Archive: 07/2005
2005-07-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Thousands lack aid in tsunami-affected areas of Sri Lanka
- South African strike against unemployment and poverty
- “Live 8”--a political fraud on behalf of imperialism
- How not to build an antiwar movement: a comment on the politics of the ISO
- Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq
- Iran’s presidential election a harbinger of social and political convulsions
- Schröder at the White House: cuddling up to Bush
2005-07-02
- EU budget debacle leaves Spain isolated
- Sharon offers nothing to Palestinian leadership
- O’Connor retirement triggers drive for rightward shift on US Supreme Court
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Australia: mass protests against industrial relations legislation
- US prepares new provocations against Iran
- Protesting workers discuss Australia’s new industrial laws
- Letters on Bush speech on the Iraq war
- Canada to establish permanent military base in Persian Gulf region
2005-07-04
- Germany: powerful response to PSG election campaign
- Live 8 Edinburgh: marching for the establishment
- New German elections aimed at breaking resistance to Agenda 2010
- Letters on Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Batman
- Atlanta officials continue campaign against the homeless
- Helicopter downing highlights upsurge in Afghan armed resistance
2005-07-05
2005-07-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Supreme Court weakens church/state separation in Ten Commandments rulings
- Democrats signal retreat on Supreme Court nomination
- Bush en Fort Bragg: inculca el miedo basándose en las mentiras y en la desesperación
- Britain: government plans peak-time road charges
- States enact Medicaid cuts in new fiscal year
- US “democracy” in Iraq: death squads, torture and terror
- China’s bid for Unocal heightens tension with the US
- California governor announces special election to push through right-wing measures
2005-07-07
- Great power tensions dominate G8 summit
- A generally disappointing selection
- Philippines president fails to stem political crisis
- Jailing of Times reporter: an attack on press freedom and democratic rights
- The politics of opportunism: a look at the International Socialist Organization
- Europe in crisis
- Bush creates new FBI spy unit—further step towards a secret police force
2005-07-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Fishing dispute between Taiwan and Japan leads to diplomatic tensions
- London terror bombings: a political crime
- Letters from our readers
- Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel
- US military reprisal in Afghanistan kills 17 civilians
2005-07-09
- Ralph Edmond (1926-2005): worker and socialist
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Israeli soldier found guilty in the killing of Tom Hurndall
- Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel
- Report documents Canada’s welfare “disaster”
- At least 50 dead in London bombings
2005-07-11
2005-07-12
2005-07-13
- Scores of Muslim men jailed as “material witnesses” in wake of 9/11 attacks
- “A return from a different kind of investment”
- Exposure of Rove’s lies throws Bush White House into crisis
- London bombings: Why does Blair oppose an inquiry into intelligence failures?
- One hundred years since Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis
- Bulgarian elections: support for former king collapses
2005-07-14
- Ambivalence, unease and discomfort—but not enough
- Racist reprisals feared for London terror bombing
- More killings of civilians by US-led forces in Iraq
- Further shift to the right by the German Green Party
- One hundred years since Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on the London bombings
2005-07-15
- US Supreme Court rules in favor of entertainment giants and big cable Internet providers
- Germany: North Rhine Westphalia government adopts austerity programme
- The London bombings: Why did it happen here?
- Bush administration refuses to relinquish US control of Internet
- Worsening health inequality in Australia
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- More letters on the jailing of Judith Miller
- Another angry protest in China
2005-07-16
- Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s ”Operation Murambatsvina”
- Spain: Vatican intensifies campaign against Socialist Party government
- American Samoa: factory owner jailed for 40 years over “human trafficking”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Hunger in California’s Central Valley: rising poverty in leading food-producing region
- Amidst new torture reports, US military defends architect of abuse at Guantánamo
- An exchange on science, evolution and intelligent design
- The rise and fall of Bernie Ebbers
2005-07-18
2005-07-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Detroit area nursing home workers locked out
- Germany: PSG campaign finds a positive response in Hesse
- US court upholds military trials for Guantánamo prisoners
- PDS, unions impose wage cut on Berlin transit workers
- An exchange with an Ohio auto worker
- Australian government sends troops back to Afghanistan
2005-07-20
2005-07-21
2005-07-22
2005-07-23
- Tsunami victims struggling to survive in eastern Sri Lanka
- A government of lies: The political meaning of the Rove affair
- US military exonerated torturers of John Walker Lindh
- The state of the modern soul
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- New York Times’ Thomas Friedman libels opponents of Iraq war
2005-07-25
- Yugoslav filmmaker at an impasse
- Police gun down worker in London subway: another tragic consequence of Blair’s war policy
- German Party of Democratic Socialism renames itself “The Left Party”
- Report implicates Indonesian intelligence in murder of human rights activist
- Former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath dies
- German president clears way for early elections
- Letters, and some replies, on “One hundred years since Einstein’s annus mirabilis”
- Four unions announce boycott of AFL-CIO convention
2005-07-26
- Life sentence for Islamic fundamentalist Al-Timimi: an attack on free speech
- “I am in the world to change the world”: The art and life of Käthe Kollwitz
- Study documents US-inflicted carnage on Iraqi people
- Iran-Contra redux: Bush White House ran “off-the-books” covert operation for Iraq elections
- Homeless die in Arizona heat wave
- Letters, and some replies, on “One hundred years since Einstein’s annus mirabilis”
- Letters from our readers
- Service workers, Teamsters split from AFL-CIO
2005-07-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The miserable end of the “Volkswagen model”
- Life sentence for Islamic fundamentalist Al-Timimi: an attack on free speech
- The struggle against superstition in a West African village
- New Zealand: election date set as Labour government’s support slumps
- Britain: media defend state killing, police chief warns more to come
- Brazil: angry protests hit state murder in London
- An exchange of letters on the crisis in the AFL-CIO
2005-07-28
- British soldiers face war crimes charges for killing Iraqi civilians
- Germany: labour court confirms dismissal of Opel auto worker in “wildcat strike”
- Democratic Leadership Council drafts right-wing platform for coming elections
- An exchange on “One hundred years since Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis”
- China faces worst floods since 1998
- The split in the AFL-CIO and the organization of the unorganized
- Afghans besiege US base to protest arrests
2005-07-29
- China’s yuan revaluation a response to increased US pressure
- NASA grounds space shuttle fleet after near-disaster in Discovery launch
- US: mass layoffs continue, consumer confidence declines
- Twenty years since the Air India bombings
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US energy bill funnels billions to oil, utility corporations
- Blair defends Iraq war, vows new attacks on civil liberties and social conditions
- “Free market” Beijing: an on-the-spot report
2005-07-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Amid “civil war” warnings, Rumsfeld flies to Iraq
- Twenty years since the Air India bombings—Part 2
- Britain: Police shoot-to-kill policy part of onslaught against democratic rights
- Russia and China call for closure of US bases in Central Asia
- AFL-CIO conference passes pro-war resolution
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