Archive: 01/2006
2006-01-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Egyptian police kill at least 20 Sudanese protesters
- Sri Lankan fertiliser scheme in shambles due to lack of funds
- The Bush administration and the Padilla case: White House caught in its own lies
- West Virginia explosion traps 13 coal miners
- Germany: SPD-Green “reforms” spell bonanza for shareholders
- Large vote against union-backed concessions at Ford
- Market commentators cheer China’s revised economic figures
2006-01-04
- The Wall Street Journal responds with venom to Spielberg’s Munich
- London Underground workers strike over new working patterns
- Twelve of 13 miners found dead after false rescue report
- Reports document growing social inequality in Australia
- US: low-fare Independence Air to shut down
- Letters from our readers
- Bolivia’s “socialist” president-elect Morales guarantees private property
- Tsunami survivors left to suffer on Andaman and Nicobar islands
2006-01-05
- Sri Lanka on the road back to civil war
- West Virginia mine tragedy: Families denounce company, state officials
- Germany: ice rink collapse leaves at least 14 dead
- Why the endless eulogies for Australia’s richest man?
- European media report US plans to strike Iran
- The gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine
- Two recent films: Brokeback Mountain and Walk the Line
- Britain: police given unprecedented arrest and surveillance powers
- Top Republican lobbyist turns state’s evidence in Washington corruption scandal
2006-01-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sharon’s stroke plunges Israel into political turmoil
- Australia: Child’s death exposes impact of privatisation of refugee services
- West Virginia towns mourn deaths of 12 coal miners
- Another war crime: US air raid kills Iraqi family
- Bush administration seeks dismissal of Guantánamo habeas corpus suits
- Deposed deputy prime minister back on the Malaysian political stage
2006-01-07
- Sri Lankan security forces conduct massive sweep of Tamils in Colombo
- More revelations of illegal spying by US government
- Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific
- US: IBM to freeze pension plan in 2008
- Germany: study draws devastating balance of the Hartz labour reforms
- Letters on the West Virginia mine disaster
- Bush meets the “wise men”: A cynical charade to legitimize Iraq war
- Killing fuels Mexican anger over US immigration policy
2006-01-09
- Mine safety cuts hindered West Virginia rescue
- Iraqi oil minister resigns amid protests and economic chaos
- Britain: Blair government refuses public inquiry into biggest fire in Europe
- Australia: Police use new powers to “lock down” rural housing estate
- Letters from our readers
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s “inexplicable” intervention into Canada’s election campaign
2006-01-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan foreign minister discusses war, not peace, in Washington
- Presidente-electo "socialista" de Bolivia garantiza la propiedad privada
- US media sheds crocodile tears for West Virginia miners
- Germany: Mannesmann corruption ruling unleashes new debate over “entrepreneurial culture”
- Israeli media rallies behind Sharon’s Kadima party
- Hong Kong “political reform” package rejected
2006-01-11
- Australia: 1975 documents underscore right-wing character of Whitlam government
- Germany: politicians urge army’s deployment for World Cup
- Relatives of recently killed Sri Lankan soldiers speak to WSWS
- Britain: former top general calls for Blair’s impeachment over Iraq war
- After the West Virginia mine disaster, the official whitewash begins
- Iraqi journalist seized by US troops while investigating corruption
- Republican Party crisis deepens: DeLay forced out of congressional leadership
- Lasse Hallström’s direction of Casanova: more purposeful than usual
- Canadian party leaders’ debate—populist posturing and lies
2006-01-12
- Australian terrorist trials face lengthy delays
- Oppressive conditions in a Sri Lankan garment factory
- Kentucky miner crushed to death in roof collapse
- Florida college professor and wife arrested as Cuban spies
- Hundreds die in Indonesia as monsoonal rains cause landslides
- Independent journalist who attacked Harold Pinter turns on World Socialist Web Site
- For a socialist alternative in the 2006 US elections
- Senate Democrats prostrate as Alito confirmation hearings get under way
2006-01-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Wall Street grabs $21.5 billion in bonuses
- German Chancellor Merkel in Washington
- US, EU set to refer Iran to the UN Security Council
- US living standards in 2005 continued downward trend
- Back on “the main stage”: Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum—part 1
- Letters on the West Virginia mine disaster
- German media reports on collusion of German intelligence agents in Iraq war
- Political victimisation of an Australian academic
2006-01-14
- US ambassador to Sri Lanka threatens the LTTE
- City residents denounce “Bring New Orleans Back” rebuilding plan
- Canada’s social-democrats hope to sustain Liberals in power after January elections
- Canada’s social-democrats hope to sustain Liberals in power after January elections
- Safety reports document deadly conditions at West Virginia mine
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Labor leader recommends Iraq “exit strategy”
- Germany: the closure of Nuremberg’s AEG works and the role of the unions
2006-01-16
- Ministro del petróleo iraquí renuncia debido a las manifestaciones y al caos económico
- Spain: General calls for military intervention over Catalonia
- Back on “the main stage”: Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum—part 2
- US bombing in northern Pakistan: an act of imperialist recklessness
- Kashmir earthquake survivors abandoned to freezing winter
- US living standards in 2005 continued downward trend
- Collaboration with CIA renditions highlights France’s assault on democratic rights
- Fiji remains tense after new coup threat
2006-01-17
- India: twelve protestors killed in police shooting
- SEP (Canada) to hold Toronto meeting
- Memorial service for Sago miners preaches fatalism and submission
- US coal miners denounce deadly conditions
- California governor denies clemency—76-year-old dies by lethal injection
- Beijing abolishes centuries-old agricultural tax
- Socialist-Christian Democratic coalition retains power in Chile
- The Canadian elections and the phony gun-crime epidemic
- Classic African films released on DVD: Ousmane Sembène’sBorom Sarret and Black Girl
2006-01-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan authorities mount increasing attacks on media freedom
- Ariel Sharon: a political assessment
- A year after the Hacienda Luisita massacre in the Philippines—no one charged
- New date set for Haitian vote as crisis mounts
- Germany: spying and discrimination against Muslims
- Geneticist Svante Pääbo speaks on chimpanzee genome
- European-wide dock workers strike against port deregulation
- Letters from our readers
- Bush administration domestic spying provokes lawsuits, calls for impeachment
- The Bloc Québécois: populism and nationalism in the service of the Québec bourgeoisie
2006-01-19
- Dreiser’s classic An American Tragedy is brought to the New York opera stage
- Thousands of Tamils flee from government-controlled areas in Sri Lanka
- Ariel Sharon: a political assessment-Part two
- Pakistan: anger mounts against Musharraf in wake of US air strike
- US general withholds testimony in Abu Ghraib abuse trial
- Community Colleges snubbed by Michigan Governor and state legislature
- Northern Ireland: the Donaldson affair and the threat to democratic rights
2006-01-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Lack of decent-paying jobs drives workers into West Virginia mines
- More evidence of European collaboration with CIA torture flights and prisons
- Indonesian police detain eight Papuans over Freeport murders
- American freelance journalist kidnapped in Iraq
- Who is Stephen Harper, the Conservative poised to be Canada’s next prime minister?
- Australia: unsafe conditions cause another death on Sydney’s construction sites
- Letters from our readers
2006-01-21
- Germany: Finance Minister Steinbrück’s tirade against the welfare state
- Bush administration uses Gulf Coast reconstruction to push for dismantling of public education
- Two missing in fire at West Virginia coal mine
- Britain: Report into death of Jean Charles de Menezes handed to Crown Prosecution Service
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The political issues behind the Iranian nuclear confrontation
- US government demands Google hand over Internet search data
- Not so much fun for Dick and Jane
- French president Chirac threatens nuclear retaliation in the event of terrorist attacks
- Canadian elections herald a dramatic intensification of class conflict
2006-01-23
- New York City transit workers reject contract
- Bush administration report defends spying, unconstrained executive powers
- Por una alternativa socialista en los comicios del 2006 en Estados Unidos
- Palestinian election reveals widespread hostility to Abbas
- New accident claims two more West Virginia coal miners
- California Democrats rally behind Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
2006-01-24
- Germany: Turhan Ersin wins case against dismissal at Opel
- Northwest Airlines demands concessions, job cuts in bankruptcy court
- India: victims of Gujarat pogrom found in mass grave
- Ford to cut 30,000 jobs in North America
- China’s growing trade with Africa indicative of Sino-Western energy conflicts
- SEP public meeting on Canadian elections
2006-01-25
- England and Wales lead Europe in imprisonment
- Seven-year-old girl murdered in Brooklyn
- Bush administration launches campaign of lies in defense of government spying
- In the background of the Sago Mine disaster -- part 1
- Homeless suffer in Indian cold wave
- Canada’s new Conservative government will intensify assault on workers’ and democratic rights
- Germany: Workers strike at AEG’s Nuremberg plant
2006-01-26
- In the background of the Sago Mine disaster -- part 2
- US: New Medicare plan triggers health crisis for thousands
- Protests against UN and French occupation of Ivory Coast
- What Al Gore’s speech reveals about the state of US politics
- German government blocking inquiry into secret aid provided for Iraq invasion
- France: Judge Bruguière—utilising anti-terrorism as a political instrument
- Letters from our readers
- Australian corporate executives rake in millions
2006-01-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Lessons from the Great Flood of 1927
- Bush mine safety official walks out of Senate hearing into Sago disaster
- Hamas victory in Palestinian election
- Thousands of Sri Lankan garment workers retrenched
- George Galloway on “Celebrity Big Brother”
- The Democrats and Alito’s Supreme Court confirmation
2006-01-28
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Spain: More military threats against Zapatero government
- British scientist challenges pharmaceutical company over research paper
- White House stonewalls official Hurricane Katrina inquiry
- General Motors lost $8.6 billion in 2005
- Bush defends NSA spying program at White House press conference
2006-01-30
- Sri Lankan government and LTTE agree to hold talks
- Punishment Park—1970s radical protest film released on DVD
- US, EU threaten cut-off of funds to Palestinian Authority following Hamas victory
- Diabetes in the US: a social epidemic
- Born into disadvantage—Australian children face growing inequality
- Army court martial conceals CIA involvement in death of former Iraqi general
2006-01-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US military recruiters target rural and depressed areas
- Australian state government set to dredge Melbourne’s bay despite opposition
- Hussein trial descends into a legal farce
- China and India manoeuvre to secure energy supplies
- France: Students mobilise against destruction of working conditions for youth
- Letters from our readers
- Canadian mine rescue highlights failings of US mine safety
- With the help of the Democrats, Alito to be confirmed as US Supreme Court Justice
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