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Archive: June 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.

2 June 2008

• Australia: Victorian teachers’ union convenes delegates’ meetings to ram through industrial agreement
• Letters from our readers
• Behind the falsification of US economic data
• Decision on Michigan, Florida delegates
  Democratic Party establishment lines up behind Obama
• Fuel price protests spread across Europe
• Unions work to close down Scandinavian healthcare strikes
• Bomb blast in Sri Lanka targets rail commuters
• Britain: Demand the release of Hicham Yezza

3 June 2008

• Australia: Victorian teachers’ union opposes mass meetings to discuss industrial agreement
• US offensive displaces thousands of civilians in Afghanistan
• Growing condemnation of censorship of Australian artist Bill Henson
• After 19,000 take buyouts, GM to announce further US job cuts
• German dairy farmers strike against low milk prices and high energy costs
• Britain: MPs concealing massive expenses claims
• Human rights group charges: US continues “renditions” and operates a floating gulag
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 June 2008

• Britain: Demonstrators oppose deportation of refugee activist Amdani Juma
• Former German foreign minister warns of Israeli strike against Iran
• “Something in the Commune has an impact on culture as a whole”
  An interview with J. Michael Friedman, co-writer of Paris Commune
• General Motors to close four North American plants
• Australian Prime Minister Rudd glorifies Vietnam War
• A turn toward history we need: Paris Commune at the Public Theater in New York
• Britain: Labour prepares ground for privatisation of postal service
• US: Republicans prepare to play terror card in 2008 election
• “Las guerras del agua” de España: una pelea por recursos esenciales
• Taiwan’s new president makes immediate overtures to China

5 June 2008

• Canada: Firing of foreign minister fails to stanch reactionary furor over security breach
• Letters from our readers
• US Fed chairman signals shift to anti-inflation policy
• Second Georgia death row inmate executed since US Supreme Court lethal-injection ruling
• More US, Israeli threats against Iran
• Obama clinches Democratic presidential nomination
• France: Sans papiers continue occupation of CGT union hall
• Sex and the City: A joyless affair for the most part
• Hundreds of thousands displaced by severe Sri Lankan floods
• Britain: Nineteen young suicides in South Wales
• Turkish tyre workers strike Bridgestone, Goodyear and Pirelli

6 June 2008

• Canada: Business press advises auto union leaders on containing rank-and-file anger
• Chicago youth violence: An indictment of the US Democratic Party
• Record numbers using food stamps in Ohio, Michigan
• US rushes military show trial for alleged 9/11 conspirators
• German rail union in crisis
• Washington demands permanent bases to repress Iraqis, launch new Middle East wars
• Police powers increased by new London mayor
• Before the Rains: Hazarding the deeper waters of colonialism
• Australia: Rudd rewrites history as he announces “withdrawal” from Iraq
• Sri Lanka: Second bomb blast in Colombo in nine days
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

7 June 2008

• US Air Force purge: Growing tensions within a militarized state
• Bradford & Bingley: Britain’s banking crisis worsens
• A reply to supporters of “humanitarian” intervention into Burma
• CAW officials grandstand after GM plant closure announcement
• Largest US unemployment spike in 22 years
• The world food crisis and the capitalist market
  Part One
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• South Africa: Anti-immigrant violence subsides but leaves humanitarian crisis
• Senate report on Bush war lies: Another cover-up of war crimes

9 June 2008

• Iraq war commander named head of Canada’s military
• Singapore security forum points to US-China tensions
• Obama, Clinton and identity politics
• United Nations conference offers derisory level of aid for millions hit by food prices
• Angry German farmers rally in Berlin
• US: FEMA trailers caused at least 17,000 illnesses among Katrina survivors
• The world food crisis and the capitalist market
  Part Two
• Two more bombs kill 25 civilians in Sri Lanka
• Turkey’s Constitutional Court re-imposes ban on Muslim headscarf at universities

10 June 2008

• Letters from our readers
• The world food crisis and the capitalist market
  Part Three
• France: LCR signals willingness to ally with Socialist Party
• Washington ordered destruction of Guantánamo interrogation records
• Bill Henson case dropped but Australia’s “moral guardians” demand harsher censorship laws
• Scottish university fees scrapped, but thousands of students to repay lump sum
• A socialist program for Sri Lankan teachers’ wage struggle
• German Social Democratic Party in crisis
• Sri Lankan farmers reject president’s boast of helping rural communities
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

11 June 2008

• On “farewell tour” of Europe: Bush steps up threats against Iran
• Canada: GM seeks discussions with CAW to end Oshawa “blockade”
• A letter and response on the California Teachers Association
• East Timor: Xanana Gusmao’s coalition government in crisis
• Australia: Unions move to negotiate as Qantas rules out improved pay offer for engineers
• Fuel protests sweep across Europe
• India: Fuel price hikes deepen political crisis of Congress Party-led government
• Financial speculation’s latest victims: US community college students
• At AIPAC, Obama outlines policy shift to defend US, Israeli interests
• Britain: Campus meeting discusses arrest of Rizwaan Sabir and Hicham Yezza

12 June 2008

• Bush in Germany beats drum for war against Iran
• US: New bank losses shake financial markets
• US: Texas resumes executions following nine-month pause
• California court decision legalizing gay marriage touches off political uproar
• House Democrats kill resolution to impeach Bush
• Vote “No” in the Irish EU referendum
• South Korean government unravels in the face of mass political protests
• US air strike on Pakistani military post kills 11 soldiers
• Australia: Growing dissatisfaction with Rudd Labor government
• Northern California jury holds TASER International responsible for man’s death

13 June 2008

• Switzerland: Defeat for right wing on immigation referendum
• China drains “quake lake”, but dangers remain
• US Supreme Court upholds habeas corpus for Guantánamo Bay prisoners
• Two truck drivers killed as European and Asian fuel protests spread
• The European Union’s Return Directive strengthens “Fortress Europe” against immigrants
• Indiana Jones and the search for entertainment
• US “confident” of Iraq bases agreement despite opposition
• Media Reform conference in Minneapolis: Criticism of the media, but a movement still in the orbit of the Democratic Party
  Part one
• Obama campaign aide controversies underscore big business control of Democratic Party
• US continues to defend air strike on Pakistani military post
• Sri Lankan government closes public schools to break up teachers’ protest
• Britain: Labour government pushes through bill on 42-day detention without trial
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

14 June 2008

• Another grim milestone of UK fatalities in Afghanistan
• German government increases police spying powers
• Canada: Thousands march against Oshawa plant closure
• Letters from our readers
• British resident could face death penalty in Guantánamo trial
• Kucinich, the Democrats and the impeachment of Bush
• India: Hindu supremacist BJP forms government in Karnataka
• Indonesia quits OPEC after fuel price hikes
• US: Heavy flood damage as rivers rise in upper Midwest
• South Korean government besieged by demonstrations and strikes
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Media Reform conference in Minneapolis: Criticism of the media, but a movement still in the orbit of the Democratic Party
  Part two
• Six workers killed in construction of Las Vegas “CityCemetery”
• Australia: NSW Labor government unveils performance pay regime for teachers
• A concert in Atlanta: Behzad Ranjbaran’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
• Antonin Scalia and police-state rule

15 June 2008

• Social crisis in Detroit: "We don't take that Sunday drive"
• Social crisis in Detroit: "A half-million meals a year"
• Social crisis in Detroit: "I've got to use a bicycle to get around"
• Social crisis in Detroit: "Some weeks we have less meals"
• Social crisis in Detroit: "I'm 67, and it's impossible"

16 June 2008

• Afghanistan: Mass prison break underscores crisis of US-backed regime
• Two letters and a reply on the teachers’ dispute in Victoria, Australia
• US: Prices and home foreclosures surge in May
• France: Unions collaborate with employers, government to deregulate working hours
• European powers to continue with Lisbon Treaty despite Ireland “No” vote
• Kids Count report
  Living conditions worsen for US children
• Amidst mounting crisis, Pakistan’s new government slashes food and fuel subsidies
• Tim Russert and the decay of the American media
• Sri Lanka loses vote to retain seat on UN Human Rights Council

17 June 2008

• Australia: An eyewitness account of a Victorian teachers’ union ratification meeting
• Afghan president threatens Pakistan: Warnings of a wider war
• Germany: A political balance sheet of the Berlin transport strike
• Britain: Brown assures Bush more troops for Afghanistan, no Iraq withdrawal
• US: CEO pay sets new record as economy tanks
• Letters from our readers
• Britain: Conservative MP forces by-election to challenge Labour’s anti-terror legislation
• France: Break with the trade union collaborators of Sarkozy! Build an independent socialist movement of the working class!
• Australia: Unions refuse to fight GM’s latest plant closure
• Rising prices hit Malaysia
• Standard Operating Procedure: Images from a neo-colonial war
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

18 June 2008

• Detainee torture: Further proof of US government criminality
• Canada: CAW bureaucracy ends protest at GM headquarters
• Report to United Nations indicts Britain for mistreating children
• Letters on Tim Russert
• Fighting erupts over Eritrean armed incursion into Djibouti
• US: Officials warn of more levee breaks as Midwest flooding spreads
• Social crisis in Detroit: Food banks struggle to meet need
• Iraq: New offensive targets Sadrist movement in Amarah
• McCain and Vietnam: Revising history to pave the way for new wars
• Government price hikes and war cause devastating inflation in Sri Lanka
• Britain: Scottish National Party steps up independence rhetoric

19 June 2008

• Letter on Canadian prime minister’s “apology” to Aboriginal peoples
• Aboriginal people denounce Northern Territory intervention
• New York Times covers up for “confused” US military torturers
• Populism and plutocracy: Obama speaks to the Wall Street Journal
• Philippines: Spiralling rice prices bring hunger to millions
• Polish workers oppose government plan to restrict right to strike
• Australia: Labor strikes deal with Liberals to push through NSW power privatisation
• New York City spends $2 billion on stadiums while slashing public funds
• Zimbabwe: Mugabe government halts food aid

20 June 2008

• Australia: Why Victorian teachers should vote “no” to the AEU-Labor government agreement
• Social crisis in Detroit: An investigative report
  Part 1: The spiraling cost of food
• Bush calls for more handouts to energy companies
• Israeli attack on Iran: “not a matter of if, but when”
• Obama speaks in Detroit: rhetoric versus reality
• Big oil cashes in on Iraq slaughter
• More talk of war as Iran delays response to demand it end uranium enrichment
• Britain: Shell tanker drivers’ strike foreshadows summer of discontent
• Spain: The Popular Party begins to fracture
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

21 June 2008

• Britain: Labour refuses to answer Davis’s by-election challenge
• US: Democratic Congress approves war funding, legalizes domestic spying
• Letters from our readers
• Social crisis in Detroit: An investigative report
  Part 2: The impact of gas prices
• India’s government plots break with Left Front to implement Indo-US nuclear treaty
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Northern Territory intervention: an on-the-spot report
  Rudd Labor deepens Howard’s assault on Aboriginal communities
  Part 1
• Tim Russert honored: A “state funeral” for services rendered
• LTTE front group claims responsibility for Sri Lankan bombings
• Strike by Turkish tyre workers ends with real wage losses

23 June 2008

• Social crisis in Detroit—An investigative report
  Part 3: Collapse of an American city
• Einstein letter sold for record sum—Part 1
• Britain: SEP to stand in Haltemprice and Howden by-election
• Flooding in US Midwest: A disaster created by capitalism
• Random killing in Tokyo points to deepening social crisis in Japan
• Obama backs House Democrats’ cave-in on Bush spying bill
• Swedish government adopts invasive wire-tapping measures
• West Australian gas explosion cuts state’s energy supplies and throws thousands out of work

24 June 2008

• Australian government releases National Employment Standards—a “win for employers”
• US: Bear Stearns hedge fund managers indicted
• Social satirist George Carlin dead at 71
• Letters from our readers
• Einstein letter sold for record sum—Part 2
• France: Low turnout for pension rights protest
• German state of Hesse abolishes student fees
• War threats against Iran overshadow US elections
• Report: Iraq social and refugee crisis is worsening
• Northern Territory intervention: Comments from an Aboriginal town camp
• South Korean government tries to stem protests against US beef imports
• Growing instability in Sudan and Chad
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

25 June 2008

• McCain adviser suggests that Republican campaign would benefit from another 9/11 attack
• Wall Street sheds jobs amid talk of bank failures
• US housing figures and other data: A picture of rapidly growing social misery
• More than 700 feared dead in Philippine ferry disaster
• Demonstration in Warsaw to defend the right to strike
• Australia: Protestors denounce Labor’s Northern Territory intervention
• Germany: Students protest planned education cuts
• Britain: Socialist Equality Party stands in by-election forced by David Davis
  Vote Chris Talbot in Haltemprice and Howden
• Teachers dispute in Victoria, Australia
  Socialist Equality Party replies to Mary Bluett, AEU state president
• Young@Heart: Not going gentle ...
• Northern Territory intervention: Life for Aborigines in Tenant Creek

26 June 2008

• US/NATO crisis in Afghanistan generates greater pressure on Pakistan
• US scientist calls for prosecution of energy company CEOs for global warming disinformation
• French President Sarkozy visits Israel to broker regional realignment
• US: Workplace shooting leaves six dead in Henderson, Kentucky
• Washington’s new alibi for a criminal war: the “surge has worked”
• Northern Territory intervention
  “Unintended consequences” or deliberate destruction?
  Part 2
• Darwin resident explains impact of Northern Territory intervention
• Obama attacks US Supreme Court decision barring death penalty for child rape
• EU parliament agrees to strengthening of Fortress Europe
• Britain: SEP candidate officially registered for Haltemprice and Howden by-election
• Trumbo and the Hollywood blacklist
• Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai pulls out of election as Britain and US seek regime change

27 June 2008

• As GM layoffs mount, more nationalist poison from Canadian auto workers union
• Letters from our readers
• 800,000 take strike action in the Czech Republic
• US stocks plunge, job cuts spread
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• US Fed caught in global turbulence
• Bush administration stacked Justice Department with right-wingers
• US Supreme Court rejects “Millionaire’s Amendment” to campaign finance law
• Australian call for “Asia-Pacific Community”: A sign of growing tensions
• Britain: Cameron and David Davis come out in support of strike breaking

28 June 2008

• Britain: SEP campaign in Haltemprice and Howden by-election
  Chris Talbot explains why he is standing
• You can’t go home again: George Romero’s Diary of the Dead
• The reactionary politics of the Supreme Court’s “gun rights” decision
• Iceland’s economic turmoil threatens instability throughout Scandinavia
• More signs of Israeli-US preparations for attacking Iran
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• North Korea makes initial nuclear disarmament gestures
• European press leaks US military reports on nuclear weapons safety
• Australia: Once again unions call off Qantas stoppages
• German Social Democrats in free-fall
  Right-wing seeks to topple party chairman
• France: Immigrant retention centre burnt down following death of inmate

30 June 2008

• Haltemprice and Howden by-election
  Britain: Tony Benn defends his decision to back David Davis
• Britain: SEP campaign in Cottingham and Beverley
• Fed minutes show extent of Bear Stearns crisis
• France: How the unions broke an offensive of the working class
• Australia’s “Iguanagate”: the politics of scandal
• As war clouds gather: Democrats back covert US attacks on Iran
• RAMSI immunity challenged after death of Solomon Islander in car accident
• The need for socialist politics in the film and television industry
  Screen Actors Guild negotiations continue in secret on eve of contract expiration