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World Socialist Web Site Archive: June 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.

30 June 2005
The New York Times closes ranks with Bush on Iraq war
Ireland's dilemma after rejection of European Union budget
Sri Lankan Supreme Court overturns convictions in Bindunuwewa massacre
New wave of police "anti-terror" raids in Australia
Letters from our readers

29 June 2005
Bush at Fort Bragg-fear-mongering, lies and desperation
For social equality. For the United Socialist States of Europe. Vote PSG. - Statement of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party) on the 2005 German elections
Democrats praise treatment of Guantánamo detainees
Whatever happened to "new" Europe? - Britain and new eastern EU members at loggerheads over budget
Former colonial official named Hong Kong chief executive
Over his head - Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan
The impact of war on daily life in Sri Lanka - Ira Mediyama, written and directed by Prasanna Vithanage

28 June 2005
Washington in crisis over opposition to Iraq war
US military sinks further into the Iraqi quagmire
New York teenager deported to Bangladesh - FBI held girl as "suicide bomber" suspect
Two Australian "terrorist" trials set dangerous precedents
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters on Ethiopia
Letters on the media and the war

27 June 2005
Italy seeks arrest of 13 CIA agents for abduction of Egyptian cleric
Supreme Court upholds government land grabs for developers
Tsunami aid deal plunges Sri Lanka into deeper political turmoil
Protest against poverty - Couple set themselves on fire at Chile's presidential palace
Whitewash of Christian fundamentalist bigotry at US Air Force Academy
Under mounting pressure, Australian government modifies refugee detention
Donald Fell case: Bush administration attempts to impose death penalty on Vermont

25 June 2005
White House aide Karl Rove witch-hunts Iraq war opponents
Instability follows final round of Lebanon elections
Blair's Britain and what it means for Europe
Protests erupt in tsunami-devastated areas of Sri Lanka
Germany begins deportations of Afghan refugees
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
A letter from a flight service worker
Letters from our readers

24 June 2005
Durbin's tearful apology - Democrats make cowardly retreat on Guantánamo torture
Blair threatens European parliament: "change or die"
Unions provide platform for Democrats at Michigan rally vs. school cuts
SEP leaflet distributed at Michigan rally - New political strategy needed to defend public education
Questions surround rescue of kidnapped Australian in Iraq
Germany: report exposes massive state spying
Why are they smirking? - Mr. & Mrs. Smith, directed by Doug Liman
Letters on the Terri Schiavo case

23 June 2005
The New York Times' Joseph Lelyveld: another "liberal" defense of torture
Ringleader in 1964 civil rights murders convicted of manslaughter
Increasing attacks on US and allies in Afghanistan
Tense Iranian election goes into second round
US: mass layoffs continue - Job cuts hit retail, auto industries
Ethiopia: West plays down murder of demonstrators
You can speak your truth more easily in the theatre - An interview with Australian playwright Hannie Rayson
Letters on the Smithsonian Institution and Intelligent Design

22 June 2005
The Washington Post and the Downing Street memo
Blair steps up campaign against "old Europe"
Bush, Congress snatch funds from injured 9/11 workers
Political turmoil surrounds Philippines President Arroyo
Living with the fear factor - Death by Survival, written by Elizabeth Ruiz, directed by Dori Salois
Interview with Elizabeth Ruiz, author of Death by Survival

21 June 2005
Budget conflict splits European Union
Florida Governor Jeb Bush renews persecution of Michael Schiavo
The media and Terri Schiavo: the case of Fox News
Case of 1964 civil rights killings goes to the jury
US deficit hits a new record
Over 100 children drown as flood season begins in China
Basque parliamentary negotiations strengthen regionalism
Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 June 2005
Bush administration defends Guantánamo prison camp
Northwest Airlines workers protest attack on pensions and jobs
An attack on science: Smithsonian Institution to show film on Intelligent Design
Peasant unrest continues in China
Portuguese government launches emergency austerity measures
Nanotechnology and the treatment of cancer

18 June 2005
Bush faces growing opposition to Iraq war
Pakistan: Bush ally Musharraf mounts terror campaign against telecommunication workers
Bush aide who doctored global warming documents joins ExxonMobil
Public defense system crisis denies justice to poor in US courts
Australia: Chinese defectors given cold shoulder
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
Letters from our readers

17 June 2005
Posada Carriles case - Venezuela demands US hand over CIA terrorist for trial
Sri Lankan government on the brink of collapse
Detention of US security contractors highlights "culture of impunity" in Iraq
German chancellor says he will not yield on Agenda 2010 cuts
Swing to right-wing Christian leader Aoun in Lebanese elections
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
Letters on the Michael Jackson verdict

16 June 2005
Autopsy proves Terri Schiavo was in vegetative state
State Department cable details ethnic cleansing by US-backed forces in Iraq
Hundreds face trial for dictatorship's crimes - Argentine court strikes down amnesty for torturers
Sharp conflicts precede European Union summit
24 years after PATCO strike - US: dispute over air traffic control staffing
Fijian government moves to pardon coup plotters
New Zealand: Labour's election year budget under fire
Everyone's hope is no one's hope - Cinderella Man, directed by Ron Howard

15 June 2005
FBI inspector general's report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks
The Michael Jackson verdict
G8 agrees to paltry debt forgiveness package
US and EU provoke trade friction with China over textiles
Germany: sacked Opel worker fights victimisation
Bush administration begins to privatize the skies
Jakarta pressures Acehnese rebels over peace deal

14 June 2005
US auto union signals capitulation on GM health-care costs - Stock soars following meeting of UAW officials
Global interest rate "conundrum" recalls the 1930s
Australia: New workplace laws to slash pay and conditions
US: Five children killed in Philadelphia house fire
Supreme Court upholds federal ban on medical marijuana use
Mass protests against housing shortages in South Africa
Spanish court sentences Argentine "dirty warrior" to 640 years
Workers Struggles: The Americas

13 June 2005
Pakistani troops seize telephone network, strike leaders arrested
The dead end of national reformism - Germany: Lafontaine and his "Party of the Left"
Bush's gift to big tobacco
Government case exposed conspiracy of US tobacco giants
Rafsanjani favored to win Iranian presidential election
Home foreclosures surge--no housing boom for poor families in the US
Artists Fernando Botero and Steve Mumford depict the Iraq war: Part 2 - New York art world's apology for the Iraq war

11 June 2005
Democrats and Guantánamo: an exercise in damage control
Sri Lankan government in crisis over tsunami aid
Canada's Supreme Court sanctions drive to dismantle public health care
Florida trial begins on terror charges against four Palestinian activists
Terrorism case in Lodi, California begins to unravel
Turkey: poverty increases with economic expansion
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
Eight characters in search of an inner life Palindromes, written and directed by Todd Solondz
Letters from our readers

10 June 2005
Animosity toward military service produces desperate US recruiting measures
White House pushes for renewal of Patriot Act
Blair and Bush on Africa: pretense of aid masks predatory aims
Suicides highlight desperate conditions facing Sri Lankan farmers
Britain: the death of James Callaghan - A good Labour man
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

9 June 2005
General Motors announces plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs in US
Bolivia's president resigns warning of civil war
Highest Wall Street pay tops $1 billion a year
America's internal "gulag"-the imprisonment of immigrants in the US
Erection of Buddha statue produces communal tensions in Sri Lanka
The Howard government, the Australian media and the Schapelle Corby case
Spain's Popular Party seeks to destabilise PSOE government

8 June 2005
A show trial in the making: Iraqi officials outline charges vs. Saddam Hussein
Amnesty International refuses to retract torture charges against US
Forum in New York City on "the question of torture"
Bush administration intensifies pressure on North Korea
Record number of US millionaires
Canada: ex-union bureaucrat to head Parti Québécois executive
An absurdist play fails to withstand the test of time - The Chairs, by Eugene Ionesco, directed by Benedict Andrews
Social conditions in Poland--a letter from a reader

7 June 2005
Bush at the OAS: a profile in imperialist hypocrisy
US shows OAS delegates American democracy in action
The US media and the French referendum
Britain: police officers face murder charge over killing of Harry Stanley
Australia: "People smuggler" trial highlights cover-up of refugee deaths - SIEV X survivors give evidence
Workers Struggles: The Americas
An exchange over the nature of the JHU in Sri Lanka
Letters from our readers

6 June 2005
Hundreds swept up in Baghdad crackdown
Republican assault on public broadcasting targeted liberal commentator Bill Moyers
US: slowest job growth in two years fuels concerns on economy
European Union: political lobbyists oppose disclosure
Ohio sheriff delivers reactionary tirade
Life as a low-wage worker in Australia - Dirt Cheap, Life at the wrong end of the job market by Elisabeth Wynhausen, Macmillan, Sydney 2005
Letters from our readers

4 June 2005
Bush picks anti-regulatory hard-liner to head Wall Street oversight board
Netherlands: referendum revealed broad opposition to EU constitution
Pakistani workers revolt against PTCL privatization - Security forces poised to attack occupation
British lecturers' union overturns boycott of Israeli academics
PNG court rules Australian police presence unconstitutional
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
Artists Fernando Botero and Steve Mumford depict US abuse in Iraq war - Pulling one's head out of the sand

3 June 2005
Watergate in historical perspective: Why does today's criminal White House face no similar challenge?
Washington sees threat to "stability" - Bolivia rocked by mass protests over energy law
Further details released of British Army abuses in Iraq
New evidence confirms killing of Afghan villagers by Australian soldiers
Germany: divisions and conflicts within the SPD-Green coalition
Sri Lankan SEP commemorates veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist
Review of Robert Service's Stalin. A Biography- Part two
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

2 June 2005
The Netherlands: decisive "no" vote on European constitution
After the defeat of the referendum in France - Chirac appoints a new government
US and Iraqi government troops begin lockdown of Baghdad
As $1 billion is earmarked for stadium - New York City teachers mark two years without a contract
Lebanon's election and Washington-style democracy
Cancelled high-level meeting fuels tensions between China and Japan
Review of Robert Service's Stalin. A Biography - Part one
Fatal stumble in the jungle - The People's Temple, written and directed by Leigh Fondakowski, at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre

1 June 2005
European Constitution rejected - The political consequences of the French "no" vote
US military recruitment crisis deepens
Catholic Church calls for extra-parliamentary opposition to Spanish government
US child poverty on the rise--statistics mask depth of crisis
Australian state government appoints non-elected cabinet members
An exchange of letters on the British elections and Labour lefts
Letters from our readers

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