Archive: 04/2008
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.
April 1, 2008
- Video: WSWS at American Axle picket line in Detroit 3/31/08
- Governor’s budget results in layoff notices for thousands of California teachers
- Canada: By stealth, Ottawa seeks to censor film and television production
- South Australian Labor government to slash payments to injured workers
- Letters from our readers
- US-backed assault on Basra ends in humiliation for Maliki government
- Bush housing secretary resigns amid mounting corruption charges
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SEP-ISSE public meeting in Melbourne
Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse - US Treasury plan shields Wall Street speculators
- Britain: Postal unions push through attack on pensions
- Workers struggles: The Americas
April 2, 2008
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Elect rank-and-file committees to oppose UAW sell-out
American Axle strike at the crossroads - Judge temporarily halts Australian terrorist trial over mistreatment of prisoners
- US food stamp use projected to swell to record levels
- US, Germany clash over NATO expansion plan
- Australia: SBS television’s bogus debate on Northern Territory intervention
- Sri Lankan local polls: a travesty of democracy
- Independent truckers stage slowdowns, strike in US
- Turkey’s chief prosecutor seeks to ban the ruling AKP
- Talks on power handover continue after Zimbabwe elections
April 3, 2008
- Argentina: Truce in three-week agricultural strike
- American Axle strikers in Buffalo determined to resist wage cuts
- Congressional Democrats defer to Fed Chairman Bernanke on Wall Street bailout
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With Big Three contracts set to expire
Canadian Auto Workers leaders court financiers - Australian Labor leaders plan “third wave” of free-market measures
- Letters from our readers
- Jules Dassin, victim of the anti-communist witch-hunt, dies at 96
- Australian unions seek to accommodate on NSW power privatisation
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An indictment of the profit system
High school drop-out rate in major US cities at nearly 50 percent - Actor Paul Scofield (January 21, 1922-March 19, 2008): “I’m an actor because I’m good at it”
- Independent truckers stage protests in US
- Netherlands: Geert Wilders releases his anti-Islamic film
April 4, 2008
- Reject UAW plans to sell out American Axle strike
- Video: American Axle Strike in Danger
- US financial system faced collapse, bank regulators tell Senate hearing on Bear Stearns bailout
- American Axle workers in Detroit determined to resist sellout
- Iraqi prime minister pledges new offensives in Basra and Baghdad
- 2003 Justice Department memo justifies torture, presidential dictatorship
- Bush snubbed at NATO summit
- Police break up picket line at Philippine port
- Goodyear worker in Kansas dies after tasering by police
- United Arab Emirates: Over 600 construction workers arrested after protest
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
April 5, 2008
- Video: WSWS at American Axle in Cheektowaga, New York
- Letters from our readers
- France: Political fallout from troop deployment to Afghanistan
- German public sector pay dispute: Workers need a new political perspective
- Haiti: Thousands protest over growing hunger
- US Senate leaders agree on pro-industry housing bill
- India: While waving red-flags, the Stalinist CPM lurches further right
- US jobless figures: The specter of a new depression
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New pamphlet from Mehring Books in Australia
- Northern Ireland: The significance of Paisley’s resignation and Adams’s regret
- Sri Lankan president nervously assesses military stalemate
- Election standoff in Zimbabwe: The threat of imperialist intervention
April 7, 2008
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On-the-spot report from central Australia
Conditions of Aboriginal people in Alice Springs and the town camps - Video: WSWS speaks with American Axle strikers in Detroit
- Letters on art and culture
- An interview: Filmmaker Jules Dassin, witch-hunting and Hollywood’s blacklists
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Ten die in western Pennsylvania house fire
Gas had been cut off since May 2005 - US congressional hearings on Iraq foreshadow aggressive stance against Iran
- Forty years on, some lessons from the life—and death—of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- SEP/ISSE meeting: Which way forward? The American Axle strike and the political issues facing the working class
- Australian court quashes convictions of protesters for entering US spy base
- Romanian autoworkers strike against rock-bottom wages
- Hundreds of homeless forcibly evicted from Southern California refuge
April 8, 2008
- East Timor: Former PM Alkatiri claims alleged assassination attempt on Xanana Gusmao was faked
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As US auto strike enters seventh week
UAW president backs “real sacrifices” for American Axle workers - The Clintons cash in: Wealth and American politics
- On eve of Petraeus testimony, US launches raids on Baghdad’s Sadr City
- Rice shortages heighten political crisis in the Philippines
- Britain: Tax credit system plunges families into debt
- Richard Widmark (1914-2008)
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 9, 2008
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As full negotiations resume
American Axle workers denounce UAW concessions offer - US State Department renews contract with Blackwater mercenaries
- California teachers protest budget cuts
- Israeli minister threatens “destruction of the Iranian nation”
- Stop-Loss: A serious and moving effort, but what about that three-letter word?
- Britain: Mortgage drought as economy faces plunge into recession
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On-the-spot report from central Australia
CAAMA radio interviews WSWS on NT intervention - General Petraeus gives Senate a blueprint for an unending occupation of Iraq
- Iraq war vet: We’ve heard enough from the generals and the politicians
April 10, 2008
- US airline chaos: thousands of flights canceled for inspections
- Despite spreading recession, US CEOs rake in huge pay raises
- Letters from our readers
- A political balance sheet of the German train drivers strike
- Congressional hearings set stage for wider war—inside and outside of Iraq
- New Zealand universities shed “non-core” courses
- The dubious politics behind the Beijing Olympics protests
- Rodchenko: The impact of revolution and counterrevolution
- Senior Sri Lankan minister killed in bomb blast
April 11, 2008
- UAW makes proposal in American Axle negotiations
- Jerry White reports for WSWS from American Axle strike
- Bush orders Iraq escalation to continue
- Egypt: Mass protests over price hikes
- Australian government moves to impose further hardship on low-paid
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Germany: Bavarian bank hit hard by financial crisis
Population to pay for speculation - Anger grows over rising prices in Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Zimbabwe: Mugabe government responds to mass opposition with repression
April 12, 2008
- Adding Machine: Musical version of a 1920s play reverberates in the 21st century
- American Airlines cancels hundreds more flights
- WSWS writer Jerry White speaks on American Axle strike
- Letters on the Beijing Olympics protest
- Australia: Families hit by rising bankruptcies and home repossessions
- French high school students protest education cuts
- IMF cuts US growth forecast, warns of global slump
- India: Rising food prices threaten social calamity
- Italian elections: polls favour Berlusconi comeback
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton and the corporate domination of the Democratic Party
- Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House
April 14, 2008
- Losses mount in Chinese export industry
- Letters on the American Axle strike
- European Court of Justice supports cheap wages and limits the right to strike
- Britain: Law Lords reject mothers’ appeal for Iraq war inquiry
- US media, Clinton assail Obama for “bitter” truth
- French government slashes public spending
- Constitutional amendments stoke tensions in Thai ruling circles
April 15, 2008
- American Axle, UAW continue negotiations over concessions contract
- Britain: High Court rules government acted unlawfully in stopping BAe-Saudi arms inquiry
- Letters on art and culture
- Recession takes hold in US
- Amid mounting food crisis, governments fear revolution of the hungry
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Court proceedings begin in Texas polygamy sect case
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ISSE meeting at RMIT in Melbourne
Five years since the US-led invasion of Iraq - Service employees union organizes thug attack at Detroit Labor Notes conference
- Australian Federal Police still pursuing Mohamed Haneef
- Repression in Tibet: the class issues
April 16, 2008
- Airline giants Delta and Northwest agree to merger
- A faltering economy hasn't slowed American CEOs’ pursuit of wealth
- US and Iraqi military continue push into Sadr City
- Collapse of “left” parties enables Berlusconi to win Italian election
- Kosovo: The Hague acquits former PM Haradinaj of war crimes amid alleged witness intimidation
- France: Le Monde journalists on strike
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Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
Part 1 - Sixty-five years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April 17, 2008
- Letters from our readers
- Cuban “reforms” promote private property and social inequality
- In midst of recession, multi-billion-dollar paydays for US hedge fund managers
- US Supreme Court upholds lethal injection, opening way to resumed executions
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Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
Part 2 - The Obama “mistake”: Breaking the taboo on discussing class in America
- Papua New Guinea government signs $10 billion gas deal with US-Australian consortium
- Australian prime minister’s world trip: “a bright new image” for US alliance
- Britain: Science cuts threaten Jodrell Bank radio telescope
- UAW calls off rally, prepares sellout of American Axle strike
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ISSE meetings
Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections
April 18, 2008
- “Big Boy” Canada demands changes in Afghan government
- UAW sellout of American Axle strike imminent
- Video: WSWS reporting from American Axle strike in Detroit
- Obama-Clinton debate: A whiff of McCarthyism as media pushes Democratic campaign to the right
- German business leaders and politicians denounce pension increase
- Charlton Heston and postwar American filmmaking
- Second mistrial in Liberty City “terror” case
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Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
Part 3 - After election landslide, Nepalese Maoists reassure investors and major powers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
April 19, 2008
- Australia: Fears of job losses grow amid signs of slowing economy
- Hugo Claus 1929-2008: “Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth at the injustice of things”
- Letters from our readers
- IMF and OECD: Europe will be hit hard by US recession
- As losses mount, US banks cut thousands of jobs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- France: Strikes continue at Le Monde
- Pakistan: Textile workers’ protests convulse Multan
- German SPD opens the door for rail privatisation
April 21, 2008
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Despite UAW wage-cut offers, no agreement yet in American Axle strike
Anger simmers over strike rally cancellation - Video: UAW officials try intimidation at American Axle meeting
- Censorship in Troy, New York: an interview with Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal
- Housing slump hits Spain
- US military tightens siege of Sadr City as cleric warns of war
- The pope’s US visit: Media, White House, Congress embrace spokesman for religious obscurantism
- US: Largest student lenders halt private, consolidation loan programs
- Australian Labor government’s “2020 summit”: more political spin to package right-wing agenda
April 22, 2008
- Letters from our readers
- Dark clouds gather over Australian economy
- Behind the US stock market rally
- British government lied about 2007 Persian Gulf naval incident
- Rice, US generals signal stepped-up bloodletting in Iraq
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ISSE meeting at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
The global implications of the US banking collapse -
In run-up to Democratic Party primary
Western Pennsylvania workers speak on struggling economy - Sri Lanka: Acrimonious feuding inside JVP as party’s support slides
- US Supreme Court denies 11 death penalty appeals, states prepare to resume executions
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 23, 2008
- Body of War: a wounded veteran and, disgracefully, a defense of the Democrats
- Israel escalates offensive against Palestinians with Egypt’s assistance
- At least 14 Haitian migrants drowned off the coast of the Bahamas
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ISSE public meetings in Britain
May-June 1968—The lessons 40 years on - Paraguay: Election ends six decades of one-party rule
- Clinton extends Democratic presidential contest with victory in Pennsylvania primary
- Britain’s teachers and civil servants to take one-day strike action
- Australia: Rudd Labor government suppresses documents on 1998 waterfront dispute
April 24, 2008
- American Axle strikers rally outside shareholders' meeting
- Appeal to working class, not corporate shareholders, to back American Axle strike
- What does the hunger strike by Belfast shop stewards say about the trade unions?
- Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger
- Hillary Clinton threatens to “obliterate” Iran
- Middle Eastern regimes line up behind US military crackdown in Baghdad and Basra
- Life expectancy declines for women in Southern US counties: a consequence of widening inequality
- Under the Same Moon: Something lost en route
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Detroit-area school districts vote to privatize support staff
Angry response from students, parents - US student held in solitary confinement on terrorism charges
- Australia: Latest “terror plot” claims unravel in court
- Colombia’s President Uribe implicated in paramilitary death squad probe
- Berlin referendum directed against the Senate
April 25, 2008
- Detroit: American Axle workers hold protest amidst heavy police presence
- UK, Birmingham City Council workers strike in “Single Status” dispute
- Detroit schools to be “reconstituted,” as calls for privatization increase
- Global food crisis grips Latin America
- French immigration policy and the death of Baba Traoré
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The collapse of Rifondazione Comunista in Italy
The price of opportunism - How the Pentagon manipulated the media to promote the Iraq war
- Maoists emerge as largest parliamentary bloc in Nepal
- US-backed crackdown in Basra paves way for opening up Iraq’s oil and gas
- France: Union reforms highlight Sarkozy-CGT alliance
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
April 26, 2008
- British government commits taxpayers to bailing out the banks
- The Sean Bell verdict—assuring that New York City’s police can kill with impunity
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Inflation soars and thousands more face losing their homes
- The Pennsylvania primary and the crisis of the Democratic Party
- Hamburg: First-ever state coalition between Greens and the CDU
- Siege continues in Iraq as US escalates threats against Iran
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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SEP meeting in US
May Day 2008: Capitalism, socialism and the working class - French school students maintain protests against Sarkozy’s education reforms
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Britain: Size of teachers’ strike exceeds predictions
Teachers voice their anger at government policy - US: Emails suggest Veterans Administration cover-up of suicide rate
April 28, 2008
- Toronto Transit workers forced back to work by strike-breaking law
- Sarkozy television interview seeks to reassure French corporate elite
- Britain: Scottish refinery workers strike
- Spain’s “water wars”: A scramble for essential resources
- SEP/ISSE May Day meeting in Colombo
- US intelligence on Syrian reactor: justifying last year’s crime to prepare for new ones
- Germany: The SPD’s bogus minimum wage campaign
April 29, 2008
- Anti-Karzai attack in Kabul shakes US puppet government
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Verdi union sabotages Berlin transport workers’ strike
Chronology of a sellout - Letters from our readers
- US Supreme Court upholds anti-democratic voter ID law
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Nearly 1000 unmarked graves discovered in Indian-occupied Kashmir
Likely victims of Indian Security Forces - BBC documentary reveals government reckless in drive for nuclear weapons
- Obama vows to back Bush’s war commander
- Sri Lankan army suffers a debacle as a northern offensive collapses
- Sri Lankan soldiers and families speak to the WSWS
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 30, 2008
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US auto strike enters tenth week
A political balance sheet of the battle at American Axle - Tensions mount as American Axle strike enters 10th week
- CAW agrees to massive concessions with Ford Canada
- As gas prices and oil profits soar, Bush promotes giveaways to corporations
- New Zealand appliance manufacturer closes plants in three countries
- Strike wave continues in Romania
- US escalates siege in Baghdad’s Sadr City
- Another Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan
