Archive: 08/2006
2006-08-01
- Israel escalates Lebanon offensive with US backing
- Turkey: privatised oil-refinery firm slashes 800 jobs
- Bush seeks to extend Guantánamo procedures to American citizens
- Three serious, but unchallenging, films from Eastern Europe
- The Pope and the Catholic Church mobilise against the Spanish government
- Ireland’s unions cement 10-year pay and public spending agreement
- SEP campaign in Illinois proceeds to records examination
- US professor arrested and held in Israel
- SEP candidate for US Senate from New York: “The war in Lebanon is a world historic crime”
2006-08-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fierce fighting escalates in Sri Lanka
- Tel Aviv and the Qana massacre: anatomy of a propaganda campaign
- Blair, Murdoch and the oligarchy
- A letter from Morocco on the Qana massacre
- Over a million march to demand recount in Mexican election
- What way forward in the struggle against war?
- Examination of SEP petitions begins in Illinois
- Letters on the Israeli war against Lebanon
- China’s “overheating” threatens economic instability
- Letters on the Queens and St. Louis blackouts
2006-08-03
- US-Israeli onslaught on Lebanon intensifies
- The Archive Project and Beyond Hatred—two documentaries
- An interview with Olivier Meyrou, director of Beyond Hatred
- 25 years since the PATCO strike: A historical turning point in the class struggle
- Democratic Party leaders rally behind pro-war Senator Lieberman
- SEP surpasses number of valid signatures needed to be placed on Illinois ballot
- Manoeuvres and appeasement: Europe’s response to the US-Israeli war against Lebanon
- German doctors strike raises fundamental political questions
- US steps up provocations against Cuba amid speculation on Castro’s health
2006-08-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- A reply to a reader on the Vaxholm builders’ dispute in Sweden
- Fighting in eastern Sri Lanka spreads to the town of Muttur
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold march and meeting against US-Israeli aggression in Lebanon
- Ballot access specialist, Green Party members speak out against Democrats in Illinois
- Human Rights Watch catalogues Israeli war crimes in Lebanon
- Germany joins US, British, Israeli axis of aggression
2006-08-05
- US minimum wage remains at $5.15 an hour
- Sri Lankan military attacks drive thousands from Muttur
- Sucesos en California: Candidato del PSI se presentará por la radio en español
- US-Israeli war aim is to annihilate Lebanon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iraq faces civil war and sectarian partition
- German government expands political espionage powers
- Congressional Democrats on Iraq: New tactics, more war
- Letters from our readers
- California: SEP candidate to participate in Spanish-language radio program
2006-08-07
- Ukraine: “Orange Revolution” leader Yushchenko accepts coalition with pro-Russian rival
- Sri Lankan government rejects LTTE proposal to end fighting
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) to hold meetings on US-backed Israeli war against Lebanon
- London: Tens of thousands protest against slaughter in Lebanon
- UN resolution on Lebanon: blueprint for intensified war and colonial occupation
- Lebanon and Kosovo: an instructive comparison
- Israel tightens the siege of Gaza
- Canada engaged in colonial intervention in Afghanistan
- Antiwar vigil in Berlin against Israeli aggression
- US air traffic controllers face renewed assault
2006-08-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Turkey: Protests in Istanbul against Israeli aggression
- Sri Lankan businessman dies after being arrested and tortured
- Más de un millón marcha para exigir recuento de votos de las elecciones mexicanas
- Woody Allen’s Scoop: The decline is nothing to gloat about
- Protests in New Zealand against proposed probationary employment bill
- Mexico: Election court rejects Lopez Obrador’s demand for full recount
- Huge protest in Baghdad against US-Israeli war in Lebanon
- Behind Bush’s “truce” plan: the drive towards a wider Middle East war
- Death toll rises as NATO expands operations in Afghanistan
2006-08-09
- Sri Lankan government leaves migrant workers stranded in Lebanon
- Poland: The coming to power of the Kaczynski brothers
- Pro-war Democrat Joseph Lieberman defeated in Connecticut primary
- Israeli war crimes aimed at “cleansing” south Lebanon
- Only 113,000 jobs added in US in July
- Crisis atmosphere builds in Israel
- Illinois Democrats make last-ditch effort to bar SEP candidate from ballot
- German doctors strike: Verdi trade union continues its strike-breaking role
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: Conservative government unconditionally defends Israel’s assault on Lebanon
- SEP California campaign: Elections board declares nearly one half of signatures invalid
- Australian construction workers face huge fines for striking
2006-08-10
- SEP march in Sri Lanka against US-Israel assault on Lebanon
- Rang De Basanti from India: Revolution in the air?
- US Congress moves to sanction domestic spying
- The conflict in Lebanon and the standpoint of the working class
- Lieberman’s defeat and the state of American politics
- Australian government ignores growing social disaster in East Timor
- Buffalo, New York: Law-and-order crackdown masks social decay
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation attacked for “biased” program on Israel’s aggression
2006-08-11
- Antiwar protesters arrested at Scottish airport
- Sri Lankan government intensifies military offensive against LTTE
- Britain’s airline terror plot: Questions that need to be answered
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Australia: Government MPs defy Howard over refugee law
- William Jennings Bryan and the rise and decline of the Progressive Era
- Arab League offers its services to Washington in Lebanon crisis
2006-08-12
- Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center: a crude and dishonest work
- In wake of London arrests: Another attempt to terrorize the American people
- Aid workers murdered execution style in Sri Lanka
- Montreal: Thousands protest Israeli war on Lebanon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- War now, peace later: Israel’s doves line up behind war
- Behind India’s near-total silence on the Israeli assault on Lebanon
- Social inequality in Germany reaches record levels
- SEP campaign in California turns in remaining signatures for ballot status
- Australian government to deploy 150 extra troops to Afghanistan
2006-08-14
- After Heathrow: What accounts for the threat of terrorism?
- War spreads to the north of Sri Lanka
- War now, peace later: Israel’s doves line up behind war
- On eve of Lebanon ceasefire deadline: US, Israel face political debacle
- Thousands march in Germany to protest US-Israeli war against Lebanon
- Sydney marchers denounce US-Israeli violence
- Letters from our readers
- German Socialist Equality Party election meeting in Berlin
2006-08-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The politics of the latest terror scare
- Sri Lankan air force bombing kills scores of students
- Jean-Pierre Melville—a minor but intriguing figure
- Arroyo administration abandons 30,000 Filipinos trapped in Lebanon
- The “European Left” calls on European powers to intervene in Lebanon
- Bush administration seeks changes to War Crimes Act
- Africa: Reports expose fraud of G8 pledges of aid and debt relief
2006-08-16
- The US media and the London terror scare
- Italy prepares to send troops to Lebanon
- Recriminations erupt in Israel in aftermath of Lebanon ceasefire
- Detroit public school workers face new concessions threat
- Letters on the London terror arrests
- The president gives a press conference
- Australia: Howard’s backflips highlight growing government crisis
- African leaders agree to European demands for tough anti-immigration measures
2006-08-17
- Contradictions, anomalies, questions mount in UK terror scare
- Sri Lankan government justifies the massacre of school students
- Fred Breinersdorfer, writer of Sophie Scholl-The Final Days, speaks with the WSWS
- European powers press to intervene in Lebanon
- After defeating pro-war incumbent Lieberman, Lamont reassures Wall Street
- Pentagon orders 300 returned troops back to Iraq
- Bush administration dismantling remaining bans on military relations with Indonesia
- Canada to press ahead with Afghanistan intervention despite mounting casualties
2006-08-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Warnings of a US recession and global slowdown
- On-the-spot report from Sri Lanka’s war-torn Jaffna peninsula
- Northwest Airlines to laid-off workers: rummage through the trash
- Refugees flood back to devastated southern Lebanon
- Indian flood deaths highlight government indifference to recurring social calamity
- German company profits explode
2006-08-19
- An officially induced panic: UK terror scare sparks wave of mini-scares
- Sri Lankan president demands media toes the line on the war
- Rush to judgment in the JonBenet Ramsey case
- US court rules NSA spying program unconstitutional
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- China joins US in freezing North Korean bank accounts
- Election board to rule on ballot status of Illinois SEP candidate
- Günter Grass and the Waffen SS
- European Union ministers use terror scare to justify more anti-democratic measures
2006-08-21
- War in Sri Lanka creates a flood of refugees
- American “democracy” on display in Oregon’s new ballot access law
- An outlaw state: Israel breaks ceasefire, threatens to assassinate Hezbollah leader
- Tensions between Georgia and Russia escalate
- Ford production cuts foreshadow more plant closures, layoffs
- Families of UK soldiers killed in Iraq mount political, legal challenge to Blair government
- Australia: Electoral bill blocks registration of new parties
2006-08-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK terror scare: Airlines threaten legal action against British government
- Sri Lankan government prepares to suppress the struggles of workers
- A new week: US media frenzy over JonBenet murder carries on
- A damning admission: New York Times concealed NSA spying until after 2004 election
- Australian court overturns “terrorist” conviction based on torture
- Is the US planning a coup in Iraq?
2006-08-23
- Britain: Eleven charged in alleged airplane bomb plot
- Despite president’s denials, Sri Lankan military continues offensive war
- US policy threatens war in Horn of Africa
- Honour Bound director Nigel Jamieson speaks with WSWS
- Michael Mann’s Miami Vice: Why this film?
- Tug of war over Lebanon intervention force
- A passionate exposure of the David Hicks case, with one glaring omission
- Recent letters from our readers
- Bush press conference on Iraq: “We’re not leaving so long as I’m the president.”
2006-08-24
- Britain: Labour government proposes punitive welfare reforms
- Wadeye: a case study of the Australian government’s Aboriginal agenda
- SEP submits petitions for US Senate candidate in New York
- Bush authorizes recall of Marine reservists to Iraq
- Japan: Koizumi’s provocative visit to the Yasukuni shrine
- US administration rejects Iran’s offer of “serious negotiations”
- Letters on US politics, history and the media
2006-08-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- John Updike’s Terrorist
- Turkey: Police brutality intensifies along with the political crisis
- WSWS speaks to families of soldiers killed in Sri Lanka’s war
- SEP/WSWS meetings in Australia oppose Israeli-US aggression in Lebanon
- The aftermath of the US-Israeli offensive against Lebanon
- West Bengal Stalinists sign deal with firm tied to ex-Indonesian dictator
- US-installed regime begins second Saddam Hussein show trial
- Run-off ballot in the Congo
- Amnesty International details Israeli war crimes in Lebanon
2006-08-26
- Britain: questions remain over alleged terror plot
- Little Miss Sunshine: High anxiety
- Spain defies European Commission on energy company sell-off
- Bush reaffirms support for Pakistani dictator
- Statements, letters demand ballot status for Illinois SEP candidate
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis demands inclusion in Illinois election debates
- One year since Hurricane Katrina: the rebuilding of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast
- Support the Socialist Equality Party 2006 campaign!
- Detroit teachers need a new political strategy
- The political foundations for the struggle against militarism and war
2006-08-28
- Australia: The torture of Jack Thomas
- Sri Lankan government negotiates with JVP ally on program for all-out war
- Bush administration intervenes to block Northwest flight attendants’ strike
- Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation
- US spy agencies pressed for “intelligence” to justify war against Iran
- Germany: Democratic rights under attack following arrest of alleged bombers
- Detroit teachers strike against concessions
2006-08-29
- Mass protests by Turkish farmers
- FBI arrests in US and Canada signal Washington’s backing for war against LTTE
- Mexico’s election tribunal denies Lopéz Obrador’s challenge to July vote
- One year since Hurricane Katrina: New Orleans left to rot
- Australia: Job insecurity increases, despite falling official unemployment rate
- What the debate in India over the US nuclear pact shows
- Illinois hearing examiner recommends SEP candidate be placed on ballot
- The Gulf Coast one year later: Indices of a social disaster
- Guantánamo prisoner released
- Israel maintains offensive in Gaza and the West Bank
- New threats against Detroit teachers as strike begins
- SEP Senate candidate Bill Van Auken addresses antiwar meeting in New York
2006-08-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia’s first “control order” imposed on Jack Thomas
- Sri Lankan military launches new offensive in strategic Sampur area
- Spain: A decade of economic boom and stagnant wages
- Letter on Katrina disaster relief
- Media frenzy over JonBenet “killer” ends in fiasco
- Egypt: a social and political tinderbox
- Letters from our readers
- One year after Katrina disaster: No accountability for US political elite
- Alarm in Washington over deepening disaster in Afghanistan
2006-08-31
- A timely reminder of America’s Enlightenment origins
- The Threepenny Opera and St. Joan of the Stockyards on stage in Berlin
- Russian shooting of Japanese fisherman heightens tensions over Kuril islands
- US military escalates confrontation with Shiite militia in Iraq
- Illinois SEP candidate issues statement on eve of ballot status ruling
- Europe to send 7,000 troops to Lebanon
- Sellout danger in Detroit teachers strike
- Britain: More indicators of inequality
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