Archive: 02/2005
2005-02-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- El marxismo, el Comité Internacional y la ciencia de la perspectiva: un análisis histórico de la crisis del imperialismo estadounidense
- The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism
- Kerry rejects call for Iraq troop withdrawal
- US military covers up suicide protest at Guantánamo Bay
- Report reveals wide social division in UK higher education
- Letters from our readers
2005-02-02
- The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism
- The American media and the Iraq election
- Veteran British surrealist dies
- Detroit mayor rides in luxury as city decays
- Forgotten tsunami victims: Burmese immigrants in Thailand
- Britain: Labour and Tories target immigrants in run-up to election
2005-02-03
- Bush’s state of delusion: speech to Congress ignores crises at home and abroad
- Facts and myths about Bush’s plan for Social Security privatization
- A special report from Poland
- The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism
- British military plane downed in suspected Iraqi insurgent attack
- US Federal Reserve lifts interest rates
2005-02-04
- A special report from Poland
- PBS officials cave in to Bush administration over children’s program
- The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism
- WSWS replies to letters on Iraq’s election and the US occupation
- David North speaks at Sydney’s Gleebooks
- New York subway fire exposes city’s social and political crises
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Letters from our readers
2005-02-05
- Vietnam 1967 & Iraq 2005: using elections to justify criminal wars
- A would-be assassin and his discontent
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iraq election sets stage for escalating political turmoil
- Gonzales confirmed: war criminal to head US Justice Department
- Germany: 5 million unemployed—worst since World War II
- French workers need a new political perspective
- More British troops face court martial: seven accused of Iraqi civilian murder
2005-02-07
- SEP meeting in Sri Lanka explains social roots of tsunami disaster
- Australian government persecutes released Guantánamo prisoner
- Guantanamo videotapes expose brutality against detainees
- General who led US Marines in Iraq says “It’s fun to shoot some people”
- US-European rift deepens over Iran
- Letters from our readers
2005-02-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Judge imposes pay cut on United Airlines mechanics
- WSWS holds public meetings in Australia on Asian tsunami disaster
- Sri Lanka: widespread discontent among tsunami survivors
- Nepalese king seizes power with the backing of the military
- UK government pushes ahead with privatisation of healthcare
- Bush plans renewed assault on Medicaid
- Jobs and wages picture remains bleak for millions in US
- Letters on the Iraq elections
2005-02-09
- A socialist and internationalist perspective to confront the Asian tsunami disaster
- Britain: Matthew Parris and the tsunami disaster
- Medical bills cause more than half of US personal bankruptcies
- Germany welcomes conference of war criminals, witch-hunts their opponents
- France: half-million-strong protest against government attacks
- New evidence of Enron’s criminal role in California’s energy crisis
- US budget slashes social spending to pay for war and repression
- Bush’s budget: government by fraud and lies
- Britain: house arrest proposals widely criticised
2005-02-10
- Thailand’s right-wing populist wins national elections
- Scandinavian governments criticised for poor tsunami response
- Poor, distraught and desperate: Oregon man threatens suicide on floor of state Senate
- New York’s public schools marred by corporate model, police repression
- It cannot be irrelevant to a soldier that a war is legal or illegal
- Needless tsunami deaths expose worldwide vulnerability and lack of US intervention
- Canadian government blocks consideration of legality of Iraq war
- Britain: house arrest proposals widely criticised
- Australia: recycled Labor leader says he will act for the wealthy
- Elliot Abrams: defender of death squads to direct US “democracy” crusade
2005-02-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- SBC buying AT&T for $16 billion—25,000 telecommunications jobs to go
- Sharon government continues land grab in East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza
- US Army National Guard faces recruitment crisis
- US judge rejects claim that Guantánamo detainees have no rights
- US air traffic authority had multiple Bin Laden hijack warnings before 9/11
- The new McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill
2005-02-12
- More evidence of US government’s torture by proxy
- New Zealand wages stagnate while share market booms
- Britain: report documents widespread forced migrant labour
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The further hemorrhaging of Detroit—city to shut 34 public schools
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: cancer death rates reflect social divide
2005-02-14
2005-02-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Socialist Equality Party to contest Australian by-election
- US multinationals awarded huge tax break on foreign earnings
- Growing dissatisfaction in eastern Sri Lanka over lack of aid
- US secretary of state offers Europe a “partnership”
- Howard Dean named Democratic chairman: cosmetic change for a right-wing party
2005-02-16
- New evidence of over-marketing of Vioxx and other anti-inflammatory drugs
- US engineers provocation following assassination in Lebanon
- Sri Lankan refugees speak out over inadequate aid
- Iraq election results reflect broad hostility to US occupation
- US legislation targets immigrants, refugees in “terror war”
- Two mysterious deaths in Georgia’s “Rose Revolution” regime
- Mahmoud Abbas and the degeneration of the Palestinian national movement
2005-02-17
- Striking Sri Lankan bus workers defy government threats
- New Zealand government extends military deployments in Afghanistan
- Britain: Labour to privatise remains of public housing
- The assassination of Rafiq Hariri: who benefited?
- France: high school students demonstrate against education “reforms”
- Is this a novel of genuine anguish?
- Mahmoud Abbas and the degeneration of the Palestinian national movement
2005-02-18
- NHL owners cancel North American ice hockey season
- Bush names Negroponte as national intelligence director
- Schröder demands role for Germany as world power
- Mamdouh Habib indicts Australian government
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Social Democrats routed in Danish election
- CNN news chief steps down: right-wing purge continues in US media
- China’s worst mine explosion in more than 60 years
- Film on the verge of a nervous breakdown
2005-02-19
- El Partido Socialista por la Igualdad y la lucha por la independencia política de la clase trabajadora
- Vote “no” in Spanish referendum on European Union constitution
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kerry proposes 40,000 more troops, as Democrats back Bush war spending
- 30 years in prison for crime committed by 12-year-old
- US intelligence officials play the terrorism scare card, and make a damning admission
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: Martin and Chrétien testify in corruption scandal
- Mounting concerns over fate of tsunami victims in Aceh
2005-02-1f
2005-02-21
- El partido Socilaista por la Igualdad y la lucha por la independencia política de la clase trabajadora
- NAACP resists investigation by IRS, charges political motivation
- Arthur Miller, an American playwright
- Sri Lanka: tsunami survivors in Jaffna criticise government
- Egyptian government suppresses opposition while US turns blind eye
- Trans-Atlantic tensions over EU plan to lift arms embargo on China
- Extraordinary security measures for Bush visit to Germany
2005-02-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Bush signs bipartisan bill to curb class action lawsuits
- Britain: radio programme exposes corruption and theft in Iraq
- NAACP resists investigation by IRS, charges political motivation
- World Socialist Web Site Review: March-May 2005 issue now available
- An “uplifting” diversion in New York’s Central Park
- New Year for China’s rural migrant workers
- Bush in Europe: tensions boil beneath talk of transatlantic unity
2005-02-23
- New evidence of US torture in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Spain: record abstention in referendum on European Union constitution
- El marxismo, el Comité Internacional y la ciencia de la perspectiva: un análisis histórico de la crisis del imperialismo estadounidense
- Quebec: government funding of private schools provokes public outcry
- India’s tsunami victims left without government assistance
- Letters from our readers
- Social life and history intrude
- Australian government commits more troops to Iraq
2005-02-24
- Asian tsunami disaster: the political issues
- Further opposition to Australia’s takeover in the Solomon Islands
- Germany: expansion of DNA testing—a step towards genetic registration
- UK charities say Blair government contravening children’s rights
- Michigan artist sentenced to jail over mural nudity
- Bush in Brussels: US steps up threats of wider Mideast war
- Australian government’s “terror alert” in Aceh backfires
2005-02-25
- Turkey: paper workers occupy factory
- Support the socialist alternative in Werriwa
- Recruit’s death highlights brutality of Marine training
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Financial markets shaken by US dollar scare
- Australia: former leading intelligence official exposes government lies
- German army to relieve US troops in Afghanistan
2005-02-26
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Western Australian election: a campaign of diversions
- “High Ideals, Low Pay”—how the University of California exploits its employees
- Town hall meeting on Social Security: Michigan Democrat seeks to contain popular anger
- Bush in Germany: smiles cannot mask US-European conflicts
- Germany: 15,000 demonstrate in Mainz against Bush visit
- Torture charged in US case alleging plot against Bush
2005-02-28
- Conflict over Sudan on United Nations Security Council
- Australia: SEP launches Werriwa by-election campaign
- Australia: teenagers killed in high-speed police chase through working class suburb
- Readers’ letters on “The New McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill”
- Letters on artistic questions
- A reply to readers’ letters on “The New McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill”
- US-Russian strains dominate Bush-Putin meeting in Bratislava
- Four films on Africa and the Middle East
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