Archive: 10/2006
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.
October 2, 2006
- Hewlett-Packard spying scandal sheds new light on US corporate “ethics”
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“We need to create some artistic space”
Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lankan filmmaker, speaks with WSWS - US: Millions of Medicare beneficiaries to be left without drug coverage
- The National Intelligence Estimate—a phony debate between two pro-war parties
- Quebec indépendantistes maintain Conservatives in office
- Canberra’s dirty tricks ahead of Solomon Islands no-confidence vote
- The political lessons of the split in the Scottish Socialist Party—Part 1
- Australian charities boycott “welfare to work” measures
October 3, 2006
- Canada: RCMP chief “accepts” Arar commission findings, the better to reject them
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SEP public meeting in Wellington
The New Zealand Labour government and the “war on terror” - WSWS holds public meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
- SEP demands right to participate in debates for US Senate candidates in New York
- Sri Lankan war refugees live in appalling conditions in southern India
- The political lessons of the split in the Scottish Socialist Party-Part 2
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Toronto International Film Festival 2006—Part 4
Our tumultuous times - Thailand’s military junta tightens its hold on power
- Human rights groups condemn US law on military commissions
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
October 4, 2006
- The multi-billion dollar demise of hedge fund Amaranth
- China sends more troops to Lebanon
- The Foley affair: A snapshot of the depraved state of American politics
- Britain: Observer claims threats by Washington prompted Heathrow terror raids
- Campaign against Muslims in Germany generates Mozart opera controversy
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SEP public meeting in Wellington
Causes and consequences of the “war on terror”
Part 1 - Why Hillary Clinton voted for the anti-immigrant wall
October 5, 2006
- Maher Arar’s ordeal, the Harper government and the assault on democratic rights
- Letters from our readers
- Hungary: Rightist parties seek to topple government following election
- Will a coup in Iraq follow the US elections?
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Michigan SEP candidate responds to gubernatorial debate
Granholm, De Vos trade right-wing nostrums: No choice for working people in Michigan governors’ race -
SEP public meeting in Wellington
Causes and consequences of the “war on terror”
Part 2 - Despite talk of peace, Sri Lankan military continues offensive
- History of an early American uprising
October 6, 2006
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Behind Georgia’s spy scandal: Growing conflicts between Russia and the US
- US casualties soar as military intensifies violence in Baghdad
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California SEP candidate denounces anti-immigrant law
No US-Mexico border fence! Defend immigrants’ rights! Unite North American workers! - Washington threatens North Korea over announced nuclear test
- Montreal bridge collapse: A case of criminal neglect
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SEP public meeting in Wellington
Causes and consequences of the “war on terror”
Part 3 - Sale of New York City housing complex highlights social polarization
- Illinois SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis addresses retired state workers at candidates’ debate
October 7, 2006
- The death of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin and the promotion of an Australian mythology
- Italy: Prodi government submits austerity budget
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At “World Can’t Wait” protest
Michigan SEP candidate exposes Democrats’ complicity with Bush - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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As Washington focuses on Foley scandal
Condoleezza Rice evades charges over 9/11 - More letters demanding Sri Lankan authorities investigate murder of SEP supporter
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Toronto International Film Festival 2006—Part 5
John Lennon vs. his celebrators - Britain: Jack Straw’s anti-Muslim provocation
- Parents of soldier who refused deployment to Iraq speak in California
October 9, 2006
- Home foreclosures soar in US
- US Marine reports widespread prisoner abuse at Guantánamo
- Australian government demands hand-over of Solomon Islands’ attorney-general
- Australian attorney-general insists sleep deprivation is not torture
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court overrules appeals to international human rights body
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Toronto International Film Festival 2006—Part 6
Where death threatens to be more real than life
October 10, 2006
- Anti-Putin journalist murdered in Moscow
- Austria: Massive losses for the governing People’s Party
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- France: Immigrant squatters pressured into accepting dispersal
- Workers strike Goodyear tire plants in US and Canada
- UK opposes release of British detainees at Guantánamo
- Toxic mud spill continues to inundate Indonesian villages
- Bush administration leads chorus of denunciations against North Korea’s nuclear test
- Australian coroner: Police killed Aboriginal prisoner on Palm Island
October 11, 2006
- Australian Wheat Board “oil for food” inquiry ends with threats of terrorism charges
- Canada and the supposed struggle for democracy in Afghanistan
- SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis addresses University of Illinois forum
- A patchwork, but no bigger picture
- Provocative US attack on Shiite militia in Iraq
- Germany: Insolvency of former Siemens division threatens 3,000 jobs
- Sri Lankan defence authorities impose unofficial censorship
October 12, 2006
- Report documents the disastrous plight of Canada’s welfare recipients
- House repossessions soar amid record debt levels in Australia
- New study says US war has killed 655,000 Iraqis
- Kashmir earthquake survivors face another freezing winter without adequate shelter
- Behind the UN debate on North Korea: growing Great Power rivalry
- US lecture series by David North: “War, Social Inequality and the Crisis of American Democracy”
- Play on Lorca staged in Madrid in face of right-wing protests
- White House aide resigns in influence-peddling scandal
- Solomon Islands’ government survives no-confidence vote
October 13, 2006
- Austria: Massive losses for the governing People’s Party
- Spain: Government seeks European clampdown on Canary Islands boat people
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Statement by New York SEP candidate Bill Van Auken
Hillary Clinton’s immigration policy and the death of Daniel Basilio - Why is the American press silent on the report of 655,000 Iraqi deaths?
- North Korean nuclear test poses dilemmas for China
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan military offensive on the Jaffna peninsula pushed back
- Australian state government speeds up dismissal procedures for teachers
October 14, 2006
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Following Senate elections
SPD and Left Party-PDS seek to continue Berlin coalition - Head of British Army calls for Iraq withdrawal
- Behind the Foley scandal: A bitter struggle within the US ruling elite
- Michigan SEP candidate calls for emergency action to halt home foreclosures
- Mounting social crisis in Kurdish Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Statement by SEP Illinois state Senate candidate
Electricity rate increase: a calculated assault on working class living standards - Solomon Islands PM condemns Australian “re-colonisation”
- Britain’s liberal media lines up behind government’s anti-Muslim offensive
- Thailand’s military junta installs its cabinet
October 16, 2006
- Australian government steps up threats against PNG, Solomon Islands
- Letters from our readers
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“A nine-figure fortune won’t get you much mention these days”
Forbes publishes list of 400 richest Americans -
Why is the New York Times silent on massive Iraq death toll?
A question for Bill Keller - US pushes through UN resolution against North Korea
- Britain: Court finds ITN journalist Terry Lloyd murdered by US forces
- NATO warns Pakistan’s Musharraf to end covert support for Taliban
- Call for Amnesty International to demand inquiry into murder of Sri Lankan SEP supporter
October 17, 2006
- The Iraq Study Group: a bipartisan conspiracy against the American and Iraqi people
- Mexico: Government ultimatum against striking teachers
- Michigan budget crisis looms over gubernatorial election
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The US Supreme Court minority in Hamdan: executive rule in the “state of exception”
Part 1 - NLRB ruling could deprive millions of US workers of bargaining rights
- Escalating political murders in the Philippines
- Marbella construction scandal exposes endemic criminality of Spanish capitalism
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
October 18, 2006
- Bush signs Military Commissions Act authorizing police-state tribunals, torture
- French National Assembly makes denial of the Armenian genocide a punishable offence
- Abe’s visit to Beijing: a tentative rapprochement with China
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The US Supreme Court minority in Hamdan: executive rule in the “state of exception”
Part 2 - Citing torture, lawyers for Jose Padilla argue case should be dismissed
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Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director of The Battle of Algiers, dead at 86
A 2004 interview with the WSWS - Anti-Islam campaign in France: the background to the Redeker affair
- A sign of crisis: two major Sri Lankan parties to form a grand coalition
- Lynne Stewart sentenced to 28 months in prison in New York City “terror” case
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Message to US troops by SEP candidate for US Senate from New York
For an immediate end to the Iraq occupation, bring the troops home now!
October 19, 2006
- SEP campaign reaches students in New York
- US military and Iraqi deaths soar amidst preparations for major offensive
- Putin and the murder of Anna Politkovskaya
- Britain: legislation on equality for gays blocked
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Vote “No” on Michigan Ballot Proposition 2!
Unite working people across ethnic, racial lines to defend jobs and education! -
The US Supreme Court minority in Hamdan: executive rule in the “state of exception”
Part 3 -
A fresh look at Mozart—Part 1
Helmut Perl’s The Case of Mozart: Testimony about a Misunderstood Genius - Five years since Australia’s SIEV X tragedy: the official cover-up continues
- Military conflict escalates in Sri Lanka after two major LTTE attacks
- Alleged Toronto terror plot included two police agents
October 20, 2006
- NATO continues slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan
- Blair joins the attack on Britain’s Muslims
- SEP candidate in California speaks at public forums
- Letters from our readers
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A fresh look at Mozart—Part 2
Helmut Perl’s The Case of Mozart: Testimony about a Misunderstood Genius -
Debate over mass poverty in Germany
A devastating indictment of the former SPD-Green government - WSWS interviews: Sri Lankan soldiers oppose return to war
- Turkey: A new military intervention in the making
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
October 21, 2006
- SEP candidate for US Senate wins support at Buffalo New York forum for disabled
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In response to intensifying class antagonisms
India’s Congress Party revives discredited “Garibi Hatao” slogan - Statement of German SEP: Fight against job and welfare cuts requires an international socialist perspective
- India’s prime minister pledges to accelerate neo-liberal ”reform”
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Bill Keller at the University of Michigan
New York Times editor touts role of establishment press in “war on terror” - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian police raid office of Solomon Islands PM
- A socialist program to end the war in Sri Lanka
- Britain: Thames Water sell-off means higher prices and job losses
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2006-Part 1
What we see and what we do not yet see
October 23, 2006
- Belgium: Losses for ruling coalition as far right make gains
- Strike by US and Canadian Goodyear workers in third week
- Demands for Iraq “course change” grow louder in Washington
- North Korean nuclear test opens up political divisions in South Korea
- SEP candidate in Michigan addresses public forums
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Peter Norman 1942-2006
Australian athlete supported American civil rights struggle -
Vancouver International Film Festival 2006—Part 2
Not everything, but certainly something - The case of Curt Weldon: Republican congressman targeted after criticizing 9/11 cover-up
October 24, 2006
- SEP candidate for US Senate from New York interviewed on ABC TV in Rochester
- Australian Education Minister declares SIEV X history resource is “political propaganda”
- Germany: Mass demonstrations against social and welfare cuts
- New York Times “military analysis” foreshadows US bloodbath in Baghdad
- Israel used chemical weapons in Lebanon and Gaza
- Toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast
- Canberra presses its agenda at Pacific Islands Forum
- Sri Lanka’s state-owned television censors drama series
- Brother of Pat Tillman denounces Iraq War and Bush administration
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
October 25, 2006
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Former British home secretary admits calling for bombing of Al-Jazeera
UK government suppresses evidence that Bush did the same - Australian Labor leader spells out pro-business agenda
- Germany: Court ruling on Berlin budget deepens social divisions
- The Ground Truth: the cruel fate of Iraq war veterans
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Hungary 1956: A revolution against Stalinism
Part one - Baghdad press conference outlines plans for intensified US war
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New York’s Clinton-Spencer debates—a reactionary charade
Two candidates for war and repression - Rice returns empty-handed from North East Asia
October 26, 2006
- Australian government revives book banning
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Hungary 1956: A revolution against Stalinism
Part two -
Illinois SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis participates in debates
Socialist program reaches wide audience - New York Times calls for more troops in Iraq
- Active-duty US troops voice opposition to the Iraq war
- Australian government gets its way at Pacific leaders’ summit
- Spain: new capitulation by the Socialist Party to the Catholic Church
- Sri Lankan police forced to begin inquiry into murder of SEP supporter
October 27, 2006
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Bush under fire at press conference
Deepening crisis of US occupation regime in Iraq -
Protests demand Canadian troops out of Afghanistan
The political issues in the fight against war - Grisly photos expose real nature of Germany’s “peace mission” in Afghanistan
- India’s policy on Special Economic Zones under fire
- Australia’s new sedition laws and the case of Brian Cooper
- Germany: Siemens-BenQ and the role of the unions
- Freedom of speech under continuing attack in Turkey
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2006—Part 3
The passive voice - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
October 28, 2006
- Revealing what?
- Letters from our readers
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From anti-war to a party of war
Rifondazione Comunista mobilizes for Italy’s military intervention in Lebanon - Hungary: The controversy over the heritage of the 1956 Revolution
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Public meeting to be held in Paris
The lessons of the struggle against the First Job Contract -
Two parties of war and reaction
Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney champion torture on eve of election
October 30, 2006
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SEP candidate for US Senate addresses Buffalo meeting
“Our campaign offers the only alternative to the profit system” - Protests demand immediate withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan
- Michigan SEP candidate addresses high school, college students
- Australia: Management ignored danger warnings at Beaconsfield gold mine
- Russia moves toward military conflict with Georgia
- Spanish protests demand affordable housing
October 31, 2006
- Mass abstention in Bulgaria’s presidential election
- The bitter price of militarism: US casualties mount in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Mill closures devastate Canada’s forest industry
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Amidst reports of US coup preparations in Iraq
Prime Minister Maliki vents grievances against Washington - Mexican government launches bloody assault on Oaxaca protesters
- Tense takeover battle for Spain’s Endesa energy company
- Sri Lankan peace talks collapse amid intensifying civil war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
