ON THE WSWS
Donate to
the WSWS!

News Feed
Contact the
WSWS
Editorial Board
New Today
News & Analysis
Workers Struggles
Arts Review
History
Science
Polemics
Philosophy
Correspondence
Archive
About WSWS
About the ICFI
Help
Books Online

OTHER
LANGUAGES
German
French
Italian
Russian
Polish
Czech
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Portuguese
Turkish
Sinhala-
Tamil
Indonesian

LEAFLETS
Download in
PDF format

WSWS : Help : Archive :

World Socialist Web Site Archive: May 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 May 2005
French electorate rejects European constitution
More on Newsweek's retraction of the Koran story
World economy becoming more dependent on US debt
Turkey: IMF plan demands new attacks on working people
A dark and complex beauty - Caravaggio: The Final Years at the National Gallery
Letters from our readers

28 May 2005
Amnesty International report denounces US abuses of human rights
US press takes umbrage at Amnesty's "gulag" charge
Amiens rally for "no" vote on EU constitution - The French left and the politics of evasion
Laura Bush, Mubarak and Washington's "crusade for democracy"
Australia: school principals given power to select teachers
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
The essential things go unexplained - Crash, directed by Paul Haggis

27 May 2005
US puppet government announces state of siege in Baghdad
Sunni elite moves toward an accommodation with US occupation of Iraq
At Paris meeting on eve of vote - French Socialist Party leaders slander "no" voters in referendum on EU constitution
Dutch government facing likely defeat in upcoming referendum
12 perish in Arizona desert - Season of death on US-Mexican border
Aid conference highlights political impasse in Sri Lanka
The nature of Stalin's purges: A letter to the Wall Street Journal
British Broadcasting Corporation employees strike over job cuts
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

26 May 2005
Senate "compromise" on judicial nominations: Democrats prop up a crisis-ridden administration
Bush pledges to veto stem cell bill
French referendum on European constitution: the official debate
OECD warns time is "running out" to correct global imbalances
Football star Pat Tillman's father: "They blew up their poster boy" - US Army deliberately withheld details of Ranger's "friendly-fire" death
Budget vote leaves Canada's Liberal government hanging by a thread
Australia: rifts emerge in Howard government over refugee detention
Real ID Act: Congress takes another step toward a police state

25 May 2005
Vote "no" in French referendum on European constitution - For the United Socialist States of Europe
Wall Street Journal alibis for Nazi-style crimes in Iraq
SEP public meeting to pay tribute to veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist
Fortune Global Forum celebrates corporate profiteering in China
Obscure Sri Lankan group claims responsibility for Tamil journalist's murder
Social mobility lower in US and Britain than in other advanced countries
Correction

24 May 2005
US military atrocities and the moral choice facing the American people
Afghan president feigns outrage over latest US torture revelations
Germany: Schröder calls for early federal election after Social Democratic debacle in North Rhine Westphalia
Brazilian daily reports multinationals aided Latin American death squads - GM, Chrysler, VW implicated
International Commission calls for Kosovo independence
Hack work not scholarship: the decay of American liberalism - The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff, Edinburgh University Press 2004
Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 May 2005
Republicans launch power grab in US Senate
US indebtedness a growing threat to global stability
Pakistan: US-backed military regime mounts new wave of repression
Proposed Indonesian criminal code enshrines Suharto-era repression
Letters from our readers

21 May 2005
Nuclear treaty talks at a stalemate - Washington threatens North Korea, Iran while expanding US arsenal
Bush unveils plans for US colonial office
The French referendum: Sarkozy leads turn to right in ruling party
The two Americas: Ronald Perelman's $1.45 billion and the fate of Sunbeam's workers
Britain: judge overturns verdict of unlawful killing in Harry Stanley case
Japan renames holiday to honour wartime Emperor Hirohito
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific

20 May 2005
US issues more demands on Iraqi government to include former Baathists
Queen's Speech in Britain - Blair's third-term agenda: privatisations, attacks on civil liberties
Election in North Rhine-Westphalia - The implications of the SPD's decline
US: civil liberties group charges FBI intimidation of political activists
Vigilantes patrol US border: the politics of the Minuteman Project
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

19 May 2005
British MP Galloway blasts US Senate on Iraqi oil probe- The politics of the "war on terror"
Two Australian academics openly advocate torture
Further bullying of US media - White House demands Newsweek "repair the damage"
On eve of non-confidence vote: - Canada: Tory MP defects to Liberals
Textile factory closure devastates Fijian economy
What happened to "African socialism"? - A reply to a reader

18 May 2005
UN report finds - US war in Iraq yields a social "tragedy"
Venezuela wants CIA terrorist extradited - Bush administration forced to detain Posada Carriles
Bush visit to Georgia increases tensions with Putin government
Turkey: military's nationalist campaign conceals rapprochement with US
Australia: Labor's budget reply makes pitch to big business
An eye for sale - Poverty forces Bangladeshi woman to turn to organ trade
US presses again on Chinese yuan and imports

17 May 2005
Clouds gather over world economy
Media bows to US torture regime - Newsweek retracts Guantánamo abuse story
Pentagon to realign domestic US military bases
Asian tsunami disaster: the historical and political issues - SEP/WSWS public meeting in Galle, capital of southern Sri Lanka
Notice to WSWS readers - Australian radio interview with David North available online
Britain: Labour presides over massive increase in health inequality
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

16 May 2005
Real wages fall as attack on US workers intensifies
How can they call themselves champions of democracy? - Sister of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes speaks out
More than 500 killed, thousands wounded - Uzbekistan: US "war on terror" yields a bloodbath
New study: US use of psychological torture systematic and unabated
Australia brushes aside East Timorese sovereignty in oil and gas deal
Canada: Tories want governor-general to use emergency powers to force new election
US: protest hits plans for stadium in New York City

14 May 2005
The Iraq occupation and the kidnapping of Douglas Wood
Outrage over Guantánamo abuse - Anti-US protests sweep Muslim world
Britain: Blair lurches right, dismissing calls for resignation
Uzbekistan: US-backed dictator drowns uprising in blood
Sri Lankan president on a political tightrope
US: first New England execution in 45 years
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
San Francisco International Film Festival 2005--Part 3 - There is no shortage of subjects

13 May 2005
Notice to WSWS readers - Interview with David North to be broadcast on Australian radio
Court approves termination of United Airlines pension plans
US: the panicked evacuation of Capitol Hill
May Day awards in China honour the wealthy elite
More horrors revealed in Australia's immigration detention centres
Germany: tribunal hears case of victimised Opel worker
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

12 May 2005
Bush denounces the Yalta Treaty of 1945
Iraq: US Congress approves $82 billion as colonial war grinds on
Britain: military families take legal action against Blair government
Australian budget bonanza for the wealthy
Germany: former SPD chairman Lafontaine and the Election Alternative
CEOs paid to live in second homes as: - Bush administration slashes funds for public housing
San Francisco International Film Festival 2005--Part 2 - Problems with history
Letters from our readers

11 May 2005
60 years since the end of World War II - Editorial of Gleichheit, magazine of the Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
US: states, federal government prepare massive Medicaid cuts
Victory Day celebration in Russia reveals deepening political and social tensions
Eruption of violence accompanies sham election in Togo
Latin America's social crisis Unemployment, child labor grow side-by-side
Howard government leaves "Bali nine" alleged drug runners to their fate
Japanese train crash linked to employee stress
A comment on Brecht in Los Angeles - Mother Courage and Her Children, by Bertolt Brecht, produced by The Antaeus Company

10 May 2005
Pentagon analyst indicted for leaks to Israel: a subterranean power struggle in Washington
On the 60th Anniversary of the victory of the Red Army over Nazism - Anti-Russian nationalism in the Baltic States Part two
Soaring birth deformities and child cancer rates in Iraq
Northern Ireland elections: deepening polarisation and the collapse of the Ulster Unionist Party
Workers Struggles: The Americas- San Francisco International Film Festival 2005--Part 1
What should be encouraged

9 May 2005
Ford and GM debt reduced to junk bond status- On the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army over Nazism
Anti-Russian nationalism in the Baltic States --Part one
Germany: Foreign Minister Fischer crawls before the right-wing opposition
Sri Lanka: JVP grovels to the Bush administration
Canada: Social democrats rush to aid of embattled Liberal regime
Forbes reports bonanza for world's billionaires
US: Kentucky Derby--'high rollers' and social misery
A sincere effort but not without limitations- Swades (Our Country), directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar

7 May 2005
Britain: Labour wins general election but suffers major losses
Beijing embraces former arch-enemy - Kuomintang leader visits Chinese mainland
Canada-US frictions intensify after Ottawa balks at joining missile defence
US imprisons Iraqi journalists without charges
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
What world is this? The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack

6 May 2005
Britain: Labour wins general election but suffers major losses
One year since the torture revelations at Abu Ghraib - Mistrial in reservist's court martial
Australia and the East Asian Summit: Howard's diplomatic "success" turn sour
As recruitment falls, top military official warns of strains on US forces
Supreme Court backs Bush against Gulf War POWs
Gunmen kill prominent Tamil journalist in Sri Lanka
IBM announces 13,000 job cuts
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Iraq: the dirty story - The Sand Storm, written by Sean Huze, directed by David Fofi

5 May 2005
Britain: The May 5 general election and the failure of Labourism
As Congress approves $82 billion more - Wholesale corruption exposed in Iraqi contracts
State Department: "We don't know if top terrorist is in US"
Media witch-hunts Australian author Hannie Rayson and her new play
An imaginative and courageous political exposure - Two Brothers, written by Hannie Rayson, directed by Simon Phillips and designed by Stephen Curtis
Letters from our readers

4 May 2005
US demands Iraq's new government repudiate "de-Baathification"
New Iraq war revelations hit Blair on eve of election
Britain: the myth of Labour's economic success
SEP May Day meeting in Colombo
US forced to back down on OAS presidency
Out of space? NASA delays relaunching of shuttle flights

3 May 2005
May Day 2005: Sixty years since the end of World War II--Part two
US steps up provocations against North Korea
US backs off genocide charge in Darfur
Massive protest forces end to prosecution of Mexico City's mayor
An appreciation of biologist Ernst Mayr (1904-2005)
Workers Struggles: The Americas

2 May 2005
May Day 2005: Sixty years since the end of World War II--Part one
Thirtieth anniversary of US imperialism's defeat in Vietnam
US growth rate points to global downturn
Bus-train collision kills 37 in Sri Lanka
Britain: lecturers' union boycott two Israeli universities
Letters from our readers

Return to the Archive Monthly Index