Archive: March 2008
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 1969
- El bloqueo de China de un portaaviones de EE.UU. destaca las tensiones navales en el Pacífico
- España: El gobierno intenta prohibir la asistencia de los partidos separatistas vascos a las elecciones.
- España: Izquierda Unida se escinde a la vez que deriva más hacia la derecha.
1 March 2008
- BMW axes 8,100 jobs to increase profits
- Beowulf: tenuous relationship between movie and poem
- East Timorese government steps up repression in aftermath of alleged “coup attempt”
- Economist estimates cost of Iraq war to exceed $3 trillion
- Librarians and archivists demand US return of stolen Iraqi documents
- US stocks plunge following Fed Chairman Bernanke’s testimony before Congress
- Washington deploys warships off the coast of Lebanon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “Independent” Kosovo: Anatomy of a Western protectorate
3 March 2008
- Australian Federal Police commissioner reveals scale of Haneef frame-up
- Britain’s media fashions its “warrior prince”
- Commemoration of the first anniversary of the death of Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee held in Paris.
- Germany: What lies behind the attempts to ostracise the Left Party?
- Israel mounts bloody offensive against Gaza
- Letters on review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
- Poisoned dumplings incident reveals fragility of Sino-Japanese relations
- Puerto Rico: Teachers battle unionbusting
4 March 2008
- American Axle strike enters second week
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After Rudd’s “apology” to indigenous people
Australian government extends welfare “quarantining” and land grab - Britain: Labour government gags “extraordinary renditions” whistleblower
- Egypt: Strike wave throughout public and private sector
- Germany: SPD state minister berates welfare recipients
- Letters from our readers
- Putin-Medvedev tandem wins presidential election in Russia
- Turkey hails Iraq incursion as success
- US missile strike kills women and children in Somalia
- US: Student loans costs to rise from credit crisis
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 March 2008
- Australia: Rudd government demands wage “restraint”
- France: LCR congress decides to found new party
- French lead European Union force to Chad/Sudan border
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The 58th Berlinale—Part 2
Katyn—The political agenda of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda - New Jersey Governor demands draconian budget cuts
- Oil-linked inflation destabilizes Africa, Middle East
- Pakistani regime ban of YouTube highlights threat to free Internet
- UAW offered wage cuts on eve of American Axle strike
- US-backed border massacre brings South America to brink of war
- Washington pushes through new UN resolution against Iran
- William F. Buckley, longtime propagandist for US ultra-right, dies at 82
6 March 2008
- An interview with Richard Pare, co-author and photographer of The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932
- Bank drops lawsuit against Wikileaks
- Berlin transit workers go on strike
- Canada: Liberals and Conservatives join forces to extend intervention in Afghan war
- Clinton victories in Ohio, Texas intensify divisions in Democratic Party
- Iraq: Civilian casualties spike in February
- Letters from our readers
- Malaysians due to vote after stunted 13-day election campaign
- Spain: United Left splits as it lurches further right
- Sri Lankan military bogged down in northern offensives against the LTTE
7 March 2008
- America’s “Fortunate 400” control vast wealth
- Australia: NSW Labor embroiled in corruption scandal
- Demonstration and meeting in Sri Lanka to protest prosecution of Iranian students
- Drive mounts for US government bailout of banks
- Latin American crisis triggered by an assassination “Made in the USA”
- South Africa and the global economic downturn
- Striking Berlin transit workers speak out
- US steps up pressure on India to wrap-up Indo-US nuclear treaty
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- ZTE-NBN scandal triggers political crisis in the Philippines
8 March 2008
- Democratic politicians rage against US Air Force contract with Airbus
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Germany: Public service workers strike
Explosive mood in factories, offices, nurseries and hospitals - Political instability and social struggles will follow Spain’s general election
- The ramifications of Ahmadinejad’s visit to Iraq
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US plot to overthrow elected Palestinian government exposed
Part One - US: 63,000 jobs lost as economy continues downslide
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 March 2008
- A scholar’s upside down pyramid scheme: Peter Gay’s Modernism
- Bush vetoes bill outlawing torture techniques
- Clinton’s national security campaign and Obama’s political dilemma
- Democrats win congressional seat of former House Speaker Hastert
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ISSE meeting at University of Delaware
Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections - France: political crisis destabilizes Sarkozy
- Germany: Public sector strike needs a new political perspective
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Impact of American Axle strike spreads
Talks continue through weekend - Lengthy terrorist trials underway in Australia
- Reactionary musings from the Island on 60 years of Sri Lankan independence
- Suicide rate at 25-year high for middle-aged Americans
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US plot to overthrow elected Palestinian government exposed
Part Two
11 March 2008
- Correspondence on the impact of the credit crunch
- English primary education criticised in report
- Five US soldiers killed in Baghdad
- Government election losses in Malaysia signal eruption of deep political crisis
- Iraqi president visits Ankara in wake of Turkish incursion
- Massive NSA operation exposed as Congress prepares vote on domestic spying bill
- Mexico: López Obrador may lose control of PRD to “new left” faction
- New York City Democratic politician and “labor” leader pleads guilty to corruption charges
- Reject UAW plans to sabotage American Axle strike!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 March 2008
- Australia: Unions rubber-stamp Mitsubishi closure
- Australian prime minister undertakes tactical shift in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
- Austrian grand coalition in crisis
- Be Kind Rewind: Fast forward to Michel Gondry’s utopia
- Bitter strike by American Axle workers enters third week
- China’s National Peoples Congress haunted by the spectre of social unrest
- France considers sending more troops to Afghanistan
- Instability continues in Pakistan following formation of coalition government
- Politically directed dragnet snares New York Governor Spitzer
- Spain: Socialist Party wins a second term in government
- US food prices increase sharply
- Violence still threatens after Kenyan peace deal
13 March 2008
- Australia: Unions rubber-stamp Mitsubishi closure
- Australian PM marks first 100 days as Murdoch demands “stiff dose of Brutopia”
- French municipal elections: A setback for President Sarkozy
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Germany: Roland Koch remains prime minister in Hesse
How the SPD right wing overturned an unwanted election result - Letters from our readers
- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer forced to resign in sex scandal
- Northern Ireland: More evidence of MI5’s network of informers and provocateurs in the IRA
- Sri Lankan paramilitary leader convicted in Britain
- Tensions between France and Germany intensify over foreign and economic policy
- Top US commander in Middle East quits over Iran war report
- US Federal Reserve injects $200 billion into credit markets to avert financial meltdown
14 March 2008
- Afghan medical workers’ strike called off
- American Axle workers in Detroit discuss political issues in strike
- Arrests on American Axle picket line in Detroit
- Australia: Rudd government rejects emission targets in official climate change report
- Democratic Party divisions deepen as Obama parades military support
- Gold and oil prices soar, dollar slumps, Carlyle Group fund collapses
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“I’ve been tortured. I’m a human being. I have not violated any law”
Guantánamo prisoner refuses to cooperate with military show trial - Iranians vote amid concern about US aggression and falling living standards
- Left Party attacks striking transport workers in Berlin
- Letters on the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
- London Mayoral elections: Labour’s neo-cons and the left apologists for Ken Livingstone—Part One
- Sri Lanka: ISSE demonstration demands the release of jailed Iranian students
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
15 March 2008
- After severe winter, floods threaten Afghanistan and Central Asia
- Canada: Montreal ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
- Fed rescue of Bear Stearns raises specter of Depression-era crash
- House Democrats pass new spy bill without telecom immunity
- India: Congress Party delivers “populist” budget with a view to coming elections
- Iran, Pakistan to hold pricing talks on gas pipeline
- London Mayoral elections: Labour’s neo-cons and the left apologists for Ken Livingstone—Part Two
- Police arrest auto workers on American Axle picket line in Detroit
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On the 20th anniversary of his death
SEP general secretary pays tribute to Keerthi Balasuriya - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
17 March 2008
- After the Bear Stearns bailout: Fears of more Wall Street failures
- Brazil’s ruling Workers Party pays homage to Pierre Lambert for services rendered
- Clashes and tensions in southern Iraq
- Despite a nervous “backflip”, Australian government plans deep welfare cuts
- France: LCR leader Daniel Bensaïd reassures Socialist Party of his collaboration
- Italy: parties shift to the right as election campaign begins
- Letters on the American Axle strike
- New York City crane collapse kills at least four
- Rising costs throw Chinese manufacturing into crisis
- Video: American Axle Strikers in Detroit Defy Wage-Cut Demands
18 March 2008
- British mercenary confesses role in Equatorial Guinea coup plot
- French local elections reveal discrediting of political establishment
- GDL union completes sell-out of German train drivers’ struggle
- In face of New York City school cuts: a new strategy needed to defend public education
- Outcome of Iranian election points to simmering popular discontent
- Shades of 1929: Bear Stearns collapse signals deepest crisis since Great Depression
- Two new “cover albums”: Shelby Lynne’s Just a Little Lovin’ and Cat Power’s Jukebox
- US truck drivers squeezed by soaring diesel prices
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 March 2008
- Another US strike inside Pakistan’s border region
- CIA transfers another detainee from secret prison system to Guantánamo
- China cracks down on Tibetan protests
- Five years after the invasion of Iraq: A debacle for US imperialism
- In Bruges: neither especially fresh nor insightful
- Iraq: a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic dimensions
- Taxi to the Dark Side: Murder of young Afghan driver exposes US torture policies
- The “White Season”: The British Broadcasting Corporation’s Pim Fortuyn moment
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In the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse
US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates again
20 March 2008
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Alan Thornett’s denunciation of Trotskyism
Part one - Asian economies hit by US financial crisis and slowdown
- Mobilize auto workers behind the American Axle strike
- Nuance and depth needed: Persepolis
- On Iraq war’s fifth anniversary, Bush says US troops must stay
- Race, class and the politics of the Obama campaign
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SEP-ISSE public meeting in Sydney on April 9
Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse - The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
- Verdi trade union prepares sell-out of Berlin transport strike
21 March 2008
- A letter on the “Cool/Cruel Britannia” trend
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Alan Thornett’s denunciation of Trotskyism
Part two - American Axle strikers in Detroit determined to halt wage-cutting
- Britain: ISSE holds meetings on the fifth anniversary of Iraq war
- Cheney’s “peace” trip to Middle East prepares new wars
- Housing stress at record levels in Australia
- Letters from our readers
- Relations with China dominate Taiwanese presidential election
- Widespread flooding hits the US Midwest
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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Interviews with Australian homebuyers
“We have a house, but we are very poor”
22 March 2008
- American painter Edward Hopper in Chicago
- Australia: teachers continue strike action against Victorian Labor government
- Bush administration illegally examined Obama passport file
- Bush, McCain “gaffes” on Iran echo Iraq war lies
- Canada’s Liberals support war and social reaction
- Germany: The shrinking middle class and the rise of inequality
- Recessionary trends deepen, sparking gyrations on stock, commodities markets
- Video: American Axle and Chrysler workers in Detroit speak out
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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US financial crisis fuels social unrest
Workers protest rising prices in UAE, Egypt
24 March 2008
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“It was grueling subject matter and seemed unending”
Documentary producer Eva Orner speaks with WSWS -
US military deaths in Iraq reach 4,000
Eight US soldiers and dozens of Iraqis killed in weekend violence - NY Times article questions official explanation of sex probe that forced New York governor to resign
- New Zealand economy sliding into recession
- Taxi to the Dark Side: Murder of young Afghan driver exposes US torture policies
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US steps in to prevent collapse of gas pipeline project
Nabucco pipeline bypasses Russia - Young Guantánamo detainee details abuse
25 March 2008
- Britain: Labour makes massive cuts in higher education
- Detroit mayor charged on eight criminal counts
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ISSE meetings in US
Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis, and the 2008 elections - Former Australian prime minister feted by US Republican right
- Germany: Turkish youth dies in police custody
- ISSE in US supports Sri Lankan demonstration
- Letters from our readers
- New York’s premier library to be renamed for billionaire Wall Street speculator
- Paris meeting commemorates the life and work of Keerthi Balasuriya
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Strike against wage cutting completes first month
Pay for American Axle CEO rises to $10.2 million - Sri Lankan ISSE meeting to demand release of jailed Iranian students
- The Kite Runner: the Afghan tragedy goes unexplained
- White House signals continued Iraq escalation as US death toll tops 4,000
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
26 March 2008
- Australia: Haneef inquiry seeks to “restore confidence” in terror laws
- Blackwater abandons plans for California training camp
- Brown government promotes patriotism and militarism
- Canada: Kingston, Ontario, ISSE to show Tsar to Lenin
- Cheney’s tour of Middle East raises tensions with Iran
- Ex-SLA member Sara Jane Olson returned to prison
- Home prices, consumer confidence plunge in US
- Iraqi regime launches assault on Basra
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Letter from a Brazilian teacher
The same demands, on the other side of the world - Social inequality leads to gap in US life expectancy
- US Supreme Court rejects international law, ruling against Mexicans on death row
- Video: The WSWS reports from the American Axle strike in Detroit
27 March 2008
- Australia: National Union of Students promotes illusions in new Labor government
- Boeing challenges refueling contract to Airbus
- Britain: Police want children routinely put on DNA database
- Letters from our readers
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$10 million for American Axle CEO
Richard Dauch and the aristocratic principle in America - The Kuomintang returns to power in Taiwan
- US-Pakistan ties fray, as Washington seeks to bully new government
- US: Hundreds of aging American Airlines planes grounded for inspection
- Washington again forecasts ruin for Medicare and Social Security
28 March 2008
- Australia: Federal and NT Labor governments expand punitive measures in Aboriginal communities
- Ecuador: deepening crisis, floods trigger surge of inflation
- Iraqi government offensive in Basra threatens to trigger Shiite uprising
- More Funny Games from Michael Haneke
- Sri Lankan government deploys military to suppress striking television workers
- Strike wave continues in Greece
- US shipped fuses for nuclear-armed missiles to Taiwan
- Video: WSWS reports from American Axle strike in Detroit
- Why the Clintons’ profiting off near-slavery is not a campaign issue
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
29 March 2008
- American Axle CEO Richard Dauch and the “right” of private property
- American Axle strikers in Detroit respond to plant closing threats
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Presidential candidates speak on housing and credit crises
Clinton, Obama, McCain defer to Wall Street - Global food prices rise and famine increases
- India: Stalinist CPM’s triennial meeting to reiterate support for Congress Party-led government
- Letters from our readers
- Philippine president accused of “treason” over Spratlys deal with China
- Snow Angels: Unnecessarily slight insight into a dreary world
- The sieges of Basra and Sadr City: another US war crime in Iraq
- US: Death sentence postponed for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- US: Returning veterans face mounting joblessness and low wages
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
31 March 2008
- American Axle moves to hire strikebreakers
- Australia: Murdoch-sponsored conference outlines “new agenda” for Rudd government
- Behind the California nurses’ strike: putting profits ahead of patient needs
- Britain: As Basra burns, Iraq inquiry call supported by just 12 Labour MPs
- Charges dropped against third Marine in Haditha massacre case
- Repeated US air strikes in Basra and Baghdad
- Sarkozy strives to establish French-British axis
- Writer David Mamet: Man overboard
17 April 2008
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