Archive: April 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 April 2005
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Fuel price rise in Indonesia triggers protests
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La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
Primera Parte - Appeals for wage restraint as New Zealand companies record huge profits
- Quebec student strike widens
- UNICEF study shows child poverty increasing in advanced countries
- Bush-appointed intelligence commission whitewashes war based on lies
2 April 2005
- Bush critics barred from “town hall” meetings on Social Security
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indonesian inquiry unearths conspiracy to murder civil rights activist
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La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
Segunda Parte -
WSWS/SEP public meeting in New York
The Terri Schiavo case and the crisis of politics and culture in the US - After Terri Schiavo’s death: new threats against democratic and constitutional rights
- Political tensions rise in Spain
- Britain: row over spending cuts hits Conservative election bid
4 April 2005
- Letters on the Terri Schiavo case
- French referendum on the European constitution: opinion polls point to defeat
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La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
Tercera Parte - A cynical twist in Australia’s mandatory refugee detention regime
- The case of Terri Schiavo and the crisis of politics and culture in the United States
- Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting in tsunami-affected Matara
5 April 2005
- Fox’s 24: propaganda thinly disguised as television programming
- UK government launches new plan for Africa
- Oil-for-food scandal: Washington’s preemptive strike on the UN
- Australia: huge police mobilisation against refugee protest
- March jobs report shows US “recovery” offers no relief for workers
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La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
Cuarta Parte - Workers Struggles: The Americas
6 April 2005
- Muted response by Canberra as Australian woman faces death penalty in Indonesia
- Letters from our readers
- British general election announced for May 5
- Burma visit highlights India’s “Look East” strategy
- The US media and the pope—an assault on the separation of church and state
- Ghost town
- Pope John Paul II: a political obituary
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Nevada: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository stalled
Government altered data on environmental dangers
7 April 2005
- Still no truth after year-long inquiry into British Army trainee deaths
- Letters on Terri Schiavo
- Germany: major churches, conservative opposition line up with US Christian right on Schiavo case
- Indian Stalinists reaffirm support for Congress-led regime committed to neo-liberal policies
- Right-wing US senators target federal judges
- Jefe del Pentágono intensifica sus amenazas contra Venezuela
- La propaganda de la derecha y la veracidad científica en el caso Schiavo
- Sri Lankan chauvinists stir up tensions in tsunami-affected East
8 April 2005
- Anti-Japanese protests erupt in China
- Letters from our readers
- The French left and the referendum on the European constitution
- New puppet government takes shape in Iraq
- Britain: public service unions save Blair the embarrassment of a pre-election strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 April 2005
- Washington sought to suppress UN report on progress of democracy in Middle East
- New York Times joins witch-hunt of Columbia University professors
- Israeli human rights groups condemn Sharon government’s Gaza policies
- German business to strengthen its involvement in India
- Attacks on Abu Ghraib highlight continuing Iraqi armed resistance
- Berlusconi suffers major defeat in Italian regional elections
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 April 2005
- Baghdad protest demands an end to US occupation of Iraq
- Britain: opposition to Iraq war led to Labour vote-rigging in 2004 elections
- Cardinal disgraced in sex-abuse scandal plays prominent role in papal funeral rites
- French high school students continue their struggle
- New Zealand judge criticises violent police culture
12 April 2005
- Workers struggles: The Americas
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The British working class and the 2005 general election
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain) 12 April 2005 - Global financial system faces growing risks
- India joins the scramble for oil
- Indian government to merge state-run oil firms
- Jakarta pours troops into Papua amid signs of intensified repression
13 April 2005
- Letters on the death of Pope John Paul II
- Canberra’s slavish support for US brings short-term pay-offs in Asia
- Rumsfeld’s mission to Baghdad: keeping Saddam’s secret police in power
- A culture at the end of its rope, continued
- Sri Lankan government plans to restructure oil and electricity corporations
- Western powers dispute Mugabe’s victory in Zimbabwe poll
14 April 2005
- The orgy continues: American CEOs pocket billions more in pay and perks
- Disturbing new facts emerge on incarceration of Australian woman
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German Social Democrats launch state election campaign
SPD candidate: “I am not promising jobs” - Hundreds die in severe flooding in western Pakistan
- No pension crisis for US corporate bosses
- Removal of Francoist symbols heightens class tensions in Spain
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Students for Social Equality public meeting in Los Angeles
Two years since the invasion of Iraq: the war and the political crisis in America
15 April 2005
- Rumsfeld pushes for permanent US bases in Afghanistan
- Senate panel debates Bolton nomination for UN ambassador post
- Letters from our readers
- Israel: government of provocateurs denounces settler provocation in Jerusalem
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Violence in southern Thailand escalates
16 April 2005
- US Marshals, local police stage nationwide mass arrests
- India adopts WTO patent law with Left Front support
- Japan stokes tensions with China
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- French government orders police crackdown against high school protesters
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Advance Notice
May Day 2005 Public Meetings - Anti-abortion fanatic Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to terrorist bombings
- Bush’s meeting with Sharon confirms US support for West Bank land grab
18 April 2005
- Britain: report alleges assaults on immigration detainees
- Who is Iraq’s new prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari?
- World markets expecting further falls
- Impeachment of Mexico City mayor sparks political crisis
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Respect-Unity coalition in Britain: a marriage of Labourism and Islamism
Part one - British royal wedding: from fairy tale to fiasco
19 April 2005
- Bangladeshi factory collapse kills more than 70 workers
- Main Basque nationalist party suffers losses in Spanish regional elections
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Detroit borrows $1.2 billion from Wall Street
US cities face crushing debt burden - France: Chirac TV appeal for “yes” vote fails to shift growing sentiment against European constitution
- Democrats back Negroponte nomination as new documents detail role in contra war
- Ten years since the Oklahoma City bombing
- Videos expose false arrests at 2004 Republican Convention protests in New York
- Australian media debates legalisation of torture
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 April 2005
- Austria: behind the split in the Freedom Party
- Canada’s Liberal government faces imminent defeat
- Letters from our readers
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Students for Social Equality public meeting at University of Maine
Two years since the invasion of Iraq: the war and the political crisis in America - An interview with Louis Pizzitola, author of Hearst Over Hollywood
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Respect-Unity coalition in Britain: a marriage of Labourism and Islamism
Part two - Washington Post glorifies US military “ruthlessness” in Iraq
- State investigation clears Michael Schiavo of all abuse charges
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Longstanding Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies
Velupillai Sarawanaperumal (1948-2005)
21 April 2005
- Eminem’s new release, Encore: delusions, megalomania and social confusion
- Israeli military court clears officer in killing of British filmmaker
- From “grand inquisitor” to pope: Benedict XVI to head crusade vs. secularism, democracy
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Britain: trial finds no evidence of “ricin plot”
Another Iraq war lie exposed - Bush guarda silencio mientras conocido terrorista busca asilo en Estados Unidos
- University of California service workers strike for a day
- Australia: Victorian government forces young teacher to quit
22 April 2005
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- German government uses anti-terror laws to head off protests
- Iraqi legislators denounce US assault on assembly member
- Pope Benedict XVI’s political resume: theocracy and social reaction
- Socialist Equality Party May Day meeting in Colombo
- Australian government bullies PNG over airport security incident
- Germany: facing defeat in state election, SPD chairman talks “left”
23 April 2005
- Bush signs bankruptcy law: another cruel blow in a one-sided class war
- Germany: conflicts in the Foreign Ministry over past fascist links
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An uncensored look at America’s young soldiers in Iraq
Gunner Palace, directed by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein - Australian Reserve Bank reveals another Howard government lie
- Growing social inequality in Israel
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Labour policies make London a haven for the super-rich
- Germany: neo-Nazi killer acquitted on “self-defense” grounds
25 April 2005
- Letters from our readers
- New York protest against Bush’s cuts in adult literacy funding
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Behind China-Japan tensions
Washington fuels Japanese militarism
Part One - An exchange on the nationalism of the Scottish Socialist Party
- Bush administration terrorist list excludes right-wing groups
- Jury throws out charges in first Australian “terrorist” trial
26 April 2005
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- “Secularism” and hypocrisy: official France mourns pope and bans Muslim scarf
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Behind China-Japan tensions
Washington fuels Japanese militarism
Part Two - Nader solidarizes himself with extreme right in Terri Schiavo case
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The closure of MG Rover and the need for an international perspective
Part One - More evidence of US military’s culture of torture in Iraq
- Bush administration hails Moussaoui guilty plea—continues 9/11 cover-up
27 April 2005
- Mutual concern over US militarism brings China and India closer
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MG Rover and the need for an international perspective
Part Two - US rights group calls for criminal probe of Rumsfeld
- Canada: Using corruption scandal as a smokescreen, Tories prepare neo-conservative assault
- Britain: university student debt reaches record levels
- Australia: school principal denounces removal of teacher
28 April 2005
- Inconclusive peace talks between Jakarta and Acehnese separatists
- Letter from a US airline worker and a reply
- German Interior Minister Schily tests out “zero tolerance” in Berlin
- The Republican Party and the Christian right: sowing the seeds of an American fascist movement
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The closure of MG Rover and the need for an international perspective
Part Three - A spate of police killings in Sri Lanka
29 April 2005
- Anti-Japanese protests and the reactionary nature of Chinese nationalism
- Iraqi cabinet announced under US pressure
- Italy: a week-long government crisis in Rome
- Britain: Islamic fundamentalist group threatens candidates and voters
- Graduate students strike at Columbia and Yale universities
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
30 April 2005
- Christian fundamentalist bigotry reigns at US Air Force Academy
- New York bus workers end strike
- Australian government poised to make sweeping industrial relations “reform”
- Britain: Blair forced to publish legal advice on Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush demands deep cuts in Social Security benefits
31 March 2005
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