5 November 2009
Virginia, New Jersey elections: A blow to Obama and the Democrats
By Bill Van Auken, 5 November 2009
The Democratic Party’s loss of governorships in Virginia and New Jersey in Tuesday’s off-year elections represented a blow to the Obama administration and the Democratic Party, while reflecting mounting anger over unemployment and the economic crisis.
The Opel-Magna fraud
A betrayal of GM employees in Europe
By Ulrich Rippert, 5 November 2009
The refusal of German and European trade unions to organise a common defense of jobs and wages has encouraged GM to impose restructuring measures in Europe along the lines of the American model.
German chancellor at US Congress
Merkel pledges support for Obama administration foreign policy
By Stefan Steinberg, 5 November 2009
The speech by the German chancellor to the US Congress on Tuesday stood out for the full and unqualified support she gave to the foreign policy of the Obama administration, marking a clear shift on the part of the newly elected German government.
Sri Lankan government resettles Tamil detainees in prison-like conditions
By Subash Somachandran, 5 November 2009
Sri Lankan government claimed last month that it had started resettling thousands of Tamil civilians held in detention centres. In fact, these refugees have been sent to areas under military occupation, with new prison-like conditions imposed on them.
Unanswered questions in FBI killing of Detroit Mosque leader
By Tom Eley, 5 November 2009
The FBI has failed to provide a credible explanation for its killing of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a black Detroit-area Muslim leader.
Britain: Reports state CIA “extraordinary rendition” flights landed in UK
By Robert Stevens, 5 November 2009
A US registered plane named in a 2007 European Parliament report into alleged Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “extraordinary rendition” flights was observed to land at Birmingham Airport in England on October 2 of this year.
New in French
Les travailleurs de Ford rejettent les concessions
Par Joe Kishore, 5 novembre 2009
Le retentissant vote des travailleurs de Ford rejetant les concessions soutenues par l’UAW représente une avancée majeure pour la classe ouvrière internationalement.
New in German
Ein Jahr Barack Obama
Von Patrick Martin, 5. November 2009
Heute vor einem Jahr, am 4. November 2008, errang Barack Obama bei der Präsidentschaftswahl einen überwältigenden Sieg.
Afghanistan: Ende der Wahlposse, militärische Eskalation steht bevor
Von Bill Van Auken, 5. November 2009
Dem sich über zweieinhalb Monate hinziehenden Wahldrama in Afghanistan wurde am Montag ein Ende gesetzt und Hamid Karzai, der amtierende Präsident des Marionettenregimes der Amerikaner in Kabul, zum Wahlsieger erklärt. Das ist das Signal für Washington, den seit acht Jahren andauernden Krieg auszuweiten.
Der
Opel-Magna-Betrug
Ein abgekartetes Spiel gegen die
Arbeiter
Von Ulrich Rippert, 5. November 2009
Einen Tag nachdem sich die Betriebsräte von Opel schriftlich bereit erklärten, Lohnsenkung und Sozialabbau im Umfang von 1,6 Milliarden Euro hinzunehmen, hat der Verwaltungsrat von General Motors (GM) den Verkauf von Opel an Magna gestoppt.
Brandenburg: Linkspartei übernimmt Verantwortung für massiven Stellenabbau
Von Ludwig Weller, 5. November 2009
SPD und Linkspartei haben sich in Brandenburg auf einen Koalitionsvertrag geeinigt. Die Linkspartei ist in nahezu allen Punkten den SPD-Forderungen nachgekommen.
Studentenproteste in Österreich
Von Markus Salzmann und Johannes Stern, 5. November 2009
Die Studentenproteste in Österreich erreichen am heutigen Donnerstag mit einem bundesweiten Aktionstag einen neuen Höhepunkt. Es werden Großdemonstrationen in mehreren Städten stattfinden.
20 Jahre seit dem
Mauerfall
Der Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter und das Ende der
DDR - Teil 2
5. November 2009
Am 4. November 1989 fand in Ost-Berlin die größte Demonstration in der Geschichte der DDR statt. Der BSA vertrat als einzige politische Strömung ein Programm, das die Opposition gegen den Stalinismus mit einer internationalen sozialistischen Perspektive verband.
New in Portuguese
A reforma financeira (burguesa) de Obama
Por Barry Grey, 5 de novembro de 2009
Ainda diante da crise financeira que precipitou a pior recessão desde 1930, o governo do democrata Obama e os líderes do Congresso trabalham para instituir mudanças regulatórias que evitem quaisquer restrições graves aos bancos e instituições financeiras de Wall Street.
Carteiros britânicos realizam greve nacional
Por Chris Marsden, 5 de novembro de 2009
Trabalhadores dos correios da Grã-Bretanha realizam greve nacional, iniciada no dia 22/10, tendo como intenção inicial durar dois dias. Trata-se da primeira grande greve nacional desde 2007. Cerca de 120.000 trabalhadores estão envolvidos.
Perspective
Hillary Clinton gives Obama’s Middle East game away
5 November 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has spent the past days trying to limit the damage from her praise of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for making “unprecedented” concessions to the Palestinians by offering to “limit” settlement construction on the West Bank.
This Week in History: November 2-9
In the wake of the assassination of Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984, pogroms targeting the religious minority kill 3,000 and leave tens of thousands more homeless. Most of the violence takes place in Delhi.
On November 7, 1959, the nationwide steel strike involving 500,000 workers comes to end on its 116th day after the US Supreme Court upholds by an eight-to-one margin President Eisenhower's invocation of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the US president to end strikes if he declares that they threaten a national emergency.
The Democratic Party increases sizable majorities in both houses of Congress in the 1934 off-year elections. The result indicates popular support for government intervention to create jobs in the midst of the Great Depression, policies associated with the “New Deal” reformist measures proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt.
In an address to the Academy of American Political and Social Sciences in Philadelphia on November 6, 1909, Germany’s ambassador to the US attempts to reassure Washington that Germany’s rise to world power will not necessarily lead to war.
History
Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
Statement of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, October 18, 1989—Part 1
Overthrow the Stalinist bureaucracy! Build workers’ councils in East Germany!
5 November 2009
This statement by the Central Committee of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, the predecessor of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party of Germany), was issued on October 18, 1989. Today we are posting the first of three parts of the statement.
Socialist Equality Party
Australia: Latest refugee deaths—the Rudd government’s SIEV X
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 4 November 2009
The tragic drowning of 12 Sri Lankan Tamils northwest of the Cocos Islands on Sunday is another grim reminder that the election of the Rudd Labor government in November 2007 has changed nothing for refugees and asylum seekers.
Sri Lankan public meeting: Lessons of the plantation workers’ struggle
5 November 2009
The Socialist Equality Party and the Balmoral Action Committee will hold a joint meeting on November 15 at Agarapathana in Sri Lanka’s central hills district.
SEP/ISSE meeting in Colombo
Seventy years since World War II: lessons and warnings
5 November 2009
The SEP and ISSE will hold a public meeting in Colombo on November 10 to mark the eruption of World War II and discuss its lessons.
ISSE
ISSE meeting in Canada
70 years since the outbreak of World War II—Lessons and Warnings
5 November 2009
As part of an international campaign, the International Students for Social Equality in Canada will hold a meeting in Montreal to examine the causes and consequences of World War II and to draw out the lessons of this tragedy for today.
Book Review
The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions
A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
By Alexander Fangmann, 4 November 2009
Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. The volumes of the Cambridge Companion series contain collections of essays by scholars working on a particular philosopher or subject area.
Arts Review
Jane Campion’s Bright Star: The story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne
By Joanne Laurier, 5 November 2009
Based on the biography of John Keats by Andrew Motion, New Zealand-born director Jane Campion’s new movie Bright Star tells the story of the poet’s relationship with Fanny Brawne.
The postwar novelist in regression: Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
By Andras Gyorgy, 3 November 2009
As we approach the second anniversary of American novelist Norman Mailer’s death, there appear more and more articles assessing his work over a lifetime. They mention only in passing, usually without comment, that Mailer was a socialist once.
Correspondence
Letters from our readers
5 November 2009
A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
Videos and Images
Ford workers speak on contract rejection
Ford workers speak out against concessions contract
50,000 line up for housing assistance in Detroit
ISSE members speak on education cuts at rally
Detroit residents speak on utility bills, social crisis
Michigan’s Oakland University faculty strike has student support
Detroit teachers denounce pay cuts
Detroit city workers oppose concessions, layoffs
Interviews at Los Angeles health care clinic
Workers continue Vestas occupation on Isle of Wight
A conversation with Windsor municipal workers
NYC workers speak against cuts in social services
Flint, Michigan and the bankruptcy of General Motors
GM workers on bankruptcy and plant closings
Michigan auto workers and families speak on plant closures
GM workers speak out on concessions contract
Protesting students and parents speak to the WSWS
Chrysler workers speak on concessions vote
UK Visteon workers speak on occupation
GM and Chrysler workers oppose more concessions
Chrysler workers oppose Obama auto plan
WSWS interviews G20 protesters in London
Pontiac residents speak on schools crisis
Workers interviewed at Detroit jobs fair
Ford workers: “Now the fight is with our own union.”
GM workers denounce concession demands 
Chrysler workers oppose pay cuts, concession demands
Over 100,000 demonstrate in London against Sri Lankan war
Funeral for Michigan man frozen following utility shut-off
Exposing Franco's mass graves
Bay City, Michigan residents speak on death from utility shut-off
WSWS interviews London protesters
London demonstrators protest Israeli assault on Gaza
Chrysler workers denounce pay cuts
The Writer and Revolution: A conversation with Trevor Griffiths
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- Vingt ans depuis la chute du Mur de Berlin
Déclaration du Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, 18 octobre 1989 Troisième partie (18.11.2009) - Deuxième Conférence de l’université d’été 2007 du SEP (USA)
« Le socialisme dans un seul pays » et les débats sur l'économie soviétique des années 1920 — Deuxième partie (17.11.2009) - Deuxième conférence de l’université d’été 2007 du SEP (USA)
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- Vingt ans depuis la chute du Mur de Berlin
Déclaration du Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, 18 octobre 1989 – Deuxième partie (14.11.2009) - Vingt ans depuis la chute du Mur de Berlin
Déclaration du Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, 18 octobre 1989 – Première partie (13.11.2009)
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- Seção pablista da Austrália prepara dissolução similar à da LCR (17.11.2009)
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- Taxa oficial de desemprego nos EUA atinge o maior nível em 26 anos (10.11.2009)
- A reforma financeira (burguesa) de Obama (05.11.2009)
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- Washington pressiona por acordo com golpistas em Honduras (03.11.2009)
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- Pressão dos EUA cresce nas negociações com o Irã em Viena (20.10.2009)
- A Desvalorização do dólar e a classe trabalhadora (20.10.2009)
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