Archive: 04/2005
2005-04-01
- Bush-appointed intelligence commission whitewashes war based on lies
- UNICEF study shows child poverty increasing in advanced countries
- Quebec student strike widens
- Appeals for wage restraint as New Zealand companies record huge profits
- La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
- Fuel price rise in Indonesia triggers protests
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
2005-04-02
- Britain: row over spending cuts hits Conservative election bid
- Political tensions rise in Spain
- After Terri Schiavo’s death: new threats against democratic and constitutional rights
- The Terri Schiavo case and the crisis of politics and culture in the US
- La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
- Indonesian inquiry unearths conspiracy to murder civil rights activist
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush critics barred from “town hall” meetings on Social Security
2005-04-04
- Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting in tsunami-affected Matara
- The case of Terri Schiavo and the crisis of politics and culture in the United States
- A cynical twist in Australia’s mandatory refugee detention regime
- La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
- French referendum on the European constitution: opinion polls point to defeat
- Letters on the Terri Schiavo case
2005-04-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
- March jobs report shows US “recovery” offers no relief for workers
- Australia: huge police mobilisation against refugee protest
- Oil-for-food scandal: Washington’s preemptive strike on the UN
- UK government launches new plan for Africa
- Fox’s 24: propaganda thinly disguised as television programming
2005-04-06
- Nevada: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository stalled
- Pope John Paul II: a political obituary
- Ghost town
- The US media and the pope—an assault on the separation of church and state
- Burma visit highlights India’s “Look East” strategy
- British general election announced for May 5
- Letters from our readers
- Muted response by Canberra as Australian woman faces death penalty in Indonesia
2005-04-07
- Sri Lankan chauvinists stir up tensions in tsunami-affected East
- La propaganda de la derecha y la veracidad científica en el caso Schiavo
- Jefe del Pentágono intensifica sus amenazas contra Venezuela
- Right-wing US senators target federal judges
- Indian Stalinists reaffirm support for Congress-led regime committed to neo-liberal policies
- Germany: major churches, conservative opposition line up with US Christian right on Schiavo case
- Letters on Terri Schiavo
- Still no truth after year-long inquiry into British Army trainee deaths
2005-04-08
2005-04-09
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Berlusconi suffers major defeat in Italian regional elections
- Attacks on Abu Ghraib highlight continuing Iraqi armed resistance
- German business to strengthen its involvement in India
- Israeli human rights groups condemn Sharon government’s Gaza policies
- New York Times joins witch-hunt of Columbia University professors
- Washington sought to suppress UN report on progress of democracy in Middle East
2005-04-11
- New Zealand judge criticises violent police culture
- French high school students continue their struggle
- Cardinal disgraced in sex-abuse scandal plays prominent role in papal funeral rites
- Britain: opposition to Iraq war led to Labour vote-rigging in 2004 elections
- Baghdad protest demands an end to US occupation of Iraq
2005-04-12
2005-04-13
- Western powers dispute Mugabe’s victory in Zimbabwe poll
- Sri Lankan government plans to restructure oil and electricity corporations
- A culture at the end of its rope, continued
- Rumsfeld’s mission to Baghdad: keeping Saddam’s secret police in power
- Canberra’s slavish support for US brings short-term pay-offs in Asia
- Letters on the death of Pope John Paul II
2005-04-14
- Students for Social Equality public meeting in Los Angeles
- Removal of Francoist symbols heightens class tensions in Spain
- No pension crisis for US corporate bosses
- Hundreds die in severe flooding in western Pakistan
- German Social Democrats launch state election campaign
- Disturbing new facts emerge on incarceration of Australian woman
- The orgy continues: American CEOs pocket billions more in pay and perks
2005-04-15
- Violence in southern Thailand escalates
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Israel: government of provocateurs denounces settler provocation in Jerusalem
- Letters from our readers
- Senate panel debates Bolton nomination for UN ambassador post
- Rumsfeld pushes for permanent US bases in Afghanistan
2005-04-16
- Bush’s meeting with Sharon confirms US support for West Bank land grab
- Anti-abortion fanatic Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to terrorist bombings
- May Day 2005 Public Meetings
- French government orders police crackdown against high school protesters
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan stokes tensions with China
- India adopts WTO patent law with Left Front support
- US Marshals, local police stage nationwide mass arrests
2005-04-18
- British royal wedding: from fairy tale to fiasco
- Respect-Unity coalition in Britain: a marriage of Labourism and Islamism
- Impeachment of Mexico City mayor sparks political crisis
- World markets expecting further falls
- Who is Iraq’s new prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari?
- Britain: report alleges assaults on immigration detainees
2005-04-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian media debates legalisation of torture
- Videos expose false arrests at 2004 Republican Convention protests in New York
- Ten years since the Oklahoma City bombing
- Democrats back Negroponte nomination as new documents detail role in contra war
- France: Chirac TV appeal for “yes” vote fails to shift growing sentiment against European constitution
- US cities face crushing debt burden
- Main Basque nationalist party suffers losses in Spanish regional elections
- Bangladeshi factory collapse kills more than 70 workers
2005-04-20
- Longstanding Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies
- State investigation clears Michael Schiavo of all abuse charges
- Washington Post glorifies US military “ruthlessness” in Iraq
- Respect-Unity coalition in Britain: a marriage of Labourism and Islamism
- An interview with Louis Pizzitola, author of Hearst Over Hollywood
- Students for Social Equality public meeting at University of Maine
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s Liberal government faces imminent defeat
- Austria: behind the split in the Freedom Party
2005-04-21
- Australia: Victorian government forces young teacher to quit
- University of California service workers strike for a day
- Bush guarda silencio mientras conocido terrorista busca asilo en Estados Unidos
- Britain: trial finds no evidence of “ricin plot”
- From “grand inquisitor” to pope: Benedict XVI to head crusade vs. secularism, democracy
- Israeli military court clears officer in killing of British filmmaker
- Eminem’s new release, Encore: delusions, megalomania and social confusion
2005-04-22
- Germany: facing defeat in state election, SPD chairman talks “left”
- Australian government bullies PNG over airport security incident
- Socialist Equality Party May Day meeting in Colombo
- Pope Benedict XVI’s political resume: theocracy and social reaction
- Iraqi legislators denounce US assault on assembly member
- German government uses anti-terror laws to head off protests
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2005-04-23
- Germany: neo-Nazi killer acquitted on “self-defense” grounds
- Labour policies make London a haven for the super-rich
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Growing social inequality in Israel
- Australian Reserve Bank reveals another Howard government lie
- An uncensored look at America’s young soldiers in Iraq
- Germany: conflicts in the Foreign Ministry over past fascist links
- Bush signs bankruptcy law: another cruel blow in a one-sided class war
2005-04-25
- Jury throws out charges in first Australian “terrorist” trial
- Bush administration terrorist list excludes right-wing groups
- An exchange on the nationalism of the Scottish Socialist Party
- Washington fuels Japanese militarism
- New York protest against Bush’s cuts in adult literacy funding
- Letters from our readers
2005-04-26
- Bush administration hails Moussaoui guilty plea—continues 9/11 cover-up
- More evidence of US military’s culture of torture in Iraq
- The closure of MG Rover and the need for an international perspective
- Nader solidarizes himself with extreme right in Terri Schiavo case
- Washington fuels Japanese militarism
- “Secularism” and hypocrisy: official France mourns pope and bans Muslim scarf
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2005-04-27
- Australia: school principal denounces removal of teacher
- Britain: university student debt reaches record levels
- Canada: Using corruption scandal as a smokescreen, Tories prepare neo-conservative assault
- US rights group calls for criminal probe of Rumsfeld
- MG Rover and the need for an international perspective
- Mutual concern over US militarism brings China and India closer
2005-04-28
- A spate of police killings in Sri Lanka
- The closure of MG Rover and the need for an international perspective
- The Republican Party and the Christian right: sowing the seeds of an American fascist movement
- German Interior Minister Schily tests out “zero tolerance” in Berlin
- Letter from a US airline worker and a reply
- Inconclusive peace talks between Jakarta and Acehnese separatists
2005-04-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Graduate students strike at Columbia and Yale universities
- Britain: Islamic fundamentalist group threatens candidates and voters
- Italy: a week-long government crisis in Rome
- Iraqi cabinet announced under US pressure
- Anti-Japanese protests and the reactionary nature of Chinese nationalism
2005-04-30
- Bush demands deep cuts in Social Security benefits
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Blair forced to publish legal advice on Iraq war
- Australian government poised to make sweeping industrial relations “reform”
- New York bus workers end strike
- Christian fundamentalist bigotry reigns at US Air Force Academy
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