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Archive: October 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.

25 September 2007

• Signs of leadership infighting ahead of Chinese Communist Party congress

1 October 2007

• 3:10 to Yuma: a new old Western
• Blackwater mercenaries’ record of murder in Iraq
• Brain injuries more prevalent among US troops than earlier estimates
• German chancellor threatens Iran and demands seat on UN Security Council
• Letters from our readers
• Philippines power grid to be contracted out to private operator
• Strong rank-and-file opposition to UAW sellout evident at local meetings
• The Ontario election: official politics shifts further right
• Vote ‘no’ on UAW sellout at GM!
  Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
• Widening rift between major powers over Iran’s nuclear programs

2 October 2007

• Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 4
  A remarkable film about the Iraq war
• Bush to veto expansion of children’s health coverage
• Payroll crisis causes hardship for Los Angeles teachers
• Political tensions in Lebanon threaten civil war
• Spain: Revelations of obscene wealth inherited by former dictator Franco’s family
• Sri Lanka: To defend democratic rights, workers must oppose war
• UAW-GM deal means more plant closings
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 October 2007

• Belgium threatened with break-up
• Following election of new leader, German CSU moves further to the right
• Letters on the General Motors contract
• Markets continue to rise but US dollar slides
• Michigan budget deadlock broken through cutbacks, tax increases
  $435 million in additional cuts still threatened
• New Yorker article points to advanced US preparations for war on Iran
• Sarkozy announces vast attacks on French workers’ rights and conditions
• Socialist Equality Party in Australia announces federal election candidates

4 October 2007

• An interview with Philippe Faucon, director of Dans la vie
• Australia: Transport union abandons McArthur Express workers
• Britain: Post union calls strike over paltry wage offer at Royal Mail
  Works to sell “total flexibility” to membership
• Five dead in Colorado hydroelectric plant fire
• French immigration “reform”: an attack on basic human rights
• Indian Supreme Court outlaws Tamil Nadu political protest
• Opposition to UAW-GM deal as workers vote on contract
• Retiring military chief declares: American people can’t vote to end Iraq war
• SEP public meeting in Perth, Western Australia
  The socialist alternative in the 2007 federal election
• Socialist Equality Party in Australia announces federal election candidates
• Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 5
  The lives of two overlooked women
• UAW officials threaten Socialist Equality Party members
• UN special envoy leaves Burma empty-handed

5 October 2007

• Australia: Miscarriage tragedy highlights deliberate running down of public hospitals
• British Prime Minister Brown prepares for snap general election: A sign of mounting crisis
• Fifty years since school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Germany: Train drivers need a new perspective
• In the Valley of Elah: reducing colonial war to personal trauma
• Report details secret Bush administration memos authorizing torture
• Senate Democrats approve half a trillion dollars for Pentagon, US spy agencies
• Sri Lankan president’s speech at the UN: lies in defence of war and human rights abuses
• Two-tier wage in UAW-GM contract means drastic pay cuts for US workers
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

6 October 2007

• Australia: New reports reveal impact of Howard’s IR laws
• Bush defends torture
• Bush, Bhutto accomplices in Pakistan’s sham presidential election
• Early GM contract vote shows widespread opposition to UAW sellout
• International Students for Social Equality meetings in US
  Imperialism in the 21st century: Iraq, Iran, and the threat of world war
• Letters from our readers
• Police ban London antiwar march
  New attack on democratic rights
• Recycling Stalinist lies about the Spanish Civil War
• Turkey: Referendum planned for direct election of president
• Video: UAW Officials in Michigan Threaten Socialist Equality Party
• Washington launches war on immigrants: thousands grabbed in nationwide raids
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 October 2007

• Afghanistan: reports of record year for opium yield
• Australia: 25 years of Labor-Liberal “reform” wreaks havoc on public schools
• Enigma and perhaps evasion (or “hide and seek”): the realism of German painter Neo Rauch
• German court attacks train drivers strike
• Iraqi probe finds Blackwater mercenaries fired without provocation in Baghdad massacre
• Officer recommends dropping last murder charges in Haditha massacre
• Official investigation clears police in Indiana Taser attack
• Scandals, retirements decimate congressional Republicans
• Sri Lankan government silences journalist over defence corruption scandal

9 October 2007

• Australian SEP federal election campaign meetings
• Australia’s High Court rules that voting rights can be abolished
• Britain: Brown retreats from snap general election
• Congressional Democrats to unveil new domestic spying bill
• Jim Lawrence, GM worker and 2004 SEP vice presidential candidate, speaks on UAW-GM contract
  “Workers can no longer afford this system”
• Letters from our readers
• Social theorist André Gorz dies, aged 84
• US general fires a new propaganda salvo against Iran
• Video: Jim Lawrence, GM worker & 2004 SEP candidate, on GM pact
• Washington lauds Pakistan’s sham presidential election
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 October 2007

• As General Motors contract vote proceeds, UAW prepares deeper concessions at Chrysler
• British troops in Iraq to be cut to 2,500, states Brown
• British troops in Iraq to be cut to 2,500, states Brown
• Democrats bow to Wall Street, saving tax break for billionaires
• Liberal and Labor parties responsible for death of Australian soldier in Afghanistan
• Private security contractors in Baghdad kill two Iraqi women
• Prodi government’s budget attacks the Italian working class
• Sri Lankan workers picket to defend right to industrial action
• Supreme Court refuses to hear case of German citizen tortured by US
• Uncertainty hangs over deal to disable North Korea’s nuclear facilities
• WSWS replies to UAW local president on GM contract

11 October 2007

• Biographer of James Cannon, pioneer American Trotskyist, to speak Friday in New York
• Chrysler strikers speak: “It’s time workers unite on a global basis, the same way the companies do”
• Criticized over war threat against Iran, Hillary Clinton sees conspiracy
• Germany: Real wages plunge
• Haditha massacre defendant pursues defamation suit against US congressman
• Post workers face political struggle against Royal Mail/Labour government offensive
• Solomon Islands’ foreign minister condemns Australian occupation at UN General Assembly
• Sri Lankan military intensifies drive against LTTE
• Support the German train drivers’ struggle against Deutsche Bahn!
• UAW stages six-hour strike to push through contract betrayal at Chrysler
• Ukraine: Parliamentary election fails to resolve political crisis

12 October 2007

• Australian government resorts to anti-African witch hunt
• Britain: Demands for government intervention aimed at strangling post dispute
• British livestock hit by bluetongue disease
• Bush condemns House vote on Armenian genocide
• Chinese government acknowledges Three Gorges Dam “disaster”
• France: The struggle against Sarkozy requires a new political perspective
• Letters from our readers
• Russia: Putin launches electoral bid to retain power
• The middle-class “left” and the UAW-GM contract
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

13 October 2007

• German Socialist Equality Party election campaign: For a socialist answer to welfare cuts and war
• German train drivers’ strike affects large part of rail network
  PSG leaflet provokes vital discussion
• More migrant deaths as Europe tightens border controls
• New round of US shootings claims young lives
• Nobel Prize for Al Gore: “Old Europe” fires back at the Bush administration
• Ontario Liberals retain power, as voter participation plummets
• Anatomy of a political diversion
  The Australian Labor Party, the Bali bombings, and the death penalty
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 October 2007

• Australian election: an ominous silence on US war plans against Iran
• Britain: Postal union agrees to sell-out deal with Royal Mail
• An anti-democratic tirade
  Former US commander blames “partisan” politics and “agenda-driven” media for Iraq debacle
• House Speaker Pelosi lashes out at antiwar protesters
• Letters from US auto workers
• New York meeting hears biographer of Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism
• Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission stalls inquiry into disappeared SEP member
• Turkish government gives green light for military intervention in northern Iraq
• US air strikes kill 34 Iraqis

16 October 2007

• Eastern Promises and the continuing decline of David Cronenberg
• General Motors tells Wall Street: UAW deal will save billions
• New Zealand: Algerian asylum seeker wins appeal over security risk status
• Social inequality in US hits new record
• Socialist Equality Party (Australia) 2007 federal election statement
  A socialist program to fight war, social inequality and the assault on democratic rights
• Socialist Equality Party in Australia launches new election web site
• Somalia: Humanitarian disaster looms as government clamps down on insurgency
• The political campaign to bring Tom Henehan’s killers to justice
• Thirty years since the assassination of Tom Henehan
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 October 2007

• Australia: Howard’s Aboriginal “reconciliation” pledge a cynical fraud
• Conflict between Turkey and the US intensifies
• German train-drivers strike:
  Deutsche Bahn increases intimidation of train-drivers
• India’s Congress Party buckles to Hindu Supremacists’ communal campaign over Ram Sethu
• US and Israel maintain menacing silence over air raid on Syria
• US: Jena Six defendant Mychal Bell sent back to prison
• What drove Sean Penn Into the Wild?

18 October 2007

• An interview with JoJo Henrickson, screenwriter of Ladrón que roba a ladrón
• British government accessing telephone records
• Former UN Official: US blocked certification that Iraq had no WMDs in 1990s
• French workers oppose “tax” on medical treatment
• Ladrón que roba a ladrón: Sharply observed, if inconsistent, Spanish-language film
• Putin in Tehran: US-Russia rift widens
• UAW deal opens door for Chrysler carve-up
• US government brokers scheme to bail out Wall Street banks

19 October 2007

• Australia: Rudd tries to fudge Labor’s agreement with WorkChoices
• Bomb blasts hit Bhutto’s return to Pakistan
• Bush invokes threat of “World War III”
• Canada’s Conservative government outlines agenda of social reaction and war
• Democrats reach agreement with Bush administration on domestic spying bill
• Letter from a German train driver
• Obituary: Grace Paley and political culture
• Teachers strike in Bulgaria
• Train drivers step up strike action in Germany
• Transport strike brings France to a standstill
• Vote ‘no’ on UAW sellout at Chrysler! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

20 October 2007

• Another letter from a German train driver
• Australia: McArthur Express workers face up to 10 years jail for protesting
• Bhutto implicates Pakistan’s military-security establishment in assassination attempt
• Canadian Auto Workers union “partners” with Magna International
• Large UAW local votes 80 percent to reject
  Chrysler sellout faces strong rank-and-file opposition
• Senate hearings on Mukasey nomination
  Democrats prepare to install defender of torture, illegal spying as attorney general
• French rail strike continues, despite union leaders’ efforts to end it
• French workers speak out against social welfare cuts
• Landmark study records visionary architecture from the early years of the Soviet Union
• Swiss election campaign reveals profound social divisions
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

22 October 2007

• An exchange on sanctions against Zimbabwe
• Australian election debate: Howard and Rudd compete as economic conservatives
• “We are sick of being lied to by the union”
  Detroit autoworkers speak out against UAW-Chrysler contract
• France: corruption scandal hits employers’ federation, unions
• Germany: Social Democratic chairman attacks train drivers
• IMF growth forecast not as good as it looks
• Letters from our readers
• More Chrysler locals reject UAW contract betrayal
• The Kingdom: Spinning reality any way one wants
• US raid on Baghdad’s Sadr City leaves many dead and wounded
• US secretary of state seeks to impose Israeli diktats on Palestinians

23 October 2007

• Britain: Oppose efforts by Communication Workers Union to end postal strike
• Britain’s Socialist Workers Party collaborates in union’s betrayal of postal strikes
• G7 meetings highlight deepening problems for US and world economy
• Letters on US auto workers’ struggle
• Swiss elections witness turn to the right and growing polarisation
• As contract faces rejection
  UAW conspires with Chrysler to impose agreement
• US militarism threatens to unleash regional conflagration
• US: Bush administration fast-tracks relaxation of media ownership constraints
• Video: WSWS speaks to Detroit Chrysler workers
• Western Australian resources boom leads to deepening social inequality
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 October 2007

• An Evening with Brian Wilson
  The Palace Theatre in Manchester, England—September 23, 2007
• As Turkey-Iraq crisis escalates, US plans military strikes on PKK bases
• Canberra weighs up “regime change” in Papua New Guinea
• French unions vote to end transport strikes
• German train drivers’ strike: GDL union leader appeals to the chancellor
• Nepalese Maoists quit government in bid to stem waning support
• Ninety percent of voting Writers’ Guild of America members authorize strike
• Northern Rock: the crisis mounts for British government
• Polish elections: a clear rebuff to the Kaczynskis
• Republican presidential candidates appeal to an ever-narrower right-wing base
• UAW defends 50 percent wage cut for Chrysler workers
• US government unable to account for $1.2 billion paid to Iraq contractor
• Wildfires engulf Southern California
  As many as 1 million flee as almost 500,000 acres burn

25 October 2007

• Australia: Victorian Labor government uses Howard’s WorkChoices against nurses
• British Columbia strikes show workers need new perspective
• Bush threatens escalation of aggression against Cuba
• LTTE attack on Sri Lankan air force base
• No convictions in US terror trial against Muslim charity
• Pakistan: Musharraf regime reiterates martial law threat
  US-sponsored deal with Bhutto begins to unravel
• Rep. Pete Stark apologizes to Bush: Another abject climbdown by the Democrats
• Spain: Arrests of Batasuna leadership by Socialist Party ahead of elections
• The California wildfires and the American social crisis
• UAW moves to prevent defeat of Chrysler contract
• World War Z: Monsters of this society’s own making

26 October 2007

• China’s Communist Party congress: a celebration of private wealth and market success
• European Court of Justice overturns “Volkswagen Law”
• How the UAW pushed through its sellout at Chrysler
• Letters from our readers
• Merrill Lynch reports billions in losses amidst growing signs of US recession
• How to fight militarism and war....
  Nick Beams addresses SEP election meetings
• SEP candidate explains why she joined the party
• Socialist Equality Party meetings launch Australian election campaign
• US Senate confirms right-wing judge to federal appeals court
• US imposes unilateral sanctions on Iran: One step closer to war
• US: Maine nurses union agrees to demands of hospital administrators
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

27 October 2007

• Britain: Post workers speak out against union management agreement at Royal Mail
• Democrats, Republicans back Bush war provocations against Iran
• Devastation from California wildfires comes into focus as some blazes are contained
• European Union leaders agree to treaty in Lisbon
• German Social Democrats, unions fear losing control over the working class
• German Socialist Equality Party (PSG) organizes meetings to support the train drivers’ strike
• Sri Lanka: JVP-affiliated union issues threat against Socialist Equality Party
• Strong opposition at final Chrysler plant voting on UAW contract
• The real face of Howard’s Northern Territory intervention: welfare cuts and community closures
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2007—Part 1
  The “new seriousness” in cinema...
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 October 2007

• Tens of thousands march in US cities
  Antiwar protest organizers promote Democratic Party
• Demonstrators denounce Bush and Democrats over Iraq war
• Firefighting shortages played role in California wild fire damage
• Germany: Interviews with striking train drivers
• Israel’s power cuts to Gaza: Collective punishment with tacit US approval
• Letters from our readers
• More warnings of a US war on Iran
• Nick Beams launches party’s election campaign on YouTube
• One-third of Americans live with “extreme stress”
• UAW pushes through Chrysler betrayal in face of strong rank-and-file opposition
• Why both Labor and Liberal will provide billions for tax cuts, but not for social services

30 October 2007

• A case of déjà vu: Howard insists “no plans” for war with Iran
• Another Guantánamo military officer condemns prisoner tribunals
• California wildfire victims speak to the WSWS
  “We’ve lost everything—we only have the clothes on our back”
• Canada’s Conservative government rushes to reaffirm support for army champion of Afghan war
• Leading German politician issues alarm about threat of war with Iran
• New report exposes Labor-Liberal wrecking operation on public hospitals
• International Students for Social Equality meetings in the US
  Racing toward disaster: War, inequality and the crisis of American democracy
• Rendition: An open attack on the Bush administration’s system of torture
• The New York Times and Bush’s threat of World War III
• The rise and fall of Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O’Neal
• US: Police cleared in Taser assault on Florida student
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Worsening conflict between Russia and Georgia driven by Washington-Moscow rivalries

31 October 2007

• Democrats debate in the shadow of US war threats against Iran
• Ford and UAW press for deeper concessions from US auto workers
• German Social Democratic congress upholds austerity program and coalition with conservatives
• International Students for Social Equality to hold meetings on campuses in Canada
• Letters from our readers
• New Zealand: 17 arrests in nationwide “anti-terrorist” raids
• Report: Strategic air base being readied for war on Iran
• Saudi king alleges UK could have prevented July 7 bombings
• Socialist Equality Party challenges Greg Combet to debate industrial relations

6 November 2007

• Meet the candidates: Questions & Answers on the Socialist Equality Party’s program