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Archive: April 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 April 2006

• British companies draw huge profits from occupied Iraq
• Bush administration presses for speedy adoption of Indo-US nuclear accord
• Seven years after US-led war on Yugoslavia
  Deadlocks continue at Kosovo final status talks
  Part Two
• Despite peace talks, Sri Lanka drifts towards civil war
• France: LCR’s Besancenot provides left cover for labour bureaucrats’ treachery
• France: President Chirac enacts “First Job Contract” legislation
• US Supreme Court hearing on Guantánamo tribunals bares attacks on basic rights
• US auto supplier Delphi moves to cancel union contracts
• US media reacts to French protests with hatred and fear
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• After new details on FBI cover-up before 9/11
  Zaccarias Moussaoui case goes to the jury

3 April 2006

• Forbes’s billionaires list and the growth of inequality in Russia
• France: Crisis deepens over government’s “First Job Contract” legislation
• Letters from our readers
• Melbourne’s Commonwealth Games: glitter covering glaring inequality
• The way forward for Sri Lankan public sector workers
• US secretary of state meets angry Iraq war protests in England
• Winslow Homer (1836-1910): Poet of the Sea

4 April 2006

• A closer Russia-China “strategic partnership” cemented with oil and gas
• A socialist strategy for workers’ power: the only answer to France’s “First Job Contract”
• CPE à la Merkel: Job protection laws to be gutted in Germany
• France: University and high school students demand general strike
• SEP candidate in California: Extend full rights to all immigrants!
• Tensions between Australia and Indonesia over asylum for Papuan activists
• US-British diktat makes mockery of “democracy” in Iraq
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• World Trade Center tapes expose chaos of September 11 response

5 April 2006

• Democrats duck Senate hearing on Bush censure motion
• France: As millions protest government attacks, unions signal retreat on “First Job Contract”
• German engineering workers stage warning strikes
• National tensions at EU summit centre on energy demands
• New Zealand: young workers campaign for better pay and conditions
• New phone-tapping powers in Australia
• SEP candidate in California: Extend full rights to all immigrants!
• Supreme Court shirks Padilla appeal against “enemy combatant” detention
• Thai prime minister steps down in bid to defuse political crisis
• Declaración de John C. Burton, Candidato del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad
  ¡Extender todos los derechos a los inmigrantes!

6 April 2006

• Air Force colonel publicly rebukes US Supreme Court justice
• Australian state government launches new wave of school closures
• Behind the collapse of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution”
• Discontent grows against Kurdish nationalist regime in northern Iraq
• Europe’s energy crisis sharpens antagonisms with Russia
• French unions hold talks with government in move to end “First Job Contract” strikes
• Turkey: Twelve dead and hundreds injured in Kurdish protests

7 April 2006

• Australian man jailed on evidence derived from torture
• France: Protests lodged with Gaullist government over police provocations
• Parliamentary elections in Italy
  Mudslinging obscures lack of alternative
• Sri Lanka: As 200,000 workers stop work, unions prepare to retreat on pay demand
• The resignation of Tom DeLay and the crisis of the US two-party system
• Three years after looting of Iraqi National Museum: an official whitewash of US crime
• Wisconsin towns vote for immediate US military withdrawal from Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

8 April 2006

• Anti-immigrant politics kill “reform” bill in US Senate
• Britain: Inquiry into death in custody whitewashes racist police brutality
• Bush approved security leak to smear Iraq war critic
• Canada: Conservative Throne Speech promotes social reaction and militarism
• Local elections in Sri Lanka set stage for further political turmoil
• North Carolina man tells Bush certain simple truths
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

10 April 2006

• Anti-immigrant politics kill “reform” bill in US Senate
• Letters from our readers
• New charges of genocide against Hussein over Kurdish “Anfal” campaign
• Política anti inmigrante mata proyecto de ley "reformista" en el Senado
• US-China trade tensions escalate
• Washington considering nuclear strikes against Iran
• Western concern at China’s growing involvement in Africa

11 April 2006

• Canada: Security certificates overturn long-standing democratic rights
• Daniel Pipes and the unfolding civil war in Iraq
• French government withdraws “First Job Contract,” enlists unions in assault on job security
• MI5 colluded with CIA extraordinary renditions from Britain
• The Delphi crisis: Socialism and the American autoworker
• US-India deal on agricultural research: no benefit for India’s rural poor
• US: Over a million protest against anti-immigrant legislation
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

12 April 2006

• Australia: Employers rush to use draconian new industrial relations laws
• CEO pay in US continues its relentless climb in 2005
• Center-left alliance wins Italian election by razor-thin majority
• France: How Lutte Ouvrière aids unions’ betrayal of struggle vs. Gaullist regime
• France: Protests continue despite government retreat on “First Job Contract”
• German politicians propagate xenophobia in reaction to Berlin school violence
• Spike Lee’s Inside Man: Asking for so little
• Use of police infiltrators raises fresh questions about “terrorist” raids in Australia
• Widespread protests erupt against Nepal’s King Gyanendra

13 April 2006

• Australian SEP public meetings discuss third anniversary of Iraq war
• Desperate African immigrants risk crossing to Canary Islands
• Inquests find Israeli military guilty of killings of British civilians
• Letters from our readers
• Sophie Scholl: The last days in the life of a German anti-fascist
• The Iraq war and the eruption of American imperialism
  Part One
• US threats against Iran—the specter of nuclear barbarism

14 April 2006

• Canada bans LTTE under draconian anti-terrorist legislation
• France: Victim of smear campaign, worker injured in anti-CPE protest emerges from coma
• Gerhard Schröder, Gazprom and German foreign policy
• Leak investigation puts spotlight on Bush war lies
• Mexican workers fired for attending immigrant rights rally in Detroit
• Papuan “crisis” sparks debate over Australian intervention
• The Iraq war and the eruption of American imperialism
  Part Two
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

15 April 2006

• An American oligarch: Former Exxon CEO leaves company with massive payout
• Detroit mayor demands city’s poor foot bill for garbage pick-up
• In wake of state elections
  German Greens, Conservatives draw closer together
• Rumsfeld and the generals: Splits, recriminations over Iraq debacle
• Substandard conditions for institutionalised children in Sri Lanka
• Background to the recent events in France
  The “Lisbon Strategy” and the European trade unions
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

17 April 2006

• A closer look at Kierkegaard
• Australian television program highlights censorship of climate scientists
• Behind the Indian press’s adulation of Sonia Gandhi
• Francie: Milióny lidí protestují proti „První pracovní smlouv&;", odbory nazna&;ují ústup
• Germany: Social Democratic Party loses another chairman
• Indian Supreme Court gives green light to sell off Mumbai mill lands
• The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain—Part 1

18 April 2006

• A mixture of technical know-how, moral anger, and all-American barbaric yawp
  Kienholz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• British government restricts recruitment of non-EU doctors
• Fall, but no decline
  The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History
• Growing unrest in Indonesian Papua
• Lawsuit details AT&T; cooperation in illegal government spying on Americans
• New Zealand government extends Afghanistan military operations
• Substandard conditions for institutionalised children in Sri Lanka
• The ETA ceasefire, the Catalan Statute and the fracturing of Spain—Part 2
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

19 April 2006

• Britain: Documentary reveals plan for coup against Wilson Labour government—Part 1
• The economics of militarism
  Hillary Clinton outlines Democrats’ big business agenda
• Letters from our readers
• New York City: random searches for public school students
• Sri Lankan peace talks on the verge of collapse
• The very rich in America: “The kind of money you cannot comprehend”
• “A mixture of technical know-how, moral anger, and all-American barbaric yawp”
  Kienholz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

20 April 2006

• Britain unprepared for bird flu threat
• Britain: Documentary reveals plan for coup against Wilson Labour government—Part 2
• Poor conditions in East Timor spark riot by sacked soldiers
• SEP candidate John Burton to speak at public meeting in Pasadena, California
• Tel Aviv suicide bombing: An atrocity that benefits Zionism and imperialism
• The Lula government and the “new ruling class”
  The definitive bankruptcy of centrism in Brazil
• The generals’ revolt and the decay of US democracy
• Dennis Gansel’s Before the Fall
  Training schools for Hitler’s “Thousand-Year Reich”

21 April 2006

• Australian troops dispatched to Solomon Islands to suppress local population
• More revelations of US profiteering and corruption in Iraq
• Shiite leader bows to US demands as Iraq slides further into civil war
• Michael Haneke’s Caché
  The artist has not done the most difficult work
• In wake of mass immigrant protests
  US government arrests record numbers in factory raids
• Socialism, culture and American political life:
  WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh to speak in San Francisco
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

22 April 2006

• A mea culpa on Iraq by pro-war journalist Johann Hari
• British military doctor court martialed for refusing to serve in Iraq
• Letters from our readers
• Union faces millions in fines, jailing of president
  Reprisals against New York transit workers show need for a new political strategy
• Sri Lankan president recruits union leaders to police public sector workers
• White House shuffle: Bush shifts personnel but continues program of war and reaction
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

24 April 2006

• Chinese president’s visit underscores Washington-Beijing tensions
• Four months after Sydney’s racial violence: government campaign continues against Middle Eastern youth
• French Polynesian president faces deepening crisis over pro-independence comments
• Pension cuts and inequality wiping out retirement for American workers
• Peru: Nationalist ex-officer Humala to face APRA’s Garcia in runoff election
• Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party to hold May Day meeting in Colombo

25 April 2006

• Global growth rates rise, but the foundations are shaky
• Indian Stalinists reaffirm support for UPA government
• Police kill strikers
  Mexico: Armed siege of steel mill reveals escalating class war
• Nepalese king bows to mass protests and offers to recall parliament
• US: Students protest juvenile’s death in Florida “boot camp”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

26 April 2006

• A socialist response to the massive rise in fuel prices
• Behind the installation of Jawad al-Maliki as Iraqi prime minister
• By-elections fail to end Thai political crisis
• Egypt: Report on ferry disaster condemns official corruption
• Gazprom threat increases tensions in Europe
• Racial demagogy mars New Orleans mayoral election
• Solomon Islands PM quits amid mounting opposition to Australian occupation
• Union leader jailed for New York City transit strike

27 April 2006

• Bush courts Azerbaijani president as part of build-up against Iran
• Jenissa Ryan: the violent death of an Australian aboriginal teenager
• Letters from our readers
• Open warfare erupts in Sri Lanka
• Deal on US bases sought
  Rumsfeld, Rice fly to Baghdad to back new prime minister
• US: Chief Democrat on ethics panel hit by corruption charges

28 April 2006

• Amnesty International report exposes European complicity in secret US rendition programme
  Part 1: The fate of three Yemenis
• As support for Bush plummets, no alternative from Democrats
• Australia: New evidence of safety concerns as hopes fade for miners trapped underground
• Britain: Blair denounces liberal critics for opposing attacks on democratic rights
• Fox News commentator becomes White House spokesman—a further turn to the right
• India: government policies lead to terrible toll in rural suicides
• Job cuts begin in New Zealand as economy shrinks
• SEP meeting launches California ballot drive

29 April 2006

• A letter on Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
• Amnesty International documents European complicity in secret US rendition programme
  Part 2: Collaborating with CIA kidnappers
• Britain: Government faces rising anger over jobs cut in National Health Service
• Canada: Bloc Québécois props up Conservative government
• France: Government launches assault on immigrants
• Hillary Clinton, the Democrats and the Iraq war: A socialist alternative
• Lies surround first death of an Australian soldier in Iraq
• Survivor of West Virginia mine disaster says respirators failed to work
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

4 July 2006

• French workers in revolt

5 September 2008

• French workers in revolt