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Archive: May 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

• La caída de la vivienda golpea a España
• Sombras del 1929: las repercusiones mundiales del colapso del sistema bancario de Estados Unidos
  Segunda Parte
• Sombras del 1929: las repercusiones mundiales del colapso del sistema bancario de Estados Unidos
  Primera Parte

1 May 2008

• A barrage of US threats against Iran
• Australia: Haneef “terrorism” inquiry to be conducted behind closed doors
• France: CGT union betrays port workers’ strike
• France: Thousands of high school students protest cuts in education
• Letters from our readers
• Obama repudiates Reverend Wright in bid for support from the political establishment
• Pakistan’s new coalition government close to breakup
• Somalia: Scores dead as Ethiopian troops push further into Mogadishu
• US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates as housing slump, recession deepen

2 May 2008

• Agricultural corporations boast huge profits in midst of food crisis
• East Timor: Plot thickens as leader of alleged “coup” attempt surrenders
• Five years after “mission accomplished,” sharp rise in Iraqi and US casualties
• France: Undocumented immigrants strike wins support
• Health care strikes in Scandinavia
• Japan: By-election defeat points to growing crisis of Fukuda government
• New French labour law attacks workers’ rights
• San Diego State University ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
• US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war
• WSWS interviews victimized North Carolina Freightliner workers
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

3 May 2008

• Another political show trial in Baghdad: Tariq Aziz charged with genocide
• Former fascist elected mayor of Rome
• Letters from our readers
• London Olympics terror threat used to vastly increase surveillance powers
• Tens of thousands march against immigration raids in the US
• The California budget and the crisis of public education
• UAW preparing agreement to slash American Axle workers’ wages, close plants
• UAW preparing agreement to slash American Axle workers’ wages, close plants
• US payrolls shrank by 20,000 jobs in April
  Net job loss in 2008 at 260,000
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

5 May 2008

• Australia: NSW Labor Premier prepares to privatise electricity despite party conference defeat
• Democratic candidates agree on expanded US military aggression in the Middle East
• Democrats win Republican House seat in Louisiana special election
• France: Government, unions prepare large-scale pension cut
• Hospital struck as US military tightens siege of Baghdad’s Sadr City
• Journalist released from Guantánamo details abuse
• Montreal: Establishment calls for increased police powers after mini-riot
• Turkey: May Day demonstration in Istanbul brutally suppressed

6 May 2008

• Australia: Unions use anti-privatisation rally as leverage for negotiations with Labor government
• Bush, Democrats seek to fund Iraq war into next administration
• Former German president urges no let-up in right-wing agenda
• Former prosecutor testifies that Guantánamo military commissions are show trials
• Lawyer speaks to WSWS: “David Hicks was a pawn in a political process”
• Leatherheads: A failed comedy, and a talent at war with itself
• Letters from our readers
• New York Times exposé on immigrant deaths in custody
• SEP/ISSE holds May Day meeting in Colombo
• Undocumented workers occupy CGT union hall in Paris
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

7 May 2008

• A new Asian disaster: Cyclone kills tens of thousands in Burma
• Britain: Labour’s electoral meltdown continues to worsen
• Bush administration moves to exploit Burma cyclone disaster
• Fighting intensifies across Afghanistan
• Georgia inmate put to death, ending seven-month halt to US executions
• Hungarian ruling coalition collapses
• Mexico: Election dispute threatens breakup of PRD
• Obama builds lead over Clinton after North Carolina, Indiana primaries
• The EU strengthens “Fortress Europe” against migration due to climate change
• US Navy resurrects Fourth Fleet to police Latin America

8 May 2008

• Amnesty International denounces war crimes by US-backed forces in Somalia
• Australia: NSW Labor MPs unanimously endorse premier’s defiance of anti-privatisation vote
• Death toll in Burma rises, as major powers press to intervene
• Deep unease as Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary
• Guantánamo judge rules Omar Khadr, arrested at 15, can be tried as war criminal
• Letters from our readers
• Major train crash causes anger in China
• SEP meeting in New York City
  The world crisis and the 2008 elections: a socialist perspective
• The Price of Sugar: Horrifying conditions exposed—and a legal counterattack
• Verdi agrees to sell-out in Berlin transport workers strike
  Vote no on the deal!
• Wage-cutting in the US auto parts industry: The background to the American Axle strike

9 May 2008

• SEP/ISSE public meetings in Germany
  1968: The lessons for today
• Battle for Haditha: A remarkable film about the Iraq war
• Bush speech on Latin America—defense of a failed policy
• House of Representatives passes Democratic home mortgage bill backed by the Fed and banking industry
• Lebanon on brink of civil war
• Mildred Loving, civil rights-era pioneer, dies at 68
• Qantas chief threatens “showdown" with workers over pay
• Sri Lanka: Election charade in eastern province
• Toronto Transit workers threatened with loss of right to strike
• US congressional hearings expose stonewalling on veteran suicide data
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

10 May 2008

• Australia: Teachers’ union moves to shut down industrial campaign
• Britain: Welfare Reform Act to force sick and vulnerable into work
• GM offers $200 million in bid to end American Axle strike
• Germany: Verdi blocks postal strike
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2008
  Part 1: Some interesting films from newer directors
• Russia and Georgia on the brink of armed conflict over Abkhazia
• Tensions rise in Democratic contest as Obama nears nomination
• Unprecedented opposition to CAW’s concession-filled deal with Ford Canada
• Why the propaganda campaign for international intervention in Burma?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

12 May 2008

• Cyclone disaster worsens in Burma
• ISSE meeting in Delaware: The financial crisis and the threat of another Great Depression
• Iraq: Agreement struck to end fighting in Sadr City
• Lebanon: Hezbollah makes show of strength against Siniora government
• Letters from our readers
• Mary Tillman denounces cover-up of son’s “friendly fire” killing in Afghanistan
• US environmental regulatory official forced out after dispute with Dow Chemical

13 May 2008

• American Axle threatens additional plant closure
  UAW president says union will accept massive concessions
• Congressional Democrats plan three-stage charade to pass Iraq war funds
• Germany: From union boss to company executive—the case of Norbert Hansen
• Malaysia’s ruling coalition rattled after election debacle
• Massive earthquake in China kills at least 10,000
• More than 20 killed as tornadoes strike the southern US
• New Zealand student debt levels reach $10 billion mark
• US congressional probe charges
  Utah mine officials lied to federal agency before Crandall Canyon disaster
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai agrees to second round of elections

14 May 2008

• Australia: Rudd Labor’s budget delivers for business and the wealthy
• Britain’s rich get richer even as recession begins to bite
• Death toll, economic consequences mount from China earthquake
• Defend public education against Sarkozy’s cuts!
• In midst of early contract talks
  GM Canada announces closure of last Windsor plant
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2008
  Part 2: Dramas about poverty and war
• The tsunami in Sri Lanka: A case study in US humanitarian missions
• US: Nearly 400 immigrant workers arrested in slaughterhouse raid

15 May 2008

• As death toll climbs, Chinese earthquake exposes deep social divide
• Britain: How the Socialist Workers Party rooted for Livingstone and Labour
• Bush Middle East trip highlights crisis of US policy
• Clinton wins West Virginia primary but Obama nears nomination
• Colombian extraditions aimed at covering up Uribe’s death squad ties
• East Timor: Rice rations for internal refugees cut off
• Judge cites conflict of interest in removing official from military commission
  Five charges approved and one rejected in 9/11 show trials
• My Blueberry Nights: Not very much there, but was there ever?
• Republicans lose Mississippi House seat despite anti-Obama campaign
• Systematic discrimination faces Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
• Berlin transport workers’ strike
  The WSWS editorial board replies to a Verdi shop steward
• Turkish government pledges new attacks on workers
• UAW president’s radio comments underscore union-management gang-up against American Axle strikers

16 May 2008

• Australia: $50,000 for a kidney? Doctor’s proposal highlights desperate health, social crisis
• Bush backs Israel as Palestinians mark 60 years of exile and oppression
• Canada: CAW tries to stampede GM and Chrysler workers into making huge concessions
• Chinese president visits Japan: Tensions remain beneath talk of warmer ties
• Empty rhetoric from Obama on American Axle strike
• India’s Stalinists mount innocuous protests as masses confront spiraling food prices
• Israel’s crisis and the historic contradictions of Zionism
• Italy: Berlusconi’s new government promotes xenophobia
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2008
  Part 3: Not genuinely “close to life”
• Turkish youth hit hardest by unemployment
• US workers paying the price for Wall Street’s debacle
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

17 May 2008

• Australia: Peak union body calls off Qantas stoppages
• Berlin transport strike: Workers write to the WSWS about Verdi sell-out
• Britain: Labour’s “re-launch” stymied by worsening economic forecast
• Calling Pelosi’s bluff, Republicans temporarily block war-funding bill
• China quake rescue operations face rising toll, strained public services
• Death toll hits 78,000 in Burma as pressure mounts for international intervention
• France: One million strike in defence of education and social services
• Berlin transport workers vote on contract
  How should workers proceed?
• Letters from our readers
• Major Greek unions strike to protest privatization
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

18 May 2008

• American Axle strikers denounce UAW sellout contract
• Reject UAW sellout at American Axle! Mobilize auto workers against attacks on jobs and wages!

19 May 2008

• Anger in Detroit over UAW sellout at American Axle
• Backroom deals by US service unions strip workers of rights
  SEIU/UNITE HERE assume role of labor contractors
• But who, after all, was Victor Serge?
• CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan
• China’s earthquake: The most destructive in modern history
• Deal for Newsday reflects concentration of ownership in US newspaper industry
• Detroit American Axle Workers Speak on UAW Sellout
• Further job cuts at German-based Siemens
• Serbia: Pro-Western president attempts to form a government
• Sri Lankan government installs paramilitary leader as chief minister in the East
• “Appeasement” clash gives foretaste of McCain-Obama contest

20 May 2008

• Australia: Demand mass meetings to reject Victorian teachers’ union sell-out!
• Australia: Haneef documents point to Howard cabinet’s role in witch-hunt
• Britain: ISSE addresses students during week of debates at the University of Sussex
• France: LCR backs the CGT against undocumented workers
• Global survey reveals growing anger over social inequality
• India: BJP seizes on Jaipur bombing to promote communalism and social reaction
• Letters from our readers
• Over 500 juveniles held by US in Iraq and Afghanistan
• The New York Times and Washington’s new prison in Afghanistan
• US soldier in Iraq disciplined for using Koran as target practice
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

21 May 2008

• Australia: NSW teachers strike but union prepares to deliver staffing changes
• Britain: University students face worsening conditions, rising debt
• ISSE meeting at University of New South Wales
  Forty years since May-June 1968: The lessons for today
• German parliamentary deputies award themselves hefty pay rise
• Iraq: Mass detentions in Mosul as troops move into Sadr City
• Israeli press reports US pledge of war on Iran—is Bush preparing an October Surprise?
• Letters on the American Axle strike
• Rising death toll, popular anger in China quake
• Senate committee passes pro-business housing bill amidst foreclosure crisis
• US and Israel refuse to attend international conference on cluster bomb ban
• Violent attacks on immigrants in South Africa

22 May 2008

• NT intervention extended:
  Australian Labor budget punishes society’s most disadvantaged
• Canada: Report whitewashes federal police’s intervention in 2006 elections
• Credit crisis hits Iceland
• Despite evidence of mental retardation, Mississippi executes inmate by lethal injection
• FBI agents created “war crimes file” documenting US torture
• Obama gains majority of elected Democratic Party delegates
• Reject UAW sellout at American Axle! Mobilize auto workers against attacks on jobs and wages!
• The Visitor: “Human” or “political”?
• On eve of vote at largest Detroit local
  UAW pushes through sellout at smaller American Axle plants
• US Congress proposes allowing antitrust suits against OPEC

23 May 2008

• Actors and Hollywood studios, networks far apart in negotiations
• As Senate approves new war funding, US massacres Iraqi civilians
• Berlusconi government incites racist pogroms
• Chinese leaders respond to anger over shoddy buildings and lack of help
• Detroit American Axle workers speak out against UAW betrayal
• FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
• ISSE meeting at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  Forty years since May-June 1968: The lessons for today
• Letters from our readers
• Sydney hospital nurses impose work bans: not enough beds for the mentally ill
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

24 May 2008

• Australia: Details of the proposed AEU-Victorian government sell-out teachers’ agreement
• Australia: NSW Labor government presses ahead with electricity privatisation
• Britain: Conservative victory in Crewe and Nantwich as Labour disintegrates
• ISSE meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
  Forty years since May-June 1968: The lessons for today
• French workers’ protests say ‘No!’ to pension reform
• Government wealth distribution report
  Germany: The growing gulf between rich and poor
• Russia, China denounce US missile shield at summit meeting
• Texas towns sue Homeland Security over border wall plans
• US Secretary of State Rice defends torture at Google event
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

26 May 2008

• Aftermath of US slaughterhouse raid: Fear and repression grip Iowa town
• Australia: Labor government backs witch-hunting of photographer Bill Henson
• Britain: House repossessions rising sharply
• Chinese earthquake threatens wider economic dislocation
• Criminal investigation of Halliburton’s Nigerian operation widens
  Evidence of corruption during Cheney’s tenure
• Iron Man: Just what sort of hero is this?
• Israel and Syria announce negotiations amid ongoing US-Israeli threats to Iran

27 May 2008

• Australia: Escalating hostility among Victorian teachers to government-union deal
• Belgium: Leterme government lurches from crisis to crisis
• Burma aid conference: Demands and ultimatums, but little money for the cyclone victims
• France: Fishermen strike against rising energy prices
• French media lay out the red carpet for Olivier Besancenot
• True to form, the Goodmans provide a fig leaf for the Democrats in Standing Up to the Madness
• US military attempts to reignite fighting with Mahdi Army
• Washington ratchets up pressure on Pakistan’s new government

28 May 2008

• 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
  Part 1—A revolutionary situation develops
• Army chief sworn in as Lebanon’s new president
• Australia: NSW teachers strike against attacks on jobs and conditions
• Large majority vote against deal following Berlin transport strike
• Latin America: What are the real interests behind the creation of the Union of South American Nations?
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan journalists protest against abduction and torture of colleague
• The politics of provocation: Clinton, Obama and the American media
• The slaying of Mark Saunders: An escalation of Britain’s “shoot to kill” policy
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

29 May 2008

• 1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
  Part 2—The betrayal of the PCF and CGT
• Bush administration uses IAEA report to make new demands and threats to Iran
• Ex-Bush spokesman: White House fed war propaganda to a “complicit” media
• Iran: Inflation, privatization intensify working class struggles
• Low pay leads to poverty in British Army
• Military contractor Blackwater files suit to push through new California facility
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2008
  Part 4: Other stories, varying degrees of success
• Sharp increase in mental illness among US troops during 2007
• Spiralling prices in Vietnam provoke fears of social unrest
• The genealogy of torture
  Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali
• Turkey: Conflict escalates between government and judiciary

30 May 2008

• American filmmaker Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)
• Australian photographer Bill Henson—scapegoat for a wider assault on democratic rights
• Britain: An interview with the manager of Hicham Yezza’s defence campaign
  “The Home Office acts like a faceless machine”
• Britain: Oppose deportation of Hicham Yezza
• Canada complicit in illegal detention and torture of Omar Khadr
• Dow Chemical announces massive price increase
• End of Nepalese monarchy sets stage for new period of political instability
• Fallout from McClellan book: The Iraq war’s “complicit enablers,” then and now
• Tensions mount in the grand coalition
  German Social Democrats put forward their own presidential candidate
• Phoenix spacecraft lands near Mars polar icecap
• Why have the findings of the Solomon Islands Commission of Inquiry into the 2006 riots not been released?
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

31 May 2008

• Australia: Unions call off rallies against NSW electricity privatisation
• Chinese earthquake victims face continuing hardship and new threats
• French government prepares new cuts in unemployment compensation
• German Left Party holds its first congress
• Letters from our readers
• New York construction workers killed and injured in another high-rise accident
• The political lessons of the American Axle strike
• Thousands of Iraqis protest agreement for indefinite US occupation
• US academic Norman Finkelstein denied entry to Israel
• US: AFTRA capitulates to the studios and networks, the pressure is on SAG
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

22 August 2008

• More threats of international intervention amid continuing Burmese cyclone disaster