Archive: June 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 June 2007
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As part of CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program
Boeing subsidiary accused of profiting from torture - Fallujah: Sympathy alone is not enough
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Tens of thousands to protest on eve of G8 summit
Fight against war and social reaction requires a socialist strategy - Mexico: Calderon uses drug violence as pretext for militarizing society
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Michigan Democrats, Republicans agree on deep cuts
Massive deficit still looms - Protests in China over the one child policy
- The Bush administration’s new “model” in Iraq’s Anbar province
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
2 June 2007
- Australia: Former PM Whitlam testifies on 1975 murder of “Balibo Five” journalists
- Brazilian cane cutter died from working 70 days without break
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As May death toll of US soldiers hits 124
Bush administration calls for permanent US military presence in Iraq - Fianna Fail wins Irish election
- France: Guy Môquet, Sarkozy and the Stalinist school of falsification
- Lebanese military resumes shelling of Palestinian camp
- The G8 summit and the Left Party of Germany
- The US media “discovers” Pakistan’s Musharraf is a dictator—why now?
- US antiwar protest groups silent on Cindy Sheehan’s resignation from Democratic Party
- US: Dell, Motorola, IBM announce new job cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4 June 2007
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Another threat to democratic rights
Australia: protesters face jail for opposing spy base’s role in Iraq war - Germany: Police use massive force against G8 demonstrators in Rostock
- New wave of political arrests in Bangladesh
- Nigeria brings criminal charges against Pfizer over 1996 drug test
- South Africa: Public sector workers strike demands pay increase
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On eve of G-8 summit
Tensions between US and Russia erupt in mutual recriminations -
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Spider-Man 3
The dilemma of blockbuster filmmaking - Turkey: Political allies of military move to unseat moderate Islamist government
5 June 2007
- Bush denounces detention of US-Iranian citizens
- Democrats pose as Iraq war opponents in New Hampshire debate
- Detroit town hall meeting on impeachment provides political cover for the Democratic Party
- First days of June claim 17 more US soldiers in Iraq
- Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks incarcerated in high-security Australian jail
- Humanitarian disaster looms as Lebanese attack on Palestinian camp continues
- Humanitarian disaster looms as Lebanese attack on Palestinian camp continues
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As Bush administration prepares to issue new guidelines for CIA interrogation
New admissions of widespread prisoner abuse - The JFK “plot”: another grossly inflated threat
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
6 June 2007
- Former Cheney aide sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison
- G8 fails to meet aid pledges to Africa
- Global social, political tensions dominate G8 summit
- ISSE meetings held in Australia and New Zealand
- Indian industrialist to build $1 billion “home” amidst Mumbai’s multimillion slum-dwellers
- India’s prime minister warns big business of threat of social unrest
- Knocked Up and a certain generation’s “family values”
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En víspera de la Cumbre de los G-8, decenas de miles se manifiestan en contra
La lucha contra la guerra y la reacción social requieren una estrategia socialista - Military judges dismiss war crimes charges against Guantánamo prisoners
- US attacks Venezuela: “press freedom” as a pretext for intervention
- US talks of “reconciliation” with Sunni insurgents in Iraq
7 June 2007
- Anti-G8 demonstration violence in Rostock: questions and contradictions
- ISSE holds successful campaign and meeting in Warsaw, Poland
- Report challenges US claims of Iranian sponsorship of Iraq insurgency
- Report to ISSE meeting in Warsaw: Nationalism and internationalism in Poland
- Republican presidential candidates back nuclear strike against Iran
- Testimony by Justice Department official sheds light on White House conspiracy to manipulate elections
- Turkish military flexes its muscles in northern Iraq
- US Navy bombards Somalia
- World Socialist Web Site publishes Chinese translation of ISSE resolution
- “JFK plot”: Is Washington trying to open a Caribbean front in war on terror?
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国际学生争取社会平等组织与社会主义平等党紧急反战大会通过的决议
结束对伊拉克的占领!坚决制止对伊朗的战争威胁!争取国际社会主义反战运动!
8 June 2007
- Antiwar US Marine veteran stripped of honorable discharge status
- Argentina: 13 years of pension “reform” boosts profits, impoverishes older workers
- British Army chiefs urge pullout from Iraq within 12 months
- French parliamentary elections: The collapse of the “left”
- German high court upholds police ban on G8 summit protest
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Lawsuit to be filed in federal court
Human rights groups list detainees in secret US prisons -
Pakistan’s US-backed dictator lashes out
Repression fails to staunch anti-Musharraf protests - Wealth of Australia’s super rich up by 26 percent
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
9 June 2007
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EUA: Dell
Motorola e IBM anunciam novas demissões - G8 summit: Climate compromise masks mounting conflicts
- India-US nuclear agreement at an impasse
- Iraqi oil workers strike in Basra
- Letters from our readers
- Report details CIA prisons in Europe
- Senate immigration overhaul blocked by Republican right
- The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it
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A victim of “extraordinary rendition”
Trial of CIA agents for abduction of expatriate Egyptian imam opens in Milan - Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 June 2007
- A socialist perspective to defend Sri Lankan university workers
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Europe’s carbon-trading scheme
Corporate bonanza fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - France’s asylum procedures condemned by the European Court of Human Rights
- Hillary Clinton in Detroit: Democrat preaches American nationalism to union bureaucracy
- Opel strike ends in Poland as GM cuts more jobs in Belgium
- Top US general ousted in Pentagon shakeup
- US: CEO pay climbs to “stratospheric heights”
- Waitress and Mr. Brooks: Somewhere in America...
12 June 2007
- A reply to letters on “The campaign to keep Paris Hilton in jail: nothing healthy about it”
- After G8 summit: Conflict between US and Russia intensifies
- Australia: Financial collapses devastate small investors
- Brazil’s social and political crisis deepens in Lula’s second term
- French “left” defeated in parliamentary elections
- Letters on the Paris Hilton case
- México: Calderón se aprovecha de la violencia del narcotráfico para justificar la militarización de la sociedad
- Senate Democrats fail in slap against Bush attorney general
- Sri Lanka: Hundreds of Tamils forcibly expelled from Colombo
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 June 2007
- Appellate court slams Bush Administration for holding al-Marri as “enemy combatant”
- Australia: Labor endorses Howard government’s “fairness test” fraud
- Bush administration embarks on reckless new tactic in Iraq
- German Greens on the road to coalitions with the conservative CDU
- More letters on the Paris Hilton affair
- Ousmane Sembène, major figure in African cinema, dead at 84
- Senator Lieberman calls for US military attack on Iran
- US leads push for Kosovo independence
14 June 2007
- Australia: Fatal train accident highlights infrastructure decay
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Statue unveiling in Washington:
Bush, Democrats resurrect anticommunism in service of US “war on terror” - Conditions worsen at UK asylum-seeker detention centres
- Democrats subpoena former White House officials in probe of US attorney firings
- Forbidden Hollywood: three films from Hollywood’s pre-Production Code era
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Four days after the G8 summit
German police raid eleven premises on suspicion of “terrorism” - Iraq on edge following second bombing of Shiite Al-Askariya mosque
- Spanish property boom ends amidst share panic
- Two Sri Lankan Red Cross workers abducted in central Colombo
15 June 2007
- Australia: Why Rudd forced the resignation of union official Dean Mighell
- Critic of warlords murdered in Afghanistan
- General strike hits South Africa
- Heavy fighting continues in the North and East of Sri Lanka
- ISSE to hold first meeting in Vienna
- Palestinian president declares emergency after Hamas routs Fatah forces in Gaza
- Pentagon admits US “surge” in Iraq has yielded only more carnage
- Statement of the International Students for Social Equality to the students of the University of Sao Paulo
- US military officials knew about contaminated water at Marine base
- US: New polls reveal mass opposition to Democrats and Republicans
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
16 June 2007
- Britain: Labour’s deputy leader challengers present their tarnished wares
- Canada: Report on police killing at Ipperwash masks state crimes
- Deadly fire kills five children in Pittsburgh home
- IAEA chief declares any attack on Iran “an act of madness”
- Judge orders former Cheney aide Lewis Libby to begin serving prison sentence
- Senator Reid’s remarks on US generals prompt right-wing furor
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The struggle against war demands a break with the Democratic Party
The ISO and the dead-end of protest politics - US: Education no escape from stagnant wages
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
18 June 2007
- China’s “pork crisis”: the capitalist market at work
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An attack on academic freedom
Critic of Zionism denied tenure at US university - Forty years on: The bitter legacy of the 1967 Middle East war
- Germany: What does the “Left Party” want to achieve?
- US Senate stalls on corporate-driven energy bill
- US commander warns Iraq war will go on for a decade
- US intensifies pressure on Iraqi government to meet “benchmarks”
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Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party
Part one
19 June 2007
- Australia: report exposes government’s foreign “aid” program
- Devastating floods hit six Chinese provinces
- Former US general confirms high-level knowledge of Abu Ghraib torture
- Letters and a reply on the Kucinich presidential campaign
- Setback for Sarkozy in second round of French legislative elections
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Spate of antidemocratic rulings by US Supreme Court
Right-wing majority consolidated - US missile strike kills seven children in Afghanistan
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Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party
Part two - Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 June 2007
- Australian government’s water plan to benefit major agribusinesses
- Death penalty on the rise in US-occupied Iraq
- Germany: Huge security operation exposed in wake of G8 summit
- Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base
- New study documents increasing income inequality in Canada
- The Gaza crisis and the failure of Palestinian nationalism
- US military launches massive assault in Iraq
- Washington Post’s Richard Cohen offers “liberal” case for Lewis Libby’s freedom
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Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party
Part three
21 June 2007
- Bear Stearns funds collapse hits subprime securities market
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An “independent” voice of Wall Street
Billionaire New York mayor may run in US presidential campaign - British university teachers’ union votes for boycott of Israeli academics
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Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007)
Ex-UN chief’s Nazi past covered up - Religious backwardness trumps science as Bush vetoes stem cell bill
- Sri Lankan president’s “peace” mask starts to slip off
- Thai junta cracks down on ousted prime minister
- Twenty-five years since the Malvinas war
- US: Nine firefighters perish in warehouse fire in Charleston, South Carolina
22 June 2007
- Bush administration rushes to Pakistani dictator’s aid
- Death in Los Angeles hospital exposes social crisis in US
- Fourteen US troops killed in two days of Iraq fighting
- German-Polish conflict dominates EU summit
- Lawyers claim British government approved systematic policy of torture in Iraq
- Opinion polls provoke bewilderment in lead-up to Australian election
- Slave labour scandal erupts in China
- Steven Soderbergh and Ocean’s Thirteen
- The Iraq orphanage story: US troops “rescue” 24 as thousands remain in the streets
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
23 June 2007
- At least 25 Afghan civilians killed in US bomb attack
- Australian government imposes military-police regime on Aborigines
- Britain: Dispatches programme exposes US renditions
- CIA to release 1970s documents on agency’s crimes
- FBI targets universities in new scheme to recruit informers
- Letters from our readers
- Take Back America conference: Democratic candidates seek “progressive” support
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Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with WSWS
“People are now waking up...” - The secret government of Dick Cheney: US vice president claims to be outside the law
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
25 June 2007
- Bear Stearns organises bailout but concerns remain
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Germany: Union sells out Deutsche Telekom strike—agrees to wage cuts and longer working hours
Vote “no” on the contract! - Letters on “Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democratic Party”
- Report reveals UK youth abandoned by education system
- Sri Lankan unions betray university workers’ struggle
- Storm wreaks havoc across Australia’s Hunter Valley and Central Coast
- The Blackstone IPO: $4 billion payday for private equity bosses
- US Supreme Court continues pattern of pro-corporate rulings
- US auto union accepts massive wage cuts and layoffs in tentative pact with Delphi
- US military prepares Fallujah-style bloodbath in Iraqi city of Baqubah
26 June 2007
- Britain: New Labour’s right-wing course to continue under Brown
- Damien Hirst’s main obsession is wealth, not mortality
- Detroit Riverview Hospital to close: “Losing this hospital will devastate this community”
- Doha Round trade talks collapse amid recriminations
- Northern Ireland: Apparent suicide and destruction of records mark opening of Billy Wright inquiry
- Police spy agencies target Australian universities
- The New York Times has to correct itself again, this time on Iran
- White House, Democrats reported in “compromise” talks on Iraqi partition
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
27 June 2007
- Australia: Growing opposition to police-military takeover of Aboriginal communities
- Brussels treaty reveals divisions in the European Union
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Canadian Supreme Court ruling in BC hospital dispute
A boost for the union bureaucracy - Guantánamo military tribunals exposed by military officer
- Iraqi general “Chemical Ali” condemned to death
- Sweatshop scandal puts black mark over Beijing Olympics
- Two Republican senators attack Bush’s “surge” in Iraq
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“The sit-downers did everything they did for nothing”—Flint Delphi worker
UAW moves to ram through massive Delphi concessions
28 June 2007
- Antiwar coalition attempts to prop up Democratic Party: United for Peace and Justice holds conference in Chicago
- Australian neo-colonialism comes home: The Northern Territory and the Solomon Islands
- Britain: Postal workers set for first national strike in 11 years
- CIA documents point to massive and ongoing government criminality
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Germany: The founding of the "Left Party"
Oskar Lafontaine's demagogic clichés - Iraqi court hands down 22 death sentences in four weeks
- Sri Lankan government cracks down on protesting farmers
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Decisions on campaign finance, speech and religion
US Supreme Court rulings mark a swing to the right
29 June 2007
- Australian journalist Glenn Milne’s “twisted logic” on Northern Territory deployment
- Former EPA head defends US government lies about post-9/11 safety conditions
- North Korea announces shut down of nuclear reactor
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Blair leaves office and becomes Bush’s “peace envoy”:
Sycophancy in parliament and an insult to world opinion - US Supreme Court rules school districts cannot consider race in integration plans
- US: Northwest Airlines cancels flights amid pilot shortage
- White House rebuffs congressional subpoenas, escalating confrontation over attorney purge and domestic spying
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Édith Piaf’s life in La Vie en Rose: a modern biopic
30 June 2007
- Australian government takeover of Aboriginal communities: the real content of the “Children are Sacred” report
- Divisions erupt in the French Socialist Party
- East Timor’s election held under shadow of Australian military
- German government complicity in CIA abductions: The case of Khaled al-Masri
- Italy: Trial of CIA agents deferred until October
- Letters from our readers
- Padilla “terrorism support trial” unravels
- The new Sarkozy government hosts conference on Darfur
- US Senate Republicans block union-sponsored bill
- US: Senate Republicans kill plan to overhaul immigration law
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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