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Archive: 03/2008

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.

March 1, 2008

• Beowulf: tenuous relationship between movie and poem
• BMW axes 8,100 jobs to increase profits
• US stocks plunge following Fed Chairman Bernanke’s testimony before Congress
• East Timorese government steps up repression in aftermath of alleged “coup attempt”
• Librarians and archivists demand US return of stolen Iraqi documents
• “Independent” Kosovo: Anatomy of a Western protectorate
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Washington deploys warships off the coast of Lebanon
• Economist estimates cost of Iraq war to exceed $3 trillion

March 3, 2008

• Australian Federal Police commissioner reveals scale of Haneef frame-up
• Letters on review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
• Poisoned dumplings incident reveals fragility of Sino-Japanese relations
• Israel mounts bloody offensive against Gaza
• Germany: What lies behind the attempts to ostracise the Left Party?
• Britain’s media fashions its “warrior prince”
• Puerto Rico: Teachers battle unionbusting
• Commemoration of the first anniversary of the death of Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee held in Paris.

March 4, 2008

• American Axle strike enters second week
• After Rudd’s “apology” to indigenous people
  Australian government extends welfare “quarantining” and land grab
• Letters from our readers
• Egypt: Strike wave throughout public and private sector
• Turkey hails Iraq incursion as success
• US: Student loans costs to rise from credit crisis
• Britain: Labour government gags “extraordinary renditions” whistleblower
• Putin-Medvedev tandem wins presidential election in Russia
• Germany: SPD state minister berates welfare recipients
• US missile strike kills women and children in Somalia
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

March 5, 2008

• UAW offered wage cuts on eve of American Axle strike
• The 58th Berlinale—Part 2
  Katyn—The political agenda of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda
• William F. Buckley, longtime propagandist for US ultra-right, dies at 82
• French lead European Union force to Chad/Sudan border
• Oil-linked inflation destabilizes Africa, Middle East
• Washington pushes through new UN resolution against Iran
• France: LCR congress decides to found new party
• New Jersey Governor demands draconian budget cuts
• US-backed border massacre brings South America to brink of war
• Australia: Rudd government demands wage “restraint”
• Pakistani regime ban of YouTube highlights threat to free Internet

March 6, 2008

• Berlin transit workers go on strike
• Canada: Liberals and Conservatives join forces to extend intervention in Afghan war
• Letters from our readers
• Iraq: Civilian casualties spike in February
• Malaysians due to vote after stunted 13-day election campaign
• An interview with Richard Pare, co-author and photographer of The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932
• Clinton victories in Ohio, Texas intensify divisions in Democratic Party
• Spain: United Left splits as it lurches further right
• Sri Lankan military bogged down in northern offensives against the LTTE
• Bank drops lawsuit against Wikileaks

March 7, 2008

• South Africa and the global economic downturn
• Drive mounts for US government bailout of banks
• Latin American crisis triggered by an assassination “Made in the USA”
• Demonstration and meeting in Sri Lanka to protest prosecution of Iranian students
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Striking Berlin transit workers speak out
• Australia: NSW Labor embroiled in corruption scandal
• US steps up pressure on India to wrap-up Indo-US nuclear treaty
• ZTE-NBN scandal triggers political crisis in the Philippines
• America’s “Fortunate 400” control vast wealth

March 8, 2008

• Democratic politicians rage against US Air Force contract with Airbus
• Germany: Public service workers strike
  Explosive mood in factories, offices, nurseries and hospitals
• The ramifications of Ahmadinejad’s visit to Iraq
• US: 63,000 jobs lost as economy continues downslide
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Political instability and social struggles will follow Spain’s general election
• US plot to overthrow elected Palestinian government exposed
  Part One

March 10, 2008

• Impact of American Axle strike spreads
  Talks continue through weekend
• Clinton’s national security campaign and Obama’s political dilemma
• Bush vetoes bill outlawing torture techniques
• Germany: Public sector strike needs a new political perspective
• Democrats win congressional seat of former House Speaker Hastert
• ISSE meeting at University of Delaware
  Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
• A scholar’s upside down pyramid scheme: Peter Gay’s Modernism
• France: political crisis destabilizes Sarkozy
• Reactionary musings from the Island on 60 years of Sri Lankan independence
• Suicide rate at 25-year high for middle-aged Americans
• Lengthy terrorist trials underway in Australia
• US plot to overthrow elected Palestinian government exposed
  Part Two

March 11, 2008

• Reject UAW plans to sabotage American Axle strike!
• Correspondence on the impact of the credit crunch
• English primary education criticised in report
• Five US soldiers killed in Baghdad
• Government election losses in Malaysia signal eruption of deep political crisis
• Mexico: López Obrador may lose control of PRD to “new left” faction
• Massive NSA operation exposed as Congress prepares vote on domestic spying bill
• New York City Democratic politician and “labor” leader pleads guilty to corruption charges
• Iraqi president visits Ankara in wake of Turkish incursion
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

March 12, 2008

• Austrian grand coalition in crisis
• Bitter strike by American Axle workers enters third week
• China’s National Peoples Congress haunted by the spectre of social unrest
• US food prices increase sharply
• France considers sending more troops to Afghanistan
• Violence still threatens after Kenyan peace deal
• Be Kind Rewind: Fast forward to Michel Gondry’s utopia
• Australia: Unions rubber-stamp Mitsubishi closure
• Instability continues in Pakistan following formation of coalition government
• Australian prime minister undertakes tactical shift in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
• Spain: Socialist Party wins a second term in government
• Politically directed dragnet snares New York Governor Spitzer

March 13, 2008

• Australian PM marks first 100 days as Murdoch demands “stiff dose of Brutopia”
• Letters from our readers
• Top US commander in Middle East quits over Iran war report
• US Federal Reserve injects $200 billion into credit markets to avert financial meltdown
• Tensions between France and Germany intensify over foreign and economic policy
• Northern Ireland: More evidence of MI5’s network of informers and provocateurs in the IRA
• Germany: Roland Koch remains prime minister in Hesse
  How the SPD right wing overturned an unwanted election result
• Australia: Unions rubber-stamp Mitsubishi closure
• French municipal elections: A setback for President Sarkozy
• New York Governor Eliot Spitzer forced to resign in sex scandal
• Sri Lankan paramilitary leader convicted in Britain

March 14, 2008

• Afghan medical workers’ strike called off
• Arrests on American Axle picket line in Detroit
• American Axle workers in Detroit discuss political issues in strike
• Letters on the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
• Gold and oil prices soar, dollar slumps, Carlyle Group fund collapses
• Australia: Rudd government rejects emission targets in official climate change report
• “I’ve been tortured. I’m a human being. I have not violated any law”
  Guantánamo prisoner refuses to cooperate with military show trial
• Iranians vote amid concern about US aggression and falling living standards
• Left Party attacks striking transport workers in Berlin
• London Mayoral elections: Labour’s neo-cons and the left apologists for Ken Livingstone—Part One
• Democratic Party divisions deepen as Obama parades military support
• Sri Lanka: ISSE demonstration demands the release of jailed Iranian students
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

March 15, 2008

• After severe winter, floods threaten Afghanistan and Central Asia
• Police arrest auto workers on American Axle picket line in Detroit
• Fed rescue of Bear Stearns raises specter of Depression-era crash
• House Democrats pass new spy bill without telecom immunity
• India: Congress Party delivers “populist” budget with a view to coming elections
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• London Mayoral elections: Labour’s neo-cons and the left apologists for Ken Livingstone—Part Two
• Iran, Pakistan to hold pricing talks on gas pipeline
• Canada: Montreal ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
• On the 20th anniversary of his death
  SEP general secretary pays tribute to Keerthi Balasuriya

March 17, 2008

• Video: American Axle Strikers in Detroit Defy Wage-Cut Demands
• After the Bear Stearns bailout: Fears of more Wall Street failures
• Brazil’s ruling Workers Party pays homage to Pierre Lambert for services rendered
• Rising costs throw Chinese manufacturing into crisis
• Letters on the American Axle strike
• New York City crane collapse kills at least four
• Clashes and tensions in southern Iraq
• Italy: parties shift to the right as election campaign begins
• France: LCR leader Daniel Bensaïd reassures Socialist Party of his collaboration
• Despite a nervous “backflip”, Australian government plans deep welfare cuts

March 18, 2008

• Two new “cover albums”: Shelby Lynne’s Just a Little Lovin’ and Cat Power’s Jukebox
• Shades of 1929: Bear Stearns collapse signals deepest crisis since Great Depression
• GDL union completes sell-out of German train drivers’ struggle
• Outcome of Iranian election points to simmering popular discontent
• British mercenary confesses role in Equatorial Guinea coup plot
• French local elections reveal discrediting of political establishment
• In face of New York City school cuts: a new strategy needed to defend public education
• US truck drivers squeezed by soaring diesel prices
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

March 19, 2008

• The “White Season”: The British Broadcasting Corporation’s Pim Fortuyn moment
• In Bruges: neither especially fresh nor insightful
• Taxi to the Dark Side: Murder of young Afghan driver exposes US torture policies
• In the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse
  US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates again
• CIA transfers another detainee from secret prison system to Guantánamo
• Iraq: a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic dimensions
• Five years after the invasion of Iraq: A debacle for US imperialism
• Another US strike inside Pakistan’s border region
• China cracks down on Tibetan protests

March 20, 2008

• Asian economies hit by US financial crisis and slowdown
• Mobilize auto workers behind the American Axle strike
• On Iraq war’s fifth anniversary, Bush says US troops must stay
• SEP-ISSE public meeting in Sydney on April 9
  Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
• Race, class and the politics of the Obama campaign
• Nuance and depth needed: Persepolis
• Alan Thornett’s denunciation of Trotskyism
  Part one
• Verdi trade union prepares sell-out of Berlin transport strike

March 21, 2008

• American Axle strikers in Detroit determined to halt wage-cutting
• A letter on the “Cool/Cruel Britannia” trend
• Cheney’s “peace” trip to Middle East prepares new wars
• Letters from our readers
• Widespread flooding hits the US Midwest
• Housing stress at record levels in Australia
• Interviews with Australian homebuyers
  “We have a house, but we are very poor”
• Britain: ISSE holds meetings on the fifth anniversary of Iraq war
• Relations with China dominate Taiwanese presidential election
• Alan Thornett’s denunciation of Trotskyism
  Part two
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

March 22, 2008

• Video: American Axle and Chrysler workers in Detroit speak out
• Canada’s Liberals support war and social reaction
• Recessionary trends deepen, sparking gyrations on stock, commodities markets
• Australia: teachers continue strike action against Victorian Labor government
• Germany: The shrinking middle class and the rise of inequality
• American painter Edward Hopper in Chicago
• Bush, McCain “gaffes” on Iran echo Iraq war lies
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Bush administration illegally examined Obama passport file
• US financial crisis fuels social unrest
  Workers protest rising prices in UAE, Egypt

March 24, 2008

• Taxi to the Dark Side: Murder of young Afghan driver exposes US torture policies
• “It was grueling subject matter and seemed unending”
  Documentary producer Eva Orner speaks with WSWS
• Young Guantánamo detainee details abuse
• US military deaths in Iraq reach 4,000
  Eight US soldiers and dozens of Iraqis killed in weekend violence
• New Zealand economy sliding into recession
• US steps in to prevent collapse of gas pipeline project
  Nabucco pipeline bypasses Russia
• NY Times article questions official explanation of sex probe that forced New York governor to resign

March 25, 2008

• Former Australian prime minister feted by US Republican right
• Strike against wage cutting completes first month
  Pay for American Axle CEO rises to $10.2 million
• Letters from our readers
• Detroit mayor charged on eight criminal counts
• Germany: Turkish youth dies in police custody
• Britain: Labour makes massive cuts in higher education
• White House signals continued Iraq escalation as US death toll tops 4,000
• ISSE meetings in US
  Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
• Paris meeting commemorates the life and work of Keerthi Balasuriya
• The Kite Runner: the Afghan tragedy goes unexplained
• New York’s premier library to be renamed for billionaire Wall Street speculator
• ISSE in US supports Sri Lankan demonstration
• Sri Lankan ISSE meeting to demand release of jailed Iranian students
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

March 26, 2008

• Video: The WSWS reports from the American Axle strike in Detroit
• Blackwater abandons plans for California training camp
• Letter from a Brazilian teacher
  The same demands, on the other side of the world
• Cheney’s tour of Middle East raises tensions with Iran
• Home prices, consumer confidence plunge in US
• Australia: Haneef inquiry seeks to “restore confidence” in terror laws
• Iraqi regime launches assault on Basra
• Canada: Kingston, Ontario, ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
• Social inequality leads to gap in US life expectancy
• Brown government promotes patriotism and militarism
• Ex-SLA member Sara Jane Olson returned to prison
• US Supreme Court rejects international law, ruling against Mexicans on death row

March 27, 2008

• US: Hundreds of aging American Airlines planes grounded for inspection
• Boeing challenges refueling contract to Airbus
• Letters from our readers
• $10 million for American Axle CEO
  Richard Dauch and the aristocratic principle in America
• Britain: Police want children routinely put on DNA database
• Washington again forecasts ruin for Medicare and Social Security
• Australia: National Union of Students promotes illusions in new Labor government
• US-Pakistan ties fray, as Washington seeks to bully new government
• The Kuomintang returns to power in Taiwan

March 28, 2008

• Video: WSWS reports from American Axle strike in Detroit
• Why the Clintons’ profiting off near-slavery is not a campaign issue
• Ecuador: deepening crisis, floods trigger surge of inflation
• More Funny Games from Michael Haneke
• Strike wave continues in Greece
• Iraqi government offensive in Basra threatens to trigger Shiite uprising
• Australia: Federal and NT Labor governments expand punitive measures in Aboriginal communities
• US shipped fuses for nuclear-armed missiles to Taiwan
• Sri Lankan government deploys military to suppress striking television workers
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

March 29, 2008

• Snow Angels: Unnecessarily slight insight into a dreary world
• The sieges of Basra and Sadr City: another US war crime in Iraq
• Presidential candidates speak on housing and credit crises
  Clinton, Obama, McCain defer to Wall Street
• American Axle CEO Richard Dauch and the “right” of private property
• Letters from our readers
• Global food prices rise and famine increases
• India: Stalinist CPM’s triennial meeting to reiterate support for Congress Party-led government
• US: Death sentence postponed for Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Philippine president accused of “treason” over Spratlys deal with China
• American Axle strikers in Detroit respond to plant closing threats
• US: Returning veterans face mounting joblessness and low wages

March 31, 2008

• American Axle moves to hire strikebreakers
• Behind the California nurses’ strike: putting profits ahead of patient needs
• Australia: Murdoch-sponsored conference outlines “new agenda” for Rudd government
• Charges dropped against third Marine in Haditha massacre case
• Britain: As Basra burns, Iraq inquiry call supported by just 12 Labour MPs
• Repeated US air strikes in Basra and Baghdad
• Writer David Mamet: Man overboard
• Sarkozy strives to establish French-British axis