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Archive: 06/2009

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.

June 1, 2009 (front page)

• UN-based estimates put Sri Lankan civilian death toll at 20,000
• UN report issues dire forecast for world economy
• AfPak war depopulates and devastates north-west Pakistan
• One week to 2009 elections
  Millions in Europe sink into unemployment and poverty
• Kansas doctor, target of anti-abortion fanatics, gunned down in Wichita
• Britain: Cameron outlines Conservative’s “reform” agenda
• Rising levels of financial stress in Australia
• The GM bankruptcy
• New from Mehring Books
  Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR
  Advance orders now being taken
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2009
  Part 4: The ongoing impact of the USSR’s collapse and other facts of modern life

June 2, 2009 (front page)

• US treasury secretary touts Obama austerity policies in China visit
• What’s good for GM…
• GM bankruptcy will devastate communities
• Sri Lanka: Tamil detainees kept in appalling conditions
• US issues threat to North Korea
• US: Growing impact of the health care crisis on women
• Australia: Indian university students protest racist attacks
• India: Hyundai Motors victimizes workers
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

June 3, 2009 (front page)

• Obama offers nothing to states, cities devastated by GM plant closures
• British newspapers expose cold-blooded killing of LTTE leaders in Sri Lanka
• New York Mayor Bloomberg defends the Obamas’ night on the town
• New documents reveal:
  1967 police murder of West German student was committed by a Stasi agent
• Suharto-era figures dominate Indonesian presidential poll
• Spanish judge calls for extradition of US soldiers
• Climate bill a giveaway to big business
• The assassination of Dr. George Tiller
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2009
  Part 5: Personal anxiety, but social complacency

June 4, 2009 (front page)

• UN warns global jobs crisis may last eight years
• Twenty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
• US Fed Chairman demands plan to cut social programs
• Wall Street, Obama administration conspire to block financial regulation
• Iranian presidential election: candidates debate strategic shift
• New York Times on the UAW’s corporatism: a rewriting of history
• Questions abound in aftermath of Air France crash
• Michigan auto workers and families speak on plant closures
• Sri Lanka and India seek to patch up relations
• Britain: Income inequality at record high
• Australian union congress seeks government-business partnership
• Vote for the SEP (Germany) in the European elections
• Origins and consequences of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre
  Part 1
• Letters on the General Motors bankruptcy

June 5, 2009 (front page)

• US proxy war continues in north-west Pakistan
• Obama in Cairo: a new face for imperialism
• Video: Michigan GM workers speak on bankruptcy and plant closings
• OAS vote on Cuba exposes waning US power in Latin America
• Twenty years after the collapse of Stalinism
  European politicians stand reality on its head at Vienna gathering
• Sri Lankan president’s speech: another warning to working people
• Canada’s Conservative government continuing persecution of Abousfian Abdelrazik
• Public education devastated by California budget cuts
• France: Sarkozy pushes law-and-order in European election campaign
• Sweden: Saab granted three-month extension in bankruptcy protection
• Game Over, or, Where shall we look?
• Origins and consequences of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre
  Part 2
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

June 6, 2009 (front page)

• Official jobless rate hits 9.4 percent in US
• The European election
  What lies behind the tensions with the US?
• Election platform of the “European Left”: Pious wishes and right-wing policies
• European elections
  French New Anti-Capitalist Party promotes Keynesian reformism
• Sri Lankan journalist brutally beaten
• Detroit Public Schools financial manager dismisses pleas at public meeting
• Brazil, China deals challenge US position in Latin America
• Seven years after the event:
  India’s Supreme Court orders expedited trials for perpetrators of Gujarat pogrom
• The Opel fraud
  Opel: Magna deal means layoffs, wage cuts and splitting of the European workforce
• Montreal: Community boycott forces suspension of inquest into police murder of immigrant youth
• Greece: Police, far-right thugs attack Muslim immigrants
• Stella D’Oro strikers rally as New York unions continue to isolate strike
• Reject concessions and blackmail!
  Boston Globe threatens 23% pay cut if pact is defeated
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Origins and consequences of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre
  Part 3
• Letters on the assassination of Dr. George Tiller

June 8, 2009 (front page)

• Wall Street on the offensive
• Sri Lanka: Inside the Manik Farm detention centre
• GM plant closures devastate Detroit suburbs
• Peruvian massacre aimed at opening Amazon to transnationals
• Somalia: Conflict rages in Mogadishu
• Ireland creates “bad bank” to rescue finance and property speculators
• Obama chooses private profit over healthcare needs
• Citizen of the world: a brief survey of the life and times of Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

June 9, 2009 (front page)

• Social democratic parties suffer historic defeat in European Union elections
• Obama pledges 600,000 jobs in 100 days
  A derisory answer to the jobs disaster
• Sri Lankan workers comment on victory celebrations
• Capitalism’s deadly toll: 44 children dead in Mexican day care fire
• White House had long planned GM and Chrysler bankruptcies
• New York Times on Guantánamo: A willing conduit for the military-intelligence apparatus
• Australian government claims “good news” despite soaring unemployment
• Malaysian government crackdown on political opponents
• Germany: Arcandor retail group faces bankruptcy
• Another front in the attack on education
  Prominent academic offers modest proposal for reorganizing universities
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

June 10, 2009 (front page)

• European elections 2009
  Berlin meeting concludes SEP election campaign
• Obama moves aggressively against North Korea
• The decline of social democracy
• Obama administration allows big banks to repay TARP funds
• Lebanon: US-backed coalition retains narrow majority
• California fiscal crisis threatens millions with ruin
• UN chief calls for inquiry into Sri Lankan war crimes
• Israel to expand its settlements
• While pledging its devotion to the poor
  India’s government lurches further right
• Indian student protests spread to Sydney: “We came here to study, not to fight”
• Detroit election meeting
  Stop the shutdown of Detroit! A socialist response to the economic crisis
• London Underground workers strike against assault on jobs and wages
• Newspaper Guild rejects concessions demands
  Boston Globe to impose 23 percent wage cut

June 11, 2009 (front page)

• While workers’ wages fall
  Obama administration rejects limits on bankers’ pay
• The crisis of British Labour
• US reinforcements in place in southern Afghanistan
• 56,000 jobs threatened
  German government forces retail group Arcandor into bankruptcy
• Sri Lanka: JVP vehemently opposes any concessions to Tamils
• Employees speak on Chrysler dealership closure
• Explosion at North Carolina plant leaves 3 dead, 41 injured
• In the aftermath of the George Tiller assassination
  Slain doctor’s family announces closure of Kansas clinic
• US: Screen Actors Guild membership ratifies contract
• Australia: Rudd Labor’s NAPLAN school “league tables”
  “NAPALM that kills learning”
• Letters from our readers

June 12, 2009 (front page)

• Iranians voting in presidential poll
• Obama administration spearheads assault on workers in California
• New US commander in Afghanistan assembles team of assassins
• American Nazi kills guard in attack on Holocaust Museum
• Sri Lankan Chief Justice questions legality of Tamil detention camps
• Obama administration’s new moves to block release of torture documents
• Germany: The Greens declare their allegiance to the bourgeoisie
• Canada: Federal Court orders repatriation of torture victim Abousfian Abdelrazik
• Australia: “Quality” teaching and the Labor/union assault on public education
• European elections
  Germany: The significance of the Socialist Equality Party campaign
• Britain: RMT Tube workers face union busting and organised scabbing by drivers’ union ASLEF
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

June 13, 2009 (front page)

• USA Today report: Workers face worst conditions since the Great Depression
• Germany’s Left Party and the European elections
• Violence against Indian students in Australia: the class issues
• Peru: Massive protests against García government over Amazon massacre
• Sri Lankan police interrogate doctors who witnessed war crimes
• US opposes Iraqi popular vote on troop withdrawal
• Britain: Tories and Labour plan spending cuts of at least 10 percent
• The reality of life in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum
• New York billionaire engineers legislative “coup”
• Flint, Michigan and the bankruptcy of General Motors
• The primate fossil “Ida”: the science and the hype
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

June 15, 2009 (front page)

• Protests erupt after Iranian election
• The New York Times and the Iranian election
• Sharp conflicts at G8 finance ministers meeting
• Sri Lanka: Jaffna residents speak out over increasing military repression
• Obama smoothes passage of war spending bill by pledging to suppress torture photos
• France opens first permanent military base in the Persian Gulf
• Baltic economic instability threatens to spread to Sweden
• Mass Hong Kong vigil marks Tiananmen massacre
• US Supreme Court limits Sixth Amendment right to legal counsel
• Striking city workers hold rally in Windsor, Ontario

June 16, 2009 (front page)

• Iran: Election clashes mount as West escalates pressure
• Obama calls for cuts in Medicare and Medicaid
• Israel: Netanyahu rejects compromise with Palestinians
• Sri Lankan government threatens Tamil parliamentarians
• The Nation magazine and the Iranian election
• Mounting Canada-US frictions over “Buy American” provisions of stimulus package
• Britain: Van maker LDV sacks more than 800 workers
• LDV workers: “80 percent of the lads here think the union is a waste of time”
• Germany: European elections pave way for department store bankruptcy
• Labor government heavy-weights attack Australia’s peak union body
• An interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
  Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking—Part 1
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

June 17, 2009 (front page)

• Congressional Budget Office projection
  Democratic health bill would leave 37 million uninsured in 2019
• For workers’ power and a socialist Iran
• Sri Lankan government hands greater powers to Chief of Defence Staff
• Britain: Brown’s pledge to “clean up” Parliament masks austerity drive
• Major banks made whole in GM bankruptcy
• US Supreme Court refuses to take up case of the “Cuban 5”
• Canada: Liberals wage “phony” war on Conservative government
• China relations behind Australian defence minister’s downfall
• Hungary: What accounts for the success of the extreme right?
• Marx and Darwin: Two great revolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century
  Part 1
• An interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
  Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking—Part 2
• Kindergarten staff strike in Germany: 30,000 demonstrate in Cologne

June 18, 2009 (front page)

• Obama: US “meddling” in Iran should not be seen
• Britain: Labour’s Compass group plans its efforts to save capitalism
• Obama’s bank regulation plan: A free pass for Wall Street
• Germany: Thousands demonstrate against run-down of the education system
• Further signs of Sri Lanka’s shift into China’s orbit
• Obama administration rejects aid to California
  State government preparing massive cuts
• Michigan Democratic governor imposes emergency budget cuts
  State workers, Medicaid recipients hit hard
• Australia: Youth jobless rate soars in working class suburbs
• SEP candidate speaks at Detroit meeting
• Angels & Demons: Now, in the service of the Catholic Church
• Marx and Darwin: Two great revolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century
  Part 2

June 19, 2009 (front page)

• Factional struggle deepens within Iranian ruling elite
• North Korean nuclear crisis enters a new stage
• Two legal cases challenge Sri Lanka’s mass detention of Tamil civilians
• Back in the fold: Comic Stephen Colbert in Baghdad
• France offers the United Arab Emirates nuclear protection
• NSA monitors millions of American e-mails
• The New York Times and Iran: Journalism as state provocation
• Australia: Construction unions’ Westgate Bridge deal sets dangerous new benchmark
• Ruined: Congo is setting for prize-winning play on wartime violence against women
• Germany: Child care workers fight for better pay and conditions
• Britain: Postal workers strike against job losses
• Michigan: Autopsy confirms police taser responsible for teenager’s death
• California budget cuts target education
  Los Angeles students and teachers protest school cuts
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Marx and Darwin: Two great revolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century
  Part 3
• Letters on the elections in Iran

June 20, 2009 (front page)

• Iran’s supreme leader sets stage for confrontation
• Britain: For a war crimes trial over Iraq invasion
• More than 1 billion people hungry worldwide in 2009
• US Congress approves another $80 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan wars
• “It’s going to be an absolute bloodbath”
  Obama, Harper force bankruptcy on auto parts industry
• Sri Lankan Tamil detainees still held in terrible conditions
• Britain: Young people bear brunt of rising unemployment
• Canada: Cover-up of RCMP murder of immigrant worker unravels
• Canada: RCMP tried to suppress video of fatal tasering of Dziekanski
• California residents speak on the economic crisis
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters on Orson Welles

June 22, 2009 (front page)

• Unemployment crisis grips US states
• The Nation’s man in Tehran: Who is Robert Dreyfuss?
• For a socialist, not a “color” revolution in Iran
• US Supreme Court promotes wrongful imprisonment and age discrimination
  Decisions on prisoner DNA testing and older workers’ right to sue
• The GM bankruptcy and the middle-class “left” organizations
• Sri Lankan president dissolves human rights investigations
• Two summits in Russia: A cautious challenge to the US
• New York City workers forced to pay for crisis
• New York City workers speak against cuts in healthcare and social services
• British Airways workers urged to work for nothing
• Australia: Car dealer “scandal” engulfs parliament
• Six pre-Production Code films from William Wellman: an uneven but welcome collection
• Britain: Total Oil sacks 647 striking workers at Lindsey Oil Refinery

June 23, 2009 (front page)

• Iran: Protests wane as conflict within regime continues
• Take the profit out of health care
• Besancenot and the NPA support Sarkozy’s policy on Iran elections
• Pakistani military begins offensive in Waziristan
• Sri Lankan president seeks extended term without elections
• Peruvian government forced to repeal Amazon free trade decrees
• Australia: Opposition Liberal Party in crisis over fake email furore
• Omagh verdict leaves questions of state collusion unanswered
• Document points to alleged military plot against Turkish government
• Rio Tinto-Chinalco deal collapses
• Toronto city workers strike against sweeping concession demands
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Afghan Star: Eyes not opened wide enough
• Hubble Space Telescope receives final upgrade
• Letters from our readers

June 24, 2009 (front page)

• Detroit City Council member under investigation for corruption
• US Supreme Court issues first ruling to limit Voting Rights Act
• The tasks of the Iranian working class
• The propaganda war against Iran
• World Bank cuts forecast for 2009 growth
• Washington DC: Nine killed, scores injured in subway accident
• Sri Lankan Tamil detainees give eye-witness accounts
• How France’s petty-bourgeois “left” betrays workers
  The experience of Goodyear and Continental
• Coal mine blast in Indonesia kills at least 32
• Australia: Rudd reshuffles cabinet in response to economic crisis
• Spain: Immigrant worker claims boss threw his severed arm in bin
• New York: Behind the tragic death of a social worker
• University of California faces scandal over chancellors
• The Twilight Saga: Shimmering vampires who drive Volvos

June 25, 2009 (front page)

• US drone strike kills 80 Pakistanis
• International issues in the Iranian crisis
• Record bonuses at bailed-out US banks
• Rejection of California budget sets stage for even larger spending cuts
• US: State budget crises trigger layoffs, cuts in social programs
• China’s exports plunge further
• German Left Party leader promotes reformist politics
• UK Conservatives form new rightist bloc in European parliament
• Australia: Former treasurer Peter Costello quits parliament
• Canada: Dziekanski inquiry derailed by new evidence of police wrongdoing
• New Zealand budget imposes austerity measures as recession deepens
• Election meeting in Southwest Detroit
  Stop the shutdown of Detroit! A socialist response to the economic crisis
• Striking Toronto city workers: management is “after everything”
• Municipal workers resist concession demands in Windsor, Ontario
• Britain: Nationwide strike continues in defence of sacked refinery workers
• Britain: Barnsley College lecturers protest threat of redundancies
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2009
  An interview with He Jianjun, director of River People
• Letters from our readers

June 26, 2009 (front page)

• White House health care forum: Obama’s plan for “evidence-based” medical cuts
• Obama administration seeks to quash suit by 9/11 families
• Memo confirms Bush and Blair knew claims Iraq had WMDs were lies
• Sri Lankan government stages sham local elections
• EU summit in Brussels
  European heads of government bow to banks
• India bans CPI (Maoist) under draconian “anti-terror” law
• US Supreme Court rules school strip search unconstitutional
• Unemployment and poverty in California’s Imperial Valley
• Iran, the media and the World Socialist Web Site
• Australia: Early election threatened over fake email affair
• A conversation with Windsor municipal workers
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• PJ Harvey and John Parish in concert

June 27, 2009 (front page)

• US states’ budget crisis sets stage for new attack on the working class
• Iran and public opinion
• US warship shadows North Korean cargo vessel
• The tragic journey of a displaced Tamil family in Sri Lanka
• As the German budget deficit soars
  Government parties plan drastic austerity measures
• Britain: Labour government forces one million disabled workers to find work
• LA School Board votes to slash school budget
• Australia: Labor moves to shut down remote Aboriginal settlements
• US: Arizona government prepares new attacks on women’s reproductive health rights
• Michael Jackson’s death
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters on Iran and the US media

June 29, 2009 (front page)

• Following in Bush’s footsteps
  Obama administration preparing order for indefinite detentions
• Honduran military ousts president in coup
• Denials of US interference in Iran not credible
• US House passes Obama administration’s carbon trading legislation
• Sri Lankan military maintains fishing restrictions in the north
• Sudan: Humanitarian crisis in south as Comprehensive Peace Agreement unravels
• Sweden: Luxury automaker Koenigsegg announces purchase of Saab
• US war games signal intensifying tension over Arctic
• Australia: Coroner attacks as a “disgrace” Aboriginal man’s death in prison van
• New Nixon White House tapes:
  A revealing picture of the American presidency
• Away We Go: Parent trap

June 30, 2009 (front page)

• The Honduran coup: another US destabilization operation
• Oil and the Iraq “withdrawal”
• Supreme Court upholds white firefighters’ discrimination claims
• US Supreme Court declines to hear case of 9/11 families
• Sri Lanka: Dengue epidemic claims scores of lives
• Organize rank-and-file committees to stop plant closings and overturn UAW concessions!
• Bachelot law accelerates destruction of the French health system
• German parliament opens way for Internet censorship
• Thai mosque shootings point to government/military rift
• Dramatic decline in Turkish wages
• Southwest Detroit residents speak to D’Artagnan Collier campaign
• What is behind the media’s venomous attack on striking Toronto city workers
• Britain: Lindsey oil refinery workers win reinstatement
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Book review: The Unit
  Dispensable people
• Letters on Iran and public opinion
• Letters on the death of Michael Jackson