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Archive: 09/2006

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.

September 1, 2006

• Illinois election board delays ruling on ballot status for SEP candidate
• Israeli cluster bombs blanket Lebanese towns
• Australia’s 200 rich list records largest ever rise in wealth
• Ceasefire monitors declare: Sri Lankan army murdered aid workers
• Turkey: Conflicts over deployment of troops to Lebanon
• Kofi Annan visit provokes angry protests in Beirut
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

September 2, 2006

• Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld speeches: A new drumbeat for war
• Lillian Groag’s The Magic Fire at the Shaw Festival: an unusually perceptive piece
• Germany: Health “reforms” at the expense of the working population
• SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis demands Democrats halt drive to bar him from Illinois ballot
• US prepares to escalate conflict with Iran
• Britain: Young soldier commits suicide over Iraq war
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• More letters demand ballot status for Illinois SEP candidate
• Challenging Hillary Clinton
  Socialist Equality Party on the ballot in NY Senate race

September 4, 2006

• SEP Labor Day statement
  Victory to the Detroit teachers!
  Statement of the Socialist Equality Party 4 September 2006
• The Illusionist: The filmmaker, in fact, can’t have it both ways
• Major powers offer devastated Lebanon a pittance in aid
• Mexico: President Fox puts legislature under siege
• UK Energy Review: A policy made by big business
  Part 1
• Sri Lanka: Journalist’s abduction highlights intimidation of media

September 5, 2006

• The great unmentionable at Detroit’s Labor Day parade: Labor
• Australian government insists on independent military presence in East Timor
• US: Chicago fire kills six children
• “Green” politics and imperialism: The case of Joschka Fischer
• Letters to election board demand ballot status for Illinois SEP candidate
• Sri Lankan SEP demands full investigation into murder of Sivapragasam Mariyadas
• UK Energy Review: A policy made by big business
  Part 2
• Australia: Thousands hear US military lawyer for David Hicks
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

September 6, 2006

• Hitler’s favourite sculptor: New exhibition displays the work of Arno Breker
• China’s oil diplomacy: Hugo Chavez makes high profile visit to Beijing
• Letters from our readers
• Democratic Party outlines pro-war agenda for US elections
• Detroit schools close as teachers strike enters second week
• France: Socialist mayor threatens to evict homeless immigrants by force
• Worsening food insecurity in Africa
• Report reveals 1.6 million Israelis living in poverty
• Letter from a Mississippi resident on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
• Election law expert protests efforts to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot

September 7, 2006

• New Orleans one year on: FEMA stonewalls recovery efforts
• SEP Illinois candidate launches fall campaign despite legal obstructions
• Pentagon report on Iraq reveals a deepening catastrophe
• Letter from wife of Liberty City, Miami “terror” suspect
• Parnarauskis issues statement on the eve of Illinois election board hearing
• Australian government sets course for militarism and war
• Brother of murdered SEP supporter in Sri Lanka speaks to WSWS
• What lies behind the terrorist attacks in Turkey?
• Britain’s largest water utility cuts jobs by 25 percent

September 8, 2006

• Britain: Internal party revolt seeks Blair’s removal
• Bush admits secret prisons, demands Congress sanction drumhead tribunals
• Shanghai pension scandal: a factional struggle erupts in China’s leadership
• As election board remains deadlocked
  Illinois Democrats fail to remove SEP candidate from ballot
• Chipmaker Intel to cut workforce by 10,500
• Brief in support of SEP ballot access in Illinois
• ICFI/WSWS public meeting in New Zealand
  Five years since September 11: Causes and consequences of the “war on terror”
• British Columbia: RCMP cleared in death of detained youth
• Capture of Sampur sets stage for intensification of civil war in Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

September 9, 2006

• A national disgrace: sick 9/11 workers left without medical coverage
  70 percent with respiratory ailments
• Bush demands congressional rubber-stamp for police-state powers
• Canada: Conservatives to revive Liberals’ Internet surveillance legislation
• Answer strike-breaking injunction: Mobilize Detroit workers in defense of the teachers
• Murdoch’s media empire girds up for a war against Iran
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• More letters demand ballot status for Illinois SEP candidate
• Election board refuses to certify Illinois SEP candidate for November ballot
• Detroit teachers hold strike rally

September 11, 2006

• Five years since 9/11: A political balance sheet
  Part one
• NATO in disarray over military crisis in Afghanistan
• Detroit teachers defy injunction, but Democrats prepare new trap for strike
• Mexico’s political crises intensifies after Calderón is certified as president
• Fatah steps up provocations against Hamas-led Palestinian Authority
• Spain: “Law of historical memory” continues cover-up of Franco’s crimes
• Wife of murdered SEP supporter appeals for support for WSWS campaign

September 12, 2006

• Five years since 9/11: A political balance sheet
  Part two
• Blair: Beating Washington’s war drum in the Middle East
• Defend the teachers! Mobilize Detroit workers against strike-breaking! Billions for public education!
• Australian Fair Pay Commission lays the groundwork for wage cuts
• Germany: Political lessons of the hospital doctors’ strike
• More letters demand ballot status for Illinois SEP candidate
• Director of Baghdad museum goes into exile
• New York Times laments demise of post-9/11 “national unity”
• Letters demand inquiry into murder of SEP supporter in Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

September 13, 2006

• Five years since 9/11: A political balance sheet
  Part three
• Bush uses 9/11 commemoration to campaign for Iraq war
• Reject the concessions sellout! Mobilize Detroit workers behind the teachers!
• No let-up in Iraq lies
  Bush, Cheney ignore Senate report debunking Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
• Shiite faction pushes for control over southern Iraq and its oil
• Malaysian prime minister under bitter attack from predecessor
• New York Times on 9/11 observances: propaganda in the guise of reportage
• Berlin election: German Socialist Equality Party defends its perspective on German television
• Germany: Socialist Equality Party to hold Berlin election rally
• Who was behind the attack on the US embassy in Syria?
• Worldwide drive to privatise water

September 14, 2006

• Britain: Blair and Brown make a show of unity at TUC congress
• SEP candidate sues Illinois election board to gain ballot status
• Pentagon concludes US defeated in key Iraqi province
• German government presses for military deployment in Lebanon
• Berlin election: Socialist Equality Party defends its perspective on German television
• Australia: Queensland election reveals deep disaffection
• Illinois SEP candidate faces off with Democratic opponent at Sierra Club
• Sri Lanka’s “peace” party backs the government’s war on the LTTE
• Detroit teachers vote narrowly to end strike
• A tale of two elections: the US and Ukraine in 2004

September 15, 2006

• European powers refuse to send more troops to Afghanistan
• Indonesian court sentences four more young Australians to death
• US: Defense and oil company executives reap windfalls from Iraq war
• SEP candidate for Senate to speak at New York meeting
• Mass shooting in Montreal
• Pope visits Bavaria: A broadside against the Enlightenment
• Sri Lankan government rejects unconditional peace talks with the LTTE
• Australian prime minister lashed for stalling on Telstra privatisation
• German deputy minister of culture visits Weimar
  An affront to the victims of fascism
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

September 16, 2006

• Bush demands US Congress pass bill sanctioning torture of detainees
• Mounting casualties compel Canada to send Afghanistan reinforcements
• Iraqi asylum seekers deported from Britain
• Ford’s job massacre: A corporate crime
• Berlin hospital workers begin strike
• A symbol of American manufacturing’s decline
  Ford to slash 44,000 jobs
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Australian government targets Solomon Islands for “regime change”

September 18, 2006

• The Bush administration and the CIA prisons: a new campaign of lies
• Letters from our readers
• No nonsense about Dada
• Wall Street demands more plant closures, deeper cuts at Ford
  DaimlerChrysler prepares new round of layoffs
• SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis to speak at University of Illinois
• Australia: Income distribution study details growth of social inequality
• Michigan SEP candidate appears on Michigan Talk Radio
• SEP Senate candidate addresses campaign meeting in New York City
• Construction slowdown threatens Spain’s economic boom

September 19, 2006

• Britain’s Labour Party: No honour amongst thieves
• SEP public meeting
  Political lessons of the Detroit teachers strike
• Illinois election board still deadlocked on SEP candidate
• IAEA exposes US committee’s lies on Iran’s nuclear programs
• Construction slowdown threatens Spain’s economic boom
• Support for inquiry into murder of SEP supporter in Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

September 20, 2006

• State elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  Vote of no confidence in Germany’s governing parties
• A belligerent Bush addresses the UN
  Washington threatens wider Middle East war
• Illinois SEP candidate condemns Chicago mayor’s veto of minimum wage law
• Australian government’s role in ousting East Timor’s prime minister Alkatiri
• Judge orders election board to certify Illinois SEP candidate
• On-the-spot-report
  Sri Lankan war threatens humanitarian catastrophe on Jaffna peninsula
• Sweden: Right-wing coalition takes power

September 21, 2006

• DaimlerChrysler unveils downsizing plan
• Letters from our readers
• Following leak of prime minister’s remarks
  Hungary erupts in violent protests
• Bush wants a bloodbath in Baghdad
• Britain: Promotion for police commander involved in de Menezes shooting
• French State Rail Company found guilty of Nazi collaboration
• Solomon Islands PM publicly denounces Australian government
• Muslims protest against police massacre in eastern Sri Lanka
• Military coup ousts Thai prime minister

September 22, 2006

• Illinois election board certifies SEP candidate for November ballot
• Australia: Employers launch vicious attacks on workers’ conditions and rights
• Republican senators’ resistance to Bush torture bill reflects tension between White House and military brass
• Palestinians to form national unity government
• The Pope and Islam
  Ratzinger’s Crusade
• Mass protests demand resignation of Taiwan’s president
• Toronto International Film Festival 2006—Part 1
  Some things are sinking in
• Bush administration denies responsibility for torture of Canadian
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

September 23, 2006

• As Brazilian election nears, crisis deepens for major parties
• Harper outlines the Canadian elite’s imperialist agenda
• SEP candidate Parnarauskis addresses meeting at University of Illinois
• Torture and civilian deaths reach record levels in Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• The struggle against war: Break with Labour and build a new socialist party
• The extreme-right NPD wins seats in German election
• “Outlaw regimes” and the harboring of terrorists: the case of Posada Carriles
• Senate-White House compromise sanctions CIA torture of detainees

September 25, 2006

• Letters from our readers
• Australian soldier’s death in Iraq covered-up
  Private Jacob Kovco: the unanswered questions
• British Labour: A party of war and social reaction
• SEP writes to Sri Lankan attorney general to demand inquiry into supporter’s murder
• Thailand’s coup leaders suppress democratic rights
• Britain: Labour has shifted taxes from rich to poor

September 26, 2006

• Democrats defend “our president” against international criticism
• East Timor left to flounder in poverty and unemployment
• France’s Delinquency Bill: A step towards totalitarianism
• An interview with Bahman Ghobadi, director of Half Moon
  “If I only want to say what the government wants me to, then I have to be a government employee, not a filmmaker”
• SEP candidate on Illinois ballot fight: “A victory for democratic rights”
• Shinzo Abe: Japan’s new prime minister
• Sri Lankan government imposes police state measures in Colombo
• Toronto International Film Festival 2006—Part 2
  The past is present
• British military in crisis as NATO mission in Afghanistan unravels
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

September 27, 2006

• Sordid deals as Australian parliamentary parties pick their candidates
• Clinton and Kerry set Democrats’ pro-war agenda for 2006 election
• US gasoline prices: the “free market” and the November election
• Ted Grant: A political appraisal of the former leader of the British Militant Tendency
  Part 1
• Australia: James Hardie directors show contempt for asbestos sufferers
• US threatened to bomb Pakistan back to “the Stone Age”
• Support the Socialist Equality Party 2006 campaign!
• US continues covert action in Somalia
• More hypocrisy and lies from Sri Lankan president at UN
• The bankruptcy of the “left” state government in Berlin: political experiences and lessons
  Part 1

September 28, 2006

• Blair’s conference speech: Labour Party applauds its own gravedigger
• East Timor left to flounder in poverty and unemployment
• Ted Grant: A political appraisal of the former leader of the British Militant Tendency
  Part 2
• Japan’s energy diplomacy and Koizumi’s trip to Central Asia
• For a socialist alternative in the 2006 US elections
• Support grows for inquiry into murder of SEP supporter in Sri Lanka
• The bankruptcy of the “left” state government in Berlin: political experiences and lessons
  Part 2

September 29, 2006

• Conservative coalition faces widespread unpopularity
  Outcome uncertain on eve of Austrian elections
• Militarism and Howard’s “Australian values” campaign
• British Labour Party conference: Brown stands up for health privatisation
• Socialist Equality Party launches write-in campaign in California
  Make your vote count! Write in John Burton for Congress!
• Political lessons of the events in Hungary
• Illinois SEP candidate speaks at forum on public education
• Iranian director Tahmineh Milani speaks with WSWS
• Sri Lankan government manipulates inquiry into massacre of aid workers
• US Congress legalizes torture and indefinite detention
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

September 30, 2006

• Bolivia: class tensions rise as Morales bows to landowners, energy transnationals
• France: Immigrant hunger strikers in a critical condition
• Amid mounting tensions
  India and Pakistan agree to resume “composite dialogue”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• SEP to hold public meeting in Pasadena, California
  The 2006 elections and the crisis of American democracy
• Behind the rift between the Afghan and Pakistani presidents
• SEP candidate in California denounces politically motivated IRS investigation
  Government probe of Pasadena church: a witch-hunt against Iraq war critics
• Australian government rejects limits on sedition powers
• Toronto International Film Festival 2006—Part 3
  “I am not terrorist or monster. I am not Dracula. I am not a monkey or cow. I am a man”
• US Senate votes 100-0 for $70 billion more in war spending