Archive: 11/2005
2005-11-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Strengths and weaknesses of Asian cinema
- 5,000 Philadelphia transit workers walk out
- Sri Lankan SEP presidential candidate to address public meeting in India
- Australian minister admits unemployed will be compelled to accept inferior conditions
- Delphi demands US auto workers accept poverty wages
- Bush names favorite of Christian right to Supreme Court
2005-11-02
- Australian government declares “urgent” terrorist threat
- Bush faces mass protests, opposition to trade pact in Argentina
- SLFP candidate issues a manifesto for communal violence and war
- The California Union Paycheck Initiative and the political tasks facing the working class
- Paris hit by anti-police riots
- German minister employs Nazi vocabulary to describe long-term unemployed
- London: demonstration demands end to shoot-to-kill policy
- US military massacres Iraqi civilians near Syrian border
- Iraq election to exacerbate slide toward civil war
- Letters from our readers
2005-11-03
- Australia’s “Anti-Terrorism” Bill: the framework for a police state
- "The Massacre" de 50 Cent vende 4 millones de copias: ¿por qué alcanza tanto exito el atraso social?
- Australia signs military pact with the Philippines
- New Delhi bomb blasts a heinous crime
- Germany: SPD chairman resigns in midst of grand coalition talks
- US Senate’s closed session: The short, noisy reign of Harry Reid
- Britain: Blunkett forced to resign from Cabinet
- Bush bird flu plan includes windfall for pharmaceuticals giants
2005-11-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- British government and security agencies seek to legitimise torture
- Canada: Telus workers reject concession-laden settlement
- "The Massacre" de 50 Cent vende 4 millones de copias: ¿por qué alcanza tanto éxito el atraso social?
- A silver lining for Rumsfeld in the bird flu threat
- Australian legal experts condemn Anti-Terrorism Bill
- Italy: Berlusconi changes electoral law to remain in power
- Monsoon rains reveal social crisis in Bangalore, the city hyped as India’s Silicon Valley
- France: widening anti-police riots provoke government crisis
- The CIA’s global gulag
- The dangers of a global bird flu pandemic
2005-11-05
- An inside job—US Labor Department and Wal-Mart’s secret agreement on child labor
- Threats of violence against SEP meeting in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
- Record numbers in US prisons
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- A Little History is a dangerous thing
- Eyewitness to Paris riots charges police with deliberate provocation
- Politics, socialism and the struggle of Delphi workers
- Bush’s visit sparks upheavals in Argentina
- Unanswered questions about Australia’s “terrorist” alert
2005-11-07
- Sri Lankan filmmakers oppose military threats
- A revealing line-up in the Australian Senate
- Britain’s Railtrack: shareholders flex their muscles against government
- More than 5,000 Philadelphia transit workers continue walkout
- High court declares Marseilles transport workers strike illegal
- French government and opposition back intensified repression
- Letters from our readers
- Right-wing initiatives dominate California special election
- Bush sinks in opinion polls, but Democrats offer no alternative
- Americas summit ends in debacle for Bush
2005-11-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tornado kills 22 in US Midwest
- Former US public broadcasting chairman resigns in disgrace
- Australia: Socialist Alliance provides platform for supporters of Howard’s police-state legislation
- Socialist Equality Party meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
- New York City’s Radio City Music Hall locks out musicians for holiday show
- Rosa Parks and the lessons of the civil rights movement
- Australian government seeks expanded powers to call out troops
- France: “far-left” LCR refuses to take a stand on police repression
- “Steel curtain” in Iraq—another US war crime
- A timely film on Murrow and McCarthy
- Report documents stepped-up FBI surveillance of ordinary Americans
- The New York Times endorses Mayor Bloomberg for re-election
2005-11-09
- European Union agrees to set up holding camps for refugees
- Politically manipulated police raids in Australia
- SEP presidential candidate from Sri Lanka addresses Madras meeting
- Britain: Iraq murder court-martial collapses
- Indian Stalinists pledge to stamp out further IT work disruptions
- St. Louis: ‘urban revitalization’ targets the homeless
- Oppose the state of emergency in France!
- Ceasing to be the voice of a generation
- Bush: “We don’t torture”—but don’t put it in writing
- Why US big business is pleased with Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court
2005-11-10
- Novel about POWs wins PEN/Faulkner Award
- The German Social Democrats: on the way to “New Labour”
- US Senate feigns outrage over big oil’s windfall profits
- Sri Lankan presidential election: the NSSP and the dead-end of national opportunism
- Anger mounts over Australia’s anti-terror laws
- More accusations of US-backed death squads in Iraq
- France: state of emergency escalates attacks on the rights of youth and workers
- US: off-year elections deal losses to Republicans
- US auto workers union launches sham “war” against Delphi
- Letters from our readers
- California Special Election: voters reject right-wing measures
- Wall Street bonuses expected to soar again in 2005
2005-11-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- A revealing episode in the Sri Lankan election: troops deployed against striking workers
- Judith Miller and the New York Times make a deal
- Sharon government escalates military offensive against Palestinians
- Thirty years since the “Canberra Coup”
- US: Senate Republicans demand probe into leak on CIA’s gulag
- Film documents American use of chemical weapons in Iraq
- Police seek to censor painting from Brixton Riots exhibition
- Answer British Terrorism Bill with a class-based defence of democratic rights
- An interview with Marcellino de Baggis, writer and director of Quintosole
2005-11-12
- Sri Lankan budget: a brazen exercise in electioneering
- Britain: defence argues Spanish extradition could lead to human rights abuses
- US Senate moves to ban court review of Guantánamo detentions
- Bush administration retreats from probe of veterans’ benefits
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- France’s state of emergency—Sarkozy threatens mass deportations
- Kansas school board passes anti-evolution science standards
- The pain you go through in this country to start a new life ...
- A grand ceremony for Confucius: Beijing turns to the old imperial ideology
2005-11-14
- Wall Street Journal defends torture
- Simon Wiesenthal: Nazi-hunter dead at 96—part 1
- Soviet era posters at London’s Tate Modern
- Market reform and Japanese nationalism: the twin policies of Koizumi’s government
- Ban on gatherings in Paris
- SEP debates radical “left” in Sri Lankan presidential election campaign
- Canada: Social democrats withdraw support for Liberal government
- Bush’s counteroffensive on Iraqi WMD
- Australian Wheat Board implicated in “oil-for-food scandal”
2005-11-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Simon Wiesenthal: Nazi-hunter dead at 96—part 2
- Sri Lankan elections: a conspiracy to prevent Tamils from voting
- Fugitive GI speaks to WSWS on Iraq war
- European Union agrees to set up holding camps for refugees
- Canada: union bureaucrats sponsor candidate for Parti Québécois leadership
- New York University graduate student-workers on strike
- The terrorist bombings in Jordan
- Australian government rams through parliament draconian new workplace laws
- A tragedy presented, not explained
- GM retiree denounces UAW “sham” vote to cut medical benefits
- Letters from our readers
2005-11-16
- Writing off Europe
- “Only the SEP advances a clear program against war and social inequality”
- Senate Democrats back Iraq war, Guantánamo prison camp
- Australia: 500,000 workers demonstrate against Howard’s industrial legislation
- Colombo meeting concludes Sri Lankan SEP election campaign
- Australian workers denounce new industrial laws
- German parliament snubs Left Party’s chairman for fourth time
2005-11-17
- Police claims raise new questions about “terrorist” raids in Australia
- Sri Lankan election: Vote for Wije Dias and the Socialist Equality Party
- Quebec public sector workers launch rotating strikes
- Students, parents rebuff US military recruiters
- Political issues facing US auto workers discussed at Kokomo meeting
- France: state of emergency extended for three months
- FEMA to evict tens of thousands of Katrina victims
- American artists and American tragedy
- Memo exposes anti-democratic agenda of US Supreme Court nominee
2005-11-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Right-wing smear campaign against antiwar vet Jimmy Massey
- The JVP and the political crisis in Sri Lanka
- When is an ‘antiwar film’ not an antiwar film?
- Torture centre discovered in Baghdad
- Sri Lankan voters reveal deep disaffection
- High inflation follows Indonesian president’s fuel price hike
2005-11-19
- Rajapakse narrowly wins Sri Lankan presidential election
- Sri Lankan election: Wije Dias speaks at poll declaration
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iraq fraud arrests expose criminality of US occupation
- German coalition government accord: a declaration of war on working people
- Delphi plans to cut 24,000 US auto jobs
- Political conflict intensifies over Bush’s Iraq war lies
- US House of Representatives approves $50 billion in social cuts
- Basque separatist leader faces jail for “insulting” the king
2005-11-21
2005-11-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- After the Sri Lankan election: what next for the working class?
- Witnesses at Australian Senate hearings warn: “terror” laws aimed at dissent
- The return of Dickensian London
- India: removal of foreign minister points to struggle over extent of US ties
- General Motors to close 9 plants, slash 30,000 North American jobs
- German trade unions rally to the grand coalition
- France: Gaullist officials stoke up racism to justify state of emergency
2005-11-23
2005-11-24
- Sri Lanka: unemployed youth speak to WSWS
- SPD party congress united behind Germany’s grand coalition
- French unions seeking end to national rail strike
- Indictment of Jose Padilla: another chapter in Bush’s war on democratic rights
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- British government threatens prosecution to suppress claim that Bush sought to bomb Al Jazeera
- Report: Steep decline in Illinois workers’ income
- Poignant cries for freedom
- 20,000 demonstrate against US military torture training center
2005-11-25
- Australian “terror” raids target Tamil groups
- Thousands arbitrarily deprived of vote in Sri Lankan presidential election
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Brutal clampdown by Ethiopian regime
- Letters from our readers
- The implications of Bush’s diplomatic debacle in Asia
- APEC: mass protests and political tension in South Korea
2005-11-26
- Behind the LTTE’s boycott of the Sri Lankan election
- Bush administration plays to religious right in delaying contraceptive approval
- Merkel elected as Germany’s chancellor: grand coalition to implement social cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Violence against occupation opponents continues in lead-up to Iraq election
- Peruvians demand extradition of ex-president Fujimori
2005-11-28
2005-11-29
- Australia: Telstra to slash 12,000 jobs
- Sri Lankan newspaper advocates anti-democratic restrictions for future elections
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
- Guardian newspaper forced to retract Noam Chomsky interview
- The death of China’s “red capitalist” and the 1949 revolution
- Canada’s Liberal government falls, setting stage for January election
- The Abramoff affair: Snapshots from an empire of corruption
- The Abramoff affair: Corruption scandal threatens Republican control of US Congress
2005-11-30
- Clinton paints false picture of “progress” for Sri Lanka’s tsunami victims
- Australian government deserts young man due to hang in Singapore
- Israel: Behind Sharon’s break with Likud
- India in quandary over US-Iran conflict
- Saddam Hussein trial resumes: a grotesque display of imperial justice
- 50,000 Katrina evacuees without permanent housing
- One earthquake could leave two-thirds of Californians without drinking water
- US-backed government in Iraq: “The same as Saddam’s time and worse”
2005-11-3n
- La tragedia de El Salvador: presentada no explicada
- Senado de Estados Unidos prohíbe la revisión de detenciones en Guantánamo
- Los Angeles Times fires liberal columnist Robert Scheer
- Sri Lanka’s new president faces crisis over forming a government
- Study documents exploitation in Indian call centres
- Francia extiende estado de emergencia por tres meses
- La contraofensiva de Bush en cuanto a las armas para la destrucción en masa
- Growing international tension over the Arctic
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