Archive: October 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 October 2005
- Brighton conference: The political shipwreck of New Labour
- Britain: Education Bill to extend privatisation of state schools
- Bulgaria: grand coalition to form after weeks of wrangling
- California housing bubble: an impending disaster for working people
- Elderly woman becomes another victim of Australian immigration policy
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Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over “proletarian culture”
Part 2 - New Orleans prisoners left to drown after Katrina struck
- New York Times’ Friedman proposes “endgame” bloodbath in Iraq
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The “depacification” of the German left
Right-wing praise for Green leader Fischer’s foreign policy - Tensions rising between Quebec government and public sector workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
3 October 2005
- An interview with Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, co-director of Gilaneh
- Behind the DeLay indictment: vicious infighting within the US ruling elite
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Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over “proletarian culture”
Part 3 -
Toronto International Film Festival 2005—Part 3
Scars of war - Ukraine: after the “Orange Revolution,” power returns to the oligarchs
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William Bennett’s ‘hypothetical’ on racial genocide
A spreading stench of fascism - Young African workers killed in Spanish enclave
4 October 2005
- A devastating exposure of Iraq war
- Another terrorist atrocity in Bali
- Answer the French government/corporate offensive against workers with socialist internationalism
- Australian government boosts profits of private childcare operators
- Germany: After Dresden by-election, chancellor question remains open
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Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over “proletarian culture”
Part 4 - Norway: Labour elected thanks to hostility to Conservatives
- Sixty million Indian workers strike against government economic policies
- US housing official: rebuilt New Orleans will have fewer poor blacks
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 October 2005
- A letter on the FBI murder of Puerto Rican independence figure
- Australia: Labor premiers join hands with Howard at “anti-terror” summit
- Bush picks right-wing crony for Supreme Court
- Home heating costs to break records in US
- Interest in the SEP’s presidential campaign in Sri Lanka’s north
- Israeli offensive in Gaza targets Hamas
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Lecture eight: The 1920s—the road to depression and fascism
Part 1 - Lecture eight: The 1920s—the road to depression and fascism
- Letters from our readers
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SEP public meetings in Britain
Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism
6 October 2005
- An interview with Shonali Bose, director of Amu
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Toronto International Film Festival 2005—Part 4
Art and the social element - Fuel price hikes raise political tensions in Indonesia
- Iraq’s constitutional referendum makes a mockery of democracy
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Lecture eight: The 1920s—the road to depression and fascism
Part 2 - New Orleans lays off half its workforce
- New York Times reporter Judith Miller testifies on exposure of CIA agent
- One-day national strike in France: over a million march against Gaullist policies
7 October 2005
- Allegations of £1 million in arms bribes paid to Pinochet
- Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy
- Bush seizes on flu threat to press for martial law power
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Germany: broad agreement for a grand coalition
Still no resolution of chancellorship - Leading Indian daily calls for suppression of strikes and unions
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Lecture eight: The 1920s—the road to depression and fascism
Part 3 - Polish parliamentary elections: record abstentions and swing to right
- Sri Lankan SEP holds first election meeting in Colombo
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
8 October 2005
- British press attempts to resuscitate the Conservative Party
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Terrorism speech in Washington
Bush responds to political crisis with lies and new war threats -
Parts supplier threatens bankruptcy, plant closings
Delphi demands unprecedented wage cuts from US auto workers - Foreign capital pours into China’s banks
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Lecture eight: The 1920s—the road to depression and fascism
Part 4 - Restrictive bankruptcy bill to remain in place for Hurricane Katrina victims
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Turkey: trampling on free speech continues
Novelist Orhan Pamuk faces jail terms - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 October 2005
- Australian government instigates move to jail journalists
- Bush White House crisis deepens: The contradictions of the Miers nomination
- Devastating quake kills 20,000 in Pakistan and India
- Hurricane inflicts massive death toll in Guatemala
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Lecture eight: The 1920s—the road to depression and fascism
Part 5 - Letters from our readers
- Spanish court convicts 18 alleged Al Qaeda members
11 October 2005
- British Columbia teachers defy anti-strike law, court rulings
- Delphi outlines plant closings, wage-cutting in US bankruptcy filing
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American Enterprise Institute conference
Demoralization grips Iraq war’s ideological architects - Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International
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Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International
Part 1 - Michigan bookstores host signings for The Crisis of American Democracy
- Robert Fisk addresses Sydney audience on history, journalism and Iraq
- Sri Lankan presidential election: the economic agenda behind the phony promises
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Toronto International Film Festival 2005-Part 5
The wars inside and out - Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 October 2005
- Britain: De Menezes family demands justice in police murder
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Germany: Grand Coalition under Chancellor Merkel
A government in defiance of the voters’ will - Interview with American Library Association leader: “This government stands completely exposed”
- Iraqi regime orders arrest of ex-officials in $1 billion theft
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Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International
Part 2 - London’s Tate gallery censors work citing fear of offending Muslims
- Sri Lankan presidential election: 13 candidates but few choices
- The Australian media on the origins of terrorism
13 October 2005
- BC teachers strike shakes Campbell Liberal government
- Britain: Letters reveal police cover-up over Menezes shooting
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Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International
Part 3 - Letters from our readers
- Moqtada al-Sadr refuses to call for a no vote on Iraqi constitution
- Resentment grows among earthquake victims in Pakistan and India
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Signs of life
Two new Australian films: Look Both Ways and Little Fish - Videotaped police beating in New Orleans
14 October 2005
- Australia: high oil prices provoking protests and discontent
- British playwright Harold Pinter awarded Nobel Prize in literature
- Microsoft and RealNetworks settle antitrust case
- Polish presidential election: playoff between two right-wing candidates
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Signs of life
Two new Australian films: Look Both Ways and Little Fish - Social inequality reaches new heights in California
- White House, Congress press plans for major cuts in social programs
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
15 October 2005
- British Columbia: Courts seize union assets, but teachers remain defiant
- Bush video conference with troops in Iraq: poorly scripted, poorly performed
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As British Columbia teachers strike erupts
Canadian TWU terminates Telus workers’ struggle - Interviews with locked-out Canadian Telus workers
- Iraqis to vote on neo-colonial constitution
- Ohio Delphi workers denounce company plan to halve wages and slash jobs
- Oppose Blair’s police-state measures
- Right-wing Social Democrat Steinbrück named finance minister in German grand coalition
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Report denounces “violation of human rights”
Thousands of young offenders in US face life behind bars - What is in Blair’s anti-terror bill?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
17 October 2005
- British Columbia teachers strike poses need for a working-class political offensive
- France: CGT betrays ferry workers’ fight
- Los Angeles: city of the stars becomes US homeless capital
- Repression in southern Thailand fuels diplomatic tensions with Malaysia
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Signs of life
Two new Australian films: Look Both Ways and Little Fish - Toledo, Ohio: Neo-Nazi march sparks riot
- Washington, predictably, hails Iraq constitution vote
18 October 2005
- Britain: public meetings discuss Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism
- EU in crisis over Turkish membership
- Guantánamo Bay hunger strike enters third month
- Judith Miller and the New York Times—accomplices in a war based on lies
- Northwest Airlines union submits plan to cut 89 percent of members’ jobs for rank-and-file vote
- Northwest Airlines union submits plan to cut 89 percent of members’ jobs for rank-and-file vote
- Refco collapse in US poses some troubling questions
- US auto union in deal with GM to slash health benefits
- US military massacres dozens in wake of Iraq referendum
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 October 2005
- Australian government launches major assault on workers’ conditions and rights
- Indian and Pakistani nuclear ambitions: another barrier to effective earthquake relief
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2005—Part 1
Iraq and American life - Legal lynching of Saddam Hussein begins in Iraq
- New Orleans: school staff face massive cuts in jobs, benefits
- New York’s subway terror threat—was it a hoax?
- Return of Soares to politics shows depth of Portuguese crisis
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As support, walkouts grow
Union and NDP leaders conspire to close down British Columbia teachers strike - What can be expected from Germany’s grand coalition?
20 October 2005
- Australia: Leaked “Anti-Terrorism” Bill details draconian police-state plans
- Bush vows crackdown on immigrant workers
- German: Interior Minister Schily’s parting shot—a blatant attack on freedom of the press
- Guantánamo Bay hunger strike enters third month
- Lack of government preparation for flu pandemic
- Letters from our readers
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After New York governor bars “Freedom Center”
Plans for World Trade Center site in disarray
21 October 2005
- Australia: Privatised road tunnel creates havoc in Sydney
- British Columbia teachers strike in grave danger
- British military investigator found hung in Basra
- Germany’s new parliament: democratic fig leaf of an authoritarian government
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Spanish court orders arrest of US soldiers for war crime
Warrant issued in killing of cameraman José Couso - The Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Kashmiri earthquake: lessons for the working class
- US Senate rejects increase in minimum wage
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
22 October 2005
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Canada: BC Federation of Labour moves to end teachers’ strike
Union officials force vote on “facilitator’s” report - Security guards attack striking San Francisco hospital workers
- Spain: refugees killed, survivors abandoned in Moroccan desert
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Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2005 Sri Lankan presidential election
The socialist alternative to war and social inequality - The new German parliament shows its true face
- US auto union goes to court against its own members
- US soldiers caught on film desecrating bodies of Afghans
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
24 October 2005
- Austrian state elections: a clear rebuff of government attacks on social welfare
- Orgy of nationalist propaganda follows Chinese manned space flight
- Rigging accusations surround Iraq referendum result
- South Africa: nearly one million farmworkers evicted since 1993
- UAW-GM deal: a new stage in the corporate assault on American workers
- Washington seizes on UN report to threaten Syria
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Vancouver International Film Festival 2005—Part 2
Working class life and other problems
25 October 2005
- After the Kashmir earthquake, warnings of a second disaster
- Australia: Damning report on the illegal deportation of Vivian Alvarez
- BC teachers vote to end strike
- Dissent suppressed at Oxford Union
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Florida Medicaid privatization plan approved
Major step in destruction of entitlement program - Friedman on Iraq—the “thinking” behind the New York Times’s debacle
- Iraqi interior ministry accused of assassinating defence lawyer in Hussein trial
- Letters from our readers
- US military suppresses information on death of contractors in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
26 October 2005
- Bush names another “free market” ally of Wall Street to succeed Greenspan at the Federal Reserve
- French workers demand justice over asbestos poisoning
- Howard government abandons Australian citizen sentenced to death in Singapore
- Order broadens surveillance of Internet users
- PBS film documents Rumsfeld’s role in authorizing torture
- Sri Lankan presidential election: false promises and the real record on education
- The Birmingham riots: Against racial politics—for class unity
- US death toll hits 2,000—grim milestone in a criminal war
27 October 2005
- Bush administration seeks legal sanction for torture
- Germany’s grand coalition leaders suppress internal party discussion
- Iraq referendum produces a divisive and illegitimate result
- Sri Lankan SEP holds election meeting in Kandy
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Following the elections
The German Green Party: open to all offers - Thomas Friedman and Iraq: A bad case of amnesia
- US Senate resumes attack on antiwar MP George Galloway
- US and Britain seek UN backing for action against Syria
- US colleges and universities increase tuition again
28 October 2005
- Canada: ex-indépendantiste premier calls for intensified assault on working class
- Collapse of the Miers nomination: Bush administration bows to the ultra-right
- Fire kills at least 11 at Amsterdam airport detention centre
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Exhibition at International Center of Photography
Images of El Salvador carnage reprised in light of Iraq war - India: Advani resigns as BJP president amid party crisis
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Indian migrant workers in Oman speak to the WSWS
“Unemployment and rising living costs forced us to seek jobs in the Gulf” -
Power outages, gas lines, hunger fuel Floridians’ anger after Hurricane Wilma
“People had ample time to prepare, ” says Gov. Jeb Bush - The financial imbalances of a “bizarre world”
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
29 October 2005
- Australia: jobs decline amid signs of economic downturn
- Big business lobbies step up pressure on Germany’s grand coalition
- Britain: attorney general prevents prosecution of police who killed Harry Stanley
- Energy companies announce record profits amidst soaring prices for US consumers
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Fighting backwardness
The Aristocrats, directed by Paul Provenza - Ibero-American summit criticises US policy
- Iraq war is the real “underlying crime” in the Libby indictment
- Poland: Lech Kaczynski elected president in low voter turnout
- US passports to contain remotely readable computer chips
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
31 October 2005
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Interview with Mexican Committee of 68 member
“Students were the main targets of the dirty war” - Mexican rights group exposes government’s whitewash of student massacres
- SEP campaign in Sri Lankan election: interest in a socialist alternative
- Serious problem, treated by not so serious people
- The political implications of the Libby indictment
- UK poverty report draws attention to widening inequalities
- US judge orders release of Guantánamo hunger strikers’ medical records
- “Bali Nine” alleged drug traffickers set up for execution by Australian police
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