Archive: 04/2006
2006-04-01
- Despite peace talks, Sri Lanka drifts towards civil war
- British companies draw huge profits from occupied Iraq
- US media reacts to French protests with hatred and fear
- Zaccarias Moussaoui case goes to the jury
- France: LCR’s Besancenot provides left cover for labour bureaucrats’ treachery
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Deadlocks continue at Kosovo final status talks
- Bush administration presses for speedy adoption of Indo-US nuclear accord
- US Supreme Court hearing on Guantánamo tribunals bares attacks on basic rights
- France: President Chirac enacts “First Job Contract” legislation
- US auto supplier Delphi moves to cancel union contracts
2006-04-03
- The way forward for Sri Lankan public sector workers
- Forbes’s billionaires list and the growth of inequality in Russia
- US secretary of state meets angry Iraq war protests in England
- Winslow Homer (1836-1910): Poet of the Sea
- Melbourne’s Commonwealth Games: glitter covering glaring inequality
- France: Crisis deepens over government’s “First Job Contract” legislation
- Letters from our readers
2006-04-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- World Trade Center tapes expose chaos of September 11 response
- A closer Russia-China “strategic partnership” cemented with oil and gas
- Tensions between Australia and Indonesia over asylum for Papuan activists
- US-British diktat makes mockery of “democracy” in Iraq
- SEP candidate in California: Extend full rights to all immigrants!
- CPE à la Merkel: Job protection laws to be gutted in Germany
- France: University and high school students demand general strike
- A socialist strategy for workers’ power: the only answer to France’s “First Job Contract”
2006-04-05
- Thai prime minister steps down in bid to defuse political crisis
- National tensions at EU summit centre on energy demands
- ¡Extender todos los derechos a los inmigrantes!
- Supreme Court shirks Padilla appeal against “enemy combatant” detention
- New Zealand: young workers campaign for better pay and conditions
- SEP candidate in California: Extend full rights to all immigrants!
- German engineering workers stage warning strikes
- France: As millions protest government attacks, unions signal retreat on “First Job Contract”
- Democrats duck Senate hearing on Bush censure motion
- New phone-tapping powers in Australia
2006-04-06
- Australian state government launches new wave of school closures
- Behind the collapse of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution”
- Turkey: Twelve dead and hundreds injured in Kurdish protests
- Air Force colonel publicly rebukes US Supreme Court justice
- Discontent grows against Kurdish nationalist regime in northern Iraq
- French unions hold talks with government in move to end “First Job Contract” strikes
- Europe’s energy crisis sharpens antagonisms with Russia
2006-04-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Wisconsin towns vote for immediate US military withdrawal from Iraq
- Australian man jailed on evidence derived from torture
- Sri Lanka: As 200,000 workers stop work, unions prepare to retreat on pay demand
- Three years after looting of Iraqi National Museum: an official whitewash of US crime
- Parliamentary elections in Italy
- France: Protests lodged with Gaullist government over police provocations
- The resignation of Tom DeLay and the crisis of the US two-party system
2006-04-08
- Local elections in Sri Lanka set stage for further political turmoil
- Britain: Inquiry into death in custody whitewashes racist police brutality
- North Carolina man tells Bush certain simple truths
- Bush approved security leak to smear Iraq war critic
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Anti-immigrant politics kill “reform” bill in US Senate
- Canada: Conservative Throne Speech promotes social reaction and militarism
2006-04-10
- Política anti inmigrante mata proyecto de ley "reformista" en el Senado
- New charges of genocide against Hussein over Kurdish “Anfal” campaign
- Washington considering nuclear strikes against Iran
- Anti-immigrant politics kill “reform” bill in US Senate
- Letters from our readers
- US-China trade tensions escalate
- Western concern at China’s growing involvement in Africa
2006-04-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Daniel Pipes and the unfolding civil war in Iraq
- US-India deal on agricultural research: no benefit for India’s rural poor
- US: Over a million protest against anti-immigrant legislation
- MI5 colluded with CIA extraordinary renditions from Britain
- French government withdraws “First Job Contract,” enlists unions in assault on job security
- The Delphi crisis: Socialism and the American autoworker
- Canada: Security certificates overturn long-standing democratic rights
2006-04-12
- Use of police infiltrators raises fresh questions about “terrorist” raids in Australia
- Australia: Employers rush to use draconian new industrial relations laws
- Widespread protests erupt against Nepal’s King Gyanendra
- France: How Lutte Ouvrière aids unions’ betrayal of struggle vs. Gaullist regime
- Center-left alliance wins Italian election by razor-thin majority
- Spike Lee’s Inside Man: Asking for so little
- France: Protests continue despite government retreat on “First Job Contract”
- CEO pay in US continues its relentless climb in 2005
- German politicians propagate xenophobia in reaction to Berlin school violence
2006-04-13
- Sophie Scholl: The last days in the life of a German anti-fascist
- Australian SEP public meetings discuss third anniversary of Iraq war
- US threats against Iran—the specter of nuclear barbarism
- Inquests find Israeli military guilty of killings of British civilians
- Letters from our readers
- The Iraq war and the eruption of American imperialism
- Desperate African immigrants risk crossing to Canary Islands
2006-04-14
- Mexican workers fired for attending immigrant rights rally in Detroit
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Gerhard Schröder, Gazprom and German foreign policy
- Papuan “crisis” sparks debate over Australian intervention
- Canada bans LTTE under draconian anti-terrorist legislation
- Leak investigation puts spotlight on Bush war lies
- France: Victim of smear campaign, worker injured in anti-CPE protest emerges from coma
- The Iraq war and the eruption of American imperialism
2006-04-15
- Rumsfeld and the generals: Splits, recriminations over Iraq debacle
- The “Lisbon Strategy” and the European trade unions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German Greens, Conservatives draw closer together
- An American oligarch: Former Exxon CEO leaves company with massive payout
- Detroit mayor demands city’s poor foot bill for garbage pick-up
- Substandard conditions for institutionalised children in Sri Lanka
2006-04-17
- Germany: Social Democratic Party loses another chairman
- A closer look at Kierkegaard
- Indian Supreme Court gives green light to sell off Mumbai mill lands
- Behind the Indian press’s adulation of Sonia Gandhi
- The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain—Part 1
- Francie: Milióny lidí protestují proti „První pracovní smlouv&;", odbory nazna&;ují ústup
- Australian television program highlights censorship of climate scientists
2006-04-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fall, but no decline
- Growing unrest in Indonesian Papua
- British government restricts recruitment of non-EU doctors
- New Zealand government extends Afghanistan military operations
- The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain—Part 2
- Substandard conditions for institutionalised children in Sri Lanka
- Lawsuit details AT&T cooperation in illegal government spying on Americans
- A mixture of technical know-how, moral anger, and all-American barbaric yawp
2006-04-19
- Britain: Documentary reveals plan for coup against Wilson Labour government—Part 1
- Sri Lankan peace talks on the verge of collapse
- The very rich in America: “The kind of money you cannot comprehend”
- New York City: random searches for public school students
- Letters from our readers
- Hillary Clinton outlines Democrats’ big business agenda
- “A mixture of technical know-how, moral anger, and all-American barbaric yawp”
2006-04-20
- Britain: Documentary reveals plan for coup against Wilson Labour government—Part 2
- Poor conditions in East Timor spark riot by sacked soldiers
- Tel Aviv suicide bombing: An atrocity that benefits Zionism and imperialism
- SEP candidate John Burton to speak at public meeting in Pasadena, California
- The generals’ revolt and the decay of US democracy
- Training schools for Hitler’s “Thousand-Year Reich”
- The definitive bankruptcy of centrism in Brazil
- Britain unprepared for bird flu threat
2006-04-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian troops dispatched to Solomon Islands to suppress local population
- WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh to speak in San Francisco
- Shiite leader bows to US demands as Iraq slides further into civil war
- More revelations of US profiteering and corruption in Iraq
- US government arrests record numbers in factory raids
- The artist has not done the most difficult work
2006-04-22
- Reprisals against New York transit workers show need for a new political strategy
- Sri Lankan president recruits union leaders to police public sector workers
- British military doctor court martialed for refusing to serve in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- A mea culpa on Iraq by pro-war journalist Johann Hari
- Letters from our readers
- White House shuffle: Bush shifts personnel but continues program of war and reaction
2006-04-24
- French Polynesian president faces deepening crisis over pro-independence comments
- Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party to hold May Day meeting in Colombo
- Peru: Nationalist ex-officer Humala to face APRA’s Garcia in runoff election
- Pension cuts and inequality wiping out retirement for American workers
- Chinese president’s visit underscores Washington-Beijing tensions
- Four months after Sydney’s racial violence: government campaign continues against Middle Eastern youth
2006-04-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Indian Stalinists reaffirm support for UPA government
- Nepalese king bows to mass protests and offers to recall parliament
- Mexico: Armed siege of steel mill reveals escalating class war
- Global growth rates rise, but the foundations are shaky
- US: Students protest juvenile’s death in Florida “boot camp”
2006-04-26
- Union leader jailed for New York City transit strike
- By-elections fail to end Thai political crisis
- Solomon Islands PM quits amid mounting opposition to Australian occupation
- Racial demagogy mars New Orleans mayoral election
- Behind the installation of Jawad al-Maliki as Iraqi prime minister
- Gazprom threat increases tensions in Europe
- A socialist response to the massive rise in fuel prices
- Egypt: Report on ferry disaster condemns official corruption
2006-04-27
- Open warfare erupts in Sri Lanka
- US: Chief Democrat on ethics panel hit by corruption charges
- Jenissa Ryan: the violent death of an Australian aboriginal teenager
- Rumsfeld, Rice fly to Baghdad to back new prime minister
- Letters from our readers
- Bush courts Azerbaijani president as part of build-up against Iran
2006-04-28
- India: government policies lead to terrible toll in rural suicides
- Fox News commentator becomes White House spokesman—a further turn to the right
- Job cuts begin in New Zealand as economy shrinks
- Australia: New evidence of safety concerns as hopes fade for miners trapped underground
- Amnesty International report exposes European complicity in secret US rendition programme
- As support for Bush plummets, no alternative from Democrats
- SEP meeting launches California ballot drive
- Britain: Blair denounces liberal critics for opposing attacks on democratic rights
2006-04-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Survivor of West Virginia mine disaster says respirators failed to work
- Canada: Bloc Québécois props up Conservative government
- Britain: Government faces rising anger over jobs cut in National Health Service
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Lies surround first death of an Australian soldier in Iraq
- France: Government launches assault on immigrants
- A letter on Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
- Hillary Clinton, the Democrats and the Iraq war: A socialist alternative
- Amnesty International documents European complicity in secret US rendition programme
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