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Archive: 12/2006

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.

December 1, 2006

• Canada’s Liberal leadership contest—a race to the right
• Australia: national protests against Howard government’s industrial laws
• Workers speak out against Australian industrial relations laws
• Bush-Maliki summit: White House rejects any withdrawal from Iraq
• Spain: Amnesty International details abuse of migrants
• NATO summit in Riga: Sharp conflicts over Afghanistan
• Northern Ireland: The arrest of Kevin Fulton and the Omagh bombing
• Australia: Police report reveals real instigators of Cronulla race riots
  Part 2
• Washington meeting gives green light for Sri Lankan military offensive
• From a reader: an incident in Toronto
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• German Left Party leaders pay tribute to deceased spy boss Markus Wolf
• Bush-Maliki summit: White House rejects any withdrawal from Iraq
• NATO summit in Riga: Sharp conflicts over Afghanistan

December 2, 2006

• Australian Labor Party’s latest leadership crisis comes to a head
• Nearly half of US Ford workers accept buyouts: A vote of no confidence in the United Auto Workers union
• Faux Fur
• Britain: Calls for Herceptin breast cancer drug and healthcare rationing
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Britain’s prison population reaches record high
• Australia: Police report reveals real instigators of Cronulla race riots
  Part 3
• Volkswagen strike in Brussels enters third week
  German VW workers express solidarity with Belgium colleagues

December 4, 2006

• Fijian political crisis intensifies amid continuing threats of a coup
• The 2006 elections and the US two-party system
  Bush, Democrats disenfranchise antiwar voters
• US seeks Shiite collaboration in attack on Moqtada al-Sadr
• Congress held in Madrid on 70th anniversary of Spanish Civil War
• Spain: Socialist Party government betrays victims of Franco’s dictatorship
• Sri Lankan government brings down a war budget

December 5, 2006

• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Beijing prepares the army to repress domestic unrest
• Why the Canadian Liberals elected Stéphane Dion as new leader
• Video reveals US torture of “enemy combatant” José Padilla
• Australian Labor Party’s “fresh face” masks a pro-war, corporate agenda
• Scorsese’s The Departed: Stop and think
• Secret US database on international travelers exposed
• A socialist perspective for striking Sri Lankan plantation workers

December 6, 2006

• A Christmas disaster for Illinois households
  Illinois Democratic Party allows January 1 power rate increase
• Britain is video surveillance capital of the world
• Letters from our readers
• Fijian government ousted in military coup
• Senate committee votes unanimously to confirm Bush nominee for Pentagon chief
• Death toll continues to rise as Iraq war grinds on
• Opposition parties fail to oust Taiwanese president
• Social polarization in American academia
  Pay for US university presidents soars
• 20,000 march against closure of Volkswagen factory in Brussels

December 7, 2006

• Rafael Correa declared new president of Ecuador
• Iraq Study Group report highlights crisis of US imperialism in Iraq and at home
• Sharp reversal for Social Democrats in Dutch elections
• Hundreds killed as Typhoon Durian lashes the Philippines and Vietnam
• Massive US prison population continues to grow
• The Queen: Mr. Blair comes to the rescue
• An appeal to the Orange Revolution’s paymaster
  Ukraine’s president writes in the Washington Post
• Vietnam signs up to World Trade Organisation

December 8, 2006

• Bush rejects Iraq Study Group report
• Casino Royale: the new James Bond film
• Fijian military regime moves to suppress any opposition
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
• Report documents extreme levels of global wealth inequality
• Inquiry finds Australian soldier’s death in Iraq an “accident”
• Canada: Parti Québécois seeks to rally business support
• Sri Lanka: “Heroes Day” speech a symptom of the LTTE’s political bankruptcy

December 9, 2006

• Australian Wheat Board inquiry: a threadbare whitewash
• Footy Legends: Australian suburban comedy recycles old myths
• German Green Party congress: “Peace” from the barrel of a gun
• Iraq Study Group: a bipartisan coverup of Washington’s war crimes
• US jobs report: More factory and construction jobs lost
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Sri Lankan president reimposes anti-terror laws in preparation for intensified war
• Britain: Asylum seekers protest treatment at detention centres

December 11, 2006

• Australia: Ajax workers facing loss of jobs and entitlements
• Blair’s Washington summit: What next for Britain in Iraq?
• Letters from our readers
• Introductory remarks by World Socialist Web Site correspondent at Madrid congress on Spanish Civil War
• Nepali Maoists to lay down arms and enter the government
• Pinochet, Chile’s former US-backed dictator, dead at 91
• Former detainees argue right to sue Rumsfeld over torture

December 12, 2006

• West Bengal’s Left Front regime suppresses protests against land seizures
• Britain: Blair stirs up Islamophobia
• From the archives of Marxism: lessons of the 1973 coup in Chile
• Democrats vow to continue funding Iraq war
• Australian rallies demand release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay
• 60 million Americans living on less than $7 a day
  US income figures show staggering rise in social inequality
• Italian right wing mobilizes against Prodi government
• Jeane Kirkpatrick: from “social democrat” to champion of death squads
• Further letters to Sri Lankan authorities demand full investigation of SEP supporter’s murder
• Pianist Jay McShann, last of Kansas City’s jazz giants, dies at 90

December 13, 2006

• Britain: an acute social divide in housing
• Opposition in Baghdad among Kurdish, Shiite parties to Iraq Study Group
• Japanese prime minister faces sharp fall in opinion polls
• Mourning for Pinochet — US establishment shows its affinity for fascism
• The role played by German VW works councils in the attack on Belgian workers’ jobs
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

December 14, 2006

• Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto: a painful experience
• New York State commission demands hospital closings
• Millions to join one-day, all-India general strike
• Bush administration conspires to replace Iraqi government
• Israel and the US threaten Iran and Syria
• US immigration agents arrest 1,282 in raids at six meatpacking plants
• Striking plantation workers speak to the WSWS
• Half a million Sri Lankan plantation workers continue strike for higher pay

December 15, 2006

• Australian lawyers launch court bid to secure David Hicks’s release from Guantánamo
• Bush administration preparing to boost US troop strength in Iraq
• “Antiwar” candidate boosts illusions in a pro-war party
  Kucinich runs again for Democratic presidential nomination
• Obituary: Naguib Mahfouz, novelist of Egypt and humanity
• German top banker and Mannesmann executives buy themselves free
• New Zealand opposition leader quits
• Letter from a correspondent in Poland
• US Supreme Court sloughs off right to fair trial in a murder case
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

December 16, 2006

• Filmmakers turn their attention to Africa—with limited results
• Blair questioned in cash for peerages probe
• Letters from our readers
• European disillusionment over the Baker-Hamilton report
• Washington pushes ahead with plans for Iraq “regime change”
• Israeli high court sanctions political assassinations
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Pakistan drops terrorism charges against key suspect in Heathrow bomb plot
• Sri Lankan military launches new offensive in country’s east

December 18, 2006

• Babel: Humanity is not the prisoner of fate
• Evidence surfaces that Indonesian military executed “Balibo Five” Australian newsmen in 1975
• Britain: Still no compensation one year after Buncefield explosion
• Abbas attempts a political coup on behalf of Washington
• Bush administration elaborates plans for bloodbath in Iraq
• Following botched Florida lethal injection
  Executions on hold in two US states
• Oregon lawyer wins lawsuit over false arrest for Madrid bombings
• The German chancellor and the Baker-Hamilton report

December 19, 2006

• UK troops rampage through Kandahar
• Thousands march in New York to protest police killing
• Letters on art and culture
• US general issues warning: politics must not interfere with 100-year “war on terror”
• Millions of Indian workers strike against Congress-led government’s economic policies
• Former Solomon Islands attorney-general acquitted of politically-driven charges
• Australia: No charges against police for killing Aboriginal prisoner
• Strike by Sri Lankan plantation workers at the crossroads
• Wall Street awards itself billions in Christmas bonuses
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

December 20, 2006

• Argentina: landowners withhold meat supplies from country’s population
• Blair’s Middle East tour: “Jaw, Jaw” in furtherance of “War, War”
• US-China “strategic economic dialogue” underscores sharpening trade tensions
• Darfur: Bush and Blair plan no-fly zone and consider air strikes against Sudan
• Australia: High Court clears way for expansion of federal power
• Pentagon report paints grim picture for US in Iraq
• Canada: The Arar Affair and the RCMP Commissioner’s resignation—the cover-up continues
• Deep divisions dominate European Union summit
• Sellout at Brussels Volkswagen plant
  Trade unions agree to mass dismissals

December 21, 2006

• The Robert Kennedy phenomenon goes unexplored in Bobby
• Year-end press conference
  Bush sets stage for major escalation in Iraq
• US breast cancer decrease tied to drop in hormone replacement therapy use
• Chronic drought conditions create hardship in Australian rural areas
• US: Hundreds sickened by contaminated food
• Britain: High Court rejects Jean Charles de Menezes family appeal
• Judge in Padilla case orders mental evaluation
• Britain’s establishment mourns Chilean dictator Pinochet
• Australia: one year after the Cronulla riots, racialist provocations continue
• Sri Lankan unions betray plantation workers strike

December 22, 2006

• Berlin Senate adopts new austerity measures
• Christmas cheer for Wall Street executives
  Goldman Sachs boss gets $53.4 million bonus
• Fijian crisis drags on as military delays formation of interim administration
• Notice to our readers
• Power struggle in Saudi Arabia: a sign of regional instability
• The International Socialist Organization: A profile of middle class radicalism
• Former Australian military chiefs challenge government over Iraq war
• Report exposes European complicity in CIA torture flights

December 23, 2006

• Britain: Conservative Party feigns concern for the poor—the better to oppose welfare state benefits
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan plantation workers angry at unions and government
• German Social Democratic Party chairman badmouths the unemployed
• US Marines charged in Haditha massacre of Iraqi civilians
• Iran’s Holocaust conference and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

December 27, 2006

• Bloc Québécois’ support for Canada’s Afghan war exposed
• Nanni Moretti’s The Caiman: in the end, a chilling exposure of Berlusconi
• Rollback of post-Enron corporate regulations in US
• German government considers deploying air force in Afghanistan
• A legal farce: Iraqi court confirms Saddam Hussein’s death sentence
• Britain: Poorer student numbers fall as tuition fees are hiked up

December 28, 2006

• Letters from our readers
• Fast Food Nation offers some bitter truths about America
• Australia: A grim start to the summer bushfire season
• Former US President Gerald Ford dies
  Pardoned Nixon for Watergate crimes
• Six-party talks on North Korean nuclear program reach dead end
• US backs Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia

December 29, 2006

• Imperialist interests over-ride the “rule of law”
  Blair government cancels British Aerospace-Saudi arms inquiry
  Part one
• Belgian TV hoax exposes political tensions
• Workplace deaths soar in Canada
• China admits to organ trade from executed prisoners
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Financial Times cautions the “plutocrats”
• Two years after the Asian tsunami: thousands still suffering in India
• US-backed UN resolution heightens tensions with Iran
• Another deadly pipeline explosion in Nigeria
• New Year holiday publication schedule

December 30, 2006

• Imperialist interests over-ride the “rule of law”
  Blair government cancels British Aerospace-Saudi arms inquiry
  Part two
• David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2006
• Government report concedes India’s Muslims are a socially deprived, victimised minority
• More US troops to Kuwait, as Bush moves to escalate the war in Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Germany: Left Party-PDS and Election Alternative agree on a common reformist program
• Maryland Reservist killed by police after refusing deployment to Iraq
• The execution of Saddam Hussein
• Ethiopian troops occupy Mogadishu
• Two years after the Asian tsunami: Sri Lankan survivors face civil war and squalor
• Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak out
• Australian court orders re-trial on terrorist charges