Archive: 05/2005
2005-05-02
2005-05-03
2005-05-04
2005-05-05
- An imaginative and courageous political exposure
- State Department: “We don’t know if top terrorist is in US”
- Media witch-hunts Australian author Hannie Rayson and her new play
- Wholesale corruption exposed in Iraqi contracts
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: The May 5 general election and the failure of Labourism
2005-05-06
- Britain: Labour wins general election but suffers major losses
- Gunmen kill prominent Tamil journalist in Sri Lanka
- Iraq: the dirty story
- Supreme Court backs Bush against Gulf War POWs
- As recruitment falls, top military official warns of strains on US forces
- IBM announces 13,000 job cuts
- Australia and the East Asian Summit: Howard’s diplomatic “success” turns sour
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- One year since the torture revelations at Abu Ghraib
2005-05-07
2005-05-09
- A sincere effort but not without limitations
- Estados Unidos forzado a retroceder sobre la presidencia de la OEA
- El Partido Republicano y la derecha cristiana siembran la semilla de un movimiento fascista en Estados Unidos
- US: Kentucky Derby—‘ high rollers’ and social misery
- Sri Lanka: JVP grovels to the Bush administration
- Ford and GM debt reduced to junk bond status
- Germany: Foreign Minister Fischer crawls before the right-wing opposition
- Forbes reports bonanza for world’s billionaires
- Anti-Russian nationalism in the Baltic States
2005-05-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- What should be encouraged
- Pentagon analyst indicted for leaks to Israel: a subterranean power struggle in Washington
- Northern Ireland elections: deepening polarisation and the collapse of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Soaring birth deformities and child cancer rates in Iraq
- Anti-Russian nationalism in the Baltic States
2005-05-11
- Victory Day celebration in Russia reveals deepening political and social tensions
- Violence accompanies sham election in Togo
- A comment on Brecht in Los Angeles
- US: states, federal government prepare massive Medicaid cuts
- Japanese train crash linked to employee stress
- 60 years since the end of World War II
- Howard government leaves “Bali nine” alleged drug runners to their fate
- Latin America’s social crisis
2005-05-12
- Bush denounces the Yalta Treaty of 1945
- Problems with history
- Britain: military families take legal action against Blair government
- Germany: former SPD chairman Lafontaine and the Election Alternative
- Iraq: US Congress approves $82 billion as colonial war grinds on
- Letters from our readers
- Bush administration slashes funds for public housing
- Australian budget bonanza for the wealthy
2005-05-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Court approves termination of United Airlines pension plans
- Germany: tribunal hears case of victimised Opel worker
- More horrors revealed in Australia’s immigration detention centres
- US: the panicked evacuation of Capitol Hill
- Interview with David North to be broadcast on Australian radio
- May Day awards in China honour the wealthy elite
2005-05-14
- The Iraq occupation and the kidnapping of Douglas Wood
- Uzbekistan: US-backed dictator drowns uprising in blood
- Sri Lankan president on a political tightrope
- There is no shortage of subjects
- Anti-US protests sweep Muslim world
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US: first New England execution in 45 years
- Britain: Blair lurches right, dismissing calls for resignation
2005-05-16
- Real wages fall as attack on US workers intensifies
- Uzbekistan: US “war on terror” yields a bloodbath
- New study: US use of psychological torture systematic and unabated
- US: protest hits plans for stadium in New York City
- Sister of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes speaks out
- Australia brushes aside East Timorese sovereignty in oil and gas deal
- Canada: Tories want governor-general to use emergency powers to force new election
2005-05-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Asian tsunami disaster: the historical and political issues
- Newsweek retracts Guantánamo abuse story
- Britain: Labour presides over massive increase in health inequality
- Clouds gather over world economy
- Letters from our readers
- Australian radio interview with David North available online
- Pentagon to realign domestic US military bases
2005-05-18
- Turkey: military’s nationalist campaign conceals rapprochement with US
- Bush administration forced to detain Posada Carriles
- US war in Iraq yields a social “tragedy”
- Bush visit to Georgia increases tensions with Putin government
- US presses again on Chinese yuan and imports
- Australia: Labor’s budget reply makes pitch to big business
- Poverty forces Bangladeshi woman to turn to organ trade
2005-05-19
2005-05-20
- Blair’s third-term agenda: privatisations, attacks on civil liberties
- Vigilantes patrol US border: the politics of the Minuteman Project
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US issues more demands on Iraqi government to include former Baathists
- The implications of the SPD’s decline
- US: civil liberties group charges FBI intimidation of political activists
2005-05-21
- Britain: judge overturns verdict of unlawful killing in Harry Stanley case
- The two Americas: Ronald Perelman’s $1.45 billion and the fate of Sunbeam’s workers
- Washington threatens North Korea, Iran while expanding US arsenal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Japan renames holiday to honour wartime Emperor Hirohito
- The French referendum: Sarkozy leads turn to right in ruling party
- Bush unveils plans for US colonial office
2005-05-23
2005-05-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Hack work, not scholarship: the decay of American liberalism
- US military atrocities and the moral choice facing the American people
- Brazilian daily reports multinationals aided Latin American death squads
- Germany: Schröder calls for early federal election after Social Democratic debacle in North Rhine Westphalia
- International Commission calls for Kosovo independence
- Afghan president feigns outrage over latest US torture revelations
2005-05-25
- Wall Street Journal alibis for Nazi-style crimes in Iraq
- SEP public meeting to pay tribute to veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist
- Obscure Sri Lankan group claims responsibility for Tamil journalist’s murder
- Social mobility lower in US and Britain than in other advanced countries
- Vote “no” in French referendum on European constitution
- Correction
- Fortune Global Forum celebrates corporate profiteering in China
2005-05-26
- US Army deliberately withheld details of Ranger’s “friendly-fire” death
- Bush pledges to veto stem cell bill
- Nubes de tormenta amenaza a la economía mundial
- Senate “compromise” on judicial nominations: Democrats prop up a crisis-ridden administration
- OECD warns time is “running out” to correct global imbalances
- Real ID Act: Congress takes another step toward a police state
- Australia: rifts emerge in Howard government over refugee detention
- French referendum on European constitution: the official debate
- Budget vote leaves Canada’s Liberal government hanging by a thread
2005-05-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sunni elite moves toward an accommodation with US occupation of Iraq
- Aid conference highlights political impasse in Sri Lanka
- French Socialist Party leaders slander “no” voters in referendum on EU constitution
- Dutch government facing likely defeat in upcoming referendum
- The nature of Stalin’s purges: A letter to the Wall Street Journal
- US puppet government announces state of siege in Baghdad
- Season of death on US-Mexican border
- British Broadcasting Corporation employees strike over job cuts
2005-05-28
- Australia: school principals given power to select teachers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- The French left and the politics of evasion
- The essential things go unexplained
- Laura Bush, Mubarak and Washington’s “crusade for democracy”
- US press takes umbrage at Amnesty’s “gulag” charge
- Amnesty International report denounces US abuses of human rights
2005-05-30
2005-05-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The third episode, or the sixth, or is this merely a zero?
- An interview with Margarethe von Trotta, director of Rosenstrasse
- Oil pipeline completed: a sign of rising great power rivalry in Central Asia
- Three trials, three whitewashes: US military ratifies murder of Iraq prisoners
- Palestinian president fawns on Bush
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