Archive: May 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.
2 May 2005
- Britain: lecturers’ union boycotts two Israeli universities
- Letters from our readers
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May Day 2005: Sixty years since the end of World War II
Part one - Bus-train collision kills 37 in Sri Lanka
- US growth rate points to global downturn
- Thirtieth anniversary of US imperialism’s defeat in Vietnam
3 May 2005
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May Day 2005: Sixty years since the end of World War II
Part two - An appreciation of biologist Ernst Mayr (1904-2005)
- Massive protest forces end to prosecution of Mexico City’s mayor
- US steps up provocations against North Korea
- US backs off genocide charge in Darfur
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
4 May 2005
- Britain: the myth of Labour’s economic success
- US demands Iraq’s new government repudiate “de-Baathification”
- New Iraq war revelations hit Blair on eve of election
- US forced to back down on OAS presidency
- Out of space? NASA delays relaunching of shuttle flights
- SEP May Day meeting in Colombo
5 May 2005
- Britain: The May 5 general election and the failure of Labourism
- Letters from our readers
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As Congress approves $82 billion more
Wholesale corruption exposed in Iraqi contracts - Media witch-hunts Australian author Hannie Rayson and her new play
- State Department: “We don’t know if top terrorist is in US”
- An imaginative and courageous political exposure
6 May 2005
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One year since the torture revelations at Abu Ghraib
Mistrial in reservist’s court martial - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Australia and the East Asian Summit: Howard’s diplomatic “success” turns sour
- IBM announces 13,000 job cuts
- As recruitment falls, top military official warns of strains on US forces
- Supreme Court backs Bush against Gulf War POWs
- Iraq: the dirty story
- Gunmen kill prominent Tamil journalist in Sri Lanka
- Britain: Labour wins general election but suffers major losses
7 May 2005
- Canada: Social democrats rush to aid of embattled Liberal regime
- What world is this?
- US imprisons Iraqi journalists without charges
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Beijing embraces former arch-enemy
Kuomintang leader visits Chinese mainland - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 May 2005
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On the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army over Nazism
Anti-Russian nationalism in the Baltic States
Part one - Forbes reports bonanza for world’s billionaires
- Germany: Foreign Minister Fischer crawls before the right-wing opposition
- Ford and GM debt reduced to junk bond status
- Sri Lanka: JVP grovels to the Bush administration
- US: Kentucky Derby—‘ high rollers’ and social misery
- El Partido Republicano y la derecha cristiana siembran la semilla de un movimiento fascista en Estados Unidos
- Estados Unidos forzado a retroceder sobre la presidencia de la OEA
- A sincere effort but not without limitations
10 May 2005
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On the 60th Anniversary of the victory of the Red Army over Nazism
Anti-Russian nationalism in the Baltic States
Part two - Soaring birth deformities and child cancer rates in Iraq
- Northern Ireland elections: deepening polarisation and the collapse of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Pentagon analyst indicted for leaks to Israel: a subterranean power struggle in Washington
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2005—Part 1
What should be encouraged - Workers Struggles: The Americas
11 May 2005
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Latin America’s social crisis
Unemployment, child labor grow side-by-side - Howard government leaves “Bali nine” alleged drug runners to their fate
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60 years since the end of World War II
Editorial of Gleichheit, magazine of the Socialist Equality Party (Germany) - Japanese train crash linked to employee stress
- US: states, federal government prepare massive Medicaid cuts
- A comment on Brecht in Los Angeles
- Violence accompanies sham election in Togo
- Victory Day celebration in Russia reveals deepening political and social tensions
12 May 2005
- Australian budget bonanza for the wealthy
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CEOs paid to live in second homes as:
Bush administration slashes funds for public housing - Letters from our readers
- Iraq: US Congress approves $82 billion as colonial war grinds on
- Germany: former SPD chairman Lafontaine and the Election Alternative
- Britain: military families take legal action against Blair government
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2005—Part 2
Problems with history - Bush denounces the Yalta Treaty of 1945
13 May 2005
- May Day awards in China honour the wealthy elite
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Notice to WSWS readers
Interview with David North to be broadcast on Australian radio - US: the panicked evacuation of Capitol Hill
- More horrors revealed in Australia’s immigration detention centres
- Germany: tribunal hears case of victimised Opel worker
- Court approves termination of United Airlines pension plans
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
14 May 2005
- Britain: Blair lurches right, dismissing calls for resignation
- US: first New England execution in 45 years
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Outrage over Guantánamo abuse
Anti-US protests sweep Muslim world -
San Francisco International Film Festival 2005—Part 3
There is no shortage of subjects - Sri Lankan president on a political tightrope
- Uzbekistan: US-backed dictator drowns uprising in blood
- The Iraq occupation and the kidnapping of Douglas Wood
16 May 2005
- Canada: Tories want governor-general to use emergency powers to force new election
- Australia brushes aside East Timorese sovereignty in oil and gas deal
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“How can they call themselves champions of democracy?”
Sister of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes speaks out - US: protest hits plans for stadium in New York City
- New study: US use of psychological torture systematic and unabated
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More than 500 killed, thousands wounded
Uzbekistan: US “war on terror” yields a bloodbath - Real wages fall as attack on US workers intensifies
17 May 2005
- Pentagon to realign domestic US military bases
- Australian radio interview with David North available online
- Letters from our readers
- Clouds gather over world economy
- Britain: Labour presides over massive increase in health inequality
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Media bows to US torture regime
Newsweek retracts Guantánamo abuse story -
Asian tsunami disaster: the historical and political issues
SEP/WSWS public meeting in Galle, capital of southern Sri Lanka - Workers Struggles: The Americas
18 May 2005
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An eye for sale
Poverty forces Bangladeshi woman to turn to organ trade - Australia: Labor’s budget reply makes pitch to big business
- US presses again on Chinese yuan and imports
- Bush visit to Georgia increases tensions with Putin government
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UN report finds
US war in Iraq yields a social “tragedy” -
Venezuela wants CIA terrorist extradited
Bush administration forced to detain Posada Carriles - Turkey: military’s nationalist campaign conceals rapprochement with US
19 May 2005
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On eve of non-confidence vote:
Canada: Tory MP defects to Liberals -
What happened to “African socialism”?
A reply to a reader - Textile factory closure devastates Fijian economy
- British MP Galloway blasts US Senate on Iraqi oil probe
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Further bullying of US media
White House demands Newsweek “repair the damage” -
The politics of the “war on terror”
Two Australian academics openly advocate torture
20 May 2005
- US: civil liberties group charges FBI intimidation of political activists
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Election in North Rhine-Westphalia
The implications of the SPD’s decline - US issues more demands on Iraqi government to include former Baathists
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Vigilantes patrol US border: the politics of the Minuteman Project
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Queen’s Speech in Britain
Blair’s third-term agenda: privatisations, attacks on civil liberties
21 May 2005
- Bush unveils plans for US colonial office
- The French referendum: Sarkozy leads turn to right in ruling party
- Japan renames holiday to honour wartime Emperor Hirohito
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
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Nuclear treaty talks at a stalemate
Washington threatens North Korea, Iran while expanding US arsenal - The two Americas: Ronald Perelman’s $1.45 billion and the fate of Sunbeam’s workers
- Britain: judge overturns verdict of unlawful killing in Harry Stanley case
23 May 2005
- Letters from our readers
- Republicans launch power grab in US Senate
- Proposed Indonesian criminal code enshrines Suharto-era repression
- Pakistan: US-backed military regime mounts new wave of repression
- US indebtedness a growing threat to global stability
24 May 2005
- Afghan president feigns outrage over latest US torture revelations
- International Commission calls for Kosovo independence
- Germany: Schröder calls for early federal election after Social Democratic debacle in North Rhine Westphalia
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Brazilian daily reports multinationals aided Latin American death squads
GM, Chrysler, VW implicated - US military atrocities and the moral choice facing the American people
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Hack work, not scholarship: the decay of American liberalism
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff, Edinburgh University Press 2004 - Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 May 2005
- Fortune Global Forum celebrates corporate profiteering in China
- Correction
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Vote “no” in French referendum on European constitution
For the United Socialist States of Europe - Social mobility lower in US and Britain than in other advanced countries
- Obscure Sri Lankan group claims responsibility for Tamil journalist’s murder
- SEP public meeting to pay tribute to veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist
- Wall Street Journal alibis for Nazi-style crimes in Iraq
26 May 2005
- Budget vote leaves Canada’s Liberal government hanging by a thread
- French referendum on European constitution: the official debate
- Australia: rifts emerge in Howard government over refugee detention
- Real ID Act: Congress takes another step toward a police state
- OECD warns time is “running out” to correct global imbalances
- Senate “compromise” on judicial nominations: Democrats prop up a crisis-ridden administration
- Nubes de tormenta amenaza a la economía mundial
- Bush pledges to veto stem cell bill
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Football star Pat Tillman’s father: “They blew up their poster boy”
US Army deliberately withheld details of Ranger’s “friendly-fire” death
27 May 2005
- British Broadcasting Corporation employees strike over job cuts
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12 perish in Arizona desert
Season of death on US-Mexican border - US puppet government announces state of siege in Baghdad
- The nature of Stalin’s purges: A letter to the Wall Street Journal
- Dutch government facing likely defeat in upcoming referendum
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At Paris meeting on eve of vote
French Socialist Party leaders slander “no” voters in referendum on EU constitution - Aid conference highlights political impasse in Sri Lanka
- Sunni elite moves toward an accommodation with US occupation of Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
28 May 2005
- Amnesty International report denounces US abuses of human rights
- US press takes umbrage at Amnesty’s “gulag” charge
- Laura Bush, Mubarak and Washington’s “crusade for democracy”
- The essential things go unexplained
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Amiens rally for “no” vote on EU constitution
The French left and the politics of evasion - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Australia: school principals given power to select teachers
30 May 2005
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A dark and complex beauty
Caravaggio: The Final Years at the National Gallery - Letters from our readers
- French electorate rejects European constitution
- More on Newsweek’s retraction of the Koran story
- Turkey: IMF plan demands new attacks on working people
- World economy becoming more dependent on US debt
31 May 2005
- Palestinian president fawns on Bush
- Three trials, three whitewashes: US military ratifies murder of Iraq prisoners
- Oil pipeline completed: a sign of rising great power rivalry in Central Asia
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“To show the courage of those who resisted the Nazis”
An interview with Margarethe von Trotta, director of Rosenstrasse - The third episode, or the sixth, or is this merely a zero?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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