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World Socialist Web Site Archive: June 2004

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.

30 June 2004
Anonymous sources quoted by New York Times
US government's unofficial defense of torture
Canadian Liberals cling to power, but results attest to mass popular disaffection
US: SEP files for Colorado ballot status
Ireland: election results record decay of Fianna Fail
Belgium: right-wing Vlaams Blok benefits from hostility to government
US: jury acquits Idaho webmaster of terrorism charges
China cracks down on Internet cafes and "cyber dissidents"
Sri Lankan health unions call off two-day strike
Michael Moore's contribution - Fahrenheit 9/11, written and directed by Michael Moore

29 June 2004
Insurgency forces speedup of Iraqi "handover"
Is the US military preparing another massacre in Fallujah?
Bush's European visit: opposition from the people and prostration by their leaders
US Supreme Court declines to order release of Cheney energy taskforce papers
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 sets box-office records
Australian Labor's u-turn on pharmaceutical benefits
Union orders Broadway actors to stay on job contract expiration
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters on Kill Bill, Vol. 2, directed by Quentin Tarantino

28 June 2004
Green Party convention rejects Nader-Camejo ticket
US backflip over North Korean nuclear programs
Election Alternative meets in Berlin - Another safety valve for German social democracy
Western Sahara: Resignation of UN envoy James Baker puts referendum in doubt
Australia: Workers First union leader plea bargains for suspended sentence

26 June 2004
Torture scandal becomes focus of political warfare within US government circles
On eve of Milwaukee convention: Green Party divided over Nader campaign
Canadian Elections: NDP conceals right-wing program with activist rhetoric
Beheading of Kim Sun-il fuels South Korean protests over troop deployment
Poland and the European elections
Scores of deaths in British barracks unaccounted for
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 June 2004
Washington renews war crimes immunity in "sovereign" Iraq
Canada's premier business daily calls for re-election of Liberals
Canadian Elections: - The Bloc Québécois a political instrument of the québécois elite
Chinese military exercise raises tensions with Taiwan
Britain: Teenagers driven to depression and suicide by exam pressures
Australian Labor leader backs down on Iraq troop withdrawal
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
A culture at the end of its rope - Kill Bill, Vol. 2, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino

24 June 2004
As Abu Ghraib crisis deepens - White House torture documents portray an outlaw regime
Iran: escalating tensions behind capture of British sailors
Dress rehearsal for torture in Iraq - Former US soldier speaks on near-deadly beating at Guantanamo
Michael Moore loses appeal against R rating for Fahrenheit 9/11
Sectarian violence in Pakistan's commercial capital
Recent bomb attack in Cologne's Turkish district--"no political background?"
Australian government dismisses damning report on child detention

23 June 2004
The beheadings of Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-il
Fury in Fallujah after US air strikes
Iraqi prime minister foreshadows martial law
SEP submits petitions to qualify for Illinois State House campaign
What is the United Kingdom Independence Party?
82 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2002-2003
Russian liberal intelligentsia's view of the Kremlin under Yeltsin and Putin - Tales of a Kremlin Digger, by Elena Tregubova
Detroit school workers organize wildcat strike against job cuts
US actors vote overwhelmingly for strike authorization

22 June 2004
Caught by 9/11 panel in lie over Iraq-Al Qaeda ties, White House responds with more lies
US balance of payments gap widens again
Merrill-Lynch report: concentration of wealth at the top resumed upward spiral in 2003
European elections: debacle for the German SPD
Britain: families depend on credit to survive
Jakarta expels foreign critics: a new attack on democratic rights
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

21 June 2004
Divisions predominate despite agreement on European constitution
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 comes under right-wing attack
New prime minister installed in Nepal
India: victims seek prosecution of Union Carbide officials over Bhopal disaster
French riot police dispatched to Tahiti following election upset

19 June 2004
Rumsfeld, Rice tied to torture in Iraq
Election alternative: Jobs and social justice --a new reformist trap for German workers
Germany: Report shows Berlin sinking deeper into poverty
Sri Lankan president resorts to another extra-constitutional measure
Ireland votes to curtail citizenship rights
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Warrior and anti-warrior Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen

18 June 2004
No evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties: 9/11 commission undermines another Bush war lie
US killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in "precision" strikes
Canadian Elections: - Leaders' debates characterized by posturing, half-truths and outright lies
Release Hicks, Habib and all Guantanamo Bay detainees
Howard government aids and abets US torture
London meeting: European elections "a sea change in political life"
ICFI public meeting in Paris
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

17 June 2004
Washington Post publishes memo implicating White House in torture of prisoners
SEP to hold Toronto meeting on Canadian, US elections
Four British soldiers face court martial over Iraq abuses
Iraq's new prime minister, the CIA and their record of terrorist bombings
The Greens, the Socialist Alliance and John Pilger
Industrial nations tie foreign aid to support for "war on terror"

16 June 2004
The growing irrelevance of the G8 summit
European elections: Socialist Equality Party of Germany receives nearly 26,000 votes
SEP congressional candidate launches lawsuit against early filing date in Ohio
Press statement of Ohio SEP candidate David Lawrence
Vanunu affair lays bare the vindictive and undemocratic nature of the Israeli state
Spain: Zapatero willing to send troops to Haiti
Dengue outbreak in Sri Lanka highlights deteriorating public health services
Smug and rather pointless - Coffee and Cigarettes written and directed by Jim Jarmusch
Remembering Ray: a tribute

15 June 2004
European governments rocked by EU election results
US torture in Iraq, Afghanistan: Authorized at the highest levels
Canada's business elite considers throwing its weight behind the "new" Conservatives
Meeting opposes Australia's draconian "anti-terror" laws
Enron tapes expose blatant criminality of corporate America
Quality higher education: members of the working class need not apply?
Ambon communal violence flares up amid Indonesian presidential poll
New York City: Second immigrant construction worker killed in two weeks
Workers Struggles: The Americas

14 June 2004
Britain: Labour suffers a rout in local elections
Kerry's approach to McCain: Democrat seeks bipartisan pro-war ticket
New Indian government program: - Assurances to big business and empty promises for working people
Mexico summit: Europe seeks to challenge US domination of Latin America
Britain: Young workers face poverty in old age
New York City workers' protest demands new contracts, wage hikes
Home health and day care workers strike in New York

12 June 2004
Iraqi resistance rejects interim government, fighting continues
India: Behind the rout of the Telugu Desam Party-a portrait of World Bank social engineering
Chinese police dragnet marks 15 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
Nigeria: General strike against fuel price increases
New German immigration law sanctions political censorship
The case of Metin Kaplan - A lesson in the functioning of the German "rule of law"
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 June 2004
UN Security Council rubberstamps Washington's continuing subjugation of Iraq
The 'fiery' speeches of Mr. Gore
NATO expansion and the political crisis in Europe --Part two
After years of incarceration, Australian government recognises Afghans as refugees
Canada: Further concessions extorted from Air Canada workers
US Justice Department opens investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Letters on "Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): An Obituary"

10 June 2004
Abu Ghraib and the failure of American society
Further evidence that FBI was informed of 9/11 terror attacks
Reports find pervasive and increasing sexual abuse in the US military
NATO expansion and the political crisis of Europe---Part one
Lutte Ouvrière festival in Paris - Silence on the Iraq war and defence of the headscarf ban
Russia's Putin announces further attacks on living standards
New Zealand Labour government cuts off Maori claims to the foreshore

9 June 2004
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): An Obituary
Sri Lanka's new government signs up for US "war on terrorism"
Berlin: Successful rally concludes PSG European election campaign
US Fed set to lift rates
US federal judge rules anti-abortion law unconstitutional
Britain: Royal Mail plans worker buyout
Letters from our readers
Gillo Pontecorvo, director of Battle of Algiers, speaks to WSWS
"Stay close to reality"

8 June 2004
Chalabi, Iranian spies and the crisis of the Bush administration
France : Demonstrations against Bush and in defence of the health service
Email indicates Cheney involved in Halliburton deal in Iraq
Spanish visit by Syria's Assad highlights differences between Madrid and Washington
Sri Lanka: Police attack teacher trainee protest
New law on Russian referendums: crude attack on democratic rights
Party to challenge early filing deadline Petition drive completed for SEP congressional candidate in Ohio
Workers Struggles: The Americas

7 June 2004
Behind the resignation of CIA Director George Tenet: The Bush administration begins to break up
Behind the political crisis in Taiwan
Georgia sends troops to border with South Ossetia
More tortured manoeuvres in Papua New Guinea parliament
San Francisco International Film Festival 2004--Part 4: Viola Liuzzo: martyr in the struggle for social equality, "She wanted equal rights for everyone,no matter what the cost!"
Interview with Paola di Florio director of Home of the Brave
Interview with Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, daughter of Viola Liuzzo
The significance of the Momart art fire

5 June 2004
Australian PM shares a farcical White House media conference with Bush
Australian SEP public meeting: Iraq has become a military and political debacle for the US
New US Iraq resolution - German chancellor Schröder declares his support for Bush
At least six killed in Lebanese fuel protests
Trotskyism in postwar USSR: the record of an anti-Stalinist youth group in the early 1950s
Workers Struggles:
Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Workers Struggles:
Europe, Middle East & Africa

4 June 2004
Nick Beams addresses Australian public meetings - The Iraq war and the international working class
Australia: SEP public meetings discuss Iraq war
Change of date: Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Britain - No to the European Union--Yes to the United Socialist States of Europe
US Army's expanded "stop-loss" program prevents thousands from leaving military
Oil city attack destabilises Saudi Arabia deepens threat of world slump
Draconian emergency powers imposed in Nigeria state
The politics of opportunism: the "radical left" in France Part seven: Lutte Ouvrière and the Fourth International
San Francisco gallery owner attacked by right-wing thugs

3 June 2004
Washington installs new puppet regime in Baghdad
Pro-war US newspaper admits: Bush is a liar
Amnesty International report highlights human rights abuses in "war on terror"
Germany: Former SPD chairman Lafontaine defends police torture
Canada's Arar inquiry prepares to whitewash intelligence establishment
Sri Lankan government deeply mired in financial difficulties
Blair government's strategy to police Britain's Muslims leaked

2 June 2004
Petitions filed to put socialist candidate on ballot - SEP stand against Iraq war evokes strong support in Maine
Maine: SEP campaign faced arcane ballot requirements, private property restrictions
Pentagon secretly investigated detainee deaths as homicides
Australian government lies exposed on Abu Ghraib torture
Inside Fallujah: An insightful report on US atrocities against Iraqi civillians
Leaked government memo reveals US-British tensions over Iraq
Five right-wing tickets contend for the Indonesian presidency
The enduring significance of the Emancipation Proclamation
San Francisco International Film Festival 2004--Part 3 Several new filmmakers, but ongoing problems

1 June 2004
US makes tactical retreat before Iraqi uprising
Continued killings in eastern Sri Lanka threaten to undermine ceasefire
An exchange on Nader, Kerry and the US war in Iraq
Britain: Thousands more people could be infected with vCJD
The Americas

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