Archive: June 2004
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 2004
- An exchange on Nader, Kerry and the US war in Iraq
- Britain: Thousands more people could be infected with vCJD
- Continued killings in eastern Sri Lanka threaten to undermine ceasefire
- US makes tactical retreat before Iraqi uprising
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 June 2004
- Australian government lies exposed on Abu Ghraib torture
- Five right-wing tickets contend for the Indonesian presidency
- Inside Fallujah: An insightful report on US atrocities against Iraqi civillians
- Leaked government memo reveals US-British tensions over Iraq
- Maine: SEP campaign faced arcane ballot requirements, private property restrictions
- Pentagon secretly investigated detainee deaths as homicides
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Petitions filed to put socialist candidate on ballot
SEP stand against Iraq war evokes strong support in Maine -
San Francisco International Film Festival 2004—Part 3
Several new filmmakers, but ongoing problems - The enduring significance of the Emancipation Proclamation
3 June 2004
- Amnesty International report highlights human rights abuses in “war on terror”
- Blair government’s strategy to police Britain’s Muslims leaked
- Canada’s Arar inquiry prepares to whitewash intelligence establishment
- Germany: Former SPD chairman Lafontaine defends police torture
- Pro-war US newspaper admits: Bush is a liar
- Sri Lankan government deeply mired in financial difficulties
- Washington installs new puppet regime in Baghdad
4 June 2004
- Australia: SEP public meetings discuss Iraq war
- Draconian emergency powers imposed in Nigeria state
- Oil city attack destabilises Saudi Arabia, deepens threat of world slump
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The politics of opportunism: the “radical left” in France
Part seven: Lutte Ouvrière and the Fourth International - San Francisco gallery owner attacked by right-wing thugs
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Nick Beams addresses Australian public meetings
The Iraq war and the international working class - US Army’s expanded “stop-loss” program prevents thousands from leaving military
5 June 2004
- At least six killed in Lebanese fuel protests
- Australian PM shares a farcical White House media conference with Bush
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New US Iraq resolution
German chancellor Schröder declares his support for Bush -
Australian SEP public meeting:
Iraq has become a military and political debacle for the US - Trotskyism in postwar USSR: the record of an anti-Stalinist youth group in the early 1950s
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
7 June 2004
- Behind the political crisis in Taiwan
- Georgia sends troops to border with South Ossetia
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2004
Interview with Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, daughter of Viola Liuzzo -
San Francisco International Film Festival 2004
Interview with Paola di Florio, director of Home of the Brave - More tortured manoeuvres in Papua New Guinea parliament
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Behind the resignation of CIA Director George Tenet:
The Bush administration begins to break up - The significance of the Momart art fire
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2004—Part 4
Viola Liuzzo: martyr in the struggle for social equality
“She wanted equal rights for everyone,no matter what the cost!”
8 June 2004
- Chalabi, Iranian spies and the crisis of the Bush administration
- Email indicates Cheney involved in Halliburton deal in Iraq
- France : Demonstrations against Bush and in defence of the health service
- New law on Russian referendums: crude attack on democratic rights
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Party to challenge early filing deadline
Petition drive completed for SEP congressional candidate in Ohio - Spanish visit by Syria’s Assad highlights differences between Madrid and Washington
- Sri Lanka: Police attack teacher trainee protest
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 June 2004
- Berlin: Successful rally concludes PSG European election campaign
- Britain: Royal Mail plans worker buyout
- España: Zapatero mantiene las medidas antidemocráticas de Aznar en las regiones
- Letters from our readers
- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): an obituary
- Sri Lanka’s new government signs up for US “war on terrorism”
- US Fed set to lift rates
- US federal judge rules anti-abortion law unconstitutional
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Gillo Pontecorvo, director of The Battle of Algiers, speaks to WSWS
“Stay close to reality”
10 June 2004
- Abu Ghraib and the failure of American society
- Further evidence that FBI was informed of 9/11 terror attacks
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NATO expansion and the political crisis in Europe
Part one - New Zealand Labour government cuts off Maori claims to the foreshore
- Reports find pervasive and increasing sexual abuse in the US military
- Russia’s Putin announces further attacks on living standards
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Lutte Ouvrière festival in Paris
Silence on the Iraq war and defence of the headscarf ban
11 June 2004
- After years of incarceration, Australian government recognises Afghans as refugees
- Canada: Further concessions extorted from Air Canada workers
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Buenos Aires Sexto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente—Primera Parte
Experimento con posibilidades: sentir algo más profundo por el mundo - Letters on “Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): An Obituary”
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Buenos Aires Sexto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente—Tercera Parte
Mirando debajo de la superficie -
NATO expansion and the political crisis in Europe
Part two - The “fiery” speeches of Mr. Gore
- UN Security Council rubberstamps Washington’s continuing subjugation of Iraq
- US Justice Department opens investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
12 June 2004
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The case of Metin Kaplan
A lesson in the functioning of the German “rule of law” - Chinese police dragnet marks 15 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
- India: Behind the rout of the Telugu Desam Party—a portrait of World Bank social engineering
- Iraqi resistance rejects interim government, fighting continues
- New German immigration law sanctions political censorship
- Nigeria: General strike against fuel price increases
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 June 2004
- Britain: Labour suffers a rout in local elections
- Britain: Young workers face poverty in old age
- Home health and day care workers strike in New York
- India: government program gives assurances to big business
- Kerry’s approach to McCain: Democrat seeks bipartisan pro-war ticket
- Mexico summit: Europe seeks to challenge US domination of Latin America
- New York City workers’ protest demands new contracts, wage hikes
15 June 2004
- Ambon communal violence flares up amid Indonesian presidential poll
- Canada’s business elite considers throwing its weight behind the “new” Conservatives
- Enron tapes expose blatant criminality of corporate America
- European governments rocked by EU election results
- Meeting opposes Australia’s draconian “anti-terror” laws
- New York City: Second immigrant construction worker killed in two weeks
- Quality higher education: members of the working class need not apply?
- US torture in Iraq, Afghanistan: Authorized at the highest levels
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 June 2004
- Dengue outbreak in Sri Lanka highlights deteriorating public health services
- European elections: Socialist Equality Party of Germany receives nearly 26,000 votes
- Press statement of Ohio SEP candidate David Lawrence
- Remembering Ray: a tribute
- SEP congressional candidate launches lawsuit against early filing date in Ohio
- Smug and rather pointless
- Spain: Zapatero willing to send troops to Haiti
- The growing irrelevance of the G8 summit
- Vanunu affair lays bare the vindictive and undemocratic nature of the Israeli state
17 June 2004
- Four British soldiers face court martial over Iraq abuses
- Industrial nations tie foreign aid to support for “war on terror”
- Iraq’s new prime minister, the CIA and their record of terrorist bombings
- SEP to hold Toronto meeting on Canadian, US elections
- The Greens, the Socialist Alliance and John Pilger
- Washington Post publishes memo implicating White House in torture of prisoners
18 June 2004
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Release Hicks, Habib and all Guantanamo Bay detainees!
Australian government aids and abets US torture - Canadian elections: candidates’ debates filled with by posturing and lies
- London meeting: European elections “a sea change in political life”
- No evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties: 9/11 commission undermines another Bush war lie
- Paris meeting advances socialist platform for European workers
- US killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians in “precision” strikes
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
19 June 2004
- Election alternative: Jobs and Social Justice—a new reformist trap for German workers
- Germany: report shows Berlin sinking deeper into poverty
- Ireland votes to curtail citizenship rights
- Rumsfeld, Rice tied to torture in Iraq
- Sri Lankan president resorts to another extra-constitutional measure
- Warrior and anti-warrior
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 June 2004
- Divisions predominate despite agreement on European constitution
- French riot police dispatched to Tahiti following election upset
- India: victims seek prosecution of Union Carbide officials over Bhopal disaster
- Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 comes under right-wing attack
- New prime minister installed in Nepal
22 June 2004
- Britain: families depend on credit to survive
- Caught by 9/11 panel in lie over Iraq-Al Qaeda ties, White House responds with more lies
- European elections: debacle for the German SPD
- Jakarta expels foreign critics: a new attack on democratic rights
- Letters from our readers
- Merrill-Lynch report: concentration of wealth at the top resumed upward spiral in 2003
- US balance of payments gap widens again
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 June 2004
- 82 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2002-2003
- Detroit school workers organize wildcat strike against job cuts
- Fury in Fallujah after US air strikes
- Iraqi prime minister raises martial law option
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Russian liberal intelligentsia’s view of the Kremlin under Yeltsin and Putin
Tales of a Kremlin Digger, by Elena Tregubova - SEP submits petitions to qualify for Illinois State House campaign
- The beheadings of Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-il
- US actors vote overwhelmingly for strike authorization
- What is the United Kingdom Independence Party?
24 June 2004
- Australian government dismisses damning report on child detention
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Dress rehearsal for torture in Iraq
Former US soldier speaks on near-deadly beating at Guantanamo - Iran: escalating tensions behind capture of British sailors
- Michael Moore loses appeal against R rating for Fahrenheit 9/11
- Recent bomb attack in Cologne’s Turkish district—“ no political background?”
- Sectarian violence in Pakistan’s commercial capital
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As Abu Ghraib crisis deepens
White House torture documents portray an outlaw regime
25 June 2004
- A culture at the end of its rope
- Australian Labor leader backs down on Iraq troop withdrawal
- Britain: Teenagers driven to depression and suicide by exam pressures
- Chinese military exercise raises tensions with Taiwan
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Canadian Elections:
The Bloc Québécois a political instrument of the québécois elite - Washington renews war crimes immunity in “sovereign” Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 June 2004
- Beheading of Kim Sun-il fuels South Korean protests over troop deployment
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Canadian Elections:
NDP conceals right-wing program with activist rhetoric - On eve of Milwaukee convention: Green Party divided over Nader campaign
- On eve of Milwaukee convention: Green Party divided over Nader campaign
- Poland and the European elections
- Scores of deaths in British barracks unaccounted for
- Torture scandal becomes focus of political warfare within US government circles
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 June 2004
- Australia: Workers First union leader plea bargains for suspended sentence
- Election Alternative meets in Berlin Another safety valve for German social democracy
- Green Party convention rejects Nader-Camejo ticket
- US backflip over North Korean nuclear programs
- Western Sahara: Resignation of UN envoy James Baker puts referendum in doubt
29 June 2004
- Australian Labor’s u-turn on pharmaceutical benefits
- Bush’s European visit: opposition from the people and prostration by their leaders
- Insurgency forces speedup of Iraqi “handover”
- Is the US military preparing another massacre in Fallujah?
- Letters on Kill Bill, Vol. 2, directed by Quentin Tarantino
- Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 sets box-office records
- US Supreme Court declines to order release of Cheney energy taskforce papers
- Union orders Broadway actors to stay on job despite contract expiration
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 June 2004
- Belgium: right-wing Vlaams Blok benefits from hostility to government
- Canadian Liberals cling to power, but results attest to mass popular disaffection
- China cracks down on Internet cafes and “cyber dissidents”
- Ireland: election results record decay of Fianna Fail
- Michael Moore’s contribution
- Sri Lankan health unions call off two-day strike
- US Supreme Court overturns Pledge of Allegiance ruling on technical grounds
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Anonymous sources quoted by New York Times
US government’s unofficial defense of torture - US: SEP files for Colorado ballot status
- US: jury acquits Idaho webmaster of terrorism charges
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