fete Ontario’s Liberal Premier
- Ex-CIA director Tenet admits lies told on war
- Further letters demanding investigation into disappearance of Sri Lankan SEP member
- Letters from our readers
- More than 100 US soldiers in Iraq killed in April
- NATO troops launch new offensives in Afghanistan
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 May 2007
- Australia: Unions embrace Labor’s anti-working class industrial relations laws
- Britain: Building society says housing beyond reach of majority
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Renzi, Doolittle, and the “DC Madam”
Capitol Hill awash in corruption and criminality - Following Bush veto, Democrats prepare war-spending bill with no timeline
- Hundreds of thousands march across US for immigrant rights
- Pressure mounts on Iraqi government as Sunni bloc threatens to pull out
- Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections: How to vote for the Socialist Equality Party
- The Bush administration slashes public services for rural America
- Union pressures Air New Zealand workers to accept loss of jobs and conditions
3 May 2007
- Australia: Labor conference outlines pro-war agenda
- Belated report of Australian soldier’s suicide after serving in Afghanistan
- Britain: Why you should vote Socialist Equality Party on May 3
- Bush officials defend proposal to expand domestic spying powers
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Infant mortality rates rising in US
Southern states hardest hit - Turkey: Constitutional Court stops presidential election
- Two New York City transit workers killed in less than a week
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Posada Carriles case
US government moves to gag terrorist on CIA ties - US: Los Angeles police violently disperse immigrant rights demonstration
4 May 2007
- After Bush veto, Democrats prepare further retreat on war funding bill
- Britain: Daily Record follows the Scotsman in misrepresenting Socialist Equality Party
- Class issues in the French presidential election
- Corporate asset strippers vie for Chrysler
- French presidential debate: Royal and Sarkozy spar over right-wing agendas
- Iraq’s “stable” south descends into political chaos
- Israel: Government on ropes after report condemns Olmert and Peretz over Lebanon war
- LTTE air raid on Sri Lankan capital
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Following political and legal campaign
PSG hosts successful May 1 lecture at Schöneberg city hall, Berlin - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
5 May 2007
- Britain’s elections: a debacle for Labour and an indictment of nationalism
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US jobless rate increases
Falling employment, stagnant wages fuel US corporate profits - First Republican presidential debate displays a party in deepening crisis
- Judith Miller defends New York police repression of antiwar “terrorists”
- Letters from our readers
- Report warns of civil war spreading to Kurdish north of Iraq
- US massacres of civilians spark protests in Afghanistan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 May 2007
- German Interior Minister questions the presumption of innocence—with support from the SPD
- International conference on Iraq: bitter antagonisms on display
- Nicolas Sarkozy wins French presidential election
- SEP candidate replies to letter on housing crisis in Wales
- Scores of Haitian refugees killed in shark-infested waters
- Tamils arrested in Australia under Howard’s draconian “anti-terrorism” laws
- The John Edwards campaign: A representative of the American ruling elite postures as a working class populist
- US: Circle of corruption widens in student loan investigation
8 May 2007
- Geo-politics and oil: Japanese leader visits the US and Middle East
- Iraq war “surge” claims lives of 12 more US soldiers
- New York electric company seeks 17 percent rate hike
- SEP holds May Day meeting in Colombo
- Starting Wednesday, WSWS to publish lecture: “Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification”
- The French “far left” learns nothing from the presidential election
- The Unknown Terrorist: A novel about the “war on terror”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 May 2007
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Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 1: Seventy years since Stalin’s year of terror - Australian budget: massive vote-buying accelerates “free market” agenda
- British terror trial raises question of what MI5 knew about 2005 London bombings
- East Timor: final round of presidential elections
- India: Gujarat police murders covered up as terrorist “encounters”
- Iraq: clashes mount between US forces and Sadrist militia
- Iraqi infant mortality soars by 150 percent—a damning revelation of US war crimes
- Kansas tornado recovery hampered by dispatch of National Guard to Iraq
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Pentagon survey exposes deep demoralization of US occupation troops
Support for torture, routine abuse of Iraqi civilians - Sarkozy’s electoral victory and the bankruptcy of the French “left”
10 May 2007
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Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 2: The study of Trotsky after the fall of the USSR -
Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 2: The study of Trotsky after the fall of the USSR - Beyond the hyperbole, what next for Northern Ireland?
- Chinese government imposes nationwide military training for students
- German Left Party honours the founding of the centrist Independent Social Democratic Party
- Letters from our readers
- Sri Lankan ruling party issues phony constitutional plan for ending war
- The New Jersey jihadists: another strange alleged terrorist plot
- Top Justice Department aide to testify in probe of US attorney firings
- US court drops all charges against Posada Carriles—terrorist killer set free
11 May 2007
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Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 3: The method of Ian Thatcher - Afghanistan: 40 civilians killed in US strike
- After the storm: a New Jersey town struggles to recover
- Blair’s legacy: Militarism abroad, social devastation at home
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Under the pretext of the “struggle against terror”
German police conduct massive operation against G8 protesters - Harsh sentences handed out to anti-Sarkozy protesters in France
- House Democrats pass new measure to fund US war in Iraq
- Police attack May Day protesters in Macau
- US Vice President attempts to strongarm Iraqi political leaders
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
12 May 2007
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A response to “Two New York City transit workers killed in less than a week”
Artist Marvin Franklin dead in accident -
Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher
Part 4: The relevance of Trotsky - Canada’s Supreme Court authorizes secret trials and arbitrary, indefinite detention
- Cheney threatens Iran from US aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf
- Corporate raid on Australian airline collapses
- Italy’s former Communist Party shifts further to the right
- Michigan Democrats prepare to slash social spending
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 1: For honesty and urgency in filmmaking - Scottish election fiasco casts doubt over new parliament
- Top federal student loan official in US resigns amid controversy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 May 2007
- Brazil: Bush-Lula biofuel plans based on conditions worse than slavery
- East Timor: Ramos-Horta wins presidential election
- Emily Carr: Painter, writer ... symbol
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Germany: Essen meeting discusses establishing International Students for Social Equality
A movement against war must be a movement against capitalism -
Gunbattles in Karachi
Pakistani president seeks to drown mounting opposition in blood - Sri Lankan magistrate directs police to investigate disappearance of SEP member
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“He was a revolutionary in the absolute best sense of the word.”
70th anniversary meeting honors the life and work of Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin
15 May 2007
- Australian hospitals unable to cope with major emergency
- Britain: SEP leader addresses students on the legacy of Trotskyism
- France: Sarkozy woos Socialist Party and trade unions
- Gas prices rise as oil companies take in record profits
- Germany: Deutsche Telekom workers begin strike against lower wages and longer hours
- Iran and US to hold limited talks in Baghdad
- John Henry: From folk legend to Communist superhero
- US: Opening statements delivered in Jose Padilla trial
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A historic betrayal of auto workers
United Auto Workers capitulates to carve-up of Chrysler - Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 May 2007
- Bremen: Massive opposition to the German government expressed in local election
- Britain: Department of Health tries to suppress facts about Private Finance Initiative
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After resignation of Gonzales deputy
Bush Justice Department cover-up unraveling - Germany: Background to the debate over child care
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Behind Negroponte’s trip to Latin America
Mounting crisis in Yankee imperialism’s ‘back yard’ -
San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 2: An artist’s circle of hell - Sri Lankan Central Bank report covers up economic problems
- US soldiers captured as “surge” provokes greater Iraqi resistance
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Pizza for the homeless
US: Condemned man’s last request denied by state, realized by public - Voters in India’s most populous state spurn traditional parties
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A new business model emerges
Why the United Auto Workers supports Cerberus’ take-over of Chrysler
17 May 2007
- A response from Iraq Body Count
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Britain: Two imprisoned for violating Official Secrets Act
Punished for exposing Bush and Blair’s crimes in Iraq - China’s “mad” stock market spiralling out of control
- Debate over Iran’s nuclear programs heats up again
- Former Justice Department official describes illegal actions by Bush administration in defense of domestic spying
- Jerry Falwell, founder of the right-wing Moral Majority, dead at 73
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Prelude to deal with Bush on war-funding
More antiwar posturing from Senate Democrats - Support the Deutsche Telekom strikers! Build a mass movement against the German grand coalition!
- The Cerberus takeover of Chrysler—what it means for auto workers
18 May 2007
- Bipartisan Senate plan would deepen exploitation of immigrant workers
- Britain: Brown crowned as Blair’s successor after no contest
- Bush administration hosts meeting of Pacific Island governments
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Former Justice Department official’s testimony raises question:
How extensive is police state spying in the US? - Hundreds of sit-in strikes shake Egypt
- Letters from our readers
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 3: Smiling through the pain - Sri Lankan police harass witnesses in case of murdered SEP supporter
- US government to set up new military command in Africa
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 May 2007
- A letter from Professor Geoffrey Swain and a reply by David North
- Behind the World Bank’s ouster of Paul Wolfowitz
- Britain: Charges dropped against police in de Menezes shooting
- Britain: The Guardian whitewash of Mr Blair
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After 94-1 “support the troops” vote in Senate
Congressional Democrats, Republicans begin talks with White House on war spending bill - Demonstrations greet new French president
- European Union-Russia summit a diplomatic debacle
- Historical issues raised as ISSE members build for Warsaw meeting
- ISSE meetings to be held in Poland and Austria
- OxyContin manufacturer reaches $600 million plea deal over false marketing practices
- Plan bipartita del Senado explotaría a los trabajadores inmigrantes aún más
- The Parti Québécois loses another leader: what’s behind the crisis?
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The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society
Part one - US demands lead to border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 May 2007
- After the Chrysler sale—Cerberus set to demand massive concessions
- Australia: Police-state measures for APEC summit in Sydney
- Former US President Jimmy Carter blasts Bush and Blair over Iraq
- ISSE meeting planned at Florida State University
- Israel stokes up Hamas-Fatah strife in Gaza, considers ground invasion
- Senate immigration “compromise”: Democrats join Bush in assault on democratic rights
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The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society
Part two - US envoy raises muted concerns about democratic rights in Sri Lanka
- US military blocks soldiers’ access to blogs, popular social sites
22 May 2007
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American military deaths soar as US extends its “surge” in Iraq
“Second Fallujah” plan for Baghdad’s Sadr City - Australian nursing home deaths reveal chronic under-funding
- Detroit-area hospital shake-up fueled by drive for profit
- Evo Morales and the fraud of “nationalization” in Bolivia
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Germany: Deutsche Telekom strike enters second week
Strikers protest in Munich - Lebanese army lays siege to Palestinian refugee camp
- Mother, three children perish in Detroit house fire
- Scotland: Minority SNP government seeks pro-business “consensus”
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The US war and occupation of Iraq—the murder of a society
Part three -
Following bloodbath in Karachi
US reaffirms support for Musharraf - Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 May 2007
- Britain’s Guardian promotes Bush administration war propaganda against Iran
- Democrats drop “withdrawal” deadlines as administration mulls post-surge Iraq
- France: Sarkozy concentrates power in his own hands
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Quebec’s parliament reopens:
Full speed ahead to the right, damn the public - Iraq: British troops battle Shiite militia in Basra
- Irish election likely to be close
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 4: Films on Africa—“ The problem always comes back to poverty” - Trains cross the Korean border for the first time in six decades
24 May 2007
- Australia: Behind the $33.49 million package for Macquarie Bank’s chief executive
- Britain: Funding crisis in higher education
- Contract talks break down at Southern California supermarkets
- Democratic Party completes its capitulation on Iraq
- Fijian military junta targets bloggers
- Gonzales aide stonewalls on White House role in firing of US attorneys
- New York: another fatal shooting of an unarmed man sparks outrage
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Three German soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Grand coalition pushes ahead with military deployment - US officials guilty of “sociocide” in Iraq must be held accountable
25 May 2007
- Bush administration endorses anti-Palestinian, anti-Syrian offensive in Lebanon
- Bush authorises covert CIA operations to destabilise Iran
- Death threats against protesters in northern Sri Lanka
- France: Sarkozy selects Socialist Party’s Bernard Kouchner as foreign minister
- Letters from our readers
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Heiligendamm’s “Green Zone”
Massive security preparations for upcoming G8 summit in Germany - Russian mine disaster kills at least 38
- US Congress ratifies Democratic cave-in on Iraq war funding
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 May 2007
- ISSE meeting to be held in Sri Lanka
- Michigan school districts impose job, wage and benefits cuts
- Montreal transit mechanics’ union capitulates before threat of strikebreaking law
- Poverty, dilapidated housing behind rash of deadly fires in US cities
- Solidarity and the Scottish Socialist Party: What will follow from the collapse of the Scottish left?
- The Nation magazine offers an alibi for Democrats’ support of Iraq war
- US steps up threats against Iran over nuclear programs
- US: FDA accused of negligence over diabetes drug
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 May 2007
- Bush administration failing to achieve its “benchmarks” in Iraq
- France: Sarkozy prepares shock therapy
- ISSE meeting planned Wednesday at University of California, Los Angeles
- India: Art student targeted by Hindu right and Gujarat authorities
- Israel targets Hamas’s political leadership
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2007
Part 5: Serious, but flawed - Sri Lankan court case exposes police investigation into missing SEP member
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Candidates file personal finance disclosure reports
The American presidency: Only millionaires need apply
29 May 2007
- Germany: Verdi prepares sell-out of Telekom workers strike
- Inquiry shows Canadian state was forewarned of Air India bombings
- LTTE overruns naval outpost on key Sri Lankan island
- Possible habitable planet discovered: Extending the horizons of humanity
- Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr makes bid for greater role in US-occupied Iraq
- Tense siege continues at Lebanon’s Nahr al-Bared refugee camp
- US big business funnels hundreds of millions into presidential campaigns
30 May 2007
- Afghanistan: war crimes amnesty prepares further atrocities
- Bush decrees new sanctions against Sudan
- ISSE holds public meeting at Florida State University
- Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan resigns from the Democratic Party
- May death toll spikes as 10 US soldiers die on Memorial Day
- More civilians killed by US/NATO forces as fighting intensifies in Afghanistan
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Six months after entering the EU
Political crises deepen in Romania and Bulgaria - The Cerberus-Chrysler deal: The case for public ownership of the auto industry
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
31 May 2007
- Britain: Parliament votes to exempt itself from Freedom of Information legislation
- Gasoline prices and the “free market”: Refiners profit after reducing capacity
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Asia-Europe summit in Hamburg
Germany: Huge police deployment in run-up to G8 summit - Letters from our readers
- Spain: Socialist Party government and unions sell out struggle against Delphi plant closure
- Sri Lankan university workers protest against punitive measures
- The US holds talks with Iran in Baghdad
- Two poor US efforts: Disturbia and Georgia Rule
- US Defense Secretary warns new naval officers on civilian control of military
- US Supreme Court curbs workers’ ability to sue for pay discrimination
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