Archive: January 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.
2 January 2009 (front page)
- Bad Faith: Bill Maher’s Religulous
- Israel rejects ceasefire calls and escalates attacks in Gaza
- The crash of 2008 and the prospects for 2009
- German Chancellor Merkel defends Israeli onslaught on Gaza
- Britain: Financial pain and insecurity for millions of families in 2009
- Australian university review proposes student vouchers
- Steiner, Brenner and Neo-Marxism: The Marcusean Component
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
3 January 2009 (front page)
- US blocks cease-fire, gives Israel carte blanche to continue killing in Gaza
- Cuba marks 50th anniversary of revolution in shadow of world crisis
- US and global manufacturing collapsing
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Russia cuts off Ukrainian gas supply
Energy conflict threatens EU shortages - Bangladesh: Awami League wins election landslide after military regime relinquishes power
- Six die in New Year’s Day house fire in Washington DC
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The decline of Austrian social democracy
Norbert Leser’s The Decline of the Eagle - Doubt: Nothing ‘beautiful’ about this ‘question’
- Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dies at 70
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 January 2009 (front page)
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Ground assault sparks worldwide protests
Civilian casualties mount as Israeli army slices through Gaza - Hands off Gaza!
- Video: London demonstrators protest Israeli assault on Gaza
- Thousands march through New York City as Israel invades Gaza
- Australian demonstrations show solidarity with Palestinian people
- Sri Lanka: Fall of Kilinochchi marks turning point in civil war
- Most job losses in US last year since 1945, with more to come
- India: Stalinists proclaim right-wing AIADMK a pillar of their “Third Front”
- Harold Pinter: Independent and critical to the last
- Mary Elise Henehan (1925-2008)
- The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
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The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
Part 1
6 January 2009 (front page)
- Israel spreads death and destruction as it advances into Gaza
- US “surge” in Afghanistan threatens wider war
- Obama stimulus plan to include major corporate tax cuts
- More than 60 dead in New Year’s Eve fire in Bangkok
- Rwanda: Perpetrators of genocide jailed
- US: New reports of police spying on activist groups
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Too little made of a life led in reverse
- Adam Haig responds to Alex Steiner’s burst of outrage
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The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
Part 2 - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Strathclyde Telegraph defends inflammatory attack on SEP as “fair comment”
- Letters on some recent films: Religulous, Doubt, and Milk
7 January 2009 (front page)
- European diplomacy in Gaza crisis prepares trap for Palestinians
- Israeli atrocities in Gaza: a political impasse and moral collapse
- Worldwide protest against Israeli violence in Gaza
- US Congress opens under Democratic control
- Alcoa lays off 15,000, US economy moves toward depression
- General Motors cashes in on Australian car industry fund
- Germany: Open questions in the stabbing of police chief in Bavaria
- France: Sarkozy moves to control public television
- Latvia bailed out by IMF and European Union
- New York concerts examine “lost music” of twentieth century
- Eyewitness report of metal factory occupation in Turkey
- Sri Lanka: SEP and ISSE public meeting to launch provincial election campaign
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The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
Part 3
8 January 2009 (front page)
- Gaza death toll tops 700 as Israel prepares new escalation
- Obama prepares sweeping cuts in social programs
- Ukraine-Russia gas dispute disrupts European supply
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As global auto slump deepens
UAW opens concession talks with US automakers - Obama inauguration: The rich and famous throw a $45 million party
- Former Japanese air force chief justifies colonialism and militarism
- German Left Party creates new opportunity for the right in Hesse election
- India stages “martial law” elections in Kashmir
- Bush pushes through scores of reactionary “midnight regulations”
- Recession in New Zealand deepens
- John Adams: A serious rendering of the American Revolution
- Letters on Israel’s assault on Gaza
- Nick Beams answers letters on Keynesianism
9 January 2009 (front page)
- Senate Democrats endorse Israeli war crimes
- The brutal face of Israel’s “total war” on Gaza
- Detroit: Hundreds rally against Israel atrocities
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Greek protest movement requires a socialist perspective
PASOK and SYRIZA: no alternative to the right-wing government - Australia: Labor government backs Israeli assault on Gaza
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With sub-zero temperatures across Europe
Russia-Ukraine gas dispute leaves thousands without heat - Britain: Bankruptcy and administration affect thousands of retail workers
- Layoffs sweep through US corporations and small businesses
- India ratchets up tensions with Pakistan over Mumbai attack
- Obama’s stimulus plan: Another windfall for big business
- Gran Torino: What school have film writers and directors passed through?
- Millions face starvation in Afghanistan
- Letters on Steiner, Brenner and Neo-Marxism: The Marcusean Component
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
10 January 2009 (front page)
- US unemployment rate at 7.2 percent after biggest yearly job loss since 1945
- A socialist answer to the Gaza crisis
- Israel rejects UN cease-fire, continues Gaza assault
- Canada’s government and opposition trumpet Israel’s “right” to wage endless war in Gaza
- Gaza: The massacre in Zeitoun
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With sub-zero temperatures across Europe
Russia-Ukraine gas dispute leaves thousands without heat - French Communist Party congress reveals advanced crisis
- Britain: Brown’s “New Deal” scuppered as it is launched
- Worst coal ash spill in US history ruins huge area in Tennessee
- Sri Lankan SEP stands in provincial elections to oppose war and attacks on democratic rights
- The Reader: Entering into history light-mindedly
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 January 2009 (front page)
- Israel prepares to escalate its war on Gaza
- New US media campaign promotes military strike on Iran
- Washington’s criminal role in the Sri Lankan state’s anti-Tamil war
- Mass demonstrations in France against the Israeli assault on Gaza
- 40,000 demonstrate in Germany against Israeli invasion of Gaza
- Britain: Tens of thousands protest Gaza assault
- Thousands march in Washington and New York against Gaza assault
- California: Police shooting of unarmed man provokes outrage, fuels protests
- Belgium: New Year, new government, continuing crisis
- Germany: Temporary workers are first victims of recession
- Falling exports and home sales: recession “baked in Australia’s cake”
13 January 2009 (front page)
- The New York Times and the Gaza crisis: Israeli war propaganda in the guise of news
- Protests denounce Israeli assault on Gaza and Canadian government complicity
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan death squads kill editor and ransack TV station -
SEP and ISSE public lecture in Sri Lanka
World economic crisis and the perspective of Marxism - Merkel’s stimulus package: a pact with German big business
- Eighth Australian soldier dies in Afghanistan amid calls to boost troop numbers
- Further slump in Turkey’s industrial output
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Russian gas supplies through Ukraine resume
Dispute exposes crisis of European energy strategy - US: Carbon monoxide deaths on the rise as economy sours
- Obama signals continuity with US torture regime
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Notes on the political and economic crisis of the world capitalist system
Perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party in 2009 - Trotsky’s home in exile in Norway
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 January 2009 (front page)
- Israeli military escalates assault on Gaza City
- Obama, Bush team up behind another $350 billion for the banks
- Israel’s war on Gaza and the role of the Middle East bourgeoisie
- No fanfare to mark 30 years of China’s market reform
- Greek prime minister reshuffles cabinet
- Australian government calls for wage cuts to “save jobs”
- German navy in operations off Somalia
- France: Dray scandal hits student, anti-racist groups
- Sculptor Louise Bourgeois: A year of events celebrating her life and work
15 January 2009 (front page)
- US tortured Guantanamo prisoners, Army judge admits
- UAW accepts government ban on strikes
- Hillary Clinton touts “smart power” in pursuit of US imperialist aims
- Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza
- Citigroup downsizes as US and global bank crisis deepens
- Left Party in Berlin supports Israeli war on Gaza
- US Justice Department rulings target immigrants’ legal rights
- Britain: Prince Harry and the “P” word
- Indonesian courts acquit general of killing human rights activist
- Britain: Free school meals denied to one million children
- Thousands displaced in Fiji by severe flooding
- It’s all right to be resigned to your fate: Sam Mendes’s Revolutionary Road
- Indian government savagely suppresses oil and truck-driver strikes
16 January 2009 (front page)
- In farewell speech, Bush insists “war on terror” must continue
- Israeli military lays siege to Gaza City
- The school of hard knocks: Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire
- US Senate votes another $350 billion to bail out the banks
- Latvia rocked by protests
- Eastern Europe left in the cold
- At least 200 drown in latest Indonesian ferry disaster
- An exercise in delusion: Murdoch lauds a new “golden age” of the “free market”
- Sarkozy's “new capitalism”
- New York state workers rally against Paterson’s budget cuts
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
17 January 2009 (front page)
- From Bush to Obama: On the eve of a “seamless transition”
- Students at two London universities occupy campuses in protest at Gaza attacks
- The social paradox in the “miraculous” rescue on the Hudson
- Amid talk of cease-fire, eyewitness accounts describe Israel’s destruction of Gaza
- US home foreclosures mount as recession deepens
- Canadian Auto Workers union dismantles blockade at parts plant
- German government takes stake in Commerzbank
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Hesse state election in Germany
Build a socialist alternative for the working class -
The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
A chronicle of US war crimes - Sri Lanka: SEP and ISSE hold meeting in Colombo to launch election campaign
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
19 January 2009 (front page)
- Israel to keep troops in Gaza following ceasefire announcement
- Obama’s team: A right-wing cabinet for a government of big business
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Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
Economic and budget policy - Protests held in UK cities in solidarity with people of Gaza
- Video: WSWS interviews London protesters
- Australia: Thousands rally for Gaza in nationwide demonstrations
- German government adopts second stimulus package
- Cold snap cuts water, power to thousands in US
- Irish economy disintegrates
- The case for nationalizing the banks
- Immokalee U.S.A.: Bleak but sympathetic view of migrant farmworkers’ conditions
- Behind Apple’s decision to drop anti-copying measures in iTunes
20 January 2009 (front page)
- Reports reveal devastation wreaked by Israeli military in Gaza
- On the eve of Obama’s inauguration
- US: Pittsburgh protest against atrocities in Gaza
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Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
Internal security - Poverty wages for day laborers recruited for inauguration
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Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
Part three: National security and foreign policy - France: Thousands demonstrate against education cuts
- Germany: Hesse Left Party in crisis
- More civilian casualties in Afghanistan
- Britain: Local authorities slash jobs and social services
- UNICEF report: Half a million women die from pregnancy complications each year
- Britain: Government report calls for scrapping cap on university fees
- Salute: A moving tribute
- Film director Matt Norman speaks with WSWS
- Once more on the crisis in the Screen Actors Guild
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters on “The social paradox in the ‘miraculous’ rescue on the Hudson”
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21 January 2009 (front page)
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On Inauguration Day
US markets plummet as banks falter and world slump deepens -
Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
Part three: National security and foreign policy - Obama’s inaugural address: Amid banalities, a call for austerity
- Israeli military says complete withdrawal from Gaza “out of the question”
- Thousands demonstrate in German city of Duisburg against Gaza onslaught
- British government mounts new bank bailout amid warnings of economic collapse
- Bush commutes sentences of two US Border Patrol agents
- State election in Hesse: A vote against the German grand coalition
- China dispatches warships to Somali waters
- British defence secretary prepares escalation in Afghanistan
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State government suspends billions in payments
California in dire financial straits - Prayers for Bobby: Blurring out the most painful aspects
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The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
Part One
22 January 2009 (front page)
- Bowing to the right on Inauguration Day
- Obama pick for treasury secretary tells Senate: Trillions for the banks, austerity for the people
- The rebuilding of the Berlin City Palace
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Who’s who in the Obama cabinet
Part four: Domestic policy - Israel withdraws from Gaza as evidence of war crimes emerges
- Britain: Auto industry and suppliers shed jobs
- Mass layoffs predicted as Indonesian economy slows
- Belarus receives $2.5 billion IMF loan
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“Filmmakers have real responsibilities to their audiences”
Bertrand Tavernier speaks with the WSWS -
The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
Part two - Letters on WSWS coverage of the incoming Obama administration
- More letters from our readers
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The Bolsheviks in Power
The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
23 January 2009 (front page)
- A letter on cutbacks at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Obama's orders leave framework of torture, indefinite detention intact
- Latest US housing, jobless figures far worse than economists anticipated
- The New York Times and Obama’s inauguration
- Lawyer and human rights activist Stanislav Markelov murdered in Moscow
- German banks demand billions more from the government
- World Court rules US execution of Mexican national defied international law
- Second Danish bank bailout in four months
- Obama’s libel against the American people
- Behind the times: the nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
24 January 2009 (front page)
- Obama’s new foreign policy team prepares escalated bloodletting in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Obama administration stokes up trade tensions with China
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The rise and fall of Wall Street’s John Thain
A dirty, but revealing affair - The New York Times and Obama’s inauguration
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In the wake of the Gaza war
Widespread anger in Egypt at Mubarak regime - Iceland: Angry protests over economy force early elections
- Britain: Demands for nationalization of banks from sections of big business
- New York governor taps right-wing Democrat to fill Clinton’s Senate seat
- Canadian Auto Workers union lobbies for military contracts
- SEP opposes Sri Lankan government’s ban on LTTE
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
26 January 2009 (front page)
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Congressional office admits:
Obama stimulus plan won’t meet job-creation target - The crisis in Eastern Europe and the lessons of 1989
- The New York Times’ Frank Rich: Obama is right—the people are to blame
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As Vice President Biden warns of an “uptick” in casualties
Afghanistan civilians killed in US military raid - US moves to consolidate new supply routes to Afghanistan
- Economic crisis unleashes violent protests across Eastern Europe
- US: Economic crisis forces families to cut back on healthcare
- Ukraine and Russia reach gas agreement
- Australian government hopes recession will produce military “recruitment bonanza”
- Canada: Vital lessons from last month’s political crisis
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The Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front
Part one
27 January 2009 (front page)
- Bloody Monday: 74,000 layoffs announced in one day
- The capitalist market and Obama’s stimulus plan
- Spain: Montserrat Martínez and her campaign to discover the truth about Franco’s mass graves
- Global recession triggers sharp downturn in Australia
- India: Gigantic corporate fraud at Satyam Computers deals body-blow to Indian elite’s global ambitions
- Ireland: Anglo Irish Bank taken into state ownership
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Report on CBS’s “60 Minutes”
Ground zero: the impact of the DHL shutdown on Wilmington, Ohio - Greek farmers protest government and EU policies
- SEP holds election meeting in Sri Lankan plantation district
- Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer: Documentary on famed vocalist
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The Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front
Part two - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
28 January 2009 (front page)
- French workers need a socialist perspective to fight the economic crisis
- Hundreds dead as Sri Lankan military creates humanitarian disaster
- Investigate US torture and prosecute those responsible
- Protests over economic crisis topple Icelandic government
- Spain: Montserrat Martínez and her campaign to discover the truth about Franco’s mass graves
- BBC refuses to show emergency relief appeal for Gaza
- Michigan man, 93, freezes to death after city cuts off electricity
- Video: Bay City, Mich.: “Shutting somebody's electricity off in the dead of winter is criminal”
- More major layoffs hit US economy
- UK: Thousands more workers lose their jobs
- French car industry bailout: a new attack on the working class
- Insolvency of German microchip manufacturer threatens 12,000 jobs
- Video: “So many thousands of unknown nameless people”—Franco's mass graves
29 January 2009 (front page)
- Obama’s program of war
- Troops out of north and eastern Sri Lanka!
- House of Representatives passes Obama “stimulus” bill
- IMF expects global economy to come to “virtual halt” in 2009
- Israel bombs Gaza-Egypt border
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Funeral held for Marvin Schur
Unanswered questions remain in freezing death of 93-year-old Michigan man - Funeral for Michigan man frozen following utility shut-off
- Murder-suicide in Southern California leaves seven family members dead
- Canada: Liberals to support Conservative budget
- Over 170,000 on short-time working in German auto industry
- Hundreds of refugees perish at hands of Thai army
- Growing opposition to Italian government’s xenophobic campaign
- Novelist John Updike dead at 76: Was he a “great novelist”?
- The firing of Screen Actors Guild chief negotiator Doug Allen
- Letters on a tragic death
30 January 2009 (front page)
- Detroit area electricians protest job cuts
- Latest US economic data confirms accelerating contraction
- Michigan unemployment benefits system in crisis
- The rising tide of economic nationalism
- Journalists flee Sri Lanka amid violent attacks and government threats
- Mass strikes and protests in France against joblessness and austerity measures
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In run-up to its founding congress
France’s Left Party tries to reorganize French bourgeois left - After freezing death of 93-year-old, Michigan city suspends electricity shutoffs
- Britain: Student occupations protest Gaza war
- Union bureaucracy victimizes militants at Turkish factories
- Oregon unemployment hits 9 percent with worse expected
- California pension funds close to bankruptcy
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
31 January 2009 (front page)
- Worst US economic contraction in quarter century
- Gloom, perplexity, divisions dominate World Economic Forum in Davos
- France: Ruling circles shaken by the extent of January 29 protests
- Obama’s calculated anger over Wall Street bonuses
- France: Socialist Party proposes “counter stimulus plan”
- Removal of Illinois governor leaves unanswered questions
- Social democrats to lead new Icelandic government
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More than a million without power in US following major ice storm
Another failure of the American infrastructure - Defiance: Those who did not “wait for God”
- Sri Lankan SEP takes election campaign to Puttalam
- Los Angeles public school teachers protest budget cuts and layoffs
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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