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World Socialist Web Site Archive: November 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 November 2005
Saddam Hussein trial resumes: a grotesque display of imperial justice
US-backed government in Iraq: "The same as Saddam's time and worse"
50,000 Katrina evacuees without permanent housing FEMA to stop paying hotel bills
Israel: Behind Sharon's break with Likud
Australian government deserts young man due to hang in Singapore
Clinton paints false picture of "progress" for Sri Lanka's tsunami victims
India in quandary over US-Iran conflict
One earthquake could leave two-thirds of Californians without drinking water

29 November 2005
Canada's Liberal government falls setting stage for January election
The Abramoff affair: Corruption scandal threatens Republican control of US Congress
The Abramoff affair: Snapshots from an empire of corruption
Sri Lankan newspaper advocates anti-democratic restrictions for future elections
The death of China's "red capitalist" and the 1949 revolution
Australia: Telstra to slash 12,000 jobs
Guardian newspaper forced to retract Noam Chomsky interview
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

28 November 2005
French Socialist Party congress backs government repression
Kashmir earthquake fails to advance India-Pakistan cooperation
Military trial of David Hicks and other Guantánamo prisoners deferred
Australia: "Welfare to work" Bill will enforce cheap labour
Larger mysteries left unsolved - Where the Truth Lies, written and directed by Atom Egoyan, based on the novel by Rupert Holmes

26 November 2005
Violence against occupation opponents continues in lead-up to Iraq election
Merkel elected as Germany's chancellor: grand coalition to implement social cuts
Bush administration plays to religious right in delaying contraceptive approval
Behind the LTTE's boycott of the Sri Lankan election
Peruvians demand extradition of ex-president Fujimori
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 November 2005
Australian "terror" raids target Tamil groups
The implications of Bush's diplomatic debacle in Asia
APEC: mass protests and political tension in South Korea
Thousands arbitrarily deprived of vote in Sri Lankan presidential election
Brutal clampdown by Ethiopian regime
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Letters from our readers

24 November 2005
Indictment of Jose Padilla: another chapter in Bush's war on democratic rights
British government threatens prosecution to suppress claim that Bush sought to bomb Al Jazeera
SPD party congress united behind Germany's grand coalition
French unions seeking end to national rail strike
20,000 demonstrate against US military torture training center
Report: Steep decline in Illinois workers' income
Sri Lanka: unemployed youth speak to WSWS
Poignant cries for freedom - Another country, edited by Rosie Scott and Thomas Keneally, Halstead Press and the Sydney branch of PEN
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 November 2005
GM job cuts will devastate North American cities
Sri Lanka's new president faces crisis over forming a government
Australia: right-wing columnists label political dissent akin to "terrorism"
US secures continued control of Internet naming system
Study documents exploitation in Indian call centres
Los Angeles Times fires liberal columnist Robert Scheer
Growing international tension over the Arctic

22 November 2005
General Motors to close 9 plants, slash 30,000 North American jobs
After the Sri Lankan election: what next for the working class?
France: Gaullist officials stoke up racism to justify state of emergency
Witnesses at Australian Senate hearings warn: "terror" laws aimed at dissent
India: removal of foreign minister points to struggle over extent of US ties
German trade unions rally to the grand coalition
The return of Dickensian London
Workers Struggles: The Americas

21 November 2005
Uproar in US Congress over Iraq withdrawal vote
New revelations of US military use of white phosphorus in Iraq
More rural suicides in Sri Lanka
Spain: labour reforms threaten "winter of discontent"
Solomon Island prisoners accuse Australian authorities of abuses
Letters from our readers

19 November 2005
Political conflict intensifies over Bush's Iraq war lies
Rajapakse narrowly wins Sri Lankan presidential election
Sri Lankan election: Wije Dias speaks at poll declaration
Iraq fraud arrests expose criminality of US occupation
US House of Representatives approves $50 billion in social cuts
Delphi plans to cut 24,000 US auto jobs
German coalition government accord: a declaration of war on working people
Basque separatist leader faces jail for "insulting" the king

18 November 2005
More evidence of US dirty war in Iraq - Torture centre discovered in Baghdad
The JVP and the political crisis in Sri Lanka
Presidential election interviews - Sri Lankan voters reveal deep disaffection
Right-wing smear campaign against antiwar vet Jimmy Massey
High inflation follows Indonesian president's fuel price hike
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
When is an 'antiwar film' not an antiwar film? - Jarhead, directed by Sam Mendes

17 November 2005
Sri Lankan election: Vote for Wije Dias and the Socialist Equality Party
France: state of emergency extended for three months
Memo exposes anti-democratic agenda of US Supreme Court nominee
FEMA to evict tens of thousands of Katrina victims
Political issues facing US auto workers discussed at Kokomo meeting
Students, parents rebuff US military recruiters
Police claims raise new questions about "terrorist" raids in Australia
Quebec public sector workers launch rotating strikes
American artists and American tragedy
Capote, directed by Bennett Miller

16 November 2005
Senate Democrats back Iraq war, Guantánamo prison camp
Australia: 500,000 workers demonstrate against Howard's industrial legislation
Australian workers denounce new industrial laws
Colombo meeting concludes Sri Lankan SEP election campaign
"Only the SEP advances a clear program against war and social inequality" - Colombo meeting participants attracted to internationalism
German parliament snubs Left Party's chairman for fourth time
Writing off Europe - Dead Europe, by Christos Tsiolkas

15 November 2005
The terrorist bombings in Jordan - A byproduct of US aggression
Sri Lankan elections: a conspiracy to prevent Tamils from voting
A soldier's story - Fugitive GI speaks to WSWS on Iraq war
Australian government rams through parliament draconian new workplace laws
Canada: union bureaucrats sponsor candidate for Parti Québécois leadership
After the deaths in Ceuta and Melilla - European Union agrees to set up holding camps for refugees - Part 2
Simon Wiesenthal: Nazi-hunter dead at 96--part 2 - "Only a regime which admits to historical truth can learn from the past"
New York University graduate student-workers on strike
Workers Struggles: The Americas
GM retiree denounces UAW "sham" vote to cut medical benefits
Letters from our readers
A tragedy presented, not explained - Innocent Voices, directed by Luis Mandoki

14 November 2005
Bush's counteroffensive on Iraqi WMD - A new wave of lies and intimidation
Ban on gatherings in Paris
Wall Street Journal defends torture
SEP debates radical "left" in Sri Lankan presidential election campaign
Market reform and Japanese nationalism: the twin policies of Koizumi's government
Canada: Social democrats withdraw support for Liberal government
Australian Wheat Board implicated in "oil-for-food scandal"
Simon Wiesenthal: Nazi-hunter dead at 96--part 1 - Only a regime which admits to historical truth can learn from the past
Soviet era posters at London's Tate Modern - From Bolshevik internationalism to Stalinist nationalism

12 November 2005
Legislating a war crime - US Senate moves to ban court review of Guantánamo detentions
France's state of emergency--Sarkozy threatens mass deportations
Sri Lankan budget: a brazen exercise in electioneering
Kansas school board passes anti-evolution science standards
A grand ceremony for Confucius: Beijing turns to the old imperial ideology
Bush administration retreats from probe of veterans' benefits
Britain: defence argues Spanish extradition could lead to human rights abuses
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
The pain you go through in this country to start a new life ... - La Ciudad, directed by David Riker; Bolivia directed by Adrián Caetano

11 November 2005
Answer British Terrorism Bill with a class-based defence of democratic rights
US: Senate Republicans demand probe into leak on CIA's gulag
Burying the lies on Iraq war - Judith Miller and the New York Times make a deal
Film documents American use of chemical weapons in Iraq
Thirty years since the "Canberra Coup"
A revealing episode in the Sri Lankan election: troops deployed against striking workers
Police seek to censor painting from Brixton Riots exhibition
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
An interview with Marcellino de Baggis, writer and director of Quintosole

10 November 2005
France: state of emergency escalates attacks on the rights of youth and workers
Second defence lawyer assassinated - More accusations of US-backed death squads in Iraq
US: off-year elections deal losses to Republicans
California Special Election: voters reject right-wing measures
US auto workers union launches sham "war" against Delphi
From Franz Müntefering to Mathias Platzeck - The German Social Democrats: on the way to "New Labour"
Sri Lankan presidential election: the NSSP and the dead-end of national opportunism
Anger mounts over Australia's anti-terror laws
US Senate feigns outrage over big oil's windfall profits
As jobs and wages decline - Wall Street bonuses expected to soar again in 2005
Novel about POWs wins PEN/Faulkner Award - War Trash, by Ha Jin
Letters from our readers

9 November 2005
Oppose the state of emergency in France!
Howard's terrorist "alert" leads to - Politically manipulated police raids in Australia
Bush: "We don't torture"--but don't put it in writing
Why US big business is pleased with Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court
Britain: Iraq murder court-martial collapses
SEP presidential candidate from Sri Lanka addresses Madras meeting
Indian Stalinists pledge to stamp out further IT work disruptions
After the deaths in Ceuta and Melilla - European Union agrees to set up holding camps for refugees - Part 1
St. Louis: 'urban revitalization' targets the homeless
Ceasing to be the voice of a generation - Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese

8 November 2005
"Steel curtain" in Iraq-another US war crime
France: "far-left" LCR refuses to take a stand on police repression
Within days of Howard's terror "alert" - Australian government seeks expanded powers to call out troops
Socialist Equality Party meetings in Sydney and Melbourne - Australia's "Anti-Terrorism" Bill: the framework for a police state
Australia: Socialist Alliance provides platform for supporters of Howard's police-state legislation
Rosa Parks and the lessons of the civil rights movement
As Congress prepares to expand Patriot Act- Report documents stepped-up FBI surveillance of ordinary Americans
Former US public broadcasting chairman resigns in disgrace
Tornado kills 22 in US Midwest
Improved quality of life for whom? - The New York Times endorses Mayor Bloomberg for re-election
New York City's Radio City Music Hall locks out musicians for holiday show
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A timely film on Murrow and McCarthy - Good Night, and Good Luck, directed by George Clooney

7 November 2005
Bush sinks in opinion polls, but Democrats offer no alternative
After 11 days of clashes between youth and police - French government and opposition back intensified repression
As protests against police violence spreads - High court declares Marseilles transport workers strike illegal
No deal in Argentina - Americas summit ends in debacle for Bush
Unanimous backing for Howard's emergency anti-terror laws - A revealing line-up in the Australian Senate
Sri Lankan filmmakers oppose military threats
Right-wing initiatives dominate California special election
Britain's Railtrack: shareholders flex their muscles against government
More than 5,000 Philadelphia transit workers continue walkout
Letters from our readers

5 November 2005
Bush's visit sparks upheavals in Argentina
Threats of violence against SEP meeting in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Eyewitness to Paris riots charges police with deliberate provocation
Unanswered questions about Australia's "terrorist" alert
Politics, socialism and the struggle of Delphi workers
An inside job--US Labor Department and Wal-Mart's secret agreement on child labor
Record numbers in US prisons
Women, children and immigrants top incarceration increases
A Little History is a dangerous thing - E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

4 November 2005
The CIA's global gulag
France: widening anti-police riots provoke government crisis
Australian legal experts condemn Anti-Terrorism Bill
A silver lining for Rumsfeld in the bird flu threat
Italy: Berlusconi changes electoral law to remain in power
Monsoon rains reveal social crisis in Bangalore, the city hyped as India's Silicon Valley
Canada: Telus workers reject concession-laden settlement
British government and security agencies seek to legitimise torture
The dangers of a global birdflu pandemic
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

3 November 2005
Democrats complicit in Iraq war lies - US Senate's closed session: The short, noisy reign of Harry Reid
Australia's "Anti-Terrorism" Bill: the framework for a police state
New Delhi bomb blasts a heinous crime
Germany: SPD chairman resigns in midst of grand coalition talks
Bush bird flu plan includes windfall for pharmaceuticals giants
Britain: Blunkett forced to resign from Cabinet
Australia signs military pact with the Philippines

2 November 2005
US military massacres Iraqi civilians near Syrian border
To silence opposition to police-state measures - Australian government declares "urgent" terrorist threat
Iraq election to exacerbate slide toward civil war
On eve of Americas Summit - Bush faces mass protests, opposition to trade pact in Argentina
Sri Lankan presidential election: - SLFP candidate issues a manifesto for communal violence and war
Paris hit by anti-police riots
The California Union Paycheck Initiative and the political tasks facing the working class - Vote "no" on Proposition 75! Break with the Democrats! For the political independence of the working class!
German minister employs Nazi vocabulary to describe long-term unemployed
London: demonstration demands end to shoot-to-kill policy
Letters from our readers

1 November 2005
Bush names favorite of Christian right to Supreme Court - Democrats back off of filibuster threat
Delphi demands US auto workers accept poverty wages
Sri Lankan SEP presidential candidate to address public meeting in India
Sharon government escalates military offensive against Palestinians
Australian minister admits unemployed will be compelled to accept inferior conditions
5,000 Philadelphia transit workers walk out
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Vancouver International Film Festival 2005--Part 3 - Strengths and weaknesses of Asian cinema

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