WSWS - News 2009.11.07

New Today -- 7 November 2009 Perspective Mass shooting at Fort Hood: collateral damage from Iraq and Afghanistan wars The mayhem at Fort Hood in Texas, which has left 13 individuals dead and 30 injured, is a byproduct of the brutal wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. It is a form of "collateral damage." News & Analysis US unemployment rate surges to highest level in 26 years The sharp increase in unemployment has been accompanied by corresponding decline in wages and growth in the exploitation of the working class. After troop deaths, British establishment rallies behind Afghan war Wall Street banks go to the front of the line for H1N1 shots Germany military welcomes new defence minister Opel workers in Germany protest threatened mass redundancies The Clearstream trial: a conflict in the French bourgeoisie France: The affairs the Clearstream trial aims to suppress Fiji expels Australian and New Zealand diplomats Unanswered questions over Australian offshore oil spill Student protests in Austria This Week in History: November 2-9 New Feature: This Week in History Commentary Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall: The Christian Democrats celebrate Kohl, Bush and Gorbachev Book Review The "Hegel renaissance" and other questions: A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy History Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall: Statement of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, October 18, 1989—Part 3, Overthrow the Stalinist bureaucracy! Build workers' councils in East Germany! Workers Struggles Australia: Qantas aircraft engineers vote for industrial action Fire Brigades Union capitulates to South Yorkshire management Britain: Communication Workers Union sabotages postal strike Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific Correspondence Letters from our readers