Archive: 06/2005
2005-06-01
- Catholic Church calls for extra-parliamentary opposition to Spanish government
- Australian state government appoints non-elected cabinet members
- US child poverty on the rise—statistics mask depth of crisis
- US military recruitment crisis deepens
- The political consequences of the French “no” vote
- An exchange of letters on the British elections and Labour lefts
- Letters from our readers
2005-06-02
- Review of Robert Service’s Stalin: A Biography–Part One
- Fatal stumble in the jungle
- New York City teachers mark two years without a contract
- The Netherlands: decisive “no” vote on European constitution
- Lebanon’s election and Washington-style democracy
- Cancelled high-level meeting fuels tensions between China and Japan
- US and Iraqi government troops begin lockdown of Baghdad
- After the defeat of the referendum in France
2005-06-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Review of Robert Service’s Stalin. A Biography—Part Two
- SEP meeting commemorates veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist
- New evidence confirms killing of Afghan villagers by Australian soldiers
- Further details released of British Army abuses in Iraq
- Germany: divisions and conflicts within the SPD-Green coalition
- Watergate in historical perspective: Why does today’s criminal White House face no similar challenge?
- Bolivia rocked by mass protests over energy law
2005-06-04
- PNG court rules Australian police presence unconstitutional
- Pakistani workers revolt against PTCL privatization
- Netherlands: referendum revealed broad opposition to EU constitution
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Bush picks anti-regulatory hard-liner to head Wall Street oversight board
- British lecturers’ union overturns boycott of Israeli academics
- Pulling one’s head out of the sand
2005-06-06
- Life as a low-wage worker in Australia
- Ohio sheriff delivers reactionary tirade
- Republican assault on public broadcasting targeted liberal commentator Bill Moyers
- European Union: political lobbyists oppose disclosure
- US: slowest job growth in two years fuels concerns on economy
- Hundreds swept up in Baghdad crackdown
- Letters from our readers
2005-06-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: police officers face murder charge over killing of Harry Stanley
- An exchange over the nature of the JHU in Sri Lanka
- Bush revela sus planes para crear una oficina colonial de EE.UU.
- Australia: “People smuggler” trial highlights cover-up of refugee deaths
- US shows OAS delegates American democracy in action
- Bush at the OAS: a profile in imperialist hypocrisy
- The US media and the French referendum
- Letters from our readers
2005-06-08
- Forum in New York City on “the question of torture”
- Canada: ex-union bureaucrat to head Parti Québécois executive
- Social conditions in Poland—a letter from a reader
- Bush administration intensifies pressure on North Korea
- Record number of US millionaires
- An absurdist play fails to withstand the test of time
- A show trial in the making: Iraqi officials outline charges vs. Saddam Hussein
- Amnesty International refuses to retract torture charges against US
2005-06-09
- Erection of Buddha statue produces communal tensions in Sri Lanka
- Spain’s Popular Party seeks to destabilise PSOE government
- America’s internal “gulag”-the imprisonment of immigrants in the US
- Highest Wall Street pay tops $1 billion a year
- General Motors announces plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs in US
- The Howard government, the Australian media and the Schapelle Corby case
- Bolivia’s president resigns warning of civil war
2005-06-10
- Suicides highlight desperate conditions facing Sri Lankan farmers
- White House pushes for renewal of Patriot Act
- Animosity toward military service produces desperate US recruiting measures
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Britain: the death of James Callaghan
- Blair and Bush on Africa: pretense of aid masks predatory aims
2005-06-11
- Turkey: poverty increases with economic expansion
- Sri Lankan government in crisis over tsunami aid
- Estados Unidos muestra a delegados de la OEA la democracia en acción
- Eight characters in search of an inner life
- Canada’s Supreme Court sanctions drive to dismantle public health care
- Terrorism case in Lodi, California begins to unravel
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Democrats and Guantánamo: an exercise in damage control
- Letters from our readers
- Florida trial begins on terror charges against four Palestinian activists
2005-06-13
- Government case exposed conspiracy of US tobacco giants
- Bush’s gift to big tobacco
- Pakistani troops seize telephone network, strike leaders arrested
- New York art world’s apology for the Iraq war
- Germany: Lafontaine and his “Party of the Left”
- Rafsanjani favored to win Iranian presidential election
- Home foreclosures surge—no housing boom for poor families in the US
2005-06-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US auto union signals capitulation on GM health-care costs
- Spanish court sentences Argentine “dirty warrior” to 640 years
- Mass protests against housing shortages in South Africa
- Supreme Court upholds federal ban on medical marijuana use
- Australia: New workplace laws to slash pay and conditions
- US: Five children killed in Philadelphia house fire
- Global interest rate “conundrum” recalls the 1930s
2005-06-15
- Germany: sacked Opel worker fights victimisation
- The Michael Jackson verdict
- FBI inspector general’s report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks
- G8 agrees to paltry debt forgiveness package
- US and EU provoke trade friction with China over textiles
- Bush administration begins to privatize the skies
- Jakarta pressures Acehnese rebels over peace deal
2005-06-16
- Autopsy proves Terri Schiavo was in vegetative state
- New Zealand: Labour’s election year budget under fire
- New Zealand: Labour’s election year budget under fire
- State Department cable details ethnic cleansing by US-backed forces in Iraq
- Fijian government moves to pardon coup plotters
- Sharp conflicts precede European Union summit
- US: dispute over air traffic control staffing
- Everyone’s hope is no one’s hope
- Argentine court strikes down amnesty for torturers
2005-06-17
- Sri Lankan government on the brink of collapse
- Venezuela demands US hand over CIA terrorist for trial
- Detention of US security contractors highlights “culture of impunity” in Iraq
- Swing to right-wing Christian leader Aoun in Lebanese elections
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
- German chancellor says he will not yield on Agenda 2010 cuts
- Letters on the Michael Jackson verdict
2005-06-18
- Pakistan: Bush ally Musharraf mounts terror campaign against telecommunication workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Public defense system crisis denies justice to poor in US courts
- Letters from our readers
- Bush aide who doctored global warming documents joins ExxonMobil
- Australia: Chinese defectors given cold shoulder
- Bush faces growing opposition to Iraq war
2005-06-20
- An attack on science: Smithsonian Institution to show film on Intelligent Design
- Portuguese government launches emergency austerity measures
- Northwest Airlines workers protest attack on pensions and jobs
- Nanotechnology and the treatment of cancer
- Bush administration defends Guantánamo prison camp
- Peasant unrest continues in China
2005-06-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US deficit hits a new record
- Florida Governor Jeb Bush renews persecution of Michael Schiavo
- Case of 1964 civil rights killings goes to the jury
- The media and Terri Schiavo: the case of Fox News
- Over 100 children drown as flood season begins in China
- Budget conflict splits European Union
- Basque parliamentary negotiations strengthen regionalism
2005-06-22
2005-06-23
- The New York Times’ Joseph Lelyveld: another “liberal” defense of torture
- Ringleader in 1964 civil rights murders convicted of manslaughter
- US: mass layoffs continue
- Tense Iranian election goes into second round
- An interview with Australian playwright Hannie Rayson
- Ethiopia: West plays down murder of demonstrators
- Letters on the Smithsonian Institution and Intelligent Design
- Increasing attacks on US and allies in Afghanistan
2005-06-24
- Questions surround rescue of kidnapped Australian in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Why are they smirking?
- Unions provide platform for Democrats at Michigan rally vs. school cuts
- New political strategy needed to defend public education
- Germany: report exposes massive state spying
- Democrats make cowardly retreat on Guantánamo torture
- Letters on the Terri Schiavo case
- Blair threatens European parliament: “change or die”
2005-06-25
- Protests erupt in tsunami-devastated areas of Sri Lanka
- White House aide Karl Rove witch-hunts Iraq war opponents
- Instability follows final round of Lebanon elections
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- A letter from a flight service worker
- Letters from our readers
- Blair’s Britain and what it means for Europe
- Germany begins deportations of Afghan refugees
2005-06-27
- Donald Fell case: Bush administration attempts to impose death penalty on Vermont
- Tsunami aid deal plunges Sri Lanka into deeper political turmoil
- Supreme Court upholds government land grabs for developers
- Under mounting pressure, Australian government modifies refugee detention
- Italy seeks arrest of 13 CIA agents for abduction of Egyptian cleric
- Couple set themselves on fire at Chile’s presidential palace
- Whitewash of Christian fundamentalist bigotry at US Air Force Academy
2005-06-28
2005-06-29
- The impact of war on daily life in Sri Lanka
- Former colonial official named Hong Kong chief executive
- Democrats praise treatment of Guantánamo detainees
- For social equality. For the United Socialist States of Europe. Vote PSG.
- Britain and new eastern EU members at loggerheads over budget
- Bush at Fort Bragg—fear-mongering, lies and desperation
- Over his head
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