Archive: 10/2006
2006-10--1
2006-10-02
- Australian charities boycott “welfare to work” measures
- The political lessons of the split in the Scottish Socialist Party—Part 1
- Canberra’s dirty tricks ahead of Solomon Islands no-confidence vote
- Quebec indépendantistes maintain Conservatives in office
- The National Intelligence Estimate—a phony debate between two pro-war parties
- US: Millions of Medicare beneficiaries to be left without drug coverage
- Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lankan filmmaker, speaks with WSWS
- Hewlett-Packard spying scandal sheds new light on US corporate “ethics”
2006-10-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Human rights groups condemn US law on military commissions
- Thailand’s military junta tightens its hold on power
- Our tumultuous times
- The political lessons of the split in the Scottish Socialist Party-Part 2
- Sri Lankan war refugees live in appalling conditions in southern India
- SEP demands right to participate in debates for US Senate candidates in New York
- WSWS holds public meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
- The New Zealand Labour government and the “war on terror”
- Canada: RCMP chief “accepts” Arar commission findings, the better to reject them
2006-10-04
- Why Hillary Clinton voted for the anti-immigrant wall
- Causes and consequences of the “war on terror”
- Campaign against Muslims in Germany generates Mozart opera controversy
- Britain: Observer claims threats by Washington prompted Heathrow terror raids
- The Foley affair: A snapshot of the depraved state of American politics
- China sends more troops to Lebanon
- The multi-billion dollar demise of hedge fund Amaranth
2006-10-05
- History of an early American uprising
- Despite talk of peace, Sri Lankan military continues offensive
- Causes and consequences of the “war on terror”
- Granholm, De Vos trade right-wing nostrums: No choice for working people in Michigan governors’ race
- Will a coup in Iraq follow the US elections?
- Hungary: Rightist parties seek to topple government following election
- Letters from our readers
- Por qué Hillary Clinton votó a favor de muralla anti-inmigrantes
- Maher Arar’s ordeal, the Harper government and the assault on democratic rights
2006-10-06
- Illinois SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis addresses retired state workers at candidates’ debate
- Sale of New York City housing complex highlights social polarization
- Causes and consequences of the “war on terror”
- Montreal bridge collapse: A case of criminal neglect
- Washington threatens North Korea over announced nuclear test
- No US-Mexico border fence! Defend immigrants’ rights! Unite North American workers!
- US casualties soar as military intensifies violence in Baghdad
- Behind Georgia’s spy scandal: Growing conflicts between Russia and the US
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
2006-10-07
- Parents of soldier who refused deployment to Iraq speak in California
- Britain: Jack Straw’s anti-Muslim provocation
- John Lennon vs. his celebrators
- More letters demanding Sri Lankan authorities investigate murder of SEP supporter
- Condoleezza Rice evades charges over 9/11
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Michigan SEP candidate exposes Democrats’ complicity with Bush
- Italy: Prodi government submits austerity budget
- The death of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin and the promotion of an Australian mythology
2006-10-09
- Where death threatens to be more real than life
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court overrules appeals to international human rights body
- Australian attorney-general insists sleep deprivation is not torture
- Australian government demands hand-over of Solomon Islands’ attorney-general
- US Marine reports widespread prisoner abuse at Guantánamo
- Home foreclosures soar in US
2006-10-10
- Australian coroner: Police killed Aboriginal prisoner on Palm Island
- Bush administration leads chorus of denunciations against North Korea’s nuclear test
- Toxic mud spill continues to inundate Indonesian villages
- UK opposes release of British detainees at Guantánamo
- Workers strike Goodyear tire plants in US and Canada
- France: Immigrant squatters pressured into accepting dispersal
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Austria: Massive losses for the governing People’s Party
- Anti-Putin journalist murdered in Moscow
2006-10-11
- Sri Lankan defence authorities impose unofficial censorship
- Germany: Insolvency of former Siemens division threatens 3,000 jobs
- Provocative US attack on Shiite militia in Iraq
- A patchwork, but no bigger picture
- SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis addresses University of Illinois forum
- Canada and the supposed struggle for democracy in Afghanistan
- Australian Wheat Board “oil for food” inquiry ends with threats of terrorism charges
2006-10-12
- Solomon Islands’ government survives no-confidence vote
- White House aide resigns in influence-peddling scandal
- Play on Lorca staged in Madrid in face of right-wing protests
- US lecture series by David North: “War, Social Inequality and the Crisis of American Democracy”
- Behind the UN debate on North Korea: growing Great Power rivalry
- Kashmir earthquake survivors face another freezing winter without adequate shelter
- New study says US war has killed 655,000 Iraqis
- House repossessions soar amid record debt levels in Australia
- Report documents the disastrous plight of Canada’s welfare recipients
2006-10-13
- Australian state government speeds up dismissal procedures for teachers
- Sri Lankan military offensive on the Jaffna peninsula pushed back
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- North Korean nuclear test poses dilemmas for China
- Why is the American press silent on the report of 655,000 Iraqi deaths?
- Hillary Clinton’s immigration policy and the death of Daniel Basilio
- Spain: Government seeks European clampdown on Canary Islands boat people
- Austria: Massive losses for the governing People’s Party
2006-10-14
- Thailand’s military junta installs its cabinet
- Britain’s liberal media lines up behind government’s anti-Muslim offensive
- Solomon Islands PM condemns Australian “re-colonisation”
- Electricity rate increase: a calculated assault on working class living standards
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mounting social crisis in Kurdish Iraq
- Michigan SEP candidate calls for emergency action to halt home foreclosures
- Behind the Foley scandal: A bitter struggle within the US ruling elite
- Head of British Army calls for Iraq withdrawal
- SPD and Left Party-PDS seek to continue Berlin coalition
2006-10-16
- Call for Amnesty International to demand inquiry into murder of Sri Lankan SEP supporter
- NATO warns Pakistan’s Musharraf to end covert support for Taliban
- Britain: Court finds ITN journalist Terry Lloyd murdered by US forces
- US pushes through UN resolution against North Korea
- Why is the New York Times silent on massive Iraq death toll?
- Forbes publishes list of 400 richest Americans
- Letters from our readers
- Australian government steps up threats against PNG, Solomon Islands
2006-10-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Marbella construction scandal exposes endemic criminality of Spanish capitalism
- Escalating political murders in the Philippines
- NLRB ruling could deprive millions of US workers of bargaining rights
- The US Supreme Court minority in Hamdan: executive rule in the “state of exception”
- Michigan budget crisis looms over gubernatorial election
- Mexico: Government ultimatum against striking teachers
- The Iraq Study Group: a bipartisan conspiracy against the American and Iraqi people
2006-10-18
- For an immediate end to the Iraq occupation, bring the troops home now!
- Junta militar assume o governo na Tailândia
- Lynne Stewart sentenced to 28 months in prison in New York City “terror” case
- A sign of crisis: two major Sri Lankan parties to form a grand coalition
- Anti-Islam campaign in France: the background to the Redeker affair
- Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director of The Battle of Algiers, dead at 86
- Citing torture, lawyers for Jose Padilla argue case should be dismissed
- The US Supreme Court minority in Hamdan: executive rule in the “state of exception”
- Abe’s visit to Beijing: a tentative rapprochement with China
- French National Assembly makes denial of the Armenian genocide a punishable offence
- Bush signs Military Commissions Act authorizing police-state tribunals, torture
2006-10-19
- Alleged Toronto terror plot included two police agents
- Military conflict escalates in Sri Lanka after two major LTTE attacks
- Five years since Australia’s SIEV X tragedy: the official cover-up continues
- A fresh look at Mozart—Part 1
- The US Supreme Court minority in Hamdan: executive rule in the “state of exception”
- Vote “No” on Michigan Ballot Proposition 2!
- Britain: legislation on equality for gays blocked
- Putin and the murder of Anna Politkovskaya
- US military and Iraqi deaths soar amidst preparations for major offensive
- SEP campaign reaches students in New York
2006-10-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Turkey: A new military intervention in the making
- WSWS interviews: Sri Lankan soldiers oppose return to war
- A devastating indictment of the former SPD-Green government
- A fresh look at Mozart—Part 2
- Letters from our readers
- SEP candidate in California speaks at public forums
- Blair joins the attack on Britain’s Muslims
- NATO continues slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan
2006-10-21
- What we see and what we do not yet see
- Britain: Thames Water sell-off means higher prices and job losses
- A socialist program to end the war in Sri Lanka
- Australian police raid office of Solomon Islands PM
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New York Times editor touts role of establishment press in “war on terror”
- India’s prime minister pledges to accelerate neo-liberal ”reform”
- Statement of German SEP: Fight against job and welfare cuts requires an international socialist perspective
- India’s Congress Party revives discredited “Garibi Hatao” slogan
- SEP candidate for US Senate wins support at Buffalo New York forum for disabled
2006-10-23
- The case of Curt Weldon: Republican congressman targeted after criticizing 9/11 cover-up
- Not everything, but certainly something
- Australian athlete supported American civil rights struggle
- SEP candidate in Michigan addresses public forums
- North Korean nuclear test opens up political divisions in South Korea
- Demands for Iraq “course change” grow louder in Washington
- Strike by US and Canadian Goodyear workers in third week
- Belgium: Losses for ruling coalition as far right make gains
2006-10-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Brother of Pat Tillman denounces Iraq War and Bush administration
- Sri Lanka’s state-owned television censors drama series
- Canberra presses its agenda at Pacific Islands Forum
- Toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast
- Israel used chemical weapons in Lebanon and Gaza
- New York Times “military analysis” foreshadows US bloodbath in Baghdad
- Germany: Mass demonstrations against social and welfare cuts
- Australian Education Minister declares SIEV X history resource is “political propaganda”
- SEP candidate for US Senate from New York interviewed on ABC TV in Rochester
2006-10-25
- Rice returns empty-handed from North East Asia
- New York’s Clinton-Spencer debates—a reactionary charade
- Baghdad press conference outlines plans for intensified US war
- Hungary 1956: A revolution against Stalinism
- The Ground Truth: the cruel fate of Iraq war veterans
- Germany: Court ruling on Berlin budget deepens social divisions
- Australian Labor leader spells out pro-business agenda
- Former British home secretary admits calling for bombing of Al-Jazeera
2006-10-26
- Sri Lankan police forced to begin inquiry into murder of SEP supporter
- Spain: new capitulation by the Socialist Party to the Catholic Church
- Declaração do SEP alemão: luta contra cortes de empregos e de benefícios exige perspectiva socialista internacional
- Soldados norte-americanos e de civis iraquianos continuam morrendo
- Australian government gets its way at Pacific leaders’ summit
- Active-duty US troops voice opposition to the Iraq war
- New York Times calls for more troops in Iraq
- Illinois SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis participates in debates
- Hungary 1956: A revolution against Stalinism
- Australian government revives book banning
2006-10-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- The passive voice
- Freedom of speech under continuing attack in Turkey
- Germany: Siemens-BenQ and the role of the unions
- Australia’s new sedition laws and the case of Brian Cooper
- India’s policy on Special Economic Zones under fire
- Grisly photos expose real nature of Germany’s “peace mission” in Afghanistan
- Protests demand Canadian troops out of Afghanistan
- Deepening crisis of US occupation regime in Iraq
2006-10-28
- Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney champion torture on eve of election
- Public meeting to be held in Paris
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Hungary: The controversy over the heritage of the 1956 Revolution
- Rifondazione Comunista mobilizes for Italy’s military intervention in Lebanon
- Letters from our readers
- Revealing what?
2006-10-30
- Spanish protests demand affordable housing
- Russia moves toward military conflict with Georgia
- Australia: Management ignored danger warnings at Beaconsfield gold mine
- Michigan SEP candidate addresses high school, college students
- Protests demand immediate withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan
- “Our campaign offers the only alternative to the profit system”
2006-10-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan peace talks collapse amid intensifying civil war
- Tense takeover battle for Spain’s Endesa energy company
- Mexican government launches bloody assault on Oaxaca protesters
- Prime Minister Maliki vents grievances against Washington
- Mill closures devastate Canada’s forest industry
- The bitter price of militarism: US casualties mount in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Mass abstention in Bulgaria’s presidential election
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