Archive: September 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.
1 September 2009 (front page)
- Gordon Brown reaffirms UK commitment to Afghan war
- Post-mortems for Ted Kennedy: Burying the remains of American liberalism
- CIA secret prisons organized from Germany
- Obama formalizes Bush policy on digital searches and seizures
- Toyota announces closure of manufacturing plant in California
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Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia
German Left Party ready to work with right-wing CDU - Detroit teachers’ union agrees to work with Democrats to cut jobs, wages
- Unemployment and charity requests soar in Australia
- Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino goes to war
- Canada: Vale Inco unveils strikebreaking operation
- Workers struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
2 September 2009 (front page)
- US commander’s report paves way for military escalation in Afghanistan
- Germany: Big losses for the conservative CDU in state elections
- Japan’s new government: Promise and reality
- Lockerbie: More evidence of cynical machinations behind Megrahi’s release
- Canada’s Conservative government names NDP Premier its US ambassador
- Tamil journalist sentenced to 20 years jail by Sri Lankan court
- Wildfires ravage central and southern California
- Detroit residents protest cuts in bus service
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Former Solomon Islands attorney general challenges Australian government
Evidence backs Julian Moti’s allegation of “politically-motivated” charges - SEP (Germany) appeals for international support for its election campaign
- German Socialist Equality Party election video
- Britain: ServisAir staff end nine-day strike at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport
- Australia: Workers protest against Labor government assault on safety laws
3 September 2009 (front page)
- Obama’s poll numbers plummet
- Seventy years since the beginning of World War II
- Germany: Federal Grand Coalition parties lose support in North Rhine-Westphalia local elections
- Deepening crisis surrounds Middle East talks
- Afghanistan war escalation: The Nation seeks to “protect” the Obama administration from itself
- Obama cuts pay raise for federal workers
- Australian companies write down $47 billion
- UK helped protect wealth of former Chilean dictator Pinochet
- US: Government study finds widespread mercury contamination
- Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung dies
- Letters on Inglourious Basterds
- Letters from our readers
4 September 2009 (front page)
- US, Europe step up pressure on Iran
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Physicians for Human Rights report
CIA doctors, psychologists participated in torture of prisoners - Iraq: Political factions manoeuvre for next election
- New Jersey’s largest city cuts water to working class households
- Australia: Bushfire investigation report a whitewash
- Democrats hold town hall meetings on Obama health care overhaul
- For the mobilization of the working class to end the war in Afghanistan
- Australia: International students protest lack of access to student concession cards
- Why the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party of Germany) opposes an SPD-Left Party government
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SEP Public Meeting
For a unified struggle of Detroit workers! - Michigan: Oakland University professors walk out
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 September 2009 (front page)
- Sri Lankan SEP stands in the Southern Provincial Council election
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New atrocity in Afghanistan
US airstrike incinerates scores of civilians - Big banks grow more powerful under Obama
- US unemployment rate at 9.7 percent
- Study exposes sweatshop conditions in US workplaces
- France: What is behind the Socialist Party’s plans for a presidential primary?
- Negotiations over future of carmaker Opel face collapse
- Britain: Eric Joyce MP resigns over UK policy in Afghanistan
- Earthquake devastates Indonesia’s West Java province
- Bill Cosby endorses attack on public education in Detroit
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Gabonese President Omar Bongo (1935-2009)
A tool of French imperialism in Africa - GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra—yet another celebration of militarism and war
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 September 2009 (front page)
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In run-up to address to Congress
Obama administration seeks right-wing consensus on health care - CEOs at bailed out banks got $13.8 million apiece last year
- Former Israeli premier faces corruption charges
- Japan’s election: Divided Democrats prepare for office
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German federal election on September 27:
What does the Pirate Party stand for? - Australian government downplays huge oil slick
- Strikes and occupations spread across Ireland
- California: Hardships mount for state workers facing furloughs
- The dismissal of Van Jones
- Sri Lanka: SEP public meeting to launch election campaign
- Australia: Specialist paramedics threatened with punitive sanctions
8 September 2009 (front page)
- G20 finance ministers: empty pledges in face of deepening antagonisms
- Against European calls for UN conference on Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: Further evidence of massive electoral fraud
- Obama on Labor Day: Hollow promises of economic recovery
- Sri Lankan police detain three JVP journalists
- Germany: IG Metall boosts SPD at Frankfurt election rally
- France: What is the significance of the falling-out between the NPA and the trade unions?
- Australia: New details about “SIEV 36” refugee deaths expose official lies
- Los Angeles Board of Education approves expansion of charter schools
- Australian car parts maker goes into administration
- Workers struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
9 September 2009 (front page)
- UN-backed panel denounces fraud in Afghan election
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Patriotism and personal responsibility
Obama addresses public school students - The historic decline of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party
- Britain: Government proposes cuts in public sector pensions
- A socialist program for Sri Lankan plantation workers
- Transatlantic airline plot: The case that “couldn’t be allowed to fail”
- California: Kaiser Permanente workers protest reductions in force
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Defending historical truth
Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR, by Vadim Rogovin -
Massacre in Kunduz bares real nature of Afghanistan war
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party - German SEP posts video statement against war in Afghanistan
- Michigan: Oakland University seeks court order to break professors’ strike
10 September 2009 (front page)
- Obama seeks to reassure insurance companies, Republicans in speech to Congress on health care
- Profiting on death
- Ethnic tensions flare again in China’s Xinjiang region
- Sri Lankan government opens up captured territory for investors
- England: Two reports reveal the crisis in social care
- California State University student fees jump 33 percent
- Study reports worst of US mortgage crisis still to come
- European powers seek UN cover for war in Afghanistan
- Filmmakers, writers protest Toronto festival spotlight on Tel Aviv
- Britain: The strengths and limitations of Banksy’s “guerrilla” art
- Australia: Ambulance union sells out MICA paramedics campaign
- Vale Inco strike: Labour bureaucrats promote nationalism
- Interview with striking Vale Inco workers
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Michigan: Students rally for striking Oakland University professors
Court delays return-to-work order - Letters from our readers
- Michigan’s Oakland University faculty strike in seventh day
11 September 2009 (front page)
- The real agenda behind Obama’s health care “reform”
- Obama’s health care speech and the lies of the Nation
- Japan: Democrats prepare to slash public spending
- US poverty rate hits 11-year high
- Germany: State Premier of North Rhine Westphalia slanders Romanian workers
- Sri Lankan government expels UNICEF spokesman
- Australia: Bail denial in terrorism case sets dangerous new precedent
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Eight years since 9/11
The pretext for a historic shift in world politics - German SEP statement opposing an SPD-Left Party government
- Britain: Train crews resist attempt to slash Sunday pay
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
12 September 2009 (front page)
- Democrats pledge more cuts in Medicare to fund Obama’s health care overhaul
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Following massacre in Kunduz
Left Party comes to the aid of German government - US Supreme Court set to ease rules on corporate campaign cash
- Greece: Karamanlis calls for early elections
- Israel: 200,000 families need help to survive
- Hundreds die in disease outbreaks in Papua New Guinea
- More cuts to social services in Michigan
- Times columnist David Brooks exposes “left” supporters of Obama health plan
- Economic crisis devastates museums across the US
- Australia: Union, courts and media team up against bus drivers’ strike
- Michigan: Oakland University professors end strike
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 September 2009 (front page)
- Threat of US-led sanctions against Iran
- Fighting rages across Afghanistan as US military buildup continues
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Following GM announcement on new talks with Magna
German auto union offers further concessions to Opel - Demands to curtail war reporting after raid to free New York Times journalist
- France’s “national subscription” prepares massive handout to big business
- Israel understated civilian death toll in Gaza
- Mexico: President Calderon calls for “doing more with less”
- Gillard’s “Teach for Australia”: a corporate-backed assault on teaching
- Right-wing march in Washington against Obama health care plan
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Education deans oppose Teach for Australia
“Teachers need a depth of theoretical understanding” -
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15 September 2009 (front page)
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One year after the financial crash
Obama goes cap in hand to Wall Street - One year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers
- Afghan presidential candidate demands “caretaker government”
- Obama advisor champions rationed health care
- Venezuela, Russia in $2.2 billion arms deal
- Brazil: Evangelical leader tied to Lula government charged with wholesale fraud
- Canada’s social democrats offer lifeline to Conservative government
- Britain’s union leaders warn of riots and social unrest
- Paltry GDP growth promoted as proof of Australian “recovery”
- US: Pennsylvania still without a budget
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Red Star Over Russia
A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin - Sri Lanka: Reject wage sell-out by plantation unions
- Workers struggles: The Americas
- Letters on the Obama administration and healthcare
16 September 2009 (front page)
- Australia: UN envoy denounced after he describes Northern Territory “intervention” as racist
- Sri Lanka: Plantation workers oppose wage sell-out
- US-China trade tensions sharply escalate
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German TV debate between leading election candidates
Merkel and Steinmeier promote the grand coalition - OECD report cites higher education crisis in Britain
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With a green light from company trade unions
The Porsche and Piëch clans pillage Volkswagen - Michigan lawmakers prepare austerity budget
- Republic Windows & Doors CEO arrested for theft
- Britain: Postal workers discuss disaffiliation from Labour, ballot for national strike
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Washington’s “good war”
Death squads, disappearances and torture in Pakistan - Obama turns to AFL-CIO to defend health care cuts
- Protest against Toronto film festival collusion with Israeli regime continues
17 September 2009 (front page)
- Australia: University staff strike for “day of action”
- Australian court hears Julian Moti’s challenge to “politically motivated” prosecution
- Obama administration to seek extension of Patriot Act spy powers
- Washington elaborates AfPak strategy amid calls for US troop buildup
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AFL-CIO names new president
Who is Richard Trumka? - Democrat government installed in Japan
- US: Senate Finance Committee chair releases health care proposal
- Israel: Mitchell’s diplomacy stalls over settlement freeze
- France: Socialist Party, “far left” signal support for right-wing alliance
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The GM-Magna deal
German metal workers’ union backs government in geostrategic power struggle - A reply to a critic on Obama’s health care overhaul
- Letters from our readers
- Sri Lankan SEP holds first meeting for Southern Provincial Council election
- District 9, an attempt at serious science fiction
- Rudd’s Education Revolution “a disaster for universities”
18 September 2009 (front page)
- UN reports 1 billion of the world’s people going hungry
- The global jobs crisis
- What is the AFL-CIO?
- US suspends eastern European missile shield plan
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Preliminary results in Afghan election show Karzai victory
Occupying powers debate moves against incumbent president - Biden in Baghdad to uphold occupation, speed access to oil
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What happened in Kunduz?
The German army steps up its deployment in Afghanistan - World Economic Forum: False hopes in a China-led recovery
- Poland: Government escalates privatisation drive
- Australian court told witnesses were threatened in Julian Moti case
- 75 years since the San Francisco general strike
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At the Globe Theatre in London
A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths - Sri Lankan plantation unions sign sell-out pay deal
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
19 September 2009 (front page)
- Clinton takes hard line on Iran in run-up to talks
- Australian adviser to US military provides chilling insight into neo-colonial mentality
- German Left Party retreats from its demand for a withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan
- Obama accelerates push for cost-cutting health care plan
- France: parliamentary mission against burqa promotes anti-Muslim prejudice
- Australian academics’strike at UNSW: a few observations from the ISSE
- British Labour government declares for spending cuts at Trades Union Congress
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Sri Lankan provincial election
SEP campaigns among Free Trade Zone workers - Britain: Leeds refuse workers strike against pay cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 September 2009 (front page)
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In Sunday television interviews
Obama seeks to defuse opposition on healthcare, Afghanistan - Iranian opposition demonstrates under pro-imperialist slogans
- US assassination in Somalia
- Canada’s social democrats prop up Harper Conservative government
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The ACORN witch hunt
US voter registration group under attack - Judge strikes down SEC settlement with Bank Of America over bonuses
- Britain: Asset stripping followed government bailout of MG Rover
- Anti-government rally on third anniversary of Thai coup
- Unemployment in California reaches 70-year high
22 September 2009 (front page)
- US commander pushes for rapid escalation of Afghanistan war
- Obama administration shields CIA torturers
- US, Europe reject bank pay limits ahead of G20 meeting
- Spain: Judge Garzón faces prosecution for investigating Franco-era crimes
- Canadian Auto Workers offers concessions to Ford
- Scotland: Diageo presses on with 900 job cuts
- Los Angeles unions back Democrats’ assault on city workers
- Sri Lanka: An appeal to all workers by the Balmoral Estate Action Committee
- Behind the “day of action”: Australian university union enforces government agenda
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Open letter to Opel and Vauxhall auto workers from German SEP candidate
- Sri Lankan provincial election: SEP campaigns in fishing villages
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Seventy years on
World War II: The essential lessons
Joint public meeting of the Socialist Equality Party, Britain and Germany -
Seventy years since World War II
Its causes and its lessons for today - Letters from our readers
23 September 2009 (front page)
- US: 2008 census figures show severe impact of recession on workers
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UN climate change meeting
No agreement between major powers on carbon emissions - Honduran regime meets Zelaya’s return with “state of siege”
- German election to usher in government of austerity and confrontation
- Former Taiwanese president jailed for life
- Economic crisis, geopolitical rivalries overshadow Ukrainian election campaign
- Labour government in Britain increases state control of the Internet
- Britain: Three major parties pledge to slash public spending
- On eve of G20 summit: Economic danger signs
- For a fight against education cuts in California!
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Michigan Public Meeting
Lessons of the Oakland University professors’ strike - Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on the struggle of plantation workers
- Newly repaired Hubble telescope releases first images
24 September 2009 (front page)
- Great power conflicts overhang G20 summit in Pittsburgh
- US troops out of Afghanistan
- Massive police buildup for Pittsburgh G20 summit
- At UN general assembly, Obama urges international support for US wars
- Obama gives Israel carte blanche on settlement construction
- Scottish National Party prepares deep spending cuts
- France: Opportunist “lefts” unite with CGT to derail fight for jobs
- Appeasing right wing, US Justice Department launches ACORN probe
- The Australian media and the Julian Moti case
- Germany: SEP holds election campaign meetings in four cities
- Sri Lankan unions collaborate in police witch-hunt of plantation workers
- France: Petty-bourgeois “lefts” unite with CGT to derail fight for jobs
- Letters from our readers
25 September 2009 (front page)
- US heightens threats against Iran
- US Senate Finance Committee deliberates Baucus healthcare proposal
- Obama asserts power to detain suspects without trial
- Britain: Nationalist campaign by Unite union bureaucracy over Vauxhall-Opel takeover
- Tamil detainees in Sri Lanka: “Almost living in hell”
- California students and faculty denounce education cuts
- Detroit residents speak on utility bills, social crisis
- Thousands line up for utility bill assistance in Detroit
- The significance of the German elections
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Opel workers demonstrate in Antwerp in defence of jobs
Works councils and unions prepare sell-out -
After 11-month strike
Stella D’Oro workers face shutdown in hedge fund deal - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
26 September 2009 (front page)
- G20 summit sets stage for sharpening of international tensions
- US and European powers threaten Iran
- Revolt and “dialogue” in Honduras
- Five more US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
- France: Brutal eviction of migrants from Calais encampment
- Obama comes to aid of Israel over UN war crimes charges
- Austria: Collapse for Social Democrats in Vorarlberg state election
- “Fair Work Australia”: A union-enforced straitjacket on workers
- Britain: Businesses to control more state schools as government-backed academies fail
- Police attack protesters at G20 summit in Pittsburgh
- Video: German SEP candidate calls for defence of jobs at Opel
- Sri Lankan plantation workers speak out against pay sell-out
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- ISSE holds rally in San Diego in defense of public education
- ISSE members speak on education cuts at rally
28 September 2009 (front page)
- Historic defeat for Social Democrats in German federal election
- Obama follows Bush’s modus operandi on Iran
- UN: Record number of Afghan civilian deaths in 2009
- International protests against arrest of film director Roman Polanski
- United States halts food aid for Somali women and children
- US: Thousands line up for free health care in Texas
- Britain: Behind the disciplinary action in the Unison trade union
- The PSG and the German Left Party: An exchange of letters
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns in southern rural villages
- ISSE meeting: Health care–the socialist response
29 September 2009 (front page)
- German election: The collapse of the Social Democratic Party
- The political significance of the Balmoral Estate Action Committee
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Three months after coup:
Honduran regime imposes state of siege - US, NATO reach “consensus” to sanction rigged election in Afghanistan
- Australian government lawyers demand Guantánamo compensation case be stopped to protect US alliance
- Severe dust storm hits Australian coastal cities
- US Army abandons effort to court-martial Iraq war resister
- Once again, on the ex-left and Iran
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What does reality require from fiction?
Aravind Adiga and Indian society -
A dramatic account of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes
Stockwell, by Kieron Barry -
Public meetings
70 years since World War II: Origins & consequences of a historical catastrophe - Sri Lankan SEP to hold election meeting in Galle
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
30 September 2009 (front page)
- US Census Bureau report: 40 million living in poverty
- German Interior Ministry plans to expand the powers of the secret police
- Sri Lankan army fires on Tamil detainees
- Israeli Arabs to launch strike against discriminatory policies
- Spain: Unions and PSOE government prepare austerity measures
- Typhoon causes widespread destruction in the Philippines
- Director Roman Polanski faces months in Swiss prison
- GM shuts down assembly plant in Pontiac, Michigan
- “Cheats and Deceivers”
- Germany: Incoming government prepares attacks on working class
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Public Meeting in Richmond Virginia
Obama: The Class Issues -
Toronto International Film Festival 2009—Part 1
Polarization and protest
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