Archive: 05/2004
2004-05-01
- Bush and the Democrats are responsible for torture in Iraq
- Right-wing US television group refuses to air names of war dead
- SEP speakers to address West Coast meetings
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian prime minister visits Baghdad amid US-led bloodbath
- The consequences of eastward expansion of the European Union
- Letters from our readers
- UK: Racial Equality chairman calls for compulsory teaching of “a core of Britishness”
- What the September 11 commission hearings revealed
2004-05-02
2004-05-03
- US media alibis for torture in Iraq
- High school student grilled by US Secret Service over artwork
- Sri Lankan provincial election reveals widespread political disaffection
- Rwanda—10 years since the genocide
- Private military companies in Iraq: profiting from colonialism
- France: May Day demonstrators protest attacks on social programs
- Human rights violations in Chechnya and Ingushetia
2004-05-04
- Washington weighs terror’s impact on presidential vote
- Sri Lankan president’s call for peace talks fuels tensions in government ranks
- España intenta calmar a Estados Unidos por Irak
- Poland: demonstrations on eve of EU entry
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- France: ruling parties in crisis as Chirac and Sarkozy spar
- Marines pull back from Fallujah: a debacle for American imperialism
- Dismantling California’s public services: Budget crises hit state, county and city governments
- Australia’s first “terrorist” charges: timed for Howard’s election campaign
2004-05-05
- The Economist prescribes “regime change” for Venezuela
- Washington’s hypocrisy over Iraq torture
- Thai military launches bloody anti-terrorist crackdown in Muslim south
- US: Outsourcing threatens one in six jobs in Silicon Valley
- Washington fields mercenary army in Iraq
- Egypt reintroduces food vouchers as poverty worsens
- China “overheating” spells trouble for world economy
- A possible experiment: to feel something more deeply for the world
2004-05-06
- TJ Hickey and the plight of young Aboriginal Australians
- Sharon vows to continue West Bank land grab
- Marek Belka is new Polish head of government
- US faces ongoing Shiite uprising in southern Iraq
- India: BJP responds to unfavorable polls by highlighting its Hindu supremacism
- Scientists identify a gene that may block HIV
- Greece: Athens hit by bomb blasts
- Bush on Arabic-language television: old lies and glaring contradictions
2004-05-07
- Private security company in Iraq suppressed labor struggles in US
- Disney blocks release of Michael Moore documentary
- Behind the demands for Rumsfeld to resign: White House prepares a fallback position to continue Iraq atrocities
- The BJP’s “India Shining” campaign: myth and reality
- Interview with Sam Green, co-director of The Weather Underground
- Documentary films: the French role in counter-insurgency, American radicalism in the 1970s and other matters
- Thousands of Australian artists living in poverty
- Britain: Sharp rise in arson attacks on schools
- Karzai orders first state execution in Afghanistan
2004-05-08
- Soldiers report British torture of Iraqi civilians
- Political standoff continues in Taiwan
- Spain pulls out Iraq troops ahead of schedule
- German SEP candidate in the European elections: “For full democratic and social rights for all refugees and immigrants”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Letters from our readers
2004-05-10
- Des Warren: 1937—2004
- An interview on Australia’s “terrorist” arrests
- Rumsfeld testimony reveals: New photos will show “blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman” torture of Iraqi prisoners
- Philippine election reveals widespread political alienation
- Fighting escalates in Iraq as US seeks to crush Shia rebellion
2004-05-11
2004-05-12
- Britain: Blair and Hoon plead ignorance of human rights abuses in Iraq
- Sri Lankan police raid home of Tamil journalist
- Sri Lankan police and army kill two plantation workers
- Police strategy of “disruption”: New attack on civil liberties in Britain
- What the record shows: hypocrisy and lies over US torture of Iraqis
- US: Islamic webmaster on trial for “terror” conspiracy
- A desperate vote-buying budget in Australia
- British Columbia: Rank-and-file outrage at betrayal of hospital workers’ struggle
2004-05-13
- Washington imposes punitive sanctions on Syria
- US prison boom creates an Orwellian world
- Iraq debacle creates crisis in Portugal
- Australia-New Zealand colonial agenda dominates Pacific Islands Forum
- India: Stalinists to promote Congress power bid
- Interview with Clark Lee Walker, director of Levelland
- Looking beyond one’s nose
- Interview with Ana Poliak, director of Palapalos
- Australia: The Howard-Jones-Flint affair
2004-05-14
- Britain: Sunday Times details enormous gains for the super-rich
- Political crisis in Nepal continues after prime minister resigns
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Red Cross report documents US torture of Iraqi prisoners
- The terrible and strange death of Nick Berg
- France: Amiens meeting discusses SEP campaigns in Europe and US
2004-05-15
- Declaración electoral del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad de Alemania: ¡Por los Estados Socialistas Unidos de Europa!
- The Iraq war and the international working class
- The politics of opportunism: the “radical left” in France
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Political earthquake in India
- Democrats agree to suppress photos of US torture in Iraq
- Blair pledges his continued loyalty to Bush on Iraq
- More evidence of Australian government’s failure to warn of Bali bombings
2004-05-17
2004-05-18
- US press accounts confirm: Rumsfeld, Bush approved Iraq torture policy
- Siemens of Germany shifts jobs and cuts wages
- Mitsubishi workers face layoffs and closures
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- South Korean court overturns presidential impeachment
- Sonia Gandhi prepares to become India’s prime minister
- SEP election meetings in California
- World Bank chief admits United Nations development goals cannot be met
2004-05-19
- Colonel Gadhaffi’s long journey and the collapse of Arab nationalism—Part 1
- The politics of opportunism: the “radical left” in France
- US occupation regime staggered by bomb blasts, uprisings
- Australia: Public housing being “cannibalised”
- Israel escalates war of terror in Gaza
- German foreign minister in Washington— cowardice personified
2004-05-1m
2004-05-20
- Attempts to restart Sri Lankan peace talks heighten political instability
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2004—Part 1
- Israeli massacre of demonstrators in southern Gaza
- Britain: Sacking of Mirror editor over Iraq abuse photos—a major attack on press freedom
- Colonel Gadhaffi’s long journey and the collapse of Arab nationalism—Part 2
- Sonia Gandhi declines India’s prime ministership
- Bush’s legal propagandist defends the indefensible: torture in Afghanistan and Iraq
2004-05-21
- Los engaños y la hipocresía de Estados Unidos en cuanto a las torturas y humillaciones en Irak
- United Nations report highlights growing inequality in South Africa
- Father of Guantanamo Bay prisoner says son has been abused
- Former prisoners demand release of Guantanamo Bay videotapes
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2004-05-22
- US seeks Pakistani military support for Afghan and Iraqi occupations
- Nader gets his meeting with Kerry
- Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Britain
- The politics of opportunism: the “radical left” in France
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Georgia: Tensions increase between Abkhazia and Tbilisi
- Ex-New York Mayor Giuliani booed at 9/11 hearing
- Canada’s Liberal government boosts military, courts Bush administration
2004-05-24
- US: SEP holds election meetings in Seattle and Portland
- Australia: Unemployment rate driven down by the creation of low-paid jobs
- Iraqi city of Karbala left in ruins by US military
- Britain: Father of Nick Berg supports march against Iraq occupation
- Palestinian leader found guilty of murder after show trial
2004-05-25
- More “Washington whispers” about possible pre-election terrorist attack
- New Sri Lankan government immediately axes hundreds of jobs
- Spain: Socialist Party government attacks free speech
- The politics of opportunism: the “radical left” in France
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- India’s new prime minister: a representative of corporate interests par excellence
2004-05-26
- “People smuggler” trial raises new questions about Canberra’s role in refugee deaths
- Huge rise in prisoners serving life sentences in the US
- The politics of opportunism: the “radical left” in France
- Pakistan and Zimbabwe: a tale of two autocrats
- Attac and German Trade Union Federation hold joint congress in Berlin
- Furore over torture in Iraq prompts new revelations of US abuse in Afghanistan
2004-05-27
- More Pentagon lies about the bombing of an Iraqi wedding party
- Australia: Critical lessons from the tramway sackings in Melbourne
- For greater complexity, more uncovering
- The death of Portugal’s richest man: a lesson in how a revolution was betrayed
- Letters from our readers
- Thieves fall out in Baghdad: behind the US raid on Ahmed Chalabi
- Bush’s prime-time speech highlights deepening crisis over Iraq
2004-05-28
- UN Security Council stalls vote on US Iraq resolution
- Student charged with “terrorist” training released on bail
- New York City: Immigrant worker killed in construction collapse
- Guantanamo prisoners “locked up in a world of shadows”
- German resident incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay for two-and-a-half years
- Spain: Zapatero continues Aznar’s anti-democratic measures in regions
- Ashcroft, Mueller press conference: sowing panic to prepare a provocation
2004-05-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New Indian ministry to continue right-wing policies
- Soldier beaten at Guantanamo in interrogation training
- Canadian elections: campaign hype cannot mask popular disaffection
- A timeless portrait of the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria
2004-05-31
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