Archive: 03/2009
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 2, 2009 (front page)
- Washington in conflict with Afghan president over early poll
- “Enemy combatant” indicted to block Supreme Court review
- Police repression unleashed against Sri Lankan university students
- Turkey: 12 years since the last military intervention, new coup feared
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“A war waged by the rich against the poor”
Ford workers oppose new concessions - With Iraq plan, Obama embraces US militarism
March 3, 2009 (front page)
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After the worst monthly selloff since 1933
US stocks hit lowest level in 12 years - Hillary Clinton reprises “peace process” fraud
- Brussels: Divisions dominate EU summit in face of deepening crisis
- Obama administration announces billions more in bailouts to AIG
- Rising unemployment in Taiwan as exports plunge
- Sweden: Unions promote nationalism over Saab
- As unemployment hits double digits, California lurches towards depression
- Former Guantánamo guard details prisoner abuse
- New Zealand “Jobs Summit” places burden of recession on working people
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Workers and students in Los Angeles speak to the WSWS
“I’ve never experienced a worse economy” - Britain: Student meetings hear report on socialist perspective for the Middle East
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
March 4, 2009 (front page)
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Auto sales plunge 42 percent
US slump, Wall Street slide deepen - US Justice Department memos: the specter of military dictatorship
- US plans for military intervention in Sri Lanka
- Pakistan: Terrorist attack targets international cricket match
- Polish economy tumbles as global investors take flight
- Russian government moves to save big business, suppress opposition
- Britain: Ex-boss of failed RBS bank awarded £25 million pension
- Australia: Reject backroom deals! Launch an independent struggle to defend Pacific Brands jobs!
- 7.3 million in the US prison system
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Amid continued US looting of cultural materials:
Iraqi museum reopens - WSWS arts editor David Walsh speaks at meetings in San Diego and Los Angeles
March 5, 2009 (front page)
- Letters from our readers
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As home crisis deepens
Obama, Democrats bow to banks on housing “rescue” - ASEAN summit: amid talk of cooperation, economic rivalry on the rise
- Gaza donor conference: conspiracy wrapped up as compassion
- Germany: Left Party congress shows its support for the EU
- Bangladeshi government authorises arrest of 1,000 mutineers
- Binyam Mohamed free after years of imprisonment and torture
- The New York state budget crisis and the debate over the “millionaire’s tax”
- Australian economy heads into recession
- Seattle, Wash.: Video captures attack on teenage girl at police station
- Gordon Brown's visit to Washington
March 6, 2009 (front page)
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As Hillary Clinton ratchets up rhetoric against Iran
Obama-linked think tank calls for US “nuclear umbrella” in Middle East - Three more Canadian troops killed in Afghanistan
- Ireland: KPS unlikely to maintain production at occupied Waterford facility
- Australia: Victorian bushfires demonstrate the need for a socialist perspective
- East Timor journalist faces jail over corruption allegations
- The collapse of General Motors
- Retirement funds in danger for millions of Americans
- Worker opposition to Ford-UAW agreement reflected in votes
- Ford workers: “Now the fight is with our own union.”
- 10,000 steelworkers demonstrate in Duisburg against threatened job cuts
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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Britain: 25 years since the year-long miners’ strike
Part one -
Stories from coal mining towns in Appalachia
An interview with author Ruth White, author of Little Audrey
March 7, 2009 (front page)
- US unemployment rate hits 8.1 percent
- The AFL-CIO and “nationalization”
- Civilian deaths mount amid intense Sri Lankan army shelling
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Defending the profits of the health care industry
White House Forum on Health Reform - “Truth Commission” proposal on Bush crimes reveals precarious state of US democracy
- Germany: Blackmail tactics against Opel workers
- Austria: Socialist Party in free-fall in regional elections
- Bank of England cuts interest rates, turns to “quantitative easing”
- California’s new budget and the social crisis in San Diego
- Australia: Union bankruptcy on display at Pacific Brands rallies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Britain: 25 years since the year-long miners’ strike
Part two
March 9, 2009 (front page)
- Obama administration backs immunity for author of Bush torture memos
- LKP calls off Guadeloupe general strike as walkouts spread to La Réunion
- A specter haunts the ruling elite
- Germany: What lies behind the proposals for an “employee share scheme” at Opel?
- Spain: Zapatero government accused of directing anti-immigrant crackdown
- Cologne, Germany: Who is responsible for the collapse of the municipal archive building?
- Australian climate scientist discusses global warming impact on Victorian fires
- Oppose LTTE campaign of threats and violence against SEP supporters in Europe!
- Sri Lankan SEP stands in Colombo election against war and social inequality
- Lindsey refinery dispute: A reply to the GMB union
March 10, 2009 (front page)
- World Bank predicts first decline in global output since WWII
- The war crimes indictment against Sudanese President Bashir
- Top-level talks continue on US-led military intervention in Sri Lanka
- Obama’s New York Times interview: Military aggression and attacks on democratic rights to continue
- Obama and US commander discuss military intervention in Mexico
- Chinese leaders face bleak economic prospects
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Oppose Canadian Auto Workers surrender to GM
Fight all concessions and job cuts! -
The victimization of public education in California
State budget cuts met with widespread protest -
Tens of thousands march in New York against budget cuts
Union bureaucrats call for “shared sacrifice” -
ICFI/SEP public meeting in Paris
Sri Lankan troops out of the north and east!
The socialist program to end the war in Sri Lanka -
Germany: PSG European election campaign wins support
Anger over the social effects of the crisis - Britain: Dundee packaging factory occupied
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
March 11, 2009 (front page)
- US: Congressional Democrats balk at rescinding tax cuts for the rich
- Obama lays out Afghanistan war strategy
- France: Protests continue against Sarkozy’s university reforms
- Northern Ireland: Anxiety over “peace process” following shootings of soldiers, police officer
- US companies slash thousands more jobs in early March
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Unemployed in Michigan
“There’s just nothing here—everybody is fighting for the same jobs” - Britain: Binyam Mohamed interview reveals MI5 collusion in torture and abuse
- Obama scapegoats teachers, continues Bush education policies
- German union officials propose double-digit wage cuts for Opel-GM workers
- The war in Sri Lanka: the political and class issues
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Questions and answers on the Hollywood blacklists—Part 1
An interview with film historian Reynold Humphries - SEP media conference in Sri Lanka announces election campaign
- Ford concessions contract ratified with 40 percent voting “no”
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
March 12, 2009 (front page)
- Naval incidents highlight tense US-China relations
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Attend WSWS regional conferences!
Laying the foundations for a socialist movement - FBI terrorist watch list hits 1 million entries
- US bank regulator retires amid fraud scandal
- United Nations condemns US, Britain and other states over rendition
- Indian economy hammered by world economic crisis
- Homicidal rampage in Alabama kills 11
- Key Obama economic adviser admits he has no answers
- Sri Lankan parliament passes power reform bill
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The German Left Party prepares to head off social protests
Sahra Wagenknecht—“Left” rhetoric cloaks right-wing politics - Further protest letters against LTTE
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Questions and answers on the Hollywood blacklists—Part 2
An interview with film historian Reynold Humphries
March 13, 2009 (front page)
- More than 5 million Americans collecting jobless benefits
- A health care plan for big business
- Pakistan’s government suppresses opposition protests
- Madoff jailed after pleading guilty to operating Ponzi scheme
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On eve of G-20 finance ministers’ meeting
Transatlantic divisions widen - Castroite purge in Cuba as US slightly eases sanctions
- Thousands line up at Detroit job fair
- Sri Lankan newspaper editor held without charge
- Spain: New Anti-Capitalist Left party to contest European elections
- Australia: Coroner’s findings whitewash Beaconsfield mine death
- Australian High Court widens use of secret evidence
- More protest letters against LTTE threats
- Watchmen and Hollywood’s advanced state of decay
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Reject RMT’s attempt to isolate rail strikes
Mobilize all rail workers against job losses, wage freezes and productivity drives! - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
March 14, 2009 (front page)
- US missiles kill 24 in Pakistan
- Chrysler Canada rejects GM-CAW “pattern,” demands even greater concessions
- Iraqi journalist jailed for throwing shoes at Bush
- Video: Workers interviewed at Detroit jobs fair
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AIG warns imminent failure will have global consequences
Asks government for an additional $30 billion - Australia: Sharp rise in job losses and unemployment
- Germany: Berlin city legislator gets his reward, joins Bundesbank
- New Zealand unions collaborate in axing Pacific Brands jobs
- Obama at the Business Roundtable
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
- Nantes, France: Workers conduct five-day occupation of Goss International factory
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
March 16, 2009 (front page)
- Great Power divisions persist following G20 summit
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A change in name only
Obama administration ends use of “enemy combatant” designation -
“We’re concerned about the security of our assets”
China premier warns of potential dollar collapse - British liberals seek alliance with right in name of defending liberty
- Iraq’s former foreign minister sentenced to 15 years jail
- Iceland: Government bank takeover increases threat of state bankruptcy
- Ireland: Government to impose draconian austerity measures with opposition support
- Hundreds of students forced out of Chicago area school for unpaid fees
- Australia: Labor government, unions and “lefts” block fight to defend Pacific Brands jobs
- The AIG bonuses furor: the class issues
- California teachers protest mass layoffs
- Britain: What does the Convention on Modern Liberty represent?
- More letters on LTTE threats
- Letter: BBC program looks at the life of blacklisted actor Sam Wanamaker
March 17, 2009 (front page)
- Red Cross: US tortured terror suspects
- Further letters against LTTE threats
- Australia: Tamils face 10 years jail on revised terrorism charges
- Why Obama fears AIG “backlash”
- US navy reinforces spying operation in South China Sea
- Pakistan’s government backs down under pressure from Washington and military
- Sri Lankan government seeks IMF bailout
- Television satirist Jon Stewart takes on Wall Street’s media mouthpieces
- Guinea Bissau: President assassinated in impoverished West African country
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Winnenden rampage killings
What lies behind the latest school shooting in Germany? - California unemployment statistics hide full impact of recession
- Britain: Unions agree cuts in hours and pay at Toyota
- Letters from our readers
March 18, 2009 (front page)
- US industrial production falls sharply as economic crisis deepens
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold election meeting in Colombo
- New York Times columnist who demanded concessions from auto workers, “makes case” for AIG bonuses
- Top UN human rights official raises the issue of war crimes in Sri Lanka
- Latin America hit hard by world crisis
- Britain: Barclays gains gagging order against Guardian over tax avoidance claims
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After winning El Salvador vote
FMLN vows respect for private property and Washington - Britain: Right-wing campaign waged against freed Guantánamo detainee
- France: What are the politics of the March 19 demonstration?
- Obama signing statement weakens “whistle-blower” protections
- Australia: Unions promote demoralisation at Pacific Brands rally
- Turkish unemployment at record rates
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California: Thousands of unemployed workers line up at San Diego jobs fair
“More people, less jobs” - Australian state government in damage control over major oil spill
- Israeli crisis deepens
- Paris meeting advances socialist program to end war in Sri Lanka
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Toronto: Mass protest against Sri Lankan state’s racist war
LTTE agents attack SEP supporters - Will Ferrell says goodbye to the Bush Administration in You’re Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
March 19, 2009 (front page)
- Obama defends Wall Street as anger grows over bonuses, bailouts
- Sri Lanka: New police-state measures follow suicide bombing
- Torture and the American ruling class
- Growing hostility in US to Afghanistan war
- France moves towards reintegration into NATO
- Pentagon drafts border plan as Mexico hits US protectionism
- Growing economic, social and political tensions in Egypt
- Britain: Massive abstention in Unite leadership contest
- East Timorese prosecutors charge 28 people over 2008 “coup attempt”
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Auto parts workers occupy closed plant in Windsor, Canada
CAW moves to block broader struggle against layoffs -
The 59th Berlinale–Part 3
Intimations of changes to come—but nothing more
On the film series: After Winter Comes Spring—Films presaging the fall of the Berlin Wall
March 20, 2009 (front page)
- Japanese opposition party in crisis
- US Federal Reserve announces massive increase in government debt
- France: Millions strike and march against austerity
- IMF report: World economy to shrink 1 percent this year
- Scotland: Banking meltdown creates crisis for Scottish Nationalists
- Germany: Berlin Public Transit faces dramatic financial losses
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The social cost of GM’s downsizing
Pontiac, Michigan “restructures” schools, fires entire education staff - Video: Pontiac residents speak on schools crisis
- Six years of Washington’s war in Iraq
- Australia: Rudd government attacks right to protest at Pine Gap spy base
- Further protest letters against LTTE threats
- Autoworkers end factory occupation in Windsor, Ontario
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
March 21, 2009 (front page)
- Obama maneuvers to protect Wall Street bonuses
- China offers no fix for global slump
- The media defends executive bonuses
- Israeli troops detail Gaza atrocities as demand grows for war crimes probe
- Britain: Record rise in unemployment to over 2 million
- Britain: The fraud of Brown’s “crusade” for social mobility
- US: Working families struggle to make ends meet
- Reports on the March 19 demonstrations in France
- A case of class law: harsh judgement against Berlin cashier
- SEP candidate addresses power workers in Sri Lanka
- More protest letters against LTTE threats
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
March 23, 2009 (front page)
- Obama administration plan for “toxic assets”: A windfall for Wall Street
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
- EU summit rejects US demand for increased stimulus packages
- Canada bars British anti-war MP Galloway
- Economic conditions worsen in Iraq
- Britain: The significance of the Scargill/Kinnock row
- Washington DC: Over 3 percent infected with HIV or AIDS
- Australia: Economic crisis provokes turmoil within Liberal Party leadership
- Wall Street hysterics over the AIG bonus bill
March 24, 2009 (front page)
- Wall Street celebrates government windfall for banks and big investors
- US, China and the war in Sri Lanka
- Chinese central banker says US dollar should be replaced as global reserve currency
- US prepares new escalation of Afghanistan intervention
- German-based tire maker announces European plant closures
- Obama’s auto task force: a collection of Wall Street investors and asset strippers
- Britain’s Guardian writes “in praise” of Lord Myners
- Australia: Labor clings to office in Queensland
- Bay City, Michigan: Fifteen-year-old dies after Taser shooting
- New space telescope to search for earth-sized planets
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
March 25, 2009 (front page)
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Billions for Wall Street, budget cuts for working people
Obama press conference reveals right-wing consensus in Washington - Democrats prepare to ditch AIG bonus bill
- Obama’s “carrot and stick” approach to Iran
- EU leaders cancel “jobs summit” to avoid protests
- Australia: Rudd government tries to block Guantánamo torture case
- Sweden: Saab announces more layoffs as unions agree to wage cuts
- Somalia: US policy shift towards Islamists after Ethiopian pullout
- Ontario: Growing numbers of “working poor”
- IMF director warns of war
- Germany: Campaign to place the PSG on the ballot wins wide support
- Protest letters against LTTE threats
March 26, 2009 (front page)
- Global investors ponder implications of US dollar collapse
- New York Times publishes “persecuted” AIG executive’s resignation letter
- Two months on: The class agenda of the Obama administration
- Labor joins Netanyahu coalition as evidence of war crimes in Gaza mounts
- Canada defends ban on British anti-war MP
- Poverty, unemployment and homelessness hit Japanese workers
- The Opel crisis fuels divisions in Germany’s coalition government
- US government department routinely ignores labor law violations
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Obama “town hall” meetings in California
No answers for joblessness, austerity - The capitalist crisis and the return of history
- Sri Lanka: Two years since the disappearance of SEP member Nadarajah Wimaleswaran
- Letters from our readers
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ISSE meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
The world economic crisis and the socialist alternative
March 27, 2009 (front page)
- Australia: The political issues behind the jailing of former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld
- Washington escalates “drug war” intervention in Mexico
- The return of Hoovervilles
- EU president declares US economic policy is the “road to hell”
- Czech government ousted as economy flounders
- Obama administration calls for changes in financial regulation
- Turkish municipal elections dominated by economic, political crisis
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Special announcement
Nick Beams to speak at WSWS/SEP conferences in US - G20 summit protest: A socialist answer to the global crisis is needed
- SEP public meeting launches provincial election campaign
- Duplicity: The essential unseriousness of it
- Reject CAW sellout at Chrysler! Mobilize autoworkers across North America to defend all jobs and oppose all concessions!
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
March 28, 2009 (front page)
- Obama announces escalation of war in Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Oppose Canada’s ban on British anti-war MP Galloway!
- WTO forecasts huge drop in global trade
- US: Unemployment hits double digits in seven states
- Obama holds “very pleasant” meeting with top US bankers
- Ireland: Trade unions call off March 30 national strike
- Populist businessman takes power in Madagascar
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
March 30, 2009 (front page)
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On eve of G-20 summit in London
European powers rebuff US, British proposals for economic stimulus - Indonesian dam collapse disaster leaves 100 dead
- Obama escalates war in Central Asia
- Iraqi government turns on Sunni “Awakening” militias
- London: 35,000 march in “Put People First” protest
- Video: WSWS interviews G-20 protesters in London
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Germany: Thousands demonstrate on eve of G-20 summit
Left Party leader booed in Frankfurt - Germany: SAV promotes illusions in the Left Party
- After the slaughter: political lessons of the Balkan War
- Edward Upward: An artistic vision at odds with his politics
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As Chrysler-Canada-CAW talks reach impasse
Workers denounce union for imposing concessions - Sri Lankan election: SEP campaigns among railway workers
March 31, 2009 (front page)
- Obama demands deeper cuts in auto workers’ jobs, wages, benefits
- Obama declares war on auto workers
- Britain: Brown’s fiscal stimulus no longer an option for G20 summit
- Spanish court weighs torture charges against former US officials
- World economic crisis provokes fall of Hungary’s government
- American mayhem: Three horrible crimes over the weekend
- British police to investigate MI5 over Binyam Mohamed's torture
- Australian airport death used to justify new police powers
- Billy the Kid: “Can you see inside me?”
- An interview with Jennifer Venditti, director of Billy the Kid
- Ireland: Taxi strike, student protests after unions call off national strike
- Sri Lanka: School principals protest in Colombo over pay claim
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
