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Archive: 04/2006

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.

April 1, 2006

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

April 3, 2006

• Letters from our readers
• France: Crisis deepens over government’s “First Job Contract” legislation
• Melbourne’s Commonwealth Games: glitter covering glaring inequality
• Winslow Homer (1836-1910): Poet of the Sea
• 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

April 4, 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
• Tensions between Australia and Indonesia over asylum for Papuan activists
• A closer Russia-China “strategic partnership” cemented with oil and gas
• World Trade Center tapes expose chaos of September 11 response
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

April 5, 2006

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

April 6, 2006

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

April 7, 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
• Three years after looting of Iraqi National Museum: an official whitewash of US crime
• Sri Lanka: As 200,000 workers stop work, unions prepare to retreat on pay demand
• Australian man jailed on evidence derived from torture
• Wisconsin towns vote for immediate US military withdrawal from Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

April 8, 2006

• Canada: Conservative Throne Speech promotes social reaction and militarism
• Anti-immigrant politics kill “reform” bill in US Senate
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Bush approved security leak to smear Iraq war critic
• North Carolina man tells Bush certain simple truths
• Britain: Inquiry into death in custody whitewashes racist police brutality
• Local elections in Sri Lanka set stage for further political turmoil

April 10, 2006

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

April 11, 2006

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

April 12, 2006

• German politicians propagate xenophobia in reaction to Berlin school violence
• CEO pay in US continues its relentless climb in 2005
• France: Protests continue despite government retreat on “First Job Contract”
• Spike Lee’s Inside Man: Asking for so little
• Center-left alliance wins Italian election by razor-thin majority
• France: How Lutte Ouvrière aids unions’ betrayal of struggle vs. Gaullist regime
• 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

April 13, 2006

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

April 14, 2006

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

April 15, 2006

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

April 17, 2006

• Australian television program highlights censorship of climate scientists
• The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain—Part 1
• Behind the Indian press’s adulation of Sonia Gandhi
• Indian Supreme Court gives green light to sell off Mumbai mill lands
• A closer look at Kierkegaard
• Germany: Social Democratic Party loses another chairman

April 18, 2006

• A mixture of technical know-how, moral anger, and all-American barbaric yawp
  Kienholz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• Lawsuit details AT&T cooperation in illegal government spying on Americans
• Substandard conditions for institutionalised children in Sri Lanka
• The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain—Part 2
• New Zealand government extends Afghanistan military operations
• British government restricts recruitment of non-EU doctors
• Growing unrest in Indonesian Papua
• Fall, but no decline
  The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

April 19, 2006

• “A mixture of technical know-how, moral anger, and all-American barbaric yawp”
  Kienholz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• The economics of militarism
  Hillary Clinton outlines Democrats’ big business agenda
• Letters from our readers
• New York City: random searches for public school students
• 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

April 20, 2006

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

April 21, 2006

• Michael Haneke’s Caché
  The artist has not done the most difficult work
• In wake of mass immigrant protests
  US government arrests record numbers in factory raids
• More revelations of US profiteering and corruption in Iraq
• 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
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

April 22, 2006

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

April 24, 2006

• Four months after Sydney’s racial violence: government campaign continues against Middle Eastern youth
• Chinese president’s visit underscores Washington-Beijing tensions
• Pension cuts and inequality wiping out retirement for American workers
• 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

April 25, 2006

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

April 26, 2006

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

April 27, 2006

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

April 28, 2006

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

April 29, 2006

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