Archive: August 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.
30 July 2007
1 August 2007
- Adding fuel to the Mideast fire: US unveils huge arms package
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The historical roots of the crisis of Amtrak
American passenger rail system plagued with endemic delays - Australia: State Labor premier and deputy depart for greener pastures
- Australian government issues new “terrorist” smears against Haneef
- Bush-Brown summit: Tensions but no policy shift by Britain
- Germany: As private equity companies boom, social democrats advise the “locusts”
- Northwest pilot shortage highlights growing airlines crisis
- Two novels about America’s future: writers need a new perspective
2 August 2007
- Britain: Oxford residents tell of flood’s impact
- Bursting of credit bubble underlies stock market turbulence
- Dozens missing, four confirmed dead in Minnesota bridge collapse
- Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims no cover-up in Pat Tillman death
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Michelangelo Antonioni—a flawed legacy
Part 1 -
After an election marred by bitter conflict
Pratibha Patil becomes India’s 13th president - Rupert Murdoch takes over Wall Street Journal
- Sri Lankan police stall on disappearance of SEP member
3 August 2007
- German trade unions step up strike-breaking in train drivers’ dispute
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Michelangelo Antonioni—a flawed legacy
Part 2 - More devastating floods hit China
- Obama calls for US attack on Pakistan in warmongering address
- Sharp tensions between US military and Iraqi prime minister
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
4 August 2007
- Brazil: government intervenes against workers at occupied factories
- Democrats back down on ending tax windfall for hedge-fund billionaires
- Japanese government suffers major defeat in upper house elections
- Letters from our readers
- The Minnesota bridge collapse: One more indictment of the profit system
- The music of Richard Buckner
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
6 August 2007
- Another cover-up of the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Australian government recruits high-profile public servant to sell unpopular IR laws
- Catholic Church to construct monument to clergy killed during Spanish Civil War
- Congress authorizes vast expansion of domestic spying
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54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 6
Turkish films: mostly serious but lacking lasting impact - Washington discusses plans for covert action against KurdishPKK in Iraq
7 August 2007
- Geopolitical concerns behind United Nations intervention in Darfur
- Iraq: Kurdish leader threatens civil war over Kirkuk
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54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 7
John Huston: a prolific filmmaker with some brilliant works - Red Cross confirms Bush administration, CIA used torture in interrogations
- The collapse of London Underground’s privatisation: Ken Livingstone to the rescue
- US: Six coal miners trapped underground in Utah
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
8 August 2007
- Australian government rams bills through parliament to take over Aboriginal communities
- Delphi’s exit from Spain to be followed by other relocations
- Fiji: Public sector workers strike against junta’s austerity measures
- Germany: train drivers vote by huge majority for strike action
- Mark of Cain: Behind the British Army’s “detainee abuse scandal”
- The Utah mine disaster: A tragic consequence of government-industry collusion
9 August 2007
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BBC documentary
Britain rigged election before Nigerian independence - Britain: Inequality at 40-year high
- Hope dwindling for trapped Utah miners
- Letters from our readers
- Sri Lanka: JVP student leader physically threatens ISSE campus team
- US generals insist on no troop withdrawal from Iraq
10 August 2007
- Britain: Injunction granted against environmental protest at Heathrow Airport
- Britain: government site responsible for foot and mouth outbreak
- Canadian military spies on liberal war-critic
- Credit fears spark stock market plunge
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A regime made in Australia
Gusmao appointed East Timor’s prime minister - Military administration imposed in eastern Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
11 August 2007
- Fifty-five years after founding, Turkish union confederation a bureaucratic shell
- France: Sarkozy government introduces law restricting right to strike
- India: Congress uses lethal violence against Andhra Pradesh land agitation
- Iraqi government on brink of collapse following cabinet walkouts
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946): realism and reformism
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Four days after Utah mine collapse
Three miners killed in Indiana - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
13 August 2007
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Australian High Court radically expands scope of military power
Judges sanction “control order” on Jack Thomas - Bangladeshi regime arrests former prime minister
- Ethiopia accused of using white phosphorus bombs in US-backed occupation of Somalia
- Four British soldiers killed in Basra
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Italian government pushes through pension “reform”
Prodi completes what Berlusconi began - Turkey: Textile firms demand wage freeze, layoffs
- Worldwide market panic compels central banks to intervene
14 August 2007
- Afghanistan: mounting attacks on US/NATO troops
- Bush political aide Karl Rove resigns
- French higher education law opens way for privatisation
- Ireland’s “Green” coalition: Environmentalists and Fianna Fail unite
- Solomon Islands government rebuts Canberra’s child sex allegations against attorney-general
- The new and unimproved Hairspray
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
15 August 2007
- Britain: Guantánamo detainee details years of torture
- Bush’s war czar floats call for military draft
- Former Malaysian deputy PM challenges ruling party
- Judge orders release of New York City police spying files
- New York Times defends military escalation in Iraq
- Sri Lankan police break up student protests over deteriorating university education
- The political way forward for the German train drivers’ struggle
- Workers at Utah mine disaster said owner put “profits before safety”
16 August 2007
- Australia: Labor joins Howard government in blocking Haneef inquiry
- Britain: Police use anti-terror powers against environmental protest
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New provocation against Tehran
Bush to brand Iranian force as “terrorist” - German Social Democrats and Greens seek increase in Afghanistan troop levels
- Indian prime minister calls Left Front’s bluff over Indo-US nuclear accord
- Jurors begin deliberations in Jose Padilla trial
- Millions of toxic toys recalled: The nightmarish reality of global capitalism
- US military launches offensive against “Iranian-backed” militia in Iraq
17 August 2007
- A travesty of justice: Jose Padilla found guilty
- Hundreds killed in bombings targeting Iraqi minority group
- Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007): An appreciation and a lament
- Letters on the Utah mine disaster
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New title now available
Mehring Books publishes “Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness” by David North - Sri Lankan navy commander stonewalls inquiry into disappearance of SEP member
- US federal officials cover up deadly conditions in Utah mine
- Wild gyrations on world markets
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
18 August 2007
- Brutal French government policy on undocumented immigrants leads to tragedy
- Fed moves to halt market meltdown
- Hundreds dead in massive earthquake in Peru
- Letters from our readers
- New Somare government formed in PNG despite Australian interference
- New York Times on Iran: Neo-colonialism with a liberal twist
- Tensions mount between Georgia and Russia
- Three rescuers killed at site of Utah mine disaster
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
20 August 2007
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A new race for the North Pole
Russia plants flag, Canada sends troops -
Pitching for the right-wing Christian vote
Australia: Howard and Labor leader in censorship bidding war - Credit crisis claims another bank
- Details emerge of vast scope of US domestic spying law
- Drummer Max Roach dies: Last of the bebop pioneers
- Germany: “Human Rights in Times of Terror” by Rolf Gössner
- US Army suicides at 26-year high
21 August 2007
- Australian government wages two-year vilification campaign to justify takeover of Mutitjulu
- British SWP covers for sell-out of postal workers strike
- Chinese miners feared dead in flooded coal mines
- Immigrant detainees dying in US custody
- Leading Democratic presidential candidates disavow rapid Iraq withdrawal
- No Sri Lankan legal aid for young maid facing death sentence in Saudi Arabia
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As residents protest lack of aid
Peruvian president sends troops into earthquake-ravaged region - Relatives of trapped Utah miners denounce mine owner, safety officials
- The widening gulf between official German politics and the electorate
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 August 2007
- Britain: Riot police attack Heathrow Airport protest
- Fiji: Union leaders end strike against military regime’s austerity measures
- Foreclosures soar, layoffs mount in US mortgage industry crisis
- New York Times calls for escalation of the “good war” in Afghanistan
- Serious water shortage in Turkey
- Spate of massive recalls highlights failure of the free market
- US Attorney General Gonzales to wield new death penalty authority
- US court hears suit against AT&T;’s collaboration with domestic spying program
- University education in Australia and the impact of “free market” reform
- Workers, students speak out against closure of Los Angeles hospital
23 August 2007
- 14 US soldiers killed in Iraq helicopter crash
- Amid calls from Clinton and Levin, US moves to oust Iraqi prime minister
- Behind Mbeki’s sacking of South Africa’s deputy health minister
- New Zealand government introduces secretive new immigration and security laws
- Right-wing mob attacks group of Indians in eastern Germany
- Scottish National Party publishes policy document on independence
- The Nation urges Cindy Sheehan not to run for Congress against Nancy Pelosi
24 August 2007
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“Terrorism” case unravels further
Australian judge overturns government cancellation of Dr Haneef’s visa - CIA 9/11 “accountability” report released: A whitewash that only raises more questions
- Hurricane Dean inflicts devastating blow to Caribbean agriculture, infrastructure
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 1-3 - President Bush’s history lesson
- The Bourne Ultimatum—Action-packed, and it pays the price
- Utah mine to be sealed, entombing missing miners
- Washington continues propaganda barrage against Iran
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- World economy: Credit crunch fallout begins to spread
25 August 2007
- Arctic sea ice at record low due to global warming
- British Army facing worsening situation in Afghanistan
- Central Asian military exercises highlight rising great-power tensions
- Flooding displaces thousands in US Midwest
- Increasing numbers of German children live in poverty
- Right-wing parties dominate in run-up to Polish elections
- Solomon Islands government defeats no-confidence motion
- US fears of British pullout from Basra raise transatlantic tensions to new pitch
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 August 2007
- Australian troops carry out provocations against East Timor’s Fretilin
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Berlin sociologist detained for three weeks
Science under the suspicion of terrorism - California Republicans seek to rig 2008 presidential vote
- Letters on Cindy Sheehan and the Nation
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Part 4-7 - Recent tax data shows widening gap between rich and poor in US
- Three British soldiers killed by US friendly fire in Afghanistan
- US intelligence report points to Iraqi government’s removal
- US occupation fuels ethnic cleansing and mass repression in Iraq
28 August 2007
- Bangladesh regime imposes curfew to suppress student protests
- French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visits Baghdad
- Ohio floods: another example of America’s failing infrastructure
- Over 60 die as forest fires sweep Greece
- Russia: The political significance of the strike at the auto plant in Togliatti
- Scientists warn Spain could see mass spread of deserts
- Sri Lankan SEP letter to JVP demanding end to threats of violence
- The firing of Ward Churchill: Attack on academic freedom in US escalates
- US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigns
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
29 August 2007
- Albanian government introduces flat tax
- Britain acquires thermobaric weapons for Afghanistan
- Bush threatens to militarily “confront” Iran
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Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 1: New Orleans—A city in social and economic distress - Letters on President Bush’s history lesson
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 8-10 - US Congress receives warning of China’s growing influence in South Pacific
- US military bombards targets inside Pakistan
30 August 2007
- Another US provocation: Iranian officials arrested in Baghdad
- Britain: Brown rules out Iraq troop withdrawal as top general speaks of a “generation of conflict”
- Bush visits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary: returning to the scene of the crime
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Founding conference of German Left Party in Hessen
Aged trade unionists, disgruntled Social Democrats and former Stalinists - Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation
- Join the International Students for Social Equality!
- Join the International Students for Social Equality! Build ISSE chapters at your college or high school!
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Final act in cover-up of US atrocities
Military court acquits Abu Ghraib interrogations director of prisoner abuse - No End In Sight: An establishment view of what went wrong
- US census report shows falling earnings, rise in uninsured
- White House wants $50 billion more for Iraq war
- World economy: Financial crisis exposes market myths
31 August 2007
- 160 immigrant workers arrested in raid on Ohio poultry plant
- Bush administration attacks child health insurance program
- German politicians deny responsibility for racist attack
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 11-13 -
New Orleans: a scene of devastation and blight
Hurricane Katrina two years on—Part 2 - New Zealand: Iraq charter flights underline Labour’s “antiwar” hypocrisy
- Prison officers strike in England and Wales in defiance of High Court injunction
- Thai military junta suffers setback at national referendum
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The social toll of the US home mortgage crisis
Part 1 - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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