Archive: September 2005
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 September 2005
- A million more Americans living in poverty
- Arroyo clings to Philippines presidency amid growing economic crisis
- Australia: another Senate committee whitewash of government lies on Iraq
- Bush rules out significant federal aid to hurricane victims
- Letter from New Orleans: tragedy at stranded hospital
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Crackdown on looting
New Orleans police ordered to stop saving lives and start saving property - Paris: 48 African immigrants die in apartment block fires
- Studies link CEO compensation to fraud, mismanagement
2 September 2005
- Bush White House suppresses information, whistle blowing
- Close to 1,000 dead in Baghdad tragedy
- Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation
- Hurricane’s victims left to die on New Orleans streets
- Increased media coverage of PSG candidates in German federal elections
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Lecture two: Marxism versus revisionism on the eve of the twentieth century
Part 1 - Lecture two: Marxism versus revisionism on the eve of the twentieth century
- Lecture two: Marxism versus revisionism on the eve of the twentieth century
- Lo que el escándalo de Pat Robertson revela
- One-third of Detroit’s population lives below poverty line
- The PSG (Socialist Equality Party—Germany) election spot
- US military sniper kills Reuters soundman in Baghdad
- Washington tries to evade political responsibility for Katrina’s devastating impact
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
3 September 2005
- An angry letter from New Orleans
- Bush postures while hurricane death toll skyrockets
- Egypt: President Mubarak dominates fake election campaign
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Shock, disbelief and anger
Europe reacts to US hurricane disaster -
Lecture two: Marxism versus revisionism on the eve of the twentieth century
Part 2 - Letters on Hurricane Katrina
- Lockout at the CBC—“Canada’s public broadcaster”
- New Orleans and Baghdad—two sides of the same policy
- Racist attacks on Tamil newspaper in Sri Lanka
- Retired Scottish police official says Lockerbie evidence was planted
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 September 2005
- As hurricane disaster mounts, Bush scapegoats state, local officials
- Britain: “Fear on the Streets” art installation removed from Selfridges’s window
- Germany’s Left Party adopts a reformist program
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Lecture two: Marxism versus revisionism on the eve of the twentieth century
Part 3 - Letters and replies on the assassination of Sri Lankan foreign minister
- Research reveals link between tiny genetic structures and cancer
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Report from final days of “Camp Casey”
Soldier returned from Iraq: “The rich don’t fight wars in America” - Staying the course in Iraq justified in television series
- William Rehnquist (1924-2005): Key figure in Washington’s rightward trajectory dies at 80
6 September 2005
- Chinese government preparing for greater social unrest
- Eyewitness to the New Orleans disaster: report from a WSWS reader
- Hurricane Katrina disaster shows the failure of the profit system
- Letters on the US hurricane disaster
- Prison population in Britain reaches record levels
- Something’s rotten...
- Telstra sale—a political minefield for the Australian government
7 September 2005
- After New Orleans disaster: human misery and the profit principle
- Astrodome refugees report hellish conditions in New Orleans
- Australia: state opposition leader resigns amid media furore
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German elections: Conservative opposition meets in Dortmund
A repulsive and reactionary spectacle -
Hurricane disaster shows the failure of the profit system
Build a socialist political alternative for working people - Paris: As authorities launch murder enquiry into Vincent-Auriol fire, thousands march in anger and solidarity
- Sri Lankan military heightens tensions in the North and East
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Border “crisis” targets immigrants
State of emergency declared in Arizona and New Mexico - The crisis of the Lula government: the end of an era in Brazil
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As Katrina’s toll emerges
US ruling elite rejects policy shift to confront disaster
8 September 2005
- Democracy and the “rule of law:” An exchange on the British police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Democratic-controlled Minneapolis City Council rejects resolution against Northwest Airlines union-busting
- Is the US military preparing another massacre in Tal Afar?
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New Orleans becomes a war zone
A dress rehearsal for martial law? - Readers report on Katrina disaster
- Relative of 9/11 victim: “The Bush administration is only concerned with empire, oil and corporate profits”
- Turkey: corruption scandal erupts in Tek Gida-Is trade union bureaucracy
- “The Massacre” by 50 Cent sells 4 million copies: Why does social backwardness achieve such success? Part 1
9 September 2005
- Britain: rally for sacked Gate Gourmet workers addressed by Socialist Equality Party
- British media fears political consequences of Hurricane Katrina
- Bush administration snubs Cuban hurricane relief offer
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The politics of the “blame game”
Bush rejects responsibility in Hurricane Katrina disaster -
Sobre los escombros de Huracán Katrina:
Estados Unidos pasa del desastre a la humillación - Letters on the US hurricane disaster
- New York City police continue arrests of bicyclists
- Over 1,000 demonstrate for New York University graduate student employees
- Report documents runaway American CEO pay and war profiteering
- Socialist Equality Party stands in Sri Lankan presidential election
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “The Massacre” by 50 Cent sells 4 million copies: Why does social backwardness achieve such success?
10 September 2005
- EU states downplay risk as bird flu spreads toward Western Europe
- German government to privatize air traffic control
- Israel: Gaza pullout paves way for further West Bank land grab
- Laura Bush takes umbrage: racism and the Republican Party
- Laurence Tribe’s paean to Rehnquist: a liberal pays tribute to reaction
- Lively discussion at German Socialist Equality Party election meeting
- New Orleans: the specter of military dictatorship
- Tory leadership challenger Ken Clarke lambasts Blair on Iraq and democratic rights
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- World Bank President Wolfowitz pledges $9 billion in loans to India
12 September 2005
- Australian government unveils legal framework for police state
- British SWP covers for union betrayal of Gate Gourmet workers
- High oil prices undermine Indonesian government
- Hurricane Katrina and the meaning of September 11
- More letters on Hurricane Katrina
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Bush suspends Davis-Bacon Act
Wage-cutting and profit-gouging in the midst of the Katrina disaster
13 September 2005
- A scientific milestone: mapping of rice genome
- Court upholds power of White House to jail citizens as “enemy combatants”
- Germany: TV debate reveals electors have no real choice
- Iraq: US military lays waste to Tal Afar
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Socialist Equality Party (Germany) holds election rally
“The most important cause of the disaster taking place in the US lies not in nature, but in politics and society” - Studies link global warming with increased hurricane intensity
- US media hails martial law general in New Orleans
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- “Bring them home now” tour holds rally in Detroit
14 September 2005
- Australian government to deport American antiwar activist
- British MP Michael Meacher suggests Security Services are shielding July 7 bomb plotters
- Danger of war at centre of Sri Lankan election campaign
- Forty-five bodies recovered at New Orleans hospital
- Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Michigan: “They ordered the evacuation, but there were no buses, nothing”
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Lecture four: Marxism, history and the science of perspective
Part 1 - Lecture four: Marxism, history and the science of perspective
- New Orleans and poverty: a damning admission from the New York Times
- The exploitation of Hurricane Katrina: remaking New Orleans for the rich
- The lessons of the July 7 London bombings and the state murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
15 September 2005
- Britain: police chief insists “shoot-to-kill” policy remains in force
- Delta and Northwest airlines declare bankruptcy
- Germany expands army presence in Afghanistan
- Israeli soldiers reveal official “shoot to kill” policy towards Palestinian civilians
- Koizumi’s “landslide” win in Japan’s election
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Lecture four: Marxism, history and the science of perspective
Part 2 - Profit system, not nature, main obstacle to rebuilding New Orleans
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Rapid increase in child poverty in Germany
The consequences of Hartz IV -
As death toll in New Orleans mounts:
What is the meaning of Bush’s “responsibility?”
16 September 2005
- Big business agenda dominates New Zealand election campaign
- Bush’s vision for New Orleans: a profiteer’s paradise
- Indonesian air crash points to declining safety standards
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Lecture four: Marxism, history and the science of perspective
Part 3 - Letters from our readers
- On the Hurricane Katrina disaster
- Recovering New Orleans’ dead subordinated to profit and politics
- UN Human Development Report pleads for reform as poverty and misery deepen
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
17 September 2005
- British media backs Merkel in German elections, but fears instability
- German elections: Vote Socialist Equality Party on September 18
- German government bans Kurdish paper and Palestinian association
- Increasing tensions between Belarus and Poland
- Iraq’s libraries: what recovery from “a national disaster beyond imagination”?
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Lecture four: Marxism, history and the science of perspective
Part 4 - Microsoft anti-phishing software raises Internet privacy concerns
- Sri Lankan rail union shuts down protracted strike
- The New York Times and Bush’s New Orleans speech
- US: courts deny right to challenge Medicaid violations
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 September 2005
- Catholic Church steps up campaign to oust Spanish government
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Lecture four: Marxism, history and the science of perspective
Part 5 - Mubarak wins Egypt’s stage-managed presidential election
- Northern Ireland: loyalist riots point to unresolved social and political tensions
- Northwest and Delta executives to make millions from bankruptcies
- Religion, science and Hurricane Katrina
- SEP presidential candidate speaks on Sri Lankan radio
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Bush reassures American ruling class
Tax cuts to continue, social programs to be slashed in wake of Hurricane Katrina
20 September 2005
- Afghanistan election: a mockery of democracy
- An honest look at the lives of Italian inmates
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“Bring Them Home Now Tour” stops in Pittsburgh
Families of fallen US soldiers: “We are on a mission—we don’t want any more dead” - German election: a clear rejection of right-wing policies
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Lecture four: Marxism, history and the science of perspective
Part 6 - New Zealand election stalemate exposes deep social divisions
- New storm threat forces resumed evacuation from New Orleans
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TUC annual conference
The decline and decay of Britain’s trade unions - Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 September 2005
- British troops in pitched battle in Basra
- Could we cover our ears to keep from screaming?
- Hurricane Katrina: a public health and environmental disaster
- International press pours scorn on German voters
- Mamdouh Habib, former Guantánamo Bay prisoner, speaks with the WSWS
- New York City police attack Cindy Sheehan at antiwar rally
- Socialist Equality Party receives over 15,000 votes in German elections
- Sri Lanka: the JHU-Rajapakse deal and the reactionary role of Buddhist supremacism
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Lecture five:
World War I: The breakdown of capitalism -
Lecture five:
World War I: The breakdown of capitalism
Part 1
22 September 2005
- British government announces new attacks on civil liberties
- Canadian government defends intelligence extracted through torture
- General Motors slashes jobs in Australia
- Letters on the SEP/WSWS Summer School
- The Bush administration backtracks on North Korea
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US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates
No post-Katrina letup in assault on wages - What next after the German election?
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Lecture five
World War I: The breakdown of capitalism
Part 2
23 September 2005
- Blair and Murdoch defend Bush over Hurricane Katrina
- Canada: Parti Québécois thrown into unexpected leadership race
- Democrats cave on reactionary chief justice: Senate panel rubberstamps Roberts nomination
- Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism
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SEP press conference
Sri Lankan presidential candidate condemns Bush’s treatment of hurricane victims - Texas and Louisiana coast menaced by Hurricane Rita
- War protesters tried on federal conspiracy charges in New York
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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Lecture five
World War I: The breakdown of capitalism
Part 3 -
Toronto International Film Festival 2005—Part 1
World cinema and the world’s problems
24 September 2005
- Arrest of Bush official sheds light on corruption and cronyism
- Australia: NSW by-elections another sign of political volatility
- Australian voters speak of concerns and discontent
- Britain: asylum detainee commits suicide
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Abandoning party posts after election
German Green leader clears way for collaboration with the right - Hurricane Rita slams Texas and Louisiana, reflooding New Orleans
- On the Hurricane Katrina disaster
- US airlines follow bankruptcy filings with mass layoffs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Lecture five
World War I: The breakdown of capitalism
Part 4
26 September 2005
- Chinese leadership plans to honour ousted party “reformer”
- Hurricane Rita causes widespread damage but few deaths
- Iraq: a reactionary call for “war” on Shiites
- Letters from our readers
- Massive Washington march demands end to war in Iraq
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Schwarzenegger announces 2006 run for governor
The special election and the crisis of the political establishment in California - Tens of thousands march in London against Iraq occupation
- US atrocities in Vietnam documented: Winter Soldier re-released three decades later
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Lecture five
World War I: The breakdown of capitalism
Part 5
27 September 2005
- An exchange on the German Greens
- Australian government rams through Telstra privatisation
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In the wake of Katrina and Rita
Bush administration to expand military powers, attack social programs - California National Guard investigated for domestic spying
- Down in the hole
- FBI murders Puerto Rican independence figure
- German court declares Iraq war violated international law
- German election result causes consternation in the French political establishment
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Lecture six: Socialism in one country or permanent revolution
Part 1 - Lecture six: Socialism in one country or permanent revolution
- South Africa: factional warfare within ANC coalition
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- “Liberating the wealthy”: the legacy of New Zealand Labour leader David Lange
28 September 2005
- After September 24 protest: What way forward in the struggle against war?
- An interview with Alain Tasma, director of October 17, 1961
- Germany: SPD and union parties prepare for grand coalition
- Indian prime minister cements relations with Afghanistan’s puppet regime
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Lecture six: Socialism in one country or permanent revolution
Part 2 - Sri Lankan military threatens antiwar filmmakers
- US military intensifies campaign of intimidation prior to Iraqi referendum
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Toronto International Film Festival 2005—Part 2
Valuable films from France - War protestors acquitted on federal conspiracy charges in New York
- What was the British SAS doing in Basra?
29 September 2005
- Britain: de Menezes’ parents demand police stand trial for murder
- Court case hits attack on evolution in Pennsylvania
- Former Australian Labor leader’s recriminations expose deep political decay
- German election data highlight social divisions
- House Republican leader indicted in campaign finance conspiracy
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Lecture six: Socialism in one country or permanent revolution
Part 3 - One-day general strike in India exposes need for socialist-internationalist strategy
- Posada Carriles to stay in US: Washington shields CIA terrorist from prosecution
- Sri Lankan SEP presidential candidate to address Colombo election meeting
- US and EU-3 make another provocative move against Iran
30 September 2005
- Britain: Gate Gourmet strike betrayed by Transport and General Workers Union
- Chinese government crackdown exposes fraud of local elections
- Hurricanes’ destruction deepens US farm crisis
- Jobless claims, an end to the housing bubble: storm signals for US economy
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Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over “proletarian culture”
Part 1 - Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over “proletarian culture”
- Lurid reports of rape, murder in Katrina’s aftermath exposed as frauds
- Pentagon dismisses new report on US military torture in Iraq
- Rapper Kanye West on the cover of Time: Will rap music shed its “gangster” disguise?
- The coming grand coalition in Germany: illegitimate and undemocratic
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With Canberra’s loyal support
US to resume Guantánamo trial of David Hicks - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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