Archive: 07/2006
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.
July 1, 2006
- Britain: Union calls off strike action by supermarket workers
- Bernard Kerik’s guilty plea: Corruption case underscores fraud of “homeland security”
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After the Supreme Court ruling
Congressional Democrats join with Republicans to maintain military commissions at Guantánamo - India: Gujarat Congress party lines up with BJP’s campaign against actor Aamir Khan
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Another sign of popular disgust
Australian film festival audience invites Mamdouh Habib to speak about Guantánamo documentary - Another US atrocity in Iraq: Soldiers under investigation for rape and murder
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Workers’ struggles intensify on eve of Mexican elections
Major candidates offer no solution to the social crisis - Michigan community college acknowledges SEP right to petition
July 3, 2006
- US-led offensive in southern Afghanistan kills hundreds
- Germany: SEP collects required signatures to stand in Berlin elections
- Panasonic closes German factory despite hunger strike
- London art gallery closes M.F. Husain exhibition after paintings vandalised
- Letters protest Democratic Party efforts to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
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Newly released files show
Postwar German government and CIA shielded Adolf Eichmann - New York Times, Los Angeles Times respond to government witch-hunt: a cowardly evasion of democratic principles
July 4, 2006
- Former US soldier charged in rape and murder of Iraqi girl
- Australian government escalates its military involvement in Iraq
- Illinois Democrats file bogus objection in bid to bar SEP from ballot
- Italy: Clear majority rejects Berlusconi’s constitutional reform
- July 4th 2006: The state of US democracy 230 years after the American Revolution
- Britain: Plundering of public sector at heart of ‘loans-for-peerages’ scandal
- Nepalese Maoists agree to abandon armed struggle and join government
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 5, 2006
- Thousands of Chinese students riot over bleak job prospects
- Letters from our readers
- An exchange of letters on the German “Election Alternative” and “Socialist Alternative” groups
- Greece: Mass demonstrations protest assault on public education
- Job slashing at Heinz Foods and the role of private equity firms in corporate restructuring
- Amid a furore over immigration policy, Dutch government resigns
- Major powers complicit in Israeli war crimes
- SEP in New York to open campaign headquarters
July 6, 2006
- Germany: Ten thousand demonstrate against university fees
- Stop the Democratic Party’s attack on third-party campaigns! Place SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis on the ballot in Illinois!
- Indo-US nuclear accord approved by key US Congressional committees
- Near-tie election deepens Mexico’s crisis
- New Zealand government demands further wage restraint as living standards decline
- US and Japan seize on missile tests to tighten noose around North Korea
- New York Times report from Ramadi: evidence of US war crimes in Iraq
- The Hamdan dissents: US Supreme Court justices argue for presidential dictatorship
- Government crisis continues in Ukraine
July 7, 2006
- Australia continues push for control in East Timor
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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Following US Supreme Court ruling
Australian government demands new “kangaroo court” for David Hicks - WSWS readers protest Democrats’ bid to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- One year on: Lessons of the London bombings
- US: Democrats’ tax deal ends New Jersey government shutdown
- Slovakia: Social Democrats form a pact with the extreme right
July 8, 2006
- German intelligence service spies on the Berlin Social Forum
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At the footsteps of historic Lincoln Hall
University of Illinois workers protest Democratic Governor Blagojevich - Gyrations of Indian stock market point to future economic instability
- The reoccupation of Gaza: Israel and the Big Lie
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- More letters protest Democratic Party efforts to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- Plan to attack New York tunnels: Yet another dubious “terror plot”
- Poland: Teachers, students demand resignation of education minister
- Sri Lankan president postures as a peacemaker
July 10, 2006
- German SEP candidates protest Democratic Party drive to bar socialist candidate from the ballot in Illinois
- Letters from our readers
- Five more US soldiers charged in rape-murder atrocity in Iraq
- Study of British journalists confirms entrenchment of class privilege
- Democratic senator defends Iraq war in Connecticut primary debate
- Solomon Islands prime minister bows to Australia’s dictates
July 11, 2006
- Australia: Howard finds the right people for his new “Fair Pay Commission”
- Israel rejects Hamas offer of cease-fire and steps up hostilities in Gaza
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In statement to the board of elections
SEP Illinois candidate denounces Democrats’ bogus challenge to third party candidates - India: UPA government forced to put disinvestment plans on hold
- Mexican candidate files challenge in presidential vote
- SEP Michigan candidate to speak on Iraq war, attacks on democratic rights
- US and Japan exploit “missile crisis” to heighten tensions in North East Asia
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Launching petition drive
Socialist Equality Party opens New York Senate campaign office - Poland: Kaczynski brothers now control two most important political posts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 12, 2006
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The outsourcing of political intimidation
Private firm revealed to be spying on antiwar groups in California - Australia installs its man in East Timor: Jose Ramos-Horta
- SEP candidate exposes Democrats’ election fraud at Chicago press conference
- New York theatre to present Rachel Corrie play
- Attorney for SEP candidate calls on Illinois election board to throw out Democrats’ ballot challenge
- Spain: Unions agree to anti-working class labour reforms
- Sri Lankan military personnel questioned over murder of journalist
- Terrorist atrocity in Mumbai
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Michigan auto union officials convicted in extortion scheme
The UAW in microcosm
July 13, 2006
- Hillary Clinton “woos Wall Street” and health industry
- SEP Illinois candidate holds press conference on Democrats’ bid to block ballot status
- G8 summit: Geopolitical trial of strength in St. Petersburg
- Australia: Prime Minister Howard facing pressure to quit
- Israel launches military assault on Lebanon
- Socialist Equality Party to hold election meetings in southern California and Maine
- Germany: junge Welt defends coalition between social democrats and neo-fascists in Slovakia
- LTTE expresses “regret” over killing of Indian prime minister
July 14, 2006
- Australia: Aboriginal town camp residents organise first-ever rally
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Bush in Germany
Chancellor Merkel joins with Bush in backing Israeli aggression -
After Supreme Court ruling against military commissions
White House, Congress seek to legalize kangaroo courts, torture - Hindu supremacists, media seize on Mumbai atrocity to push India’s government further right
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Washington, Tel Aviv threaten Syria and Iran
Ground invasion of Lebanon looms after Israel bombs Beirut airport, imposes blockade - Renewed efforts to impeach Philippines president
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
July 15, 2006
- The “cash for peerages” scandal and the decay of British democracy
- Hillary Clinton and New York’s gay marriage ruling: a calculated bow to the right
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Rehashing ideological clichés
One year since Udo di Fabio published his book The Culture of Freedom - Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: political posturing and the Democratic Party
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israeli attack on Lebanon threatens to engulf entire Middle East in war
- Judge upholds unprecedented raid on US Congressional office
- New Zealand: tragic deaths of baby twins used to foment anti-welfare campaign
July 17, 2006
- More letters protest Democratic Party efforts to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- Letter on US atrocities in Iraq
- US gives Israel a blank check to wage war
- A letter from Jerusalem
- G8 leaders line up behind Israeli aggression in Lebanon and Gaza
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53rd Sydney Film Festival--Part 1
Not deep enough - China builds railway into Tibet
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Voting rights under attack across US
States move to enact new restrictions
July 18, 2006
- UK sends more troops to southern Afghanistan as fighting escalates
- G8 ignores mounting problems in world economy
- Glancing blows: A Scanner Darkly and Strangers with Candy
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A portrait of the Illinois State Board of Elections
Who decides whether SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis will appear on the ballot? - Antiwar protests in Israel
- G8 powers sanction Israeli aggression in Lebanon
- Election crisis in Mexico deepens as one million protestors demand recount
- US pleased with “compromise” resolution on North Korea
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 19, 2006
- Hillary Clinton celebrates Israeli war crimes
- Letters from our readers
- Official US callousness leaves thousands stranded in Lebanon
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Following Mumbai terror attack
India indefinitely postpones peace talks with Pakistan - Sectarian violence escalates in Iraq
- Western diplomacy supports Israel’s war of aggression
- Britain: No one to be held accountable for police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Philippines president orders offensive against Maoist guerrilla army
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53rd Sydney Film Festival--Part 2
Ten Canoes: a dramatic exploration of ancient Aboriginal culture
July 20, 2006
- Protests denounce Arab leaders’ complicity in Israeli assault
- SEP California campaign holds meetings as petitioning enters final month
- Canadian government indifferent to Israel’s murder of eight of its citizens
- Student upheavals expose anti-working class agenda of Chile’s Bachelet
- Bush administration pushes privatization of public forests
- SEP in Michigan files petitions to place US congressional candidate on ballot
- Campaign to place SEP candidate on ballot in New York wins broad support
- Mostly a love affair with money and fame
- Britain: Damning inquiry into Asian’s death at youth prison
- Oppose Sri Lankan government’s attack on port workers struggle
- Bush’s veto: Stem cell research and the rise of American theocracy
- Population given no warnings as tsunami hits Java, killing hundreds
July 21, 2006
- Australian citizens left to face Israeli bombardment
- Australia: Howard’s industrial relations watchdog legitimises Cowra sackings
- Europe’s inability to counter US-Israeli war policy
- Israel deepens offensive in Occupied Territories
- The real aims of the US-backed Israeli war against Lebanon
- American media unquestioningly defends Israeli violence
- Public meetings oppose Australia’s intervention into East Timor
- Australian imperialism, East Timor and the role of the DSP
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
July 22, 2006
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Following Germany’s uncritical support for Washington and Jerusalem
How the German media reports on the Israeli aggression in Lebanon - Israel prepares to launch ground war in Lebanon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UN Human Rights Commissioner warns of war crimes in Lebanon
- Doctor and nurses arrested in Katrina-related deaths
- The New York Times and the war in Lebanon: A cynical defense of US-Israeli war crimes
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53rd Sydney Film Festival--Part 3
Some films about South America: a disappointing collection - Another bogus peace move by Sri Lanka’s president
July 24, 2006
- Australia: thousands join global protests to condemn Israel’s war on Lebanon
- Protests in Israel and worldwide against war on Lebanon
- Japanese government withdraws its troops from Iraq
- SEP candidate for Oregon legislature to speak at public meeting
- Rice’s Middle East tour: “Diplomacy” in furtherance of war
- Democrats, Republicans line up to back Israeli war crimes
July 25, 2006
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Indian prime minister visits rural Vidarbha
Move to deflecting mounting anger over agrarian distress - The Queens blackout: the brutal human costs of Con Ed’s drive for profit
- Rice begins Mideast tour to promote US-Israeli war aims
- An attack on democratic rights: New Zealand man jailed for sedition
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53rd Sydney Film Festival—Part 4
Middle East and North African focus -
“The Bush administration is using Sami Al Hajj to fight Al Jazeera”
An interview with Abdallah el-Binni, director of Prisoner 345 - Pro-Russian party set to form government in Ukraine
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
July 26, 2006
- German Socialist Equality Party certified to stand candidates in Berlin
- Power grid fails in face of California heat wave
- Britain: Charities criticise government indifference to child trafficking
- Letters on the Israeli bombing of Lebanon
- Bitter recriminations as trade talks collapse
- SEP candidate in California turns in signatures in lieu of filing fee
- State election authorities to review Democratic Party challenge to SEP petitions in Illinois
- WSWS replies to charge of anti-Semitism in coverage of US-Israeli war on Lebanon
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Socialist Equality Party to hold public meetings in Britain
Oppose US/UK-backed Israeli war against Lebanon! - Rice leaves bloody footprints in Lebanon
- Sri Lankan government abandons thousands of citizens trapped in Lebanon
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Record heat, violent storms beleaguer US cities
150,000 in St. Louis still without power
July 27, 2006
- Australia: Car unions work with administrator to impose job losses
- Declassified archives document ties between CIA and Nazis
- Support the Socialist Equality Party 2006 campaign!
- The case of the USS Liberty: anatomy of an Israeli provocation
- Superman Returns, Pirates II, Clerks II: No ‘fount of impressions and emotions’ at present
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Rome conference on Lebanon
Appeasement 2006: Europe capitulates to American-Israeli aggression - Spain: Life savings at risk over stamp fraud
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How Australia orchestrated “regime change” in East Timor
Part 1 - Alleged Toronto terrorist cell included Canadian Security Intelligence Service mole
- Ukraine: Constitutional crisis deepens as Orange parties jostle for power
July 28, 2006
- Britain: Mounting criticism of Blair over Lebanon
- Letters on a reply to charges of anti-Semitism
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US: FEMA slashes emergency assistance for future disaster victims
Family payments to be cut from $2,000 to $500 - Joschka Fischer and German Greens defend Israeli bombing terror in Lebanon
- Israel steps up military offensive in Gaza
- Growing disquiet in Israel over Lebanon war
- Israel prepares major escalation of Lebanon aggression
- Polls indicate growing dissatisfaction with two parties in US
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How Australia orchestrated “regime change” in East Timor
Part 2 - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
July 29, 2006
- Atrocities mount as Israel intensifies bombardment of Lebanon
- Israel, the UN and the assassination of Count Bernadotte
- Bush, Blair meet to oppose Lebanon ceasefire and back Israel’s war aims
- Letters from our readers
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In wake of Mumbai bombing
India increases its censorship of the Internet - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SEP candidate in Michigan to be certified for November ballot
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How Australia orchestrated “regime change” in East Timor
Part 3
July 31, 2006
- More letters on a reply to charges of anti-Semitism
- France: Thousands demonstrate against war in Lebanon and Gaza
- Germany: Protests demand immediate halt to Israeli war on Lebanon
- Bush administration deploys thousands more troops in Baghdad
- US media alibis for Qana massacre
- Australia: Melbourne rally opposes US-backed Israeli war
- Sri Lankan union leaders betray port workers struggle
- The Qana massacre: Slaughter of innocents in Lebanon
- Sri Lankan military launch major offensive to retake LTTE territory
- Spanish train line reopens before investigation into fatal accident begins
