Archive: 03/2006
2006-03-01
- Australian jury dismisses main charges in Melbourne “terrorism” case
- British defence secretary offers a rationalisation for war crimes
- Nick Beams: Report on world economy in 2006
- Germany’s Left Party and the public service strike
- Bush administration drags Iraq towards the abyss of civil war
- Federal Reserve report documents widening inequality in US
- Protests against Bush in India: For an international socialist strategy to fight imperialism
- Pentagon whitewash for Halliburton corruption in Iraq
- US Fed chairman Bernanke will not prick asset bubbles
- Further stirrings
2006-03-02
- The political tasks in the German public service strike
- With bipartisan support, US Senate agrees to Patriot Act renewal
- Nick Beams: Report on world economy in 2006
- New York Times raises new charges against German intelligence
- SEP (Canada) to hold public meeting in Montreal
- After deadly blast, Mexican miners launch strikes to demand safe conditions
- Israel conducts military offensive in the West Bank and Gaza
- Federal Reserve report documents widening inequality in US
- Debate over censorship emerges in China
- Bangladesh: 54 workers killed in textile factory fire
- AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting marks further disintegration of US labor federation
2006-03-03
- Snap election heightens political crisis in Thailand
- Tahitian parliamentary report: France covered up nuclear test fallout
- US tries to use Saddam Hussein trial to justify its own crimes
- AK Steel locks out 2,700 Ohio workers and hires replacements
- The consequences of the US-led war against Iraq
- Iraq: violence continues and sectarian divide widens
- Bush secures nuclear accord with India
- Play on Rachel Corrie canceled by New York theater group
- 78th Academy Awards: Hollywood’s new “seriousness” and its serious limitations
2006-03-04
- Bush visit to Pakistan will intensify Musharraf’s crisis
- Opel chairman warns of plant closure in Europe
- Unions for flight attendants, pilots agree to huge concessions at Northwest Airlines
- Britain: Behind the suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bird flu in India: profits override public health concerns
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Clintons, the Doles and the Dubai port deal: political duplicity and class interest
- Report on US: The Bush administration and the global decline of American capitalism
- Crossing the “red line”: Iranian films and censorship
- Letter from worker locked out by AK Steel in Ohio
- An act of social cruelty: South Dakota bars abortions for victims of rape and incest
2006-03-06
- “Hell” in Brazil
- Nobel Prize for Medicine for gastric ulcer breakthrough
- India’s “pro-poor” budget boosts military spending and market reforms
- France: Ilan Halimi tortured and murdered for money
- Australian Treasurer Peter Costello joins anti-Muslim bandwagon
- Report on US: The Bush administration and the global decline of American capitalism
- Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals assassinated by death squads
2006-03-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Culture secretary embroiled in Silvio Berlusconi bribery scandal
- Taiwanese president stokes tensions with China
- Former aide to Powell: authorization for torture came from “the very top”
- The social and political crisis in the United States and the 2006 SEP election campaign
- National strike by miners, steelworkers reveals class tensions in Mexico
- Japan: Koizumi’s popularity slumps amid debate on social inequality
- Torture in Iraq worse since Abu Ghraib
- Australia’s secret or not-so-secret past
- California Sheriff admits spying on antiwar group
- AT&T acquisition of BellSouth to eliminate 10,000 jobs
2006-03-08
- Britain: Government minister admits US “rendition” planes landed in UK
- The social and political crisis in the United States and the 2006 SEP election campaign
- 78th Academy Awards: why such a poor showing?
- London Olympics 2012: Regeneration promises don’t add up
- An exchange with readers on Iran’s nuclear programs
- US ambassador to UN warns of “painful consequences” for Iran
- Germany: IG Metall union capitulates to Electrolux
- Guantánamo files offer glimpse of Pentagon’s kangaroo courts
- Letters from our readers
- Bi-partisan censorship campaign targets youth
- Right-wing campaign targets Colorado teacher for anti-Bush remarks
2006-03-09
- Protesting Sri Lankan tsunami refugees occupy government building
- US Senate panel votes to sanction illegal spying
- Unions collaborate in ongoing destruction of Air New Zealand jobs
- Deregulation of coal industry behind fatal accidents in US mines
- Italy’s National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe: the significance of a neo-fascist commemoration
- Inquiry into police killing at Ipperwash implicates Tory government
- Hunger in America: 25 million depend on emergency food aid
- Divisions emerge in Germany’s Left Party
- The implications of China for world socialism
- Britain: Private capital and the crisis in the National Health Service
- US: AK Steel lockout enters second week
2006-03-10
- US pushes for larger UN intervention in western Sudan
- Returning to the scene of the crime: Bush visits New Orleans
- WSWS Chairman David North to speak at Montreal meeting this Saturday
- Hospital workers in northern Sri Lanka strike for better conditions
- Germany: parliamentary panel to probe intelligence service’s role in Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Former CFO testifies in Enron case
- Harlem art exhibition commemorates police shooting victim Amadou Diallo
- National Day Labor Study exposes exploitation of day laborers
- Everything about this performance felt right
- The implications of China for world socialism
2006-03-11
- India: Police and Hindu supremacists engage in provocations following Varanasi bombings
- Britain: Liberal Democrats’ new leader shifts party to the right
- A socialist answer to the danger of war in Sri Lanka
- Poland: Winter of death for impoverished
- Bush’s public slap in the face to Pakistan’s president
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Washington’s “democracy” in Iraq hangs 13 political prisoners
- US drumbeat against Iran threatens new war of aggression
- Egypt: Mubarak regime cracks down on opposition
- France: A million protest against government attack on job security for young workers
- The implications of China for world socialism
- Abu Ghraib to close, abuse to continue
2006-03-12
2006-03-13
- The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
- Political tensions continue after Philippine state of emergency ends
- Media lies and hypocrisy in wake of Milosevic’s death
- Socialism and the struggle against imperialist war
- Right wing in Spain attempts to rehabilitate Franco
- Letters from our readers
- Bird flu threat grows in Europe and Africa
- Stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984: Puppets of the police state
2006-03-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
- Mystery deepens over Milosevic’s death
- Arbeiterpresse Verlag represented at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair
- Right wing in Spain attempts to rehabilitate Franco
- France: riot police attack student protesters at the Sorbonne
- Bank of Japan policy shift will have global impact
- Scientists criticize UK government for lack of preparedness over avian flu
2006-03-15
- The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
- Portugal: Right-wing president will promote austerity measures
- China’s National People’s Congress focusses on social instability
- Kentucky mine operators gear up for a coal revival
- Washington seeks to bully UN Security Council over Iran
- Il “Giorno del Ricordo” degli Esuli e delle Foibe in Italia: il significato di una commemorazione neo-fascista
- Denmark: Police arrest members of the Left Socialist Party
- Chikungunya epidemic on the French Island of Réunion: a “natural” catastrophe
2006-03-16
- US balance of payments deficit hits another record
- Not a film review, properly speaking: Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy
- Next round of Sri Lankan peace talks hangs in the balance
- Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
- Germany: The role of the trade union and works council at Opel
- Government misconduct derails Moussaoui death penalty case
- “No threat”—but massive security at Melbourne Games
- New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain
- Britain: Tessa Jowell and the politics of kleptocracy
- Siege of Jericho prison: US, Britain complicit in Israeli war crime
- Right wing attempts to rehabilitate Franco
- Letters from our readers
- Canadian prime minister proclaims major shift with Afghanistan visit
2006-03-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Tongan public servants threaten to strike against government restructuring
- Bush administration renews “preemptive war” strategy
- SEP public meeting in Montreal assesses fundamental changes in world and Canadian politics
- Three years since the invasion of Iraq: historical lessons and political perspectives
- US: Florida Medicaid cuts target food for disabled children
- New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain
- Premature applause for Japan’s one quarter of promising economic growth
- Saddam Hussein turns the tables at US-run show trial
- Australia: Why the Howard government has remained in office for 10 years
- Transcripts of Guantánamo hearings: a window into Washington’s gulag
- France: National student protest held against government attack on young workers
2006-03-18
- Report on Latin American perspectives
- France: Political issues in the fight against the government’s “First Job Contract”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- For the immediate withdrawal of all US troops
- Sixth week of German public sector strike
- France: Hundreds of youth arrested following anti-government protests
- Germany: 22,000 hospital physicians to strike
- Canadian troops gun down Afghan civilian
- Back to Basics?: The Elementary Particles by Oskar Roehler
- Belarus: imperialist intervention in presidential election
2006-03-20
- Report on Latin American perspectives
- Witchhunt of Sri Lankan newspaper for allegedly breaching “national security”
- Britain: government seeks wide-ranging powers to bypass parliament
- New York to impose fees on poor to cover budget deficit
- Israeli officials threaten to assassinate Palestinian prime minister
- French demonstrators: “What we say is ignored, they don’t give a damn about us”
- Judge rejects government demand for Google search terms
- France: one million protest government offensive against young workers’ conditions
- Europe: antiwar protests draw largest numbers in London and Rome
- Thousands march in antiwar rallies in Australia and Asia
- North American protests mark third anniversary of Iraq war
2006-03-21
- Turkey: public prosecutor accuses general of involvement in terrorist attacks
- Sri Lanka: 300,000 public sector workers strike for higher pay
- Condoleezza Rice visits Australia and Indonesia to tighten US ties against China
- Bush administration refuses to collect penalties for mine safety violations
- Marine recruiters accused of rape: California high school students file suit
- Britain: The “loans for peerages” scandal and the terminal decline of New Labour
- France: Dispute escalates over “First Job Contract”
- Socialist Equality Party announces candidates in New York, Michigan and California
- Artistic and cultural problems in the current situation
- Religion and science: a reply to a right-wing attack on philosopher Daniel Dennett
- Australia: Cyclone Larry leaves thousands homeless and destroys livelihoods
2006-03-22
- Tense confrontation continues between Thai prime minister and protestors
- Britain: Inquiry details inhumane treatment of children in prison
- FBI agent testifies: Bureau resisted Moussaoui investigation before 9/11 attacks
- Polish President Kaczynski visits Berlin
- A comment on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
- France: Police assault leaves protesting worker in coma
- Bush says US troops to remain in Iraq indefinitely
- Australia: Pre-selection brawls demonstrate Labor’s internal rot
2006-03-23
- New York Times details secret US military torture operation
- Democratic rights and the attack on constitutionalism
- On orders from prime minister’s department and police: Australian web site shut down
- Israel announces plans to annex more Palestinian land
- A comment on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
- GM, Delphi, US autoworkers’ union agree to massive job-cutting program
- France: University and high school students continue anti-government protests
- Letters from our readers
- China’s new five-year plan: a mixture of futile hopes and false promises
- Australian Workers Union washes its hands of Boeing workers
2006-03-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- South Asia and the political bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism and Stalinism
- New York Times columnist Frank Rich at the University of Michigan: thin gruel
- Music wins battle over barbarism, if only for a moment
- Iraq’s “National Security Council”: a move toward open dictatorship
- India’s pro-investor plans for urban renewal
- Mass student protests in France: trade unions come to Villepin’s rescue
- The French Popular Front of 1936: Historical lessons in the “First Job Contract” struggle
- Britain: Blair sets out ideological justification for new wars of aggression
2006-03-25
- Appalling conditions continue in China’s toy factories
- Netherlands: Government suffers heavy losses in local election
- Peter Watkins’ Edvard Munch: Diagnosing panic and dread
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- France: Mass movement against “First Job Contract” in danger
- France: May-June 1968 and today
- Labor wins Australian state elections with business backing
- An administration in deepening crisis: Some reflections on the Bush press conference
- Africa and the perspective of international socialism
2006-03-27
- Confused, not thought through: V for Vendetta
- State authorities threaten to impose contract on New York transit workers
- Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
- Union orchestrates end to Ontario college teachers’ strike
- Britain: More evidence suggests July 7 bombings were preventable
- Australia: Howard’s draconian industrial relations laws come into operation today
- More than a million march in Los Angeles, other US cities in defense of immigrant rights
- Germany: Verdi union boss attacks striking doctors
- France: Students and workers prepare mobilisation against government’s “First Job Contract”
- Wagging the dog in Belarus
- Terrible conditions facing workers in Asian ship-breaking yards
- Africa and the perspective of international socialism
2006-03-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Spain: Bomb threats and funding cuts follow theatre show
- Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
- For a European-wide strategy to defend workers’ social gains
- The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
- Iraq: US mosque massacre deepens occupation’s crisis
- US home foreclosures on the rise
- France: Fight vs. “First Job Contract” raises need for new working class leadership
- Australia: Anger mounts over government response to Cyclone Larry
2006-03-29
- The Ukrainian parliamentary elections and the fraud of the “Orange Revolution”
- Thousands of students walk out of schools in Southern California to protest anti-immigration legislation
- Ex-radical stands for Colombo mayor on ticket of Sri Lankan ruling coalition
- Más de un millón marchan en Los Ángeles y otras ciudades de Estados Unidos en defensa de los derechos de los inmigrantes
- Britain: More than one million strike over cuts in pension provision, but unions limit protest
- Three years since the invasion of Iraq: historical lessons and political perspectives
- The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
- As mass demonstrations continue, Republicans split over anti-immigration bill
- France: Millions of workers and students strike against Gaullist government
- Britain: Drug trial leaves volunteers seriously ill
- Australian parliament embraces Blair’s lies and hypocrisy
2006-03-30
- Thousands of students walk out of schools in Southern California to protest anti-immigration legislation
- Local government elections in Sri Lanka heighten political instability
- Miles de estudiantes abandonan sus escuelas en el sur de California para manifestarse en contra de la legislación anti inmigrante
- Puerto Rico sues FBI for stonewalling probe of independentista’s murder
- Narrow victory for Kadima in Israeli elections
- German coalition parties hail state elections as mandate for anti-social “reforms”
- France: Unions appeal to President Chirac to resolve “First Job Contract” crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Beijing’s new moral model: from peasant soldier to middle class consumer
- White House chief of staff steps down
- Political crisis deepens in Brazil: The rise and fall of Palocci
2006-03-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Amnesty International reports 152 taser-related deaths in the US
- US: Plan to drive homeless out of downtown Richmond, Virginia
- Peter Schwarz presents new German edition of Trotsky’s In Defence of Marxism
- Deadlocks continue at Kosovo final status talks
- UN Security Council bows to US pressure for a statement against Iran
- France: “First Job Contract” legislation approved by Constitutional Council
- Theodore Draper—American historian and social critic
- Democrats unveil midterm election platform: a blueprint for endless war
- Britain: Breast cancer patient’s legal challenge highlights rationing of health care
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