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World Socialist Web Site Archive: January 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.

31 January 2005
Iraq elections set stage for deeper crisis of US occupation regime
Pakistan: amid mounting crises, Musharraf twists and turns
Ukraine: Yushchenko nominates anti-Russian millionairess as prime minister
Sri Lankan president imposes anti-democratic emergency laws
Germany: behind the ultra-right provocation in Saxony's parliament

29 January 2005
Congressional Democrats line up behind Bush request for $80 billion in war spending
Rumsfeld charged with war crimes in Germany
May skip Munich conference
Report documents torture by US-backed Iraqi police
Court martial of British soldiers hears allegations of abuse orders
Germany: redundancies loom at Opel
Workers Struggles:
Asia, Australia and the Pacific

28 January 2005
Cheney at Auschwitz: an insult to the memory of Nazism's victims
Australia's tsunami aid package: neo-colonialism laced with hypocrisy
Anger over Sri Lankan government's "rehabilitation" plans
Britain: government proposes house arrest of terror suspects
Eleven dead in southern California train derailment
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
Letters from our readers

27 January 2005
The Iraq election: a travesty of democracy
Druba Jyoti Majumdar: pioneer Indian Trotskyist dies
Iraq crisis dominates Bush press conference
Australia: Labor's crisis deepens as its new leader resigns, and quits politics
Russia: wave of protests against welfare cuts
Abkhazian elite come to settlement with Kremlin
Two reports expose social conditions in Oregon
The dawn of reformism in the US - Triangle: The Fire that Changed America, by David Von Drehle

26 January 2005
David North to speak at Sydney bookshop event
Mounting provocations against Venezuela - Washington backs kidnapping of Colombian guerrilla exile in Caracas
US occupation damages ancient sites at Babylon - Imperialism and cultural vandalism in Iraq
Sharp divisions in Jakarta over foreign presence in Aceh
Academy fails to nominate Fahrenheit 9/11: Hollywood's olive branch to Bush
Letters from our readers

25 January 2005
The Asian tsunami disaster: causes and consequences - WSWS and Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Colombo
American media whitewashes Bush's global bullying
Europe alarmed by US threats against Iran
France: strikes reveal lack of programme to fight austerity measures
Beijing on heightened alert after the death of Zhao Ziyang
Why has India blocked foreign tsunami aid to the Nicobar and Andaman islands?
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Film on African catastrophe conceals more than it reveals
Hotel Rwanda, directed by Terry George

24 January 2005
British court martial bares war crimes against Iraqi civilians
UK Labour government wracked by Blair-Brown feud
US and Australian governments delay release of Guantánamo detainee
Sri Lanka: the JVP's bogus appeal for "unity" and "voluntary labour"

22 January 2005
The logic of the irrational: Bush's inaugural address and the global strategy of American imperialism
The social roots of the tsunami disaster
Mass strikes by French public sector workers
The death of Mandela's son and the ANC's AIDS policy
Spain: National talks break down as big business demands offensive on wages
Britain: rise in "superbug" cases linked to decrease in hospital cleaning staff
Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
The absence of democratic sensibility in American filmmaking - Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood

21 January 2005
Bush's second inauguration - America's day of shame
Tens of thousands protest Bush inauguration in Washington
Tsunami survivors in southern India speak to the WSWS
Four Britons released from Guantanamo - Lawyer charges "savage torture" at hands of US
Germany: Hartz IV measures begin to bite - Cheap labour, harassment, massive cuts in jobless benefits
Australia: Labor opposition caves in on unfair dismissal legislation

20 January 2005
Inauguration Day 2005: imperial delusions and political reality
Bush inauguration: corporate America throws a party
US carrying out acts of war against Iran, magazine reports
New Yorker journalist corroborates murder allegations against Iraq's prime minister
Fallujah two months after the US military assault
The "City of Mosques" has become the "City of Rubble"
Death by "drowning" - Germany: another African immigrant dies in police custody
Australian policeman murdered in the Solomon Islands

19 January 2005
Bush tells Washington Post he is not accountable for Iraq war lies
Massive police presence for Bush inauguration
Abu Ghraib abuse trial shields Pentagon, White House war criminals
South Indian fishing villages devastated by tsunami
Klansman arrested in 1964 killings of civil rights workers
Australia: James Hardie signs non-binding agreement on asbestos victims' claims
Fredric Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated
At Venice's Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
Letters on a review of Martin Scorsese's The Aviator

18 January 2005
US officially ends hunt for Iraqi WMD
China's tsunami aid: political interests not humanitarian concern
On-the-spot report - Hospital staff in tsunami-hit eastern Sri Lanka speak of their experiences
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Christian right forces attack "blasphemous" British television comedy
Modigliani--an artist between worlds
Letters from our readers

17 January 2005
The invasion of Iraq and the crisis of American and world capitalism
Rights group urges prosecution of Bush officials responsible for Iraq torture
Thai government puts tourism ahead of the poor in tsunami relief effort
Sri Lanka: the day the tsunami devastated Hambantota
Canada to lead chorus of support for sham election in Iraq
Portugal: political crisis deepens ahead of February elections

15 January 2005
After the 2004 US elections: the Socialist Equality Party and the struggle for the political independence of the working class - Part Two
White House blocked Senate ban on torture
“Suicide by cop”: Marine provokes police shootout to avoid return to Iraq
Mbeki facilitates US-Sudan peace deal
Brazil: profit and poverty fuel Amazon deforestation
Australia's disability pensioners to be "coerced" to work
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 January 2005
The Asian Tsunami Disaster: Causes and Consequences - WSWS & Socialist Equality Party Public Meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
After the 2004 US elections: the Socialist Equality Party and the struggle for the political independence of the working class
Growing anxiety in US ruling circles over Iraq debacle
New York Times calls for postponing January 30 election
Sri Lankan president puts military in charge of relief operations
A consensus choice for attacks on democratic rights - Bush nominates Chertoff to head Homeland Security Department
Detroit mayor demands mass layoffs and cuts in city services
US releases Mamdouh Habib and four British prisoners from Guantánamo Bay
Report reveals the catastrophe in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
When more could have been more - The Motorcycle Diaries, directed by Walter Salles

13 January 2005
Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism--Part Three
The "Salvador option" - Pentagon plans death squad terror in Iraq
US doctors tied to torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib
"Support for our struggle is growing" - Father of Guantánamo Bay prisoner speaks with WSWS
On a medical team to an LTTE-controlled area
Journalist took $240,000 to push Bush education program
Why this dishonest portrait of a despicable figure? - The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan

12 January 2005
Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism--Part Two
CBS purges producer, executives for anti-Bush broadcast
Under the guise of "humanitarianism", US marines land in Sri Lanka
Extent of tsunami destruction along African coast slowly emerges
Palestinian election: a travesty of democracy
US bankruptcy judge terminates contract of US Airways workers
US military "mistake" claims 14 lives in occupied Iraq
Workers Struggles: The Americas

11 January 2005
Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism--Part One
How much "aid" will reach the tsunami survivors?
Sri Lankan medical student speaks about relief work among tsunami victims
US defends "evidence" obtained through torture at hearing for Guantanamo prisoners
Spain: Popular Party seeks to destabilise Socialist Party government
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 takes People's Choice Award
More letters on the tsunami disaster

10 January 2005
Democrats rubber-stamp Bush victory in Electoral College
People of war-ravaged Jaffna hit hard by tsunami
India: tsunami warnings could have been made
Oil giant Yukos and the struggle for Russian energy sources
Portugal: inquiry concludes bomb killed Prime Minister Carneiro in 1980

8 January 2005
Iraq elections loom as debacle for US occupation
Gonzales nomination hearing: US Senate welcomes a war criminal
Tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka's east speak to the WSWS
WSWS journalist interviewed on Democracy Now! program
Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific
“We’re all a pack of strays” - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, directed by Wes Anderson

7 January 2005
Gonzales hearings: Senate to confirm defender of torture as US attorney general
Hypocrisy and self interest at tsunami summit in Jakarta
Insurers relieved by low-level exposure to tsunami disaster
Broad Front reassures US and local elite - Uruguay: victorious left turns sharply to the right
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
A question and reply on the 1974 Heath government in Britain

6 January 2005
Powell declares tsunami aid part of global war on terror - Imperialism in Samaritan's clothing
On-the-spot-report - Devastation on the east coast of Sri Lanka
As 109th Congress reconvenes - Bush to resubmit ultra-right judicial nominees
US client Yushchenko to assume Ukraine presidency
Leading critics detained - Beijing tightens political control over dissent
European Union continues to build a "fortress Europe"
Romania: elections in Europe's poorhouse
Letters on the tsunami disaster

5 January 2005
Tsunami disaster strips away Blair's humanitarian pretence
In the wake of tsunami calamity - Indonesian army steps up war in Aceh
Washington prepares international network of permanent detention camps
US government makes closing arguments in frame-up of New York attorney Lynne Stewart
Death toll reaches 185 - Demonstrators demand "justice" in Argentine nightclub blaze
New Zealand parliament passes Civil Union Bill
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Four films - Alexander, directed by Oliver Stone; Closer, directed by Mike Nichols; Ocean's Twelve, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Ray, directed by Taylor Hackford

4 January 2005
South Asia disaster appeal: White House tries to cover up Bush's moment of truth
India: over 14,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced
Two prisoners shot dead as the tsunami hit Sri Lanka
Germany: leniency for deputy police chief who threatened torture
Britain: police given new powers against the young
Artie Shaw: a remarkable twentieth-century American life

3 January 2005
The Asian tsunami: why there were no warnings
On-the-spot report from Sri Lanka - Working with a medical team in Hambantota
Torture practices in the German army
The drug industry's chokehold on America's health care
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to do About it, by Marcia Angell M.D.
Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific

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