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Archive: March 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 March 2006

• Australian jury dismisses main charges in Melbourne “terrorism” case
• British defence secretary offers a rationalisation for war crimes
• Bush administration drags Iraq towards the abyss of civil war
• Federal Reserve report documents widening inequality in US
• 56th Berlin Film Festival—Part1
  Further stirrings
• Germany’s Left Party and the public service strike
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Nick Beams: Report on world economy in 2006
  Part Two
• Pentagon whitewash for Halliburton corruption in Iraq
• Protests against Bush in India: For an international socialist strategy to fight imperialism
• US Fed chairman Bernanke will not prick asset bubbles

2 March 2006

• AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting marks further disintegration of US labor federation
• After deadly blast, Mexican miners launch strikes to demand safe conditions
• Bangladesh: 54 workers killed in textile factory fire
• Debate over censorship emerges in China
• Federal Reserve report documents widening inequality in US
• Israel conducts military offensive in the West Bank and Gaza
• New York Times raises new charges against German intelligence
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Nick Beams: Report on world economy in 2006
  Part Three
• SEP (Canada) to hold public meeting in Montreal
• The political tasks in the German public service strike
• With bipartisan support, US Senate agrees to Patriot Act renewal

3 March 2006

• 78th Academy Awards: Hollywood’s new “seriousness” and its serious limitations
• AK Steel locks out 2,700 Ohio workers and hires replacements
• Bush secures nuclear accord with India
• Hundreds of thousands protest Bush’s visit to India
• Iraq: violence continues and sectarian divide widens
• Capitulation to Zionist censors
  Play on Rachel Corrie canceled by New York theater group
• Snap election heightens political crisis in Thailand
• Tahitian parliamentary report: France covered up nuclear test fallout
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The consequences of the US-led war against Iraq
• US tries to use Saddam Hussein trial to justify its own crimes

4 March 2006

• An act of social cruelty: South Dakota bars abortions for victims of rape and incest
• Bird flu in India: profits override public health concerns
• Britain: Behind the suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone
• Bush visit to Pakistan will intensify Musharraf’s crisis
• 56th Berlin Film Festival—Part 2
  Crossing the “red line”: Iranian films and censorship
• Letter from worker locked out by AK Steel in Ohio
• Opel chairman warns of plant closure in Europe
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Report on US: The Bush administration and the global decline of American capitalism
  Part One
• The Clintons, the Doles and the Dubai port deal: political duplicity and class interest
• Unions for flight attendants, pilots agree to huge concessions at Northwest Airlines
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

6 March 2006

• Australian Treasurer Peter Costello joins anti-Muslim bandwagon
• France: Ilan Halimi tortured and murdered for money
• Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals assassinated by death squads
• India’s “pro-poor” budget boosts military spending and market reforms
• Nobel Prize for Medicine for gastric ulcer breakthrough
• WSWS International Editorial Board Meeting
  Report on US: The Bush administration and the global decline of American capitalism
  Part Two
• Classic Vidas Secas by Nelson Pereira dos Santos released on DVD
  “Hell” in Brazil

7 March 2006

• AT&T; acquisition of BellSouth to eliminate 10,000 jobs
• Australia’s secret or not-so-secret past
  The Secret River, by Kate Grenville, Text Publishing, 2005
• Britain: Culture secretary embroiled in Silvio Berlusconi bribery scandal
• California Sheriff admits spying on antiwar group
• CBS’ “60 Minutes” expose on killings in Afghanistan
  Former aide to Powell: authorization for torture came from “the very top”
• Japan: Koizumi’s popularity slumps amid debate on social inequality
• National strike by miners, steelworkers reveals class tensions in Mexico
• Taiwanese president stokes tensions with China
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The social and political crisis in the United States and the 2006 SEP election campaign
  Part One
• US holding thousands without trial
  Torture in Iraq worse since Abu Ghraib
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

8 March 2006

• 78th Academy Awards: why such a poor showing?
• An exchange with readers on Iran’s nuclear programs
• Graffiti computer game banned in Australia
  Bi-partisan censorship campaign targets youth
• Britain: Government minister admits US “rendition” planes landed in UK
• Germany: IG Metall union capitulates to Electrolux
• Guantánamo files offer glimpse of Pentagon’s kangaroo courts
• Letters from our readers
• London Olympics 2012: Regeneration promises don’t add up
• Right-wing campaign targets Colorado teacher for anti-Bush remarks
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The social and political crisis in the United States and the 2006 SEP election campaign
  Part Two
• US ambassador to UN warns of “painful consequences” for Iran

9 March 2006

• Britain: Private capital and the crisis in the National Health Service
• Deregulation of coal industry behind fatal accidents in US mines
• Divisions emerge in Germany’s Left Party
• Hunger in America: 25 million depend on emergency food aid
• Inquiry into police killing at Ipperwash implicates Tory government
• Italy’s National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe: the significance of a neo-fascist commemoration
• Protesting Sri Lankan tsunami refugees occupy government building
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The implications of China for world socialism
  Part One
• US Senate panel votes to sanction illegal spying
  Rubberstamp for police-state measures
• US: AK Steel lockout enters second week
• Unions collaborate in ongoing destruction of Air New Zealand jobs

10 March 2006

• Everything about this performance felt right
  Chronicles—a lamentation by the Teatre Piesn Kizla
• Former CFO testifies in Enron case
• Germany: parliamentary panel to probe intelligence service’s role in Iraq war
• Harlem art exhibition commemorates police shooting victim Amadou Diallo
• Hospital workers in northern Sri Lanka strike for better conditions
• National Day Labor Study exposes exploitation of day laborers
• Returning to the scene of the crime: Bush visits New Orleans
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The implications of China for world socialism
  Part Two
• US pushes for larger UN intervention in western Sudan
• WSWS Chairman David North to speak at Montreal meeting this Saturday
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

11 March 2006

• A socialist answer to the danger of war in Sri Lanka
• Abu Ghraib to close, abuse to continue
• Britain: Liberal Democrats’ new leader shifts party to the right
• Bush’s public slap in the face to Pakistan’s president
• Egypt: Mubarak regime cracks down on opposition
• France: A million protest against government attack on job security for young workers
• India: Police and Hindu supremacists engage in provocations following Varanasi bombings
• Poland: Winter of death for impoverished
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The implications of China for world socialism
  Part Three
• 56th Berlin Film Festival—Part 3
  The work of theatre director Robert Wilson and other documentary films
• US drumbeat against Iran threatens new war of aggression
• Washington’s “democracy” in Iraq hangs 13 political prisoners
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

13 March 2006

• Bird flu threat grows in Europe and Africa
• Letters from our readers
• Media lies and hypocrisy in wake of Milosevic’s death
• Political tensions continue after Philippine state of emergency ends
• Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War
  Right wing in Spain attempts to rehabilitate Franco
  Part One
• Three years after Iraq invasion, US targets Iran
  Socialism and the struggle against imperialist war
  SEP public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
• Stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984: Puppets of the police state
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
  Part One

14 March 2006

• Arbeiterpresse Verlag represented at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair
• Bank of Japan policy shift will have global impact
• France: riot police attack student protesters at the Sorbonne
• Mystery deepens over Milosevic’s death
  Sordid end to “international justice” charade
• Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War
  Right wing in Spain attempts to rehabilitate Franco
  Part Two
• Scientists criticize UK government for lack of preparedness over avian flu
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
  Part Two
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

15 March 2006

• Chikungunya epidemic on the French Island of Réunion: a “natural” catastrophe
• China’s National People’s Congress focusses on social instability
• Denmark: Police arrest members of the Left Socialist Party
• Il “Giorno del Ricordo” degli Esuli e delle Foibe in Italia: il significato di una commemorazione neo-fascista
• Kentucky mine operators gear up for a coal revival
• Portugal: Right-wing president will promote austerity measures
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
  Part Three
• Washington seeks to bully UN Security Council over Iran

16 March 2006

• Britain: Tessa Jowell and the politics of kleptocracy
• Canadian prime minister proclaims major shift with Afghanistan visit
• Germany: The role of the trade union and works council at Opel
• Government misconduct derails Moussaoui death penalty case
• Letters from our readers
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain
  Part One
• Next round of Sri Lankan peace talks hangs in the balance
• Not a film review, properly speaking: Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy
• Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
  Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, Miegunyah Press
• Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War
  Right wing attempts to rehabilitate Franco
  Part Three
• Siege of Jericho prison: US, Britain complicit in Israeli war crime
• US balance of payments deficit hits another record
• “No threat”—but massive security at Melbourne Games

17 March 2006

• Australia: Why the Howard government has remained in office for 10 years
• Bush administration renews “preemptive war” strategy
• France: National student protest held against government attack on young workers
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain
  Part Two
• Premature applause for Japan’s one quarter of promising economic growth
• SEP public meeting in Montreal assesses fundamental changes in world and Canadian politics
• Saddam Hussein turns the tables at US-run show trial
• Socialist Equality Party public meetings:
  Three years since the invasion of Iraq: historical lessons and political perspectives
• Tongan public servants threaten to strike against government restructuring
• Transcripts of Guantánamo hearings: a window into Washington’s gulag
• US: Florida Medicaid cuts target food for disabled children
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

18 March 2006

• Amid mounting sectarian violence, political stalemate continues in Iraq
• 56th Berlin Film Festival—Part 4
  Back to Basics?: The Elementary Particles by Oskar Roehler
• Belarus: imperialist intervention in presidential election
• Canadian troops gun down Afghan civilian
• As Iraq war enters fourth year
  For the immediate withdrawal of all US troops
• France: Hundreds of youth arrested following anti-government protests
• France: Political issues in the fight against the government’s “First Job Contract”
• Germany: 22,000 hospital physicians to strike
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Report on Latin American perspectives
  Part One
• Sixth week of German public sector strike
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

20 March 2006

• Britain: government seeks wide-ranging powers to bypass parliament
• Europe: antiwar protests draw largest numbers in London and Rome
• France: one million protest government offensive against young workers’ conditions
• French demonstrators: “What we say is ignored, they don’t give a damn about us”
• Israeli officials threaten to assassinate Palestinian prime minister
• Judge rejects government demand for Google search terms
• Attack on public housing tenants
  New York to impose fees on poor to cover budget deficit
• North American protests mark third anniversary of Iraq war
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Report on Latin American perspectives
  Part Two
• Thousands march in antiwar rallies in Australia and Asia
• Witchhunt of Sri Lankan newspaper for allegedly breaching “national security”

21 March 2006

• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Artistic and cultural problems in the current situation
  Part One
• Australia: Cyclone Larry leaves thousands homeless and destroys livelihoods
• Britain: The “loans for peerages” scandal and the terminal decline of New Labour
• Bush administration refuses to collect penalties for mine safety violations
• Condoleezza Rice visits Australia and Indonesia to tighten US ties against China
• France: Dispute escalates over “First Job Contract”
• France: Dispute escalates over “First Job Contract”
• Marine recruiters accused of rape: California high school students file suit
• Religion and science: a reply to a right-wing attack on philosopher Daniel Dennett
• Socialist Equality Party announces candidates in New York, Michigan and California
• Socialist Equality Party announces candidates in New York, Michigan and California
• Sri Lanka: 300,000 public sector workers strike for higher pay
• Turkey: public prosecutor accuses general of involvement in terrorist attacks

22 March 2006

• A comment on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
  Part One
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Artistic and cultural problems in the current situation
  Part Two
• Australia: Pre-selection brawls demonstrate Labor’s internal rot
• Britain: Inquiry details inhumane treatment of children in prison
• Bush says US troops to remain in Iraq indefinitely
• FBI agent testifies: Bureau resisted Moussaoui investigation before 9/11 attacks
• France: Police assault leaves protesting worker in coma
• Polish President Kaczynski visits Berlin
• Tense confrontation continues between Thai prime minister and protestors

23 March 2006

• A comment on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
  Part Two
• Australian Workers Union washes its hands of Boeing workers
• China’s new five-year plan: a mixture of futile hopes and false promises
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Democratic rights and the attack on constitutionalism
• France: University and high school students continue anti-government protests
• GM, Delphi, US autoworkers’ union agree to massive job-cutting program
• Israel announces plans to annex more Palestinian land
• Letters from our readers
• New York Times details secret US military torture operation
• On orders from prime minister’s department and police: Australian web site shut down

24 March 2006

• Britain: Blair sets out ideological justification for new wars of aggression
• India’s pro-investor plans for urban renewal
• Iraq’s “National Security Council”: a move toward open dictatorship
• Mass student protests in France: trade unions come to Villepin’s rescue
• Music wins battle over barbarism, if only for a moment
• New York Times columnist Frank Rich at the University of Michigan: thin gruel
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  South Asia and the political bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism and Stalinism
• The French Popular Front of 1936: Historical lessons in the “First Job Contract” struggle
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

25 March 2006

• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Africa and the perspective of international socialism
  Part One
• An administration in deepening crisis: Some reflections on the Bush press conference
• Appalling conditions continue in China’s toy factories
• France: Mass movement against “First Job Contract” in danger
  Trade unions meet with prime minister
• France: May-June 1968 and today
• Labor wins Australian state elections with business backing
• Netherlands: Government suffers heavy losses in local election
• Peter Watkins’ Edvard Munch: Diagnosing panic and dread
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

27 March 2006

• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Africa and the perspective of international socialism
  Part Two
• Australia: Howard’s draconian industrial relations laws come into operation today
• Britain: More evidence suggests July 7 bombings were preventable
• Confused, not thought through: V for Vendetta
• France: Students and workers prepare mobilisation against government’s “First Job Contract”
• Strikebreakers in the trade union leadership
  Germany: Verdi union boss attacks striking doctors
• More than a million march in Los Angeles, other US cities in defense of immigrant rights
• Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
  Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, Miegunyah Press
• State authorities threaten to impose contract on New York transit workers
• Terrible conditions facing workers in Asian ship-breaking yards
• Union orchestrates end to Ontario college teachers’ strike
• Wagging the dog in Belarus

28 March 2006

• Australia: Anger mounts over government response to Cyclone Larry
• Local government employees in Britain strike to defend pension provision
  For a European-wide strategy to defend workers’ social gains
• France: Fight vs. “First Job Contract” raises need for new working class leadership
• Iraq: US mosque massacre deepens occupation’s crisis
• Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
  Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, Miegunyah Press
• Spain: Bomb threats and funding cuts follow theatre show
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
  Part One
• US home foreclosures on the rise
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

29 March 2006

• As mass demonstrations continue, Republicans split over anti-immigration bill
• Australian parliament embraces Blair’s lies and hypocrisy
• Britain: Drug trial leaves volunteers seriously ill
  Scientist attacks lax regulatory regime
• Britain: More than one million strike over cuts in pension provision, but unions limit protest
• Ex-radical stands for Colombo mayor on ticket of Sri Lankan ruling coalition
• France: Millions of workers and students strike against Gaullist government
• Más de un millón marchan en Los Ángeles y otras ciudades de Estados Unidos en defensa de los derechos de los inmigrantes
• The Ukrainian parliamentary elections and the fraud of the “Orange Revolution”
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
  Part Two
• Thousands of students walk out of schools in Southern California to protest anti-immigration legislation
• Socialist Equality Party public meetings
  Three years since the invasion of Iraq: historical lessons and political perspectives

30 March 2006

• Beijing’s new moral model: from peasant soldier to middle class consumer
• France: Unions appeal to President Chirac to resolve “First Job Contract” crisis
• Despite vote declines for CDU and SPD
  German coalition parties hail state elections as mandate for anti-social “reforms”
• Letters from our readers
• Local government elections in Sri Lanka heighten political instability
• Miles de estudiantes abandonan sus escuelas en el sur de California para manifestarse en contra de la legislación anti inmigrante
• Narrow victory for Kadima in Israeli elections
• Political crisis deepens in Brazil: The rise and fall of Palocci
• Puerto Rico sues FBI for stonewalling probe of independentista’s murder
• Thousands of students walk out of schools in Southern California to protest anti-immigration legislation
• White House chief of staff steps down

31 March 2006

• Amnesty International reports 152 taser-related deaths in the US
  Electric shock becomes accepted police procedure
• Britain: Breast cancer patient’s legal challenge highlights rationing of health care
• Seven years after US-led war on Yugoslavia
  Deadlocks continue at Kosovo final status talks
  Part One
• Democrats unveil midterm election platform: a blueprint for endless war
• France: “First Job Contract” legislation approved by Constitutional Council
• Record attendance at Leipzig Book Fair
  Peter Schwarz presents new German edition of Trotsky’s In Defence of Marxism
• Theodore Draper—American historian and social critic
• UN Security Council bows to US pressure for a statement against Iran
• US: Plan to drive homeless out of downtown Richmond, Virginia
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa