Archive: 08/2004
2004-08-02
2004-08-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Terror alerts set stage for election based on fear
- Anthony Sampson surveys a transformed Britain 40 years on
- US: record numbers in prison and on parole
- Murder allegations against Iraq’s Allawi: an exchange of letters with the New York Times’ public editor
- Champaign, Illinois Electoral Board places SEP candidate on ballot
- South Korean government uses police measures against striking workers
- Corruption scandal signals sharp differences in Chinese ruling elite
2004-08-04
- SEP launches presidential petition drive in Washington state
- An exchange of letters on United Airlines and “employee ownership”
- Kerry y Edwards prometen continuar con la guerra y la reacción social
- Anthony Sampson surveys a transformed Britain 40 years on
- Germany: Mannesmann execs acquitted in corruption trial
- German interior minister proposes African internment camps for refugees
- The US prepares another democratic charade in Afghanistan
2004-08-05
- Colombia’s Uribe: US ally in “war on terror” named as drug trafficker
- Terror scare paves way for police-state measures
- US whitewashes Indonesian military over Papuan murders
- An honorable effort, but it lacks fire
- Britain: Labour unveils its latest assault on democratic rights
- A show of force by the Chinese military in Hong Kong
- Survey claims 37,000 Iraqi civilians killed in first seven months of war
- Spain: bank takeover raises fears of job losses
2004-08-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan president offers empty apology for 1983 pogrom
- Ninetieth anniversary of the German SPD voting for war
- Britons release devastating account of torture and abuse by US forces at Guantanamo
- Singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw speaks with the World Socialist Web Site
- Recent letters from WSWS readers
2004-08-07
- New York Times offers Bush friendly advice on terror alerts
- Sudan: western powers move towards military intervention
- SEP challenges Ohio petition deadline in US District Court
- An attempt to grasp the whole: One World, a play by Robert Litz, opens in Hollywood
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kerry campaigns as candidate of big business
- July jobless figures debunk claims of US economic recovery
- Sri Lankan government launches major police operation against Bata strikers
2004-08-09
2004-08-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Blair government outlines fresh attack on civil liberties
- SEP candidates on the ballot in New Jersey
- New Zealand imposes diplomatic sanctions on Israel over Mossad operation
- Six people murdered in Florida tragedy
- Iraqi interim regime implements further police state measures
2004-08-11
- Two “sting” operations raise disturbing questions about US terror alert
- Spain: Commission of Inquiry into Madrid bombings allows right-wing to regroup
- Quebec unions shelve plans for one-day strike
- Fiji vice-president jailed for treason over 2000 coup attempt
- Britain: government outlines plans to dismantle state education
- Australia: cynical shadow boxing between Howard and Latham over US trade deal
2004-08-12
- Britain: anti-terror raids condemned as victimisation
- Free market blueprint for Australian intervention in PNG
- US commanders stop troops from protecting Iraqi torture victims
- SEP candidate in Illinois thanks supporters of ballot access fight
- Kerry: “I would still have voted for Iraq war”
- New Guantanamo Bay torture allegations incriminate Australian government
- Germany: workers respond angrily to deal at DaimlerChrysler
2004-08-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- The Iraq War and the 2004 US elections
- US atrocity in Najaf
- Standing up to a right-wing witch hunt
- Democrats drop opposition to CIA nominee: another capitulation to Bush
- Russian-Georgian tensions escalate
- Britain: Court of Appeals rules evidence obtained through torture is admissible
- Former top Australian officials denounce Howard for deception over Iraq War
2004-08-14
- UK government spending review pledges job cuts and defence spending hike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kerry and the Democratic campaign: a descent into farce
- Ivory Coast: Two years of French and United Nations occupation
- US onslaught on Najaf triggers protests and fighting across Iraq
- White supremacist wins Republican nomination for Tennessee congressional seat
2004-08-16
- Showcomotion 2004: children’s and young people’s film festival--Part 1
- Socialist Equality Party campaign makes gains in Iowa, Ohio, Michigan
- New York City denies demonstrators’ new bid for park permit
- Refugees barred from Australia on hunger strike in Indonesia
- A modern day slave trade: Indonesian domestic servants in Malaysia
- Germany: What is Oskar Lafontaine up to?
2004-08-17
- Showcomotion 2004: children’s and young people’s film festival—Part 2
- Interview with Reuben Irving of Gorilla Cinema
- Fighting in Najaf exposes an unpopular, isolated Iraqi regime
- Germany: Magdeburg demonstrators denounce Hartz IV cuts
- Germany: tens of thousands protest against government assault on welfare state
- Fifty-five Dominican refugees die at sea
- CIA-backed opposition suffers defeat in Venezuelan referendum
- Another vicious police attack on Bata strikers in Sri Lanka
2004-08-18
- Workers struggles: The Americas
- Britain: new findings point to larger outbreaks of vCJD “mad cow disease”
- Sri Lanka returns to the brink of war
- Solomon Islands: prison protest over lack of rights under Australian intervention
- Norway: “anti-terror” investigation exposes US-backed torture in northern Iraq
- India: Hindu supremacist BJP in disarray
- FBI “anti-terror” task force targets Bush administration opponents
2004-08-19
- Canberra tightens its hold over the Pacific Islands Forum
- Britain: social inequalities widen under Blair government
- SEP files petitions for presidential ballot status in Ohio
- La campaña política de Kerry y del Partido Demócrata se convierte en farsa
- Australia’s jobless rate back on the rise
- WSWS readers write on terror alerts and the war against Iraq
- New York Times and Washington Post remain silent on murder allegations against Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi
- FBI’s Albany terror “sting” begins to unravel
2004-08-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Germany: political double talk—the PDS and the “Hartz IV” welfare reforms
- Hundreds of nurses strike Michigan hospital over staffing cuts
- Debate on troop redeployment: saber-rattling from both Bush and Kerry
- Civil rights advocates denounce FBI harassment of protesters
- Ohio SEP candidate David Lawrence appeals for support in fight for ballot status
- Stabbing in a Beijing kindergarten: another sign of social breakdown in China
2004-08-21
- Oil workers’ strike heightens Sri Lankan government crisis
- Mexico: judge quashes “genocide” indictment of former president Luis Echeverría
- Mounting protests against social cuts in Germany
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Why was Senator Kennedy placed on US “no fly” list?
- Germany: Which way forward in the struggle against Hartz IV?
- Scotland: explosion the result of industrial deregulation
- Back the SEP election campaign! Donate today—we need your support now!
- An exposé of dishonest media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict
2004-08-23
2004-08-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Spanish government discusses extending scope of Anti-Terror Pact
- Bank with close ties to Bush administration engulfed in scandal
- Kerry’s dilemma: defending medals from a criminal war
- Australian foreign minister falls off the diplomatic tightrope in Asia
- Australia’s highest court sanctions indefinite detention
- California National Guardsman files suit against extension of tour of duty
2004-08-25
- SEP presidential campaign files petitions in Washington state
- Champaign newspaper publishes smear against SEP candidate Tom Mackaman
- Former detainees detail abuses at Guantanamo Bay
- In run-up to Republican convention: 24-hour surveillance of protest organizers
- A letter from the great niece of civil rights martyr Viola Liuzzo
- Australia: Howard’s 2001 election lies return to haunt him
- The Monday Demonstrations in Germany—1989 and today
- Detroit schools open following a summer of discontent
- WSWS readers condemn denial of ballot status to SEP candidate in Ohio
- The Corporation: a reformist plea for state regulation
2004-08-26
- Spanish government immigration policy costs migrant lives
- Socialist Equality Party candidates attain ballot status in Washington, Iowa and Michigan
- Russian miners protest again, as they did 15 years ago
- New Zealand High Court overturns conviction for flag burning
- Democrats’ drive to keep Nader off ballot: a reactionary attack on democratic rights
- Suharto’s political machine backs Megawati in Indonesian poll
- New European Commission dedicated to free market offensive
- Layoffs plague Detroit city services
2004-08-27
- Mark Thatcher arrested over alleged African coup plot
- Four workers die in Japanese nuclear plant accident
- Small oases and the much larger desert
- Canada to expand its armed forces to facilitate foreign interventions
- Florida man burns himself over son’s death in Iraq
- Britain: Iraqi asylum seeker ends 46-day hunger strike
2004-08-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Fuerza de tarea "contra el terrorismo" persigue a los adversarios de Bush
- The family business and its discontents
- New Bush administration rules slash overtime pay for millions of workers
- The socialist alternative to Bush and Kerry
- Spain: controversy surrounds opening of Garcia Lorca’s grave
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US pulls back from Najaf
- Germany: protests held in over 140 towns and cities
- US torturers in Afghanistan were redeployed to Iraq
2004-08-30
- Documents confirm US colluded in Indonesia’s 1969 incorporation of Papua
- Appeals court upholds discriminatory filing deadline: Ohio SEP candidate to conduct write-in campaign
- Massive anti-Bush march in New York
- Chinese police generate “sex scandal” against Hong Kong election candidate
- An exchange on the crisis in Sudan’s western Darfur region
- Canada: budget cuts have contributed to spread of super-bug
2004-08-31
- Influence and the rise of modern art
- Head of Spain’s largest bank calls for an end to Europe’s welfare state
- Australia: Howard government cynically “tweaks” its anti-refugee policy
- The JVP intensifies its campaign against Sri Lankan peace talks
- Germany: establishment parties unite behind Hartz IV laws
- US census figures show rise in poverty, uninsured
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