Archive: 09/2004
2004-09-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Republican convention opens: panic-mongering in the service of war and reaction
- SEP candidate in Ohio responds to court ruling: “No opposition to two-party monopoly will be allowed”
- Israel to expand West Bank settlements with US support
- Hicks pleads not guilty at Guantanamo Bay “kangaroo court”
- Arson attack on Jewish social centre in Paris
- Australian election announced: a campaign of lies and provocation
2004-09-02
- Millions affected by drought in Sri Lanka
- The Republican convention: Wall Street fetes its political stooges
- Thousands arrested in New York City
- Libyan government to execute foreign health workers
- The execution of the 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq
- The Hartz IV measures in Germany and the international crisis of capitalism
- Britain: furore over A-level exams motivated by defence of class privilege
2004-09-03
- Keynote speech at Republican convention: a fascistic rant from a pro-Bush Democrat
- Musharraf imposes former Citibank official as Pakistan’s prime minister
- SEP candidate answers smear by Champaign, Illinois, newspaper
- Mother of British soldier killed in Iraq demands troop withdrawal
- Greenspan warns cuts to Social Security may be “abrupt and painful”
- US judge throws out Detroit terrorist “sleeper cell” convictions
- Where were the Democrats on August 29?
- Belgian gas explosion: questions remain unanswered
- Indonesian court dismisses Bali bombing charges as unconstitutional
2004-09-04
- La alternativa socialista a Bush y a Kerry
- Russia: school hostage atrocity ends in bloodbath
- Unholy circumstances
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US: August jobs report provides no relief for workers
- Germany: Monday protests continue against Hartz IV
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- The Republican convention and the specter of dictatorship
- Attack on Bangladesh opposition rally heightens political tensions
2004-09-06
2004-09-07
- Wellington and Sydney WSWS/ICFI meetings discuss Iraq war and the US, Australian elections
- The US sinks deeper into the Iraqi quagmire
- SEP candidate addresses retired workers at Illinois forums
- Chinese filmmakers need to see a way out
- Recent older children’s fiction: a new golden age?--Part 1
- The war in Iraq and the 2004 US presidential election
- Burundi massacre and the continuing conflict in the Congo
2004-09-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Interest rate scare campaign in Australian elections
- The Beslan hostage tragedy: the lies of the Putin government and its media
- The Iraq war and the Australian elections
- Hague tribunal stops Milosevic defending himself
- Readers protest University of Illinois attack on SEP candidate Tom Mackaman
- The anatomy of a right-wing provocation in US election campaign
- Recent older children’s fiction: a new golden age?--Part 2
2004-09-09
- Labor’s tax and welfare plan: social reaction in “modernist” garb
- Britain: soldier charged with murder of Iraqi civilian
- A question and reply on law under socialism
- The fight to end the war means opposing both Bush and Kerry
- Australia: Murdoch and Howard join forces to vilify the Greens
- French government encourages employers’ jobs blackmail
- Recent older children’s fiction: a new golden age?—Part 3
2004-09-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Consumer organisation highlights security hole in US vote-counting system
- State elections in the Saarland: support for Germany’s SPD plummets
- More letters protest University of Illinois attack on SEP candidate Tom Mackaman
- China’s new personality cult surrounding Deng Xiaoping
- Cheney bullies the American people: vote for Bush or else
- The political issues behind the Jakarta bomb blast
2004-09-11
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel targets Palestinians, threatens Syria
- US military launches bloody attacks on rebel strongholds in Iraq
- Stop the persecution of immigrant workers!
- An exchange on Sudan’s Darfur conflict
- As superbug problem mounts, drug companies slash antibiotics research
2004-09-13
- Spain: Zapatero tries to control the regions
- State of Ohio seeks to deny ballot status for SEP presidential ticket
- Australian election debate follows the script... almost
- Hundreds of police break up factory occupation in China
- California Performance Review: Republicans, Democrats underwrite multibillion-dollar handout to big business
2004-09-14
- Vote tampering feared in US presidential race
- SEP public meeting to warn of the dangers of war in Sri Lanka
- Germany: Who is responsible for the increased vote for the extreme right?
- A daily toll of US atrocities in Iraq
- Father of Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner denounces Howard government
- Correspondence on animal rights
- “You will know them by their trail of death”—an investigation into the asbestos industry
2004-09-15
- Australia: coroner’s findings whitewash police role in death of TJ Hickey
- The filthy underside of American “democracy”: how Ohio officials have conspired against the SEP and its supporters
- US media covers up American war crimes in Iraq
- India: popular agitation against army atrocities engulfs the northeast state of Manipur
- In a highly political decision, Malaysian court frees Anwar Ibriham
- Kosovo protectorate “on point of near collapse” after March riots
2004-09-16
- SEP obtains Minnesota ballot status for presidential candidates
- Leipzig: “industrial beacon” and growing poverty
- Conrad Black and Hollinger International: a financial oligarchy out of control
- Hong Kong elections reveal a marked political radicalisation
- The ideology and politics of the Australian Greens
- Canada’s Supreme Court hears case aimed at overturning public health care system
- September 11: The official story and the bottom line
2004-09-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan government confronts deepening economic crisis
- SEP files challenge to place candidates on Ohio ballot
- Kerry pledges fiscal austerity in speech to business leaders in Detroit
- Reaction to the French hostage crisis
- Conrad Black and Hollinger International: a financial oligarchy out of control
- The ideology and politics of the Australian Greens
- SEP candidate for Congress addresses forum on disability issues in Maine
2004-09-18
- Putin strengthens his authoritarian regime
- Federal judge upholds decision to bar SEP candidates from Ohio ballot
- SEP candidate speaks at environmental forum in Champaign, Illinois
- Letters denounce effort to bar SEP candidates from Ohio ballot
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sharon threatens to kill Arafat
- Mounting concern in US, Europe over Iraq debacle
- Sri Lankan union leaders prepare to sell out Bata workers
2004-09-20
2004-09-21
- Official probes of US prisoner abuse document crimes, exonerate arch criminals
- Russia: Putin lays siege to social benefits
- Mother of slain US soldier arrested at Bush campaign event
- University of Illinois restricts use of student e-mails to justify attack on SEP candidate
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: former union official Craig Johnston jailed for nine months
- German President Koehler says inequality must be the new norm
- Back the SEP election campaign! Donate today—we need your support now!
- Mark Latham’s “vision” for Australian working people
2004-09-22
- Britain: right-wing think tank opens new school
- More letters denounce effort to bar SEP candidates from Ohio ballot
- The politics behind Kerry’s Iraq speech
- Britain: pro-hunt protest utilised to force through attacks on democratic rights
- Australia’s highest court backs anti-democratic election laws
- Chinese authors charged with libel for exposing rural crisis
- Bush defends Iraq war before a hostile UN General Assembly
2004-09-23
- CWC joins an unstable Sri Lankan government
- Failing Eisenstein: The Pet Shop Boys’ new score for Battleship Potemkin in Trafalgar Square
- Australia: SEP holds election campaign public meetings
- Britain: dramatic increase in self-harm by children
- German state elections: far-right NPD enters parliament in Saxony
- Nick Beams addresses Australian election meetings in Kingsford Smith and Batman
2004-09-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sri Lankan SEP meeting warns of the danger of renewed civil war
- SEP takes ballot access fight to Ohio appeals court
- Australia: Mark Latham and Liverpool Council-what the record shows
- CBS admits being duped over Bush National Guard memos
- The deportation of Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
- Bush administration sabotages attempt to save British hostage in Iraq
- Britain: Iraq debacle deepens crisis of Blair government
- US Congress hails Washington’s Iraqi stooge
2004-09-25
- A certain polarization
- Nader at the University of Michigan: independent candidate courts the Democratic Party
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush administration escalates confrontation with Iran
- Washington turns its back on Haitian catastrophe
- Another Guantanamo “spying” frame-up collapses
- Canada: two “good news” studies conceal growing economic hardship
- The fate of Ken Bigley and the struggle against the occupation of Iraq
2004-09-27
- Sri Lankan fishermen protest against LTTE attack
- Northern Ireland: British government announces inquiry into Pat Finucane’s assassination
- Australia at the forefront of housing bubble
- Dutch government uses terrorist threat to justify greater police powers
- Forbes 400 list of richest Americans: snapshot of a financial oligarchy
2004-09-28
- Democrats back fourth Bush tax cut for wealthy, business
- The Caucasus powder keg: Russia threatens military interventions
- Australian election: the “save Medicare” sham
- An open letter to Michael Moore
- Ex-general wins Indonesian presidential election
- SEP candidate addresses University of Maine meeting on “Marxism, Militarism and War”
- Britain: anti-asylum measures lead to suicides and self-harm
2004-09-29
- The problem of producing great works ... and today’s best works
- Oregon Supreme Court denies Nader ballot access
- Historic showing of Viola Liuzzo documentary in Detroit
- Australia: asbestos poisoning victims sacrificed to corporate profit
- Another round of US airstrikes on Fallujah
- Interview with Jia Zhang-ke, director of The World
- The Balkans continues to fracture
2004-09-30
- Citizen of the world: a brief survey of the life and times of Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
- Ohio appeals court hears Socialist Equality Party ballot access case
- West Bengal carries out first hanging in India in a decade
- The release of Yaser Hamdi: legal manipulation of “enemy combatant” cases
- Australia: SEP candidate James Cogan speaks at Kingsford Smith community forums
- CBS cancels broadcast on Bush’s use of forged Iraqi WMD documents
- Britain: Blair’s defence of his record on Iraq given standing ovation
- Howard and Latham united on Iraq war cover-up
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