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Archive: July 2007

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.

31 December 1899

2 July 2007

• An exchange of letters on school integration and affirmative action
• Antiwar protesters fined for entering US-Australian spy base
• Britain: Brown forms government including Liberals, ex-Conservatives, business, military and police figures
• Five arrests in London car bomb attempts and Glasgow Airport attack
  Britain’s terror alert raised to critical
• Report documents over one million “severely poor” children in UK
• Sri Lankan defence secretary defends the military’s crimes
• US Supreme Court in surprise order sets hearing for Guantánamo prisoners
• Dozens killed in Shiite neighborhood
  US military massacre in Baghdad’s Sadr City
• US: Local and federal agencies threaten to shut down Los Angeles hospital

3 July 2007

• Bush commutes prison sentence of convicted perjurer and Iraq war conspirator I. Lewis Libby
• Iraq: European think-tank documents occupation failure in Basra
• Mizoguchi’s Sansho The Bailiff released on DVD
• New US accusations against Iran
• Putin, Bush talks fail to dispel mounting tensions
• Sri Lankan government blocks Tamil website
• US airstrike leaves over 100 dead in Afghanistan
• Western Australian mine workers protest unsafe conditions
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 July 2007

• Global survey finds growing opposition to US foreign policy
• Philippines election result indicates deep hostility to Arroyo government
• Prague: thousands protest against cuts in social programs
• Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission hearing into disappearance of SEP member
• The July 4th holiday and the state of US democracy
• The freeing of Lewis Libby: Government criminality and the class nature of American “justice”
• The “Canadian Ministers” of Hamid Karzai’s Afghan government
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 1
  Uneven responses to real human problems

5 July 2007

• Australia: Scepticism mounts towards Howard’s Aboriginal intervention
• Britain: Brown seeks support for further attack on civil liberties
• France: Socialist Party feminist joins Sarkozy’s cabinet
• New Zealand woman dies after power company cuts off electricity supply
• Obama raises $32.5 million in three months
  Record big business donations flow into 2008 US presidential campaign coffers
• The assault on Rio’s favelas and the growth of state repression in Brazil
• UN shuts down Iraq inspection program
• Under sustained US pressure, Iraqi cabinet sends oil law to parliament

6 July 2007

• A Fourth of July lesson: Bush hails US war to crush Iraqi independence
• Australian defence minister admits oil a key factor behind Iraq occupation
• Britain: Brown’s constitutional reform—a smokescreen for right-wing measures
• Record flooding forces thousands to evacuate in central US
• Six more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
• The German rail strike and the lessons of the Telekom betrayal: Build a mass movement against the grand coalition government!
• Threat of Australian intervention hangs over Papua New Guinea election
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

7 July 2007

• Australian Labor leaders shift closer to Howard’s IR laws
• Faced with the failure of Bush’s “surge”
  Congressional Republicans, Democrats prepare fallback Iraq war strategy
• France: Sarkozy prepares strikebreaking law for public transport
• Letters from our readers
• Man convicted for Lockerbie bombing wins right to appeal
• Michael Moore’s Sicko: very limited conceptions, very limited results
• Sri Lankan war provokes deep unease in Indian political establishment
• The Galileo Project: European plans for global navigation supremacy
• US appeals court rejects lawsuit against warrentless domestic spying
• US troops charged with murders, cover-ups in Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

9 July 2007

• CIA uses Sudanese intelligence in Iraq
• East Timor: Despite winning election, Fretilin likely to be ousted
• Surrender or die
  Pakistan’s dictator threatens massacre at Islamabad mosque
• Sri Lanka: Military offensive used to clear eastern Special Economic Zone
• The New York Times and the crisis of American imperialism in Iraq
• US unions agree to impose cuts, run benefits program at auto-supplier Dana

10 July 2007

• As Congress reconvenes
  Democrats unveil new plan to “shift mission” in Iraq
• New Zealand widens sanctions on Fiji following high commissioner’s expulsion
• Poland: Health workers in confrontation with Kaczynski government
• Polish healthcare workers discuss their strike
• Prisons as the new mental asylums: the example of Michigan
• Reports indicate over 150 civilians killed in Afghanistan during past week
• Spain: ETA ceasefire collapses as Zapatero government seeks unity with Popular Party
• US Social Forum in Atlanta: Identity politics and appeals to the Democrats
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 2
  “New Crowned Hope” films from Asia: Strengths and weaknesses

11 July 2007

• A not-so-quiet American: New York Times reporter writes on Central Asia
• German minister calls for internment and assassination of terror suspects
• Letters from our readers
• Mosque massacre: Washington’s “war on terror” shakes Pakistan
• Pennsylvania state workers return to work after one-day furlough
• Solomons Islands’ government defies Canberra, reappointing Julian Moti as attorney-general
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 3
  Some documentaries from China, Israel and Australia
• Turkish army intervenes ever more openly in political life
• Two summer movies: Live Free or Die Hard and Evan Almighty

12 July 2007

• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 4
  12:08 East of Bucharest and Beauty in Trouble: mixed results from Eastern Europe
• Britain’s terror plot: What drove a doctor to become a suicide bomber?
• British postal workers face political struggle against Brown’s Labour government
• Democrats, White House agree: Iraq war will rage on regardless of Senate debate
• German rail dispute: two unions act as strike-breakers
• Sri Lankan military intensifies offensive in the East
• US Homeland Security official has “gut feeling” on terrorist attacks
• World Wealth Report: a census of the global oligarchy

13 July 2007

• Australia: Protests against Howard’s takeover of Aboriginal communities
• Britain: “Celtic coalition” demands London slash tax on big business
• White House press conference
  Bush rejects any US military pullback in Iraq
• France: Sarkozy names Socialist Party’s Strauss-Kahn to head IMF
• Musharraf lauds Lal Masjid massacre
• US attorneys firing probe
  White House invokes broad executive privilege claims to block congressional testimony
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Young Sri Lankan maid faces execution in Saudi Arabia
• “From the streets to the suites”: NAACP holds annual convention in Detroit
• “Green” capitalism: German Greens adopt new economic programme

14 July 2007

• Amnesty International report on Turkey: failure to punish perpetrators of torture
• An exchange on Michael Moore’s Sicko
• Australia: British terrorist attacks used to detain doctor without trial
• Fighting rages across Iraq as Bush claims military “progress”
• New French law treats juvenile offenders as adults
• South Africa: COSATU calls off public service strike
• Supreme Court term marks shift to the right
• US Senate unanimously passes threatening measure against Iran
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

16 July 2007

• Bush’s assertion of executive power: The logic of presidential-military dictatorship
• Further suicides in French workplaces
• Japan’s defence minister resigns over remarks on US dropping of atomic bombs
• New Zealand threatens to cut aid to the Solomon Islands
• Sheffield: Residents tell of losses caused by flooding
• The human cost of the June floods in Britain

17 July 2007

• A letter on a forum with Norman Mailer and Günter Grass in New York
• A letter on academic ethics in response to David North’s “Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification”
• An unpalatable truth for Bush: most foreign insurgents in Iraq are Saudis
• Australian government unilaterally detains doctor after court agrees to bail
• Former surgeon general describes Bush administration’s interference on science and health issues
• Georgia parole board issues 90-day stay of execution for death row inmate
• Hessian culture minister calls for creationism to be discussed in German schools
• Privatising the rain
  The Big Sellout—a documentary film by Florian Opitz
• US forces kill Iraqi civilians every day
• Wales: Nationalist party in government for the first time
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

18 July 2007

• Aboriginal people condemn police-military intervention in Northern Territory
• An insight into the White House debate over military action against Iran
• Australian police officer acquitted of manslaughter of Palm Island Aborigine
• Bush prepares new Iraq escalation as congressional Democrats blather on
• House passes meager “College Cost Reduction Act”
  Tuition rates continue to skyrocket at US colleges
• Letters from our readers
• Reports show impact of climate change in Africa
• Tensions between NATO and Russia escalate
• US: More immigrant deaths in desert border crossings
• US: Public television airs discussion on presidential impeachment

19 July 2007

• Bush administration releases report on terror threat
  A new pretext for American militarism and domestic repression
• Diplomatic tensions worsen after Britain expels Russian diplomats
• Harper commits billions to build Canada an Arctic navy
• Iraq: Carnage in Kirkuk amid conflicts over city’s future
• New Zealand: asylum seeker faces secret “security risk” hearing
• Report predicts environmental disaster for US Northeast
• The way forward in the Polish doctors and nurses strike
• US: Testimony in Drummond Coal lawsuit on murders of Colombian union leaders

20 July 2007

• Australian government’s “terrorist” case against Dr Haneef unravels
• China executes former food and drug administration chief
• Democrats halt Senate debate on Iraq war
• New York City: steam pipe blast kills 1, injures dozens
• Peru’s President Garcia faces nationwide protests
• Sarkozy government plans to extend strikebreaking law to entire public sector
• The London bombing trial: How much did the security services know?
• The political issues posed by the German train drivers’ struggle
• War economy weighs heavily on Sri Lankan workers
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

21 July 2007

• Australian Fair Pay Commission hands down pittance for low-paid workers
• British government and BAe Systems revealed as money launderer for Saudi Arabia
• Bush administration threatens military intervention in Pakistan
• Bush plans veto on child health bill
• FEMA covered up toxic danger in trailers given to Katrina victims
• In a stunning rebuke to Musharraf, Supreme Court orders chief justice reinstated
• Judge dismisses Plame/Wilson suit against Bush administration officials
• Lawsuits expose conditions in US “guest worker” program
• As the Turkish military provocatively shells northern Iraq
  Social tensions at the forefront in run-up to Turkish parliamentary elections
• “Executive privilege” claim in US attorneys’ case
  White House asserts sweeping power to defy the law
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 July 2007

• Bush sanctions CIA torture program
• Ford Australia announces axing of Geelong engine plant
• Jack Lang and the continuing disintegration of the French Socialist Party
• Sri Lankan government celebrates “victory” after army seizes the East
• US and Russia at loggerheads over Kosovo independence
• US generals call for extension of Iraq war
• United Auto Workers opens talks with US car companies

24 July 2007

• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 5
  Australian reflections: Boxing Day, The Home Song Stories and Lucky Miles
• Britain: Iraq Commission rules out setting date for troop withdrawal
• Bush orders freeze on assets of those threatening Iraq “stabilization efforts”
• Democrats’ “censure” plan—another cynical diversion of fight against war and reaction
• Letters from our readers
• Royal Dutch Shell and the struggle for Iraqi oil
• US pressure on Iraqi parliamentary factions to enact “benchmarks”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Sydney Film Festival
  “I’m interested in a documentary and fiction hybrid”: filmmaker Kriv Stenders speaks with WSWS

25 July 2007

• A further exchange: Sicko and American politics and cinema
• Australian government launches unprecedented attacks on lawyers as Haneef case falls apart
• Britain: No one to be prosecuted over “cash for honours” allegations
• Bush delivers rant on Iraq to military audience as poll numbers plummet
• Democrats conceal pro-war policy in South Carolina debate
• Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan arrested at Democratic Congressman’s office
• Sri Lankan police charge farmers over anti-government protest
• Washington, EU welcome AKP victory in Turkish elections

26 July 2007

• 200 dead in Brazil air disaster: Lula government shows gross indifference
• Britain: Antiwar MP George Galloway suspended from parliament
• Charges dropped against New Orleans doctor in Katrina hospital deaths
• Daniel Pearl’s tragic death in A Mighty Heart
• Indonesian prosecutors launch limited civil action against Suharto
• The US adopts belligerent posture in Baghdad talks with Iran
• US Congressional committee approves contempt citations against White House aides

27 July 2007

• Bush’s international peace conference: A conspiracy against the Palestinian people
• Mortgage lending crisis sparks Wall Street plunge
• Poland: Kaczynski brothers provoke government crisis
• Sri Lanka: Police stall in Human Rights Commission inquiry into disappearance of SEP member
• The motives behind the Bush administration’s latest terror scare
• The political meaning of the conflict between Cindy Sheehan and the Democratic Party
• Thousands held in horrific conditions in Iraqi prisons
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

28 July 2007

• Democrat Barack Obama spells out his foreign policy: “I will not hesitate to use force”
• Haneef “terrorism” charges dropped: a debacle for the Australian government
• Hundreds die in eastern Europe heat wave
• Standoff between White House and Congress over US attorney purge, domestic spying intensifies
• The summer floods in Britain: Outmoded and decayed social infrastructure exposed
• US commission on wounded soldiers: stopgap measures for a veterans healthcare system in “meltdown”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

30 July 2007

• Fiji’s nurses strike in defiance of military junta
• International conference offers no solution to Iraqi refugee crisis
• Letters from our readers
• Sarkozy angers European Union over Libya’s release of Bulgarian medics
• Sustaining a humanist approach in the twentieth century: George Tabori (1914-2007)
• United States warns Spain over Cuba policy
• US officials tell New York Times
  Vast data mining programs behind 2004 dispute within Bush administration over domestic spying

31 July 2007

• British students jailed for possessing “extremist” literature
• German army and air force deployed against G8 summit demonstrators
• Global credit crisis fuels stock market turmoil
• Iraqi team wins Asian Cup, captain condemns US occupation
• Jury finds Drummond Coal not liable in murder of Colombian unionists
• On Cindy Sheehan and impeachment: a reply to a Stalinist critic
• Humanitarian disaster produced by US invasion
  Oxfam reports one-third of Iraqis in need of emergency aid
• Peru explode em greves por todo o país e governo de Alan García aproxima-se rapidamente do Bonapartismo
• Racist frame-up in Louisiana: the case of the Jena Six
• Somare set to win PNG election despite Canberra’s smear campaign
• Healthcare and two-tier system at issue
  Southern California grocery workers ratify new contract
• Talks over North Korea’s nuclear programs fail to make any progress
• Workers Struggles: The Americas