Archive: 08/2005
2005-08-01
- Sri Lanka’s parliamentary crisis: vital political issues for the working class
- Some valuable dramatisations of social life
- US Congress votes to make Patriot Act permanent
- Abu Ghraib abuse: new revelations of top-level involvement
- Letters on the trade unions in the US
- Council of Europe condemns British government on human rights
2005-08-02
- Astronomers discover new planet, larger and more distant than Pluto
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Philippines president clings to power
- London Olympics 2012: corporate greed and privatisation
- Australian prime minister advocates further attacks on civil liberties
- An intellectual pygmy denounces Trotsky
- Democrats support nomination of anti-regulatory advocate to SEC
- Letters from our readers
- Bush imposes right-wing thug as ambassador to UN
2005-08-03
- University students in US face higher tuition and loan debt
- Thai prime minister invokes emergency powers in country’s south
- Devastating Niger famine: warnings ignored for nine months
- Joseph Kay replies to letters on Thomas Friedman, Saddam Hussein and the term “socialist”
- Sri Lanka: unions end month-long nationwide university strike
- Germany: Turkish worker deported for drawing welfare benefits
- US Congress delivers for its corporate masters: CAFTA, transport and energy bills approved
2005-08-04
- New York City transit to cut conductor jobs
- Sri Lankan government fails to rebuild tsunami-destroyed hospitals
- Orientalism exploded
- London bombings trigger massive assault on democratic rights
- Military commissions’ prosecutors charge: trials rigged against Guantánamo detainees
- Germany: election program of the CDU-CSU opposition
- Callous maltreatment of refugees in Australian detention centres
2005-08-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US deaths in Iraq underscore need to revive the antiwar movement
- US journalist who exposed Shiite death squads murdered in Basra
- Sudan: death of Garang sets back US plans
- US: children left abandoned by factory immigration raid
- A letter and reply on an “intellectual pygmy”
- Near-defeat for Republicans in safe Ohio congressional seat shows antiwar sentiment
- US lies and murder in Iraq: the killing of Maj. Gen. Mowhoush
2005-08-06
- Unfortunately, the mystery largely remains
- Britain: outstanding questions on July 7 bombings warrant independent inquiry
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Australia: some plain truths about the fight against Howard’s IR laws
- Is the US housing boom turning toward bust?
- Sixty years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
- US: ACLU hits Bush administration’s anti-science policies
2005-08-08
2005-08-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pentagon devising scenarios for martial law in US
- Humiliated in primary, Detroit mayor faces defeat
- Australia: lack of perspective dominates opposition to industrial relations legislation
- Sixty years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
- House fire deaths highlight levels of poverty in Australia
2005-08-10
- Australia: the issues at stake in the dismantling of student unions
- Sri Lankan schools still not rebuilt after tsunami
- Britain: leaked documents on illegal pre-war bombing campaign against Iraq
- Letters on “An intellectual pygmy denounces Trotsky”
- Blair lays down framework for police state in Britain
- US military intelligence identified four 9/11 hijackers in 2000
2005-08-11
- Mother of fallen soldier camps outside Bush ranch: “Why did you kill my son?”
- The death of Peter Jennings and the state of the American media
- US and European allies provoke confrontation with Iran
- Threats of a new military coup in Fiji
- An exchange on “Twenty years since the Air India bombings”
- Why is the media burying new revelations about 9/11?
2005-08-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Killing in northern Sri Lanka: a sign of sharp tensions
- British Muslims face increased racist attacks and state harassment
- Mauritania coup: condemnations all round, but junta stays in power
- Koizumi calls snap election after setback over Japan Post privatisation
- 9/11 Commission admits excluding intelligence on lead hijacker, Atta
2005-08-13
- Protest at Bush’s ranch gathers momentum—mother of fallen soldier continues to demand meeting with president
- Released papers document Supreme Court nominee Roberts’s anti-democratic record
- Six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program in deadlock
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- More US children in poverty and poor health
- Letters from our readers
- September 11 victims’ relatives speak out on suppressed intelligence
2005-08-15
- British government attacks civil liberties with pending deportations
- Assassination of Sri Lanka’s foreign minister threatens a return to civil war
- Germany: why is the “Left Party” winning growing support in the opinion polls?
- The Israeli state and the ultra-right settler movement
- British Airways disrupted by unofficial strike
2005-08-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: students protest against dismantling of university unions
- Growing support for Cindy Sheehan protest against Iraq war
- Where Frank Rich goes wrong: the war in Iraq and the stakes for American imperialism
- Northwest Airlines prepares union-busting assault against mechanics
- Despite US pressure, no agreement reached on Iraqi constitution
- The Israeli state and the ultra-right settler movement
- Over 120 lives lost in Chinese mine flood
2005-08-17
- Sri Lankan court ruling over aid deal: a sign of sharp political tensions
- Partei für Soziale Gleichheit certified to take part in German federal elections
- Bush menaces Iran with threat of military attack
- The character is confused, but so is the filmmaker
- Germany: DaimlerChrysler CEO suddenly resigns
- The Israeli state and the right-wing settler movement
- Canada: top general spouts rhetoric of Bush administration
2005-08-18
- Australia: terrorism trial of Jack Thomas to rely on coerced evidence
- The media and Cindy Sheehan
- Britain: government lies exposed over de Menezes murder
- What about the ABC of social understanding?
- Israeli forces remove Zionist settlers from Gaza
- The Israeli state and the right-wing settler movement
- French government seizes on London bombings to escalate attack on civil liberties
2005-08-19
- Public servants’ strike deepens Tonga’s political crisis
- SEP to hold public meeting in Colombo on Sri Lankan political crisis
- SPD’s program for German election: window dressing and lies
- Germany Interior Minister Schily seeks introduction of preventive detention
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Airport catering workers still sacked at Heathrow airport
- Australia: state Labor leader positions himself for a federal political career
- Large parts of Africa face chronic food shortages
- 9/11 commission told of Atta cover-up
2005-08-20
- After killing of Sri Lankan minister, clamour for war grows in Colombo
- Poland: protesting miners clash with police as elections approach
- Food shortages leave millions of North Koreans facing starvation
- Colonial oppression in a South Pacific idyll—impressions of New Caledonia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Further into the Iraqi quagmire: US intensifies repression
- Letters from our readers
- Indonesia signs shaky peace deal with Acehnese separatists
2005-08-22
2005-08-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Bitter dispute over timing of Sri Lankan presidential election
- Northwest Airlines gloats over union-busting against striking mechanics
- Iraqi constitution delayed again amid deep differences
- The political issues facing Detroit teachers
- Protesters rally outside Bush ranch in show of support for Cindy Sheehan
- German elections: the “competence team” of the conservative opposition
2005-08-24
- Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Venezuelan president
- The Northwest strike: the end of the AFL-CIO and the political lessons for the working class
- A sympathetic examination of the problems facing Sri Lankan youth
- New York City: banned graffiti block party to go forward
- Germany: growing social polarisation provokes opposition
- Joint Russian-Chinese war games: a reaction to aggressive US policies
- Bush’s campaign on Iraq: more lies in defense of war
- Banned Basque demonstration attacked by police
2005-08-25
- Detroit union betrays teachers, agrees to concessions contract
- More lies from the British police on the de Menezes murder
- Father of Australian Guantánamo prisoner speaks to the WSWS
- Australian government continues to back discredited US military tribunals
- What would genuine nonconformism look like?
- Banned Basque demonstration attacked by police
- American Library Association calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
2005-08-26
- Unanswered questions about Sri Lankan foreign minister’s assassination
- Machinists union grabs jobs of striking Northwest mechanics
- Shiite factions clash as opposition mounts to the draft Iraqi constitution
- Fifty-four years in jail without trial: the plight of prison inmates in India
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Letters from our readers
2005-08-27
- Britain: anti-terror measures threaten basic rights
- Australian “counter-terrorism” summit to discuss police-state measures
- What the Pat Robertson affair reveals
- Films from Sally Potter and Tim Burton: thin and wearing thin
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany: Constitutional Court legitimises new elections
2005-08-29
- Chancellor Schröder poses as opponent of war
- Socialist Equality Party and WSWS hold summer school in US
- Northwest mechanics rally in Minnesota
- Sharon vows to accelerate settlement expansion in the West Bank
- Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans
- Letters from our readers
- US pushes military build-up in Afghanistan as armed resistance escalates
2005-08-30
- Democratic governor in Tennessee oversees drastic Medicaid cuts
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court orders new presidential elections
- Irish smallholders jailed for opposing gas pipeline
- Iraq’s draft constitution: a recipe for neo-colonial rule
- Hurricane Katrina hits southern US
- Britain: union agrees to hundreds of redundancies to sell out Gate Gourmet strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2005-08-31
- Reader in Utah comments on police raid
- Canada: Telus workers confront ferocious assault on job security
- Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting to warn of dangers of war and autocratic rule
- Australia: Queensland by-elections reveal hostility to Labor
- Hurricane Katrina: a calamity compounded by poverty and neglect
- From the days of “Anybody but Bush”
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