Archive: 03/2007
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.
March 1, 2007
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Cheney huddles with Musharraf and Karzai
US faces mounting crisis in Afghanistan - Airbus workers in France, Germany strike against massive job cuts
- Britain: Blair seeks to deepen military alliance with Washington
- Fiji: Pacific Islands Forum report urges coup leader to stand aside
- US soldiers detain prominent Iraqi ally: a warning to governing parties to toe the line
- New Zealand prime minister “abstains” over Iraq occupation
- A third Renault worker commits suicide in France
- ISSE meeting in Richmond, Virginia: “Iraq, Iran and the eruption of American militarism”
March 2, 2007
- Two East Timorese protestors killed by Australian troops
- Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the struggle to end the British slave trade
- US to join Iran at international talks: another round of threats and ultimatums
- Campaign builds for ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
- Italian Pabloites back Prime Minister Prodi in Senate confidence vote
- The JetBlue fiasco: Private profit vs. the public interest
- Judge rules Jose Padilla competent for trial
- Wild swings on Wall Street
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
March 3, 2007
- Letters from our readers
- Prominent French intellectuals rally to presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy
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NSW state election campaign:
Morris Iemma, Bob Carr and the “war on terror” - India’s Congress Party suffers major election reversals
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Army Secretary resigns, soldiers gagged
Washington tries to quash scandal over neglect of wounded troops - Sri Lankan government exploits attack on foreign delegation to intensify war
March 5, 2007
- Highway massacre sparks anti-US protests in Afghanistan
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57th Berlin Film Festival—Part 1
Stumbling over political and historical themes - Food industry implicated in Britain’s bird flu outbreak
- Iranian president’s Saudi Arabian visit fails to lessen tensions
- US severe poverty highest in three decades
- Thai junta’s “reconciliation” fails to stem separatist insurgency
March 6, 2007
- Socialism and the struggle against US militarism
- Letters from our readers
- Fijian military junta imposes austerity budget
- Los Angeles hospitals investigated for “dumping” homeless patients
- Australia: SEP public meetings launch NSW state election campaign
- New Zealand’s Labour-led government loses parliamentary majority
- Wall Street drools over prospect of capturing Iraq oil wealth
- The March 26 Quebec elections and the Canadian elite’s turn to the right
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
March 7, 2007
- Antiwar forum in Berlin: silence on role of US Democrats in Iraq war
- One-quarter or one-third of an understanding: Breaking and Entering; not much of anything: Breach
- Bush mouths support for “social justice” while asserting US interests in Latin America
- Australian government declares it owes no legal duty to Guantánamo detainee David Hicks
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International Students for Social Equality
Australia: ISSE holds meetings at New South Wales campuses - Former Japanese PM advises unpopular Abe to ignore public opinion
- Washington jury convicts top Cheney aide of four felonies
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Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
October 12, 1969-February 28, 2007 -
Victim of 1974 frame-up in Louisiana
Renewed calls for the freedom of Gary Tyler
March 8, 2007
- An answer to the attacks launched by Airbus
- France: Thousands of Airbus workers strike and demonstrate in defence of jobs
- An exchange on Amazing Grace and the British slave trade
- China boosts military spending: signs of a US-fuelled arms race
- British Army used under-18-year-old soldiers in Iraq occupation
- Letters from our readers
- World Socialist Web Site publishes antiwar statement in Farsi
- Australia: Damning report on IR laws’ impact on wages and conditions
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Allies in imposing misery and reaction
Bush and Lula meet to discuss biofuel deal -
ISSE/SEP meetings on the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq
Iraq, Iran and the eruption of American militarism - Inaugural ISSE meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
- Germany: Release of ex-Red Army Faction terrorists sparks hysterical debate
March 9, 2007
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Iraq war resister convicted in Germany
Increasing numbers of US soldiers refuse to serve in Iraq - Democrats “withdrawal” plan paves way to escalation of Iraq war
- The NSW state elections and the climate change debate
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A revealing political divide
Australia: SEP candidate addresses climate change meeting - New York City fire tragedy kills eight children, one adult
- Press barred from Guantánamo hearings
- More than 300 seized in Massachusetts immigration raid
- An exchange of letters on the role of religion in the US
- Vermont towns vote for Bush-Cheney impeachment
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
March 10, 2007
- Forbes 2007 list: Nearly one thousand billionaires in the world, a misfortune for humanity
- Letters demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler
- Under pressure from Washington, IAEA votes to penalise Iran
- New York Times promotes “escape” to Israel
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- London: The rich get so much richer under Blair
- Walter Reed scandal lifts lid on neglect of wounded US troops
- US military begins operations in Baghdad’s Sadr City
- 15,000 take to streets of Sao Paulo against Bush, as protest leaders defend Lula
- Germany: New university tuition fees threaten students with poverty
March 12, 2007
- Grief, shock and anger over New York fire that killed 10
- No easing of US-Iranian tensions after Baghdad conference
- FBI conducted illegal spying on tens of thousands
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New Yorkers speak out about Bronx House Fire:
“It’s like the devil is running the country.” -
A revealing encounter in the halls of Congress
Leading Democrat denounces “idiot liberals” for demanding cutoff of war funds - Detention of three leftists by Sri Lankan government signals new round of state repression
- Turkey: depressed prices sparking farmers protests
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Blair’s offensive against welfare
Government by the rich, for the rich
March 13, 2007
- Australia: “Brian Burke affair” reveals decay of establishment parties
- Australian troops escalate repression in East Timor
- Mass strike movement in Guinea
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Demands additional 8,200 troops, $3.2 billion
Bush calls Democrats bluff on war funding resolution - Right-wing furor demanding pardon for convicted Cheney aide
- Black Snake Moan and Zodiac: No diamonds in the rough
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Deutsche Telekom to outsource 55,000 jobs
Increased working hours and wage cuts - Workers Struggles: The Americas
March 14, 2007
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Southern Poverty Law Center report
Slave labor conditions under US guestworker program - Democrats drop demand that Bush seek approval for war on Iran
- Targetting Tehran: the case of the missing Iranian general
- UN rapporteur says Israel’s occupation of Palestine resembles apartheid
- Australia: Labor and Liberal plan NSW public sector job cuts
- US Joint Chiefs chairman declares homosexuality “immoral”
- Quebec elections 2007: Quebec Federation of Labour officially backs Parti Québécois
- Big fall on Wall Street as mortgage debt problems grow
- 24, torture and prime-time US television
March 15, 2007
- Germany to deploy Tornado jet fighters to Afghanistan
- Stop the carve-up of Chrysler! For workers’ control and public ownership of the auto industry!
- Science, religion and society: Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion
- India’s burgeoning ambitions in space
- Demands mount for Gonzales’s resignation over US attorneys purge
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Soldiers, families speak at Walter Reed public hearing
Government indifference, cost-cutting compound ravages of war for wounded US troops - Presidential election contest in France: Panic grips the Socialist Party
- Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French nation
- Condolences on the death of Comrade Senthil from the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka
March 16, 2007
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A visit to the Airbus factory in Méaulte, France
Workers reject nationalism of the trade unions - West Bengal Stalinist regime perpetrates peasant massacre
- Condolences on the death of Comrade Senthil from the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
- Australian state election: Major parties ignore public school decay
- Mass outpouring of support for victims of New York City fire
- Eric Hobsbawm on the Spanish Civil War: an anti-historical tirade
- The significance of the World Court ruling on genocide in Bosnia
- The Bush administration manoeuvres to unseat Iraqi government
- Washington exploits Guantánamo “confession” to justify its crimes
- Under pressure from investors, Thai junta continues to back pedal on economic policy
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
March 17, 2007
- Assam, India: Separatists’ killing of migrants provides pretext for continuing state repression
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“But the Emperor has no clothes!”
French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies in Paris - French elections—Olivier Besancenot: “I was never a Trotskyist”
- If elected, Hillary Clinton vows to keep US troops in Iraq
- Letters from our readers
- Ghosts—a harrowing and honest depiction of modern slavery
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Planned US missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic intensify European tensions
- Australia: SEP candidate Noel Holt raises vital issues at Newcastle business forum
- US auto union prepares to hand over massive concessions
March 19, 2007
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Day of action in Hamburg
Airbus union leaders turn rally over to right-wing politicians -
Nandigram massacre
Leading Indian intellectuals condemn West Bengal’s Stalinist-led government - Three New York City cops indicted in last year’s killing of unarmed Queens man
- US antiwar demonstrations mark four years since Iraq invasion
- Homeless in the US: Underfunded and brutalized
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NSW (Australia) election:
SEP candidates address Sydney election meeting - Nick Beams outlines socialist perspective to fight war and militarism
- Another damning admission from the New York Times: whitewashing Iraq war
- Protests mount against Musharraf attempt to sack Pakistan’s chief justice
- Sri Lankan defence ministry extends police state moves
March 20, 2007
- An appeal to WSWS readers: Attend the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
- Letters from our readers
- SEP demands immediate release of Australian citizen David Hicks from Guantánamo
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The human costs of four years of war
The US invasion has caused nearly three-quarter million Iraqi deaths -
Hundreds of thousands hit by anti-immigrant measure
US: Medicaid recipients denied benefits under proof of citizenship law - New Zealand government announces extension of Afghanistan military operations
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Australia: The true face of the “war on terror”
Anti-terror police raid homes of Sydney University students -
Rome: Thousands demonstrate against US war policy and the Prodi government
Rifondazione Comunista boycotts protest -
A lesson from history regarding Mr. Blair
Edward Pearce’s The Great Man, Sir Robert Walpole - Workers Struggles: The Americas
March 21, 2007
- A demonstration against the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR)
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Hundreds of thousands hit by anti-immigrant measure
US: Medicaid recipients denied benefits under proof of citizenship law -
Dispute over US missile plan
German foreign minister warns against return to the Cold War - Jerusalem and Washington bring Palestinians to the brink of starvation
- Russia: Deadliest mining disaster in 60 years claims 107 lives
- Iraq: Protests against US operations in Sadr City
- Australian government condemns Tamil refugees to years of incarceration
- Turkey: Kurdish nationalists and left groups move towards electoral bloc
March 22, 2007
- Proposed new powers for bailiffs in Britain: an attack on the poor and indebted
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New South Wales March 24 election:
How to vote for the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) - Bush’s “aid” to Latin America mirrors national programs to mask oppression
- Australian SEP election campaign wins appreciative response
- Congressional hearings detail political tampering in US climate research
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The Forbes list of billionaires
Wealth piles up for the German elite - Bush administration steps up economic pressure on Iran
March 23, 2007
- Japan-Australia security declaration strengthens US encirclement of China
- In wake of West Bengal massacre: Indian workers must advance an independent socialist programme
- Britain: Brown delivers a budget for the rich that penalizes the poor
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Canadian abuse of Afghan POWs
Harper smears his critics as pro-Taliban - Joschka Fischer calls for European great power politics under German leadership
- Australian Greens election campaign: silence on the Iraq war and a grubby deal with Labor
- Australia: Newcastle newspaper distorts SEP’s position on law and order
- Australia: Why you should vote for the SEP in the New South Wales election
- The US attorneys “showdown”—Democrats seek to evade a confrontation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
March 24, 2007
- Political prisoner Sami Al-Arian’s hunger strike enters third month
- A tale of two cases in US “war on terror”: Jose Padilla and Chiquita Brands
- Democrats pass “anti-war” bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The Madrid bombing trial: what has been revealed so far
- Letters demand the immediate release of Gary Tyler
March 26, 2007
- New documents expose White House, Justice Department lies in firing of US attorneys
- Parti Quebecois stumbles through Quebec election campaign
- Letters from our readers
- UN agrees to new Iran sanctions as military tensions mount in Gulf
- Federal judge rules terrorism trial against Jose Padilla to proceed
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Quebec state yields to right-wing provocation on eve of provincial election
A warning to workers - Sri Lankan SEP demands urgent inquiry into disappearance of party member
- NSW election: Labor government returned despite popular disaffection
March 27, 2007
- CIA document links Colombian army chief to right-wing “terrorists”
- Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
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Redistribution from the bottom to the top
German parliament cuts corporate taxes - Letter from an Israeli reader on the recent strike in Israel
- Election manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain
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WSWS interviews NSW voters
Anger, resentment and discontent in Australian state election - Attack on major Sri Lankan airforce base as civil war continues to escalate
- Former government lawyer describes Bush administration meddling in landmark tobacco suit
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
March 28, 2007
- US auto executives grant themselves millions in bonuses
- Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer and the remorselessness of US political life
- David Hicks bullied into guilty plea at Guantánamo kangaroo court
- British government scientists vouched for validity of study estimating 655,000 war deaths in Iraq
- New Zealand prime minister ingratiates herself with Bush White House
- New York police conducted massive international spying on anti-Bush demonstrators
- Quebec elections: Right-wing populist ADQ benefits from mass disaffection with establishment
- US Senate votes $122 billion in war funding while suggesting withdrawal “goal”
- Sri Lankan defence ministry stalls on inquiry into missing SEP member
- IMF and Turkish government agree to new attacks on workers
March 29, 2007
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57th Berlin Film Festival—Part 2
Some rumblings in German film - Hundreds attend funeral of Senthil Ravee
- Britain heightens confrontation with Iran over detained sailors
- Britain: What is revealed by Labour’s leadership contest?
- Russian trans-Balkan pipeline to skirt Turkey
- Memorial meeting planned in Paris for Comrade Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
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After seven months
Sri Lankan authorities fail to investigate murder of SEP supporter -
Pat Tillman’s family speaks out against latest whitewash of “friendly fire” killing in Afghanistan
“Human beings continue to be sacrificed on the altar of a dual military occupation” - The anti-democratic agenda behind the US attorney firings
- Zimbabwe: Resistance to Mugabe’s rule deepens
March 30, 2007
- Welsh Assembly elections: Burberry closes its Treorchy plant in area blighted by unemployment
- Bush vilifies Democrats, vows veto of Iraq war funding bill
- China passes private property law for capitalist elite
- US: Circuit City fires 3,400 better-paid store workers
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EU celebrations in Berlin
Germany pushes for great power politics behind a European facade - 2005 US income figures: top 10 percent had largest share of national wealth since 1928
- Iraq: US occupation sets off sectarian atrocities in Tal Afar
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As French presidential elections approach
Massive police mobilisation in central Paris - Ex-aide contradicts Attorney General Gonzales on US attorney firings
- Sri Lanka: SEP public meeting to demand inquiry into party member’s disappearance
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
March 31, 2007
- History cut off at the pass: Zach Snyder’s 300
- Presidential elections in France: The nationalism of the Workers Party
- Guantánamo’s kangaroo court convicts Australian David Hicks
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan SEP holds media conference over disappearance of party member
- Guantánamo prisoner charges confession extracted through torture
- Britain: Multimillionaire warns poverty threatens “violent reactions”—but don’t tax the rich!
