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Archive: February 2008

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 February 2008

• British-Iraqi survey confirms one million deaths as a result of US invasion
• Bush rejects congressional ban on permanent bases in Iraq
• Five more Republicans join exodus from House of Representatives
• France: Attali report calls for free-market reforms
• Malaysian police crack down on protest over price rises
• More signs of US recession as jobless claims jump
• Snowstorms and blackouts create chaos in China
• The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
  Part two
• On the French Riviera
  Top West Virginia judge vacations with coal boss appealing legal verdict
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

2 February 2008

• As layoffs and prices rise, Big Oil posts record profits
• Britain: Rising fuel prices blight millions
• Corporate America honors US auto union president
• Mounting calls from Pakistan’s military and judicial establishments for Musharraf to quit
• New Solomon Islands prime minister kowtows to Canberra
• The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
  Part three
• UN secretary-general arrives in Kenya in attempt to restart talks
• US: 17,000 jobs lost in January
• Why the writers’ strike never came up in the Democrats’ Los Angeles debate
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

4 February 2008

• Australian police chief calls for media blackout on terrorism cases
• Britain: Arts Council confirms cuts
• France: Mass demonstrations against social austerity plans
• Juno: an “apolitical” film about teen pregnancy
• Letters opposing the arrest of Iranian students
• Sri Lankan independence: 60 years of communalism, social decay and war
• The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
  Part four
• US political establishment lines up behind Barack Obama

5 February 2008

• Ahead of NATO meeting: New US reports warn of failure in Afghanistan
• Bush budget: programs slashed to pay for tax cuts and war
• Europe: Nokia unions side with management
• Grave dangers in the film and television writers strike
• Hawaii climate change summit ends without agreement on emission cuts
• Letters from our readers
• On eve of “Super Tuesday” primaries, Wall Street casts the money ballot
• The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
  Part five
• US blocks scientific report on Arctic environment
• WSWS speaks to striking writers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 February 2008

• China enacts new labour law amid rising discontent
• Decline in US service industries heightens recession fears, sparks stock sell-off
• France: Thousands of retail workers strike for better wages and conditions
• Joschka Fischer demands German combat troops be sent to southern Afghanistan
• Letters from our readers
• Spain: Catholic Church renews offensive against abortion rights
• Suicide bombing at crowded station in Sri Lankan capital
• There Will Be Blood: a promising subject, but terribly weak results
• US military admits to a dozen civilian deaths in Iraq
• “Super Tuesday”primaries leave Democratic presidential contest unresolved

7 February 2008

• February 13 meeting in Los Angeles
  A socialist perspective for film and television writers
• After “Super Tuesday,” dead heat in contest for Democratic presidential nomination
• Berlin transport workers strike
• Bush administration acknowledges and defends use of torture technique
• Mounting social distress among returning US troops
• New Thai government installed, but army hovers in the political background
• Serbian government faces collapse following presidential election
• Tornadoes kill at least 54 in Southern US states
• Turkish military again strikes Kurdish areas in northern Iraq

8 February 2008

• British Army accused of “off the scale” abuses in southern Iraq
• Chinese leaders react nervously to ongoing “snow havoc”
• 75 years since the Nazi assumption of power
  Hitler’s “intelligible response” to the contradictions of global capitalism
  The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
• Mitsubishi axes its last Australian car plant
• Slumping sales signal US recession; slowdown spreads to Europe
• Turkey: Amnesty International documents attacks on democratic rights
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

9 February 2008

• Canada’s Conservative government threatens Afghan war election
• Communalism and militarism on display at Sri Lanka’s independence day celebrations
• Democrats overwhelmingly vote to pass Bush’s economic stimulus bill
• Film and television writers should reject the contract deal
• German train drivers oppose contract deal
• Rice and Miliband visit Afghanistan as US demands more European troops
• Romney withdraws, ensuring McCain the Republican presidential nomination
• Striking writer speaks to the WSWS
• US attorney general rejects investigation into use of waterboarding
• US: Six dead, dozens injured in Georgia sugar plant explosion
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 February 2008

• Britain: Labour government minister bugged by police
• Chad regime survives rebel attack on capital
• Eddie Benjamin: January 2, 1953—February 5, 2008
• Endowments and the creation of a two-tier higher education system in America
• Iraqi parliament in turmoil as sectarian rivalries flare
• The Savages: Throwing away the aged
• Tricom breakdown exposes fragility of Australian share market
• US film and television writers to vote on end to strike

12 February 2008

• Australian federal parliament’s “sorry” resolution: the real agenda
• Clinton campaign in crisis after Obama sweeps five weekend contests
• Elections called in Italy
• Germany: Nine Turkish immigrants die in house fire
• International condolences and tributes to Eddie Benjamin
• Spanish economy dominates election
• US to hold 9/11 show trial at Guantánamo
• US: 2,600 strike Volvo Trucks in Dublin, Virginia
• West Bengal’s Left Front government presides over another police massacre

13 February 2008

• 30 years since Sydney’s Hilton Hotel bombing—the unanswered questions
• A very strange “coup attempt” in East Timor
• Australia: Victorian teachers face fight with Labor governments over pay and conditions
• Australian Prime Minister apologises to “stolen generation”: rhetoric versus reality
• British government widens police stop-and-search powers
• Connecticut, US: local police deputized to pursue immigrants
• Militarism, hypocrisy, and the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton speaks to students in San Diego
• NATO security conference: US demands more European troops in Afghanistan
• Obama sweeps Potomac primaries, deepening Clinton’s crisis
• Recent tornadoes in the Southern US: both a natural and social disaster
• The Great Debaters: An enlightened struggle against racial oppression during the Depression
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

14 February 2008

• An exchange on the result of the election in Hesse, Germany
• Australia: “Stolen generations” speak out in Canberra
• Bush administration, banks announce another token measure on home foreclosures
• Congress moves toward expanding government spying, with immunity for telecoms
• Demonstration in New York to protest arrest of Iranian students
• ISSE meetings in Britain to mark fifth anniversary of US-led invasion of Iraq
• Letters from our readers
• Trying to understand
  The Death of Margaret Thatcher—a play by Tom Green
• The two faces of Barack Obama
• US Defense Secretary sides with military opposition to troop drawdown in Iraq
• US writers vote to end 100-day strike

15 February 2008

• After the Gaza breakout: Israel launches sustained hostilities
• Australia: Press blacks out Aboriginal protest over Northern Territory intervention
• Australia: Prime Minister Rudd backs NSW state power sell-off in face of growing opposition
• Canada’s Liberals rally behind plan to expand Canadian role in Afghan War
• Congress grills baseball star Roger Clemens
• French housing report exposes government inaction
• After $39 billion loss
  GM offers buyouts to entire US hourly workforce
• Hesse after the election
  Germany’s Left Party woos the SPD
• Sri Lankan government proposes phony solution to communal conflict
• The “circularity” of hope: The Nation endorses Barack Obama
• WSWS arts editor speaks in Los Angeles on implications of screen writers’ strike
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

16 February 2008

• Ahmadinejad under fire in lead up to Iran’s parliamentary election
• Scotland Yard’s report on Bhutto assassination
  Britain again comes to Musharraf’s aid
• Britain’s foreign secretary urges no retreat on imperialist militarism
• Bush approves shoot-down of satellite by Navy missile cruiser
• Bush defends torture
• Canada: Fredericton ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
• France: Sarkozy wins vote on EU treaty with help of Socialist Party
• Six dead after yet another US school shooting
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

18 February 2008

• Australia: Unions collaborate with Qantas to slash wages and conditions
• ISSE demonstrates in New York to demand release of jailed Iranian students
• Kosovo’s declaration of independence destabilises Europe
• Needs outstrip military health services for returning US veterans
• New details on gunman in US university shooting
• Obama, Clinton admit primaries may not settle nomination fight
• Pakistan’s military regime stages sham election
• The impact of the credit crunch on British workers
• Washington returns to business as usual with Thai military

19 February 2008

• Washington Post criticizes populist rhetoric
  A shot across the bow against Barack Obama
• Australia: Labor “rank and file” meeting—no perspective to fight electricity privatisation
• Deep divisions in Europe over Kosovo independence
• East Timor: Official “assassination” claims collapse
• French municipal elections expose crisis of the political establishment
• Germany: Turkish prime minister incurs wrath of politicians and the media
• ISSE demonstration to free Iranian students calls for international unity of workers
• Largest beef recall in US history reveals compromised food supply
• US: Cities, education funds, transport authorities hit by credit crisis
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 February 2008

• From the archive of the WSWS
  After the Slaughter: Political Lessons of the Balkan War
• Detroit: highest home foreclosure rate in US
• Fidel Castro retires as Cuban president after 49 years in power
• France: Massive police raid on Villiers-le-Bel
• Obama defeats Clinton by wide margin in Wisconsin primary
• Pakistanis overwhelmingly reject US-backed strongman Musharraf
• Sino-Australian relations complicated by BHP’s attempted merger with Rio Tinto
• Spain: Government tries to ban Basque separatist parties from election
• The case of Kosovo: “Self-determination” as an instrument of imperialist policy
• US Supreme Court refuses to hear case against warrantless wiretapping

21 February 2008

• An exchange on the break-up of Yugoslavia
• An interview with playwright Trevor Griffiths
• France: Marseilles retail strike called off after two weeks
• Germany: Union and works council announce final shutdown of Nokia factory
• Iraq: US occupation faces crisis of its own making
• Letters from our readers
• Obama’s Texas speech: Populist appeals with reassurances to big business
• Risk of cholera multiplied by sewage collapse in Baghdad
• Trevor Griffiths’ These are the Times: a Life of Thomas Paine
  A great film yet to be made
• US Supreme Court Justice Scalia defends torture
• Works by Trevor Griffiths

22 February 2008

• An exchange on Australia’s “Sorry Day”
• Canada’s Chalk River nuclear crisis: “market planning” produces a fiasco
• Czech Republic: Mudslinging dominates presidential election
• In Texas debate, Obama counters Clinton attack by asserting his readiness to use military force
• Kosovo “independence” brings new uncertainties in Asia
• Serbs protesting Kosovo independence attack US embassy in Belgrade
• Sri Lankan government plans sham local elections in eastern Batticaloa
• UK government nationalises Northern Rock
• US satellite strike escalates military space race
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

23 February 2008

• Attacks announce insurgent “spring offensive” in Afghanistan
• Britain: government targets child asylum seekers
• Indian high court bolsters press censorship on TV, Internet
• Letters from our readers
• Pakistan’s leading opposition parties to form national coalition government
• Tax evasion in Germany and the campaign for “moral leadership”
  The case of Klaus Zumwinkel
• Turkish jobless rate increases dramatically
• Turkish troops invade northern Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 February 2008

• Australia: “Lefts” sign-up with Rudd Labor
• Food prices continue to rise worldwide
• Millions denied access to dentistry in the UK
• Ralph Nader announces 2008 presidential campaign
• Turkish forces push deeper into Kurdish northern Iraq
• US trade unions shift behind Obama

26 February 2008

• Australia: Victorian teachers’ union blocks discussion on strategy to oppose government attacks
• Berkeley City Council caves on anti-recruiting resolution
• Bush’s Africa tour: US seeks to counter growing Chinese influence
• Germany’s role in the secession of Kosovo
• Letters from our readers
• Malaysia to go to polls one year early
• Public meeting in Paris: Twentieth anniversary of the death of Trotskyist leader Keerthi Balasuriya
• The 58th Berlinale—Part 1
  Some alarm signals in contemporary film
• The 80th Annual Academy Awards: A mostly routine affair
• US Federal Reserve downgrades economic growth forecast for 2008
• US auto union leader Douglas Fraser dead at 91
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

27 February 2008

• A superficial analysis of global capitalism—Part 1
  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, Allen Lane: 2007
• American Axle workers strike against massive wage cut
• Australia: Power workers oppose NSW Labor government’s privatisation bid
• Divisions in ruling party
  Former Prime Minister de Villepin signs appeal directed against French President Sarkozy
• Germany: Unemployed man starves himself to death
• Kosovo independence fuels regionalist divisions in Spain
• Mining firms impose huge price hike on Chinese steelmakers: a sign of global inflation
• Sweden: Economic turmoil hits privatisation drive
• The New York Times and the 2008 elections: What the McCain “exposé” reveals
• US Senator Carl Levin speaks on torture at the University of Michigan
• US military announces 10,000 more post-“surge” troops in Iraq
• Video: WSWS Interviews Striking American Axle Workers

28 February 2008

• A superficial analysis of global capitalism—Part 2
  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, Allen Lane: 2007
• Australia: State Labor government moves to dismantle public school staffing system
• Denmark’s media mount a provocation by reprinting Mohammed cartoons
• Germany: CDU woos the Greens in Hamburg state election
• Obama, Clinton debate in Ohio: What accounts for the bitter struggle within the Democratic Party?
• Reader’s letter on the closure of the Nokia factory in Bochum, Germany
• Siemens axes 7,000 jobs worldwide
• US district court judge orders shutdown of whistleblower web site

29 February 2008

• Detroit News warns of “labor unrest” in auto industry
  American Axle strikers defy UAW wage-cutting pattern
• Brutal police attack on striking shipyard workers
  On-the-spot report from Istanbul
• Bush renews demands for telecom immunity as Democrats seek compromise on spy bill
• Kosovan independence could ignite new conflicts in territories of former Soviet Union
• Lust, Caution: political intrigue in Japanese-occupied China
• Marine exercise in Toledo, Ohio: an attack on democratic rights
• Sri Lanka: Escalating war fuels rising prices
• Turkey rejects timetable to end invasion of northern Iraq
• UK: Unions prepare to sell out jobs fight at Rolls-Royce
• US leads world in imprisoning its people
  More than one in 100 adults behind bars
• Video: WSWS speaks to striking auto workers in Detroit
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa