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Archive: 07/2007

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.

July 2, 2007

• Britain: Brown forms government including Liberals, ex-Conservatives, business, military and police figures
• US Supreme Court in surprise order sets hearing for Guantánamo prisoners
• US: Local and federal agencies threaten to shut down Los Angeles hospital
• An exchange of letters on school integration and affirmative action
• Antiwar protesters fined for entering US-Australian spy base
• Report documents over one million “severely poor” children in UK
• Dozens killed in Shiite neighborhood
  US military massacre in Baghdad’s Sadr City
• Sri Lankan defence secretary defends the military’s crimes
• Five arrests in London car bomb attempts and Glasgow Airport attack
  Britain’s terror alert raised to critical

July 3, 2007

• US airstrike leaves over 100 dead in Afghanistan
• Iraq: European think-tank documents occupation failure in Basra
• New US accusations against Iran
• Bush commutes prison sentence of convicted perjurer and Iraq war conspirator I. Lewis Libby
• Putin, Bush talks fail to dispel mounting tensions
• Mizoguchi’s Sansho The Bailiff released on DVD
• Sri Lankan government blocks Tamil website
• Western Australian mine workers protest unsafe conditions
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

July 4, 2007

• The “Canadian Ministers” of Hamid Karzai’s Afghan government
• The July 4th holiday and the state of US democracy
• The freeing of Lewis Libby: Government criminality and the class nature of American “justice”
• Global survey finds growing opposition to US foreign policy
• Philippines election result indicates deep hostility to Arroyo government
• Prague: thousands protest against cuts in social programs
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 1
  Uneven responses to real human problems
• Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission hearing into disappearance of SEP member

July 5, 2007

• France: Socialist Party feminist joins Sarkozy’s cabinet
• Britain: Brown seeks support for further attack on civil liberties
• Obama raises $32.5 million in three months
  Record big business donations flow into 2008 US presidential campaign coffers
• The assault on Rio’s favelas and the growth of state repression in Brazil
• UN shuts down Iraq inspection program
• New Zealand woman dies after power company cuts off electricity supply
• Australia: Scepticism mounts towards Howard’s Aboriginal intervention
• Under sustained US pressure, Iraqi cabinet sends oil law to parliament

July 6, 2007

• A Fourth of July lesson: Bush hails US war to crush Iraqi independence
• Six more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
• The German rail strike and the lessons of the Telekom betrayal: Build a mass movement against the grand coalition government!
• Australian defence minister admits oil a key factor behind Iraq occupation
• Threat of Australian intervention hangs over Papua New Guinea election
• Record flooding forces thousands to evacuate in central US
• Britain: Brown’s constitutional reform—a smokescreen for right-wing measures
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

July 7, 2007

• Letters from our readers
• US appeals court rejects lawsuit against warrentless domestic spying
• The Galileo Project: European plans for global navigation supremacy
• Australian Labor leaders shift closer to Howard’s IR laws
• Faced with the failure of Bush’s “surge”
  Congressional Republicans, Democrats prepare fallback Iraq war strategy
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Man convicted for Lockerbie bombing wins right to appeal
• Michael Moore’s Sicko: very limited conceptions, very limited results
• US troops charged with murders, cover-ups in Iraq
• Sri Lankan war provokes deep unease in Indian political establishment
• France: Sarkozy prepares strikebreaking law for public transport

July 9, 2007

• US unions agree to impose cuts, run benefits program at auto-supplier Dana
• East Timor: Despite winning election, Fretilin likely to be ousted
• The New York Times and the crisis of American imperialism in Iraq
• Surrender or die
  Pakistan’s dictator threatens massacre at Islamabad mosque
• Sri Lanka: Military offensive used to clear eastern Special Economic Zone
• CIA uses Sudanese intelligence in Iraq

July 10, 2007

• Reports indicate over 150 civilians killed in Afghanistan during past week
• As Congress reconvenes
  Democrats unveil new plan to “shift mission” in Iraq
• Polish healthcare workers discuss their strike
• Prisons as the new mental asylums: the example of Michigan
• New Zealand widens sanctions on Fiji following high commissioner’s expulsion
• Poland: Health workers in confrontation with Kaczynski government
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 2
  “New Crowned Hope” films from Asia: Strengths and weaknesses
• US Social Forum in Atlanta: Identity politics and appeals to the Democrats
• Spain: ETA ceasefire collapses as Zapatero government seeks unity with Popular Party
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

July 11, 2007

• A not-so-quiet American: New York Times reporter writes on Central Asia
• Letters from our readers
• Solomons Islands’ government defies Canberra, reappointing Julian Moti as attorney-general
• Mosque massacre: Washington’s “war on terror” shakes Pakistan
• Pennsylvania state workers return to work after one-day furlough
• German minister calls for internment and assassination of terror suspects
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 3
  Some documentaries from China, Israel and Australia
• Two summer movies: Live Free or Die Hard and Evan Almighty
• Turkish army intervenes ever more openly in political life

July 12, 2007

• US Homeland Security official has “gut feeling” on terrorist attacks
• Democrats, White House agree: Iraq war will rage on regardless of Senate debate
• British postal workers face political struggle against Brown’s Labour government
• German rail dispute: two unions act as strike-breakers
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 4
  12:08 East of Bucharest and Beauty in Trouble: mixed results from Eastern Europe
• Sri Lankan military intensifies offensive in the East
• Britain’s terror plot: What drove a doctor to become a suicide bomber?
• World Wealth Report: a census of the global oligarchy

July 13, 2007

• Australia: Protests against Howard’s takeover of Aboriginal communities
• White House press conference
  Bush rejects any US military pullback in Iraq
• US attorneys firing probe
  White House invokes broad executive privilege claims to block congressional testimony
• “Green” capitalism: German Greens adopt new economic programme
• “From the streets to the suites”: NAACP holds annual convention in Detroit
• Musharraf lauds Lal Masjid massacre
• Britain: “Celtic coalition” demands London slash tax on big business
• Young Sri Lankan maid faces execution in Saudi Arabia
• France: Sarkozy names Socialist Party’s Strauss-Kahn to head IMF
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

July 14, 2007

• New French law treats juvenile offenders as adults
• US Senate unanimously passes threatening measure against Iran
• Fighting rages across Iraq as Bush claims military “progress”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• An exchange on Michael Moore’s Sicko
• South Africa: COSATU calls off public service strike
• Supreme Court term marks shift to the right
• Australia: British terrorist attacks used to detain doctor without trial
• Amnesty International report on Turkey: failure to punish perpetrators of torture

July 16, 2007

• Bush’s assertion of executive power: The logic of presidential-military dictatorship
• The human cost of the June floods in Britain
• Sheffield: Residents tell of losses caused by flooding
• Japan’s defence minister resigns over remarks on US dropping of atomic bombs
• New Zealand threatens to cut aid to the Solomon Islands
• Further suicides in French workplaces

July 17, 2007

• US forces kill Iraqi civilians every day
• Hessian culture minister calls for creationism to be discussed in German schools
• A letter on a forum with Norman Mailer and Günter Grass in New York
• Australian government unilaterally detains doctor after court agrees to bail
• An unpalatable truth for Bush: most foreign insurgents in Iraq are Saudis
• Privatising the rain
  The Big Sellout—a documentary film by Florian Opitz
• Former surgeon general describes Bush administration’s interference on science and health issues
• A letter on academic ethics in response to David North’s “Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification”
• Georgia parole board issues 90-day stay of execution for death row inmate
• Wales: Nationalist party in government for the first time
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

July 18, 2007

• Aboriginal people condemn police-military intervention in Northern Territory
• Reports show impact of climate change in Africa
• House passes meager “College Cost Reduction Act”
  Tuition rates continue to skyrocket at US colleges
• Letters from our readers
• US: More immigrant deaths in desert border crossings
• An insight into the White House debate over military action against Iran
• Bush prepares new Iraq escalation as congressional Democrats blather on
• Australian police officer acquitted of manslaughter of Palm Island Aborigine
• US: Public television airs discussion on presidential impeachment
• Tensions between NATO and Russia escalate

July 19, 2007

• Harper commits billions to build Canada an Arctic navy
• Report predicts environmental disaster for US Northeast
• US: Testimony in Drummond Coal lawsuit on murders of Colombian union leaders
• Iraq: Carnage in Kirkuk amid conflicts over city’s future
• New Zealand: asylum seeker faces secret “security risk” hearing
• Bush administration releases report on terror threat
  A new pretext for American militarism and domestic repression
• The way forward in the Polish doctors and nurses strike
• Diplomatic tensions worsen after Britain expels Russian diplomats

July 20, 2007

• The London bombing trial: How much did the security services know?
• China executes former food and drug administration chief
• New York City: steam pipe blast kills 1, injures dozens
• Australian government’s “terrorist” case against Dr Haneef unravels
• Sarkozy government plans to extend strikebreaking law to entire public sector
• Peru’s President Garcia faces nationwide protests
• Democrats halt Senate debate on Iraq war
• War economy weighs heavily on Sri Lankan workers
• The political issues posed by the German train drivers’ struggle
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

July 21, 2007

• Australian Fair Pay Commission hands down pittance for low-paid workers
• British government and BAe Systems revealed as money launderer for Saudi Arabia
• “Executive privilege” claim in US attorneys’ case
  White House asserts sweeping power to defy the law
• FEMA covered up toxic danger in trailers given to Katrina victims
• Lawsuits expose conditions in US “guest worker” program
• Bush plans veto on child health bill
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Bush administration threatens military intervention in Pakistan
• In a stunning rebuke to Musharraf, Supreme Court orders chief justice reinstated
• Judge dismisses Plame/Wilson suit against Bush administration officials
• As the Turkish military provocatively shells northern Iraq
  Social tensions at the forefront in run-up to Turkish parliamentary elections

July 23, 2007

• Ford Australia announces axing of Geelong engine plant
• US and Russia at loggerheads over Kosovo independence
• Jack Lang and the continuing disintegration of the French Socialist Party
• US generals call for extension of Iraq war
• Sri Lankan government celebrates “victory” after army seizes the East
• Bush sanctions CIA torture program
• United Auto Workers opens talks with US car companies

July 24, 2007

• Bush orders freeze on assets of those threatening Iraq “stabilization efforts”
• US pressure on Iraqi parliamentary factions to enact “benchmarks”
• Democrats’ “censure” plan—another cynical diversion of fight against war and reaction
• Letters from our readers
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 5
  Australian reflections: Boxing Day, The Home Song Stories and Lucky Miles
• Sydney Film Festival
  “I’m interested in a documentary and fiction hybrid”: filmmaker Kriv Stenders speaks with WSWS
• Royal Dutch Shell and the struggle for Iraqi oil
• Britain: Iraq Commission rules out setting date for troop withdrawal
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

July 25, 2007

• Bush delivers rant on Iraq to military audience as poll numbers plummet
• Britain: No one to be prosecuted over “cash for honours” allegations
• Democrats conceal pro-war policy in South Carolina debate
• Australian government launches unprecedented attacks on lawyers as Haneef case falls apart
• Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan arrested at Democratic Congressman’s office
• A further exchange: Sicko and American politics and cinema
• Sri Lankan police charge farmers over anti-government protest
• Washington, EU welcome AKP victory in Turkish elections

July 26, 2007

• 200 dead in Brazil air disaster: Lula government shows gross indifference
• US Congressional committee approves contempt citations against White House aides
• Charges dropped against New Orleans doctor in Katrina hospital deaths
• Britain: Antiwar MP George Galloway suspended from parliament
• Indonesian prosecutors launch limited civil action against Suharto
• The US adopts belligerent posture in Baghdad talks with Iran
• Daniel Pearl’s tragic death in A Mighty Heart

July 27, 2007

• Bush’s international peace conference: A conspiracy against the Palestinian people
• The political meaning of the conflict between Cindy Sheehan and the Democratic Party
• Poland: Kaczynski brothers provoke government crisis
• Thousands held in horrific conditions in Iraqi prisons
• Sri Lanka: Police stall in Human Rights Commission inquiry into disappearance of SEP member
• The motives behind the Bush administration’s latest terror scare
• Mortgage lending crisis sparks Wall Street plunge
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

July 28, 2007

• The summer floods in Britain: Outmoded and decayed social infrastructure exposed
• Standoff between White House and Congress over US attorney purge, domestic spying intensifies
• Haneef “terrorism” charges dropped: a debacle for the Australian government
• Hundreds die in eastern Europe heat wave
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Democrat Barack Obama spells out his foreign policy: “I will not hesitate to use force”
• US commission on wounded soldiers: stopgap measures for a veterans healthcare system in “meltdown”

July 30, 2007

• Sustaining a humanist approach in the twentieth century: George Tabori (1914-2007)
• Letters from our readers
• United States warns Spain over Cuba policy
• Fiji’s nurses strike in defiance of military junta
• Sarkozy angers European Union over Libya’s release of Bulgarian medics
• US officials tell New York Times
  Vast data mining programs behind 2004 dispute within Bush administration over domestic spying
• International conference offers no solution to Iraqi refugee crisis
• Sustaining a humanist approach in the twentieth century: George Tabori (1914-2007)

July 31, 2007

• Healthcare and two-tier system at issue
  Southern California grocery workers ratify new contract
• Jury finds Drummond Coal not liable in murder of Colombian unionists
• German army and air force deployed against G8 summit demonstrators
• Humanitarian disaster produced by US invasion
  Oxfam reports one-third of Iraqis in need of emergency aid
• Racist frame-up in Louisiana: the case of the Jena Six
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Global credit crisis fuels stock market turmoil
• Talks over North Korea’s nuclear programs fail to make any progress
• Somare set to win PNG election despite Canberra’s smear campaign
• Iraqi team wins Asian Cup, captain condemns US occupation
• British students jailed for possessing “extremist” literature
• On Cindy Sheehan and impeachment: a reply to a Stalinist critic