Archive: September 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.
1 September 2007
- Berlin: Left Party opposes wage demand of public service workers
- Bush rejects “bailout” for homeowners, vows aid to Wall Street
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Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 3: New Orleans levees still not rebuilt - New York City: Right-wing Zionist witch-hunt ousts principal of new Arabic school
- Sri Lankan government’s “peace” committee on point of collapse
- The affair of US Senator Craig: Media sensationalism and political hypocrisy
- The case of NFL football star Michael Vick
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The social toll of the US home mortgage crisis
Part 2 - UK: The attempt to deport Learco Chindamo
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
3 September 2007
- British government faces legal action over refusal to hold inquiry into London bombings
- Bush administration to “ratchet up pressure” on Iran
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Edinburgh Film Festival: Two antiwar films
Beaufort by Joseph Cedar and Extraordinary Rendition by Jim Threapleton - France: Sarkozy calls for European military build up
- Protests in Aboriginal communities as Australian parliament passes military takeover bills
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The Canadian Arar affair—censored report released
How the practice of torture hides behind the slogan of “national security” - US housing crisis could spark serious economic downturn
- US: Right-wing campaign launched to counter opposition to Iraq war
- White Light, Black Rain: powerful HBO film about atomic bombing of Japanese cities
4 September 2007
- Australia: Extraordinary security operation shuts down central Sydney for APEC summit
- Australia’s corporate media praises Labor’s modified IR package
- Bush presses campaign for open-ended war in Iraq
- Canada: Police agent-provocateurs unmasked at Montebello summit protests
- Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?
- Greek government under pressure following forest fires
- Japanese cabinet reshuffle points to deepening political crisis
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The “Katrina gold rush”
Profiteering and the Gulf Opportunity Zone - Tensions with the US sharpen as Britain begins handover of Basra
- Wall Street hides impact of subprime mortgage meltdown
5 September 2007
- An interview with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan
- Australian legal academics accept arrest of antiwar colleague
- Cholera outbreak in northern Iraq
- German bank loss only the start
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Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 4: The Katrina gold rush—profiteering and the Gulf Opportunity Zone - Labor Day in America: Two unions endorse Edwards, one spews anti-Mexican poison
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 14-16 - RMT union suspends strike by London Underground maintenance workers
- Review: At My Age by Nick Lowe
- US Congress reconvenes for phony debate on Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
6 September 2007
- Australia: Police mobilised against high school students at APEC demonstration
- Britain’s bosses take record £26.4 billion in bonuses: City takes lion’s share
- Germany: train drivers’ union capitulates
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Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 5: Mississippi Gulf Coast—Casinos thrive while homeowners languish - Key naval witness in disappearance of Sri Lankan SEP member fails to appear in court
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New York’s Deutsche Bank fire deaths
Scapegoating of firefighters exposes official corruption and hypocrisy -
Time magazine calls for “universal national service”
New push for military draft in US - Turkey: Abdullah Gül sworn in as president
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US seeks to save Pakistani dictator, thwart democracy
Musharraf-Bhutto negotiations near end-game
7 September 2007
- As congressional debate opens, US escalates military operations in northern Iraq
- Germany: Terror plot carried out under police observation
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 17-19 - Socialist strategy needed to oppose war and social inequality
- Top US hedge fund managers earn 22,255 times pay of average worker
- US-Australia defence deal underlines regional rivalry at APEC summit
- Why was a nuclear-armed bomber allowed to fly over the US?
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- World economy: Credit crunch could bring recession
8 September 2007
- 18 US troops killed in Iraq in first week of September
- Australian comedy team exposes APEC security hype
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As bosses’ pay soars
Britain: Government and media rail against “selfish” strikes - Bush, Bremer clash over decision to disband Iraq’s army
- France: The LCR sets a new political trap for the working class
- France: Unions passive on public sector job cuts
- Haneef police transcript exposes Australian government’s “terrorist conspiracy” claims
- Prospects for US recession increase as jobs report shows first decline in four years
- Towards the legalization of torture in Canada?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 September 2007
- Britain: Brown’s “new politics” a cynical cover for authoritarianism
- Bush administration pushes for looser mining regulations
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Former US Marine Matt Howard speaks with WSWS
“No-one is talking about the real violence” - French police attacked in Guinea while expelling two immigrants
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Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 20-22 - Massive police-state mobilisation for Sydney APEC demonstration
- US Congressional hearings to set stage for continued war in Iraq
11 September 2007
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Iraq forum in Howard’s electorate
Australian Labor promises “reliable hands” in time of war - British academics warn US is preparing “shock and awe” attack on Iran
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Gen. Petraeus testifies before Congress
Democrats arrest protesters, praise US commander in Iraq - Differing motives propel India and US to finalize nuclear agreement
- German Left Party leadership forces Hesse state candidate to resign
- Gleichheit editorial: “A socialist strategy against militarism and war”
- US professor critical of Zionism resigns after tenure denial
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Workers strike for cost of living at University of Minnesota
12 September 2007
- Britain: Brown gets smooth ride at Trades Union Congress
- California budget deadlock broken as Democrats accede to right-wing demands
- South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan ends
- Sri Lankan military launches northern offensive against LTTE
- US auto union prepares to hand over historic concessions
- US congressional hearings reveal consensus that Iraq war will continue
- US seeks legal expert to oversee plunder of Iraqi oil
13 September 2007
- A socialist perspective for striking Sri Lankan teachers
- Amid mounting defections, French Socialist Party veers to the right
- Australia: In face of deepening opposition, Howard government implodes
- Democrats prostrate as Bush, generals vow Iraq war will continue for years
- Disarray in Putin regime’s cover-up of murder of Anna Politkovskaya
- GDF-Suez merger and the global scramble for energy
- Letters from our readers
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With Washington’s blessing
Pakistani regime mounts massive security operation in Sharif deportation - US military pre-trial hearings end in Haditha civilian massacre case
- US steps up push for Kosovo independence
14 September 2007
- Australian government to leave Tamil refugees detained on Nauru
- British troops in Iraq deployed to Iranian border
- Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq in nationally televised address
- Germany: Greens to hold special party congress on Afghanistan
- Japanese prime minister resigns abruptly
- Media, politicians maintain silence on flight of US nuclear bomber
- Two soldiers critical of Iraq war among its latest casualties
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As contract deadline approaches
US auto union poised to accept sweeping concessions - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
15 September 2007
- An exchange with New York Post reporter on witch-hunt of school principal
- British polling agency: More than one million Iraqi deaths since US invasion
- Bush-linked Texas company signs oil deal with Iraqi Kurds
- California mental health care cuts: a cynical attack on the poor
- German candidate pushes suicide device for Hamburg elderly
- Israel’s neo-Nazi gang: A symptom of a deeper malaise
- Strike by India’s unorganised sector workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “Dr. Profit” named head of the Canadian Medical Association
17 September 2007
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Wesley Clark gives a glimpse of the future
A Democratic general’s prescription for winning “the next war” - A deafening silence on report of one million Iraqis killed under US occupation
- Bush administration consolidates plans for war against Iran
- Credit crisis spreads as British bank collapses
- DC antiwar protesters: Democrats and Republicans are “two sides of same coin”
- ISSE: Nick Beams to address University of New South Wales meeting
- Israeli air raid in Syria heightens Middle East tensions
- The Jena Six in Louisiana: Convictions overturned in Mychal Bell case
- US auto union extends contracts as deadline passes
- Washington, DC: Organizers seek to subordinate September 15 antiwar protest to Democrats
18 September 2007
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A fighter for Marxism in America
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, by Bryan D. Palmer. University of Illinois Press, 2007, 542 pp. - Baghdad residents protest US-erected dividing wall
- Berlin: SPD and Left Party extend state surveillance
- Britain: Foot and mouth disease strikes again
- Closing of Monroe, Michigan, factory marks the end of a way of life
- Democrats back Bush’s new pick for attorney general
- Israel’s air raid on Syria: another threat to Iran
- Romulus, My Father: a compassionate film about immigrant life in Australia
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Iraq suspends license of Blackwater USA
US mercenary firm denounced after civilian killings in Baghdad -
Following fight over academic freedom
University of California, Irvine hires constitutional scholar - Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 September 2007
- Democrats pack in their antiwar charade
- Fijian military regime reimposes emergency rule
- France: Sarkozy, unions collaborate in attack on pensions
- From the horse’s mouth: Greenspan says Iraq war was for oil
- ISSE condemns police assault on University of Florida student
- Letters on the New York Post witch-hunt of school principal
- Mexican president deploys troops in wake of oil pipeline bombings
- Sri Lankan government imposes new taxes to fund war
- US Fed rate cut fires up Wall Street
- Why is the German press silent on US preparations for war against Iran?
20 September 2007
- After the storm: James Lee Burke answers Katrina’s wrath with his own
- Australia: Bipartisan political praise for police violence at APEC summit
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Northern Rock
Britain: Government attempts to stem banking crisis -
Parliamentary elections in Greece
Conservatives gain at expense of PASOK - Contradictions mount in US and world economy in wake of Fed rate cut
- France: Communist Party mayor calls police on the homeless
- Media, Democrats silent on police attack on University of Florida student
- Musharraf regime seeks to stave off collapse
- Report shows Afghanistan mired in corruption
- Taiwan’s UN bid increases friction with China
- Washington’s proxy war inside Kurdish Iran
21 September 2007
- Charges dismissed against another officer in Haditha war crimes case
- Dan Rather sues CBS for making him a “scapegoat” to appease Republican right
- Dee McLachlan writer/director of The Jammed speaks with WSWS
- International Students for Social Equality to hold series of meetings in Britain
- New Turkish government prepares assault on working conditions
- Sri Lankan unions prepare to cave in following widespread teachers’ strike
- The Jammed—the dark side of Australian immigration
- The Simpson trial in perspective
- The media’s obsession with O.J. Simpson
- Thousands demonstrate in support of “Jena Six”
- Well-attended ISSE meeting discusses US war threat on Iran
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
22 September 2007
- Bush calls for expansion of “Protect America” spy bill
- Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza
- Mounting press speculation India will face early elections
- New York Times praises Bush nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey
- On eve of UN general assembly, US military arrests Iranian official in Iraq
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Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 1
The world is so poorly understood—or is it? - US Senate censure of MoveOn.org: An attack on free speech in the service of militarism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
24 September 2007
- Blackwater mercenaries resume patrols in wake of Baghdad civilian killings
- Hungarian extreme right set up paramilitary “Guard”
- Indonesian authorities review case of murdered human rights activist
- Letters from our readers
- Report exposes massive looting of Kenyan state funds
- UN General Assembly meets under shadow of US threats against Iran
- US autoworkers angered as negotiations drag on
- Use, exchange, literary values and an American classic: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road turns fifty
- “Jena Six” teen still in prison after conviction dismissed
25 September 2007
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A blatant attack on artistic freedom:
Bengali writer, Taslima Nasreen assaulted by mob led by Indian legislators - Britain: Youth convicted under antidemocratic terrorism acts
- GM workers in Detroit voice frustration at UAW leadership
- German Greens hold special congress on Afghanistan
- Iranian president speaks at Columbia University amidst media frenzy
- New York Times public editor repudiates MoveOn.org ad on General Petraeus
- Signs of leadership infighting ahead of Chinese Communist Party congress
- US auto workers shut down General Motors
- Video: General Motors strikers in Michigan speak to WSWS
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
26 September 2007
- An interview with Ramin Bahrani, director of Chop Shop
- Arctic sea ice reaches record minimum
- Britain: Brown makes election appeal to Conservative voters
- Bush at the UN: a war criminal lectures the world on “human rights”
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As impact of walkout spreads
GM strikers confront intransigence of US auto giant - General Motors workers oppose threats to retiree health care, jobs
- Japan’s new prime minister: a recipe for another short-lived government
- Polish city council employs goons against striking bus drivers
- Socialist Equality Party in Australia achieves party registration
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Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 2
Urgency about human matters
27 September 2007
- AFL-CIO leaders pledge $200 million to Democratic Party campaigns
- Britain: Unions responsible for harsh conditions facing temporary agency workers
- Burmese military cracks down on escalating protests
- Chilean court extradites ex-Peruvian President Fujimori
- Former CBS anchor Dan Rather: big corporations, government interfering in news
- Letters from our readers
- The New York Times and Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia University
- Total surrender by US auto union
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“Policing the neighbourhood”—Australia’s new para-military police
Part 1
28 September 2007
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The Simpsons Movie
An audience of “big fat suckers”? - Australia: Riot police attack sacked transport workers
- Democratic presidential candidates: US troops could stay in Iraq until 2013
- Details of General Motors contract underscore UAW betrayal
- France: political fall-out from Kouchner’s calls for aggression against Iran
- General Motors worker: “The UAW doesn’t lose, but the workers do”
- Interview with Bryan Palmer, biographer of James P. Cannon, founder of American Trotskyism--Part 1
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State of Michigan faces government shutdown
Legislators debate massive cuts - Trial exposes Pentagon “baiting” program in Iraq
- US Joint Chiefs chairman declares homosexuality “counter to God’s law”
- With US backing, Musharraf presses ahead with bogus presidential election
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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“Policing the neighbourhood”—Australia’s new para-military police
Part 2
29 September 2007
- Burmese troops gun down protestors
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Toronto International Film Festival 2007—Part 3
Compassion toward the most despised and other matters - Devastating floods sweep across Africa
- Interview with Bryan Palmer, biographer of James P. Cannon, founder of American Trotskyism--Part 2
- Polish elections offer no alternative for the broad masses
- The Bush-Aznar tapes: glimpse of a gangster preparing for war
- UAW local presidents ratify historic betrayal of US auto workers
- US prison population at all time high
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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