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Archive: 07/2009

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.

July 1, 2009 (front page)

• US state budget crises fuel massive spending cuts
  Deadlines threaten government shutdowns
• India’s Lalgarh “uprising”
  Rival Stalinist camps abet reaction
• Sri Lanka revives draconian law to gag media
• Three workers killed by toxic fumes at New York City waste plant
• Royal Bank of Scotland increases top executives’ pay
• Financial czar threatens to throw Detroit public schools into bankruptcy
• No economic “green shoots” in world trade and transport
• Hunger, poverty on the rise in Chicago area
• The US and the Honduran coup
• University of California system plans pay cuts
• The Girlfriend Experience: Not rich or thorough enough
• More establishment lies against striking Toronto City workers
• South Korea: Clashes erupt at Ssangyong factory occupation
• Britain: University lecturers take strike action

July 2, 2009 (front page)

• US seeks deal between Honduran coup leaders and deposed president
• The sentencing of Bernard Madoff
• US credit card companies jack up rates 
• Shooting near a Detroit school injures seven youths
• Corrupt election campaign unfolds in US-occupied Afghanistan
• Governor of Bank of England warns government on debt
• Australia: Global institutions tell Rudd government to cut spending
• Britain: Glasgow primary schools blockaded and occupied by parents
• Socialist Equality Party conference in Detroit
  A new political perspective for the working class
• The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: A tale of two movies
• Letters from our readers

July 3, 2009 (front page)

• US unemployment rate for June at 9.5 percent
  Another 467,000 jobs lost
• Chrysler plants reopen as assault on auto workers deepens
• Sri Lanka: LTTE exile group announces “transnational government”
• Germany: Joschka Fischer takes post as Nabucco pipeline adviser
• The French radical “left” chases after social democracy
• Britain: Public sector jobs set to be slashed
• After recount and court suit
  Democrat Al Franken wins Minnesota Senate seat
• US states’ budget crises threaten social disaster
• Australia: Man dies after being tasered by police
• Karl Malden: a serious actor
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

July 4, 2009 (front page)

• Obama sends marines to suppress population of southern Afghanistan
• The Mousavi campaign in Iran and the lessons of past “color revolutions”
• German’s Constitutional Court issues nationalist ruling on European Union
• French presidential speech
  Sarkozy pushes austerity, anti-immigrant chauvinism
• Sri Lankan ministers accuse US of delaying IMF loan
• Northern Ireland: Racist attacks force 100 Roma out of Belfast
• US: Illinois state budget crisis threatens social programs, workers’ pay
• Detroit: Monica Conyers pleads guilty to corruption
• Australia: West Gate Bridge construction workers charged with criminal offences
• Newsweek International editor’s “Capitalist Manifesto”
  A desperate attempt at reassurance
• Toronto mayor risks public’s health in city workers strike
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

July 6, 2009 (front page)

• Britain: Thousands of education jobs cut with trade union complicity
• Honduran troops kill anti-coup demonstrators at Tegucigalpa airport
• US-Russian relations remain tense as Obama travels to Moscow
• German military to engage more offensively in Afghanistan
• Red Cross issues harrowing report on situation in Gaza
• Sri Lanka: Presidential Secretary calls for spy units throughout public sector
• Washington Post offers its reporters to corporate sponsors
• Comoros air crash raises issue of safety standards
• London and Manchester: Striking college workers speak out
• The death of former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun
• The “left” and the US military offensive in Afghanistan
• Australian governments downplay mounting swine flu cases

July 7, 2009 (front page)

• Afghan deaths, troop casualties soar in first days of new US offensive
• Iran, imperialism, and the “left”
• US Medicare, Medicaid cuts threaten health care
• Bankruptcy judge approves sale of GM assets
• Historian says US backed “efficacious terror” in 1965 Indonesian massacre
• Italy: Train explosion leads to angry outbursts against Berlusconi
• Turkish economy in freefall
• Glasgow school closures campaign at an impasse
• Australia: Jury acquits truck driver over rail crossing disaster
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

July 8, 2009 (front page)

• China: Protests in Xinjiang point to deepening social tensions
• Limited concessions and unresolved tensions after US-Russia summit
• Unemployment skyrockets throughout Europe
• Yudhoyono ahead as Indonesians vote in presidential elections
• California governor pushes unprecedented budget cuts
  State begins issuing “IOUs”
• Sri Lankan all-party forum joins hands with Rajapakse regime
• The Michael Jackson memorial: A mostly tawdry affair
• New Italian security law legalises vigilante patrols
• Australia: League tables and democratic rights—a reply to News Ltd
• The Honduran coup: A warning to the working class
• Video: D’Artagnan Collier speaks on Detroit mayoral campaign
• Robert S. McNamara, 1916-2009
  Pentagon chief during Vietnam War escalation dead at 93
• The Vietnam War and the decline of American imperialism
  In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, Robert S. McNamara (1995, Times Books)

July 9, 2009 (front page)

• Obama administration unveils new cost-cutting plans for health care
• Two days of US drone attacks kill nearly 80 in Pakistan
• China: Xinjiang crisis deepens
• G8 summit in Italy dominated by deepening financial crisis
• Background to the Honduran coup: Poverty, exploitation and imperialist domination
• Sri Lankan Tamil parties participate in sham local elections
• Britain: Civil service plans 20 percent “doomsday” cuts in public spending
• Japan: Ruling LDP in disarray
• Australia: Low-wage workers’ pay cut
• Labor government continues to starve Australian universities
• Tehran and Tegucigalpa: A tale of two capitals
• New York City Opera threatened by economic crisis
• Sydney Film Festival 2009—Part 1: Courage and audacity sadly lacking
• Letters on Iran, Afghanistan and the “left”

July 10, 2009 (front page)

• Obama claims right to imprison “combatants” acquitted at trial
• Chinese leadership demands “severe punishment” of Xinjiang protestors
• A war of colonial conquest in Afghanistan
• India’s government rushes to address business criticisms of budget
• Australia: Former Labor PM Keating denounces Rudd government’s “isolationist” stance on China
• Security forces kill two protesting workers in Bangladesh
• France: Consumer credit reforms benefit finance, trading groups
• Australia: The Victorian government’s “Walk for Harmony”: a cynical exercise in damage control
• Britain: Sheffield City Council votes to close Abbeydale Grange School
• Turkish unions agree to sell-out contract for public workers
• Sydney Film Festival 2009—Part 2: Competition movies: largely passive reflections
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Election meeting in Metro Detroit
  A socialist response to the economic crisis

July 11, 2009 (front page)

• G8 leaders fail to reach agreement on global crisis
  China, France, Russia challenge supremacy of US dollar
• The new GM
• Honduras: US-backed mediation legitimizes military coup
• Washington’s mediator in Honduran coup
  Who is Oscar Arias?
• China forced to delay Internet censorship measure
• Sri Lankan government reactivates tripartite labour council to impose mass sackings
• Brazil: students resist attacks by shock troops at University of Sao Paulo
• Workers in New Jersey and Michigan die in industrial accidents
• Murdoch’s News Group accused of £1 million payout to conceal phone-hacking
• Criminal charges dropped against former German bank chief
• Australia: Victorian government attempts to pre-empt findings of bushfire investigation
• Public Enemies and a pivotal moment in American history
• Britain: London postal workers strike in opposition to job losses
• Canada: After strike ends, wholesale layoffs at Hamilton’s National Steel Car
• South Korean government prepares new assault on Ssangyong occupation
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Letters from our readers

July 13, 2009 (front page)

• New reports of massive spying, criminality by US government
• New York Times on Northern Alliance war crime
  A cover-up of US massacre at Mazar-i-Sharif
• Xinjiang unrest reveals fragility of Chinese state
• AIG seeks to pay $235 million in bonuses
• Mounting death toll in Sri Lankan detention camps
• Mexican election results: an escalating crisis of class rule
• Right-wing opposition wins Bulgarian parliamentary election
• Australia: Indian students boycott Victorian Labor government’s “Walk for Harmony”
• New York state government uses budget crisis to attack pensions
• A sharp exposé of US “humanitarian intervention” in the former Yugoslavia—but some false conclusions
• Oppose budget cuts in California! Defend jobs and education! Unite workers behind a socialist program!
• Toronto’s Mayor lashes out against striking city workers
• Oppose the devastation of California:
  For a socialist solution to the economic crisis
• Sydney Film Festival 2009—Part 3: Some perceptive documentaries

July 14, 2009 (front page)

• US commander in Afghanistan lobbies for more troops
• Sydney Film Festival 2009—Part 4: Vital ingredients missing
• Death squads and US democracy
• Crisis mounts over Afghanistan as UK troop deaths exceed Iraq total
• New layoffs in devastated Pennsylvania steel town
• France: Racist campaign against burqa threatens democratic rights
• Sri Lankan export zone workers hit by job and pay cuts
• Hungary: Socialist Party establishes right-wing militias
• Iceland: Government and trade unions impose IMF austerity measures
• Full-time job losses accelerate in Australia
• Australia: Coroner finds caesarean death was “preventable”
• New York: Threat to close Stella D’Oro after 11-month strike
• Stella D’Oro workers: “It is not right if they close down—the fight should continue”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers
• The World Economic Crisis and Imperialist Aggression
  Sri Lanka: SEP/WSWS to hold a public meeting in Jaffna

July 15, 2009 (front page)

• Record pay and profits at Goldman Sachs
• The Nation promotes Iran’s “Green Wave”
  Once again: Iran, imperialism and the “left”
• Ex-Clinton aides advising Honduran coup regime
• Arrest of Rio Tinto executive points to deepening economic crisis in China
• Amidst investigation into “pay-to-play” scheme
  Steven Rattner steps down from Obama auto task force
• British government accused in parliament of “outsourcing” torture
• Social services applicants talk to the WSWS
  California: the human toll of the economic crisis
• Germany: Opel workers oppose cuts in holiday pay
• Peruvian President Garcia swears in new cabinet to “restore order”
• Thousands of Peruvian workers join protests against Garcia’s policies
• Australia: Court hears criminal charges against West Gate Bridge construction workers
• Whatever Works: The results are unattractive
• Australia: Sacked Nylex workers rally outside ANZ bank

July 16, 2009 (front page)

• Figures on US jobs, wages, benefits
  A rising tide of social misery
• Japanese PM calls crisis election
• Obama tailors community college plan to corporate interests
• Sri Lankan government coerces detained doctors to recant war casualty figures
• Detroit Public Schools moves closer to bankruptcy and privatization
• Somali-Americans subjected to first Obama “terror” prosecution
• Ousted GM head gets $10 million retirement package
• How the German banks forced the government to nationalize Hypo Real Estate
• France: Union thugs, police evict undocumented workers from union hall
• Canada: CUPE forces Windsor strikers to vote on concessionary offer
• Spain: Government admits economic crisis far worse than previously acknowledged
• Australian unions praise Labor’s new “Fair Work” laws
• Obama’s neocolonial mission in Africa
• South Korean government prepares to break Ssangyong occupation
• Ssangyong occupation supporters speak to the WSWS
  “If these workers fail, restructuring will become normal”
• Letters from our readers

July 17, 2009 (front page)

• US health care legislation to leave millions uninsured, ration care
• Sydney Film Festival 2009—Part 5
  Several movies well worth revisiting
• Senate confirmation hearing
  Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor appeases Republicans
• Sotomayor’s record: A judicial pragmatist and defender of corporate interests
• China’s police-state crackdown in Xinjiang creates international tensions
• Fifty thousand General Motors retirees face destruction of benefits
  Interview with a former New Jersey auto worker
• Discussion with Opel worker: “Joint resistance is necessary”
• Sri Lankan university students demand better facilities
• Job destruction accelerates in New Zealand as unions enforce austerity measures
• Obama’s war
• British postal workers union calls phony “national day of action”
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

July 18, 2009 (front page)

• US air strikes kill Afghan civilians
• Journalist critical of government killed in Chechnya
• Obama’s speech to the NAACP
• CIT crisis threatens wave of business failures and layoffs
• Sri Lankan president postpones “political solution” with Tamil elite
• Britain: Labour’s banking regulation means business as usual
• Detroit: Carbon monoxide poisoning kills family of four
• Britain: Doctors demand inquest into death of Dr. David Kelly
• Closure of Johnnie Walker plants in Scotland will eliminate hundreds of jobs
• Quebec: La presse editorialist denounces Quebecers as “selfish”
• East Timor: Trials begin over 2008 Horta-Gusmao “assassination attempt”
• Canada: Windsor municipal workers reject new concessions contract
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

July 20, 2009 (front page)

• Britain: Spike in casualties used to push for more troops in Afghanistan
• As Zelaya accepts amnesty for coup leaders
  Human Rights report reveals brutal repression in Honduras
• France: Workers facing mass layoffs threaten to blow up plants
• Senate Democrats drop “card check” measure from pending bill
• Germany: Deutsche Bahn slashes Berlin’s transport services
• Sri Lankan government in desperate bid to win local elections
• Indonesian military implicated in Freeport mine murder
• US: Anti-immigrant activist on trial for murder in Arizona
• Australia: Behind the Labor government’s paid parental leave fraud
• Forty years since the first Moon landing
• Walter Cronkite and the US news media
• Britain: Postal union seeks to prevent national strike

July 21, 2009 (front page)

• Tensions mount within Iran’s ruling establishment
• Six months of the Obama administration
• US health care debate shaped by cost-cutting “efficiencies”
• State budget shortfalls deepen US social crisis
• Jakarta terrorist bombings seized on to justify Afghan war
• Central bankers warn: No sustained growth from stimulus spending
• Britain: Protests continue against closure of Abbeydale Grange secondary school
• Sri Lankan SEP holds successful public meeting in Jaffna
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

July 22, 2009 (front page)

• July casualties highest of Afghan war
• Obama task force backs indefinite detention without trial
• California budget deal reached
  Governor Schwarzenegger and Democratic leaders agree to major cuts
• Michigan officials slash public services
• Afghan insurgents hold US soldier
• US bank bailout could cost $23.7 trillion
• Mexican state of Michoacán under military state of siege
• Canada: Worker resistance must be armed with a socialist strategy
• Protesters opposing closure of Sheffield’s Abbeydale Grange School speak to WSWS
• Germany: Unions support dismantling of over 10,000 jobs at Opel
  What lies behind the “workers equity investment scheme”?
• Denmark to open Arctic military command
• Australia: Teachers Federation annual conference: a green light for Labor’s pro-market “education revolution”
• The class issues in the US health care debate
• SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier takes part in Detroit mayoral debate
• German Socialist Equality Party certified for 2009 federal election
• Darwin’s “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful”
• Australia: Labor government’s new industrial relations body bans paramedic strike

July 23, 2009 (front page)

• Obama press conference: Evasions and lies on plan to slash health care for workers
• Honduras: Tensions mount as US-backed mediation stalls
• Unions systematically divide Opel, GM-Europe workers
• Fed Chairman Bernanke signals more bank bailouts, calls for cuts in social programs
• Japanese prime minister dissolves parliament and sets election date
• US Vice President Biden visits Ukraine and Georgia
• China’s fragile “economic recovery”
• Britain: Government housing bill promotes nationalist “local homes” policy
• Sri Lankan power workers demand higher wages
• Inquiry into the killing of Iraqi civilian begins in London
• An interview with David N. Gibbs, author of First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
• Britain: Vestas workers occupy wind turbine plant to stop closure
• Letters from our readers
• Vestas occupation supporter: “Those people in there definitely want to be heard”

July 24, 2009 (front page)

• As jobless claims rise, Wall Street celebrates corporate profit reports
• The Hillary Clinton doctrine
• “This is a human disaster”
  Bankrupt US parts maker Delphi dumps pension obligations
• Chinese regime admits shooting protestors in Xinjiang
• France: Third fatal accident at Total this year
• Arab woman stabbed to death in German courtroom
• Australia: Aboriginal disadvantage widens under Rudd government
• Fiji: Military junta proposes new constitution, elections by 2014
• Malaysian government alters ethnic-based investment laws
• End all utility shutoffs! For a socialist response to the economic crisis
• Detroit: D’Artagnan Collier speaks to protesting city workers
• Rally of Detroit City workers against concessions contract
• Windsor, Ontario city workers strike
  Reject the concessions contract!
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

July 25, 2009 (front page)

• Obama escalates assault on public education
• US outrage over “rigged” elections does not extend to Kyrgyzstan
• Following example of Bush-Cheney
  Obama administration bars torture investigators from Guantánamo Bay
• A model for Obama’s health care plan
  Massachusetts proposes rationing of health care for workers
• Britain: Unemployment continues rise to 2.4 million
• Detroit schools “financial czar” orders teachers to reapply for their jobs
• Iceland’s parliament votes to apply for European Union membership
• An Afghan voice against the US-led occupation
• Sri Lankan prime minister denounces newspaper lawyers as “traitors”
• Moon: Back to the future in science fiction
• Scotland: Oppose Diageo job losses by mobilising the working class
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

July 27, 2009 (front page)

• The specter of a police state
  Bush administration considered using military to arrest “Lackawanna Six”
• Australian government boosts terror laws, while modifying “lexicon”
• The German offensive in Afghanistan
• Honduran military appears to back plan to restore Zelaya to office—not to power
• Massive austerity measures approved by California Legislature
• France: Near win for neo-fascists in Hénin-Beaumont by-election
• “The union is not being responsible to its members”
  Interviews with striking Toronto municipal workers
• Sri Lankan workers hard hit by export downturn
• Dozens arrested in New Jersey corruption probe
• Minnesota balances budget on the backs of workers and the poor

• Brüno: Another series of pranks at everyone’s expense
• Britain: Workers occupying Vestas factory ordered to court
• Workers continue Vestas occupation on Isle of Wight
• South Korea: Riot police sent to break Ssangyong occupation
• CUPE leadership isolating Toronto city workers’ strike
• Canada: Windsor city workers strike betrayed
• Bemis workers on strike in Terre Haute, Indiana

July 28, 2009 (front page)

• Britain’s propaganda offensive on behalf of Afghan war
• Obama’s health care counterrevolution
• The Gates arrest and the “national conversation on race”
• Protesting Chinese steel workers kill manager
• What imperialist war produces
  Iraq veterans charged with murder and other crimes
• Clinton’s ASEAN appearance signals US “back in Asia”
• After delay, IMF approves loan for Sri Lanka
• Britain: Labour’s electoral meltdown continues
• Greece: “Leftist” SYRIZA alliance defends police months after suppression of mass demonstrations
• Solomon Islands parliament rams through renewal of Australian-dominated RAMSI occupation
• The significance of the British Socialist Workers Party’s call for a new “left alternative”
  Part one
• SEP holds conference in Detroit
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Letters from our readers

July 29, 2009 (front page)

• Honduran coup enters second month
• Citigroup’s $100 million banker
• Egypt hit by wave of social and industrial unrest
• Study shows sharp growth of low-wage sector in Germany
• Indonesian bombings portend renewed attacks on democratic rights
• South Korean “non-regular” workers face mass job losses
• San Diego’s Union Tribune attacks city workers
• Australia: Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe speaks out against Aboriginal “intervention”
• The significance of the British Socialist Workers Party’s call for a new “left alternative”
  Part two
• Atom Egoyan’s Adoration: Also not very compelling
• Scotland: Politicians and union leaders grovel to Diageo over Johnnie Walker closure
• Toronto city workers no-concession struggle in danger
• SEP public meeting in California
  For a socialist solution to the economic crisis

July 30, 2009 (front page)

• Obama, Congress back deeper attacks on health care for workers
• US-China talks: a fragile relationship
• Britain’s political elite and the Afghan war
• Iraqi prime minister: US forces can stay after 2011
• Dozens of Haitian immigrants drown off Turks and Caicos
• California governor imposes new cuts in social programs
• Pennsylvania state workers go without pay
• Obama’s Homeland Security chief invokes “terror threat”
• Cuba: more cuts in public spending announced
• German government contemplates Opel insolvency
• Subordinating science to religion
  Obama names evangelical Christian to run National Institutes of Health
• SEP Detroit mayoral candidate speaks at forum on youth and education
• SEP candidate participates in televised debate
• Threat of eviction remains over Vestas occupation
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan nurses campaign for improved safety

July 31, 2009 (front page)

• Verizon to slash 8,000 jobs
  US job cuts, foreclosures mount
• International banks exploit the crisis to reap massive profits
• Violence increases in Russia’s Caucasus republics
• Strange case of North Carolina “jihadists” used to heighten terror scare
• Judge orders release of Guantánamo detainee Mohammed Jawad
• Sri Lanka: A phony debate on university privatisation
• Australian Labor Party conference showcases “unity” and “discipline” for pro-business agenda
• Irish government prepares more spending cuts
• Interview with SEP Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier
  How I became a socialist
• “The pain of recovery”: Rudd’s declaration of war on the working class
• Strike at National Express East Anglia
  Britain: Rail unions prevent national struggle
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa