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Archive: September 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 September 2008

• Australia: NSW government unveils “Plan B” to sell electricity assets
• Danger grows of NATO-Russian clash in Black Sea
• Hurricane Gustav threatens New Orleans, Gulf Coast
• As Republican convention opens
  McCain bows to ultra-right with Palin selection
• Pentagon denies responsibility for US massacre of Afghan villagers
• Standoff intensifies between Thai government and protesters

2 September 2008

• A bloody month in Afghanistan
• Alaska Republican senator renominated despite indictment
• East Timor: Leaked autopsy report shows alleged “coup” leader Reinado shot at point-blank range
• European Union summit sides with Georgia
• France: trade unions warn government against social explosion
• Indian government mounts brutal campaign of repression in Kashmir
• New Maoist-led government installed in Nepal
• Police raid protest headquarters as Republican National Convention opens
• World Bank: Two and a half billion people live on less than $2 a day

3 September 2008

• Belgium: Undocumented workers’ hunger strikes reach critical point
• Global downturn begins to puncture Australian mining boom
• High fuel prices impoverish New York City taxi drivers
• Japan’s prime minister quits amid signs of economic downturn
  Koizumi’s record
• Letters from our readers
• New revelations on VP choice heighten crisis of McCain campaign
• Obama’s abbreviated Labor Day in Detroit: A sop to the bureaucracy
• Shanghai Cooperation Organisation cautiously endorses Russia over Georgia
  Strategic rivalries
• US Gulf Coast deals with aftermath of Hurricane Gustav
• US: Abuse charged in New Jersey prison
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 September 2008

• 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
  Part 5—The centrist line of the OCI (1)
• Angola becomes Africa’s largest oil producer
• Australia: Labor to strip welfare from parents of truant children
  Punishing the poor
• British government moots passport and ID controls between UK and Ireland
• Canada’s Conservatives to call national election before economic downturn worsens
  The role of the unions and NDP
• As Republicans unveil VP candidate
  Democrats silent on threat from religious right
• High fuel prices impoverish New York City taxi drivers
• Mass arrests of protesters at Republican National Convention
• Millions affected by flooding in India and Nepal
  Official neglect
• New York Times’ Roger Cohen on Georgian crisis: A case of deliberate deception
• Thai prime minister imposes state of emergency but political crisis continues

5 September 2008

• 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
  Part 6—The centrist line of the OCI (2)
• Australia: Labor uses Howard’s construction industry watchdog to attack building workers
  Unions “play-acting”
• Australian media union refuses to challenge job cuts at Fairfax
• Cheney in Georgia: Gunboat diplomacy in pursuit of oil
• The Sarah Palin speech:
  Democrats and media cower in face of Republicans’ right-wing demagogy
• Former Yugoslav war crimes tribunal spokeswoman indicted for contempt
• Malaysia proposes limited changes to ban on political activity at universities
• Productivity rises as US workers see real income cut
• Protests in West Bengal threaten to derail CPI (M)-sponsored Nano car project
• US attack inside Pakistan threatens dangerous new war
  An expanded war
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

6 September 2008

• 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
  Part 7—The centrist line of the OCI (3)
• Britain: Alistair Darling and the implosion of the Labour government
  The party’s over
• Canada: Steelworkers and CAW officials tussle over dues base at Magna
• Detroit Democratic mayor resigns, faces jail
• Germany: Left Party issues blank cheque to SPD in Hesse
• Iraq: Handover in devastated Anbar hailed as a victory
• McCain launches fall campaign as Obama embraces Iraq “surge”
  Obama on his knees
• Pakistan’s parliament says future US raids should be repelled “with full force”
  Today’s presidential election
• Amid mass arrests and suppression of media
  RNC in Twin Cities: Eight protesters charged with terrorism under Patriot Act
• US jobless rate soars as foreclosures break new record
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 September 2008

• 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
  Part 8—The centrist line of the OCI (4)
• Afghan president blames “the West” for Islamic extremism
  US policy and Al Qaeda terrorism
• Australia: Unemployment rises as major companies axe jobs
  Car giants lead job cuts
• Britain: Union seeks to suppress postal workers’ opposition to Royal Mail attacks
• Controversy continues over French soldiers’ deaths in Afghanistan
• Former Argentine generals sentenced to life
  US links to the junta
• Haiti devastated by hurricanes
• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Libya
• US aircraft machinists strike Boeing
• US government takes over mortgage giants to stave off financial meltdown

9 September 2008

• Britain: Labour to introduce work for benefits programme
  Private sector to bid for contracts
• Canada: Conservatives call federal election for October 14
  The Liberals’ “Green Shift”
• France: Socialist Party and unions support government cheap labour scheme
• Georgian conflict poses dilemma for Turkey
  The “Straits Question”
• Letters on the US presidential elections
• New York: city and state universities face deep budget cuts
  Students’ thoughts
• Obama vows not to rescind tax cuts for the rich if recession deepens
• PPP leader to be sworn in as new Pakistani president
  Growing anger
• Philippine power grid privatisation threatens jobs and conditions
• Public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne to commemorate...
  The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
• The play’s the thing: Andrew Fleming’s Hamlet 2
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 September 2008

• Amid rising casualties, Australian establishment debates a wider engagement in Afghanistan
• Another criminal US missile strike inside Pakistan
• Nader in Detroit: watered-down reformism and an appeal to the Democrats
• Obama in Michigan: economic nationalism and “reformism” without reforms
• Record corporate bailout reveals the bankruptcy of American capitalism
• Revelations of war crimes and moralizing idealism
• Stockholm conference told 1 billion people without access to safe water
• Strike of machinists at Boeing continues
• Ukraine: US-Russia conflict provokes government collapse
  Cheney’s visit
• WSWS interviews director of homeless shelter in LA

11 September 2008

• Australia: “Lefts” called in as NSW Labor government implodes
  “Lefts” installed to impose deeper cuts
• Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD
  International situation
• Join the International Students for Social Equality!
• Ken Campbell (1941-2008): A unique theatrical talent
• Letters from our readers
• Obama denounces Bush for sending too few troops to Afghanistan
• Political dissent as terrorism: “Minnesota Patriot Act” charges filed against RNC Eight
• Social reality in an Australian mining town
• Sri Lankan university meeting discusses Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
• Thai court sacks prime minister over cooking show “corruption”
  Differences over economic policy

12 September 2008

• Australia: The 2008 Victorian teachers’ dispute, Teachers Alliance and the Socialist Equality Party
• Boeing machinists strike continues
• Britain: Jury in alleged transatlantic bomb plot trial fails to convict on central charges
  A political conspiracy
• Chinese economists warn of the “biggest adjustment” in 30 years
  The domestic market
• Humanitarian crisis worsens in Haiti
• Obama and McCain on 9/11: “unity” in support of war and repression
• President Bush authorises US ground operations inside Pakistan
  Pakistani anger
• US bailout of mortgage giants sets stage for wider financial crisis
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

13 September 2008

• Australia: Police drop 14-month investigation into Mohamed Haneef
  ”Extreme pressure” to charge Haneef
• Britain’s Trades Union Congress: Left talk but no fight against Labour government
• Canada: Electioneering cannot obscure major parties’ support for Afghan war
  The media’s hostile reaction
• Corruption scandal shakes Turkish building workers union
• Declassified grand jury transcripts confirm frame-up of Ethel Rosenberg
  The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• Indonesia: Senior intelligence official charged with murder
• Letters from our readers
• National service forum at Columbia University
  Obama calls for US military mobilization
• Rampant corruption at US agency responsible for collecting oil royalties
• Reject Obama and McCain! Support the socialist alternative in 2008! Build the Socialist Equality Party!
• War in Georgia: French LCR mimics Sarkozy’s foreign policy
  Balkanisation of the Caucasus
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 September 2008

• Another unnecessary tragedy: Deadly train crash in California kills at least 25
• Britain: Union leaders stifle growing militancy of London Underground workers
• Canada: While CAW bleats, Harper offers aid to automakers and endorses job-cutting
  A dispute within Canada’s big business elite
• French President Sarkozy visits Syria to seek new alliances
• New Zealand police to be armed with Tasers
  Report sanitised police brutality
• Sri Lankan provincial elections reveal widespread alienation and discontent
  Lack of opposition
• Texas hit hard by Hurricane Ike
• The Palin interviews: Ignorance in the service of the ultra-right

16 September 2008

• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 1
  A few intelligent movies, but lost in an increasingly industry-oriented event
  Serious work
• Bomb blasts kill 30 in Indian capital
• The Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan
  Britain’s SWP lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War—Part 1
• Complete print of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis discovered in Argentina
  Metropolis
• Germany: New study shows “upturn” only benefits the wealthy
  Wage-dumping
• Italy: Berlusconi government seeks to rehabilitate fascism
• Latin American presidents meet with Bolivia on brink of civil war
  US ambassador an expert in partition
• Machinists strike at Boeing begins second week
• More US corporate bailouts on the way
• From Pabloism to the Greens
  Peter Camejo dead at 68
• The Wall Street crisis and the failure of American capitalism
• Workers struggles: The Americas

17 September 2008

• An exchange on Bertolt Brecht’s Arturo Ui
• Australia: Climate change, the Garnaut report, and the profit system
• The Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan
  Britain’s Socialist Workers Party lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War—Part 2
• France: Token resistance by the unions to new Renault job cuts
• Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD
  The role of the Left Party
• Illinois prepares wide-ranging budget cuts
• No return to the 1930s! For the public ownership of the banks!
• Nuclear Supplier Group gives India unique “waiver,” but only after row between Delhi and Beijing
  China’s opposition
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 2
  Socially meaningful, but limited
  Rain of the Children
• US Federal Reserve announces $85 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG

18 September 2008

• Canadian elections: NDP serves up thin gruel at Toronto kick-off rally
• Europe gripped by fear of global crash
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 1
  Glimpses of life, if not the essential facts of the world
• Letters from our readers
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 3
  Noteworthy documentaries—from Australia and Canada
• Panic sell-off on Wall Street
• Socialist Equality Party launches new election web site
• South Africa: Court case against ANC President Zuma withdrawn
  Zuma and the South African working class
• Sri Lankan SEP demands release of arrested member
• The American “financial tsunami” hits Asia
  Regional downturn
• Unemployment and poverty grip New York State
• Victims blamed in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike

19 September 2008

• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 4
  Contemporary dramas from Israel, Australia and South Africa
  Jerusalema
• Global financial storm hits Australian economy
• Irish government neglect flood victims and infrastructure
• New Thai prime minister installed amid continuing political turmoil
  Anti-government protests
• Obama’s response to financial meltdown: Deception and subservience to Wall Street
• Power-sharing deal signed in Zimbabwe
• SEP presidential candidate speaks on financial crisis
• Socialist Equality Party holds founding Congress
• The financial crisis and the comeback of Gerhard Schröder
• Why is American liberalism bankrupt? A history lesson for New York Times columnist Bob Herbert
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

20 September 2008

• Canadian Medical Association Journal attacks Harper government for listeria epidemic
• Germany: Power struggle at Volkswagen
  “Resistance” to the EU commission
• Japan’s ruling party to select new prime minister as economy slides into recession
  Aso’s opponents
• Lloyds TSB takeover of HBOS leaves Britain’s banks in trouble
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 2
  Social drama
• Sri Lankan police continue to detain SEP member
• US government to bail out Wall Street
• US-Pakistani relations remain on the boil
  A new understanding?
• Western Australian Labor government thrown out as state election delivers hung parliament
  Unstable minority administration formed
• Withdraw all troops from Afghanistan and Iraq! A socialist answer to war and militarism
  The perspective of the “peace movement”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
  Australia and the Pacific

22 September 2008

• California budget: $7 billion in cuts, tax breaks for big business
• Ethiopia threatens to withdraw from Somalia
• Germany: The international financial crisis and illusions in an enlightened capitalism
  Shock and fear
• Marriott Hotel bombing: another sign of Pakistan’s deepening crisis
• No to Wall Street bailout! The socialist answer to the financial crisis
• Row over Internet "war plans" highlights China-Vietnam tensions
• SEP presidential candidate denounces Wall Street bailout
• Safety incidents plague Australian airline
  Air safety deregulation
• Scotland: Alex Salmond and Thatcherism
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 5
  Yung Chang speaks with WSWS about Up the Yangtze

23 September 2008

• Banks race to profit from US bailout
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 6
  Deborah Kerr: an actor with genuine subtlety and integrity
• France: Union thugs threaten immigrants at a Communist Party fair
• Georgia death row prisoner faces execution following denial of clemency
• Letters from our readers
• Obama demands deep cutbacks to pay for Wall Street bailout
• Paulson warns: No limits on CEO pay
• Sri Lankan police detain SEP member for over a week
• Statement of the International Students for Social Equality (Britain)
  The defence of democratic rights based on a socialist perspective
• Who is Henry Paulson?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 September 2008

• An interview with Chus Gutiérrez, director of Return to Hansala
• Britain: Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes—“We fear another cover-up”
• Brown at Britain’s Labour conference: Bailout for banks, nothing for jobless and homeowners
• Canada: Financial crisis intrudes on federal election campaign
  Ombudsmen and commissioners in the face of a Depression-type crisis
• China’s milk crisis: another disaster unleashed by the capitalist market
  Unregulated dairy industry
• Democrats signal support for Wall Street bailout at Senate hearing
• As economic crisis deepens, rich get richer
  Forbes publishes list of 400 wealthiest Americans
• French postal service to be privatised
• Germany’s war in Afghanistan
• Letters and a reply on Zimbabwe
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 3
  Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, Terence Davies’ Of Time and the City: What the filmmakers now see
• Obama says bailout will postpone spending plans
• Sydney and Melbourne meetings to commemorate...
  The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
• The LCR covers for “left” supporters of French imperialism in Afghanistan
  Support from the LCR
• SEP election meetings
  The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
• The ties that bind: Dodd, Schumer and Wall Street
• Wall Street falls reflect concerns over bailout and fears for US economy
  International tensions
• West Bengal: Standoff continues over Stalinists’ land seizure for Tata Motors
  Maoists promote Bannerjee

25 September 2008

• Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest
• Australia: Methane gas landfill leak forces residents to evacuate suburb
  “The land should never have been sold”
• Evasions, half-truths and lies
  Bush demands passage of Wall Street bailout
• Documents of the SEP Founding Congress: Statement of Principles
• French parliament votes for continued military presence in Afghanistan
• New documentary on Pinochet’s dictatorship: Some wounds should not heal
• Obama’s embrace of bailout wins favor on Wall Street
• Sri Lankan police release arrested SEP member
• WHO report discloses extent of global health inequality
• World’s largest particle accelerator begins operations
  Scientists to gain greater understanding of the mysteries of the universe

26 September 2008

• Unions tie the working class to big business parties
  Bloc Québécois covers up its support for the Harper Conservative government
  Unions tie the working class to big business parties
• Broken US promises undermine North Korean nuclear agreement
  A deliberate US provocation
• Chrysler 1979: Lessons from an early corporate “bailout”
  Lessons from history
• Contradictory verdicts in Australia’s largest terrorism trial
  Rudd government rushes to claim “success”
• Democrats push for quick adoption of Bush plan to bail out Wall Street
• Documents of the SEP Founding Congress: Statement of Principles—Part 2
  The Working Class and the Socialist Revolution
• European reactions to the financial crisis
  Covering tracks
• German radicals provide political cover for Left Party
  A culture of opportunism
• Letters on the Wall Street bailout
• Livni’s election and the ongoing shift to the right in Israeli politics
• SEP presidential candidate Jerry White addresses ISSE meeting at the University of Michigan
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 4
  Some urgency about the state of the world
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

27 September 2008

• Bavarian election reveals deep divisions within German right
  The decline of the SPD
• Washington Mutual assets acquired by JPMorgan Chase
  Biggest US bank failure ever
• Britain’s Chancellor Alistair Darling and the International Marxist Group
• California: foreclosures and homeless on the rise
• A travesty of democracy
  Democrats, Republicans conspire to remove Wall Street bailout from election debate
• Letters from our readers
• Taro Aso: third Japanese prime minister in two years
  An offbeat image
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

28 September 2008

• SEP presidential candidate speaks with workers in Detroit

29 September 2008

• Afghanistan: US, NATO, Karzai regime investigate Azizabad massacre
• Democrats take charge of pushing through Bush’s bailout of Wall Street
• Fighting intensifies as Sri Lankan army advances on LTTE stronghold
• Finland: Second school shooting in less than a year
  Striking similarity
• Indian CEO killed after negotiations with group of dismissed workers go awry
• Interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, directors of Lorna’s Silence
• Philippine government renews its communal war in Mindanao
  The US role
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 5
  The Dardenne brothers: but what about the “extenuating circumstances”?
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 1
• The Obama-McCain debate: Right-wing politicians agree on bailout and militarism

30 September 2008

• Germany: Left Party leader supports Wall Street bailout
• Israel’s plan to attack Iran confirmed
• Letters from our readers
• Amid Allegations of Enron-style Fraud
  Major Australian child care corporation at risk of bankruptcy
• Political power struggle in Malaysia continues unabated
• Stocks plunge on Wall Street as bailout fails in Congress
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party--Part 3
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 2
• US government brokers Citigroup takeover of Wachovia Bank
• US-Pakistani skirmish points to threat of wider war
• Workers Struggles: The Americas