Archive: November 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 November 2008 (front page)
- Huge IMF bailout for emerging economies
- Wall Street’s Great Heist of 2008
- Obama begins to “lower expectations” for a Democratic White House
- Hundreds dead in earthquake in Pakistan
- Political stalemate forces general election in Israel
- WSWS speaks with family members of Michigan fire victims
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Britain: The furore over the BBC’s Brand and Ross broadcast
What constitutes an “appalling lapse in standards”? -
The German October: The missed revolution of 1923
Part 3 -
ISSE meeting in Frankfurt, Germany
A fierce response by Georgian nationalists - A letter on Canada, South Africa and deadly asbestos
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Leon Trotsky - Marxism in Our Time - 1939
3 November 2008 (front page)
- US carries out more airstrikes in Pakistan
- Spain: Investigation launched into Franco’s crimes
- Boeing machinists ratify contract
- Australia: NSW Labor’s pay offer to teachers foreshadows savage spending cuts
- New South Wales teachers speak out: “We’re starving the public schools”
- Britain: GMB trade union works with JCB to slash jobs and pay
- On the eve of the US elections
- On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
- “Socialism and the Future of Humanity”— SEP (US) meeting on 70th anniversary of the Fourth International
- SEP candidates complete successful campaign tour
- SEP candidates speak to workers in Toronto and Montreal
- Body of Lies and Flash of Genius: One closer to the truth than the other
4 November 2008 (front page)
- GM-Chrysler merger: United Auto Workers union prepares another betrayal
- US and India forge a strategic partnership with globally disruptive nuclear treaty
- Indian prime minister warns of “severe and prolonged” global downturn
- NATO warships head to Somalia
- Britain’s largest corporations pay no tax
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As economic situation worsens
Circuit City to close stores, lay off thousands in US - More job losses, plant closures and company failures loom in Australia
- Czech government in crisis following election debacles
- Election Day 2008: The class issues
- Jerry White addresses students at candidates’ forum in Dayton, Ohio
- Video: SEP Candidate Jerry White speaks in Chicago
- Songs from a modern lover: Jonathan Richman at The Southgate House
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 November 2008 (front page)
- Collapse of US auto sales points to deep recession
- The election of Barack Obama
- Spain: What the Garzon indictment states about the crimes of the Franco era
- Australia: New evidence of political manipulation in Haneef case
- Three men convicted over 2002 Bali bombings set to be executed
- Germany: SPD right wing sabotages change of government in Hesse
- Thailand’s political crisis intensifies amid economic slowdown
- The German Left Party in Hesse: open to the highest bidder
- Half of the Zimbabwe population faces starvation
- Passchendaele: Politics by other means
6 November 2008 (front page)
- Behind the nationwide sweep by Democratic Party
- India army officers linked to Hindu supremacist terrorism
- Letters from our readers
- Class divisions begin to emerge in Obama coalition
- Hopes and illusions dominate European reaction to Obama victory
- Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran
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Utility cut-offs on the rise in the US
“More than an energy issue, a serious public health issue” - Renewed war in Congo as conflict over minerals spirals
- Australia: New evidence of political manipulation in Haneef case
7 November 2008 (front page)
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As Democrats seek to dampen popular expectations
Obama administration begins to take shape - A closer look at Obama’s transition team
- US, world stock markets plummet on global recession forecasts
- Chinese manufacturing in free fall as export markets collapse
- Europe plunges into recession
- Quebec election called for December 8
- Sri Lankan military drives closer to LTTE stronghold
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A historical milestone?
Reflections on class and race in America - France: Train drivers strike against attacks on working conditions
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
8 November 2008 (front page)
- Obama reassures big business on economic policy
- US jobless rate hits 14-year high
- Layoffs and plant closures ravage Canada’s auto industry
- Lessons from Hesse: The Left Party and the debacle of the SPD
- PSG member stands for staff council at Berlin Urban Transit Company
- Another US massacre in Afghanistan
- Sweden bails out banks as economy enters recession
- Britain: Labour beats off Scottish National Party challenge in Glenrothes by-election
- A damning admission on the Georgian war
- Letters on “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 November 2008 (front page)
- European Union summit in Brussels: The EU prepares for Obama
- World financial crisis bankrupts Eastern Europe: The toll of capitalist restoration
- IMF update underlines speed of slide into global recession
- Guardian journalist on Obama’s election: An “armed insurrection” averted
- BBC describes evidence of Georgian war crimes in South Ossetia
- War in Sri Lanka heightens tensions with India
- Australia: Labor government forced to revise economic forecasts as global crisis deepens
- Australia: Aboriginal man sentenced to seven years’ jail for protest over police killing
11 November 2008 (front page)
- Another major terrorist trial begins in Australia
- Layoffs mount, economic crisis deepens in the US
- Washington secretly authorized military raids on 20 countries since 2004
- China’s huge stimulus package: Another sign of economic crisis
- Death toll, public outrage rise in aftermath of Haiti school collapse
- British banks: Feeding frenzy at taxpayers’ expense
- Turkey: Financial crisis hits textile industry
- One week since the election of Obama
- City workers demonstrate against SPD-Left Party Senate policies in Berlin
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
12 November 2008 (front page)
- World financial crisis undercuts Russia’s economic boom
- Bailouts for banks: Layoffs for workers
- French Socialist Party to elect new leadership
- Italy: Student protests escalate
- Widespread unease, opposition as Indonesian government executes Bali bombers
- Sri Lankan police re-arrest relative of SEP member
- Declining social conditions of students and youth in the US
- Seven US executions scheduled in next 10 days
- Labour government dumped in New Zealand elections
- France: Renault workers march to defend jobs as recession deepens
13 November 2008 (front page)
- Auto workers to pay for Big Three bailout
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As crisis hits consumer credit
Paulson announces shift in Wall Street bailout scheme - Illegal tax scheme gives $140 billion to biggest US banks
- Iranian regime reacts to Obama’s election
- Pakistan to impose IMF-approved economic restructuring program
- Spain: Supreme Court halts investigation into Franco-era crimes
- Turkish economy heading toward recession
- Germany: IG Metall Union sells out wages movement
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Northern Territory teachers resist Labor government’s attack on public education
- Feeling around in the dark: Blindness and Quarantine
- Trevor Griffiths and David Walsh discuss “The Writer and Revolution”
14 November 2008 (front page)
- Growing tensions in lead-up to G20 summit in Washington
- Chicago mayor warns of “huge layoffs” in a “frightening” economy
- World Bank forecasts falling trade, global recession and rising poverty
- Former Taiwanese president arrested over corruption allegations
- Spanish Stalinist leader Carrillo opposes Garzón indictment
- Australian Greens pledge fiscal responsibility: we are “sensible and mainstream”
- Obama transition points to more war and repression
- Changeling: more cult of the individual
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
15 November 2008 (front page)
- Bush cheers “free enterprise” as US capitalism goes bust
- G-20 summit: More like London 1933 than Bretton Woods 1944
- US retail sales plunge as layoffs mount
- British corporate giants axe thousands of jobs
- Social workers at Detroit “poverty summit” describe impact of layoffs, foreclosures, utility shutoffs
- Police provocateur infiltrates political and protest groups in Australia
- Strike cancels classes at Toronto’s York University
- Philippines: Employee association presses for quick electricity privatisation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- An interview with Ying Liang, director of Good Cats
- Letters from our readers
17 November 2008 (front page)
- Amid ongoing tensions, G-20 takes few concrete decisions
- The US auto bailout and the socialist alternative to concessions
- Pakistani military launches new offensive in border areas
- The black “insiders” and the Obama administration
- British court ruling increases risk of home repossession
- India: Graziano workers target of management harassment and state repression
- Australia: Labor to hand over billions to car giants
- WSWS interviews workers at Detroit “poverty summit”
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BMW plans early halt in production at German plants
WSWS reporters speak to BMW workers - Boeing: engineers’ union sellout follows betrayal of machinists’ strike
18 November 2008 (front page)
- Financial giant Citigroup cuts 53,000 jobs
- Letters from our readers
- Obama’s “seamless transition” to endless war
- Wildfires cause massive destruction in Southern California
- French Socialist Party remains deeply divided following Reims congress
- Australia: Retirement savings decimated as stock market plummets
- Sri Lanka’s crisis budget: government imposes new war burdens
- Britain: Eyewitnesses reveal Jean Charles De Menezes shot without warning
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Meetings in Glasgow, Sheffield and London
David Walsh on “Art and Socialism” - France: Transport workers mobilise against privatisation
- French railway workers: “An international struggle is necessary”
- Germany: IG Metall agrees to sell-out contract
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 November 2008 (front page)
- Senate hearing on US auto bailout signals new attacks on workers
- Obama’s transition: A who’s who of imperialist policy
- Canadian Auto Workers union presses for bailout of auto bosses
- Senate Democrats cave in to pro-war, pro-McCain Joseph Lieberman
- Mounting signs of protracted world recession
- US-Iraq security agreement set to be ratified
- Japan sinks into recession
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As MTA demands deep cutbacks
New York transit union president signs no-strike pledge - South Africa: Behind the ANC breakaway
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Government ignores calls for restoration of Racial Discrimination Act
Australia: Labor’s reviled Aboriginal “intervention” to continue -
A lecture by Nick Beams
The World Economic Crisis: A Marxist Analysis -
Impact of the General Motors crisis in Germany
WSWS speaks with Opel workers in Bochum - Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist: What five years of “development” can do to an artist
20 November 2008 (front page)
- Child hunger in US rose by 50 percent in 2007
- Obama’s attorney general pick and the illusion of change
- German Greens prepare for coalition with CDU
- South Texas county indicts Cheney, Gonzales
- Backroom inquiry rubberstamps false imprisonment, kidnapping and coercion by Australian intelligence agency
- Sri Lankan troops capture LTTE stronghold of Pooneryn
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“We face pay freezes but they’ve given $700 billion to Wall Street”
Detroit autoworkers denounce demands for job, wage cuts - Letters from our readers
21 November 2008 (front page)
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Berlin: Anger and indignation over new public sector deal
Vote ‘no’ on the new contract! - Florida teen charged as adult in school shooting death
- France: Alain Krivine explains the role of the "New Anti-Capitalist Party"
- Global markets plunge on fears of deflation and depression
- Italy: Student protests continue against cuts in education
- Obama and Guantánamo
- Auto bailout provides pretext for assault on US workers
- Hong Kong enters recession
- DHL closing to devastate Ohio town
- US missiles strike deeper inside Pakistan
- WSWS interviews Wilmington, Ohio residents on DHL job cuts
- Quebec elections: Unprecedented alienation from big business parties
- David Walsh in the UK: Intense discussion at London School of Economics meeting
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
22 November 2008 (front page)
- Sri Lankan SEP to commemorate 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
- US auto union offering major contract concessions
- Obama’s “left” cheerleaders and the right-wing transition
- US court orders release of six Guantánamo detainees after seven years
- France: Hundreds of thousands strike and march against education cuts
- Spain: Judge Garzón abandons investigation into Franco-era crimes
- California: Passage of proposition banning same-sex marriage sparks protests
- Photographs from the centre of Thailand’s political storm
- Germany: Opel works councils and IG Metall propose wage cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Few surprises in What Just Happened
24 November 2008 (front page)
- In Spitting Distance: war, exile and other daily realities for Palestinians
- Obama’s jobs plan: A band-aid for an economic catastrophe
- German media, political parties debate Opel rescue package
- Britain: New round of job losses announced as part of global cutbacks
- Italy: Judgement in G8 police raid trial
- Signs of political radicalisation in Japan, despite its confused direction
- US: University presidents’ pay rises to record levels
- Auto workers need an international strategy
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“Good theatre makes you ask questions”
An interview with Khalifa Natour and Ofira Henig
25 November 2008 (front page)
- Britain: More revelations about secret shoot-to-kill policy at de Menezes inquest
- US bails out Citigroup and prepares to give trillions more to banks
- A tale of two bailouts
- Obama holds press conference, promises “whatever is required” for Wall Street
- A look at Obama’s “economic team”
- China’s stimulus package threatens greater economic chaos
- Death of Detroit firefighter: victim of a city’s social decay
- Thousands mourn Detroit Firefighter
- California budget in free-fall as new round of cuts is proposed
- A Woman in Berlin: Germany at the end of World War II
- Verizon cuts 2,700 jobs the day after Thanksgiving
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
26 November 2008 (front page)
- Obama vows to slash federal budget
- Obama appointees signal continuing aggression and war
- A budget for British business from Darling and Brown: Too little, far too late
- Sweden: Left Party seeks coalition with Social Democrats
- Iraq veteran convicted in Colorado murder of fellow soldier
- France: Thousands demonstrate against postal service privatisation
- Berlin: Teachers denounce union leaders over contract deal
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A public lecture by David Walsh in the UK
Art and socialism: the real premises - A Marxist perspective on jurisprudence
27 November 2008 (front page)
- Airport siege heightens Thailand’s political crisis
- Poverty and hunger on the rise in the US
- Video: Kandy O'Neill speaks to the WSWS
- Britain: Lord Bingham says Iraq invasion was a violation of international law
- US commits $800 billion more to bail out consumer credit and mortgage market
- India: Hindu supremacist terror network had ties to military
- Australia: Key economic indices indicate slide towards recession
- Behind the crisis in the French Socialist Party
- Michigan GM worker answers attack by New York Times columnist
- Letters from our readers
28 November 2008 (front page)
- Terrorist atrocity in Mumbai
- US: Muslim charity and five leaders convicted after witch-hunt trial
- The Gates appointment: Obama slaps antiwar voters in the face
- As oil prices plummet, OPEC meets to consider another production cut
- CEOs “cashed out” prior to economic crisis
- Britain: Labour’s secret plans for tax hikes and spending cuts revealed
- Sri Lankan soldiers and their families speak to the WSWS
- Australian biotechnology company enforces cancer gene patent, restricting medical scanning
- Brighton Biennial exhibition focuses on war photography
- UK photographic exhibition: Images of War
- UK photographic exhibition: Images of War
- German rail union Transnet embroiled in scandal
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
29 November 2008 (front page)
- Terrorist siege of Mumbai ends after 59 hours
- Iceland: A portent of the future
- Who is Paul Volcker? Obama appoints a longtime enemy of the working class
- Canada: Conservatives provide austerity to workers, aid to banks
- Chinese president tours America’s “backyard”
- Iceland: Street protests against government and economic meltdown
- Conservative Minister Damian Green’s arrest highlights worsening threat to democratic rights
- Britain: Hicham Yezza threatened with imminent deportation to Algeria
- Australia: Control order to be lifted on David Hicks
- Rachel Getting Married: Something, but not everything
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The Silence of the Quandts: The history of a wealthy German family
A documentary film by Eric Friedler and Barbara Siebert - Czech trade unions support mass redundancies in the auto industry
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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