Archive: January 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 January 2005
3 January 2005
- The drug industry’s chokehold on America’s health care
- Torture practices in the German army
- Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific
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On-the-spot report from Sri Lanka
Working with a medical team in Hambantota - The Asian tsunami: why there were no warnings
4 January 2005
- Britain: police given new powers against the young
- South Asia disaster appeal: White House tries to cover up Bush’s moment of truth
- Germany: leniency for deputy police chief who threatened torture
- India: over 14,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced
- Artie Shaw: a remarkable twentieth-century American life
- Two prisoners shot dead as the tsunami hit Sri Lanka
5 January 2005
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In the wake of tsunami calamity
Indonesian army steps up war in Aceh -
Death toll reaches 185
Demonstrators demand “justice” in Argentine nightclub blaze - Tsunami disaster strips away Blair’s humanitarian pretence
- Washington prepares international network of permanent detention camps
- Four films
- New Zealand parliament passes Civil Union Bill
- US government makes closing arguments in frame-up of New York attorney Lynne Stewart
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
6 January 2005
- European Union continues to build a “fortress Europe”
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As 109th Congress reconvenes
Bush to resubmit ultra-right judicial nominees -
Leading critics detained
Beijing tightens political control over dissent - Letters on the tsunami disaster
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Powell declares tsunami aid part of global war on terror
Imperialism in Samaritan’s clothing - Romania: elections in Europe’s poorhouse
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On-the-spot-report
Devastation on the east coast of Sri Lanka - US client Yushchenko to assume Ukraine presidency
7 January 2005
- A question and reply on the 1974 Heath government in Britain
- Gonzales hearings: Senate to confirm defender of torture as US attorney general
- Insurers relieved by low-level exposure to tsunami disaster
- El arresto de Pinochet en Chile y los asesinos del complot de la "Operación Cóndor" en Estados Unidos
- Hypocrisy and self interest at tsunami summit in Jakarta
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Broad Front reassures US and local elite
Uruguay: victorious left turns sharply to the right - Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
8 January 2005
- Tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka’s east speak to the WSWS
- “We’re all a pack of strays”
- WSWS journalist interviewed on Democracy Now! program
- Gonzales nomination hearing: US Senate welcomes a war criminal
- Iraq elections loom as debacle for US occupation
- Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific
20 January 2005
10 January 2005
- Democrats rubber-stamp Bush victory in Electoral College
- India: tsunami warnings could have been made
- People of war-ravaged Jaffna hit hard by tsunami
- Portugal: inquiry concludes bomb killed Prime Minister Carneiro in 1980
- Oil giant Yukos and the struggle for Russian energy sources
11 January 2005
- More letters on the tsunami disaster
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Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism
Part One - Sri Lankan medical student speaks about relief work among tsunami victims
- US defends “evidence” obtained through torture at hearing for Guantanamo prisoners
- Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 takes People’s Choice Award
- Spain: Popular Party seeks to destabilise Socialist Party government
- How much “aid” will reach the tsunami survivors?
12 January 2005
- Palestinian election: a travesty of democracy
- Extent of tsunami destruction along African coast slowly emerges
- US bankruptcy judge terminates contract of US Airways workers
- CBS purges producer, executives for anti-Bush broadcast
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Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism
Part Two - US military “mistake” claims 14 lives in occupied Iraq
- Under the guise of “humanitarianism”, US marines land in Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 January 2005
- Why this dishonest portrait of a despicable figure?
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Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism
Part Three -
“Support for our struggle is growing”
Father of Guantánamo Bay prisoner speaks with WSWS -
The “Salvador option”
Pentagon plans death squad terror in Iraq -
First-hand report from Sri Lanka
On a medical team to an LTTE-controlled area - US doctors tied to torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib
- Journalist took $240,000 to push Bush education program
14 January 2005
- After the 2004 US elections: the Socialist Equality Party and the struggle for the political independence of the working class
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A consensus choice for attacks on democratic rights
Bush nominates Chertoff to head Homeland Security Department - Detroit mayor demands mass layoffs and cuts in city services
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US releases Mamdouh Habib and four British prisoners from Guantánamo Bay
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Growing anxiety in US ruling circles over Iraq debacle
New York Times calls for postponing January 30 election - When more could have been more
- Report reveals the catastrophe in Sierra Leone and Liberia
- Sri Lankan president puts military in charge of relief operations
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The Asian Tsunami Disaster: Causes and Consequences
WSWS & Socialist Equality Party Public Meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
15 January 2005
- Brazil: profit and poverty fuel Amazon deforestation
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After the 2004 US elections: the Socialist Equality Party and the struggle for the political independence of the working class
Part Two - Australia’s disability pensioners to be “coerced” to work
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mbeki facilitates US-Sudan peace deal
- “Suicide by cop”: Marine provokes police shootout to avoid return to Iraq
- White House blocked Senate ban on torture
- España: comisión confirma conspiración de engaño para justificar guerra contra Irak
- En Uruguay la izquierda triunfante se vira vigorosamente hacia la derecha
17 January 2005
- Canada to lead chorus of support for sham election in Iraq
- Sri Lanka: the day the tsunami devastated Hambantota
- Rights group urges prosecution of Bush officials responsible for Iraq torture
- The invasion of Iraq and the crisis of American and world capitalism
- Portugal: political crisis deepens ahead of February elections
- Thai government puts tourism ahead of the poor in tsunami relief effort
18 January 2005
- China’s tsunami aid: political interests not humanitarian concern
- Letters from our readers
- Modigliani—an artist between worlds
- Christian right forces attack “blasphemous” British television comedy
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On-the-spot report
Hospital staff in tsunami-hit eastern Sri Lanka speak of their experiences - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US officially ends hunt for Iraqi WMD
19 January 2005
- Bush tells Washington Post he is not accountable for Iraq war lies
- Letters on a review of Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator
- South Indian fishing villages devastated by tsunami
- Abu Ghraib abuse trial shields Pentagon, White House war criminals
- Australia: James Hardie signs non-binding agreement on asbestos victims’ claims
- Massive police presence for Bush inauguration
- Klansman arrested in 1964 killings of civil rights workers
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Fredric Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated
At Venice’s Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
20 January 2005
- New Yorker journalist corroborates murder allegations against Iraq’s prime minister
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Death by “drowning”
Germany: another African immigrant dies in police custody - Inauguration Day 2005: imperial delusions and political reality
- Bush inauguration: corporate America throws a party
- US carrying out acts of war against Iran, magazine reports
- Australian policeman murdered in the Solomon Islands
21 January 2005
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Bush’s second inauguration
America’s day of shame - Australia: Labor opposition caves in on unfair dismissal legislation
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Four Britons released from Guantanamo
Lawyer charges “savage torture” at hands of US - Tsunami survivors in southern India speak to the WSWS
- Tens of thousands protest Bush inauguration in Washington
22 January 2005
- The death of Mandela’s son and the ANC’s AIDS policy
- Britain: rise in “superbug” cases linked to decrease in hospital cleaning staff
- Mass strikes by French public sector workers
- The logic of the irrational: Bush’s inaugural address and the global strategy of American imperialism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The absence of democratic sensibility in American filmmaking
- Spain: National talks break down as big business demands offensive on wages
- The social roots of the tsunami disaster
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
24 January 2005
- UK Labour government wracked by Blair-Brown feud
- US and Australian governments delay release of Guantánamo detainee
- Sri Lanka: the JVP’s bogus appeal for “unity” and “voluntary labour”
- British court martial bares war crimes against Iraqi civilians
25 January 2005
- Why has India blocked foreign tsunami aid to the Nicobar and Andaman islands?
- Europe alarmed by US threats against Iran
- France: strikes reveal lack of programme to fight austerity measures
- American media whitewashes Bush’s global bullying
- Film on African catastrophe conceals more than it reveals
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The Asian tsunami disaster: causes and consequences
WSWS and Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Colombo - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Beijing on heightened alert after the death of Zhao Ziyang
26 January 2005
- Academy fails to nominate Fahrenheit 9/11: Hollywood’s olive branch to Bush
- Sharp divisions in Jakarta over foreign presence in Aceh
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US occupation damages ancient sites at Babylon
Imperialism and cultural vandalism in Iraq - Letters from our readers
- David North to speak at Sydney bookshop event
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Los diarios de motocicleta
Cuando más pudo haber sido más -
Mounting provocations against Venezuela
Washington backs kidnapping of Colombian guerrilla exile in Caracas
27 January 2005
- Abkhazian elite come to settlement with Kremlin
- Iraq crisis dominates Bush press conference
- The Iraq election: a travesty of democracy
- The dawn of reformism in the US
- Australia: Labor’s crisis deepens as its new leader resigns, and quits politics
- Druba Jyoti Majumdar: pioneer Indian Trotskyist dies
- Two reports expose social conditions in Oregon
- Russia: wave of protests against welfare cuts
28 January 2005
- Cheney at Auschwitz: an insult to the memory of Nazism’s victims
- Australia’s tsunami aid package: neo-colonialism laced with hypocrisy
- Britain: government proposes house arrest of terror suspects
- Letters from our readers
- Eleven dead in southern California train derailment
- Anger over Sri Lankan government’s “rehabilitation” plans
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
29 January 2005
- Court martial of British soldiers hears allegations of abuse orders
- Congressional Democrats line up behind Bush request for $80 billion in war spending
- Report documents torture by US-backed Iraqi police
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany: redundancies loom at Opel
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US group files war crimes complaint in Germany against Rumsfeld
US defence secretary may skip Munich conference
31 January 2005
- Iraq elections set stage for deeper crisis of US occupation regime
- Germany: behind the ultra-right provocation in Saxony’s parliament
- El marxismo, el Comité Internacional y la ciencia de la perspectiva: un análisis histórico de la crisis del imperialismo estadounidense
- Sri Lankan president imposes anti-democratic emergency laws
13 January 2005
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