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Archive: October 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 October 2004

• The Balkans continue to fracture
  Part 2
• Bush-Kerry debate: two candidates committed to war
• Prisoner releases expose illegal nature of Guantanamo Bay detentions
• America’s oligarchy in the mirror of the debacle in Iraq
• Democratic keynote speaker Barack Obama calls for missile strikes on Iran
• Washington’s policy of sadism and sexual abuse: excerpts from Seymour Hersh’s Chain of Command

2 October 2004

• Afghanistan’s presidential election: a mockery of democracy
• Britain: Labour Party conference endorses occupation of Iraq
• Toronto International Film Festival 2004
  Interview with Bahman Ghobadi, director of Turtles Can Fly
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate to speak in London
  SEP/World Socialist Web Site public meeting: the US elections and the war against Iraq
• Notice to WSWS readers in Australia: Socialist Equality Party election meetings
• Israel: General strike over unpaid salaries
• Toronto International Film Festival 2004-Part 3
  Orphaned by history
• Australia: SEP candidate for Werriwa, Mike Head, addresses university forum
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

4 October 2004

• Australia: Labor’s schools policy will further privatise education
• German interior minister bans Islamic conference
• US troops storm Iraqi city of Samarra
• SEP candidate on Illinois public radio
• Nigerian government launches assault on civilians in Delta region
• SEP presents evidence of voter disenfranchisement in Ohio ballot case
• SEP campaigns in Mark Latham’s seat:
  War, social conditions dominate discussion in Australian working class

5 October 2004

• Fifteen years after fall of Berlin wall:
  50,000 march to oppose cutbacks in Germany
• Contradictions of Bush-Kerry debate: pro-war candidates confront debacle in Iraq and antiwar sentiment at home
• Lessons of Peter Garrett’s evolution: from radical activist to Australian Labor politician
• Israeli offensive in Gaza kills, wounds hundreds
• Australia: SEP holds public meeting in Werriwa in lead up to federal election
• SEP Congressional candidate Jerome White speaks on children’s health issues
• The historical basis of socialism
  Nick Beams addresses Australian SEP election meeting
• The international crisis of capitalism and the bankruptcy of the “social market economy”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 October 2004

• Britain: Guantanamo detainee alleges “vindictive torture” and murder
• Democrat Edwards backs war, austerity in vice presidential debate
• Indonesian editor jailed under repressive libel laws
• Kodak to shut Australian plant and destroy hundreds of jobs
• Defence witnesses at Milosevic trial refuse to testify
• Ohio appeals court upholds exclusion of SEP candidates

7 October 2004

• Australia: an exchange on Sydney’s Claymore housing estate
• German war crimes in Italy: part one
  Sixty years since the massacre at Sant’ Anna di Stazzema
• Indian Stalinists’ alliance with the Congress-led UPA: a trap for the working class
• Locusts threaten food supplies in North West Africa
• The socialist alternative to war and inequality
  Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party in the Australian elections
• US uses Israel as its proxy to threaten Syria
• Toronto International Film Festival 2004: Part four
  Some things are difficult, but they need to be done

8 October 2004

• Aboriginal health and social crisis ignored in Australian election campaign
• Australia: campaign in Batman differentiates SEP from all other parties
• German war crimes in Italy: part two
  Nazi terror and the resistance in Italy
• Medicine and the market: the Vioxx and flu vaccine debacles
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• Iraq WMD report proves Bush, Democrats lied to justify Iraq war

9 October 2004

• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Australia: arts funding crisis ignored in federal election
• Letters from our readers
• Kerry plugs his conservative credentials in second presidential debate
• German war crimes in Italy: part three
  A scorched-earth policy
• Israel: Top adviser reveals Sharon set out to sabotage peace talks
• Israel: Top adviser reveals Sharon set out to sabotage peace talks
• Italy carries out mass deportation of refugees
• Socialist Equality Party US presidential candidate to speak in Sri Lanka
  SEP/World Socialist Web Site public meetings: the US election and the war against Iraq

11 October 2004

• Crisis in the US airlines industry: the case for public ownership
• Australia: Howard government returned, courtesy of Labor
• A sincere and evocative protest
  Letters to Ali, directed by Clara Law
• Clara Law speaks with WSWS
  “Australia’s inhuman treatment of asylum seekers has to be confronted”
• Russia-Georgia tensions worsen following Beslan siege
• Spain: PSOE government promises limited amnesty to immigrants

12 October 2004

• Afghanistan election descends into farce
• US election stokes fears of military draft
• Australian elections: the media rewrites history
• More terror arrests in Spain, but still no evidence presented
• Toronto International Film Festival 2004—Part 5
  Limited range
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

13 October 2004

• Blair visits Africa
• Republican governor vetoes minimum wage increase
  Democrats, unions capitulate to new attacks by Schwarzenegger on California workers
• FBI shuts down 20 antiwar web sites: an unprecedented act of Internet censorship
• Koizumi reshuffles Japanese cabinet to pursue right-wing agenda
• The New York Times and the road to war
• Some of Hitler’s unwilling victims
  Rosenstrasse, directed by Margarethe von Trotta

14 October 2004

• Letters from our readers
• Australia continues to pressure East Timor on oil and gas
• A painter of raw nerve: Leon Golub, 1922-2004
• Legal fight to place socialist candidates on November ballot
  SEP challenges ballot access laws in Ohio Supreme Court
• Union hobbles Canada-wide federal workers strike
• An exchange with the Australian’s Iraq correspondent
• Britain: more lies over Iraq war
• Final presidential debate confirms: no choice for working people in Bush-Kerry contest

15 October 2004

• WSWS Chairman David North denounces Iraq war at Dublin debate
• German Green Party congress: a middle-class party of German imperialism
• Scottish National Party reelects Salmond as leader
• Communal protests inflame tensions in eastern Sri Lanka
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2004—Part 1
  Asian films and Asian life

16 October 2004

• Right-wing Christian party may gain the balance of power in Australian Senate
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Considerably more than a libertine
  The Libertine, directed by Laurence Dunmore
• Discontent rife in US military ranks
• Canada’s social democrats helping sustain big business Liberals in power
• SEP to hold public meetings in final weeks of 2004 US election campaign
• Aid workers charge political motives in US claim of “genocide” in Darfur

18 October 2004

• Haiti’s US-installed government cracks down on opponents
• US soldiers mutiny over “suicide mission” in Iraq
• More terror arrests in Spain, but still no evidence presented
• SEP campaigns for Sri Lankan meetings of US presidential candidate

19 October 2004

• Iraq’s nuclear-related equipment goes missing under the US occupation
• Big business spells out economic agenda for new Indonesian president
• German Opel workers: ”We cannot compete with wages of 3-4 euros”
• SEP presidential candidate addresses London meeting
• Germany: Opel cuts over 10,000 auto jobs
• SEP participates in third-party debate in Tennessee
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 October 2004

• Greyhound bus lines: stranding America’s poor in pursuit of profits
• Iraqi social crisis continues unabated as US slashes funding
• Israel moves to impede UN relief to Palestinians
• Group suicides in Japan: a symptom of social malaise
• Spain: Socialist Party government moves to rehabilitate Francoite fascists
• As early balloting begins: tensions build over Bush vote-suppression drive

21 October 2004

• Campaign material suppressed in Australian election
• Iraq: US assault underway on Fallujah
• France: murder of work inspectors reveals deepening social tensions
• Deaths of schoolchildren expose Israeli brutality
• The New York Times and the reservists in Iraq who said “No”
• SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken speaks to South Asian press in Sri Lanka
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2004—Part 2
  Once again, avoiding the more difficult problems

22 October 2004

• New Indian government demonstrates loyalty to Washington
• Four-day general strike in Nigeria
• The political issues facing Opel workers
• GM workers hold European-wide day of action against job cuts
• Spain pressured to strengthen border with North Africa
• Sri Lankan students and railway workers discuss US election campaign
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

23 October 2004

• Australia’s peak union body rules out opposition to Howard government’s agenda
• Letters from WSWS readers
• Minnesota senator closes Washington office, citing terrorist threat
• Britain agrees to troop redeployment to back Fallujah offensive
• Carl Cooley: SEP candidate for Congress
  Socialist campaign reaches thousands of Maine voters
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 October 2004

• Behind the military leadership changeover in China
• The New York Times and the Bush “disaster”
• Germany: union, works committee stifle Opel strike in Bochum
• Why is IG Metall sabotaging the struggle at Opel?
• Illinois SEP campaign reaches wide audience
  Candidate Tom Mackaman to speak at Thursday evening meeting on University of Illinois campus
• Australian elections: voting trends reveal deepening disaffection

26 October 2004

• London: lessons of the European Social Forum
• Historic resonances in German foreign minister’s statements
• The US flu vaccine crisis: a debacle for profit-based medicine
• Thousands of US elderly line up for flu shots
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2004—Part 3
  No answers yet to new problems

27 October 2004

• British MI6 agents named in Balkans
• Letters from WSWS readers
• Guerilla attacks increase as US forces continue air raids against Fallujah
• Australian foreign minister smears journalist kidnapped in Iraq
• SEP congressional candidate addresses workers, youth in Michigan
• Spain’s draft budget presages escalating social conflict

28 October 2004

• Missing explosives at Al Qaqaa: Bush caught in another Iraq war lie
• SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken to speak Saturday in New York
• Britain: government extends attack on defendants’ rights
• Lithuania: election sees low turnout, large gains for Labour Party
• US SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken addresses two meetings in Sri Lanka
• Following the SEP meetings in Colombo and Kandy
  Sri Lankans speak about the Iraq war, the US election and internationalism
• US elections: Republicans marshal “poll watchers” to suppress working class vote

29 October 2004

• US SEP presidential candidate addresses Sri Lanka meetings
  “Our campaign fights to unify workers internationally”
• An interview with Brian Deegan:
  “I wanted to voice my concerns over the Australian government’s illegal foreign policy”
• Britain: second inquest held into police shooting of Harry Stanley
• SEP congressional candidate John Christopher Burton speaks at LA-area debate
• Bid-rigging scandal envelops top insurance broker in US
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

12 October 2004

• US corporations continue to slash thousands of jobs

30 October 2004

• Arafat health drama: a symbol of Israel’s imprisonment of the Palestinian people
• US introduces sanctions against Belarus
• SEP election meeting in Cincinnati discusses attacks on voting rights
• Expanding Halliburton probe confirms Bush administration is most corrupt in US history
• As US prepares mass killings in Fallujah
  Study estimates 100,000 additional Iraqi deaths since the invasion
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 October 2004

• A correction to “British MI6 agents named in Balkans”