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Archive: January 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.

3 January 2007

• Australia: A bleak outlook for jobs despite official figures
• Ford’s funeral: the hollow pomp of a corrupt and crisis-ridden establishment
• Iraq: Violence against journalists at record high last year
• Japan’s “education reform” to indoctrinate nationalism
• Medicare premiums to rise significantly for 1.6 million in US
• New York Times celebrates mindless Hollywood fare
• Saddam Hussein execution: A sectarian lynching
• Sellout at Brussels Volkswagen plant
  Trade unions organize destruction of 3,200 jobs
• Union agrees to plant closure, concessions
  US Goodyear strike ends
• US death toll reaches 3,000 in Iraq, with no let-up in sight
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 January 2007

• As US prepares to escalate war in Iraq
  Bush seeks bipartisan backing from Democratic Congress
• Canada’s antidemocratic “national security certificates” and the impotence of official liberalism
• Edouard Manet and France’s ill-fated puppet
• Former separatist wins governorship in Indonesian province of Aceh
• Hunger strike by detainees at “Canada’s Guantánamo”
• Letter on cancellation of “My Name is Rachel Corrie” in Toronto
• Letters on the execution of Saddam Hussein
• Libyan court confirms death sentence against medical workers
• Social inequality on the increase in Germany and Europe
• Solomon Islands’ government dismisses Australian police chief
• Thousands of African migrants drown trying to reach Europe

5 January 2007

• Brookings Institution preview of the Democratic Congress: Snapshot of an establishment in crisis
• Democrats take control of Congress with pledge to work with Bush
• Flags of Our Fathers: not what we might have expected
• France indicts president of Rwanda
• NDP rallies to the defence of Canadian imperialism
• Seven New Orleans police officers indicted for post-Katrina killings
• Sri Lankan military carries out another atrocity against civilians
• The Bush administration’s committee for regime change in Iran
• White House, US military respond to outrage over Hussein’s execution
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

6 January 2007

• Behind the New Year’s Eve bombings in Thailand
• Bush purges Iraq command to prepare military escalation
• Experts describe UK as world’s “first onshore tax haven”
• Howard government unveils new “Australian values” citizenship test
• Letters on the death of Gerald Ford
• Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union
• The Good German: the cost of playing fast and loose with big questions
• Volkswagen workers in Brussels speak to the WSWS: the unions’ role is “shameful”
• To Volkswagen workers in Brussels
  Vote against the sell-out organised by the unions and works councils!
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 January 2007

• Britain: Employment tribunal rules Gate Gourmet strike illegal
• David Hicks enters his sixth year of detention at Guantánamo Bay
• German chancellor Merkel snuggles up to Bush
• Israel has plans for nuclear attack on Iran
• Newly released FBI files document widespread torture at Guantánamo
• Observations on the opening of the 110th US Congress
• Ousted Home Depot CEO hauls off $210 million severance package
• The Good Shepherd: Robert De Niro’s portrait of the CIA

9 January 2007

• Washington think tank bars WSWS reporter
  An incident that says much about the US capital
• Democrats criticize Iraq “surge”, but won’t cut war funds
• Growing energy conflicts across Eurasia:
  Gazprom wrests control of Sakhalin-2 gas project from Shell
• Hundreds missing after Indonesian ferry sinks
• Letters from our readers
• Medical research and big business: The case of Sir Richard Doll
• As takeaway contract is imposed on workers
  New York City’s new transit boss gets $40,000 raise
• Taiwan earthquake triggers a “digital tsunami” in Asia
• The pathetic end of the French “anti-capitalist left”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 January 2007

• Air strikes on Somalia: A new stage in Washington’s illegal “terror” war
• Australia: Murdoch media attacks 1976 Lebanese refugee intake
• Bush asserts expanded surveillance powers over US mail
• In defiance of 2006 vote, Bush will escalate Iraq war
• O Funeral de Ford: a glória vazia de um governo envolvido em crise e corrupção
• On eve of London bombings: MPs told Britain faced no imminent threat
• Russian oil pipeline interruption intensifies struggle for raw materials
• Trabalhadores da Volkswagen em Bruxelas falam ao WSWS: o papel dos sindicatos é “vergonhoso”
• Two bus bombs kill more than 20 in Sri Lanka
• US military asks deceased officers to re-enlist

11 January 2007

• Australian government to fund chaplains in public and private schools
• Collateral damage—Texas child hangs himself after viewing Saddam Hussein lynching
• German interior minister seeks to introduce martial law measures
• In speech on Iraq escalation, Bush promises more bloodshed, wider war
• Into the depths of Franco’s Spain: Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)
  A film by Guillermo del Toro
• Iraqi regime set to hand over oil reserves to US energy giants
• Sri Lankan march to protest against Hussein’s execution

12 January 2007

• An exchange on the presidential campaign of Dennis Kucinich
• Australian prime minister welcomes US “surge” in Iraq
• Canada: Cabinet shuffle points to spring elections
• Democratic Congressman reintroduces bill for military draft in US
• European press reacts negatively to Bush proposals on Iraq
• US forces carry out provocative raid on Iran’s consulate in northern Iraq
• US offensive in Baghdad begins surge of killing and repression
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

13 January 2007

• Bush’s Iraq “surge” met with despair in Britain
• Crisis in Germany’s Christian Social Union
• Cuarón’s Children of Men: Despair and hope in the near future
• Demócratas critican aumento de tropas, pero rehusan reducir fondos para la guerra
• Iraq escalation heightens political crisis in Washington
• Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism: global warming and its market fix
• Mob attacks Sri Lankan antiwar rally
• Paris court defends racist provocateurs exploiting plight of homeless
• Readers protest exclusion of WSWS reporter from DC conference
• Report details spread of global AIDS epidemic
• Silent protesters harassed, ejected from US Senate hearings
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 January 2007

• Australian government cuts thousands of welfare recipients off benefits
• Bangladeshi president postpones election and imposes state of emergency
• Bush administration threatens Iraqi prime minister as Baghdad bloodbath is prepared
• Final New York ballot count gives SEP Senate candidate more than 11,000 votes
• Letters from our readers

16 January 2007

• Fiji’s army commander unveils new military regime
• Hillary Clinton: Congressional debate on Iraq is over means, not ends
• Military, CIA prying into Americans’ financial records
• New Zealand PM quashes criticism of US military escalation in Iraq
• Poll shows 82 percent of Germans feel politically disenfranchised
• WSWS arts editor David Walsh to speak at York University in Toronto
• White House propaganda campaign: Bush, Cheney smear opponents of US war in Iraq
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 January 2007

• Civilian contractors in Iraq placed under US military law
• David North to address WSWS/SEP Sydney public meeting on Bush’s Iraq escalation
• Germany: How “Socialist Alternative” blocks the building of an independent socialist movement
• James Brown, one of the greats of post-war American popular music
• Two more barbaric state executions in Iraq
• Washington admits role in illegal war: US troops took part in invasion of Somalia

18 January 2007

• Australian PM outlines indefinite military agenda in South Pacific
• Britain: Leaked report details plans to cut jobs and pay in National Health Service
• China’s defence report highlights growing dangers of war
• Letters from our readers
• The significance of Venezuela’s and Ecuador’s nationalizations
• UN report: More than 34,000 Iraqi civilian deaths in 2006
• Volkswagen workers in Belgium end their strike and occupation

19 January 2007

• Australia: Labor refashions industrial relations policy to suit big business
• Bush administration gets secret court’s sanction for illegal spying operation
• Japan establishes first postwar defence ministry
• Rice’s Middle East tour: Arab regimes back US war drive in Iraq and Iran
• Sri Lankan police drag out their inquiries into the murder of SEP supporter
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

20 January 2007

• Britain: New crime bill flouts presumption of innocence
• Canada’s social democrats lend support to the Conservative government in the name of the environment
• Grand coalition government formed in Austria
• Informe de la ONU: más de 34,000 muertos iraquíes civiles en 2006
• Thai junta under fire over economic policies
• The coronation of Nicolas Sarkozy
  French interior minister named Gaullist presidential candidate
• The war in Iraq and American democracy
• To speak the truth without being afraid: My Name Is Rachel Corrie on stage in New York
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

22 January 2007

• Film, history and socialism
  Part One
• For an international mobilization of workers and youth against the war in Iraq
• Pentagon official witch-hunts Guantánamo detainees’ lawyers
• Prisoners continue hunger strike at Canada’s Guantánamo
• Sri Lankan unions end pay campaign in the interests of “national security”
• The Gates Foundation and the rise of “free market” philanthropy
• US auto union tells members to “expect sacrifices” in new contracts

23 January 2007

• Film, history and socialism
  Part Two
• Germany: War, social cuts and the role of the Left Party-PDS
• Questions and answers at David Walsh’s talk at York University in Toronto
• Somalia: African Union force agreed
• The Trial of Tony Blair: What would it take to put the prime minister in the dock?
• US occupation turns 3.7 million Iraqis into refugees
• On the eve of State of the Union speech
  US political crisis mounts over Iraq war escalation
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 January 2007

• 79th Academy Award nominations: a disparate group of films
• Brazil: The WTO and Lula’s “struggle” for the G-20
• Bush’s State of the Union speech highlights crisis of US ruling elite
• European Union announces new energy strategy
• Iranian president faces mounting internal opposition
• Musharraf’s reform of Pakistan’s rape law-a cynical manoeuvre
• 1999 case of 13-year-old convicted on adult murder charges
  Nathaniel Abraham released from state custody in Michigan
• Observations on Washington-style democracy
• The surface of a frantic, unusual adolescence: Running with Scissors

25 January 2007

• A warning from Senator Webb: Democrat cites danger of deepening “class lines” in America
• After Stephen Colbert’s performance in 2006: White House press corps learns its lesson
• European Union demands speedy formation of unity coalition in Serbia
• Germany’s former SPD-Green government blocked release of Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz
• Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler: Ignorance of the subject is not a good starting point
• Sri Lankan military captures strategic eastern town from LTTE
• Western powers accuse Iran and Syria of masterminding Lebanese general strike

26 January 2007

• Amusing, but no triumph—Almodóvar’s Volver
• Britain’s senior prosecutor: no such thing as a “war on terror”
• German chancellor assures Bush of “broad support”
• Global poll condemns Bush administration on Iraq war and global militarism
• In the face of mounting opposition, Australian government backs new Guantánamo courts
• Letters from our readers
• US: Threadbare “college affordability” bill passes in the House
• West Bengal Left Front’s pro-investor land grab results in deadly clashes
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

27 January 2007

• A letter on popular opinion, the media, and Bush’s plans for escalation in Iraq
• El gobierno de Bush amenaza al Primer Ministro de Irak mientras prepara un baño de sangre en Baghdad
• Freedom Writers: Truly no child left behind
• Le Carré points to looting of Congo by mining corporations
• Study finds substantial rise in cigarette nicotine content
• The background to the murder of Turkish journalist Hrant Dink
• The struggle against war requires a break with the Democrats
• Top Volkswagen executives on trial for corruption in Germany
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 January 2007

• Belgium Volkswagen workers resume strike
• Troop surge paves way for wider war
  Bush authorizes shoot-to-kill policy against Iranians in Iraq
• Canada’s Liberals make pro-war Ignatieff their second-in-command
• China’s anti-satellite missile test points to developing space weapons race
• Italian court considers trial against CIA agents in rendition case
• The politics of the January 27 rally in Washington
  Organizers channel antiwar protest behind Democrats
• Students, veterans, workers denounce Iraq war at Saturday protests

30 January 2007

• Australian court upholds unbridled right to hire and fire
• Britain: OECD rebukes Blair government for dropping Saudi bribery investigation
• Hundreds die as US military steps up operations in Iraq
• Iraq’s colonial occupier, the US, denounces “foreign meddling”
• Repression in Brazil: University students sentenced for protest against Lula government
• US Army officer faces court martial for refusing Iraq deployment order
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

31 January 2007

• Japan’s defence minister strikes an anti-US posture
• Letters from our readers
• Libby perjury trial puts spotlight on US Vice President Cheney
• Wielgus collaborated with Stalinist secret service
  Poland: Archbishop’s resignation exposes crisis of Catholic Church
• Record losses for US automaker Ford
• Tens of thousands affected by Sri Lankan floods and landslides
• Violence escalates against students and teachers in Iraq