Archive: 06/2006
2006-06-01
- Oppose Australia’s neo-colonial occupation of East Timor
- Unemployed youth clash with police in Paris suburbs
- SEP reaches halfway point in Michigan petition campaign
- An exchange with an American worker on “illegal immigrants”
- German Green Party campaigns for Congo mission
- Thousands of Indonesian earthquake victims still waiting for assistance
- CBS journalists wounded, killed in Iraq: Where the responsibility lies
- Amnesty International condemns human rights abuses committed in US-led “war on terror”
2006-06-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Interview with Zoe Strauss, photographer in the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night
- European Union ban on LTTE heightens danger of war in Sri Lanka
- Britain and South Africa accused of ‘rendering’ terror suspects
- Political crisis mounts over FBI raid on Congress
- Bush names Wall Street executive as new treasury secretary
- SEP submits nominating petitions for Maine candidate
- China’s middle-class dream shattered: millions of graduates face unemployment
- George Bush and the Haditha massacre
2006-06-03
- Spain: High-ranking police officers imprisoned for “illegal arrest” of right-wing Popular Party activists
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Families of coal miners killed in Kentucky disaster protest exclusion from hearing
- US job growth falls in May, amid signs of slowing economy
- Another US atrocity in Iraq: Eleven civilians massacred in Ishaqi
- India’s Supreme Court intervenes in caste-reservation controversy
- Australia continues its unrelenting campaign for “regime change” in East Timor
- Letters from our readers
2006-06-05
- US Supreme Court rules against government employees who report misconduct
- Sri Lankan president proposes constitutional plan to end war
- Britain: Man shot in police “terror raid”
- US prison population continues to soar in 2005
- Sex and censorship in America
- New Zealand: CEO pay skyrockets as workers’ living standards fall
- Bush administration reverses US ban on talks with Iran
2006-06-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Informe sobre las perspectivas latinoamericanas
- US Supreme Court refuses to hear ballot access case brought by SEP
- Veteran Japanese director Shohei Imamura dies
- The looting of East Timor’s Serious Crimes Unit
- US Army clears troops in Ishaqi massacre
- Australia, Timor and oil: the record
- Security cuts for New York and Washington underline fraud of war on terror
- US military moves to condone “humiliating and degrading” treatment of prisoners
- France: Amiens meeting discusses lessons of struggle against “New Job Contract”
2006-06-07
- ¿Qué significan las manifestaciones de los inmigrantes para la lucha de clases en Estados Unidos?
- Informe sobre las perspectivas latinoamericanas
- Hunger and malnutrition increase in many parts of the world
- Germany: Public service union functions as agency of the state
- Australian foreign minister unveils plans for the colonial occupation of East Timor
- Australia: Riot squad called to shut down Aboriginal community
- Dixie Chicks stand their ground
- Letters from our readers
2006-06-08
- Senado de Estados Unidos adopta proyecto de ley anti inmigratorio con el respaldo de los Demócratas
- Germany: Socialist Equality Party to run candidates in Berlin state elections
- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the putrefaction of official Israeli politics
- New Zealand joins Australia’s military occupation of East Timor
- Australia: Howard’s reception for the Beaconsfield miners—a cynical charade
- Exploitation of child labourers in India
- “America’s American”dreamer: poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
- Sensational charges, lurid headlines in alleged Toronto terrorist plot
2006-06-09
- The Bush administration and the killing of Zarqawi
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Senate majority backs windfall for the rich through repeal of estate tax
- Sri Lankan court allows limited resettlement of evicted villagers
- Australia: Howard abandons Snowy Hydro sale to save the National Party
- Council of Europe says 14 governments complicit in CIA renditions
- Republicans’ anti-gay marriage amendment: a cynical and reactionary maneuver
2006-06-0j
2006-06-10
2006-06-12
- Australian government steps up campaign to oust East Timor’s prime minister Mari Alkatiri
- Seven Palestinian civilians killed on Gaza beach
- Three prisoners commit suicide in Guantánamo gulag
- Debt and social misery: the flipside of Britain’s financial services boom
- The Bawag affair and the decay of the Austrian trade unions
- Chronic ill-health in Australia’s Aboriginal prison population
2006-06-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tsotsi: Can a baby redeem a hardened thug?
- UN-backed report indicts Indonesia, Australia and US for Timor atrocities
- Britain: Lessons of the Forest Gate anti-terror raid
- Oslo talks between Sri Lankan government and LTTE collapse
- Poland: Health care crisis provokes strikes and protests
- Incriminating documents looted in East Timor
- Letters on alleged terrorist plot in Canada
- Canada’s corporate media incites public panic over alleged terror plot
2006-06-14
- Unanswered questions in the killing of Zarqawi
- SLMM report exposes Sri Lankan military’s complicity in violence and murder
- Danger of major volcanic eruption after Indonesian earthquake
- The social movements in France: Political lessons from the last 10 years
- Letters from our readers
- California gubernatorial primary reflects alienation from US two-party system
- Bush in Baghdad
- Canary Islands boat people: European Union creates new border patrol
2006-06-15
- US auto union signals its capitulation on wages, benefits and jobs
- Escalating violence in eastern Sri Lanka
- Britain: Did police shoot to kill in Forest Gate anti-terror raid?
- Japan plans aggressive global energy strategy
- Israeli air strike kills ten
- The Guantánamo suicides and their impact on American political life
- The social movements in France: Political lessons from the last 10 years
2006-06-16
- Australia: Workers’ conditions slashed under new industrial relations reforms
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Communist Party Congress in Vietnam pledges more pro-market measures
- The Toronto terror plot and the Canadian establishment’s political agenda
- SEP (US) launches election web site
- Populist demagogy and immigrant-bashing in the US: The case of Lou Dobbs
- SEP campaign in Illinois reaches minimum signature requirement
- Berlin youth goes on a rampage—a symptom of a society in decline
2006-06-17
- Bomb blast kills 64 villagers and catapults Sri Lanka toward war
- The film version of A Prairie Home Companion: Less than might have been hoped for
- Global market slide may have further to go
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- A grim milestone in the Iraq war: 2,500th US military death
- Letters from our readers
- How Blair’s government fleeces British workers on behalf of business
2006-06-19
- Fighting continues to escalate in Sri Lanka
- Amnesty report criticises Spain over human rights
- Modernist architect Harry Seidler dies in Australia
- Police threaten Socialist Equality Party petitioners in Illinois
- Czech Greens enter right-wing government
- Letters from our readers
- Widespread unrest erupts among textile workers in Bangladesh
2006-06-1j
2006-06-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Week one of the World Cup
- The US Supreme Court’s “no-knock” decision: a frontal assault on democratic rights
- Modernist architect Harry Seidler dies in Australia
- American democracy in decay: US Congress debates the Iraq war
- Champaign, Illinois officials uphold unconstitutional ban on SEP petitioners
- Australian government presses ahead with plans to dominate East Timor
2006-06-21
- Lawyers for accused in Toronto terror plot charge authorities with abuse
- A dangerous precedent: Australian man convicted of “preparing terrorism”
- Indian prime minister ignores opposition to Narmada dam extension
- Washington escalates slaughter in Iraq
- The truth about East Timor: Why Australia’s intervention should be opposed
- Pentagon report targets China as a military threat
- Campaigners win broad support to place SEP candidate on ballot in California
- Belgium: Racist murderer linked to Flemish nationalists
2006-06-22
- Australian government retains detention powers
- Europe’s leaders close ranks with Bush
- Under the guise of peace, Sri Lankan government accelerates drive to civil war
- Britain: Book alleges US sent MI5 detailed file on London bomber Khan
- More letters protest harassment of SEP petitioners in Illinois
- Prosecutor demands death penalty in Hussein show trial
2006-06-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- A reply to the mayor of Urbana, Illinois, on the harassment of SEP petitioners
- Shanghai summit: China and Russia strengthen bloc to counter the US in Asia
- US Senate backs indefinite occupation of Iraq
- The International Socialist Organization and the 2006 election
- Fiji’s economic conscripts: tragic victims of the war in Iraq
- Letters from our readers
2006-06-24
- The killing of US soldiers in Yusufiya: who’s responsible?
- Bush administration compiling massive database of bank records
- Miami “terror” arrests—a government provocation
- Global markets stabilise but risks increase
- Britain: Threat of national postal strike
- Protests mount against harassment of SEP petitioners in Illinois
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2006-06-26
- US Supreme Court issues anti-immigrant ruling
- España: Funcionarios de policía de alto rango son enviados a prisión por "arresto ilegal" de militantes del derechista Partido Popular
- Intercambio entre un trabajador estadounidense y el WSWS acerca de los "inmigrantes ilegales"
- Propaganda in the guise of a novel
- Pentagon report on China highlights danger of nuclear war
- SEP to file petitions to place Joe Parnarauskis on the ballot in Illinois
- French Socialist Party publishes right-wing election programme
- Powerful truths, limited aims: No Child by the Epic Theater Center in New York
2006-06-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sweden: Lessons of the Vaxholm builders’ dispute
- A question and answer on Australia’s trade union rallies
- Australian-led campaign pressures East Timorese prime minister to resign
- Letters from our readers
- The philanthropy of Warren Buffett
- Australia: Kim Beazley, the trade unions and Howard’s WorkChoices legislation
2006-06-28
- Bush, Cheney threaten New York Times over exposure of surveillance programs
- Killing of Sri Lankan general: another sign of civil war
- Australian government outlines pro-market agenda for its Pacific sphere of influence
- The Miami indictments: Manufacturing “terror” as a means of intimidation
- SEP candidate in Illinois holds press conference to announce petition filing for November ballot
- Israel launches military onslaught on Gaza
- Illinois Democrats prepare challenge against petitions to place SEP candidate on ballot
- Britain: Former home secretary Charles Clarke questions Blair’s survival
- Support the Socialist Equality Party campaign for the Berlin Senate
2006-06-29
- 47,600 GM and Delphi workers accept buyouts and early retirement
- US Supreme court issues more anti-democratic rulings
- Mercados mundiales se reestabilizan pero persisten los riesgos
- Pakistan’s US-backed dictator to stage bogus presidential election
- North Korean “missile crisis”—another example of unbridled US militarism
- WSWS interviews Australian workers about IR laws, the Labor party and the unions
- The political calculations behind Israel’s assault on Gaza
- An interview with James Longley, the director of Iraq in Fragments
- “Left” publications in Germany defend strike-breaking by Verdi union leaders
- Tens of thousands march against Australian IR laws
- Connecticut AFL-CIO endorses war hawk Joseph Lieberman for Democratic primary
2006-06-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Supreme Court rules against Bush administration’s military commissions
- Sri Lankan military directly implicated in two atrocities
- Israeli assault on Gaza threatens wider Middle East conflagration
- Democratic operatives aim to bar SEP from Illinois ballot
- Anti-flag-burning amendment to US Constitution fails by a single vote
- The Dardenne brothers’ L’Enfant: an argument for a far more critical appraisal
- Letters on Warren Buffett’s philanthropy
- Bankers’ bank puzzles over state of world economy
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