Archive: 06/2004
2004-06-01
2004-06-02
- Leaked government memo reveals US-British tensions over Iraq
- Pentagon secretly investigated detainee deaths as homicides
- Several new filmmakers, but ongoing problems
- Maine: SEP campaign faced arcane ballot requirements, private property restrictions
- SEP stand against Iraq war evokes strong support in Maine
- The enduring significance of the Emancipation Proclamation
- Five right-wing tickets contend for the Indonesian presidency
- Inside Fallujah: An insightful report on US atrocities against Iraqi civillians
- Australian government lies exposed on Abu Ghraib torture
2004-06-03
- Sri Lankan government deeply mired in financial difficulties
- Blair government’s strategy to police Britain’s Muslims leaked
- Germany: Former SPD chairman Lafontaine defends police torture
- Washington installs new puppet regime in Baghdad
- Pro-war US newspaper admits: Bush is a liar
- Canada’s Arar inquiry prepares to whitewash intelligence establishment
2004-06-04
- US Army’s expanded “stop-loss” program prevents thousands from leaving military
- Oil city attack destabilises Saudi Arabia, deepens threat of world slump
- Draconian emergency powers imposed in Nigeria state
- The Iraq war and the international working class
- Australia: SEP public meetings discuss Iraq war
- San Francisco gallery owner attacked by right-wing thugs
- Part seven: Lutte Ouvrière and the Fourth International
2004-06-05
- Trotskyism in postwar USSR: the record of an anti-Stalinist youth group in the early 1950s
- German chancellor Schröder declares his support for Bush
- At least six killed in Lebanese fuel protests
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iraq has become a military and political debacle for the US
- Australian PM shares a farcical White House media conference with Bush
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2004-06-07
- The Bush administration begins to break up
- Behind the political crisis in Taiwan
- Viola Liuzzo: martyr in the struggle for social equality
- More tortured manoeuvres in Papua New Guinea parliament
- Interview with Paola di Florio, director of Home of the Brave
- Interview with Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, daughter of Viola Liuzzo
- Georgia sends troops to border with South Ossetia
- The significance of the Momart art fire
2004-06-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lanka: Police attack teacher trainee protest
- New law on Russian referendums: crude attack on democratic rights
- Email indicates Cheney involved in Halliburton deal in Iraq
- France : Demonstrations against Bush and in defence of the health service
- Petition drive completed for SEP congressional candidate in Ohio
- Chalabi, Iranian spies and the crisis of the Bush administration
- Spanish visit by Syria’s Assad highlights differences between Madrid and Washington
2004-06-09
- Sri Lanka’s new government signs up for US “war on terrorism”
- España: Zapatero mantiene las medidas antidemocráticas de Aznar en las regiones
- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): an obituary
- Britain: Royal Mail plans worker buyout
- “Stay close to reality”
- US Fed set to lift rates
- Letters from our readers
- Berlin: Successful rally concludes PSG European election campaign
- US federal judge rules anti-abortion law unconstitutional
2004-06-10
- Abu Ghraib and the failure of American society
- Russia’s Putin announces further attacks on living standards
- New Zealand Labour government cuts off Maori claims to the foreshore
- NATO expansion and the political crisis in Europe
- Reports find pervasive and increasing sexual abuse in the US military
- Silence on the Iraq war and defence of the headscarf ban
- Further evidence that FBI was informed of 9/11 terror attacks
2004-06-11
- UN Security Council rubberstamps Washington’s continuing subjugation of Iraq
- US Justice Department opens investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till
- Experimento con posibilidades: sentir algo más profundo por el mundo
- Mirando debajo de la superficie
- After years of incarceration, Australian government recognises Afghans as refugees
- NATO expansion and the political crisis in Europe
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The “fiery” speeches of Mr. Gore
- Letters on “Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): An Obituary”
- Canada: Further concessions extorted from Air Canada workers
2004-06-12
- Nigeria: General strike against fuel price increases
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- A lesson in the functioning of the German “rule of law”
- Iraqi resistance rejects interim government, fighting continues
- India: Behind the rout of the Telugu Desam Party—a portrait of World Bank social engineering
- New German immigration law sanctions political censorship
- Chinese police dragnet marks 15 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
2004-06-14
- New York City workers’ protest demands new contracts, wage hikes
- Britain: Young workers face poverty in old age
- Kerry’s approach to McCain: Democrat seeks bipartisan pro-war ticket
- Mexico summit: Europe seeks to challenge US domination of Latin America
- India: government program gives assurances to big business
- Britain: Labour suffers a rout in local elections
- Home health and day care workers strike in New York
2004-06-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US torture in Iraq, Afghanistan: Authorized at the highest levels
- New York City: Second immigrant construction worker killed in two weeks
- Meeting opposes Australia’s draconian “anti-terror” laws
- European governments rocked by EU election results
- Enron tapes expose blatant criminality of corporate America
- Quality higher education: members of the working class need not apply?
- Canada’s business elite considers throwing its weight behind the “new” Conservatives
- Ambon communal violence flares up amid Indonesian presidential poll
2004-06-16
- Vanunu affair lays bare the vindictive and undemocratic nature of the Israeli state
- Spain: Zapatero willing to send troops to Haiti
- Remembering Ray: a tribute
- Press statement of Ohio SEP candidate David Lawrence
- SEP congressional candidate launches lawsuit against early filing date in Ohio
- European elections: Socialist Equality Party of Germany receives nearly 26,000 votes
- The growing irrelevance of the G8 summit
- Dengue outbreak in Sri Lanka highlights deteriorating public health services
- Smug and rather pointless
2004-06-17
- Washington Post publishes memo implicating White House in torture of prisoners
- SEP to hold Toronto meeting on Canadian, US elections
- The Greens, the Socialist Alliance and John Pilger
- Iraq’s new prime minister, the CIA and their record of terrorist bombings
- Industrial nations tie foreign aid to support for “war on terror”
- Four British soldiers face court martial over Iraq abuses
2004-06-18
- Paris meeting advances socialist platform for European workers
- London meeting: European elections “a sea change in political life”
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in “precision” strikes
- Canadian elections: candidates’ debates filled with by posturing and lies
- No evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties: 9/11 commission undermines another Bush war lie
2004-06-19
- Warrior and anti-warrior
- Rumsfeld, Rice tied to torture in Iraq
- Sri Lankan president resorts to another extra-constitutional measure
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ireland votes to curtail citizenship rights
- Election alternative: Jobs and Social Justice—a new reformist trap for German workers
- Germany: report shows Berlin sinking deeper into poverty
2004-06-21
- French riot police dispatched to Tahiti following election upset
- New prime minister installed in Nepal
- Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 comes under right-wing attack
- Divisions predominate despite agreement on European constitution
- India: victims seek prosecution of Union Carbide officials over Bhopal disaster
2004-06-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US balance of payments gap widens again
- Merrill-Lynch report: concentration of wealth at the top resumed upward spiral in 2003
- Jakarta expels foreign critics: a new attack on democratic rights
- European elections: debacle for the German SPD
- Britain: families depend on credit to survive
- Letters from our readers
- Caught by 9/11 panel in lie over Iraq-Al Qaeda ties, White House responds with more lies
2004-06-23
- Detroit school workers organize wildcat strike against job cuts
- What is the United Kingdom Independence Party?
- Russian liberal intelligentsia’s view of the Kremlin under Yeltsin and Putin
- Iraqi prime minister raises martial law option
- SEP submits petitions to qualify for Illinois State House campaign
- 82 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2002-2003
- Fury in Fallujah after US air strikes
- The beheadings of Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-il
- US actors vote overwhelmingly for strike authorization
2004-06-24
- White House torture documents portray an outlaw regime
- Sectarian violence in Pakistan’s commercial capital
- Michael Moore loses appeal against R rating for Fahrenheit 9/11
- Iran: escalating tensions behind capture of British sailors
- Former US soldier speaks on near-deadly beating at Guantanamo
- Recent bomb attack in Cologne’s Turkish district—“ no political background?”
- Australian government dismisses damning report on child detention
2004-06-25
- Australian Labor leader backs down on Iraq troop withdrawal
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A culture at the end of its rope
- Washington renews war crimes immunity in “sovereign” Iraq
- Britain: Teenagers driven to depression and suicide by exam pressures
- Chinese military exercise raises tensions with Taiwan
- The Bloc Québécois a political instrument of the québécois elite
2004-06-26
- Scores of deaths in British barracks unaccounted for
- Poland and the European elections
- NDP conceals right-wing program with activist rhetoric
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Beheading of Kim Sun-il fuels South Korean protests over troop deployment
- On eve of Milwaukee convention: Green Party divided over Nader campaign
- On eve of Milwaukee convention: Green Party divided over Nader campaign
- Torture scandal becomes focus of political warfare within US government circles
2004-06-28
- Western Sahara: Resignation of UN envoy James Baker puts referendum in doubt
- US backflip over North Korean nuclear programs
- Australia: Workers First union leader plea bargains for suspended sentence
- Green Party convention rejects Nader-Camejo ticket
- Election Alternative meets in Berlin Another safety valve for German social democracy
2004-06-29
- Australian Labor’s u-turn on pharmaceutical benefits
- Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 sets box-office records
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Insurgency forces speedup of Iraqi “handover”
- Is the US military preparing another massacre in Fallujah?
- Letters on Kill Bill, Vol. 2, directed by Quentin Tarantino
- US Supreme Court declines to order release of Cheney energy taskforce papers
- Bush’s European visit: opposition from the people and prostration by their leaders
- Union orders Broadway actors to stay on job despite contract expiration
2004-06-30
- US government’s unofficial defense of torture
- US: jury acquits Idaho webmaster of terrorism charges
- Sri Lankan health unions call off two-day strike
- US Supreme Court overturns Pledge of Allegiance ruling on technical grounds
- Ireland: election results record decay of Fianna Fail
- US: SEP files for Colorado ballot status
- China cracks down on Internet cafes and “cyber dissidents”
- Canadian Liberals cling to power, but results attest to mass popular disaffection
- Belgium: right-wing Vlaams Blok benefits from hostility to government
- Michael Moore’s contribution
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