Archive: 11/2006
2006-11-01
- Australia: a socialist alternative in the Victorian state election
- Missile strike on Pakistani Islamic school slaughters 80
- NATO summit in Riga: Sharp conflicts over Afghanistan
- London: Students protest huge hike in tuition fees
- Zionists seek to silence critics of US policy toward Israel
- Bush-Maliki summit: White House rejects any withdrawal from Iraq
- Two sedition prosecutions for criticising the Indonesian government
- Election campaign reveals Democrats’ lurch to the right
- Letters from our readers
- NATO forces carry out massacre of Afghan civilians
2006-11-02
- Political documentaries
- Australian media seizes upon Muslim cleric’s comments to whip up xenophobia
- SEP candidate Bill Van Auken to speak at NYC meeting Sunday
- Bush appoints mine safety head during Senate recess
- Relations between US and Iraqi government at breaking point
- The case of Murat Kurnaz: German complicity in US war crimes
- Coup threat in Fiji as confrontation between army and government intensifies
2006-11-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Australia: State Labor government slashes education funding for the most needy
- Australia: SEP candidate to speak at Victorian election meetings
- A sign of political crisis: coalition of Sri Lankan parties formed
- Why is the New York Times covering up the torture of Jose Padilla?
- The Kerry apology: Democrats cower before Bush and military
- An exchange of letters on the Green Party
- Britain: Blair government defeats calls for Iraq inquiry
2006-11-04
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The Democrats in the 2006 elections: the second party of reaction and war
- Deliver Us from Evil: Whose is the “most grievous fault”?
- Wal-Mart opens its doors to state-run unions in China
- Arar “rendition” case: Canadian government accepts non-apology from Bush administration
- SEP candidate Bill Van Auken rejects appearance on CNN’s Glenn Beck Program
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation adopts new “bias” rules
2006-11-06
- Dennett’s dangerous idea
- Political crisis in Poland: the twists and turns of the Kaczynski government
- Papua New Guinea government threatens sanctions against Canberra
- The slide into poverty—an increasing likelihood for workers in Detroit’s suburbs
- Saddam Hussein’s death sentence: a travesty of justice
- The Democrats in the 2006 elections: the second party of reaction and war
2006-11-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Protest against killing and abductions in Sri Lanka
- Reject Maine’s “Taxpayer Bill of Rights”
- Saddam Hussein verdict: US politicians, media applaud the gallows and the noose
- French government uses Marseille bus burning to step up state repression
- Election Day 2006: The crisis facing American working people
- Shanghai corruption scandal exposes crisis of China’s pension system
- US faces stepped-up war abroad, social conflict at home
2006-11-08
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court ruling undermines basis for peace talks
- Former German Chancellor Schröder’s right-wing offensive
- The crisis of US imperialism in historical perspective
- As Hussein sentenced to death, US pushes to rehabilitate his functionaries
- India: Vidarbha farmers face health disaster
- Letters on the socialist critique of the Green Party
- US midterm elections: An overwhelming repudiation of the war in Iraq
- Letters from our readers
- Bill Clinton touts his millionaire status at pre-election rally in Detroit
- Behind Lula’s reelection: Brazil’s crisis deepens
- All the King’s Men and Man of the Year: Simply unserious
2006-11-09
- Rumsfeld’s firing: First casualty of post-election crisis in US
- New ruling coalition and the civil war in Sri Lanka
- Right-wing Popular Party attacks Spain’s leading judge
- Half Nelson: the parts are greater than the whole
- Germany’s role in illegal US “anti-terror” activities
- Australian government provocations heighten political crisis in Fiji
- Australia: Media promotes vigilantism and “bush justice”
2006-11-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan military bombards refugee camp, killing dozens
- Important vote for SEP candidates in US elections
- Italian government implicated in cover-up of US “rendition”
- India: Court-directed campaign to seal “illegal” buildings in Delhi provokes social turmoil
- Israel carries out deliberate massacre in Gaza
- The Bracks government and unions help Ford Australia axe jobs
2006-11-11
- Iraqi prime minister calls for Saddam Hussein to be hanged before year’s end
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Catch a Fire: A story of struggle against apartheid, but not the whole story
- US election: Referendum votes reveal social discontent
- Democratic Party takes control of both houses of Congress
- Letters on the US elections
- France: airport workers fired in anti-Muslim campaign
- Australia: Anti-Muslim “terror plot” unravels
2006-11-13
- USA Today: A political outlook emerging amongst artists
- Sri Lankan SEP renews demand for action against killers of Sivapragasam Mariyadas
- Israel: Olmert brings Lieberman’s far-right party into government
- Greece: Sellout of teachers’ strike paves way for massive government attacks
- New role for German Army
- Australian Fair Pay Commission makes a political decision on wage rates
2006-11-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington debate sets stage for escalation of violence in Iraq
- India: Stop the state murder of Mohammed Afzal
- War, social inequality and the crisis of American democracy
- Australia: Bracks government—a “common agenda” with Howard
- Germany: New Berlin senate intensifies austerity course
- The quagmire deepens in Afghanistan
2006-11-15
- Britain: New terror warnings issued to justify policies of war and repression
- High-profile Tamil parliamentarian murdered in Sri Lanka
- US: Higher education costs increase for the most needy
- European reaction to Bush’s election defeat: increasing militarism
- War, social inequality and the crisis of American democracy
- US election result reverberates in Australia
- China steps up trade and investment in Africa
2006-11-16
- After the US elections: Renewed pro-war consensus emerges in Washington
- Thai military attempts to contain opposition to coup regime
- Mexican government steps up repression in Oaxaca
- US soldier pleads guilty to rape and murder in Iraq
- Australia: workers and young people speak out on jobs and the Iraq war
- Bangladesh convulsed by protests over coming election
- Britain: Blair advises policy shift in Middle East
2006-11-17
- Workers’ Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Thousands protest in Colombo against killing of Tamil MP
- Michigan: Mentally ill inmate dies after five days of abuse
- US hearings on Iraq set course for intensified conflict
- Supreme Court inaugurates new term with reactionary death penalty ruling
- Letters from our readers
2006-11-18
- Civil rights groups file war crimes complaint in Germany against top US officials
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Giuliani prepares US presidential bid—a new phase in 9/11 mythmaking
- Australian Greens pitch election campaign to political and media establishment
- France: Socialist Party chooses a Blairite presidential candidate
- Spain: Popular Party attempts to wreck ETA ceasefire
2006-11-20
- Australia: Bracks and the “war on terror”
- UN envoy accuses Sri Lankan military of helping recruit child soldiers
- Resurge el concenso pro-bélico luego de las elecciones en Estados Unidos
- An exchange on Stalinism with a South African reader
- Britain: Farepak collapse ruins Christmas for tens of thousands
- Democrats seek accommodation with Bush administration to continue Iraq occupation
- Letters on the US elections
2006-11-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia, New Zealand dispatch troops to Tonga
- California: UCLA student victim of police brutality
- Ireland: “Bertiegate” corruption allegations against Taoiseach Ahern
- Goodyear strike in North America enters seventh week
- Milton Friedman 1912-2006: “Free market” architect of social reaction
- Will Marshall exposes Labor and Greens at Broadmeadows election forum
- Democrat Congressman calls for reinstating the draft
2006-11-22
- Canberra maintains aggressive stance toward Solomon Islands government
- Bush appoints “choose life” conservative to head family-planning programs
- Sectarian rifts in Iraqi government intensify
- School shooting and suicide in Germany
- Australia: Labor Party and unions stifle opposition to Ford job cuts
- Workers speak out against sackings at Ford Australia
- UK military faces recruitment and retention crisis
2006-11-23
- Strike and occupation at Volkswagen works in Belgium
- A socialist answer to war, environmental disaster and social inequality
- Bush administration and US media blame Syria for Gemayel assassination
- Australia: Socialist Equality Party holds successful election meeting in Broadmeadows
- Canada’s Conservative government increases state’s repressive powers
- Bush’s visit to Asia dogged by US disaster in Iraq
- American filmmaker Robert Altman dead at 81
2006-11-24
- Germany: Election Alternative prepares for merger with Left Party
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Victorian election: Vote for Will Marshall and the SEP in Broadmeadows
- The New York Times and the Gemayel assassination
- Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette: Not even cake?
- WSWS correspondent to address international conference on the Spanish Civil War
- UN report documents huge October death toll in Iraq
- Germany: Election Alternative prepares for merger with Left Party
- Australia: Labor makes cynical promise on public education in Victorian election
- Britain: Blair’s overseas diplomacy highlights military crisis in Afghanistan
2006-11-25
- Support the struggle of Volkswagen workers in Brussels!
- Belgian Volkswagen factory occupied
- Sri Lankan Attorney General replies on SEP supporter’s murder
- Polish mining disaster claims 23 lives
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- More than 200 dead in Baghdad’s deadliest day of bombings
- Australian High Court sanctions wholesale assault on working conditions
- Who Killed the Electric Car?, written and directed by Chris Paine
- Canada: Ruling in O’Neill case underlines threat to democratic rights
2006-11-26
2006-11-27
- Setenta años después de la guerra civil española la derecha en España intenta rehabilitar a Franco
- Lebanese regime approves US-backed tribunal directed against Syria
- German parliament extends participation in the “war on terror”
- European powers seek to benefit from Bush’s Middle East setbacks
- Victorian election: Labor government returned to power with big business and media backing
- Letters from our readers
- A riot in China over deteriorating public health care
2006-11-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP public lecture in Colombo: new SLFP-UNP coalition to expand civil war
- Setenta años después de la guerra civil española la derecha en España intenta rehabilitar a Franco
- Australia: SEP campaign wins support in Victorian state election
- An appreciation of jazz singer Anita O’Day, 1919-2006
- What the New York Times has learned from Iraq
- New York police kill unarmed man, wound two others
- Nominee for US defense secretary advocated bombing of Nicaragua
- China woos India to parry US containment strategy
- British Airways and the Christian cross controversy
- Letters on filmmaker Robert Altman
2006-11-29
- Berlin panel discussion on Kosovo: Marxism vs. nationalism
- Bush visits Middle East to intensify Iraq war
- Australia: Union protests provide no way forward against industrial relations laws
- US Senate endorses Bush’s nuclear accord with India
- Canberra prepares for possible military intervention in Fiji
- Demise of US rail system highlighted by DC-area bridge fault
- Borat: Whose pie and whose face?
2006-11-30
- Australia: Police report reveals real instigators of Cronulla race riots
- Nicaraguan election: Ortega’s victory and the dead-end of Sandinismo
- International report documents repression in Indian-controlled Kashmir
- Bush to deliver ultimatum to Iraqi prime minister at Jordan summit
- Letters from our readers
- For Your Consideration: A disappointing effort
- New York City mayor seeks to quell outrage over police slaying
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