Archive: 05/2006
2006-05-01
- Volkswagen autos to implement drastic savings program
- Socialist Equality Party rejects Sri Lankan government appeal to call off May Day rallies
- Washington warns no relief from soaring gas prices
- Rent hikes to hit New York public housing tenants
- New fossils illuminate the evolution of land vertebrates from fish
- Over 100,000 march in New York against Iraq war
- Hospital blast in China kills at least 33
- France backs Chad regime against coup attempt
- Join the fight to place Socialist Equality Party on the ballot in Michigan
2006-05-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Energy policies bringing Spain into conflict with European Commission
- Three years since Bush’s “Mission Accomplished”: Torture, corruption, growing resistance in Iraq
- US: Millions of immigrant workers join May 1st “boycott”
- WSWS arts editor David Walsh discusses art and the present political situation
- US dollar fall raises questions on global stability
- France: CGT union federation moves further to the right
- Life and work in a UK care home
2006-05-03
- Police gun down demonstrators in East Timor
- Indian Stalinists take leading role in New Delhi’s efforts to contain Nepal crisis
- Washington renews demand for cuts to Social Security, Medicare
- Medical emergency: Facilities and care in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
- Tensions between Japan and South Korea heighten over island dispute
- How the French government treats older workers from the colonies
- Hungarian elections: Victory for a “socialist” millionaire
2006-05-04
- Germany: Students protest implementation of tuition fees
- Sri Lankan SEP rejects government appeal and holds May Day meeting
- Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
- The implications of the immigrant demonstrations for the class struggle in America
- Australian police harass former Guantánamo prisoner
- Britain: Leading Labourites play the race card
- Elderly people die alone and unnoticed in Australia
2006-05-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Germany: “Election Alternative” defends policies of Berlin state government
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, novelist of the colonial oppressed, dead at 81
- US government continues to escalate domestic spying
- Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
- The Moussaoui verdict deals blow to Bush administration’s 9/11 coverup
- Australia’s low jobless rate cloaks growing hardship
- Egypt: Mubarak extends repressive Emergency Law
- Bush, US media respond to Stephen Colbert’s comic assault: “We are not amused”
- Canada: Conservative budget launches new assault on public and social services
- Morales’s nationalization in Bolivia: Who got stabbed?
2006-05-06
- Germany: Election Alternative, the Socialist Alternative Group and Trotskyism
- The “unwritten rules” of Raytheon’s William Swanson
- Sri Lanka: Behind talk of peace, threat of full-scale war looms
- New Solomon Islands PM tries to placate discontent with Australian occupation
- Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italy: Bertinotti voted speaker in the Italian parliament
- Cheney lectures Russia on “democracy”
- Tony Blair reshuffles Cabinet after Labour’s local election debacle
2006-05-08
- Sri Lanka: Two killed in attack on Tamil newspaper office
- New Nepalese government seeks to defuse mass protest movement
- Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
- Germany’s Merkel sides with Bush against Iran
- US: Legal challenges to lethal injection as “cruel and unusual”
- An uncensored look at America’s young soldiers in Iraq
- Letters from our readers
- Sudden resignation of CIA Director Goss: Another tremor in Bush administration
- West Bengal state elections: Left Front lurches further right
- Belgium: Teenager’s murder exploited for right-wing agenda
2006-05-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany: Union officials back Volkswagen boss
- Puerto Rico government-school shutdown enters second week
- Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
- Australia: Jubilation greets the rescue of trapped Beaconsfield miners
- Britain: the political issues behind Labour’s factional warfare
- Some insights into American life as it is: Doctorow’s Sweet Land Stories
- Letters on “Hegel, Marx, Engels and the Origins of Marxism”
- US Democrat Biden advocates the communal break-up of Iraq
- Asian growth rates rise but employment problems deepen
2006-05-10
- West Virginia hearing continues cover-up of Sago Mine disaster
- Rupert Murdoch backs Hillary Clinton: by their friends you shall know them
- Relative of Sago miner, rescuer denounce whitewash
- Fijian elections could ignite social and political tinderbox
- Letters on Steven Colbert, the Bush administration, and the US media
- Chinese leader’s trip to Saudi Arabia and Africa highlights growing resource rivalry
- Cheney’s speech will deepen divisions in Europe over energy
- Thousands of jobs axed at British car plants
- Australian budget: a blatant appeal to the rich
2006-05-11
- A barometer of the American cultural zeitgeist: the Whitney Biennial 2006
- Australian occupation creates a “time-bomb” in Solomon Islands
- Democratic Congressman backs continuing military occupation of Iraq at California meeting
- Another unexplained death of a Sri Lankan worker in Saudi Arabia
- Whirlpool layoffs latest in US corporate assault on jobs and wages
- As Bush’s popularity sinks to new lows—a boost from Hillary Clinton
- Indian government connives with BJP in Gujarat following anti-Muslim provocation
- Columnist Richard Cohen denounces his critics
- Australian Wheat Board inquiry underscores real motivations behind Iraq war
2006-05-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- United 93: Everything but how and why it happened
- UN hearings probe Washington’s systematic use of torture at home and abroad
- Poland: Right-wing extremists officially join government
- US government phone spying targets all Americans
- Israel: Labour Party backs Kadima’s austerity budget
- India: Maharashtra cotton farmers face destitution
- Helicopter downing in Basra underscores hostility to British occupation
2006-05-13
- US Congress passes more tax cuts for the rich
- Major naval battle: Sri Lanka plunges toward open civil war
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2006—Part 1
- US media, Democrats deflect opposition to government spying on Americans
- Britain: More official lies and evasions on London bombings
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German government fleeces low and average wage earners
- Fiji: government and union assist Emperor Gold Mine to slash jobs
- NATO troops deploy to suppress growing resistance in Afghanistan
2006-05-15
- The plight of widows in India
- New Zealand government reinforces Solomons intervention
- Socialist Equality Party to contest state elections in Illinois, Maine, Oregon and Washington
- Britain: Sunday Times “Rich List” celebrates unprecedented wealth accumulation
- NSA phone spying program: a blueprint for mass repression
- Deepa Mehta speaks with WSWS
2006-05-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Gunboat diplomacy: Australian warships deploy to East Timor
- US administration slams door on negotiations with Iran
- Indian state election results: a distorted expression of popular opposition to neo-liberal reform
- Bush’s immigration speech—an appeal to militarism and reaction
- A history lesson from Britain fails to shed much light
- US and Israel continue drive to overthrow Hamas-led government
- German hospital physicians expand strike
- France: Thousands march in Paris against immigration bill
- More letters on Stephen Colbert and the American media
2006-05-17
- Escalating killing of civilians and army harassment in northern Sri Lanka
- John Negroponte and the Latin Americanization of US politics
- Australia: More damning facts about fatal Beaconsfield gold mine incident
- Germany: The murder of Hatun Sürücü and the debate over “honour killings”
- A letter on John Edwards, the Democratic Party and American imperialism
- Britain’s Compass group: Former Blair acolytes seek to rescue New Labour
- The Clearstream affair: French right wing in crisis
- FBI tracking reporters’ phone calls in CIA leak investigation
2006-05-18
- Solomon Islanders hostile to Australian “bullying”
- Pipeline explosion highlights legacy of imperialism in Nigeria
- US offers closer defence links with New Zealand
- US: Pentagon prepares for “use of force” on Mexican border
- Massive bad debt highlights China’s financial instability
- Brazil: The social contradictions underlying the violent eruption in Sao Paulo
2006-05-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Britain: Vauxhall axes 900 car jobs
- Sri Lankan Central Bank attempts to cover up deepening economic contradictions
- Creditable works
- SEP candidate Bill Van Auken to speak at NYC meeting Saturday
- Reports expose myth of upward social mobility in US
- A turbulent week on global financial markets
- Slaughter and ethnic cleansing accelerates in Iraq
- Senate hearing on CIA nominee: Democrats rubberstamp Bush police-state spying
- German secret service spies on journalists, employs Stasi methods
- A letter and reply on Britain’s “New Labour” Party
- Canada dramatically escalates its military intervention in Afghanistan
2006-05-20
- Cuts to NASA budget gut space research
- Reports expose myth of upward social mobility in US
- The Australian media and the Beaconsfield mine rescue
- US Marines killed Iraqi civilians “in cold blood”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Prodi government takes power in Italy: a right-wing regime with a left fig leaf
- Guantánamo prisoners clash with guards after new rash of suicide attempts
- US Senate declares English the “national language”: a boost to chauvinism and racism
2006-05-22
- Munich: El poder humanizador del arte
- John Negroponte y la latinoamericanización de la política de Estados Unidos
- Political exposures and more ... or less
- Putin’s speech to the nation: Tensions increase between the US and Russia
- Five miners killed in Kentucky explosion
- Kosovo “final status” talks break up without agreement
- Bush administration defends US military aid to Egypt
- Britain: Blair pledges to override Human Rights Act
- Official response to Aboriginal child sexual abuse in Australia: more law and order
2006-05-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Supporters of SEP campaign meet in Michigan
- Democrats’ liberal icon justifies wage cuts for workers, bonuses for CEOs
- New School University students protest commencement speech by John McCain
- Australian government moves to abolish Aboriginal “land rights”
- Cost-cutting and poor planning behind New Orleans levee failures
- Unanswered questions remain about the killing of Sri Lankan foreign minister
- European governments cover up illegal CIA abductions
- Why Canada’s Conservative government chose to celebrate Australia’s John Howard
- English council elections: “Fascist threat” exaggerated to channel support back behind Labour
2006-05-24
- World’s largest steelmaker in $33 billion takeover bid for the second largest
- Lack of oxygen supplies killed three in Kentucky mine disaster
- Fractured new Iraqi regime: a prelude to deepening sectarian violence
- Germany: Election Alternative leaders purge regional executives and withdraw candidates
- FBI stages unprecedented raid on congressman’s office
- Britain’s “Euston Manifesto”: Ex-liberals for imperialism and war
- Letters from our readers
- IMF cuts off credit to Bolivia
2006-05-25
- Australian troops deployed to occupy East Timor
- Sri Lankan government drafts new Patriotic Act in preparation for war
- El marxismo, el arte y el debate soviético sobre la "cultura proletaria"
- Israel: Bush endorses Olmert’s West Bank land grab
- Machinists union reaches tentative agreement with Northwest Airlines
- India’s toilers should reject framework of reservation debate
- Democrats ensure confirmation of NSA spy chief to head CIA
- German cabinet agrees on military operation in the Congo
- The Da Vinci Code, novel and film, and ‘countercultural’ myth
- US military massacres 80 villagers in Afghanistan
- How right-wing ideologues stand reality on its head
2006-05-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- El marxismo, el arte y el debate soviético sobre la 'cultura proletaria'
- Other European and Asian films
- Constitutional crisis over FBI raid on US congressman
- Two more US coal miners killed in Kentucky and West Virginia
- Germany: Christian Democrats and Greens form coalition government in Frankfurt
- Fiji’s election results in unstable coalition government
- Australia: Inquiry into Beaconsfield mine tragedy already smells of cover up
2006-05-27
- Australian military occupation of East Timor proceeds “full steam ahead”
- El marxismo, el arte y el debate soviético sobre la "cultura proletaria"
- Montenegro: Independence vote completes dismemberment of Yugoslavia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Senate passes Democratic-backed version of anti-immigrant legislation
- Canadian Prime Minister Harper attempts to muzzle the press
- Blair joins Bush to defend Iraq occupation and back preemptive action vs. Iran
2006-05-29
- Scottish Socialist Party leader jailed
- Local election results in Sri Lanka reflect widespread fears of war
- El marxismo, el arte y el debate soviético sobre la "cultura proletaria"
- Earthquake kills more than 5,100 on Indonesian island of Java
- US Marines to stand trial for massacre of Iraqi civilians in Haditha
- Lopsided vote in US Senate to confirm NSA spy chief to head CIA
- The Enron verdicts: corruption and American capitalism
2006-05-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Why Australia wants “regime change” in East Timor
- Sri Lankan filmmaker Asoka Handagama speaks with the WSWS
- Sri Lankan government bans local film Aksharaya (Letter of Fire)
- Letters from our readers
- Canada-US softwood lumber pact paves way for greater co-operation between Harper and Bush
- South Africa: Factional war intensifies between Mbeki and Zuma supporters in ANC
2006-05-31
- Cindy Sheehan condemns Australian prime minister as an “illegal combatant”
- Solomon Islands: Australia’s neo-colonial “model” for East Timor?
- Québec Solidaire: a new mechanism for tying workers to the Parti Québécois
- Germany: Deportations increase as asylum applications plummet
- Football World Cup 2006—a multibillion-euro business
- SEP candidate responds on Iraq war stance of California Democrat Adam Schiff
- Mass rioting reveals depth of Afghan opposition to US occupation
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