Archive: April 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.
31 December 1969
- Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos rechaza la ley internacional y decide en contra de mejicanos bajo pena de muerte
- Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton y el dominio empresarial del Partido Demócrata
- Notas sobre la crisis político-económica del sistema mundial capitalista: perspectivas y misión del Socialist Equality Party [Partido Socialista por la Igualdad]
1 April 2008
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A crise mundial do capitalismo e as perspectivas do socialismo
Parte Dois - Britain: Postal unions push through attack on pensions
- Bush housing secretary resigns amid mounting corruption charges
- Canada: By stealth, Ottawa seeks to censor film and television production
- Governor’s budget results in layoff notices for thousands of California teachers
- Letters from our readers
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SEP-ISSE public meeting in Melbourne
Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse - Sobe o preço dos alimentos e aumenta a fome em todo o mundo
- South Australian Labor government to slash payments to injured workers
- US Treasury plan shields Wall Street speculators
- US-backed assault on Basra ends in humiliation for Maliki government
- Video: WSWS at American Axle picket line in Detroit 3/31/08
- Workers struggles: The Americas
2 April 2008
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Elect rank-and-file committees to oppose UAW sell-out
American Axle strike at the crossroads - Australia: SBS television’s bogus debate on Northern Territory intervention
- Independent truckers stage slowdowns, strike in US
- Judge temporarily halts Australian terrorist trial over mistreatment of prisoners
- Sri Lankan local polls: a travesty of democracy
- Talks on power handover continue after Zimbabwe elections
- Turkey’s chief prosecutor seeks to ban the ruling AKP
- US food stamp use projected to swell to record levels
- US, Germany clash over NATO expansion plan
3 April 2008
- Actor Paul Scofield (January 21, 1922-March 19, 2008): “I’m an actor because I’m good at it”
- American Axle strikers in Buffalo determined to resist wage cuts
- Argentina: Truce in three-week agricultural strike
- Australian Labor leaders plan “third wave” of free-market measures
- Australian unions seek to accommodate on NSW power privatisation
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With Big Three contracts set to expire
Canadian Auto Workers leaders court financiers - Congressional Democrats defer to Fed Chairman Bernanke on Wall Street bailout
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An indictment of the profit system
High school drop-out rate in major US cities at nearly 50 percent - Independent truckers stage protests in US
- Jules Dassin, victim of the anti-communist witch-hunt, dies at 96
- Letters from our readers
- Netherlands: Geert Wilders releases his anti-Islamic film
4 April 2008
- 2003 Justice Department memo justifies torture, presidential dictatorship
- American Axle workers in Detroit determined to resist sellout
- Bush snubbed at NATO summit
- Goodyear worker in Kansas dies after tasering by police
- Iraqi prime minister pledges new offensives in Basra and Baghdad
- Police break up picket line at Philippine port
- Reject UAW plans to sell out American Axle strike
- US financial system faced collapse, bank regulators tell Senate hearing on Bear Stearns bailout
- United Arab Emirates: Over 600 construction workers arrested after protest
- Video: American Axle Strike in Danger
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
5 April 2008
- Election standoff in Zimbabwe: The threat of imperialist intervention
- France: Political fallout from troop deployment to Afghanistan
- German public sector pay dispute: Workers need a new political perspective
- Haiti: Thousands protest over growing hunger
- India: While waving red-flags, the Stalinist CPM lurches further right
- Letters from our readers
- New pamphlet from Mehring Books in Australia
- Northern Ireland: The significance of Paisley’s resignation and Adams’s regret
- Sri Lankan president nervously assesses military stalemate
- US Senate leaders agree on pro-industry housing bill
- US jobless figures: The specter of a new depression
- Video: WSWS at American Axle in Cheektowaga, New York
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 April 2008
- An interview: Filmmaker Jules Dassin, witch-hunting and Hollywood’s blacklists
- Australian court quashes convictions of protesters for entering US spy base
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On-the-spot report from central Australia
Conditions of Aboriginal people in Alice Springs and the town camps - Forty years on, some lessons from the life—and death—of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Hundreds of homeless forcibly evicted from Southern California refuge
- Letters on art and culture
- Romanian autoworkers strike against rock-bottom wages
- SEP/ISSE meeting: Which way forward? The American Axle strike and the political issues facing the working class
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Ten die in western Pennsylvania house fire
Gas had been cut off since May 2005 - US congressional hearings on Iraq foreshadow aggressive stance against Iran
- Video: WSWS speaks with American Axle strikers in Detroit
8 April 2008
- Britain: Tax credit system plunges families into debt
- East Timor: Former PM Alkatiri claims alleged assassination attempt on Xanana Gusmao was faked
- On eve of Petraeus testimony, US launches raids on Baghdad’s Sadr City
- Rice shortages heighten political crisis in the Philippines
- Richard Widmark (1914-2008)
- The Clintons cash in: Wealth and American politics
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As US auto strike enters seventh week
UAW president backs “real sacrifices” for American Axle workers - Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 April 2008
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As full negotiations resume
American Axle workers denounce UAW concessions offer - Britain: Mortgage drought as economy faces plunge into recession
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On-the-spot report from central Australia
CAAMA radio interviews WSWS on NT intervention - California teachers protest budget cuts
- General Petraeus gives Senate a blueprint for an unending occupation of Iraq
- Iraq war vet: We’ve heard enough from the generals and the politicians
- Israeli minister threatens “destruction of the Iranian nation”
- Stop-Loss: A serious and moving effort, but what about that three-letter word?
- US State Department renews contract with Blackwater mercenaries
10 April 2008
- A political balance sheet of the German train drivers strike
- Congressional hearings set stage for wider war—inside and outside of Iraq
- Despite spreading recession, US CEOs rake in huge pay raises
- Letters from our readers
- New Zealand universities shed “non-core” courses
- Rodchenko: The impact of revolution and counterrevolution
- Senior Sri Lankan minister killed in bomb blast
- The dubious politics behind the Beijing Olympics protests
- US airline chaos: thousands of flights canceled for inspections
11 April 2008
- Anger grows over rising prices in Sri Lanka
- Australian government moves to impose further hardship on low-paid
- Bush orders Iraq escalation to continue
- Egypt: Mass protests over price hikes
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Germany: Bavarian bank hit hard by financial crisis
Population to pay for speculation - Jerry White reports for WSWS from American Axle strike
- UAW makes proposal in American Axle negotiations
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Zimbabwe: Mugabe government responds to mass opposition with repression
12 April 2008
- Adding Machine: Musical version of a 1920s play reverberates in the 21st century
- American Airlines cancels hundreds more flights
- Australia: Families hit by rising bankruptcies and home repossessions
- French high school students protest education cuts
- IMF cuts US growth forecast, warns of global slump
- India: Rising food prices threaten social calamity
- Italian elections: polls favour Berlusconi comeback
- Letters on the Beijing Olympics protest
- Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton and the corporate domination of the Democratic Party
- Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House
- WSWS writer Jerry White speaks on American Axle strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 April 2008
- Britain: Law Lords reject mothers’ appeal for Iraq war inquiry
- Constitutional amendments stoke tensions in Thai ruling circles
- European Court of Justice supports cheap wages and limits the right to strike
- French government slashes public spending
- Letters on the American Axle strike
- Losses mount in Chinese export industry
- US media, Clinton assail Obama for “bitter” truth
15 April 2008
- American Axle, UAW continue negotiations over concessions contract
- Amid mounting food crisis, governments fear revolution of the hungry
- Australian Federal Police still pursuing Mohamed Haneef
- Britain: High Court rules government acted unlawfully in stopping BAe-Saudi arms inquiry
- Court proceedings begin in Texas polygamy sect case
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ISSE meeting at RMIT in Melbourne
Five years since the US-led invasion of Iraq - Letters on art and culture
- Recession takes hold in US
- Repression in Tibet: the class issues
- Service employees union organizes thug attack at Detroit Labor Notes conference
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- 西藏的镇压: 阶级问题
16 April 2008
- A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs’ pursuit of wealth
- Airline giants Delta and Northwest agree to merger
- Collapse of “left” parties enables Berlusconi to win Italian election
- France: Le Monde journalists on strike
- Kosovo: The Hague acquits former PM Haradinaj of war crimes amid alleged witness intimidation
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Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
Part 1 - Sixty-five years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- US and Iraqi military continue push into Sadr City
17 April 2008
- Australian prime minister’s world trip: “a bright new image” for US alliance
- Britain: Science cuts threaten Jodrell Bank radio telescope
- Cuban “reforms” promote private property and social inequality
- In midst of recession, multi-billion-dollar paydays for US hedge fund managers
- Letters from our readers
- Papua New Guinea government signs $10 billion gas deal with US-Australian consortium
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Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
Part 2 - The Obama “mistake”: Breaking the taboo on discussing class in America
- UAW calls off rally, prepares sellout of American Axle strike
- US Supreme Court upholds lethal injection, opening way to resumed executions
18 April 2008
- After election landslide, Nepalese Maoists reassure investors and major powers
- Charlton Heston and postwar American filmmaking
- German business leaders and politicians denounce pension increase
- Obama-Clinton debate: A whiff of McCarthyism as media pushes Democratic campaign to the right
- Second mistrial in Liberty City “terror” case
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Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
Part 3 - UAW sellout of American Axle strike imminent
- Video: WSWS reporting from American Axle strike in Detroit
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “Big Boy” Canada demands changes in Afghan government
19 April 2008
- As losses mount, US banks cut thousands of jobs
- Australia: Fears of job losses grow amid signs of slowing economy
- France: Strikes continue at Le Monde
- German SPD opens the door for rail privatisation
- Hugo Claus 1929-2008: “Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth at the injustice of things”
- IMF and OECD: Europe will be hit hard by US recession
- Letters from our readers
- Pakistan: Textile workers’ protests convulse Multan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 April 2008
- Australian Labor government’s “2020 summit”: more political spin to package right-wing agenda
- Censorship in Troy, New York: an interview with Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal
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Despite UAW wage-cut offers, no agreement yet in American Axle strike
Anger simmers over strike rally cancellation - Housing slump hits Spain
- The pope’s US visit: Media, White House, Congress embrace spokesman for religious obscurantism
- US military tightens siege of Sadr City as cleric warns of war
- US: Largest student lenders halt private, consolidation loan programs
- Video: UAW officials try intimidation at American Axle meeting
22 April 2008
- Behind the US stock market rally
- British government lied about 2007 Persian Gulf naval incident
- Dark clouds gather over Australian economy
- Letters from our readers
- Rice, US generals signal stepped-up bloodletting in Iraq
- Sri Lanka: Acrimonious feuding inside JVP as party’s support slides
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ISSE meeting at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
The global implications of the US banking collapse - US Supreme Court denies 11 death penalty appeals, states prepare to resume executions
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In run-up to Democratic Party primary
Western Pennsylvania workers speak on struggling economy - Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 April 2008
- At least 14 Haitian migrants drowned off the coast of the Bahamas
- Australia: Rudd Labor government suppresses documents on 1998 waterfront dispute
- Body of War: a wounded veteran and, disgracefully, a defense of the Democrats
- Britain’s teachers and civil servants to take one-day strike action
- Clinton extends Democratic presidential contest with victory in Pennsylvania primary
- Israel escalates offensive against Palestinians with Egypt’s assistance
-
ISSE public meetings in Britain
May-June 1968—The lessons 40 years on - Paraguay: Election ends six decades of one-party rule
24 April 2008
- American Axle strikers rally outside shareholders' meeting
- Appeal to working class, not corporate shareholders, to back American Axle strike
- Australia: Latest “terror plot” claims unravel in court
- Berlin referendum directed against the Senate
- Colombia’s President Uribe implicated in paramilitary death squad probe
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Detroit-area school districts vote to privatize support staff
Angry response from students, parents - Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger
- Hillary Clinton threatens to “obliterate” Iran
- Life expectancy declines for women in Southern US counties: a consequence of widening inequality
- Middle Eastern regimes line up behind US military crackdown in Baghdad and Basra
- US student held in solitary confinement on terrorism charges
- Under the Same Moon: Something lost en route
- What does the hunger strike by Belfast shop stewards say about the trade unions?
25 April 2008
- Detroit schools to be “reconstituted,” as calls for privatization increase
- Detroit: American Axle workers hold protest amidst heavy police presence
- France: Union reforms highlight Sarkozy-CGT alliance
- French immigration policy and the death of Baba Traoré
- Global food crisis grips Latin America
- How the Pentagon manipulated the media to promote the Iraq war
- Maoists emerge as largest parliamentary bloc in Nepal
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The collapse of Rifondazione Comunista in Italy
The price of opportunism - UK, Birmingham City Council workers strike in “Single Status” dispute
- US-backed crackdown in Basra paves way for opening up Iraq’s oil and gas
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
26 April 2008
- Australia: Inflation soars and thousands more face losing their homes
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Britain: Size of teachers’ strike exceeds predictions
Teachers voice their anger at government policy - British government commits taxpayers to bailing out the banks
- French school students maintain protests against Sarkozy’s education reforms
- Hamburg: First-ever state coalition between Greens and the CDU
- Letters from our readers
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SEP meeting in US
May Day 2008: Capitalism, socialism and the working class - Siege continues in Iraq as US escalates threats against Iran
- The Pennsylvania primary and the crisis of the Democratic Party
- The Sean Bell verdict—assuring that New York City’s police can kill with impunity
- US: Emails suggest Veterans Administration cover-up of suicide rate
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 April 2008
- Britain: Scottish refinery workers strike
- Germany: The SPD’s bogus minimum wage campaign
- SEP/ISSE May Day meeting in Colombo
- Sarkozy television interview seeks to reassure French corporate elite
- Spain’s “water wars”: A scramble for essential resources
- Toronto Transit workers forced back to work by strike-breaking law
- US intelligence on Syrian reactor: justifying last year’s crime to prepare for new ones
29 April 2008
- Anti-Karzai attack in Kabul shakes US puppet government
- BBC documentary reveals government reckless in drive for nuclear weapons
- Letters from our readers
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Nearly 1000 unmarked graves discovered in Indian-occupied Kashmir
Likely victims of Indian Security Forces - Obama vows to back Bush’s war commander
- Sri Lankan army suffers a debacle as a northern offensive collapses
- Sri Lankan soldiers and families speak to the WSWS
- US Supreme Court upholds anti-democratic voter ID law
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Verdi union sabotages Berlin transport workers’ strike
Chronology of a sellout - Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 April 2008
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US auto strike enters tenth week
A political balance sheet of the battle at American Axle - Another Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan
- As gas prices and oil profits soar, Bush promotes giveaways to corporations
- CAW agrees to massive concessions with Ford Canada
- New Zealand appliance manufacturer closes plants in three countries
- Strike wave continues in Romania
- Tensions mount as American Axle strike enters 10th week
- US escalates siege in Baghdad’s Sadr City
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