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World Socialist Web Site Archive: June 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 June 2006
Supreme Court rules against Bush administration's military commissions
Israeli assault on Gaza threatens wider Middle East conflagration
Bankers' bank puzzles over state of world economy
Anti-flag-burning amendment to US Constitution fails by a single vote
Sri Lankan military directly implicated in two atrocities
Democratic operatives aim to bar SEP from Illinois ballot - Who are Jim Rogal and Liz Brown?
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
The Dardenne brothers' L'Enfant: an argument for a far more critical appraisal
Letters on Warren Buffett's philanthropy

29 June 2006
The political calculations behind Israel's assault on Gaza
North Korean "missile crisis"--another example of unbridled US militarism
47,600 GM and Delphi workers accept buyouts and early retirement
A vote of no confidence in the United Auto Workers union- Connecticut AFL-CIO endorses war hawk Joseph Lieberman for Democratic primary
Pakistan's US-backed dictator to stage bogus presidential election
US Supreme court issues more anti-democratic rulings
The logic of trade union politics - "Left" publications in Germany defend strike-breaking by Verdi union leaders
Tens of thousands march against Australian IR laws
WSWS interviews Australian workers about IR laws, the Labor party and the unions
An interview with James Longley, the director of Iraq in Fragments

28 June 2006
Israel launches military onslaught on Gaza
Bush, Cheney threaten New York Times over exposure of surveillance programs
Killing of Sri Lankan general: another sign of civil war
The Miami indictments: Manufacturing "terror" as a means of intimidation
Support the Socialist Equality Party campaign for the Berlin Senate
SEP candidate in Illinois holds press conference to announce petition filing for November ballot
Illinois Democrats prepare challenge against petitions to place SEP candidate on ballot
Britain: Former home secretary Charles Clarke questions Blair's survival
Australian government outlines pro-market agenda for its Pacific sphere of influence

27 June 2006
The philanthropy of Warren Buffett
Australian-led campaign pressures East Timorese prime minister to resign
Australia: Kim Beazley, the trade unions and Howard's WorkChoices legislation
A question and answer on Australia's trade union rallies
Sweden: Lessons of the Vaxholm builders' dispute
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters from our readers

26 June 2006
French Socialist Party publishes right-wing election programme
SEP to file petitions to place Joe Parnarauskis on the ballot in Illinois
Pentagon report on China highlights danger of nuclear war
US Supreme Court issues anti-immigrant ruling
Propaganda in the guise of a novel - Pretty Birds by Scott Simon, Australia, Hodder 2005, 351pp.
Powerful truths, limited aims: No Child by the Epic Theater Center in New York

24 June 2006
Miami "terror" arrests-a government provocation
New exposure of US government spying - Bush administration compiling massive database of bank records
The killing of US soldiers in Yusufiya: who's responsible?
Global markets stabilise but risks increase
Protests mount against harassment of SEP petitioners in Illinois
Britain: Threat of national postal strike
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 June 2006
US Senate backs indefinite occupation of Iraq
A reply to the mayor of Urbana, Illinois, on the harassment of SEP petitioners
The International Socialist Organization and the 2006 election
Shanghai summit: China and Russia strengthen bloc to counter the US in Asia
Fiji's economic conscripts: tragic victims of the war in Iraq
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Letters from our readers

22 June 2006
European Union-US summit in Vienna - Europe's leaders close ranks with Bush
Under the guise of peace, Sri Lankan government accelerates drive to civil war
As violence spirals in Iraq - Prosecutor demands death penalty in Hussein show trial
More letters protest harassment of SEP petitioners in Illinois
Britain: Book alleges US sent MI5 detailed file on London bomber Khan
Australian government retains detention powers

21 June 2006
Washington escalates slaughter in Iraq
World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party public meetings - The truth about East Timor: Why Australia's intervention should be opposed
Campaigners win broad support to place SEP candidate on ballot in California
Pentagon report targets China as a military threat
Lawyers for accused in Toronto terror plot charge authorities with abuse
A dangerous precedent: Australian man convicted of "preparing terrorism"
Indian prime minister ignores opposition to Narmada dam extension
Belgium: Racist murderer linked to Flemish nationalists

20 June 2006
American democracy in decay: US Congress debates the Iraq war
Champaign, Illinois officials uphold unconstitutional ban on SEP petitioners
Australian government presses ahead with plans to dominate East Timor
The US Supreme Court's "no-knock" decision: a frontal assault on democratic rights
Week one of the World Cup - While millions celebrate, German government presses ahead with its agenda
Workers Struggles: The Americas
"To Each Time Its Art, to Art Its Freedom" - Modernist architect Harry Seidler dies in Australia

19 June 2006
Police threaten Socialist Equality Party petitioners in Illinois
Fighting continues to escalate in Sri Lanka
Czech Greens enter right-wing government
Amnesty report criticises Spain over human rights
Widespread unrest erupts among textile workers in Bangladesh
Letters from our readers

17 June 2006
A grim milestone in the Iraq war: 2,500th US military death
Bomb blast kills 64 villagers and catapults Sri Lanka toward war
Global market slide may have further to go
How Blair's government fleeces British workers on behalf of business - Plundering the Public Sector
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers
The film version of A Prairie Home Companion: Less than might have been hoped for

16 June 2006
SEP (US) launches election web site
The Toronto terror plot and the Canadian establishment's political agenda
Populist demagogy and immigrant-bashing in the US: The case of Lou Dobbs
SEP campaign in Illinois reaches minimum signature requirement
Australia: Workers' conditions slashed under new industrial relations reforms
Berlin youth goes on a rampage--a symptom of a society in decline
Communist Party Congress in Vietnam pledges more pro-market measures
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

15 June 2006
The Guantánamo suicides and their impact on American political life
US auto union signals its capitulation on wages, benefits and jobs
As IDF denies shelling of Gaza beach - Israeli air strike kills ten
Britain: Did police shoot to kill in Forest Gate anti-terror raid?
The social movements in France: Political lessons from the last 10 years--Part two
Escalating violence in eastern Sri Lanka
Japan plans aggressive global energy strategy

14 June 2006
Bush in Baghdad
SLMM report exposes Sri Lankan military's complicity in violence and murder
The social movements in France: Political lessons from the last 10 years--Part one
Unanswered questions in the killing of Zarqawi
California gubernatorial primary reflects alienation from US two-party system
Canary Islands boat people: European Union creates new border patrol
Danger of major volcanic eruption after Indonesian earthquake
Letters from our readers

13 June 2006
Britain: Lessons of the Forest Gate anti-terror raid
Oslo talks between Sri Lanka government and LTTE collapse
Canada's corporate media incites public panic over alleged terror plot
Incriminating documents looted in East Timor
UN-backed report indicts Indonesia, Australia and US for Timor atrocities
Poland: Health care crisis provokes strikes and protests
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Tsotsi: Can a baby redeem a hardened thug?
Letters on alleged terrorist plot in Canada

12 June 2006
Three prisoners commit suicide in Guantánamo gulag
Seven Palestinian civilians killed on Gaza beach - The political calculations behind Israel's latest atrocity
Australian government steps up campaign to oust East Timor's prime minister Mari Alkatiri
Debt and social misery: the flipside of Britain's financial services boom
The Bawag affair and the decay of the Austrian trade unions
Chronic ill-health in Australia's Aboriginal prison population

10 June 2006
Why did Canada's security agencies allow the alleged terror plot to grow?
On the official US response to the killing of Zarqawi
France: Likely Socialist Party presidential candidate wants unruly youth drafted into the military
Britain: Soldiers refusing to serve in Iraq face possible life sentence
Thailand's political crisis continues to fester
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Friends With Money and The Break-Up - Who's to blame?

9 June 2006
US Senate majority backs windfall for the rich through repeal of estate tax
The Bush administration and the killing of Zarqawi
Council of Europe says 14 governments complicit in CIA renditions
Republicans' anti-gay marriage amendment: a cynical and reactionary maneuver
Sri Lankan court allows limited resettlement of evicted villagers
Australia: Howard abandons Snowy Hydro sale to save the National Party
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

8 June 2006
Sensational charges, lurid headlines in alleged Toronto terrorist plot
Germany: Socialist Equality Party to run candidates in Berlin state elections
New Zealand joins Australia's military occupation of East Timor
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the putrefaction of official Israeli politics
Australia: Howard's reception for the Beaconsfield miners-a cynical charade
Exploitation of child labourers in India
"America's American" - Dreamer: poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005)

7 June 2006
Canadian government, media use alleged terrorist plot to push right-wing agenda
Australian foreign minister unveils plans for the colonial occupation of East Timor
Germany: Public service union functions as agency of the state
Australia: Riot squad called to shut down Aboriginal community
Hunger and malnutrition increase in many parts of the world
Dixie Chicks stand their ground - Dixie Chicks: Taking the Long Way
Letters from our readers

6 June 2006
US military moves to condone "humiliating and degrading" treatment of prisoners
Australia, Timor and oil: the record
US Army clears troops in Ishaqi massacre
US Supreme Court refuses to hear ballot access case brought by SEP
France: Amiens meeting discusses lessons of struggle against "New Job Contract"
Security cuts for New York and Washington underline fraud of war on terror
Workers Struggles: The Americas
"Be persistent in exploring human nature, and dare to run around in no-man's land" - Veteran Japanese director Shohei Imamura dies
The looting of East Timor's Serious Crimes Unit

5 June 2006
Bush administration reverses US ban on talks with Iran
Britain: Man shot in police "terror raid"
Sri Lankan president proposes constitutional plan to end war
US Supreme Court rules against government employees who report misconduct
US prison population continues to soar in 2005
New Zealand: CEO pay skyrockets as workers' living standards fall
The Notorious Bettie Page - Sex and censorship in America

3 June 2006
Another US atrocity in Iraq: Eleven civilians massacred in Ishaqi
Australia continues its unrelenting campaign for "regime change" in East Timor
India's Supreme Court intervenes in caste-reservation controversy
US job growth falls in May, amid signs of slowing economy
Families of coal miners killed in Kentucky disaster protest exclusion from hearing
Spain: High-ranking police officers imprisoned for "illegal arrest" of right-wing Popular Party activists
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

2 June 2006
George Bush and the Haditha massacre
Bush names Wall Street executive as new treasury secretary
SEP submits nominating petitions for Maine candidate
Britain and South Africa accused of 'rendering' terror suspects
Political crisis mounts over FBI raid on Congress
European Union ban on LTTE heightens danger of war in Sri Lanka
China's middle-class dream shattered: millions of graduates face unemployment
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Interview with Zoe Strauss, photographer in the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night

1 June 2006
Oppose Australia's neo-colonial occupation of East Timor
SEP reaches halfway point in Michigan petition campaign
Thousands of Indonesian earthquake victims still waiting for assistance
CBS journalists wounded, killed in Iraq: Where the responsibility lies
Europe's 'Green' militarists - German Green Party campaigns for Congo mission
Amnesty International condemns human rights abuses committed in US-led "war on terror"
Unemployed youth clash with police in Paris suburbs
An exchange with an American worker on "illegal immigrants"
A correction on East Timor

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