Archive: 12/2005
2005-12-01
- The Wall Street Journal and the case of Jose Padilla
- Sri Lanka: LTTE Heroes Day speech reveals an organisation in crisis
- Probe exposes criminal methods in Republican right takeover of US Public TV
- Australian anti-terror laws: framework of a police state
- Chemical spill pollutes water supply in north-eastern China
- Deutsche Telekom to slash 32,000 jobs
- Republican Congressman pleads guilty in bribe scheme
- Realism and nostalgia
- Staggering death rate for youth in Chicago juvenile justice system
- Bush, Democrats back protracted war in Iraq
2005-12-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Repression in southern Thailand provokes recriminations against Thaksin government
- Australian government insists on sedition clauses in new terrorism legislation
- New Sri Lankan president confronts same impasse as predecessor
- Kidnapping, detention, torture: US “renditions” scandal embroils whole of Europe
- US military covertly pays to plant stories in Iraqi media
- Merck announces 7,000 layoffs—continued attack on jobs and wages in US
- Italy’s constitutional “reform”: the gravedigger of post-war democracy
2005-12-03
- Factional infighting in Sri Lankan opposition following electoral defeat
- Germany: Protests against Samsung factory closure
- Nguyen Tuong Van executed in Singapore
- Profit-driven Medicare drug plan stirs confusion and anger
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US press echoes consensus in ruling elite to continue slaughter in Iraq
- Ford to close five North American plants, cut 7,500 jobs
- A grim US milestone: 1,000th execution since 1976
- Film festivals in Cottbus and Neubrandenburg
- Britain: Two charged under Secrets Act for leaking Bush threat to bomb Al Jazeera
2005-12-05
- Did Big Oil participate in planning invasion of Iraq?
- Ten Marines killed in Fallujah blast: more carnage in a colonialist war
- Second disaster looming for millions of Kashmir earthquake victims
- France: Anti-terrorism legislation tramples on civil liberties
- Britain’s education white paper: A recipe for privatisation and social selection
- The rise of the religious right in Australia
- Chinese mine disaster kills at least 164
2005-12-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- India takes a more direct hand in Sri Lankan affairs
- Rice defends illegal “renditions,” threatens to reveal European complicity
- India: floods kill hundreds in Tamil Nadu
- What is troubling Joe Lieberman?
- Australia: James Hardie demands more concessions on asbestos compensation deal
- Germany: Grand coalition leader Merkel sugar-coats program of social cuts
- Week one of Canada’s federal election campaign—posturing, demagogy and reaction
- Bush uses World AIDS Day to push Christian right agenda
2005-12-07
- Venezuelan vote boycott: Washington paves road to intervention
- Study finds hundreds of toxic chemicals in umbilical cords of newborns
- Killing of Sri Lankan soldiers heightens tensions on Jaffna peninsula
- Bush, Rice defend US abductions, torture, secret prisons
- Mass protest in Hong Kong against new chief executive
- A valuable and compelling antiwar film
- Letters from our readers
2005-12-08
- US: Verizon to freeze defined-benefit pensions for 50,000 managers
- Britain: Former law lord says US “guilty of lawlessness on a truly grand scale”
- Sri Lankan president installs unstable minority government
- Report outlines plans for corporate plunder of Iraqi oil
- Australia: thousands attend funeral for Van Nguyen
- The fate of hostage Susanne Osthoff and the role of the German government
- The Democratic Party and the struggle against the Iraq war
- Palestinian activist Sami Al-Arian acquitted on charges in Florida
2005-12-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Letter on the UAW from a former US auto worker
- A day in the life of a Sri Lankan tea worker
- Miami airplane shooting: Washington’s “war on terrorism” comes home
- European governments make their peace with Washington on abductions, torture
- Australia: Labor puts profits ahead of children’s health at Port Pirie
- Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize speech: a brave artist speaks the truth about US imperialism
- German Chancellor Merkel covers up for illegal CIA practices
- John McCain in Ann Arbor: a cowardly evasion on US war crimes
- Left press in France all but ignores Sarkozy’s Anti-Terrorist Bill
2005-12-10
- Australian treasurer steps up ideological offensive against welfare recipients
- Transit dispute exposes New York City’s class divide
- Eyewitnesses refute official story in fatal shooting of passenger at Miami airport
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Saddam Hussein hearings: a show trial orchestrated in Washington
- Auto union’s complaint: Delphi exec bonuses make it tough to sell wage cuts
- Letters from our readers
2005-12-12
- New York City transit workers vote to authorize strike
- Sri Lankan government announces a phoney “pro-poor” budget
- Government and media provocations spark racist violence on Sydney beaches
- Explosions rip through British oil depot
- Rigoberto Alpizar and Jean Charles de Menezes: Two victims of state “anti-terror” killings
- Spain’s largest trial targets Basque separatist ETA
- WTO trade talks head for a stalemate
2005-12-13
- Workers’ Struggles: The Americas
- Bush aides suppressed challenges to anti-democratic election plans
- Taiwan: ruling party suffers heavy losses in local elections
- German Chancellor Merkel’s state visit to Poland: you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours
- Deal to renew USA Patriot Act extends police-state measures
- Racial violence continues in Sydney
- The execution of Stanley Tookie Williams
2005-12-14
- Worldwide outrage over execution of Stanley Tookie Williams
- Britain’s law lords reject use of torture evidence
- An interview with Sigfrido Ranucci, director of The Hidden Massacre
- Le Parti Québécois chooses André Boisclair as its new leader—a further shift to the right
- Three months after the Katrina disaster: New Orleans left for dead
- Iraq elections: a democratic façade for a US puppet state
- New Delhi presses ahead with plans for an Indian “Suez Canal”
- Australian state government prepares savage attack on democratic rights
2005-12-15
- Slovenia: Protests against government reforms
- Britain: President of the Royal Society makes outspoken defence of science
- Pentagon’s domestic spying operations target opponents of Iraq war
- Australian government tries to censor Indonesian film festival
- British newspaper alleges Israel is planning a military strike on Iran
- Germany: Ex-Chancellor Schröder launches corporate career
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese police massacre protestors in Guangdong
2005-12-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The political issues confronting New York City transit workers
- Israel: Shimon Peres joins Sharon’s new party
- New Zealand: new Labour-led government under pressure for more market reform
- Iraqi election to rubber-stamp continued US occupation
- Letters on the killing of Rigoberto Alpizar
- Canada: Martin wraps himself in the Maple Leaf after scolding from US envoy
2005-12-17
- New York City transit union calls selective strikes
- McCain-Bush “anti-torture” measure gives legal cover for continued abuse
- Sri Lanka: police raids against CWC leaders
- Document proves European Union agreed to CIA rendition flights
- Australian government unveils military restructure and new callout powers
- German government complicit in the criminal activities of the CIA
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letters from our readers
2005-12-19
- WTO talks keep trade round on life support
- New York City transit workers on brink of class confrontation
- US House passes draconian anti-immigrant bill
- Germany: Social inequality is constantly growing
- France: New law requires teachers to present a “positive” account of French colonialism
- Bush defends illegal spying on Americans: the specter of presidential dictatorship
- Australia: Unions isolate locked-out Boeing workers
2005-12-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New York City transit workers defy threats and strike
- An interview with Tolga Ornëk, director of Gallipoli: The Front Line Experience
- Britain: Facts and myths about Turner’s plans for pensions
- Germany: Sacked Opel worker appeals to Industrial Court
- Indian government steps into Nepalese political crisis
- Australia: Major companies continue layoffs as economy slows
- Bush uses lies, fear-mongering to defend war in Iraq, police state measures at home
2005-12-21
- The New York transit strike: A new stage in the class struggle
- Australia: Beach suburbs “locked down” in weekend police blitz
- Sri Lankan military fires on Jaffna university protest
- German Interior Minister Schäuble wants to lock up “dangerous people”
- Britain: Facts and myths about Turner’s plans for pensions
- New York transit workers set up picket lines: “Today’s strike is for all working people”
- After the Iraq election: Washington steps in to shape the next government
- Court rules teaching of Intelligent Design unconstitutional in public schools
- With the White House defiant on illegal spying: Why no outcry for Bush’s impeachment?
2005-12-22
- Time names super-rich trio as 2005 “Persons of the Year”
- India: Dozens killed in second stampede at Chennai flood relief centre
- The class issues behind Australia’s race riots
- New York transit strikers confront escalating attacks
- New York City transit workers defiant
- Northern Ireland spy scandal: Questions Sinn Fein must answer
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on three months since Hurricane Katrina
2005-12-23
- Billions in bonuses for Wall Street execs, mayor denounces “selfish” transit workers
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sydney’s racial violence: a warning from Sri Lanka
- The sudden end of the New York transit strike: A preliminary assessment
- Quebec government adopts draconian law against half-million public sector workers
- Behind the media onslaught on the transit workers
- EU budget talks reveal mounting European conflicts
- Letters on the New York transit strike
- US Senate passes budget bill slashing social programs
- East Asian Summit plagued by tension and rivalry
2005-12-24
- Global criminality
- New York City transit strike was quashed by the unions
- New York City transit strike was quashed by the unions
- International donor group for Sri Lanka issues menacing threat to LTTE
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New York City transit worker speaks: “They’re churning up the next American revolution”
- India’s foreign policy struggle intensifies
- Worst hospital fire in China since 1949
- Marx and democratic rights
- Bush employs “Big Lie” technique to defend illegal spying on Americans
2005-12-28
- Spain: Auto unions agree redundancies at SEAT
- Signs of social and economic crisis across Pacific Island states
- Germany: Court penalises Opel worker
- Latin American mercenaries guarding Baghdad’s Green Zone
- British court rules Guantánamo detainee David Hicks entitled to UK citizenship
- Liberal philistinism revisited: Richard Cohen on Syriana
- California Democratic Party works to prop up Schwarzenegger administration
- The futile pursuit of reformism
2005-12-29
- Tentative contract a setback for New York City transit workers
- One year after the tsunami, Sri Lankan survivors still live in squalour
- Maruthamunai: a tsunami-devastated village in Sri Lanka
- Harold Pinter’s artistic achievement
- New Orleans police gun down mentally ill man
- Sri Lankan SEP to commemorate anniversary of Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
- US, UN dismiss claims of electoral fraud in Iraq
- Letters from our readers
2005-12-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Art as humanization
- Eugene McCarthy, dead at 89, played pivotal role in 1968 political crisis
- Israel mounts air attacks on Gaza and Lebanon
- Historical and political issues behind Iranian president’s anti-Semitic campaign
- Indonesian court implicates intelligence agency in murder of human rights activist
- India’s tsunami victims abandoned
- Pre-election terror and repression in Haiti
- David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2005
2005-12-31
- One year after the Asian tsunami: an indictment of the profit system
- Germany: a revealing debate on Sudan military deployment
- New reports expose extensive illegal spying by US government
- Britain: National Health Service faces funding crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Canada: Liberal campaign side-swiped by insider-trading allegations
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