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World Socialist Web Site Archive: April 2006

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.

29 April 2006
Hillary Clinton, the Democrats and the Iraq war: A socialist alternative
France: Government launches assault on immigrants
Lies surround first death of an Australian soldier in Iraq
Survivor of West Virginia mine disaster says respirators failed to work
Amnesty International documents European complicity in secret US rendition programme - Part 2: Collaborating with CIA kidnappers
Canada: Bloc Québécois props up Conservative government
Britain: Government faces rising anger over jobs cut in National Health Service
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
A letter on Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

28 April 2006
As support for Bush plummets, no alternative from Democrats
Britain: Blair denounces liberal critics for opposing attacks on democratic
Fox News commentator becomes White House spokesman--a further turn to the right
SEP meeting launches California ballot drive
Amnesty International report exposes European complicity in secret US rendition programme - Part 1: The fate of three Yemenis
India: government policies lead to terrible toll in rural suicides
Australia: New evidence of safety concerns as hopes fade for miners trapped underground
Job cuts begin in New Zealand as economy shrinks

27 April 2006
Deal on US bases sought - Rumsfeld, Rice fly to Baghdad to back new prime minister
Open warfare erupts in Sri Lanka
Bush courts Azerbaijani president as part of build-up against Iran
US: Chief Democrat on ethics panel hit by corruption charges
Jenissa Ryan: the violent death of an Australian aboriginal teenager
Letters from our readers

26 April 2006
A socialist response to the massive rise in fuel prices
Behind the installation of Jawad al-Maliki as Iraqi prime minister
Gazprom threat increases tensions in Europe
Solomon Islands PM quits amid mounting opposition to Australian occupation
Racial demagogy mars New Orleans mayoral election
Union leader jailed for New York City transit strike
By-elections fail to end Thai political crisis
Egypt: Report on ferry disaster condemns official corruption

25 April 2006
Global growth rates rise, but the foundations are shaky
Nepalese king bows to mass protests and offers to recall parliament
Police kill strikers - Mexico: Armed siege of steel mill reveals escalating class war
Indian Stalinists reaffirm support for UPA government
US: Students protest juvenile's death in Florida "boot camp"
Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 April 2006
Chinese president's visit underscores Washington-Beijing tensions
Peru: Nationalist ex-officer Humala to face APRA's Garcia in runoff election
Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party to hold May Day meeting in Colombo
French Polynesian president faces deepening crisis over pro-independence comments
Pension cuts and inequality wiping out retirement for American workers
Four months after Sydney's racial violence: government campaign continues against Middle Eastern youth

22 April 2006
White House shuffle: Bush shifts personnel but continues program of war and reaction
Union faces millions in fines, jailing of president - Reprisals against New York transit workers show need for a new political strategy
British military doctor court martialed for refusing to serve in Iraq
A mea culpa on Iraq by pro-war journalist Johann Hari
Sri Lankan president recruits union leaders to police public sector workers
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

21 April 2006
Shiite leader bows to US demands as Iraq slides further into civil war
Socialism, culture and American political life: - WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh to speak in San Francisco
Australian troops dispatched to Solomon Islands to suppress local population
More revelations of US profiteering and corruption in Iraq
In wake of mass immigrant protests - US government arrests record numbers in factory raids
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Michael Haneke's Caché
The artist has not done the most difficult work

20 April 2006
Tel Aviv suicide bombing: An atrocity that benefits Zionism and imperialism
The generals' revolt and the decay of US democracy
SEP candidate John Burton to speak at public meeting in Pasadena, California
The Lula government and the "new ruling class" - The definitive bankruptcy of centrism in Brazil
Britain: Documentary reveals plan for coup against Wilson Labour government--Part 2
Britain unprepared for bird flu threat
Poor conditions in East Timor spark riot by sacked soldiers
Dennis Gansel's Before the Fall - Training schools for Hitler's "Thousand-Year Reich"

19 April 2006
The economics of militarism - Hillary Clinton outlines Democrats' big business agenda
The very rich in America: "The kind of money you cannot comprehend"
Sri Lankan peace talks on the verge of collapse
Britain: Documentary reveals plan for coup against Wilson Labour government--Part 1
New York City: random searches for public school students
A mixture of technical know-how, moral anger, and all-American barbaric yawp - Kienholz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Letters from our readers

18 April 2006
Lawsuit details AT&T cooperation in illegal government spying on Americans
The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain--Part 2
New Zealand government extends Afghanistan military operations
Growing unrest in Indonesian Papua
British government restricts recruitment of non-EU doctors
Fall, but no decline - The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History
Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 April 2006
Germany: Social Democratic Party loses another chairman
The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain--Part 1
Indian Supreme Court gives green light to sell off Mumbai mill lands
Behind the Indian press's adulation of Sonia Gandhi
Australian television program highlights censorship of climate scientists
A closer look at Kierkegaard - Review of Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, by Joachim Garff

15 April 2006
Rumsfeld and the generals: Splits, recriminations over Iraq debacle
Background to the recent events in France - The "Lisbon Strategy" and the European trade unions
An American oligarch: Former Exxon CEO leaves company with massive payout
In wake of state elections - German Greens, Conservatives draw closer together
Detroit mayor demands city's poor foot bill for garbage pick-up
Substandard conditions for institutionalised children in Sri Lanka
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 April 2006
Leak investigation puts spotlight on Bush war lies
Gerhard Schröder, Gazprom and German foreign policy
France: Victim of smear campaign, worker injured in anti-CPE protest emerges from coma
Canada bans LTTE under draconian anti-terrorist legislation
The Iraq war and the eruption of American imperialism - Part Two
Mexican workers fired for attending immigrant rights rally in Detroit
Papuan "crisis" sparks debate over Australian intervention
Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

13 April 2006
US threats against Iran--the specter of nuclear barbarism
Australian SEP public meetings discuss third anniversary of Iraq war
The Iraq war and the eruption of American imperialism - Part One
Inquests find Israeli military guilty of killings of British civilians
Desperate African immigrants risk crossing to Canary Islands
Sophie Scholl: The last days in the life of a German anti-fascist
Letters from our readers

12 April 2006
Center-left alliance wins Italian election by razor-thin majority
France: Protests continue despite government retreat on "First Job Contract"
France: How Lutte Ouvrière aids unions' betrayal of struggle vs. Gaullist regime
CEO pay in US continues its relentless climb in 2005
Widespread protests erupt against Nepal's King Gyanendra
Australia: Employers rush to use draconian new industrial relations laws
Use of police infiltrators raises fresh questions about "terrorist" raids in Australia
German politicians propagate xenophobia in reaction to Berlin school violence
Spike Lee's Inside Man: Asking for so little

11 April 2006
French government withdraws "First Job Contract," enlists unions in assault on job security
US: Over a million protest against anti-immigrant legislation
The Delphi crisis: Socialism and the American autoworker
Daniel Pipes and the unfolding civil war in Iraq
MI5 colluded with CIA extraordinary renditions from Britain
Canada: Security certificates overturn long-standing democratic rights
US-India deal on agricultural research: no benefit for India's rural poor
Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 April 2006
Washington considering nuclear strikes against Iran
New charges of genocide against Hussein over Kurdish "Anfal" campaign
Anti-immigrant politics kill "reform" bill in US Senate
US-China trade tensions escalate
Western concern at China's growing involvement in Africa
Letters from our readers

8 April 2006
Bush approved security leak to smear Iraq war critic
North Carolina man tells Bush certain simple truths
Anti-immigrant politics kill "reform" bill in US Senate
Political background to the CPE protests - French workers in revolt: November-December 1995
Canada: Conservative Throne Speech promotes social reaction and militarism
Local elections in Sri Lanka set stage for further political turmoil
Britain: Inquiry into death in custody whitewashes racist police brutality
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

7 April 2006
The resignation of Tom DeLay and the crisis of the US two-party system
France: Protests lodged with Gaullist government over police provocations
Parliamentary elections in Italy - Mudslinging obscures lack of alternative
Sri Lanka: As 200,000 workers stop work, unions prepare to retreat on pay demand
Wisconsin towns vote for immediate US military withdrawal from Iraq
Three years after looting of Iraqi National Museum: an official whitewash of US crime
Australian man jailed on evidence derived from torture
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

6 April 2006
French unions hold talks with government in move to end "First Job Contract" strikes
Air Force colonel publicly rebukes US Supreme Court justice
Discontent grows against Kurdish nationalist regime in northern Iraq
Behind the collapse of Ukraine's "Orange Revolution"
Europe's energy crisis sharpens antagonisms with Russia
Turkey: Twelve dead and hundreds injured in Kurdish protests
Australian state government launches new wave of school closures

5 April 2006
France: As millions protest government attacks, unions signal retreat on "First Job Contract"
Supreme Court shirks Padilla appeal against "enemy combatant" detention
Thai prime minister steps down in bid to defuse political crisis
Democrats duck Senate hearing on Bush censure motion
SEP candidate in California: Extend full rights to all immigrants!
New phone-tapping powers in Australia
National tensions at EU summit centre on energy demands
German engineering workers stage warning strikes
New Zealand: young workers campaign for better pay and conditions

4 April 2006
A socialist strategy for workers' power: the only answer to France's "First Job Contract"
France: University and high school students demand general strike
CPE à la Merkel: Job protection laws to be gutted in Germany
SEP candidate in California: Extend full rights to all immigrants!
US-British diktat makes mockery of "democracy" in Iraq
World Trade Center tapes expose chaos of September 11 response
A closer Russia-China "strategic partnership" cemented with oil and gas
Tensions between Australia and Indonesia over asylum for Papuan activists
Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 April 2006
France: Crisis deepens over government's "First Job Contract" legislation
US secretary of state meets angry Iraq war protests in England
Forbes's billionaires list and the growth of inequality in Russia
The way forward for Sri Lankan public sector workers
Melbourne's Commonwealth Games: glitter covering glaring inequality
Winslow Homer (1836-1910): Poet of the Sea- Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Letters from our readers

1 April 2006
France: President Chirac enacts "First Job Contract" legislation
France: LCR's Besancenot provides left cover for labour bureaucrats' treachery
US media reacts to French protests with hatred and fear
US Supreme Court hearing on Guantánamo tribunals bares attacks on basic rights
British companies draw huge profits from occupied Iraq
After new details on FBI cover-up before 9/11 - Zaccarias Moussaoui case goes to the jury
US auto supplier Delphi moves to cancel union contracts
Bush administration presses for speedy adoption of Indo-US nuclear accord
Despite peace talks, Sri Lanka drifts towards civil war
Seven years after US-led war on Yugoslavia - Deadlocks continue at Kosovo final status talks - Part Two
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

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