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Archive: June 2006

The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.

1 June 2006

• A correction on East Timor
• Amnesty International condemns human rights abuses committed in US-led “war on terror”
• An exchange with an American worker on “illegal immigrants”
• CBS journalists wounded, killed in Iraq: Where the responsibility lies
• Europe’s ‘Green’ militarists
  German Green Party campaigns for Congo mission
• Oppose Australia’s neo-colonial occupation of East Timor
• SEP reaches halfway point in Michigan petition campaign
• Thousands of Indonesian earthquake victims still waiting for assistance
• Unemployed youth clash with police in Paris suburbs

2 June 2006

• Britain and South Africa accused of ‘rendering’ terror suspects
• Bush names Wall Street executive as new treasury secretary
• China’s middle-class dream shattered: millions of graduates face unemployment
• European Union ban on LTTE heightens danger of war in Sri Lanka
• George Bush and the Haditha massacre
• Interview with Zoe Strauss, photographer in the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night
• Political crisis mounts over FBI raid on Congress
• SEP submits nominating petitions for Maine candidate
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

3 June 2006

• Another US atrocity in Iraq: Eleven civilians massacred in Ishaqi
• Australia continues its unrelenting campaign for “regime change” in East Timor
• Families of coal miners killed in Kentucky disaster protest exclusion from hearing
• India’s Supreme Court intervenes in caste-reservation controversy
• Letters from our readers
• Spain: High-ranking police officers imprisoned for “illegal arrest” of right-wing Popular Party activists
• US job growth falls in May, amid signs of slowing economy
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

5 June 2006

• Britain: Man shot in police “terror raid”
• Bush administration reverses US ban on talks with Iran
• New Zealand: CEO pay skyrockets as workers’ living standards fall
• The Notorious Bettie Page
  Sex and censorship in America
• Sri Lankan president proposes constitutional plan to end war
• US Supreme Court rules against government employees who report misconduct
• US prison population continues to soar in 2005

6 June 2006

• Australia, Timor and oil: the record
• France: Amiens meeting discusses lessons of struggle against “New Job Contract”
• Informe sobre las perspectivas latinoamericanas
  Primera parte
• Security cuts for New York and Washington underline fraud of war on terror
• The looting of East Timor’s Serious Crimes Unit
• US Army clears troops in Ishaqi massacre
• US Supreme Court refuses to hear ballot access case brought by SEP
• US military moves to condone “humiliating and degrading” treatment of prisoners
• “Be persistent in exploring human nature, and dare to run around in no-man’s land”
  Veteran Japanese director Shohei Imamura dies
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

7 June 2006

• Australia: Riot squad called to shut down Aboriginal community
• Australian foreign minister unveils plans for the colonial occupation of East Timor
• Canadian government, media use alleged terrorist plot to push right-wing agenda
• Dixie Chicks stand their ground
  Dixie Chicks: Taking the Long Way
• Germany: Public service union functions as agency of the state
• Hunger and malnutrition increase in many parts of the world
• Informe sobre las perspectivas latinoamericanas
  Segunda parte
• Letters from our readers
• ¿Qué significan las manifestaciones de los inmigrantes para la lucha de clases en Estados Unidos?

8 June 2006

• Australia: Howard’s reception for the Beaconsfield miners—a cynical charade
• Exploitation of child labourers in India
• Germany: Socialist Equality Party to run candidates in Berlin state elections
• New Zealand joins Australia’s military occupation of East Timor
• Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the putrefaction of official Israeli politics
• Senado de Estados Unidos adopta proyecto de ley anti inmigratorio con el respaldo de los Demócratas
• Sensational charges, lurid headlines in alleged Toronto terrorist plot
• “America’s American”dreamer: poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005)

9 June 2006

• 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
• Sri Lankan court allows limited resettlement of evicted villagers
• The Bush administration and the killing of Zarqawi
• US Senate majority backs windfall for the rich through repeal of estate tax
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

10 June 2006

• Britain: Soldiers refusing to serve in Iraq face possible life sentence
• France: Likely Socialist Party presidential candidate wants unruly youth drafted into the military
• On the official US response to the killing of Zarqawi
• Thailand’s political crisis continues to fester
• Friends With Money and The Break-Up
  Who’s to blame?
• Why did Canada’s security agencies allow the alleged terror plot to grow?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

12 June 2006

• Australian government steps up campaign to oust East Timor’s prime minister Mari Alkatiri
• Chronic ill-health in Australia’s Aboriginal prison population
• Debt and social misery: the flipside of Britain’s financial services boom
• Seven Palestinian civilians killed on Gaza beach
  The political calculations behind Israel’s latest atrocity
• The Bawag affair and the decay of the Austrian trade unions
• Three prisoners commit suicide in Guantánamo gulag

13 June 2006

• Britain: Lessons of the Forest Gate anti-terror raid
• Canada’s corporate media incites public panic over alleged terror plot
• Incriminating documents looted in East Timor
• Letters on alleged terrorist plot in Canada
• Oslo talks between Sri Lankan government and LTTE collapse
• Poland: Health care crisis provokes strikes and protests
• Tsotsi: Can a baby redeem a hardened thug?
• UN-backed report indicts Indonesia, Australia and US for Timor atrocities
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

14 June 2006

• Bush in Baghdad
• California gubernatorial primary reflects alienation from US two-party system
• Canary Islands boat people: European Union creates new border patrol
• Danger of major volcanic eruption after Indonesian earthquake
• Letters from our readers
• SLMM report exposes Sri Lankan military’s complicity in violence and murder
• The social movements in France: Political lessons from the last 10 years
  Part one
• Unanswered questions in the killing of Zarqawi

15 June 2006

• Britain: Did police shoot to kill in Forest Gate anti-terror raid?
• Escalating violence in eastern Sri Lanka
• As IDF denies shelling of Gaza beach
  Israeli air strike kills ten
• Japan plans aggressive global energy strategy
• The Guantánamo suicides and their impact on American political life
• The social movements in France: Political lessons from the last 10 years
  Part two
• US auto union signals its capitulation on wages, benefits and jobs

16 June 2006

• Australia: Workers’ conditions slashed under new industrial relations reforms
• Berlin youth goes on a rampage—a symptom of a society in decline
• Communist Party Congress in Vietnam pledges more pro-market measures
• To Each Time Its Art, to Art Its Freedom
  Modernist architect Harry Seidler dies in Australia
• Populist demagogy and immigrant-bashing in the US: The case of Lou Dobbs
• SEP (US) launches election web site
• SEP campaign in Illinois reaches minimum signature requirement
• The Toronto terror plot and the Canadian establishment’s political agenda
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

17 June 2006

• A grim milestone in the Iraq war: 2,500th US military death
• Bomb blast kills 64 villagers and catapults Sri Lanka toward war
• Global market slide may have further to go
• How Blair’s government fleeces British workers on behalf of business
  Plundering the Public Sector
• Letters from our readers
• The film version of A Prairie Home Companion: Less than might have been hoped for
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

19 June 2006

• Amnesty report criticises Spain over human rights
• Czech Greens enter right-wing government
• Fighting continues to escalate in Sri Lanka
• Letters from our readers
• Police threaten Socialist Equality Party petitioners in Illinois
• Widespread unrest erupts among textile workers in Bangladesh

20 June 2006

• American democracy in decay: US Congress debates the Iraq war
• Australian government presses ahead with plans to dominate East Timor
• Champaign, Illinois officials uphold unconstitutional ban on SEP petitioners
• “To Each Time Its Art, to Art Its Freedom”
  Modernist architect Harry Seidler dies in Australia
• The US Supreme Court’s “no-knock” decision: a frontal assault on democratic rights
• Week one of the World Cup
  While millions celebrate, German government presses ahead with its agenda
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

21 June 2006

• A dangerous precedent: Australian man convicted of “preparing terrorism”
• Belgium: Racist murderer linked to Flemish nationalists
• Campaigners win broad support to place SEP candidate on ballot in California
• Indian prime minister ignores opposition to Narmada dam extension
• Lawyers for accused in Toronto terror plot charge authorities with abuse
• Pentagon report targets China as a military threat
• World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party public meetings
  The truth about East Timor: Why Australia’s intervention should be opposed
• Washington escalates slaughter in Iraq

22 June 2006

• Australian government retains detention powers
• Britain: Book alleges US sent MI5 detailed file on London bomber Khan
• European Union-US summit in Vienna
  Europe’s leaders close ranks with Bush
• More letters protest harassment of SEP petitioners in Illinois
• As violence spirals in Iraq
  Prosecutor demands death penalty in Hussein show trial
• Under the guise of peace, Sri Lankan government accelerates drive to civil war

23 June 2006

• A reply to the mayor of Urbana, Illinois, on the harassment of SEP petitioners
• Fiji’s economic conscripts: tragic victims of the war in Iraq
• Letters from our readers
• Shanghai summit: China and Russia strengthen bloc to counter the US in Asia
• The International Socialist Organization and the 2006 election
• US Senate backs indefinite occupation of Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

24 June 2006

• Britain: Threat of national postal strike
• New exposure of US government spying
  Bush administration compiling massive database of bank records
• Global markets stabilise but risks increase
• Miami “terror” arrests—a government provocation
• Protests mount against harassment of SEP petitioners in Illinois
• The killing of US soldiers in Yusufiya: who’s responsible?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

26 June 2006

• España: Funcionarios de policía de alto rango son enviados a prisión por "arresto ilegal" de militantes del derechista Partido Popular
• French Socialist Party publishes right-wing election programme
• Intercambio entre un trabajador estadounidense y el WSWS acerca de los "inmigrantes ilegales"
• Pentagon report on China highlights danger of nuclear war
• Powerful truths, limited aims: No Child by the Epic Theater Center in New York
• Propaganda in the guise of a novel
  Pretty Birds by Scott Simon, Australia, Hodder 2005, 351pp.
• SEP to file petitions to place Joe Parnarauskis on the ballot in Illinois
• US Supreme Court issues anti-immigrant ruling

27 June 2006

• A question and answer on Australia’s trade union rallies
• Australia: Kim Beazley, the trade unions and Howard’s WorkChoices legislation
• Australian-led campaign pressures East Timorese prime minister to resign
• Letters from our readers
• Sweden: Lessons of the Vaxholm builders’ dispute
• The philanthropy of Warren Buffett
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

28 June 2006

• Australian government outlines pro-market agenda for its Pacific sphere of influence
• Britain: Former home secretary Charles Clarke questions Blair’s survival
• Bush, Cheney threaten New York Times over exposure of surveillance programs
• Illinois Democrats prepare challenge against petitions to place SEP candidate on ballot
• Israel launches military onslaught on Gaza
• Killing of Sri Lankan general: another sign of civil war
• SEP candidate in Illinois holds press conference to announce petition filing for November ballot
• Support the Socialist Equality Party campaign for the Berlin Senate
• The Miami indictments: Manufacturing “terror” as a means of intimidation

29 June 2006

• 47,600 GM and Delphi workers accept buyouts and early retirement
  A vote of no confidence in the United Auto Workers union
• An interview with James Longley, the director of Iraq in Fragments
• Connecticut AFL-CIO endorses war hawk Joseph Lieberman for Democratic primary
• Mercados mundiales se reestabilizan pero persisten los riesgos
• North Korean “missile crisis”—another example of unbridled US militarism
• Pakistan’s US-backed dictator to stage bogus presidential election
• Tens of thousands march against Australian IR laws
• The political calculations behind Israel’s assault on Gaza
• US Supreme court issues more anti-democratic rulings
• WSWS interviews Australian workers about IR laws, the Labor party and the unions
• The logic of trade union politics
  “Left” publications in Germany defend strike-breaking by Verdi union leaders

30 June 2006

• Anti-flag-burning amendment to US Constitution fails by a single vote
• Bankers’ bank puzzles over state of world economy
• Democratic operatives aim to bar SEP from Illinois ballot
  Who are Jim Rogal and Liz Brown?
• Israeli assault on Gaza threatens wider Middle East conflagration
• Letters on Warren Buffett’s philanthropy
• Sri Lankan military directly implicated in two atrocities
• Supreme Court rules against Bush administration’s military commissions
• The Dardenne brothers’ L’Enfant: an argument for a far more critical appraisal
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa