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World Socialist Web Site Archive: October 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 October 2005
The political implications of the Libby indictment
US judge orders release of Guantánamo hunger strikers' medical records
SEP campaign in Sri Lankan election: interest in a socialist alternative
Mexican rights group exposes government's whitewash of student massacres
Interview with Mexican Committee of 68 member - Students were the main targets of the dirty war
UK poverty report draws attention to widening inequalities
"Bali Nine" alleged drug traffickers set up for execution by Australian police
Serious problem, treated by not so serious people - North Country directed by Niki Caro

29 October 2005
Iraq war is the real "underlying crime" in the Libby indictment
Energy companies announce record profits amidst soaring prices for US consumers
Big business lobbies step up pressure on Germany's grand coalition
Poland: Lech Kaczynski elected president in low voter turnout
Ibero-American summit criticises US policy
Australia: jobs decline amid signs of economic downturn
US passports to contain remotely readable computer chips
Britain: attorney general prevents prosecution of police who killed Harry Stanley
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Fighting backwardness - The Aristocrats, directed by Paul Provenza

28 October 2005
Collapse of the Miers nomination: Bush administration bows to the ultra-right
Power outages, gas lines, hunger fuel Floridians' anger after Hurricane Wilma - "People had ample time to prepare," says Gov. Jeb Bush
Fire kills at least 11 at Amsterdam airport detention centre
The financial imbalances of a "bizarre world"- Exhibition at International Center of Photography
Images of El Salvador carnage reprised in light of Iraq war
India: Advani resigns as BJP president amid party crisis
Indian migrant workers in Oman speak to the WSWS - Unemployment and rising living costs forced us to seek jobs in the Gulf
Canada: ex-indépendantiste premier calls for intensified assault on working class
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

27 October 2005
Bush administration seeks legal sanction for torture
Thomas Friedman and Iraq: A bad case of amnesia
Iraq referendum produces a divisive and illegitimate result
US and Britain seek UN backing for action against Syria
Sri Lankan SEP holds election meeting in Kandy
Germany's grand coalition leaders suppress internal party discussion
Following the elections - The German Green Party: open to all offers
US Senate resumes attack on antiwar MP George Galloway
US colleges and universities increase tuition again

26 October 2005
US death toll hits 2,000-grim milestone in a criminal war
Bush names another "free market" ally of Wall Street to succeed Greenspan at the Federal Reserve
The Birmingham riots: Against racial politics-for class unity - Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
Sri Lankan presidential election: false promises and the real record on education
Howard government abandons Australian citizen sentenced to death in Singapore
French workers demand justice over asbestos poisoning
Order broadens surveillance of Internet users
PBS film documents Rumsfeld's role in authorizing torture

25 October 2005
Friedman on Iraq--the "thinking" behind the New York Times's debacle
After the Kashmir earthquake warnings of a second disaster
Iraqi interior ministry accused of assassinating defence lawyer in Hussein trial
US military suppresses information on death of contractors in Iraq
BC teachers vote to end strike
Florida Medicaid privatization plan approved - Major step in destruction of entitlement program
Australia: Damning report on the illegal deportation of Vivian Alvarez
Dissent suppressed at Oxford Union
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

24 October 2005
Washington seizes on UN report to threaten Syria
UAW-GM deal: a new stage in the corporate assault on American workers
Rigging accusations surround Iraq referendum result
Austrian state elections: a clear rebuff of government attacks on social welfare
South Africa: nearly one million farmworkers evicted since 1993
Orgy of nationalist propaganda follows Chinese manned space flight
Vancouver International Film Festival 2005--Part 2 - Working class life and other problems

22 October 2005
Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2005 Sri Lankan presidential election - The socialist alternative to war and social inequality
US auto union goes to court against its own members
US soldiers caught on film desecrating bodies of Afghans
The new German parliament shows its true face
Canada: BC Federation of Labour moves to end teachers' strike - Union officials force vote on "facilitator's" report
Security guards attack striking San Francisco hospital workers
Spain: refugees killed, survivors abandoned in Moroccan desert
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 October 2005
Spanish court orders arrest of US soldiers for war crime - Warrant issued in killing of cameraman José Couso
The Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Kashmiri earthquake: lessons for the working class
Germany's new parliament: democratic fig leaf of an authoritarian government
British Columbia teachers strike in grave danger
US Senate rejects increase in minimum wage
British military investigator found hung in Basra
Australia: Privatised road tunnel creates havoc in Sydney
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

20 October 2005
Bush vows crackdown on immigrant workers
German: Interior Minister Schily's parting shot--a blatant attack on freedom of the press
Australia: Leaked "Anti-Terrorism" Bill details draconian police-state plans
Lack of government preparation for flu pandemic
Guantánamo Bay hunger strike enters third month
After New York governor bars "Freedom Center" - Plans for World Trade Center site in disarray
Letters from our readers

19 October 2005
Legal lynching of Saddam Hussein begins in Iraq
What can be expected from Germany's grand coalition?
Indian and Pakistani nuclear ambitions: another barrier to effective earthquake relief
New Orleans: school staff face massive cuts in jobs, benefits
As support, walkouts grow - Union and NDP leaders conspire to close down British Columbia teachers strike
Australian government launches major assault on workers' conditions and rights
New York's subway terror threat--was it a hoax?
Return of Soares to politics shows depth of Portuguese crisis
Vancouver International Film Festival 2005--Part 1 - Iraq and American life

18 October 2005
Judith Miller and the New York Times-accomplices in a war based on lies
US military massacres dozens in wake of Iraq referendum
Britain: public meetings discuss Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism
Refco collapse in US poses some troubling questions
US auto union in deal with GM to slash health benefits
EU in crisis over Turkish membership
Northwest Airlines union submits plan to cut 89 percent of members' jobs for rank-and-file vote
Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 October 2005
Washington, predictably, hails Iraq constitution vote
Toledo, Ohio: Neo-Nazi march sparks riot
British Columbia teachers strike poses need for a working-class political offensive
France: CGT betrays ferry workers' fight
Los Angeles: city of the stars becomes US homeless capital
Repression in southern Thailand fuels diplomatic tensions with Malaysia
Signs of life - Two new Australian films: Look Both Ways and Little Fish

15 October 2005
Iraqis to vote on neo-colonial constitution
Oppose Blair's police-state measures - Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain)
What is in Blair's anti-terror bill?
Ohio Delphi workers denounce company plan to halve wages and slash jobs
Right-wing Social Democrat Steinbrück named finance minister in German grand coalition
Bush video conference with troops in Iraq: poorly scripted, poorly performed
Report denounces "violation of human rights" - Thousands of young offenders in US face life behind bars
British Columbia: Courts seize union assets, but teachers remain defiant
As British Columbia teachers strike erupts - Canadian TWU terminates Telus workers' struggle
Interviews with locked-out Canadian Telus workers
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 October 2005
White House, Congress press plans for major cuts in social programs
Polish presidential election: playoff between two right-wing candidates
Australia: high oil prices provoking protests and discontent
Social inequality reaches new heights in California
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Microsoft and RealNetworks settle antitrust case
British playwright Harold Pinter awarded Nobel Prize in literature

13 October 2005
Resentment grows among earthquake victims in Pakistan and India
Videotaped beating in New Orleans-the ugly face of police repression
Moqtada al-Sadr refuses to call for a no vote on Iraqi constitution
BC teachers strike shakes Campbell Liberal government
Britain: Letters reveal police cover-up over Menezes shooting
Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International - Part 3
Letters from our readers

12 October 2005
Germany: Grand Coalition under chancellor Merkel - A government in defiance of the voters' will
The Australian media on the origins of terrorism
Sri Lankan presidential election: 13 candidates but few choices
Iraqi regime orders arrest of ex-officials in $1 billion theft
Britain: De Menezes family demands justice in police murder
Interview with American Library Association leader: "This government stands completely exposed"
London's Tate gallery censors work citing fear of offending Muslims
Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International - Part 2

11 October 2005
Sri Lankan presidential election: the economic agenda behind the phony promises
American Enterprise Institute conference - Demoralization grips Iraq war's ideological architects
British Columbia teachers defy anti-strike law, court rulings
Robert Fisk addresses Sydney audience on history, journalism and Iraq
Delphi outlines plant closings, wage-cutting in US bankruptcy filing
Michigan bookstores host signings for The Crisis of American Democracy
Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International - Part 1
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Toronto International Film Festival 2005-Part 5 - The wars inside and out

10 October 2005
Devastating quake kills 20,000 in Pakistan and India
Bush White House crisis deepens: The contradictions of the Miers nomination
Hurricane inflicts massive death toll in Guatemala
Australian government instigates move to jail journalists
Spanish court convicts 18 alleged Al Qaeda members
Lecture eight: The 1920s--the road to depression and fascism - Part 5
Letters from our readers

8 October 2005
Terrorism speech in Washington - Bush responds to political crisis with lies and new war threats
British press attempts to resuscitate the Conservative Party
Restrictive bankruptcy bill to remain in place for Hurricane Katrina victims
Parts supplier threatens bankruptcy, plant closings - Delphi demands unprecedented wage cuts from US auto workers
Foreign capital pours into China's banks
Turkey: trampling on free speech continues - Novelist Orhan Pamuk faces jail terms
Lecture eight: The 1920s-the road to depression and fascism - Part 4
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

7 October 2005
Bush seizes on flu threat to press for martial law power
Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy
Germany: broad agreement for a grand coalition - Still no resolution of chancellorship
Sri Lankan SEP holds first election meeting in Colombo
Polish parliamentary elections: record abstentions and swing to right
Leading Indian daily calls for suppression of strikes and unions
Allegations of £1 million in arms bribes paid to Pinochet
Lecture eight: The 1920s-the road to depression and fascism - Part 3
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

6 October 2005
Iraq's constitutional referendum makes a mockery of democracy
New Orleans lays off half its workforce
One-day national strike in France: over a million march against Gaullist policies
New York Times reporter Judith Miller testifies on exposure of CIA agent
Fuel price hikes raise political tensions in Indonesia
Lecture eight: The 1920s-the road to depression and fascism - Part 2
Toronto International Film Festival 2005--Part 4 - Art and the social element
An interview with Shonali Bose, director of Amu

5 October 2005
Bush picks right-wing crony for Supreme Court
SEP public meetings in Britain - Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism
Israeli offensive in Gaza targets Hamas
Interest in the SEP's presidential campaign in Sri Lanka's north
Australia: Labor premiers join hands with Howard at "anti-terror" summit
Home heating costs to break records in US
Lecture eight: The 1920s--the road to depression and fascism - Part 1
A letter on the FBI murder of Puerto Rican independence figure
Letters from our readers

4 October 2005
US housing official: rebuilt New Orleans will have fewer poor blacks
Answer the French government/corporate offensive against workers with socialist internationalism
Another terrorist atrocity in Bali
Sixty million Indian workers strike against government economic policies
Germany: After Dresden by-election, chancellor question remains open
Norway: Labour elected thanks to hostility to Conservatives
Australian government boosts profits of private childcare operators
Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over "proletarian culture" - Part 4
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A devastating exposure of Iraq war - Occupation: Dreamland, directed by Ian Olds and Garrett Scott

3 October 2005
William Bennett's 'hypothetical' on racial genocide - A spreading stench of fascism
Behind the DeLay indictment: vicious infighting within the US ruling elite
Ukraine: after the "Orange Revolution," power returns to the oligarchs
Young African workers killed in Spanish enclave
Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over "proletarian culture" - Part 3
Toronto International Film Festival 2005--Part 3 - Scars of war
An interview with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, co-director of Gilaneh

1 October 2005
Brighton conference: The political shipwreck of New Labour
New York Times' Friedman proposes "endgame" bloodbath in Iraq
The "depacification" of the German left - Right-wing praise for Green leader Fischer's foreign policy
New Orleans prisoners left to drown after Katrina struck
Britain: Education Bill to extend privatisation of state schools
Tensions rising between Quebec government and public sector workers
Bulgaria: grand coalition to form after weeks of wrangling
Elderly woman becomes another victim of Australian immigration policy
California housing bubble: an impending disaster for working people
Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over "proletarian culture" - Part 2
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

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