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Archive: 09/2008

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.

September 1, 2008

• Pentagon denies responsibility for US massacre of Afghan villagers
• Australia: NSW government unveils “Plan B” to sell electricity assets
• Danger grows of NATO-Russian clash in Black Sea
• Hurricane Gustav threatens New Orleans, Gulf Coast
• As Republican convention opens
  McCain bows to ultra-right with Palin selection
• Standoff intensifies between Thai government and protesters

September 2, 2008

• A bloody month in Afghanistan
• Alaska Republican senator renominated despite indictment
• France: trade unions warn government against social explosion
• European Union summit sides with Georgia
• Indian government mounts brutal campaign of repression in Kashmir
• New Maoist-led government installed in Nepal
• World Bank: Two and a half billion people live on less than $2 a day
• Police raid protest headquarters as Republican National Convention opens
• East Timor: Leaked autopsy report shows alleged “coup” leader Reinado shot at point-blank range

September 3, 2008

• Global downturn begins to puncture Australian mining boom
• Belgium: Undocumented workers’ hunger strikes reach critical point
• Shanghai Cooperation Organisation cautiously endorses Russia over Georgia
  Strategic rivalries
• Letters from our readers
• US Gulf Coast deals with aftermath of Hurricane Gustav
• Japan’s prime minister quits amid signs of economic downturn
  Koizumi’s record
• Obama’s abbreviated Labor Day in Detroit: A sop to the bureaucracy
• New revelations on VP choice heighten crisis of McCain campaign
• US: Abuse charged in New Jersey prison
• High fuel prices impoverish New York City taxi drivers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

September 4, 2008

• The fate of Soviet genetics
• Films on US television: capsule reviews from the WSWS
• World Socialist Web Site holiday schedule
• World Socialist Web Site Archive: June 2005
• Angola becomes Africa’s largest oil producer
• Canada’s Conservatives to call national election before economic downturn worsens
  The role of the unions and NDP
• Millions affected by flooding in India and Nepal
  Official neglect
• 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
  Political hide and seek
• New York Times’ Roger Cohen on Georgian crisis: A case of deliberate deception
• As Republicans unveil VP candidate
  Democrats silent on threat from religious right
• British government moots passport and ID controls between UK and Ireland
• Mass arrests of protesters at Republican National Convention
• High fuel prices impoverish New York City taxi drivers
• Thai prime minister imposes state of emergency but political crisis continues
• Australia: Labor to strip welfare from parents of truant children
  Punishing the poor

September 5, 2008

• French workers in revolt
• 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
  The OCI during the general strike
• Australia: Labor uses Howard’s construction industry watchdog to attack building workers
  Unions “play-acting”
• Protests in West Bengal threaten to derail CPI (M)-sponsored Nano car project
• Cheney in Georgia: Gunboat diplomacy in pursuit of oil
• Productivity rises as US workers see real income cut
• Former Yugoslav war crimes tribunal spokeswoman indicted for contempt
• Australian media union refuses to challenge job cuts at Fairfax
• Malaysia proposes limited changes to ban on political activity at universities
• US attack inside Pakistan threatens dangerous new war
  An expanded war
• The Sarah Palin speech:
  Democrats and media cower in face of Republicans’ right-wing demagogy
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

September 6, 2008

• 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
  The roots of the centrism of the OCI
• Canada: Steelworkers and CAW officials tussle over dues base at Magna
• Britain: Alistair Darling and the implosion of the Labour government
  The party’s over
• US jobless rate soars as foreclosures break new record
• Iraq: Handover in devastated Anbar hailed as a victory
• Detroit Democratic mayor resigns, faces jail
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Germany: Left Party issues blank cheque to SPD in Hesse
• McCain launches fall campaign as Obama embraces Iraq “surge”
  Obama on his knees
• Pakistan’s parliament says future US raids should be repelled “with full force”
  Today’s presidential election
• Amid mass arrests and suppression of media
  RNC in Twin Cities: Eight protesters charged with terrorism under Patriot Act

September 8, 2008

• 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
  The political background of Pierre Lambert
• Controversy continues over French soldiers’ deaths in Afghanistan
• Former Argentine generals sentenced to life
  US links to the junta
• US aircraft machinists strike Boeing
• US government takes over mortgage giants to stave off financial meltdown
• Haiti devastated by hurricanes
• Australia: Unemployment rises as major companies axe jobs
  Car giants lead job cuts
• Afghan president blames “the West” for Islamic extremism
  US policy and Al Qaeda terrorism
• Britain: Union seeks to suppress postal workers’ opposition to Royal Mail attacks
• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Libya

September 9, 2008

• Canada: Conservatives call federal election for October 14
  The Liberals’ “Green Shift”
• Letters on the US presidential elections
• New York: city and state universities face deep budget cuts
  Students’ thoughts
• Public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne to commemorate...
  The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
• France: Socialist Party and unions support government cheap labour scheme
• The play’s the thing: Andrew Fleming’s Hamlet 2
• Obama vows not to rescind tax cuts for the rich if recession deepens
• PPP leader to be sworn in as new Pakistani president
  Growing anger
• Philippine power grid privatisation threatens jobs and conditions
• Georgian conflict poses dilemma for Turkey
  The “Straits Question”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Britain: Labour to introduce work for benefits programme
  Private sector to bid for contracts

September 10, 2008

• Amid rising casualties, Australian establishment debates a wider engagement in Afghanistan
• Strike of machinists at Boeing continues
• Revelations of war crimes and moralizing idealism
• Record corporate bailout reveals the bankruptcy of American capitalism
• Another criminal US missile strike inside Pakistan
• Nader in Detroit: watered-down reformism and an appeal to the Democrats
• Obama in Michigan: economic nationalism and “reformism” without reforms
• WSWS interviews director of homeless shelter in LA
• Ukraine: US-Russia conflict provokes government collapse
  Cheney’s visit
• Stockholm conference told 1 billion people without access to safe water

September 11, 2008

• Ken Campbell (1941-2008): A unique theatrical talent
• Letters from our readers
• Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD
  International situation
• Join the International Students for Social Equality!
• Australia: “Lefts” called in as NSW Labor government implodes
  “Lefts” installed to impose deeper cuts
• Political dissent as terrorism: “Minnesota Patriot Act” charges filed against RNC Eight
• Obama denounces Bush for sending too few troops to Afghanistan
• Sri Lankan university meeting discusses Leon Trotsky & the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
• Thai court sacks prime minister over cooking show “corruption”
  Differences over economic policy
• Social reality in an Australian mining town

September 12, 2008

• Boeing machinists strike continues
• Chinese economists warn of the “biggest adjustment” in 30 years
  The domestic market
• Humanitarian crisis worsens in Haiti
• President Bush authorises US ground operations inside Pakistan
  Pakistani anger
• Obama and McCain on 9/11: “unity” in support of war and repression
• Australia: The 2008 Victorian teachers’ dispute, Teachers Alliance and the Socialist Equality Party
• Britain: Jury in alleged transatlantic bomb plot trial fails to convict on central charges
  A political conspiracy
• US bailout of mortgage giants sets stage for wider financial crisis
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

September 13, 2008

• Canada: Electioneering cannot obscure major parties’ support for Afghan war
  The media’s hostile reaction
• Letters from our readers
• Reject Obama and McCain! Support the socialist alternative in 2008! Build the Socialist Equality Party!
• Rampant corruption at US agency responsible for collecting oil royalties
• War in Georgia: French LCR mimics Sarkozy’s foreign policy
  Balkanisation of the Caucasus
• Australia: Police drop 14-month investigation into Mohamed Haneef
  ”Extreme pressure” to charge Haneef
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Indonesia: Senior intelligence official charged with murder
• National service forum at Columbia University
  Obama calls for US military mobilization
• Declassified grand jury transcripts confirm frame-up of Ethel Rosenberg
  The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• Britain’s Trades Union Congress: Left talk but no fight against Labour government
• Corruption scandal shakes Turkish building workers union

September 15, 2008

• Canada: While CAW bleats, Harper offers aid to automakers and endorses job-cutting
  A dispute within Canada’s big business elite
• Texas hit hard by Hurricane Ike
• New Zealand police to be armed with Tasers
  Report sanitised police brutality
• The Palin interviews: Ignorance in the service of the ultra-right
• French President Sarkozy visits Syria to seek new alliances
• Sri Lankan provincial elections reveal widespread alienation and discontent
  Lack of opposition
• Another unnecessary tragedy: Deadly train crash in California kills at least 25
• Britain: Union leaders stifle growing militancy of London Underground workers

September 16, 2008

• More US corporate bailouts on the way
• Machinists strike at Boeing begins second week
• Latin American presidents meet with Bolivia on brink of civil war
  US ambassador an expert in partition
• From Pabloism to the Greens
  Peter Camejo dead at 68
• Germany: New study shows “upturn” only benefits the wealthy
  Wage-dumping
• Bomb blasts kill 30 in Indian capital
• Italy: Berlusconi government seeks to rehabilitate fascism
• The Wall Street crisis and the failure of American capitalism
• Complete print of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis discovered in Argentina
  Metropolis
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 1
  A few intelligent movies, but lost in an increasingly industry-oriented event
  Serious work
• The Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan
  Britain’s SWP lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War—Part 1
• Workers struggles: The Americas

September 17, 2008

• An exchange on Bertolt Brecht’s Arturo Ui
• Australia: Climate change, the Garnaut report, and the profit system
• US Federal Reserve announces $85 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG
• France: Token resistance by the unions to new Renault job cuts
• Illinois prepares wide-ranging budget cuts
• Nuclear Supplier Group gives India unique “waiver,” but only after row between Delhi and Beijing
  China’s opposition
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 2
  Socially meaningful, but limited
  Rain of the Children
• Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD
  The role of the Left Party
• No return to the 1930s! For the public ownership of the banks!
• The Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan
  Britain’s Socialist Workers Party lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War—Part 2

September 18, 2008

• The American “financial tsunami” hits Asia
  Regional downturn
• Letters from our readers
• Europe gripped by fear of global crash
• Victims blamed in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike
• Canadian elections: NDP serves up thin gruel at Toronto kick-off rally
• Unemployment and poverty grip New York State
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 3
  Noteworthy documentaries—from Australia and Canada
• Sri Lankan SEP demands release of arrested member
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 1
  Glimpses of life, if not the essential facts of the world
• Panic sell-off on Wall Street
• Socialist Equality Party launches new election web site
• South Africa: Court case against ANC President Zuma withdrawn
  Zuma and the South African working class

September 19, 2008

• Socialist Equality Party holds founding Congress
• Global financial storm hits Australian economy
• Why is American liberalism bankrupt? A history lesson for New York Times columnist Bob Herbert
• Irish government neglect flood victims and infrastructure
• SEP presidential candidate speaks on financial crisis
• Obama’s response to financial meltdown: Deception and subservience to Wall Street
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 4
  Contemporary dramas from Israel, Australia and South Africa
  Jerusalema
• The financial crisis and the comeback of Gerhard Schröder
• New Thai prime minister installed amid continuing political turmoil
  Anti-government protests
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Power-sharing deal signed in Zimbabwe

September 20, 2008

• Withdraw all troops from Afghanistan and Iraq! A socialist answer to war and militarism
  The perspective of the “peace movement”
• Canadian Medical Association Journal attacks Harper government for listeria epidemic
• US government to bail out Wall Street
• Lloyds TSB takeover of HBOS leaves Britain’s banks in trouble
• Japan’s ruling party to select new prime minister as economy slides into recession
  Aso’s opponents
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
  Australia and the Pacific
• US-Pakistani relations remain on the boil
  A new understanding?
• Sri Lankan police continue to detain SEP member
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 2
  Social drama
• Germany: Power struggle at Volkswagen
  “Resistance” to the EU commission
• Western Australian Labor government thrown out as state election delivers hung parliament
  Unstable minority administration formed

September 22, 2008

• California budget: $7 billion in cuts, tax breaks for big business
• No to Wall Street bailout! The socialist answer to the financial crisis
• Ethiopia threatens to withdraw from Somalia
• Marriott Hotel bombing: another sign of Pakistan’s deepening crisis
• Germany: The international financial crisis and illusions in an enlightened capitalism
  Shock and fear
• Safety incidents plague Australian airline
  Air safety deregulation
• Scotland: Alex Salmond and Thatcherism
• SEP presidential candidate denounces Wall Street bailout
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 5
  Yung Chang speaks with WSWS about Up the Yangtze
• Row over Internet

September 23, 2008

• Paulson warns: No limits on CEO pay
• Letters from our readers
• Georgia death row prisoner faces execution following denial of clemency
• Banks race to profit from US bailout
• France: Union thugs threaten immigrants at a Communist Party fair
• Statement of the International Students for Social Equality (Britain)
  The defence of democratic rights based on a socialist perspective
• Obama demands deep cutbacks to pay for Wall Street bailout
• Who is Henry Paulson?
• 55th Sydney Film Festival—Part 6
  Deborah Kerr: an actor with genuine subtlety and integrity
• Sri Lankan police detain SEP member for over a week
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

September 24, 2008

• Germany’s war in Afghanistan
• Democrats signal support for Wall Street bailout at Senate hearing
• Brown at Britain’s Labour conference: Bailout for banks, nothing for jobless and homeowners
• Canada: Financial crisis intrudes on federal election campaign
  Ombudsmen and commissioners in the face of a Depression-type crisis
• The ties that bind: Dodd, Schumer and Wall Street
• Sydney and Melbourne meetings to commemorate...
  The 70th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
• As economic crisis deepens, rich get richer
  Forbes publishes list of 400 wealthiest Americans
• An interview with Chus Gutiérrez, director of Return to Hansala
• The LCR covers for “left” supporters of French imperialism in Afghanistan
  Support from the LCR
• Wall Street falls reflect concerns over bailout and fears for US economy
  International tensions
• SEP election meetings
  The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
• Britain: Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes—“We fear another cover-up”
• China’s milk crisis: another disaster unleashed by the capitalist market
  Unregulated dairy industry
• Obama says bailout will postpone spending plans
• French postal service to be privatised
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 3
  Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, Terence Davies’ Of Time and the City: What the filmmakers now see
• West Bengal: Standoff continues over Stalinists’ land seizure for Tata Motors
  Maoists promote Bannerjee
• Letters and a reply on Zimbabwe

September 25, 2008

• Evasions, half-truths and lies
  Bush demands passage of Wall Street bailout
• World’s largest particle accelerator begins operations
  Scientists to gain greater understanding of the mysteries of the universe
• French parliament votes for continued military presence in Afghanistan
• WHO report discloses extent of global health inequality
• Australia: Methane gas landfill leak forces residents to evacuate suburb
  “The land should never have been sold”
• Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest
• Obama’s embrace of bailout wins favor on Wall Street
• New documentary on Pinochet’s dictatorship: Some wounds should not heal
• Documents of the SEP Founding Congress: Statement of Principles
• Sri Lankan police release arrested SEP member

September 26, 2008

• Democrats push for quick adoption of Bush plan to bail out Wall Street
• Chrysler 1979: Lessons from an early corporate “bailout”
  Lessons from history
• Letters on the Wall Street bailout
• European reactions to the financial crisis
  Covering tracks
• Livni’s election and the ongoing shift to the right in Israeli politics
• Broken US promises undermine North Korean nuclear agreement
  A deliberate US provocation
• SEP presidential candidate Jerry White addresses ISSE meeting at the University of Michigan
• Documents of the SEP Founding Congress: Statement of Principles—Part 2
  The Working Class and the Socialist Revolution
• Unions tie the working class to big business parties
  Bloc Québécois covers up its support for the Harper Conservative government
  Unions tie the working class to big business parties
• German radicals provide political cover for Left Party
  A culture of opportunism
• Contradictory verdicts in Australia’s largest terrorism trial
  Rudd government rushes to claim “success”
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 4
  Some urgency about the state of the world
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

September 27, 2008

• A travesty of democracy
  Democrats, Republicans conspire to remove Wall Street bailout from election debate
• Bavarian election reveals deep divisions within German right
  The decline of the SPD
• Letters from our readers
• Britain’s Chancellor Alistair Darling and the International Marxist Group
• California: foreclosures and homeless on the rise
• Taro Aso: third Japanese prime minister in two years
  An offbeat image
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Washington Mutual assets acquired by JPMorgan Chase
  Biggest US bank failure ever

September 28, 2008

• SEP presidential candidate speaks with workers in Detroit

September 29, 2008

• Afghanistan: US, NATO, Karzai regime investigate Azizabad massacre
• Democrats take charge of pushing through Bush’s bailout of Wall Street
• Interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, directors of Lorna’s Silence
• The Obama-McCain debate: Right-wing politicians agree on bailout and militarism
• Finland: Second school shooting in less than a year
  Striking similarity
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 1
• Indian CEO killed after negotiations with group of dismissed workers go awry
• Philippine government renews its communal war in Mindanao
  The US role
• Fighting intensifies as Sri Lankan army advances on LTTE stronghold
• Toronto International Film Festival 2008—Part 5
  The Dardenne brothers: but what about the “extenuating circumstances”?

September 30, 2008

• Amid Allegations of Enron-style Fraud
  Major Australian child care corporation at risk of bankruptcy
• Stocks plunge on Wall Street as bailout fails in Congress
• Letters from our readers
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 2
• Israel’s plan to attack Iran confirmed
• Germany: Left Party leader supports Wall Street bailout
• Political power struggle in Malaysia continues unabated
• US-Pakistani skirmish points to threat of wider war
• The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party--Part 3
• US government brokers Citigroup takeover of Wachovia Bank
• Workers Struggles: The Americas