Archive: November 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 November 2007
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2007—Part 2
... And the new problems - Auto workers oppose CAW’s sweetheart deal with Magna
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An historic betrayal
Canadian Auto Workers union “partners” with Magna International - European Union clears final hurdle to postal privatisation
- Howard government caught out lying over Hicks release from Guantánamo
- Near-unanimous vote at UN to repudiate US blockade of Cuba
- Protests by former Chinese soldiers: another source of political instability
- Terry Hicks, father of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with the WSWS
- US Federal Reserve accedes to Wall Street demands with another interest rate cut
- US State Department offered immunity to Blackwater mercenaries
- US attorney general nominee refuses to condemn torture techniques
- “Big Tobacco” cuts arts funding in New York City
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German court to decide on right to strike:
“If the right to strike is being trampled underfoot then I expect support”
Interview with two striking train drivers
2 November 2007
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SEP-ISSE meeting in Sri Lanka
A socialist program to oppose war and its economic burdens - Australia: Coroner exonerates police over fatal Macquarie Fields car chase
- Bitter outcome of UAW contract betrayal: Chrysler to cut 12,000 more jobs
- Broader issues facing US film and television writers
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New terror scare from the White House
Bush invokes 9/11 to justify torture, domestic spying and war - French President Sarkozy visits Morocco
- Germany: Court to rule on train drivers strike
- Michael Clayton: The man who comes in from the cold
- US intensifies push for further UN sanctions on Iran
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
3 November 2007
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“The UAW knew what was coming, but they got a good deal out of it for themselves.”
Chrysler workers react to job cuts, denounce union betrayal - Democrats cave in on torture: Key senators back attorney general nominee
- Detroit suburb to vote on measure to restrict democratic rights
- Jean Charles de Menezes shooting: Metropolitan police found guilty of endangering the public
- Letters from our readers
- Sri Lankan trade unions betray teachers strike
- Stock market gyrations fueled by credit, housing market crises
- Strong opposition to CAW leadership voiced by Oshawa GM workers
- The real issues in the controversy over the Tasmanian pulp mill
- US film and television writers will walk out Monday
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 November 2007
- Abortion rights under attack in Britain
- Determined, angry mood among US film and television writers
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France: Immigration history museum opens without official inauguration
A sign of mounting opposition to Sarkozy’s policies - Germany: Court lifts strike ban against train drivers
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SEP candidate Alex Safari speaks at election forum in Maroubra
Labor’s Peter Garrett presents his pro-war credentials -
Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Sydney, Perth & Melbourne
On the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution: the prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century - Sri Lankan military assassinates LTTE political leader in air strike
- Vote “no” on UAW betrayal at Ford! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
- With Washington’s complicity, Musharraf imposes martial law in Pakistan
6 November 2007
- An exchange with the Australian Greens on their complicity in Howard’s anti-terror laws
- As Pakistanis battle martial law, US vows continued aid to Musharraf
- Citigroup ousts CEO, warns of billions more in subprime losses
- Interviews with striking writers and supporters
- Japan withdraws naval support for US war in Afghanistan
- Letters from our readers
- May 2007 Scottish election fiasco: Report finds voters “treated as an afterthought”
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Nick Beams on YouTube
The Socialist Alliance and East Timor -
US auto workers denounce UAW betrayal at Ford
“The union is so intertwined with the company they are giving away the whole store” - US consumer safety head opposes strengthening agency’s powers
- US film and television writers launch their struggle
- Union shuts down Victorian nurses campaign
- Vote “no” on UAW betrayal at Ford! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 November 2007
- As Pakistanis risk life and limb to oppose Musharraf, US elite rallies round military regime
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Climate change, Kyoto, and carbon trading
Part 1: The Howard government and the Kyoto Protocol -
Bipartisan support for authoritarian measures
Democratic senator defends vote for Bush’s attorney general nominee -
Madrid bombing convictions despite flimsy evidence
Informant gave advance warning to Civil Guard - Majority of Southern US public school students are poor
- Moroccan elections reveal gulf between regime and the population
- One year since the 2006 election: The Democratic Congress and the war in Iraq
- The SEP and preferences in the 2007 election
- US troop deaths in Iraq set yearly record
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Writers’ strike in its second day
More strikers speak with the WSWS
8 November 2007
- Britain: Declining hygiene standards lead to 90 deaths at three hospitals from C. difficile
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Climate change, Kyoto, and carbon trading
Part 2: The orientation of Labor and the Greens - France: Teachers resist Sarkozy’s manipulation of Guy Môquet history
- Howard, Rudd hypocrisy on martial law in Pakistan
- Letters from our readers
- Off-year elections in US show continued hostility to Bush, Republicans
- Quebec’s commission on “Reasonable Accommodation” and the growth of anti-Muslim chauvinism
- The Democratic Party candidates and the writers’ strike
- The European Union, railway privatisation and the attack on workers’ living standards
- Writers and supporters speak out in Los Angeles and New York City
9 November 2007
- Bolsheviks in Power - Professor Alexander Rabinowitch’s important study of the first year of soviet power
- Chicago-area high school students face expulsion for antiwar sit-in
- Congress proposes $50 billion more in Iraq war funding
- Deepening political crisis in Pakistan
- Democrats scuttle Cheney impeachment measure: fraud turns into farce
- Near-panic atmosphere as US Federal Reserve chairman testifies before Congress
- SEP demands the dropping of charges against McArthur Express workers
- Support for writers’ strike outrages Hollywood elite
- The plight of the UAE’s migrant workers: the flipside of a booming economy
- US auto workers vote on contract betrayal at Ford
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
10 November 2007
- At mass rally, Writers Guild leaders attempt to lull strikers to sleep
- Bernard Kerik indicted on federal fraud, conspiracy charges
- Exposé of Gap’s use of child labor part of a broader social phenomenon
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Bush gives green light for Turkey to attack PKK in Iraq
Historical, political issues in the Turkish-Kurd conflict - More writers and their supporters in Los Angeles and New York speak to the WSWS
- Rudd and Murdoch: the fashioning of a Blair-style “Labor moderniser”
- Senate confirms Mukasey as attorney general
- Sri Lanka: Oppose the JVP threats against the SEP
- With tacit US support, Pakistan’s military regime intensifies repression
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 November 2007
- Bush reaffirms support for Musharraf as Pakistani dictator intensifies military repression
- Ethiopia steps up military occupation of Mogadishu
- Ford Rouge workers denounce UAW sellout
- French President Sarkozy goes to Washington: A vassal pays homage
- French student protesters: “Everything is directed at the government’s policy of social destruction”
- French students mobilise against university reform
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Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: from Whitlam to Rudd
Part 1 - Police and thieves: Ridley Scott’s American Gangster
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James Cogan on YouTube
Rudd and Howard prepare to back US attack on Iran - Stagehands shut down Broadway over producers’ takeaways
- US prepares for tougher action against Iran
- Video: WSWS Speaks to Ford Workers
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Sixty-nine percent of those polled in Los Angeles support walkout
Writers strike enters second week
13 November 2007
- Bankrupt US auto parts giant seeks $216 million for executive bonuses
- Britain: Inquiry to be held into Stockline factory blast
- For a socialist and internationalist perspective to fight French President Sarkozy’s social cuts
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German Chancellor Merkel sides with Bush
US president repeats “Third World War” warning -
Government campaign launch
Howard’s desperate appeal to big business - Increasing bitterness in film and television writers strike
- Indo-US nuclear deal could be casualty of India’s fractured domestic politics
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Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: from Whitlam to Rudd
Part 2 - Poor planning compounds problems as drought plagues Southeast US
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SEP’s Patrick O’Connor speaks at Grayndler forum
Socialist Alliance and Greens back Labor - Sri Lankan president hands down war budget
- US, British and Australian forces build oil-protection base in Iraq
- US: New developments in the case of the ‘Jena Six’
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 November 2007
- An explosion of billionaires in China
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More in regret than anger
Bhutto calls for Pakistan’s US-backed military strongman to resign - Britain: Queen’s Speech signals attack on civil liberties
- Congressional report puts cost of US wars at $1.6 trillion
- Film and television celebrities express support for striking writers
- France: Sarkozy seeks confrontation with the working class
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Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: From Whitlam to Rudd
Part 3 -
International Students for Socialist Equality meetings in Britain
90 Years since the Russian Revolution - Letters from our readers
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SEP’s Patrick O’Connor speaks at Grayndler forum
Socialist Alliance and Greens back Labor - Turkish union bureaucracy adds its voice to nationalist campaign
15 November 2007
- Britain’s Respect-Unity coalition split: The collapse of an opportunist bloc
- France: Despite success of strike, trade unions prepare a sellout
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Germany: The resignation of Franz Müntefering
The beginning of the end for the grand coalition -
Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: From Whitlam to Rudd
Part 4 -
“Reckless spending must stop”
Labor leader’s campaign launch pledge to corporate Australia - New York police shoot down disturbed youth—thought hairbrush was a gun
- Pakistani regime continues crackdown on opponents
- Striking television writers discuss political issues with the WSWS
- US federal court blocks second court martial against Army war resister
- US home foreclosures nearly double from a year ago
- West Bengal’s Stalinist government mounts terror campaign to quash peasant unrest
16 November 2007
- Congressional Democrats resume phony “antiwar” votes
- France: Railway workers resist unions’ plan for sell-out
- French union leaders seek to strangle rail strike
- Malaysia: Large protest in Kuala Lumpur demands electoral reforms
- New York’s Democratic governor bows to anti-immigrant hysteria over license plan
- Pickets at CBS discuss perspectives for writers’ strike
- Quebec: Parti Québécois introduces bill to restrict the rights of non-francophones
- Two months after deadly shooting, no charges against Blackwater mercenaries
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Multi-millionaire “populist” to appear on writers’ picket line
Who is John Edwards? - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “Terrorist” cases unravel, exposing government-police frame-ups and lies
17 November 2007
- Britain: Vote ‘no’ and mobilize rank-and-file against CWU sell-out of postal workers
- Debt crisis deepens, as Howard launches another interest rate scare campaign
- Democratic presidential debate: Right-wing consensus boosts Hillary Clinton
- France: Rank-and-file workers force continuation of rail strike
- German rail strike: report from Berlin and Frankfurt-Main
- German train drivers intensify their strike
- Iraqi archivist demands US return seized documents
- Las grabaciones de Bush-Aznar: la revelación de un gangster preparando la guerra
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Writers’ strike ends its second week
Mr. Edwards goes to the picket line - US Congress moves toward passage of domestic spy bill
- US dismisses IAEA report of “progress” over Iran’s nuclear programs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 November 2007
- All workers must mobilize behind German train drivers’ strike
- Appeals court panel bars key evidence from lawsuit against NSA spying
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As Broadway stagehand talks resume
IATSE president blasts writers’ strike -
Teachers, public employees to join rail workers on strike
French workers need a new political strategy - Letters on Brian Wilson
- Political lessons of the UAW contract betrayal
- Student volunteers and the Katrina recovery: Some reflections after visiting New Orleans
- Studios and striking writers to resume negotiations November 26
- Terry Cook, SEP candidate for Charlton, speaks on YouTube
- The AEU and the Victorian teachers’ wage rise campaign
- Top general urges Brazil to develop nuclear weapons
- UN-backed Cambodian trials of Khmer Rouge leaders set to start
- US envoy lauds Pakistani dictator’s “democratic vision”
20 November 2007
- Britain: Brown reaffirms his pro-US credentials on Iran and Europe
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On eve of Thanksgiving holiday
Food banks running out of supplies in Detroit - France: Vast mobilisation expected November 20 against Sarkozy’s policies
- New pro-business government takes office in Poland
- Strike at Russian Ford plant—a sign of renewed struggle by Russian workers
- The China resources boom and the gathering clouds of global recession
- Thousands die in devastating cyclone in Bangladesh
- US steps up plans for military intervention in Pakistan
- US veteran population: a mounting social catastrophe
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 November 2007
- British obesity levels the highest in Europe
- Broadway remains dark another week after strike talks break down
- France: 1.5 million strike against Sarkozy’s policies
- Indian Stalinists reverse course, allow Indo-US nuclear deal go to IAEA
- Labor, Liberal and the revival of colonialism in the South Pacific
- Los Angeles school district threatens teachers with financial punishment over payroll glitch
- Mexico: Aftermath of the Tabasco floods—another manmade “natural” disaster
- New law condemning Franco’s crimes further polarises Spain
- SEP-ISSE meeting in Sri Lanka: the lessons of the Russian Revolution
- The wrongful detention of Tony Tran: yet another immigration cover-up
- US recession fears grow as bank losses mount
- University authorities use police repression against striking French students
22 November 2007
- American liberalism and the Iraq War: The New York Times gives its blessing to Bush “surge”
- Bulgaria: Right-wing makes gains in local elections
- France: 5,000 demonstrate in Strasbourg against Sarkozy
- Kosovo Assembly election result deepens crisis over independence
- Letters from our readers
- More public hospital cutbacks in Sydney’s west
- Rail workers, public service employees and students demonstrate in Amiens, France
- Socialist candidate warns Victorian teachers of union betrayal
- Striking writers protest in Hollywood
- “GetUp! Action for Australia”: Protest politics in support of Labor
23 November 2007
- Finland: What are the social roots of school gunman’s murderous rage?
- Germany: Left Party opposes train drivers’ strike
- Jury awards damages to Central American Dole workers
- Socialist Equality Party How To Vote cards available in PDF
- Sri Lankan government rams war budget through parliament
- Thoughtful response at SEP election meetings on the Russian Revolution
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The only genuine alternative for the working class
Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party on November 24 - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
24 November 2007
- Britain: No central control over nuclear arsenal
- French railway strike betrayed
- Major parties treat carers with contempt
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Ninety years since the Russian Revolution: The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
Part 1 - Oligarchs vie for power in Georgia
- SEP holds public meeting in Colombo to oppose the war in Sri Lanka
- The banality of evil: No Country for Old Men
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
26 November 2007
- A life as a revolutionary
- An example to the new generation
- Annapolis talks: A cover for fomenting Palestinian civil war and preparing assault on Iran
- Australian voters speak to WSWS on polling day
- Australian voters throw Howard government out of office
- Bhutto and Sharif decry dictatorship, while seeking a deal with Pakistan’s US-backed military regime
- Letters from our readers
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Ninety years since the Russian Revolution: The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
Part 2 - Redacted: Outraged but schematic
- Ten years since the death of Jean Brust, veteran Trotskyist
- Voters explain why they supported the Socialist Equality Party
27 November 2007
- Another slap in the face to antiwar voters: Democrats embrace former Iraq commander
- Australian Labor prime minister elect reassures “our great friend and ally the United States”
- Credit crisis reveals widespread accounting manipulation by top US banks
- España: Revelaciones de la obscena riqueza heredada por la familia del anterior dictador Franco
- France: Riots break out in Paris suburbs after police crash kills youth
- Germany: Neo-Nazi attack in Dortmund restaurant
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Ninety years since the Russian Revolution: The prospects for socialism in the twenty-first century
Part 3 - The filthy rich: Forbes lists America’s top 400 for 2007
- The sell-off of Britain Plc: Revenue and Customs loses personal details of 25 million
- US Army reports rising desertion rates
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 November 2007
- Britain: The real issues in the Oxford Union “free speech” debate
- Canada’s Supreme Court opens door to deportation of US “war resisters”
- Election defeat causes meltdown in Australia’s Liberal and National parties
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ISSE meetings in Britain to screen Tsar to Lenin
Documenting the last days of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the new Soviet Union -
Vancouver International Film Festival 2007—Part 3
Some of the old problems, too - Striking writers are determined, wary as contract negotiations restart
- US signs deal for long-term occupation of Iraq
- Venezuela: the class issues in Chavez’s constitutional referendum
29 November 2007
- An assessment of the SEP’s vote and campaign in the 2007 Australian election
- An open letter to striking train drivers from the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
- Annapolis: US prepares Palestinian civil war and rallies Arab support against Iran
- Big Three automakers prepare attack on Canadian workers
- Citigroup deal highlights US banking crisis
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Massive police deployment in Villiers-le-Bel
France: Three nights of rioting in response to youths’ deaths - Sri Lanka: Central Bank union demands retraction of threats against SEP
- The betrayal of the French rail workers strike and the role of the LCR
- US bombing kills 14 construction workers in Afghanistan
30 November 2007
- Australian Labor prime minister-elect unveils new pro-business cabinet
- Broadway stagehands return to work after union accepts concessions
- Edmund Wilson’s literary essays and reviews from 1920 to 1950: Just in time
- France: drumhead tribunals and threats of police state repression
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Iran: Why does Bush invoke the threat of World War III?
Part 1: Iran’s strategic position - Letter from the children of Jean Brust, veteran Trotskyist
- Meeting in US to commemorate 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
- More than 100 dead in Ukraine mine disaster
- New Zealand: Charges dropped after “anti-terror” police raids
- Reciclando mentiras estalinistas sobre la guerra civil española
- Report shows US coal mines not properly inspected due to cutbacks, mismanagement at safety agency
- The Jena Six: Mychal Bell’s case to be opened to the public
- UN report into worst Afghan atrocity implicates security forces
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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