Archive: April 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 April 2004
- Banker’s speech points to global problems
- Iraqi hatred for US occupation erupts in Fallujah
- Letters from our readers
- New Sinhala extremist party fields Buddhist monks in Sri Lankan elections
- Norwegian festival withdraws Berlusconi documentary after meeting with Italian officials
- Pay soars for Wall Street CEOs
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On eve of Poland’s entry into the EU
Polish prime minister resigns amid mass opposition to social devastation
2 April 2004
- Chinese regime amends constitution to protect private ownership
- SEP US presidential candidate on Kerry’s jobs plan: “A hoax on the unemployed and giveaway for the rich”
- Spain: Zapatero chooses a business-friendly cabinet
- Sri Lankan elections foreshadow a deepening political crisis
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The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
Part nine: American policy after the Iran-Iraq war - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
3 April 2004
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On eve of “Day of Action Against Social Cuts”
Attac lines up with German unions to back government plan for welfare cuts - Australia: Voters register opposition to major parties in local elections
- Britain: SWP/RESPECT “lefts” oppose union disaffiliation from Labour Party
- Detroit schools to cut 3,200 jobs
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Sri Lanka:
Tensions escalate in eastern province following murder of Tamil candidate - The real lessons of Fallujah
- US jobless rate climbs to 5.7 percent in March
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 April 2004
- Australia’s national wage case: no solution for the working poor
- Britain: Corporate CEO pay rises again
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European-wide protests against social cuts and mass unemployment
Half a million demonstrate in Germany - Professor Chomsky comes in from the cold
- Shiite uprising erupts against US occupation of Iraq
- Sri Lankan election produces a hung parliament and further political instability
- Why US troops are occupying Haiti
6 April 2004
- Bush, Rice and the 9/11 commission: Behind the conflict within the US ruling elite
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Former FBI translator says Rice lied about government knowledge of terrorist threats
What did Bush and Rice know of the September 11 plot? -
Discurso de apertura de la conferencia auspiciada por el Partido Socialista por la Igualdad y el WSWS
La estrategia política del PSI para las elecciones de EE.UU. en 2004 -
Marxism and the political economy of Paul Sweezy
Part 1: Early influences - Nationality, ethnicity and culture: Guardian hosts the racist ideas of David Goodhart
- Newfoundland public sector strike enters sixth day
- Operation Iraqi Bloodbath: US prepares reprisals against uprising
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 April 2004
- Australian government uses Madrid bombings to justify further police-state powers
- Australian universities increase fees despite student protests
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Sri Lanka:
Mahinda Rajapakse to head a minority government -
Marxism and the political economy of Paul Sweezy
Part 2: The Theory of Capitalist Development -
Nationality, ethnicity and culture: the Guardian hosts the racist ideas of David Goodhart
Part two - Pulitzer Prize awarded to report on US atrocities in Vietnam
- Stop the war on the Iraqi people
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The politics of electrical power
Power Play: The Fight to Control the World’s Electricity by Sharon Beder
8 April 2004
- An exchange of letters on the French headscarf ban
- Defend the Iraqi masses
- Discurso del candidato Presidencial del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad en la conferencia del PSI y de la WSWS
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Marxism and the political economy of Paul Sweezy
Part 3: The breakdown theory -
Nationality, ethnicity and culture: the Guardian hosts the racist ideas of David Goodhart
Part three -
Volunteers needed for petition drive
SEP launches campaign to put Van Auken and Lawrence on the ballot in the US -
Stop the war against the Iraqi people! US troops out of Iraq!
Rally at University of Michigan, April 12 -
The dead end of nationalism
Turkey: Successor organization of the PKK curries favour with US
9 April 2004
- An exchange of letters with the Sri Lankan military
- Bush signs “Unborn Victims of Violence Act”: legislation targets abortion rights
- Canada: Deepening poverty and economic insecurity for working families
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Marxism and the political economy of Paul Sweezy
Part 4: Monopoly Capital - Rice testifies before 9/11 commission: more cover-up and lies
- The Democrats and “Bush’s war”
10 April 2004
- Rural backlash in Sri Lankan elections
- SEP presidential candidate: “Pull all US troops out of Iraq now”
- Support the Iraqi resistance. Australian troops out of Iraq.
- UFCW forces through concessions contract at Gelson’s markets in California
- University of Michigan lecturers stage one-day walkout
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 April 2004
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Greetings from David North to Australian SEP:
A devastating blow to the myth of American invincibility - An attempt to portray the Afghanistan disaster as a success
- CIA briefing memo exposes Bush lies on 9/11
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Marxism and the political economy of Paul Sweezy
Part 5: “The tendency of the surplus to rise” - Portland, Oregon: second police killing in 10 months
- The inevitable logic of US repression in Iraq
13 April 2004
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Bill Van Auken, candidato del SEP, sobre el discurso de Bush conmemorativo del aniversario de la guerra:
"Gastadas mentiras en defensa de una guerra criminal" -
Jim Lawrence, candidato a la vicepresidencia del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad, se dirige a la conferencia auspiciada por el PSI y el WSWS
"La clase obrera tiene que desarrollar una estrategia política para defender sus empleos y niveles de vida" - Europe and US approve all-African military force
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Sri Lanka:
LTTE launches offensive to suppress dissident eastern faction -
Marxism and the political economy of Paul Sweezy
Part 6: Writing off the working class -
After the Madrid bombings
Moves toward European-wide police-state methods -
Thousands dead and wounded
US military seeks to crush Iraqi uprising - US press justifies slaughter in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 April 2004
- Bancario puntualiza los problemas mundiales de la economía
- Chemical giant DuPont announces 3,500 job cuts
- Letters from our readers
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Marxism and the political economy of Paul Sweezy
Part 7: The socialist revolution - Quebec government tries to remake its image for the better to pursue class war assault
- Reject Blair’s colonial adventure—Withdraw British troops from Iraq now!
- Socialist Equality Party US presidential candidate: “A vote for Kerry is a vote for war”
- Standoff over deployment of Australian police to Papua New Guinea
- Students for Social Equality hold rally and meeting at University of Michigan
15 April 2004
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The historical record of Pabloite opportunism
An exchange with a supporter of the French LCR - Australia: Public schools to be reduced to a residual safety net
- Bush’s press conference: evasions, lies and a promise of more bloodletting
- Egypt’s President Mubarak comes to the aid of Bush
- SEP campaign wins support in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Threat of civil war hangs over Georgia
- US military prepares assault on Najaf and Fallujah
16 April 2004
- Britain: Ruling elite discuss Iraq strategy
- Bush backs Sharon’s West Bank land grab
- Japanese government shaken by Iraq hostage crisis
- Rifts open up in new Sri Lankan government
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Threat of civil war hangs over Georgia
Part Two - Turkey: Victory for the AKP in local elections masks social tensions
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
17 April 2004
- ANC wins South African elections in low voter turnout
- German SEP gains official ballot status for European elections
- Letters and a reply on “Professor Chomsky comes in from the cold”
- Los Demócratas y la "guerra de Bush"
- South Korean voters reject right-wing establishment parties
- Sweden: Anna Lindh’s killer given life sentence
- The Parmalat scandal and globalization: impact on the Italian economy
- US tax agency gives big business a free ride—corporate audits drop
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 April 2004
- Britain: Antiwar protesters call for withdrawal of troops from Iraq
- Britain: Labour Party membership plummets
- Government indifference to dengue outbreak in Indonesia
- India’s election commission demands BJP explain its role in Lucknow tragedy
- Kerry on “Meet the Press:” Democratic candidate reiterates support for Iraq war
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SEP to hold public lecture in Colombo:
Stop the war on the Iraqi people! Withdraw US troops from Iraq!
20 April 2004
- Letters from our readers
- Senate committee finds four million Australians living in poverty
- Spain: New prime minister says troops to be withdrawn from Iraq
- The political questions raised by Justice Scalia’s attack on the media
- The social consequences of European Union expansion
- Washington to use UN to select puppet regime in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 April 2004
- Australia: NSW government axes jobs to fund decaying rail system
- Suharto’s cronies make significant gains in Indonesia’s elections
- Testing of New York guardsmen: first confirmed cases of Iraq war depleted uranium exposure
- The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral ... American Berserk
- The Negroponte nomination: a warning to the people of Iraq
- US: opposition erupts over rule to expense stock options
- Why did Bush give Israel a green light to assassinate Hamas leader Rantisi?
22 April 2004
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Occupation imposes Washington-style “democracy”
18,000 Iraqis illegally held in jails and prison camps - Angry response to international pressure to keep Indonesian cleric in jail
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Blair and Bush plan further crimes in the Middle East
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain) - Britain: Documentary shows police laughing as man dies in station
- Concessions imposed on Minnesota transit workers
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Indian general election begins
Polls indicate race tightening - Iraq crisis spurs call for US military draft
- Proceed carefully with interest rate rise, IMF warns
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What the September 11 commission hearings revealed
Part One
23 April 2004
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Fearing new 9/11 scandal
Bush forced to cover World Trade Center health claims - California guts workers’ compensation system
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Conferencia del PSI y de la WSWS
Contribuciones sobre las artes, derechos demócraticos y Nader - Divisions within ruling elite drive impeachment of Lithuanian president
- India’s elections: the decline and decay of the Congress Party
- US officer threatens to turn Fallujah into “a killing field”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
24 April 2004
- Britain: Blunkett to legislate for “thought crimes” and guilt by association
- Britain: Bob Copper, foremost traditional singer dies
- Cyprus: referendum on the Annan Plan
- Danish whistleblower charged after accusing prime minister of exaggerating Iraqi WMD
- New Sri Lankan parliament descends into chaos
- Pentagon censors images of US soldiers’ coffins returning from Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
26 April 2004
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Blair y Bush planean mayores crímenes en Oriente Medio
Declaración del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad de Gran Bretaña - Letters from our readers
- Nauru deal cements Australia’s Pacific incarceration policy
- Northern Ireland: Reports detail Britain’s collusion with loyalist murder squads
- Partido Socialista por la Igualdad en Alemania se postula para las elecciones europeas
- Slovakia takes up membership in the European Union with extreme right-wing president
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What the September 11 commission hearings revealed
Part two: Ignoring the warnings—the FBI and Justice Department
27 April 2004
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Forty years since the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
Part one—a belated inquiry - New York Mayor Bloomberg reaches concessions deal with city’s biggest union
- SEP holds meeting in Colombo against US occupation of Iraq
- Spain attempts to appease the US on Iraq
- The struggle against war and the 2004 US elections
- Tropical storms and heavy flooding devastate Fiji
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What the September 11 commission hearings revealed
Part three: The CIA and Al Qaeda - Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 April 2004
- Australian defence adviser sacked for refusing to write WMD lies
- Australian government faces new charges of manipulating intelligence
- Britain: Former diplomats blast Blair’s support for US Middle East policy
- Bush administration claims police-state powers in Guantánamo arguments before US Supreme Court
- Massive march on Washington for women’s rights
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Forty years since the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
Part 2—The accused: Henchmen acting under orders - Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2004 US elections
- Washington unleashes bloodbath in Iraq
29 April 2004
- Beijing shuts the door on democratic reform in Hong Kong
- Britain: Government threatens to change law to enable continued detention without trial
- Britain: Union leader warns of “nightmare prospect” for education under Labour government
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Forty years since the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
Part 3—Juridical cover-up of Nazi crimes - New York City: Columbia graduate students go on strike
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US war crimes in Fallujah
Stop the slaughter in Iraq
30 April 2004
- Ahmed Chalabi and the “liberation” of Iraq
- Australia pushes ahead with grab for Timor oil and gas
- Britain: Blair pledges anti-immigrant clampdown
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Canada: State assault on public sector workers
Strikes illegalized, wages and jobs slashed -
Baby, adoptive parents dead
The social roots of a Detroit tragedy -
US war crimes
Torture of Iraqi prisoners exposed - US: Mass opposition grows to Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
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