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Archive: 01/2007

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.

January 3, 2007

• Ford’s funeral: the hollow pomp of a corrupt and crisis-ridden establishment
• Union agrees to plant closure, concessions
  US Goodyear strike ends
• Japan’s “education reform” to indoctrinate nationalism
• Australia: A bleak outlook for jobs despite official figures
• Iraq: Violence against journalists at record high last year
• Medicare premiums to rise significantly for 1.6 million in US
• New York Times celebrates mindless Hollywood fare
• Saddam Hussein execution: A sectarian lynching
• US death toll reaches 3,000 in Iraq, with no let-up in sight
• Sellout at Brussels Volkswagen plant
  Trade unions organize destruction of 3,200 jobs
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

January 4, 2007

• Former separatist wins governorship in Indonesian province of Aceh
• Canada’s antidemocratic “national security certificates” and the impotence of official liberalism
• As US prepares to escalate war in Iraq
  Bush seeks bipartisan backing from Democratic Congress
• Letters on the execution of Saddam Hussein
• Social inequality on the increase in Germany and Europe
• Hunger strike by detainees at “Canada’s Guantánamo”
• Thousands of African migrants drown trying to reach Europe
• Libyan court confirms death sentence against medical workers
• Edouard Manet and France’s ill-fated puppet
• Letter on cancellation of “My Name is Rachel Corrie” in Toronto
• Solomon Islands’ government dismisses Australian police chief

January 5, 2007

• Brookings Institution preview of the Democratic Congress: Snapshot of an establishment in crisis
• Democrats take control of Congress with pledge to work with Bush
• Flags of Our Fathers: not what we might have expected
• White House, US military respond to outrage over Hussein’s execution
• The Bush administration’s committee for regime change in Iran
• NDP rallies to the defence of Canadian imperialism
• Seven New Orleans police officers indicted for post-Katrina killings
• France indicts president of Rwanda
• Sri Lankan military carries out another atrocity against civilians
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

January 6, 2007

• Howard government unveils new “Australian values” citizenship test
• Letters on the death of Gerald Ford
• The Good German: the cost of playing fast and loose with big questions
• Volkswagen workers in Brussels speak to the WSWS: the unions’ role is “shameful”
• Bush purges Iraq command to prepare military escalation
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union
• Experts describe UK as world’s “first onshore tax haven”
• Behind the New Year’s Eve bombings in Thailand
• To Volkswagen workers in Brussels
  Vote against the sell-out organised by the unions and works councils!

January 8, 2007

• Observations on the opening of the 110th US Congress
• David Hicks enters his sixth year of detention at Guantánamo Bay
• Britain: Employment tribunal rules Gate Gourmet strike illegal
• Newly released FBI files document widespread torture at Guantánamo
• Ousted Home Depot CEO hauls off $210 million severance package
• Israel has plans for nuclear attack on Iran
• German chancellor Merkel snuggles up to Bush
• The Good Shepherd: Robert De Niro’s portrait of the CIA

January 9, 2007

• Letters from our readers
• Washington think tank bars WSWS reporter
  An incident that says much about the US capital
• Democrats criticize Iraq “surge”, but won’t cut war funds
• Medical research and big business: The case of Sir Richard Doll
• Growing energy conflicts across Eurasia:
  Gazprom wrests control of Sakhalin-2 gas project from Shell
• Hundreds missing after Indonesian ferry sinks
• The pathetic end of the French “anti-capitalist left”
• Taiwan earthquake triggers a “digital tsunami” in Asia
• As takeaway contract is imposed on workers
  New York City’s new transit boss gets $40,000 raise
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

January 10, 2007

• Bush asserts expanded surveillance powers over US mail
• On eve of London bombings: MPs told Britain faced no imminent threat
• US military asks deceased officers to re-enlist
• Russian oil pipeline interruption intensifies struggle for raw materials
• Air strikes on Somalia: A new stage in Washington’s illegal “terror” war
• Two bus bombs kill more than 20 in Sri Lanka
• In defiance of 2006 vote, Bush will escalate Iraq war
• Australia: Murdoch media attacks 1976 Lebanese refugee intake

January 11, 2007

• In speech on Iraq escalation, Bush promises more bloodshed, wider war
• Australian government to fund chaplains in public and private schools
• German interior minister seeks to introduce martial law measures
• Into the depths of Franco’s Spain: Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)
  A film by Guillermo del Toro
• Iraqi regime set to hand over oil reserves to US energy giants
• Sri Lankan march to protest against Hussein’s execution
• Collateral damage—Texas child hangs himself after viewing Saddam Hussein lynching

January 12, 2007

• Canada: Cabinet shuffle points to spring elections
• Democratic Congressman reintroduces bill for military draft in US
• European press reacts negatively to Bush proposals on Iraq
• Australian prime minister welcomes US “surge” in Iraq
• US offensive in Baghdad begins surge of killing and repression
• An exchange on the presidential campaign of Dennis Kucinich
• US forces carry out provocative raid on Iran’s consulate in northern Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

January 13, 2007

• Bush’s Iraq “surge” met with despair in Britain
• Cuarón’s Children of Men: Despair and hope in the near future
• Readers protest exclusion of WSWS reporter from DC conference
• Crisis in Germany’s Christian Social Union
• Paris court defends racist provocateurs exploiting plight of homeless
• Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism: global warming and its market fix
• Silent protesters harassed, ejected from US Senate hearings
• Report details spread of global AIDS epidemic
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Mob attacks Sri Lankan antiwar rally
• Iraq escalation heightens political crisis in Washington

January 15, 2007

• Bangladeshi president postpones election and imposes state of emergency
• Letters from our readers
• Bush administration threatens Iraqi prime minister as Baghdad bloodbath is prepared
• Final New York ballot count gives SEP Senate candidate more than 11,000 votes
• Australian government cuts thousands of welfare recipients off benefits

January 16, 2007

• Hillary Clinton: Congressional debate on Iraq is over means, not ends
• WSWS arts editor David Walsh to speak at York University in Toronto
• Fiji’s army commander unveils new military regime
• Poll shows 82 percent of Germans feel politically disenfranchised
• White House propaganda campaign: Bush, Cheney smear opponents of US war in Iraq
• New Zealand PM quashes criticism of US military escalation in Iraq
• Military, CIA prying into Americans’ financial records
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

January 17, 2007

• Two more barbaric state executions in Iraq
• James Brown, one of the greats of post-war American popular music
• David North to address WSWS/SEP Sydney public meeting on Bush’s Iraq escalation
• Civilian contractors in Iraq placed under US military law
• Germany: How “Socialist Alternative” blocks the building of an independent socialist movement
• Washington admits role in illegal war: US troops took part in invasion of Somalia

January 18, 2007

• The significance of Venezuela’s and Ecuador’s nationalizations
• China’s defence report highlights growing dangers of war
• Letters from our readers
• UN report: More than 34,000 Iraqi civilian deaths in 2006
• Britain: Leaked report details plans to cut jobs and pay in National Health Service
• Australian PM outlines indefinite military agenda in South Pacific
• Volkswagen workers in Belgium end their strike and occupation

January 19, 2007

• Australia: Labor refashions industrial relations policy to suit big business
• Japan establishes first postwar defence ministry
• Rice’s Middle East tour: Arab regimes back US war drive in Iraq and Iran
• Bush administration gets secret court’s sanction for illegal spying operation
• Sri Lankan police drag out their inquiries into the murder of SEP supporter
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

January 20, 2007

• Grand coalition government formed in Austria
• Britain: New crime bill flouts presumption of innocence
• The war in Iraq and American democracy
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Canada’s social democrats lend support to the Conservative government in the name of the environment
• To speak the truth without being afraid: My Name Is Rachel Corrie on stage in New York
• The coronation of Nicolas Sarkozy
  French interior minister named Gaullist presidential candidate
• Thai junta under fire over economic policies

January 22, 2007

• The Gates Foundation and the rise of “free market” philanthropy
• Pentagon official witch-hunts Guantánamo detainees’ lawyers
• Prisoners continue hunger strike at Canada’s Guantánamo
• Sri Lankan unions end pay campaign in the interests of “national security”
• US auto union tells members to “expect sacrifices” in new contracts
• Film, history and socialism
  Part One

January 23, 2007

• The Trial of Tony Blair: What would it take to put the prime minister in the dock?
• On the eve of State of the Union speech
  US political crisis mounts over Iraq war escalation
• Germany: War, social cuts and the role of the Left Party-PDS
• Questions and answers at David Walsh’s talk at York University in Toronto
• US occupation turns 3.7 million Iraqis into refugees
• Somalia: African Union force agreed
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Film, history and socialism
  Part Two

January 24, 2007

• Brazil: The WTO and Lula’s “struggle” for the G-20
• European Union announces new energy strategy
• Iranian president faces mounting internal opposition
• 1999 case of 13-year-old convicted on adult murder charges
  Nathaniel Abraham released from state custody in Michigan
• 79th Academy Award nominations: a disparate group of films
• Musharraf’s reform of Pakistan’s rape law-a cynical manoeuvre
• The surface of a frantic, unusual adolescence: Running with Scissors
• Bush’s State of the Union speech highlights crisis of US ruling elite
• Observations on Washington-style democracy

January 25, 2007

• A warning from Senator Webb: Democrat cites danger of deepening “class lines” in America
• Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler: Ignorance of the subject is not a good starting point
• Germany’s former SPD-Green government blocked release of Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz
• Western powers accuse Iran and Syria of masterminding Lebanese general strike
• After Stephen Colbert’s performance in 2006: White House press corps learns its lesson
• European Union demands speedy formation of unity coalition in Serbia
• Sri Lankan military captures strategic eastern town from LTTE

January 26, 2007

• West Bengal Left Front’s pro-investor land grab results in deadly clashes
• Letters from our readers
• US: Threadbare “college affordability” bill passes in the House
• In the face of mounting opposition, Australian government backs new Guantánamo courts
• German chancellor assures Bush of “broad support”
• Global poll condemns Bush administration on Iraq war and global militarism
• Britain’s senior prosecutor: no such thing as a “war on terror”
• Amusing, but no triumph—Almodóvar’s Volver
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

January 27, 2007

• Le Carré points to looting of Congo by mining corporations
• The struggle against war requires a break with the Democrats
• Freedom Writers: Truly no child left behind
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• A letter on popular opinion, the media, and Bush’s plans for escalation in Iraq
• Study finds substantial rise in cigarette nicotine content
• The background to the murder of Turkish journalist Hrant Dink
• Top Volkswagen executives on trial for corruption in Germany

January 29, 2007

• China’s anti-satellite missile test points to developing space weapons race
• The politics of the January 27 rally in Washington
  Organizers channel antiwar protest behind Democrats
• Students, veterans, workers denounce Iraq war at Saturday protests
• Troop surge paves way for wider war
  Bush authorizes shoot-to-kill policy against Iranians in Iraq
• Italian court considers trial against CIA agents in rendition case
• Canada’s Liberals make pro-war Ignatieff their second-in-command
• Belgium Volkswagen workers resume strike

January 30, 2007

• Britain: OECD rebukes Blair government for dropping Saudi bribery investigation
• Repression in Brazil: University students sentenced for protest against Lula government
• Australian court upholds unbridled right to hire and fire
• Iraq’s colonial occupier, the US, denounces “foreign meddling”
• Hundreds die as US military steps up operations in Iraq
• US Army officer faces court martial for refusing Iraq deployment order
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

January 31, 2007

• Letters from our readers
• Record losses for US automaker Ford
• Japan’s defence minister strikes an anti-US posture
• Libby perjury trial puts spotlight on US Vice President Cheney
• Wielgus collaborated with Stalinist secret service
  Poland: Archbishop’s resignation exposes crisis of Catholic Church
• Tens of thousands affected by Sri Lankan floods and landslides
• Violence escalates against students and teachers in Iraq