Archive: 10/2005
2005-10-01
- Britain: Education Bill to extend privatisation of state schools
- Tensions rising between Quebec government and public sector workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New Orleans prisoners left to drown after Katrina struck
- California housing bubble: an impending disaster for working people
- Right-wing praise for Green leader Fischer’s foreign policy
- New York Times’ Friedman proposes “endgame” bloodbath in Iraq
- Bulgaria: grand coalition to form after weeks of wrangling
- Brighton conference: The political shipwreck of New Labour
- Elderly woman becomes another victim of Australian immigration policy
2005-10-03
- Ukraine: after the “Orange Revolution,” power returns to the oligarchs
- Scars of war
- Young African workers killed in Spanish enclave
- Behind the DeLay indictment: vicious infighting within the US ruling elite
- William Bennett’s ‘hypothetical’ on racial genocide
- An interview with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, co-director of Gilaneh
2005-10-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A devastating exposure of Iraq war
- Norway: Labour elected thanks to hostility to Conservatives
- US housing official: rebuilt New Orleans will have fewer poor blacks
- Sixty million Indian workers strike against government economic policies
- Germany: After Dresden by-election, chancellor question remains open
- Answer the French government/corporate offensive against workers with socialist internationalism
- Australian government boosts profits of private childcare operators
- Another terrorist atrocity in Bali
2005-10-05
- Australia: Labor premiers join hands with Howard at “anti-terror” summit
- Interest in the SEP’s presidential campaign in Sri Lanka’s north
- SEP public meetings in Britain
- Bush picks right-wing crony for Supreme Court
- Home heating costs to break records in US
- Israeli offensive in Gaza targets Hamas
- Letters from our readers
- A letter on the FBI murder of Puerto Rican independence figure
2005-10-06
- Art and the social element
- New Orleans lays off half its workforce
- New York Times reporter Judith Miller testifies on exposure of CIA agent
- Iraq’s constitutional referendum makes a mockery of democracy
- Fuel price hikes raise political tensions in Indonesia
- One-day national strike in France: over a million march against Gaullist policies
- An interview with Shonali Bose, director of Amu
2005-10-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy
- Sri Lankan SEP holds first election meeting in Colombo
- Polish parliamentary elections: record abstentions and swing to right
- Allegations of £1 million in arms bribes paid to Pinochet
- Leading Indian daily calls for suppression of strikes and unions
- Germany: broad agreement for a grand coalition
- Bush seizes on flu threat to press for martial law power
2005-10-08
- Turkey: trampling on free speech continues
- British press attempts to resuscitate the Conservative Party
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Delphi demands unprecedented wage cuts from US auto workers
- Foreign capital pours into China’s banks
- Bush responds to political crisis with lies and new war threats
- Restrictive bankruptcy bill to remain in place for Hurricane Katrina victims
2005-10-10
- Spanish court convicts 18 alleged Al Qaeda members
- Bush White House crisis deepens: The contradictions of the Miers nomination
- Australian government instigates move to jail journalists
- Hurricane inflicts massive death toll in Guatemala
- Devastating quake kills 20,000 in Pakistan and India
- Letters from our readers
2005-10-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The wars inside and out
- Sri Lankan presidential election: the economic agenda behind the phony promises
- Demoralization grips Iraq war’s ideological architects
- Robert Fisk addresses Sydney audience on history, journalism and Iraq
- Delphi outlines plant closings, wage-cutting in US bankruptcy filing
- Michigan bookstores host signings for The Crisis of American Democracy
- British Columbia teachers defy anti-strike law, court rulings
2005-10-12
- London’s Tate gallery censors work citing fear of offending Muslims
- Sri Lankan presidential election: 13 candidates but few choices
- Britain: De Menezes family demands justice in police murder
- Iraqi regime orders arrest of ex-officials in $1 billion theft
- Germany: Grand Coalition under Chancellor Merkel
- The Australian media on the origins of terrorism
- Interview with American Library Association leader: “This government stands completely exposed”
2005-10-13
- Moqtada al-Sadr refuses to call for a no vote on Iraqi constitution
- Resentment grows among earthquake victims in Pakistan and India
- Videotaped police beating in New Orleans
- Britain: Letters reveal police cover-up over Menezes shooting
- Signs of life
- Letters from our readers
- BC teachers strike shakes Campbell Liberal government
2005-10-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Polish presidential election: playoff between two right-wing candidates
- British playwright Harold Pinter awarded Nobel Prize in literature
- Microsoft and RealNetworks settle antitrust case
- Australia: high oil prices provoking protests and discontent
- Signs of life
- White House, Congress press plans for major cuts in social programs
- Social inequality reaches new heights in California
2005-10-15
- Thousands of young offenders in US face life behind bars
- Canadian TWU terminates Telus workers’ struggle
- What is in Blair’s anti-terror bill?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Interviews with locked-out Canadian Telus workers
- Right-wing Social Democrat Steinbrück named finance minister in German grand coalition
- Ohio Delphi workers denounce company plan to halve wages and slash jobs
- Iraqis to vote on neo-colonial constitution
- Bush video conference with troops in Iraq: poorly scripted, poorly performed
- British Columbia: Courts seize union assets, but teachers remain defiant
- Oppose Blair’s police-state measures
2005-10-17
- Repression in southern Thailand fuels diplomatic tensions with Malaysia
- Toledo, Ohio: Neo-Nazi march sparks riot
- Washington, predictably, hails Iraq constitution vote
- Los Angeles: city of the stars becomes US homeless capital
- France: CGT betrays ferry workers’ fight
- Signs of life
- British Columbia teachers strike poses need for a working-class political offensive
2005-10-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- EU in crisis over Turkish membership
- Refco collapse in US poses some troubling questions
- Northwest Airlines union submits plan to cut 89 percent of members’ jobs for rank-and-file vote
- Northwest Airlines union submits plan to cut 89 percent of members’ jobs for rank-and-file vote
- Judith Miller and the New York Times—accomplices in a war based on lies
- Britain: public meetings discuss Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism
- US military massacres dozens in wake of Iraq referendum
- US auto union in deal with GM to slash health benefits
2005-10-19
- Australian government launches major assault on workers’ conditions and rights
- Iraq and American life
- New Orleans: school staff face massive cuts in jobs, benefits
- Return of Soares to politics shows depth of Portuguese crisis
- New York’s subway terror threat—was it a hoax?
- Legal lynching of Saddam Hussein begins in Iraq
- Guantánamo Bay hunger strike enters third month
- Indian and Pakistani nuclear ambitions: another barrier to effective earthquake relief
- What can be expected from Germany’s grand coalition?
- Union and NDP leaders conspire to close down British Columbia teachers strike
2005-10-20
- Plans for World Trade Center site in disarray
- Australia: Leaked “Anti-Terrorism” Bill details draconian police-state plans
- German: Interior Minister Schily’s parting shot—a blatant attack on freedom of the press
- Guantánamo Bay hunger strike enters third month
- Lack of government preparation for flu pandemic
- Letters from our readers
- Bush vows crackdown on immigrant workers
2005-10-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US Senate rejects increase in minimum wage
- Australia: Privatised road tunnel creates havoc in Sydney
- The Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Kashmiri earthquake: lessons for the working class
- Spanish court orders arrest of US soldiers for war crime
- Germany’s new parliament: democratic fig leaf of an authoritarian government
- British Columbia teachers strike in grave danger
- British military investigator found hung in Basra
2005-10-22
- US auto union goes to court against its own members
- Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2005 Sri Lankan presidential election
- Spain: refugees killed, survivors abandoned in Moroccan desert
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Security guards attack striking San Francisco hospital workers
- The new German parliament shows its true face
- Canada: BC Federation of Labour moves to end teachers’ strike
- US soldiers caught on film desecrating bodies of Afghans
2005-10-24
- Working class life and other problems
- Washington seizes on UN report to threaten Syria
- Rigging accusations surround Iraq referendum result
- UAW-GM deal: a new stage in the corporate assault on American workers
- Orgy of nationalist propaganda follows Chinese manned space flight
- Austrian state elections: a clear rebuff of government attacks on social welfare
- South Africa: nearly one million farmworkers evicted since 1993
2005-10-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Damning report on the illegal deportation of Vivian Alvarez
- Dissent suppressed at Oxford Union
- Florida Medicaid privatization plan approved
- Iraqi interior ministry accused of assassinating defence lawyer in Hussein trial
- Friedman on Iraq—the “thinking” behind the New York Times’s debacle
- After the Kashmir earthquake, warnings of a second disaster
- Letters from our readers
- US military suppresses information on death of contractors in Iraq
- BC teachers vote to end strike
2005-10-26
- Sri Lankan presidential election: false promises and the real record on education
- The Birmingham riots: Against racial politics—for class unity
- PBS film documents Rumsfeld’s role in authorizing torture
- US death toll hits 2,000—grim milestone in a criminal war
- Howard government abandons Australian citizen sentenced to death in Singapore
- French workers demand justice over asbestos poisoning
- Bush names another “free market” ally of Wall Street to succeed Greenspan at the Federal Reserve
- Order broadens surveillance of Internet users
2005-10-27
- US colleges and universities increase tuition again
- Bush administration seeks legal sanction for torture
- US and Britain seek UN backing for action against Syria
- Sri Lankan SEP holds election meeting in Kandy
- Iraq referendum produces a divisive and illegitimate result
- The German Green Party: open to all offers
- Germany’s grand coalition leaders suppress internal party discussion
- US Senate resumes attack on antiwar MP George Galloway
- Thomas Friedman and Iraq: A bad case of amnesia
2005-10-28
- Images of El Salvador carnage reprised in light of Iraq war
- Canada: ex-indépendantiste premier calls for intensified assault on working class
- Indian migrant workers in Oman speak to the WSWS
- Collapse of the Miers nomination: Bush administration bows to the ultra-right
- India: Advani resigns as BJP president amid party crisis
- The financial imbalances of a “bizarre world”
- Power outages, gas lines, hunger fuel Floridians’ anger after Hurricane Wilma
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Fire kills at least 11 at Amsterdam airport detention centre
2005-10-29
- Britain: attorney general prevents prosecution of police who killed Harry Stanley
- Poland: Lech Kaczynski elected president in low voter turnout
- Energy companies announce record profits amidst soaring prices for US consumers
- Iraq war is the real “underlying crime” in the Libby indictment
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: jobs decline amid signs of economic downturn
- Ibero-American summit criticises US policy
- Big business lobbies step up pressure on Germany’s grand coalition
- US passports to contain remotely readable computer chips
- Fighting backwardness
2005-10-31
- SEP campaign in Sri Lankan election: interest in a socialist alternative
- Serious problem, treated by not so serious people
- Mexican rights group exposes government’s whitewash of student massacres
- The political implications of the Libby indictment
- UK poverty report draws attention to widening inequalities
- US judge orders release of Guantánamo hunger strikers’ medical records
- “Bali Nine” alleged drug traffickers set up for execution by Australian police
- Interview with Mexican Committee of 68 member
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