Archive: 07/2006
2006-07-01
- Michigan community college acknowledges SEP right to petition
- Workers’ struggles intensify on eve of Mexican elections
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Another US atrocity in Iraq: Soldiers under investigation for rape and murder
- Australian film festival audience invites Mamdouh Habib to speak about Guantánamo documentary
- Congressional Democrats join with Republicans to maintain military commissions at Guantánamo
- Bernard Kerik’s guilty plea: Corruption case underscores fraud of “homeland security”
- Britain: Union calls off strike action by supermarket workers
2006-07-03
- New York Times, Los Angeles Times respond to government witch-hunt: a cowardly evasion of democratic principles
- Postwar German government and CIA shielded Adolf Eichmann
- Letters protest Democratic Party efforts to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- London art gallery closes M.F. Husain exhibition after paintings vandalised
- Panasonic closes German factory despite hunger strike
- Germany: SEP collects required signatures to stand in Berlin elections
- US-led offensive in southern Afghanistan kills hundreds
2006-07-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Nepalese Maoists agree to abandon armed struggle and join government
- Britain: Plundering of public sector at heart of ‘loans-for-peerages’ scandal
- July 4th 2006: The state of US democracy 230 years after the American Revolution
- Italy: Clear majority rejects Berlusconi’s constitutional reform
- Illinois Democrats file bogus objection in bid to bar SEP from ballot
- Australian government escalates its military involvement in Iraq
- Former US soldier charged in rape and murder of Iraqi girl
2006-07-05
- SEP in New York to open campaign headquarters
- Major powers complicit in Israeli war crimes
- Amid a furore over immigration policy, Dutch government resigns
- Job slashing at Heinz Foods and the role of private equity firms in corporate restructuring
- Greece: Mass demonstrations protest assault on public education
- An exchange of letters on the German “Election Alternative” and “Socialist Alternative” groups
- Letters from our readers
- Thousands of Chinese students riot over bleak job prospects
2006-07-06
- Government crisis continues in Ukraine
- The Hamdan dissents: US Supreme Court justices argue for presidential dictatorship
- New York Times report from Ramadi: evidence of US war crimes in Iraq
- US and Japan seize on missile tests to tighten noose around North Korea
- New Zealand government demands further wage restraint as living standards decline
- Near-tie election deepens Mexico’s crisis
- Indo-US nuclear accord approved by key US Congressional committees
- Stop the Democratic Party’s attack on third-party campaigns! Place SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis on the ballot in Illinois!
- Germany: Ten thousand demonstrate against university fees
2006-07-07
- Slovakia: Social Democrats form a pact with the extreme right
- US: Democrats’ tax deal ends New Jersey government shutdown
- One year on: Lessons of the London bombings
- WSWS readers protest Democrats’ bid to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- Australian government demands new “kangaroo court” for David Hicks
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia continues push for control in East Timor
2006-07-08
- Sri Lankan president postures as a peacemaker
- Poland: Teachers, students demand resignation of education minister
- Plan to attack New York tunnels: Yet another dubious “terror plot”
- More letters protest Democratic Party efforts to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The reoccupation of Gaza: Israel and the Big Lie
- Gyrations of Indian stock market point to future economic instability
- University of Illinois workers protest Democratic Governor Blagojevich
- German intelligence service spies on the Berlin Social Forum
2006-07-10
- Solomon Islands prime minister bows to Australia’s dictates
- Democratic senator defends Iraq war in Connecticut primary debate
- Study of British journalists confirms entrenchment of class privilege
- Five more US soldiers charged in rape-murder atrocity in Iraq
- Letters from our readers
- German SEP candidates protest Democratic Party drive to bar socialist candidate from the ballot in Illinois
2006-07-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Poland: Kaczynski brothers now control two most important political posts
- Socialist Equality Party opens New York Senate campaign office
- US and Japan exploit “missile crisis” to heighten tensions in North East Asia
- SEP Michigan candidate to speak on Iraq war, attacks on democratic rights
- Mexican candidate files challenge in presidential vote
- India: UPA government forced to put disinvestment plans on hold
- SEP Illinois candidate denounces Democrats’ bogus challenge to third party candidates
- Israel rejects Hamas offer of cease-fire and steps up hostilities in Gaza
- Australia: Howard finds the right people for his new “Fair Pay Commission”
2006-07-12
- Michigan auto union officials convicted in extortion scheme
- Terrorist atrocity in Mumbai
- Sri Lankan military personnel questioned over murder of journalist
- Spain: Unions agree to anti-working class labour reforms
- Attorney for SEP candidate calls on Illinois election board to throw out Democrats’ ballot challenge
- New York theatre to present Rachel Corrie play
- SEP candidate exposes Democrats’ election fraud at Chicago press conference
- Australia installs its man in East Timor: Jose Ramos-Horta
- Private firm revealed to be spying on antiwar groups in California
2006-07-13
- LTTE expresses “regret” over killing of Indian prime minister
- Germany: junge Welt defends coalition between social democrats and neo-fascists in Slovakia
- Socialist Equality Party to hold election meetings in southern California and Maine
- Israel launches military assault on Lebanon
- Australia: Prime Minister Howard facing pressure to quit
- G8 summit: Geopolitical trial of strength in St. Petersburg
- SEP Illinois candidate holds press conference on Democrats’ bid to block ballot status
- Hillary Clinton “woos Wall Street” and health industry
2006-07-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Renewed efforts to impeach Philippines president
- Ground invasion of Lebanon looms after Israel bombs Beirut airport, imposes blockade
- Hindu supremacists, media seize on Mumbai atrocity to push India’s government further right
- White House, Congress seek to legalize kangaroo courts, torture
- Chancellor Merkel joins with Bush in backing Israeli aggression
- Australia: Aboriginal town camp residents organise first-ever rally
2006-07-15
- New Zealand: tragic deaths of baby twins used to foment anti-welfare campaign
- Corte Suprema emite dictamen anti inmigratorio
- Judge upholds unprecedented raid on US Congressional office
- Israeli attack on Lebanon threatens to engulf entire Middle East in war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: political posturing and the Democratic Party
- One year since Udo di Fabio published his book The Culture of Freedom
- Hillary Clinton and New York’s gay marriage ruling: a calculated bow to the right
- The “cash for peerages” scandal and the decay of British democracy
2006-07-17
- Voting rights under attack across US
- China builds railway into Tibet
- Not deep enough
- G8 leaders line up behind Israeli aggression in Lebanon and Gaza
- A letter from Jerusalem
- US gives Israel a blank check to wage war
- Letter on US atrocities in Iraq
- More letters protest Democratic Party efforts to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
2006-07-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US pleased with “compromise” resolution on North Korea
- Election crisis in Mexico deepens as one million protestors demand recount
- G8 powers sanction Israeli aggression in Lebanon
- Antiwar protests in Israel
- A portrait of the Illinois State Board of Elections
- Glancing blows: A Scanner Darkly and Strangers with Candy
- G8 ignores mounting problems in world economy
- UK sends more troops to southern Afghanistan as fighting escalates
2006-07-19
- Ten Canoes: a dramatic exploration of ancient Aboriginal culture
- Philippines president orders offensive against Maoist guerrilla army
- Britain: No one to be held accountable for police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Western diplomacy supports Israel’s war of aggression
- Sectarian violence escalates in Iraq
- India indefinitely postpones peace talks with Pakistan
- Official US callousness leaves thousands stranded in Lebanon
- Letters from our readers
- Hillary Clinton celebrates Israeli war crimes
2006-07-20
- Population given no warnings as tsunami hits Java, killing hundreds
- Bush’s veto: Stem cell research and the rise of American theocracy
- Oppose Sri Lankan government’s attack on port workers struggle
- Britain: Damning inquiry into Asian’s death at youth prison
- Mostly a love affair with money and fame
- Campaign to place SEP candidate on ballot in New York wins broad support
- SEP in Michigan files petitions to place US congressional candidate on ballot
- Bush administration pushes privatization of public forests
- Student upheavals expose anti-working class agenda of Chile’s Bachelet
- Canadian government indifferent to Israel’s murder of eight of its citizens
- SEP California campaign holds meetings as petitioning enters final month
- Protests denounce Arab leaders’ complicity in Israeli assault
2006-07-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian imperialism, East Timor and the role of the DSP
- Public meetings oppose Australia’s intervention into East Timor
- American media unquestioningly defends Israeli violence
- The real aims of the US-backed Israeli war against Lebanon
- Israel deepens offensive in Occupied Territories
- Europe’s inability to counter US-Israeli war policy
- Australia: Howard’s industrial relations watchdog legitimises Cowra sackings
- Australian citizens left to face Israeli bombardment
2006-07-22
- Another bogus peace move by Sri Lanka’s president
- Some films about South America: a disappointing collection
- The New York Times and the war in Lebanon: A cynical defense of US-Israeli war crimes
- Doctor and nurses arrested in Katrina-related deaths
- UN Human Rights Commissioner warns of war crimes in Lebanon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel prepares to launch ground war in Lebanon
- How the German media reports on the Israeli aggression in Lebanon
2006-07-24
- Democrats, Republicans line up to back Israeli war crimes
- Rice’s Middle East tour: “Diplomacy” in furtherance of war
- SEP candidate for Oregon legislature to speak at public meeting
- Japanese government withdraws its troops from Iraq
- Protests in Israel and worldwide against war on Lebanon
- Australia: thousands join global protests to condemn Israel’s war on Lebanon
2006-07-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pro-Russian party set to form government in Ukraine
- “The Bush administration is using Sami Al Hajj to fight Al Jazeera”
- Middle East and North African focus
- An attack on democratic rights: New Zealand man jailed for sedition
- Rice begins Mideast tour to promote US-Israeli war aims
- The Queens blackout: the brutal human costs of Con Ed’s drive for profit
- Indian prime minister visits rural Vidarbha
2006-07-26
- Record heat, violent storms beleaguer US cities
- Sri Lankan government abandons thousands of citizens trapped in Lebanon
- Rice leaves bloody footprints in Lebanon
- Socialist Equality Party to hold public meetings in Britain
- WSWS replies to charge of anti-Semitism in coverage of US-Israeli war on Lebanon
- State election authorities to review Democratic Party challenge to SEP petitions in Illinois
- SEP candidate in California turns in signatures in lieu of filing fee
- Bitter recriminations as trade talks collapse
- Letters on the Israeli bombing of Lebanon
- Britain: Charities criticise government indifference to child trafficking
- Power grid fails in face of California heat wave
- German Socialist Equality Party certified to stand candidates in Berlin
2006-07-27
- Ukraine: Constitutional crisis deepens as Orange parties jostle for power
- Alleged Toronto terrorist cell included Canadian Security Intelligence Service mole
- How Australia orchestrated “regime change” in East Timor
- Spain: Life savings at risk over stamp fraud
- Appeasement 2006: Europe capitulates to American-Israeli aggression
- Superman Returns, Pirates II, Clerks II: No ‘fount of impressions and emotions’ at present
- The case of the USS Liberty: anatomy of an Israeli provocation
- Support the Socialist Equality Party 2006 campaign!
- PSG (Partei für Soziale Gleichheit) admitido nas eleições parlamentares em Berlin
- Declassified archives document ties between CIA and Nazis
- Australia: Car unions work with administrator to impose job losses
2006-07-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- How Australia orchestrated “regime change” in East Timor
- Socialismo em um só país ou Revolução Permanente
- Polls indicate growing dissatisfaction with two parties in US
- Israel prepares major escalation of Lebanon aggression
- Growing disquiet in Israel over Lebanon war
- Israel steps up military offensive in Gaza
- Joschka Fischer and German Greens defend Israeli bombing terror in Lebanon
- US: FEMA slashes emergency assistance for future disaster victims
- Letters on a reply to charges of anti-Semitism
- Britain: Mounting criticism of Blair over Lebanon
2006-07-29
- How Australia orchestrated “regime change” in East Timor
- SEP candidate in Michigan to be certified for November ballot
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India increases its censorship of the Internet
- Letters from our readers
- Bush, Blair meet to oppose Lebanon ceasefire and back Israel’s war aims
- Israel, the UN and the assassination of Count Bernadotte
- Atrocities mount as Israel intensifies bombardment of Lebanon
2006-07-31
- Spanish train line reopens before investigation into fatal accident begins
- Sri Lankan military launch major offensive to retake LTTE territory
- The Qana massacre: Slaughter of innocents in Lebanon
- Sri Lankan union leaders betray port workers struggle
- Australia: Melbourne rally opposes US-backed Israeli war
- US media alibis for Qana massacre
- Bush administration deploys thousands more troops in Baghdad
- Germany: Protests demand immediate halt to Israeli war on Lebanon
- France: Thousands demonstrate against war in Lebanon and Gaza
- More letters on a reply to charges of anti-Semitism
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