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World Socialist Web Site Archive: February 2005

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.

28 February 2005
US-Russian strains dominate Bush-Putin meeting in Bratislava
Australia: SEP launches Werriwa by-election campaign
Australia: teenagers killed in high-speed police chase through working class suburb
A reply to readers' letters on "The New McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill"
Conflict over Sudan on United Nations Security Council
The 55th Berlin Film Festival--Part 2 - Four films on Africa and the Middle East
Letters on artistic questions

26 February 2005
Bush in Germany: smiles cannot mask US-European conflicts
Germany: 15,000 demonstrate in Mainz against Bush visit
Torture charged in US case alleging plot against Bush
Town hall meeting on Social Security: Michigan Democrat seeks to contain popular anger
Western Australian election: a campaign of diversions
"High Ideals, Low Pay" --how the University of California exploits its employees
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 February 2005
Socialist Equality Party stands in Australian by-election - Support the socialist alternative in Werriwa
Financial markets shaken by US dollar scare
Australia: former leading intelligence official exposes government lies
Recruit's death highlights brutality of Marine training
German army to relieve US troops in Afghanistan
Turkey: paper workers occupy factory
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

24 February 2005
Bush in Brussels: US steps up threats of wider Mideast war
Asian tsunami disaster: the political issues- SEP/WSWS public meeting in Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka
Germany: expansion of DNA testing--a step towards genetic registration
Australian government's "terror alert" in Aceh backfires
Michigan artist sentenced to jail over mural nudity
UK charities say Blair government contravening children's rights
Further opposition to Australia's takeover in the Solomon Islands

23 February 2005
Australian government commits more troops to Iraq
New evidence of US torture in Iraq and Afghanistan
Spain: record abstention in referendum on European Union constitution
Quebec: government funding of private schools provokes public outcry
India's tsunami victims left without government assistance
Letters from our readers
The 55th Berlin Film Festival--Part 1
Social life and history intrude

22 February 2005
Bush in Europe: tensions boil beneath talk of transatlantic unity
World Socialist Web Site Review: March-May 2005 issue now available
NAACP resists investigation by IRS, charges political motivation
Bush signs bipartisan bill to curb class action lawsuits
Britain: radio programme exposes corruption and theft in Iraq
New Year for China's rural migrant workers
Workers Struggles: The Americas
An "uplifting" diversion in New York's Central Park - Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates"

21 February 2005
Extraordinary security measures for Bush visit to Germany
Trans-Atlantic tensions over EU plan to lift arms embargo on China
Egyptian government suppresses opposition while US turns blind eye
Sri Lanka: tsunami survivors in Jaffna criticise government
Arthur Miller, an American playwright

19 February 2005
Vote "no" in Spanish referendum on European Union constitution
US intelligence officials play the terrorism scare card, and make a damning admission
Kerry proposes 40,000 more troops, as Democrats back Bush war spending
Canada: Martin and Chrétien testify in corruption scandal
30 years in prison for crime committed by 12-year-old - US society punishes its most vulnerable
Mounting concerns over fate of tsunami victims in Aceh
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

18 February 2005
Bush names Negroponte as national intelligence director - A veteran of US subversion and dirty wars
Munich Security Conference - Schröder demands role for Germany as world power
CNN news chief steps down: right-wing purge continues in US media
Released Guantánamo inmate speaks out - Mamdouh Habib indicts Australian government
China's worst mine explosion in more than 60 years
NHL owners cancel North American ice hockey season
Social Democrats routed in Danish election
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Film on the verge of a nervous breakdown - La mala educación [Bad Education], written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar

17 February 2005
Mossad, the CIA and Lebanon - The assassination of Rafiq Hariri: who benefited?
Mahmoud Abbas and the degeneration of the Palestinian national movement--Part Two
France: high school students demonstrate against education "reforms"
Striking Sri Lankan bus workers defy government threats
Britain: Labour to privatise remains of public housing
New Zealand government extends military deployments in Afghanistan
Is this a novel of genuine anguish? - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, New York: Doubleday, 2003, 376 pp.

16 February 2005
US engineers provocation following assassination in Lebanon
Iraq election results reflect broad hostility to US occupation
On the spot report - Sri Lankan refugees speak out over inadequate aid--Part Two
Mahmoud Abbas and the degeneration of the Palestinian national movement--Part One
House passes "Real ID Act" - US legislation targets immigrants, refugees in "terror war"
Two mysterious deaths in Georgia's "Rose Revolution" regime
New evidence of over-marketing of Vioxx and other anti-inflammatory drugs

15 February 2005
Howard Dean named Democratic chairman: cosmetic change for a right-wing party
Socialist Equality Party to contest Australian by-election
On-the-spot report - Growing dissatisfaction in eastern Sri Lanka over lack of aid--Part One
US secretary of state offers Europe a "partnership"
US multinationals awarded huge tax break on foreign earnings
Workers Struggles: The Americas

14 February 2005
North Korea pulls out of nuclear talks
New attack on democratic rights in Lynne Stewart case - New York civil rights attorney convicted on frame-up terror charges
Divisions among union officials over "reform" of AFL-CIO
Japan outbids China for Siberian pipeline
Huygens probe lands on Titan: a scientific leap for mankind

12 February 2005
The further hemorrhaging of Detroit--city to shut 34 public schools
More evidence of US government's torture by proxy
New Zealand wages stagnate while share market booms
Britain: report documents widespread forced migrant labour
Britain: cancer death rates reflect social divide
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

11 February 2005
Bush administration tries to suppress evidence - US air traffic authority had multiple Bin Laden hijack warnings before 9/11
US judge rejects claim that Guantánamo detainees have no rights
US Army National Guard faces recruitment crisis
The new McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill
Sharon government continues land grab in East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza
Killing of LTTE leader raises danger of war in Sri Lanka
SBC buying AT&T for $16 billion--25,000 telecommunications jobs to go
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Needless tsunami deaths expose worldwide vulnerability and lack of US intervention

10 February 2005
Elliot Abrams: defender of death squads to direct US "democracy" crusade
Britain: house arrest proposals widely criticised
Scandinavian governments criticised for poor tsunami response
Thailand's right-wing populist wins national elections
Australia: recycled Labor leader says he will act for the wealthy
Poor, distraught and desperate: Oregon man threatens suicide on floor of state Senate
New York's public schools marred by corporate model, police repression
US deserter's refugee claim - Canadian government blocks consideration of legality of Iraq war
Lawyer for US deserters speaks with WSWS - "It cannot be irrelevant to a soldier that a war is legal or illegal"

9 February 2005
Bush's budget: government by fraud and lies
US budget slashes social spending to pay for war and repression
A socialist and internationalist perspective to confront the Asian tsunami disaster
Britain: Matthew Parris and the tsunami disaster - "Revelling" as the death toll mounts
France: half-million-strong protest against government attacks
Germany welcomes conference of war criminals, witch-hunts their opponents
Australian woman imprisoned for 10 months as an illegal immigrant
New evidence of Enron's criminal role in California's energy crisis
Medical bills cause more than half of US personal bankruptcies

8 February 2005
Amid sweeping cuts in US budget - Bush plans renewed assault on Medicaid
Jobs and wages picture remains bleak for millions in US
WSWS holds public meetings in Australia on Asian tsunami disaster
Sri Lanka: widespread discontent among tsunami survivors
UK government pushes ahead with privatisation of healthcare
Judge imposes pay cut on United Airlines mechanics - Assault on airline workers intensifies
Nepalese king seizes power with the backing of the military
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters on the Iraq elections

7 February 2005
Secretary of State Rice's tour
US-European rift deepens over Iran
SEP meeting in Sri Lanka explains social roots of tsunami disaster
Australian government persecutes released Guantánamo prisoner
Guantanamo videotapes expose brutality against detainees
General who led US Marines in Iraq says "It's fun to shoot some people"
Letters from our readers

5 February 2005
Iraq election sets stage for escalating political turmoil
Vietnam 1967 & Iraq 2005: using elections to justify criminal wars
French workers need a new political perspective - Political issues in the fight against the attacks of Chirac and Raffarin
Gonzales confirmed: war criminal to head US Justice Department
More British troops face court martial: seven accused of Iraqi civilian murder
Germany: 5 million unemployed--worst since World War II
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
A would-be assassin and his discontent - The Assassination of Richard Nixon, directed by Niels Mueller, written by Kevin Kennedy and Mueller

4 February 2005
WSWS replies to letters on Iraq's election and the US occupation
The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism - Part Four
David North speaks at Sydney's Gleebooks
A special report from Poland - Part 2: the Opel factory in Gliwice
New York subway fire exposes city's social and political crises
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
PBS officials cave in to Bush administration over children's program
Letters from our readers

3 February 2005
Bush's state of delusion: speech to Congress ignores crises at home and abroad
Facts and myths about Bush's plan for Social Security privatization
The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism - Part Three
US Federal Reserve lifts interest rates
A special report from Poland - Part 1: social misery in Silesia
British military plane downed in suspected Iraqi insurgent attack

2 February 2005
The American media and the Iraq election
The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism - Part Two
First-hand report - Forgotten tsunami victims: Burmese immigrants in Thailand
Detroit mayor rides in luxury as city decays
Britain: Labour and Tories target immigrants in run-up to election
Veteran British surrealist dies

1 February 2005
The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism - Part One
Kerry rejects call for Iraq troop withdrawal - Defeated Democratic candidate on "Meet the Press"
US military covers up suicide protest at Guantánamo Bay
Report reveals wide social division in UK higher education
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

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