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Archive: 06/2006

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.

June 1, 2006

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

June 2, 2006

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

June 3, 2006

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

June 5, 2006

• Bush administration reverses US ban on talks with Iran
• New Zealand: CEO pay skyrockets as workers’ living standards fall
• The Notorious Bettie Page
  Sex and censorship in America
• US prison population continues to soar in 2005
• 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

June 6, 2006

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

June 7, 2006

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

June 8, 2006

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

June 9, 2006

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

June 10, 2006

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

June 12, 2006

• Chronic ill-health in Australia’s Aboriginal prison population
• The Bawag affair and the decay of the Austrian trade unions
• Debt and social misery: the flipside of Britain’s financial services boom
• 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

June 13, 2006

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

June 14, 2006

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

June 15, 2006

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

June 16, 2006

• Berlin youth goes on a rampage—a symptom of a society in decline
• SEP campaign in Illinois reaches minimum signature requirement
• Populist demagogy and immigrant-bashing in the US: The case of Lou Dobbs
• To Each Time Its Art, to Art Its Freedom
  Modernist architect Harry Seidler dies in Australia
• SEP (US) launches election web site
• The Toronto terror plot and the Canadian establishment’s political agenda
• Communist Party Congress in Vietnam pledges more pro-market measures
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Australia: Workers’ conditions slashed under new industrial relations reforms

June 17, 2006

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

June 19, 2006

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

June 20, 2006

• Australian government presses ahead with plans to dominate East Timor
• Champaign, Illinois officials uphold unconstitutional ban on SEP petitioners
• American democracy in decay: US Congress debates the Iraq war
• “To Each Time Its Art, to Art Its Freedom”
  Modernist architect Harry Seidler dies in Australia
• 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

June 21, 2006

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

June 22, 2006

• 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
• Under the guise of peace, Sri Lankan government accelerates drive to civil war
• European Union-US summit in Vienna
  Europe’s leaders close ranks with Bush
• Australian government retains detention powers

June 23, 2006

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

June 24, 2006

• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Protests mount against harassment of SEP petitioners in Illinois
• Britain: Threat of national postal strike
• Global markets stabilise but risks increase
• 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?

June 26, 2006

• Powerful truths, limited aims: No Child by the Epic Theater Center in New York
• 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
• Propaganda in the guise of a novel
  Pretty Birds by Scott Simon, Australia, Hodder 2005, 351pp.
• US Supreme Court issues anti-immigrant ruling

June 27, 2006

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

June 28, 2006

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

June 29, 2006

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

June 30, 2006

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