Archive: 07/2008
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.
July 1, 2008
- Britain: Scottish Labour Party leader Wendy Alexander resigns
- American Axle CEO’s reward for slashing wages—$8.5 million bonus
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Bank for International Settlements annual report
World economy may be at “tipping point” - Letters from our readers
- US: Consumer confidence hits lowest level in 28 years
- Britain’s Haltemprice and Howden by-election: Guardian divided on response to David Davis
- US advisers steered Iraqi oil contracts to Western firms
- Malaysian opposition leader threatened with spurious new charges
- Film noir and postwar America
- Court verdict against former Pakistan prime minister threatens to split ruling coalition
- Iraqi government claims Mahdi Army on verge of collapse
- More high-level threats against the Sri Lankan media
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 2, 2008
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Haltemprice and Howden by-election
Britain: SEP campaigns in Cottingham - US appeals court emphatically overturns military tribunal ruling
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Northern Territory intervention
A “third-world” health catastrophe
Part 3 - Obama’s patriotism tour: the last refuge of a Democratic scoundrel
- New round of job cuts at German-based Siemens
- More high-level threats against the Sri Lankan media
- The Exxon Valdez ruling: the Supreme Court once again defends big business
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Not quaint at all
The BBC’s Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story - Zimbabwe election: US and UK move to impose sanctions
July 3, 2008
- Bush administration settles Hatfill suit, buries anthrax investigation
- Job losses mount as US economy heads into virtual freefall
- Florida stages first execution since 2006
- Global food price rises exacerbate famine in Ethiopia and Somalia
- India: Government crisis deepens over US nuclear deal
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Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Melbourne on July 20
The Australian Education Union, the Labor Party, and the political lessons of the Victorian teachers’ struggle - Conglomerates present Screen Actors Guild with their “final” offer
- Britain: SATs school tests criticised by official report
- South Korean government turns to repression to curb protests
- Solomon Islands: RAMSI forces mobilised against Solomons workers
July 4, 2008
- Inflation worsens as China lifts petrol prices
- Letters on Obama’s “patriotism tour”
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Haltemprice and Howden by-election
Britain: SEP speaks to voters in Cottingham and Willerby - US: The Federal Reserve’s dilemma
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European Union crisis
Former German foreign minister demands more determination and less democratic scruples - China: Guizhou riots over cover-up of teenager’s death
- Bush administration encouraged oil deal in Kurdistan, undermining Iraqi “national unity”
- New Zealand economy lurches sharply into reverse
- New York court dismisses case against former stock exchange head
- Obama continues lurch to the right on Iraq war and militarism
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
July 5, 2008
- Australia: Release of secret reports highlights Labor’s role in boosting spy agencies
- Letters from our readers
- US: Mentally ill woman left to die in hospital waiting room
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1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
Part 3—How Alain Krivine’s JCR covered for the betrayals of Stalinism (1) - A socialist answer to the global rise in gas prices
- Bush reaffirms “all options on the table” over Iran
- Italy: Berlusconi government steps up its attacks on Roma and foreigners
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Spain: Popular Party right-wing rejects “turn to the centre”
- Spain: Prime Minister Zapatero lashes out at European Central Bank
- Indian delegation visits Sri Lanka: A sign of rising regional rivalries
- Australia: Federal and state by-elections reveal growing disaffection with Labor
July 7, 2008
- Civilian and military deaths at new highs in Afghan war
- Mounting questions about Colombian hostage operation
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1968: The general strike and student revolt in France
Part 4—How Alain Krivine’s JCR covered for the betrayals of Stalinism (2) - Australia: Rudd government tries to suppress Haneef frame-up documents
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Racist, reactionary and defender of dictatorships: Former Senator Jesse Helms dead at 86
By Patrick Martin, 31 August 2001 - Britain: Hundreds of Hull residents still suffering from last year’s floods
- London Mayor Boris Johnson’s return to “traditional Tory values”
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Haltemprice and Howden by-election
Britain: Socialist Equality Party campaign wins support for Chris Talbot’s stand against David Davis - Turkey: Coup plot arrests deepen political crisis
July 8, 2008
- Australia: Why Victorian teachers ratified the AEU’s sell-out industrial agreement
- Rising inflation and unemployment in Chile drive workers into debt and poverty
- Letters from our readers
- US: Mass layoffs, cutbacks signal further disintegration of Detroit public schools
- Long-term unemployment in the US climbs 37 percent in one year
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Socialism and the defence of democratic rights
A reply to an attack on the Socialist Equality Party for standing in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election - German army takes command of strike force in northern Afghanistan
- Facing bankruptcy threat, General Motors to slash thousands more jobs
- Another huge demonstration demands South Korean president’s resignation
- Britain: The economic downturn and the threat to civil liberties
- Sri Lanka: A socialist program to fight for wages and conditions
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 9, 2008
- An exchange on Frank Buchman and the Nazis
- Chicago families face mounting economic hardship
- Denmark officially in recession: Europe to follow
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Haltemprice and Howden by-election hustings
Britain: Socialist Equality Party outlines differences with the Greens - G8 summit marked by impotence and division
- Obama’s swing to right sparks warnings from “left” backers
- Immigrants’ occupation of CGT hall in Paris under immense pressure from unions
- French president lashes out at popular opposition
- Sri Lankan government spreads bomb scare to scuttle general strike
July 10, 2008
- Bomb blast in Kabul points to rising Indian-Pakistani tensions
- American Federation of Radio and Television Artists approves new contract on terms set by media conglomerates
- Britain: Socialist Equality Party and Greens banned from David Davis eve-of-poll meeting on democratic rights
- Bernanke, Paulson outline strategy to make working class pay for Wall Street crisis
- US: White House suppressed climate change testimony
- Britain: SEP candidate Chris Talbot addresses school students
- Obama joins Senate vote to legitimize Bush’s domestic spying operation
- New Zealand truck drivers hold mass protests against road user charges
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Britain: Vote Socialist Equality Party
Cast ballot for Chris Talbot in Haltemprice and Howden - High-level panel urges new law to regulate how US goes to war
- Australia: Labor government introduces draconian police powers for Pope’s visit
July 11, 2008
- Letters from our readers
- Executions by lethal injection in Texas and Virginia
- US foreclosure filings rose 53 percent in June
- India’s Left Front withdraws from government over US nuclear deal
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Specter of a police state:
Mexican torture videos reveal ties with US military contractors - Mongolia declares state of emergency following violent protests
- Britain: SEP candidate Chris Talbot speaks at eve-of-poll meeting
- Sri Lanka: SEP marks 40 years of struggle for socialist internationalism
- Sri Lanka: Low turnout in general strike expresses lack of confidence in unions
- Armed attack on US consulate in Istanbul
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
July 12, 2008
- Bernanke, Paulson testify before Congress: Democrats cower before Wall Street
- Germany: The campaign for euthanasia
- Federal judge says US Department of Justice must give priority to Guantánamo cases
- Britain: The significance of the Haltemprice and Howden by-election
- Reactions to Iranian missile tests underscore danger of war
- Jesse Jackson’s self-criticism and the state of American politics
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- French LCR-PCF debate: A dialog of political opportunists
- Australia: Unions give Qantas a “breathing space” to prepare fresh assault on engineers
- WSWS speaks to Sri Lankan workers about general strike
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Haltemprice & Howden by-election
Britain: Socialist Equality Party cheated of at least 50 votes - War Inc.: Strengths and weaknesses of the Hollywood left
July 14, 2008
- US airline CEOs call for controls on oil speculation
- Palestinian political prisoner now charged with criminal contempt
- Letters from our readers
- US government bails out mortgage giants
- An interview with an Iranian student activist
- Negotiations continue over long-term US presence in Iraq
- Economic troubles mark the end of Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger”
- Further escalation of tensions in the Caucasus between Russia and Georgia
July 15, 2008
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Ten dead on Sunday
US/NATO casualties climb in Afghanistan - US bailout of mortgage giants: The politics of plutocracy
- China steps up investment in Congo as war in east continues
- An exchange with an ex-Maoist booster for Obama
- Why India’s Stalinists oppose the US nuclear deal
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Northern Territory intervention
Manipulating social tragedies for political gain
Part 4 - Returning US veterans’ lives shattered: the growing toll of PTSD
- Hollywood studios and networks issue threats to Screen Actors Guild
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 16, 2008
- Letters from our readers
- Australia’s “two-track” economy: super-profits and falling living standards
- GM continues job slashing in effort to stave off bankruptcy
- Southern California depositors could lose $500 million in IndyMac bank failure
- France bids to extend its influence through founding of Mediterranean Union
- Obama outlines policy of endless war
- Savage Grace: Yet another American tragedy
- Thai government clings to office amid continuing political turmoil
July 17, 2008
- Britain: Local authority workers walk out over pay cut
- US: Amid surging prices, Fed raises specter of renewed class struggle
- Italian court to allow claims by Nazi victims
- One million names on US government “terrorist” watch list
- Malaysian opposition leader arrested: an act of political desperation
- US court upholds president’s power to detain Americans as “enemy combatants”
- Australia: Rail unions cave in amid furor over disruption to Pope’s visit
- Australian court finds anti-democratic World Youth Day “annoyance” law invalid
- Sydney’s World Youth Day: a spectacle of state-sponsored obscurantism
July 18, 2008
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US continues its killing of Afghan civilians
Bombs wipe out wedding party, 47 dead - Austria: End of the grand coalition
- Brick Lane: Immigrants in East London
- Canada hands US Iraq war resister over to Pentagon for punishment
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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“Equality is not good”
Barney Frank and the putrefaction of American liberalism - Failed IndyMac Bank under investigation for lending fraud
- US sends senior diplomat to nuclear talks with Iran
- The missile defense scheme and the sharpening of US-Russian geopolitical tensions
- World Court orders US to stay execution of Mexicans in Texas
July 19, 2008
- Letters from our readers
- US judge rules Guantánamo military tribunal can proceed
- Longtime Canadian Auto Workers union chief to retire
- Communalism dominates run up to Iraqi provincial elections
- Istanbul police attack municipal workers
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In face of new evidence child-detainee was abused and tortured
Canada reaffirms support for Khadr’s Guantánamo Bay detention and prosecution - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Study tracks the fate of German shipyard workers
- Widespread protests against Swedish wire-tapping law
- California: University service workers struggle against poverty wages
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“Measure of America” report documents social decay of the United States
US ranks 42nd in life expectancy
July 21, 2008
- US airlines escalate attacks on workers as losses mount
- The Obama candidacy and the new consensus on Afghanistan
- Four workers dead in Texas crane disaster
- Real Emotional Trash from Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
- Screen Actors meeting in Los Angeles: still no way forward
- Spanish government uses tragedy of African boat people to strengthen anti-immigration policies
- Sri Lankan Trotskyists mark 40 years of struggle for socialist internationalism
- International greetings to the Sri Lankan SEP
- New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on Zimbabwe: A case of unclean hands
July 22, 2008
- US-led forces kill more Afghan civilians
- Letters from our readers
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What does British Tory MP David Davis stand for?—Part 1
A glimpse into the real thinking of a “civil liberties” champion - India: Parliamentary “trust vote“ to determine fate of UPA government and Indo-US nuclear treaty
- Top US commander publicly criticizes Obama Iraq policy
- China’s Olympic security measures reveal a regime under siege
- Germany: Job destruction at Siemens heralds a new stage of social attacks
- Spanish government uses tragedy of African boat people to strengthen anti-immigration policies
- Sri Lankan unions call for further strikes and protests over pay
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 23, 2008
- Boy A: An antidote to the “law and order” mania
- Chicago: “Life-threatening deficiencies” found in largest US jail
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What does British Tory MP David Davis stand for?—Part 2
A glimpse into the real thinking of a “civil liberties” champion - Bush: ‘Human life is precious’—EPA: ‘Less than you might think’
- France: Sarkozy government implements repressive police measures
- Labour facing by-election disaster in Glasgow
- Amiens, France: Goodyear tyre workers face attacks on jobs and conditions
- Bush administration ratchets up diplomatic pressure on Iran
- Obama in Iraq underscores his commitment to US militarism
- Indian parliament gives green light to Indo-US nuclear treaty
July 24, 2008
- New York Times boosts Pentagon push for wider bombing in Afghanistan
- Letters from our readers
- US: Executions in Texas and Mississippi
- Glasgow East by-election: Stark social problems, poverty
- Bridge collapse at Indiana casino construction site injures workers
- ISSE lecture tour of six German universities
- South Korean economy faces mounting problems
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Northern Territory intervention
Aboriginal oppositional voices ignored and censored by the media
Part 5 - What accounts for Europe’s love affair with Obama?
- White Paper on defense: the French bourgeoisie prepares for war
July 25, 2008
- Bush on the financial crisis: “Wall Street got drunk”
- San Diego, CA: “America’s Finest City” not immune to social crisis
- The Dark Knight: Striving to be impressive, but essentially empty
- Banks sharply increased fees as US households fell deeper into debt
- Military show trial of Hamdan opens at Guantánamo Bay
- State violence at 2001 G8 summit in Genoa goes unpunished
- Obama promotes wider war in Afghanistan: Another presidential race between pro-war candidates
- Pakistan faces mounting US demands to suppress “terrorism”
- Louisiana, US: Death of man tased nine times by police ruled homicide
- Australia: Pay decision maintains poverty level wages
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Merrill Lynch pulls out of World Trade Center redevelopment
July 26, 2008
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Democratic candidate in Berlin
Obama demands Europe send more troops to Afghanistan - Letters from our readers
- US housing slump “without precedent”: foreclosures up 121 percent over 2007
- End of the 35-hour week in France: Sarkozy handed victory by the unions and “left” parties
- Britain: Labour faces wipe-out after defeat in Glasgow East
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- France: Sarkozy embarrasses his allies in the trade union bureaucracy
- Indonesian and Timorese leaders join hands to sanctify 1999 atrocities
- Memos show Bush administration sanctioned torture
July 28, 2008
- California governor threatens to reduce state workers’ pay to minimum wage
- US Congress approves government bailout of mortgage giants
- Australian Labor government unveils carbon trading scheme that shields corporate polluters
- Islamophobia in the British media
- Malaysian government persists with bogus charges against Anwar
- Bush administration seeking to block regulation of workplace toxins
- US: Veteran turned away from military hospital commits suicide
July 29, 2008
- British government implicated in abuse of refugees and asylum seekers
- Letters from our readers
- US: Ford posts record quarterly loss
- US military admits soldiers killed unarmed Iraqi civilians
- Japan: Rising fuel prices lead to largest ever fishermen’s strike
- Obama backs long-term US military presence in Iraq
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Opera for everyone
Porgy and Bess in Berlin - Top US general hints at refocused “war on terror” in Afghanistan
- Australia: Jack Thomas appeals against retrial on terrorist charges
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On eve of court case to ban AKP
Turkish prime minister blames PKK for Istanbul terror attacks - Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 30, 2008
- Massive US deficit spells austerity policy for next administration
- Bush approves execution of army prisoner
- Germany: Praising Obama, Joschka Fischer calls for increased militarism
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson—a documentary
- After immigration raid, workers protest conditions in Iowa meatpacking plant
- The arrest of Radovan Karadzic and the complicity of the West in Bosnia’s civil war
- Iraq: Kirkuk on edge following suicide bombing
- Australia: Qantas engineers’ union brokers another shabby pay deal
July 31, 2008
- Military censorship of the war in Iraq
- Letters on The Dark Knight
- Knoxville, Tennessee: Unemployed man targets liberals in church shooting
- Britain: Tommy Sheridan makes his pitch to the Scottish National Party
- German: IG Metall employs splitting tactics at Siemens
- Sri Lankan defence ministry evicts poor families as part of war drive
- Global trade talks collapse
- Inflation fuels social unrest in Vietnam
