Archive: December 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 December 2005
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Socialist Equality Party public meeting
Australian anti-terror laws: framework of a police state - Bush, Democrats back protracted war in Iraq
- Chemical spill pollutes water supply in north-eastern China
- Deutsche Telekom to slash 32,000 jobs
- Probe exposes criminal methods in Republican right takeover of US Public TV
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Film festivals in Cottbus and Neubrandenburg
Realism and nostalgia
Part 1—Documentary films - Republican Congressman pleads guilty in bribe scheme
- Sri Lanka: LTTE Heroes Day speech reveals an organisation in crisis
- Staggering death rate for youth in Chicago juvenile justice system
- The Wall Street Journal and the case of Jose Padilla
2 December 2005
- Australian government insists on sedition clauses in new terrorism legislation
- Italy’s constitutional “reform”: the gravedigger of post-war democracy
- Kidnapping, detention, torture: US “renditions” scandal embroils whole of Europe
- Merck announces 7,000 layoffs—continued attack on jobs and wages in US
- New Sri Lankan president confronts same impasse as predecessor
- Repression in southern Thailand provokes recriminations against Thaksin government
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Made in the USA “free press” in Iraq
US military covertly pays to plant stories in Iraqi media - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
3 December 2005
- A grim US milestone: 1,000th execution since 1976
- Britain: Two charged under Secrets Act for leaking Bush threat to bomb Al Jazeera
- Factional infighting in Sri Lankan opposition following electoral defeat
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Film festivals in Cottbus and Neubrandenburg
Part 2—Feature films - Ford to close five North American plants, cut 7,500 jobs
- Germany: Protests against Samsung factory closure
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An act of barbarism
Nguyen Tuong Van executed in Singapore - Profit-driven Medicare drug plan stirs confusion and anger
- US press echoes consensus in ruling elite to continue slaughter in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 December 2005
- Britain’s education white paper: A recipe for privatisation and social selection
- Chinese mine disaster kills at least 164
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Document puts lie to oil executives’ testimony
Did Big Oil participate in planning invasion of Iraq? - France: Anti-terrorism legislation tramples on civil liberties
- Second disaster looming for millions of Kashmir earthquake victims
- Ten Marines killed in Fallujah blast: more carnage in a colonialist war
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The rise of the religious right in Australia
God Under Howard by Marion Maddox
6 December 2005
- Australia: James Hardie demands more concessions on asbestos compensation deal
- Bush uses World AIDS Day to push Christian right agenda
- Germany: Grand coalition leader Merkel sugar-coats program of social cuts
- India takes a more direct hand in Sri Lankan affairs
- India: floods kill hundreds in Tamil Nadu
- Rice defends illegal “renditions,” threatens to reveal European complicity
- Week one of Canada’s federal election campaign—posturing, demagogy and reaction
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Democrat denounces opposition to Iraq war
What is troubling Joe Lieberman? - Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 December 2005
- A valuable and compelling antiwar film
- Bush, Rice defend US abductions, torture, secret prisons
- Killing of Sri Lankan soldiers heightens tensions on Jaffna peninsula
- Letters from our readers
- Mass protest in Hong Kong against new chief executive
- Study finds hundreds of toxic chemicals in umbilical cords of newborns
- Venezuelan vote boycott: Washington paves road to intervention
8 December 2005
- Australia: thousands attend funeral for Van Nguyen
- Britain: Former law lord says US “guilty of lawlessness on a truly grand scale”
- Palestinian activist Sami Al-Arian acquitted on charges in Florida
- Report outlines plans for corporate plunder of Iraqi oil
- Sri Lankan president installs unstable minority government
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The Democratic Party and the struggle against the Iraq war
A reply to a reader - The fate of hostage Susanne Osthoff and the role of the German government
- US: Verizon to freeze defined-benefit pensions for 50,000 managers
9 December 2005
- A day in the life of a Sri Lankan tea worker
- Australia: Labor puts profits ahead of children’s health at Port Pirie
- European governments make their peace with Washington on abductions, torture
- German Chancellor Merkel covers up for illegal CIA practices
- Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize speech: a brave artist speaks the truth about US imperialism
- John McCain in Ann Arbor: a cowardly evasion on US war crimes
- Left press in France all but ignores Sarkozy’s Anti-Terrorist Bill
- Letter on the UAW from a former US auto worker
- Miami airplane shooting: Washington’s “war on terrorism” comes home
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
10 December 2005
- Australian treasurer steps up ideological offensive against welfare recipients
- Auto union’s complaint: Delphi exec bonuses make it tough to sell wage cuts
- Eyewitnesses refute official story in fatal shooting of passenger at Miami airport
- Letters from our readers
- Saddam Hussein hearings: a show trial orchestrated in Washington
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Strikebreaking threats as contract deadline nears
Transit dispute exposes New York City’s class divide - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 December 2005
- Explosions rip through British oil depot
- Government and media provocations spark racist violence on Sydney beaches
- New York City transit workers vote to authorize strike
- Rigoberto Alpizar and Jean Charles de Menezes: Two victims of state “anti-terror” killings
- Spain’s largest trial targets Basque separatist ETA
- Sri Lankan government announces a phoney “pro-poor” budget
- WTO trade talks head for a stalemate
13 December 2005
- Bush aides suppressed challenges to anti-democratic election plans
- Deal to renew USA Patriot Act extends police-state measures
- German Chancellor Merkel’s state visit to Poland: you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours
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As Australian media covers up Howard’s role
Racial violence continues in Sydney - Taiwan: ruling party suffers heavy losses in local elections
- The execution of Stanley Tookie Williams
- Workers’ Struggles: The Americas
14 December 2005
- An interview with Sigfrido Ranucci, director of The Hidden Massacre
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In wake of racial violence in Sydney
Australian state government prepares savage attack on democratic rights - Britain’s law lords reject use of torture evidence
- Iraq elections: a democratic façade for a US puppet state
- Le Parti Québécois chooses André Boisclair as its new leader—a further shift to the right
- New Delhi presses ahead with plans for an Indian “Suez Canal”
- Three months after the Katrina disaster: New Orleans left for dead
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Thousands protest outside San Quentin
Worldwide outrage over execution of Stanley Tookie Williams
15 December 2005
- Australian government tries to censor Indonesian film festival
- Britain: President of the Royal Society makes outspoken defence of science
- British newspaper alleges Israel is planning a military strike on Iran
- Chinese police massacre protestors in Guangdong
- Germany: Ex-Chancellor Schröder launches corporate career
- Letters from our readers
- Pentagon’s domestic spying operations target opponents of Iraq war
- Slovenia: Protests against government reforms
16 December 2005
- Canada: Martin wraps himself in the Maple Leaf after scolding from US envoy
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US ambassador “will remain the critical behind-the-scenes power,” says New York Times
Iraqi election to rubber-stamp continued US occupation - Israel: Shimon Peres joins Sharon’s new party
- Letters on the killing of Rigoberto Alpizar
- New Zealand: new Labour-led government under pressure for more market reform
- The political issues confronting New York City transit workers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
17 December 2005
- Australian government unveils military restructure and new callout powers
- Document proves European Union agreed to CIA rendition flights
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The case of Khalid al-Masri
German government complicit in the criminal activities of the CIA - Letters from our readers
- McCain-Bush “anti-torture” measure gives legal cover for continued abuse
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After rejecting MTA’s “final offer”
New York City transit union calls selective strikes - Sri Lanka: police raids against CWC leaders
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 December 2005
- Australia: Unions isolate locked-out Boeing workers
- Bush defends illegal spying on Americans: the specter of presidential dictatorship
- France: New law requires teachers to present a “positive” account of French colonialism
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“Life is good for the wealthy”
Germany: Social inequality is constantly growing - New York City transit workers on brink of class confrontation
- US House passes draconian anti-immigrant bill
- WTO talks keep trade round on life support
20 December 2005
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“My film is not a national propaganda tool”
An interview with Tolga Ornëk, director of Gallipoli: The Front Line Experience - Australia: Major companies continue layoffs as economy slows
- Britain: Facts and myths about Turner’s plans for pensions
- Bush uses lies, fear-mongering to defend war in Iraq, police state measures at home
- Germany: Sacked Opel worker appeals to Industrial Court
- Indian government steps into Nepalese political crisis
- New York City transit workers defy threats and strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 December 2005
- After the Iraq election: Washington steps in to shape the next government
- Australia: Beach suburbs “locked down” in weekend police blitz
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Britain: Facts and myths about Turner’s plans for pensions
Part 2 - Court rules teaching of Intelligent Design unconstitutional in public schools
- German Interior Minister Schäuble wants to lock up “dangerous people”
- New York transit workers set up picket lines: “Today’s strike is for all working people”
- Sri Lankan military fires on Jaffna university protest
- The New York transit strike: A new stage in the class struggle
- With the White House defiant on illegal spying: Why no outcry for Bush’s impeachment?
22 December 2005
- India: Dozens killed in second stampede at Chennai flood relief centre
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on three months since Hurricane Katrina
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New York City transit workers defiant
“Bloomberg and his friends are the thugs, not us” - New York transit strikers confront escalating attacks
- Northern Ireland spy scandal: Questions Sinn Fein must answer
- The class issues behind Australia’s race riots
- Time names super-rich trio as 2005 “Persons of the Year”
23 December 2005
- Behind the media onslaught on the transit workers
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Christmas in New York
Billions in bonuses for Wall Street execs, mayor denounces “selfish” transit workers - EU budget talks reveal mounting European conflicts
- East Asian Summit plagued by tension and rivalry
- Letters on the New York transit strike
- Quebec government adopts draconian law against half-million public sector workers
- Sydney’s racial violence: a warning from Sri Lanka
- The sudden end of the New York transit strike: A preliminary assessment
- US Senate passes budget bill slashing social programs
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
24 December 2005
- Bush employs “Big Lie” technique to defend illegal spying on Americans
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Global criminality
Syriana, written and directed by Stephen Gaghan -
India’s foreign policy struggle intensifies
Natwar Singh forced from cabinet - International donor group for Sri Lanka issues menacing threat to LTTE
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Marx and democratic rights
Tony Evans, The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective - New York City transit strike was quashed by the unions
- New York City transit strike was quashed by the unions
- New York City transit worker speaks: “They’re churning up the next American revolution”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Worst hospital fire in China since 1949
28 December 2005
- British court rules Guantánamo detainee David Hicks entitled to UK citizenship
- California Democratic Party works to prop up Schwarzenegger administration
- Germany: Court penalises Opel worker
- Latin American mercenaries guarding Baghdad’s Green Zone
- Liberal philistinism revisited: Richard Cohen on Syriana
- Signs of social and economic crisis across Pacific Island states
- Spain: Auto unions agree redundancies at SEAT
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The futile pursuit of reformism
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
29 December 2005
- Harold Pinter’s artistic achievement
- Letters from our readers
- Maruthamunai: a tsunami-devastated village in Sri Lanka
- New Orleans police gun down mentally ill man
- One year after the tsunami, Sri Lankan survivors still live in squalour
- Sri Lankan SEP to commemorate anniversary of Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
- Tentative contract a setback for New York City transit workers
- US, UN dismiss claims of electoral fraud in Iraq
30 December 2005
- Art as humanization
- David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2005
- Eugene McCarthy, dead at 89, played pivotal role in 1968 political crisis
- Historical and political issues behind Iranian president’s anti-Semitic campaign
- India’s tsunami victims abandoned
- Indonesian court implicates intelligence agency in murder of human rights activist
- Israel mounts air attacks on Gaza and Lebanon
- Pre-election terror and repression in Haiti
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
31 December 2005
- Britain: National Health Service faces funding crisis
- Canada: Liberal campaign side-swiped by insider-trading allegations
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Greens vs. Lefts
Germany: a revealing debate on Sudan military deployment - New reports expose extensive illegal spying by US government
- One year after the Asian tsunami: an indictment of the profit system
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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