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World Socialist Web Site Archive: December 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.

30 December 2006
The execution of Saddam Hussein
More US troops to Kuwait, as Bush moves to escalate the war in Iraq
Ethiopian troops occupy Mogadishu
Two years after the Asian tsunami: Sri Lankan survivors face civil war and squalor
Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak out
Maryland Reservist killed by police after refusing deployment to Iraq
Government report concedes India's Muslims are a socially deprived, victimised minority
Germany: Left Party-PDS and Election Alternative agree on a common reformist program
Australian court orders re-trial on terrorist charges
Imperialist interests over-ride the "rule of law" - Blair government cancels British Aerospace-Saudi arms inquiry - Part two
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2006

29 December 2006
US-backed UN resolution heightens tensions with Iran
Another deadly pipeline explosion in Nigeria
Financial Times cautions the "plutocrats"
Two years after the Asian tsunami: thousands still suffering in India
Imperialist interests over-ride the "rule of law" - Blair government cancels British Aerospace-Saudi arms inquiry - Part one
Workplace deaths soar in Canada
China admits to organ trade from executed prisoners
Belgian TV hoax exposes political tensions
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

28 December 2006
US backs Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia
Former US President Gerald Ford dies - Pardoned Nixon for Watergate crimes
Six-party talks on North Korean nuclear program reach dead end
Australia: A grim start to the summer bushfire season
Fast Food Nation offers some bitter truths about America
Letters from our readers

27 December 2006
A legal farce: Iraqi court confirms Saddam Hussein's death sentence
Rollback of post-Enron corporate regulations in US
Bloc Québécois' support for Canada's Afghan war exposed
German government considers deploying air force in Afghanistan
Britain: Poorer student numbers fall as tuition fees are hiked up
Nanni Moretti's The Caiman: in the end, a chilling exposure of Berlusconi

23 December 2006
US Marines charged in Haditha massacre of Iraqi civilians
Iran's Holocaust conference and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism
German Social Democratic Party chairman badmouths the unemployed
Britain: Conservative Party feigns concern for the poor-the better to oppose welfare state benefits
Sri Lankan plantation workers angry at unions and government
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

22 December 2006
Power struggle in Saudi Arabia: a sign of regional instability
Christmas cheer for Wall Street executives - Goldman Sachs boss gets $53.4 million bonus
Report exposes European complicity in CIA torture flights
Former Australian military chiefs challenge government over Iraq war
The International Socialist Organization: A profile of middle class radicalism
Fijian crisis drags on as military delays formation of interim administration
Berlin Senate adopts new austerity measures

21 December 2006
Year-end press conference - Bush sets stage for major escalation in Iraq
Judge in Padilla case orders mental evaluation
Sri Lankan unions betray plantation workers strike
Britain's establishment mourns Chilean dictator Pinochet
Britain: High Court rejects Jean Charles de Menezes family appeal
Australia: one year after the Cronulla riots, racialist provocations continue
US breast cancer decrease tied to drop in hormone replacement therapy use
US: Hundreds sickened by contaminated food
Chronic drought conditions create hardship in Australian rural areas
The Robert Kennedy phenomenon goes unexplored in Bobby

20 December 2006
Pentagon report paints grim picture for US in Iraq
Blair's Middle East tour: "Jaw, Jaw" in furtherance of "War, War"
Sellout at Brussels Volkswagen plant - Trade unions agree to mass dismissals
Canada: The Arar Affair and the RCMP Commissioner's resignation--the cover-up continues
Deep divisions dominate European Union summit
Darfur: Bush and Blair plan no-fly zone and consider air strikes against Sudan
US-China "strategic economic dialogue" underscores sharpening trade tensions
Argentina: landowners withhold meat supplies from country's population
Australia: High Court clears way for expansion of federal power

19 December 2006
Wall Street awards itself billions in Christmas bonuses
US general issues warning: politics must not interfere with 100-year "war on terror"
Strike by Sri Lankan plantation workers at the crossroads
Millions of Indian workers strike against Congress-led government's economic policies
UK troops rampage through Kandahar
Australia: No charges against police for killing Aboriginal prisoner
Thousands march in New York to protest police killing
Former Solomon Islands attorney-general acquitted of politically-driven charges
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters on art and culture

18 December 2006
Bush administration elaborates plans for bloodbath in Iraq
Abbas attempts a political coup on behalf of Washington
The German chancellor and the Baker-Hamilton report
Following botched Florida lethal injection - Executions on hold in two US states
Evidence surfaces that Indonesian military executed "Balibo Five" Australian newsmen in 1975
Oregon lawyer wins lawsuit over false arrest for Madrid bombings
Britain: Still no compensation one year after Buncefield explosion
Babel: Humanity is not the prisoner of fate

16 December 2006
Washington pushes ahead with plans for Iraq "regime change"
Israeli high court sanctions political assassinations
European disillusionment over the Baker-Hamilton report
Pakistan drops terrorism charges against key suspect in Heathrow bomb plot
Blair questioned in cash for peerages probe
Sri Lankan military launches new offensive in country's east
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Filmmakers turn their attention to Africa-with limited results
Letters from our readers

15 December 2006
Bush administration preparing to boost US troop strength in Iraq
Australian lawyers launch court bid to secure David Hicks's release from Guantánamo
"Antiwar" candidate boosts illusions in a pro-war party - Kucinich runs again for Democratic presidential nomination
US Supreme Court sloughs off right to fair trial in a murder case
German top banker and Mannesmann executives buy themselves free
New Zealand opposition leader quits
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Obituary: Naguib Mahfouz, novelist of Egypt and humanity
Letter from a correspondent in Poland

14 December 2006
Israel and the US threaten Iran and Syria
Bush administration conspires to replace Iraqi government
Millions to join one-day, all-India general strike
US immigration agents arrest 1,282 in raids at six meatpacking plants
New York State commission demands hospital closings
Half a million Sri Lankan plantation workers continue strike for higher pay
Striking plantation workers speak to the WSWS
Mel Gibson's Apocalypto: a painful experience

13 December 2006
Opposition in Baghdad among Kurdish, Shiite parties to Iraq Study Group
Mourning for Pinochet-US establishment shows its affinity for fascism
Japanese prime minister faces sharp fall in opinion polls
The role played by German VW works councils in the attack on Belgian workers' jobs
Britain: an acute social divide in housing
Workers Struggles: The Americas

12 December 2006
Democrats vow to continue funding Iraq war
From the archives of Marxism: lessons of the 1973 coup in Chile
60 million Americans living on less than $7 a day - US income figures show staggering rise in social inequality
Jeane Kirkpatrick: from "social democrat" to champion of death squads
Italian right wing mobilizes against Prodi government
West Bengal's Left Front regime suppresses protests against land seizures
Britain: Blair stirs up Islamophobia
Australian rallies demand release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay
Further letters to Sri Lankan authorities demand full investigation of SEP supporter's murder
Pianist Jay McShann, last of Kansas City's jazz giants, dies at 90

11 December 2006
Pinochet, Chile's former US-backed dictator, dead at 91
Blair's Washington summit: What next for Britain in Iraq?
Former detainees argue right to sue Rumsfeld over torture
Introductory remarks by World Socialist Web Site correspondent at Madrid congress on Spanish Civil War
Nepali Maoists to lay down arms and enter the government
Australia: Ajax workers facing loss of jobs and entitlements
Letters from our readers

9 December 2006
Iraq Study Group: a bipartisan coverup of Washington's war crimes
Sri Lankan president reimposes anti-terror laws in preparation for intensified war
US jobs report: More factory and construction jobs lost
German Green Party congress: "Peace" from the barrel of a gun
Australian Wheat Board inquiry: a threadbare whitewash
Britain: Asylum seekers protest treatment at detention centres
Workers Struggles: Asia Australia and the Pacific
Footy Legends: Australian suburban comedy recycles old myths

8 December 2006
Bush rejects Iraq Study Group report
Report documents extreme levels of global wealth inequality
Fijian military regime moves to suppress any opposition
Sri Lanka: "Heroes Day" speech a symptom of the LTTE's political bankruptcy
Inquiry finds Australian soldier's death in Iraq an "accident"
Canada: Parti Québécois seeks to rally business support
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
Casino Royale: the new James Bond film

7 December 2006
Iraq Study Group report highlights crisis of US imperialism in Iraq and at home
Massive US prison population continues to grow
Hundreds killed as Typhoon Durian lashes the Philippines and Vietnam
Vietnam signs up to World Trade Organisation
Rafael Correa declared new president of Ecuador
Sharp reversal for Social Democrats in Dutch elections
An appeal to the Orange Revolution's paymaster - Ukraine's president writes in the Washington Post
The Queen: Mr. Blair comes to the rescue

6 December 2006
Senate committee votes unanimously to confirm Bush nominee for Pentagon chief
Death toll continues to rise as Iraq war grinds on
Fijian government ousted in military coup
20,000 march against closure of Volkswagen factory in Brussels
Social polarization in American academia - Pay for US university presidents soars
Opposition parties fail to oust Taiwanese president
Britain is video surveillance capital of the world
A Christmas disaster for Illinois households - Illinois Democratic Party allows January 1 power rate increase
Letters from our readers

5 December 2006
Video reveals US torture of "enemy combatant" José Padilla
Secret US database on international travellers exposed
A socialist perspective for striking Sri Lankan plantation workers
Why the Canadian Liberals elected Stéphane Dion as new leader
Australian Labor Party's "fresh face" masks a pro-war, corporate agenda
Beijing prepares the army to repress domestic unrest
Scorsese's The Departed: Stop and think
Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 December 2006
The 2006 elections and the US two-party system - Bush, Democrats disenfranchise antiwar voters
Congress held in Madrid on 70th anniversary of Spanish Civil War
Spain: Socialist Party government betrays victims of Franco's dictatorship
US seeks Shiite collaboration in attack on Moqtada al-Sadr
Fijian political crisis intensifies amid continuing threats of a coup
Sri Lankan government brings down a war budget

2 December 2006
Nearly half of US Ford workers accept buyouts: A vote of no confidence in the United Auto Workers union
Volkswagen strike in Brussels enters third week - German VW workers express solidarity with Belgium colleagues
Australian Labor Party's latest leadership crisis comes to a head
Britain's prison population reaches record high
Britain: Calls for Herceptin breast cancer drug and healthcare rationing
Australia: Police report reveals real instigators of Cronulla race riots - Part 3
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Faux Fur

1 December 2006
Bush-Maliki summit: White House rejects any withdrawal from Iraq
NATO summit in Riga: Sharp conflicts over Afghanistan
Canada's Liberal leadership contest—a race to the right
Australia: national protests against Howard government's industrial laws
Workers speak out against Australian industrial relations laws
Washington meeting gives green light for Sri Lankan military offensive
Northern Ireland: The arrest of Kevin Fulton and the Omagh bombing
German Left Party leaders pay tribute to deceased spy boss Markus Wolf
Spain: Amnesty International details abuse of migrants
Australia: Police report reveals real instigators of Cronulla race riots - Part 2
Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
From a reader: an incident in Toronto

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