Archive: 10/2008
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.
October 1, 2008
- Angolan election: MPLA party consolidates control and eyes role as regional power
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Electoral debacle for conservatives in Bavaria
Consequences for the federal government - Boeing strikers continue fight to defend jobs
- Washington imposes sanctions on Bolivia
- The Democratic Party and Wall Street
- Australia: Shares crash amid warnings of prolonged recession
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Benelux countries intervene to bail out Fortis
The rise and fall of Fortis - The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 3
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Public meetings in UK and Germany
SEP candidate Jerry White to speak on crisis of US and world capitalism - Future conditional: The Nation counsels Washington on the financial crisis
- Paul Newman (1925-2008)
- World financial crisis reveals vulnerability of Russia’s economy
- Arrested SEP member speaks to the WSWS following his release
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As the international finance crisis intensifies
Turkish economy falters
October 2, 2008
- Asian stocks tumble after rejection of US bailout package
- The Wall Street bailout and the threat of dictatorship
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Banking crisis hits Germany with full force
Billions for speculators - Bradford and Bingley: British government nationalises second failing bank
- Germany: 130,000 demonstrate against rundown of health care system
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 4
- Canadian elections: NDP platform highlights “fiscal responsibility”
- BBC reveals how Britain’s spies monitored Omagh bombers
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US Senate passes Wall Street bailout bill
Obama backs the bailout -
Australia: Public meetings mark 70th anniversary of the Fourth International
Historical lessons discussed
October 3, 2008
- Austrian elections: rightist forces benefit from decline of social democracy
- SEP brings campaign to American Axle workers in Detroit
- The Senate bailout bill: How the Democrats do the bidding of Wall Street
- Britain: Forty percent of children live in poverty
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SEP public meetings in Australia
The enduring significance of the founding of the Fourth International - First Minister Alex Salmond pleads for Scottish finance to be saved
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 5
- Iraq parliament enacts partial provincial election law
- South African President Thabo Mbeki resigns
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SEP election meetings
The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis -
Neanderthals and modern humans--a key to understanding human evolution
Part 1 - US congressman: “If we don't pass this bill, we’re going to have martial law in the United States”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
October 4, 2008
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US House backs Wall Street bailout
Democrats credit Obama with shifting vote - The Boeing strike and the Wall Street bailout
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Canadian Elections
Leaders’ debates underscores parties have no progressive solution to economic crisis
Canada and the Afghan War - The Convention of the Left: Britain's radical groups lurch to the right
- Britain: “Convention of the Left” promotes nationalism
- US vice-presidential debate: A window on the right-wing character of an Obama-Biden administration
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159,000 drop in US payrolls signals deepening recession
GM to close Ohio plant by year’s end - The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 6
- Australian government retains key “Work Choices” measures against workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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SEP election meetings
The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis -
Nick Beams addresses 70th anniversary meeting
Capitalist breakdown and the revolutionary perspective of the Fourth International
Part 1 -
Neanderthals and modern humans--a key to understanding human evolution
Part 2
October 5, 2008
October 6, 2008
- British diplomat paints bleak view of Afghan war
- New York’s Mayor Bloomberg cites financial crisis in bid for third term
- European leaders fail to agree on a common strategy for the financial crisis
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 7
- Irish government organises massive support package for banks
- Germany: union organises celebration for Chancellor Merkel at VW works
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Nixon and Bretton Woods
Capitalist breakdown and the revolutionary perspective of the Fourth International
Nixon and Bretton Woods -
In the eye of the storm
New York City workers condemn Wall Street bailout
Bureaucrats back Obama as workers hit bailout - Scandinavian countries respond to Russia-Georgia conflict
- Sri Lankan president at the UN seeks to justify communal civil war
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Thirty days to US elections
Obama and McCain agree on Wall Street bailout and war
October 7, 2008
- Boeing machinists in Washington discuss their strike
- Letters from our readers
- European stock markets in freefall following Paris financial summit
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 8
- Iceland suspends trading in bank shares as financial crisis hits Scandinavia hard
- Germany: IG Metall union calls for 8 percent wage increase—and prepares sellout
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India: Hindu communalists target Christian minority in Orissa and other states
Karnataka and Kerala -
SEP election meetings
The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis -
Nick Beams addresses 70th anniversary meeting
Capitalist breakdown and the revolutionary perspective of the Fourth International - Panic grips global financial markets
- Sri Lankan officials offer empty reassurances over the global financial crisis
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
October 8, 2008
- US: Screen Actors Guild may organize a strike vote
- Asian markets continue to fall
- California seeks massive loan from US Treasury to deal with financial crisis
- Australian central bank interest rate cut reveals fears of global recession
- European Union remains paralysed in face of market turmoil
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Canada’s Greens: an aspirant establishment party
The German example - The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 9
- Picked to direct the Wall Street bailout: Who is Neel Kashkari?
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SEP election meetings
The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis -
Nick Beams addresses 70th anniversary meeting
Capitalist breakdown and the revolutionary perspective of the Fourth International—Part 4 - California father, despondent over financial losses, kills family and himself
- US stocks plunge amid mounting signs of global recession
October 9, 2008
- Special prosecutor appointed to investigate US attorney firings
- Labour government pledges up to £500 billion for Britain’s banks
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European history in the longue durée
Europe Between the Oceans by Barry Cunliffe -
Canada’s prime minister admits jobs and savings in peril
Wall Street meltdown spreads to Bay Street - Fears in China about the impact of global economic crisis
- Letters from our readers
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Second US presidential debate
Obama, McCain offer platitudes in the face of an economic disaster - Support the SEP campaign fund!
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 10
- Germany: Government fears crisis will spur political radicalisation
- Rate cuts, UK bank bailout fail to stem global financial panic
- Continuing US air strikes in Pakistan’s tribal agencies
October 10, 2008
- World financial crisis leads to auto industry layoffs across Europe
- Machinists union to resume talks with Boeing
- The art of Gustave Courbet in his epoch and in ours
- Wall Street crashes amid mounting signs of global recession
- Fiji: Military junta pushes pro-investor “Peoples Charter” reforms
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party—Part 11
- Iceland faces national bankruptcy
- McCain-Palin campaign’s attacks on Obama: a whiff of fascism
- More than 300 workers arrested in immigration raid on South Carolina plant
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
October 11, 2008
- The Aesthetic Component of Socialism
- US intelligence, military deliver dire estimates of Afghanistan war
- India: Tata Motors announces pullout from West Bengal
- Canada: Afghan war could cost in excess of $18 billion
- A Comment on Art and the Marxist Party
- Letters from our readers
- Donate to the World Socialist Web Site!
- Australian share market’s “black Friday”: another sign of economic crisis
- Ethiopian famine significantly worsens as Western powers fail to respond
- A discussion on Ethiopias’s role in Somalia
- Worst week for global markets since 1929
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Widespread public support for teachers strike in Detroit, Michigan, suburb
- As share market plunges, political crisis in Thailand deepens
- Turkish manufacturing sector hit hard by financial crisis
October 13, 2008
- Washington’s “shock” over AIG’s post-bailout junket
- The revolutionary implications of the decline of American capitalism
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Canadian elections: Workers need new party
Reject “Anybody but Conservative” trap - China’s first space walk signals new rivalry in outer space
- Germany: Left Party supports austerity measures in Hesse
- Britain and Iceland in bitter conflict over banking collapse
- International financial crisis exposes vulnerability of Indian economy
- Britain: Brown’s National Economic Council consolidates government by the super-rich
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Hard winter ahead
US heating and power costs to rise, utility cutoffs to follow -
Vancouver International Film Festival 2008—Part 1
Life in its incontrovertible reality - Wall Street demands free hand with funding from US Treasury
October 14, 2008
- Banks dictate conditions of US financial bailout
- The revolutionary implications of the decline of American capitalism—Part 2
- Letters from our readers
- The G7 and the Euro Group agree to pour billions into banks
- Fires claim lives of seven in New York City
- Australia: A revealing day at the Haneef “terrorism” inquiry
- Robert Hughes: A refreshingly frank comment on the art market
- Britain and Iceland in bitter conflict over banking collapse
- France: LCR holds meeting for New Anti-Capitalist Party in St. Denis
- Canada: Listeriosis epidemic continues—Liberal and Tory policies culpable
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SEP public meetings in Ann Arbor, New York, and California
70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity - Solomon Islands’ parliamentary review highlights illegality of Australian occupation
- Britain: Labour government to buy majority stakes in failing banks
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Communist Manifesto
October 15, 2008
- Afghanistan: Growing talk of a political deal with the Taliban
- Canadian elections: Whose class interests does the Bloc Québécois defend?
- Talks collapse in Boeing strike
- Burn After Reading: Another “league of morons” from the Coen brothers
- SEP candidate Jerry White addresses successful meetings in Britain
- Bush administration belatedly takes North Korea off terrorism list
- The German bailout of the banks and the role of the Left Party
- The stock market’s false rallies--what history tells us
- Obama floats economic plan: tax breaks and austerity
- No sacrifice for the bankers
- Socialism vs. the government bailout of capitalism
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SEP public meeting in Sri Lanka
The international financial crisis and its implications for South Asia -
New US Supreme Court term opens
Threats to slash consumers’ rights, expand police powers - Turkey: Another political detainee tortured and killed in prison
- US government expands bank bailout on Wall Street’s terms
October 16, 2008
- New York Times demands escalation of Afghanistan war
- Canada: Conservatives lose votes, but retain power
- Corruption and shoddy construction behind school collapses in China earthquake
- Letters from our readers
- US Supreme Court clears way for execution of likely innocent death row inmate
- Austrian right-wing politician Jörg Haider dies in car crash
- Stock markets fall as global recession takes hold
- US Treasury meeting: How the financial aristocracy laid down the law
- Australia: Rio Tinto hints at a new round of government-backed strike breaking
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2008—Part 2
Art, artists, the difficulties of the 20th century - “Working Poor” report: Nearly 30 percent of US families subsist on poverty wages
- Redesigned World Socialist Web Site begins Wednesday, October 22
October 17, 2008
- Asian markets plummet amid fears of global recession
- China’s land reform will deepen the gulf between rich and poor
- EU call for global financial regulation masks intra-European and international tensions
- In defense of Bill Ayers
- A political farce, not a debate
- German government rushes through €500 billion rescue package
- Britain: Lies begin to unravel in police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Behind the creationism controversy at Britain's Royal Society
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
October 18, 2008
- Plant closures, layoffs mount in US and Europe
- The Washington Post endorses Obama
- US bank losses wipe out years of paper profits
- Australian government props up banks as signs of a deep global recession emerge
- US Republicans target ACORN: the great “voter fraud” fraud
- US infant mortality rate now worse than 28 other countries
- Britain: Brown government caves in to banks’ demands
- Jerry White in Berlin: “At the heart of the financial crisis lies the historical decline of US imperialism”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
October 20, 2008
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Colin Powell endorses Obama
Growing ruling class consensus behind Democratic candidate - Pakistan facing bankruptcy as world financial crisis deepens
- US Supreme Court denies Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal for new trial
- France: €360 billion to bail out the banks
- IMF: Spain to be hit hard by recession
- Detroit residents speak on economic crisis and US elections
- Malaysia’s prime minister to step down next year
- An interview with Li Yifan, director of The Longwang Chronicles
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2008—Part 3
The oppressed and excluded - Stalinism and Bolshevism - 1937
October 21, 2008
- Iraqis protest against proposed security agreement with US
- India: Police accused of summarily executing “terrorist suspects”
- Housing crisis accelerates blight in Detroit neighborhoods
- Britain: Labour scapegoats immigrants for the financial crash
- US: Screen Actors leadership calls for federal mediator
- East Timor: Political crisis deepens as divisions in police force re-emerge
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sex, consolation for misery: Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke comes to the big screen
- Letters from our readers
- Leon Trotsky - The Transitional Program - 1938
- Leon Trotsky - In Defense of October - 1932
- A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World - 1953
- A Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the SWP - 1939
- Leon Trotsky - Report on the World Economic Crisis and the New Tasks of the Communist International - 1921
- Leon Trotsky - Three Conceptions of the Russian Revolution - 1939
- Socialism: Scientific and Utopian
October 22, 2008 (front page)
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Biden’s chilling remarks at fundraiser
What “incredibly tough” foreign policy actions is Obama preparing? - Fiji: High Court rejects former prime minister’s legal challenge to military junta
- Welcome the redesigned World Socialist Web Site
- The Democrats’ “economic recovery” fraud
- Under cover of “voter fraud” allegations, Republicans suppress the vote—Part 1
- OECD report ranks US third worst in inequality and poverty
- More signs of recession in Japan
- Irish government imposes harsh budget cuts
- Stella D’oro strikers rally in the Bronx, New York
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The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism:
The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 1 - W: A crude approach is not good for grasping much of anything
- An introduction to the new World Socialist Web Site
- Leon Trotsky - Lessons of October - 1924
October 23, 2008 (front page)
- Germany: Parliament authorises €500 billion bank bailout
- Eastern European economies face bankruptcy
- Job cuts mount as global recession takes hold
- “Socialism” intrudes on the 2008 elections
- Letters on the World Socialist Web Site redesign
- Can China fund the US and European bailouts?
- Detroit area house fire kills four
- General strike in Greece amid deepening financial crisis
- Canada’s shame: the incarceration, torture, and exile of Abousfian Abdelrazik
- Under cover of “voter fraud” allegations, Republicans suppress the vote—Part 2
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The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism:
The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 2 -
Vancouver International Film Festival 2008—Part 4
Repentance, betrayal and the less dramatic - Letters on “In defense of Bill Ayers,” and a reply by David Walsh
- Leon Trotsky - Culture and Socialism - 1927
- Vladimir Lenin - Karl Marx - 1914
- Australian by-elections record massive anti-Labor swings
October 24, 2008 (front page)
- US layoffs mount, home foreclosures rise
- Highland Park, Michigan residents speak on deadly fire
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- More recriminations over US/NATO quagmire in Afghanistan
- The economic crisis and war
- Britain in recession: Mervyn King’s moment of clarity
- Fearing default, Argentina moves to nationalize private pension funds
- Britain: Millions threatened with negative home equity and repossession
- Mass strike in Italy against Berlusconi government
- German Social Democrats meet in the shadow of the financial crisis
- French Airbus worker: “Boeing and Airbus workers have the same enemy—we should fight them together”
- Indian politicians threaten to resign over Sri Lankan war
- The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner—Part 3
- Canada: Toronto transit system avoids essential service designation
- Little Audrey by Ruth White: a family in postwar Virginia
October 25, 2008 (front page)
- The New York Times’ endorsement of Obama
- Warnings of recession send global share markets plunging
- European auto industry in crisis
- US federal appeals court stays Troy Davis execution
- More setbacks for Guantánamo show trials
- Britain: Labour, the Conservatives and the oligarchs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Socialist Equality Party UK public meetings
Art and Socialism—a talk by David Walsh, WSWS arts editor - SEP candidates to speak in Canada
- More letters on the World Socialist Web Site redesign
October 27, 2008 (front page)
- Warnings of deep recession as US layoffs spread coast-to-coast
- The “dirty little secret” of the US bank bailout
- Pakistan forced to seek IMF bailout package
- Political furore over Australian government’s bank guarantee
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Canada: As economic crisis deepens
Conservatives to press ahead with right-wing tax-cutting agenda - Martti Ahtisarri: Advocate of imperialist intervention awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- Economic crisis overshadows New Zealand elections
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2008—Part 5
Six films: problems of perspective, passivity - An interview with Azharr Rudin, director of This Longing
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SEP public meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Saturday, November 1
70th Anniversary of the Fourth International: Socialism and the Future of Humanity
October 28, 2008 (front page)
- US carries out fresh air strike in Pakistan
- US military forces attack Syrian village, killing eight
- Global recession threatens mass lay-offs in China
- Britain: Socialist Workers Party member becomes government adviser
- Increasing social inequality and poverty in Germany
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In wake of global financial crisis
Scottish nationalism’s perspective in tatters - One week until the US elections
- Letters from our readers
- Marxism and Science: An addendum to “The Frankfurt School vs. Marxism”
- Living on thin ice: Frozen River
October 29, 2008 (front page)
- Global economic crisis hits Japanese banks, exporters
- What is behind US-Taliban talks?
- Machinists union accepts job-cutting deal in bid to end Boeing strike
- Oil price drop undermines stability of Iranian regime
- Britain: the SWP and Galloway’s Respect Renewal on the economic crisis
- Sarkozy intends to partly nationalise “strategically important” companies
- Detroit residents and firemen denounce social decay in fire deaths
- Alaska Senator convicted on seven corruption charges
- German economics expert compares bank managers to persecuted Jews
- New York City cops arrest immigrant day laborers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
October 30, 2008 (front page)
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The German October: The missed revolution of 1923
Part 1 - US defense secretary expands pre-emptive war doctrine to include nuclear strikes
- Opportunism versus socialism: lessons of two “left” conferences in Britain
- US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates as recession deepens
- Advocate of Afghan “troop surge” selected as head of British Army
- Ford Australia sackings signal a wave of auto job losses
- Detroit residents denounce social decay in fire deaths
- Canadian Government defends export of asbestos to poorer nations
- Letters from our readers
- World Bank places Sri Lanka among the “highly vulnerable” countries
- Turkish court provides explanation of its ban on headscarves
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
A superficial treatment of the history of the Red Army Faction
October 31, 2008 (front page)
- The Historical & International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party
- Evidence grows that UK is entering a sharp recession
- GDP, consumer spending contract as US plunges into recession
- Italy: Protests and strikes against Berlusconi education cuts
- History and the revolutionary party
- Iraqi cabinet stalls on US security agreement
- After six years, Australian jury clears Jack Thomas of all terrorism charges
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The German October: The missed revolution of 1923
Part 2 - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
