Archive: 10/2004
2004-10-01
- Washington’s policy of sadism and sexual abuse: excerpts from Seymour Hersh’s Chain of Command
- Democratic keynote speaker Barack Obama calls for missile strikes on Iran
- America’s oligarchy in the mirror of the debacle in Iraq
- Prisoner releases expose illegal nature of Guantanamo Bay detentions
- Bush-Kerry debate: two candidates committed to war
- The Balkans continue to fracture
2004-10-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Australia: SEP candidate for Werriwa, Mike Head, addresses university forum
- Orphaned by history
- Israel: General strike over unpaid salaries
- Notice to WSWS readers in Australia: Socialist Equality Party election meetings
- Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate to speak in London
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Interview with Bahman Ghobadi, director of Turtles Can Fly
- Britain: Labour Party conference endorses occupation of Iraq
- Afghanistan’s presidential election: a mockery of democracy
2004-10-04
- War, social conditions dominate discussion in Australian working class
- SEP presents evidence of voter disenfranchisement in Ohio ballot case
- Nigerian government launches assault on civilians in Delta region
- SEP candidate on Illinois public radio
- US troops storm Iraqi city of Samarra
- German interior minister bans Islamic conference
- Australia: Labor’s schools policy will further privatise education
2004-10-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The international crisis of capitalism and the bankruptcy of the “social market economy”
- Nick Beams addresses Australian SEP election meeting
- SEP Congressional candidate Jerome White speaks on children’s health issues
- Australia: SEP holds public meeting in Werriwa in lead up to federal election
- Israeli offensive in Gaza kills, wounds hundreds
- Lessons of Peter Garrett’s evolution: from radical activist to Australian Labor politician
- Contradictions of Bush-Kerry debate: pro-war candidates confront debacle in Iraq and antiwar sentiment at home
- Fifteen years after fall of Berlin wall:
2004-10-06
- Ohio appeals court upholds exclusion of SEP candidates
- Defence witnesses at Milosevic trial refuse to testify
- Kodak to shut Australian plant and destroy hundreds of jobs
- Indonesian editor jailed under repressive libel laws
- Democrat Edwards backs war, austerity in vice presidential debate
- Britain: Guantanamo detainee alleges “vindictive torture” and murder
2004-10-07
- Some things are difficult, but they need to be done
- US uses Israel as its proxy to threaten Syria
- Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party in the Australian elections
- Locusts threaten food supplies in North West Africa
- Indian Stalinists’ alliance with the Congress-led UPA: a trap for the working class
- German war crimes in Italy: part one
- Australia: an exchange on Sydney’s Claymore housing estate
2004-10-08
- Iraq WMD report proves Bush, Democrats lied to justify Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Medicine and the market: the Vioxx and flu vaccine debacles
- German war crimes in Italy: part two
- Australia: campaign in Batman differentiates SEP from all other parties
- Aboriginal health and social crisis ignored in Australian election campaign
2004-10-09
- Socialist Equality Party US presidential candidate to speak in Sri Lanka
- Italy carries out mass deportation of refugees
- Israel: Top adviser reveals Sharon set out to sabotage peace talks
- Israel: Top adviser reveals Sharon set out to sabotage peace talks
- German war crimes in Italy: part three
- Kerry plugs his conservative credentials in second presidential debate
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: arts funding crisis ignored in federal election
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2004-10-11
- Spain: PSOE government promises limited amnesty to immigrants
- Russia-Georgia tensions worsen following Beslan siege
- “Australia’s inhuman treatment of asylum seekers has to be confronted”
- A sincere and evocative protest
- Australia: Howard government returned, courtesy of Labor
- Crisis in the US airlines industry: the case for public ownership
2004-10-12
2004-10-13
- Some of Hitler’s unwilling victims
- The New York Times and the road to war
- Koizumi reshuffles Japanese cabinet to pursue right-wing agenda
- FBI shuts down 20 antiwar web sites: an unprecedented act of Internet censorship
- Democrats, unions capitulate to new attacks by Schwarzenegger on California workers
- Blair visits Africa
2004-10-14
- Britain: more lies over Iraq war
- An exchange with the Australian’s Iraq correspondent
- Union hobbles Canada-wide federal workers strike
- SEP challenges ballot access laws in Ohio Supreme Court
- A painter of raw nerve: Leon Golub, 1922-2004
- Australia continues to pressure East Timor on oil and gas
- Letters from our readers
2004-10-15
- Asian films and Asian life
- Communal protests inflame tensions in eastern Sri Lanka
- Scottish National Party reelects Salmond as leader
- German Green Party congress: a middle-class party of German imperialism
- David North denounces Iraq war at Dublin debate
- Final presidential debate confirms: no choice for working people in Bush-Kerry contest
2004-10-16
- Aid workers charge political motives in US claim of “genocide” in Darfur
- SEP to hold public meetings in final weeks of 2004 US election campaign
- Canada’s social democrats helping sustain big business Liberals in power
- Discontent rife in US military ranks
- Considerably more than a libertine
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Right-wing Christian party may gain the balance of power in Australian Senate
2004-10-18
2004-10-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP participates in third-party debate in Tennessee
- Germany: Opel cuts over 10,000 auto jobs
- SEP presidential candidate addresses London meeting
- German Opel workers: ”We cannot compete with wages of 3-4 euros”
- Big business spells out economic agenda for new Indonesian president
- Iraq’s nuclear-related equipment goes missing under the US occupation
2004-10-20
- As early balloting begins: tensions build over Bush vote-suppression drive
- Spain: Socialist Party government moves to rehabilitate Francoite fascists
- Group suicides in Japan: a symptom of social malaise
- Israel moves to impede UN relief to Palestinians
- Iraqi social crisis continues unabated as US slashes funding
- Greyhound bus lines: stranding America’s poor in pursuit of profits
2004-10-21
- Vancouver International Film Festival 2004—Part 2
- SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken speaks to South Asian press in Sri Lanka
- The New York Times and the reservists in Iraq who said “No”
- Deaths of schoolchildren expose Israeli brutality
- France: murder of work inspectors reveals deepening social tensions
- Iraq: US assault underway on Fallujah
- Campaign material suppressed in Australian election
2004-10-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan students and railway workers discuss US election campaign
- Spain pressured to strengthen border with North Africa
- GM workers hold European-wide day of action against job cuts
- The political issues facing Opel workers
- Four-day general strike in Nigeria
- New Indian government demonstrates loyalty to Washington
2004-10-23
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Socialist campaign reaches thousands of Maine voters
- Britain agrees to troop redeployment to back Fallujah offensive
- Minnesota senator closes Washington office, citing terrorist threat
- Letters from WSWS readers
- Australia’s peak union body rules out opposition to Howard government’s agenda
2004-10-25
- Australian elections: voting trends reveal deepening disaffection
- Illinois SEP campaign reaches wide audience
- Why is IG Metall sabotaging the struggle at Opel?
- Germany: union, works committee stifle Opel strike in Bochum
- The New York Times and the Bush “disaster”
- Behind the military leadership changeover in China
2004-10-26
2004-10-27
- Spain’s draft budget presages escalating social conflict
- SEP congressional candidate addresses workers, youth in Michigan
- Australian foreign minister smears journalist kidnapped in Iraq
- Guerilla attacks increase as US forces continue air raids against Fallujah
- Letters from WSWS readers
- British MI6 agents named in Balkans
2004-10-28
- US elections: Republicans marshal “poll watchers” to suppress working class vote
- Sri Lankans speak about the Iraq war, the US election and internationalism
- US SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken addresses two meetings in Sri Lanka
- Lithuania: election sees low turnout, large gains for Labour Party
- Britain: government extends attack on defendants’ rights
- SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken to speak Saturday in New York
- Missing explosives at Al Qaqaa: Bush caught in another Iraq war lie
2004-10-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Bid-rigging scandal envelops top insurance broker in US
- SEP congressional candidate John Christopher Burton speaks at LA-area debate
- Britain: second inquest held into police shooting of Harry Stanley
- “I wanted to voice my concerns over the Australian government’s illegal foreign policy”
- US SEP presidential candidate addresses Sri Lanka meetings
2004-10-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Study estimates 100,000 additional Iraqi deaths since the invasion
- Expanding Halliburton probe confirms Bush administration is most corrupt in US history
- SEP election meeting in Cincinnati discusses attacks on voting rights
- US introduces sanctions against Belarus
- Arafat health drama: a symbol of Israel’s imprisonment of the Palestinian people
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