Archive: 01/2005
2005-01-03
2005-01-04
- Two prisoners shot dead as the tsunami hit Sri Lanka
- Artie Shaw: a remarkable twentieth-century American life
- India: over 14,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced
- Germany: leniency for deputy police chief who threatened torture
- South Asia disaster appeal: White House tries to cover up Bush’s moment of truth
- Britain: police given new powers against the young
2005-01-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US government makes closing arguments in frame-up of New York attorney Lynne Stewart
- New Zealand parliament passes Civil Union Bill
- Four films
- Washington prepares international network of permanent detention camps
- Tsunami disaster strips away Blair’s humanitarian pretence
- Demonstrators demand “justice” in Argentine nightclub blaze
- Indonesian army steps up war in Aceh
2005-01-06
- US client Yushchenko to assume Ukraine presidency
- Devastation on the east coast of Sri Lanka
- Romania: elections in Europe’s poorhouse
- Powell declares tsunami aid part of global war on terror
- Letters on the tsunami disaster
- Beijing tightens political control over dissent
- Bush to resubmit ultra-right judicial nominees
- European Union continues to build a “fortress Europe”
2005-01-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
- Uruguay: victorious left turns sharply to the right
- Hypocrisy and self interest at tsunami summit in Jakarta
- El arresto de Pinochet en Chile y los asesinos del complot de la "Operación Cóndor" en Estados Unidos
- Insurers relieved by low-level exposure to tsunami disaster
- Gonzales hearings: Senate to confirm defender of torture as US attorney general
- A question and reply on the 1974 Heath government in Britain
2005-01-08
2005-01-10
2005-01-11
- How much “aid” will reach the tsunami survivors?
- Spain: Popular Party seeks to destabilise Socialist Party government
- Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 takes People’s Choice Award
- US defends “evidence” obtained through torture at hearing for Guantanamo prisoners
- Sri Lankan medical student speaks about relief work among tsunami victims
- Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism
- More letters on the tsunami disaster
2005-01-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Under the guise of “humanitarianism”, US marines land in Sri Lanka
- US military “mistake” claims 14 lives in occupied Iraq
- Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism
- CBS purges producer, executives for anti-Bush broadcast
- US bankruptcy judge terminates contract of US Airways workers
- Extent of tsunami destruction along African coast slowly emerges
- Palestinian election: a travesty of democracy
2005-01-13
- Journalist took $240,000 to push Bush education program
- US doctors tied to torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib
- On a medical team to an LTTE-controlled area
- Pentagon plans death squad terror in Iraq
- Father of Guantánamo Bay prisoner speaks with WSWS
- Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism
- Why this dishonest portrait of a despicable figure?
2005-01-14
- The Asian Tsunami Disaster: Causes and Consequences
- Sri Lankan president puts military in charge of relief operations
- Report reveals the catastrophe in Sierra Leone and Liberia
- When more could have been more
- Growing anxiety in US ruling circles over Iraq debacle
- US releases Mamdouh Habib and four British prisoners from Guantánamo Bay
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Detroit mayor demands mass layoffs and cuts in city services
- Bush nominates Chertoff to head Homeland Security Department
- After the 2004 US elections: the Socialist Equality Party and the struggle for the political independence of the working class
2005-01-15
- En Uruguay la izquierda triunfante se vira vigorosamente hacia la derecha
- España: comisión confirma conspiración de engaño para justificar guerra contra Irak
- White House blocked Senate ban on torture
- “Suicide by cop”: Marine provokes police shootout to avoid return to Iraq
- Mbeki facilitates US-Sudan peace deal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia’s disability pensioners to be “coerced” to work
- After the 2004 US elections: the Socialist Equality Party and the struggle for the political independence of the working class
- Brazil: profit and poverty fuel Amazon deforestation
2005-01-17
- Thai government puts tourism ahead of the poor in tsunami relief effort
- Portugal: political crisis deepens ahead of February elections
- The invasion of Iraq and the crisis of American and world capitalism
- Rights group urges prosecution of Bush officials responsible for Iraq torture
- Sri Lanka: the day the tsunami devastated Hambantota
- Canada to lead chorus of support for sham election in Iraq
2005-01-18
- US officially ends hunt for Iraqi WMD
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Hospital staff in tsunami-hit eastern Sri Lanka speak of their experiences
- Christian right forces attack “blasphemous” British television comedy
- Modigliani—an artist between worlds
- Letters from our readers
- China’s tsunami aid: political interests not humanitarian concern
2005-01-19
- Fredric Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated
- Klansman arrested in 1964 killings of civil rights workers
- Massive police presence for Bush inauguration
- Australia: James Hardie signs non-binding agreement on asbestos victims’ claims
- Abu Ghraib abuse trial shields Pentagon, White House war criminals
- South Indian fishing villages devastated by tsunami
- Letters on a review of Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator
- Bush tells Washington Post he is not accountable for Iraq war lies
2005-01-20
- Australian policeman murdered in the Solomon Islands
- US carrying out acts of war against Iran, magazine reports
- Bush inauguration: corporate America throws a party
- Inauguration Day 2005: imperial delusions and political reality
- Germany: another African immigrant dies in police custody
- New Yorker journalist corroborates murder allegations against Iraq’s prime minister
2005-01-21
2005-01-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- The social roots of the tsunami disaster
- Spain: National talks break down as big business demands offensive on wages
- The absence of democratic sensibility in American filmmaking
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The logic of the irrational: Bush’s inaugural address and the global strategy of American imperialism
- Mass strikes by French public sector workers
- Britain: rise in “superbug” cases linked to decrease in hospital cleaning staff
- The death of Mandela’s son and the ANC’s AIDS policy
2005-01-24
2005-01-25
- Beijing on heightened alert after the death of Zhao Ziyang
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Asian tsunami disaster: causes and consequences
- Film on African catastrophe conceals more than it reveals
- American media whitewashes Bush’s global bullying
- France: strikes reveal lack of programme to fight austerity measures
- Europe alarmed by US threats against Iran
- Why has India blocked foreign tsunami aid to the Nicobar and Andaman islands?
2005-01-26
- Washington backs kidnapping of Colombian guerrilla exile in Caracas
- Cuando más pudo haber sido más
- David North to speak at Sydney bookshop event
- Letters from our readers
- US occupation damages ancient sites at Babylon
- Sharp divisions in Jakarta over foreign presence in Aceh
- Academy fails to nominate Fahrenheit 9/11: Hollywood’s olive branch to Bush
2005-01-27
- Russia: wave of protests against welfare cuts
- Two reports expose social conditions in Oregon
- Druba Jyoti Majumdar: pioneer Indian Trotskyist dies
- Australia: Labor’s crisis deepens as its new leader resigns, and quits politics
- The dawn of reformism in the US
- The Iraq election: a travesty of democracy
- Iraq crisis dominates Bush press conference
- Abkhazian elite come to settlement with Kremlin
2005-01-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
- Anger over Sri Lankan government’s “rehabilitation” plans
- Eleven dead in southern California train derailment
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: government proposes house arrest of terror suspects
- Australia’s tsunami aid package: neo-colonialism laced with hypocrisy
- Cheney at Auschwitz: an insult to the memory of Nazism’s victims
2005-01-29
- US group files war crimes complaint in Germany against Rumsfeld
- Germany: redundancies loom at Opel
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Report documents torture by US-backed Iraqi police
- Congressional Democrats line up behind Bush request for $80 billion in war spending
- Court martial of British soldiers hears allegations of abuse orders
2005-01-31
- Sri Lankan president imposes anti-democratic emergency laws
- El marxismo, el Comité Internacional y la ciencia de la perspectiva: un análisis histórico de la crisis del imperialismo estadounidense
- Germany: behind the ultra-right provocation in Saxony’s parliament
- Iraq elections set stage for deeper crisis of US occupation regime
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