Archive: July 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 July 2004
- Australia: tram union attacks SEP after “unauthorised” strike
- Britain: mother of soldier killed in Iraq slams government
- Democrats move to keep SEP candidate off Illinois ballot
- Fijian vice-president on trial for treason
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After the European elections
Germany’s Green Party in government—a balance sheet - Lessons of the European elections
- Outkast: a case study in social misleading
- Spain accused of planning coup in Equatorial Guinea
- US Supreme Court overturns Pledge of Allegiance ruling on technical grounds
2 July 2004
- Arroyo sworn in for second term as Philippine president
- Britain: report describes “filthy” conditions at Immigration Removal Centre
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The real face of EU expansion to the east
German-based Siemens imposes drastic wage cuts - Stop the Democratic Party’s attack on third-party campaigns! Place SEP candidate Tom Mackaman on the ballot in Illinois!
- The Australian and the social catastrophe in Iraq
- The meaning of the US Supreme Court rulings on “enemy combatants”
- US Border Patrol launches police-state sweeps against California immigrants
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
3 July 2004
- A new dramatization of Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia
- Former generals dominate Indonesia’s presidential election campaign
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James P. Cannon on the significance of Independence Day
From Karl Marx to the Fourth of July - Homage to Catalonia on stage: an interview with writer Pablo Ley and director Josep Galindo
- Letters from around the world denounce Democrats’ effort to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- Marlon Brando, 1924-2004
- NATO summit underlines US-European tensions
- Stop the Democratic Party’s attack on third-party campaigns! Place SEP candidate Tom Mackaman on the ballot in Illinois!
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Statement of the Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate
The Fourth of July, 2004: America’s revolution 228 years on - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 July 2004
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Britain’s Socialist Workers Party and the defence of national reformism-Part 1
A review of Alex Callinicos’s An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto - More letters denouncing Democrats’ effort to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
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Documentary on Al-Jazeera and Iraq war
Rather timid considering the circumstances - Saddam Hussein in court: a show trial made in the USA
- Toronto SEP meeting discusses Canadian, US elections
6 July 2004
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Britain’s Socialist Workers Party and the defence of national reformism—Part 2
A review of Alex Callinicos’s An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto - Democrats, Republicans to spend $1 billion in US presidential campaign
- Huge protest rally in Hong Kong demands democratic and social reform
- Illinois Democratic officials use legislative staffers to attack third-party campaigns
- Letters denounce Democrats’ effort to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
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51st Sydney Film Festival--Part 1
Some positive signals - Spain: PSOE government organises a cover-up over March 11 bombings
7 July 2004
- Australia: economic forecaster slams government budget estimates
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Britain’s Socialist Workers Party and the defence of national reformism—Part 3
A review of Alex Callinicos’s An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto - Illinois election board defers ruling on ballot status for SEP candidate
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Statement of the Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate
Kerry-Edwards: Democrats finalize their pro-war, millionaires’ ticket - Letters continue to condemn Democrats’ effort to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- London’s Mayor Livingstone gives aides massive salary rise
- Sri Lankan military’s intrigues with LTTE rebel faction threatens ceasefire
- Statement of SEP candidate Tom Mackaman to Champaign County, Illinois Election Board
- Summer job prospects for US teenagers worst in 58 years
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ICFI/WSWS public meeting in New Zealand
The Iraq War: imperialism and the international strategy for socialism - US: Actors Equity leadership votes not to strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
8 July 2004
- Frankfurt, Germany: police chief justifies torture
- Iraqi regime prepares for martial law
- London’s Mayor Livingstone gives aides massive salary rise
- Marek Belka elected new Polish premier
- More letters oppose Democrats’ attempt to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- Sri Lankan military’s intrigues with LTTE rebel faction threaten ceasefire
- Stop the Democratic Party’s attack on third-party campaigns! Place SEP candidate Tom Mackaman on the ballot in Illinois!
- Sudan: African Union troops sent after weeks of haggling between US and Europe
- Summer job prospects for US teenagers worst in 58 years
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The politics of opportunism: the “radical left” in France
Introduction: Trotskyism and Centrism
9 July 2004
- European Council approves software patents
- Liberal philistinism and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11
- Lithuanian elections return US Republican as president
- More letters oppose Democrats’ attempt to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- One in six US veterans of Iraq war suffers trauma disorders
- Pueblos europeos se oponen a la visita de Bush, pero los líderes se postran ante él
- Suicide bomb blast in Sri Lanka threatens ceasefire
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Australia: an open letter to Melbourne tram workers
Why the Rail Tram and Bus Union is attacking the SEP - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- ¿Prepara otra masacre en Fallujah el ejército de los Estados Unidos?
10 July 2004
- Britain: Former government legal advisor says Iraq war was illegal act of “aggression”
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An attack on democratic rights
Champaign, Illinois electoral board bars Green Party candidates - Chinese police round up protesters in Tiananmen Square
- Judges call for “radical review” of Milosevic trial
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Statement of the Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate
Senate cover-up of WMD lies underscores Democrats’ support for Iraq war - Supreme Court gives HMOs immunity from damage suits
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Why Maine workers should vote for the Socialist Equality Party
Exchange between SEP candidate Carl Cooley and Bangor Central Labor Council president - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 July 2004
- More letters oppose Democrats’ attempt to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- No, this won’t do at all
- SEP launches presidential petition drive in Ohio
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What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 1: Competing political agendas
13 July 2004
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51st Sydney Film Festival--Part 2
A timely and disturbing drama
Blind Flight, written and directed by John Furse - Bush administration takes steps to cancel US election
- Illinois Democrats seek to disenfranchise voters to bar SEP from ballot
- International Court of Justice condemns Israel’s wall
- The indictment of Kenneth Lay
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What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 2: The establishment of the Australian nation-state -
51st Sydney Film Festival
“The democratic potential for independent filmmaking already exists”
An interview with John Furse, writer and director of Blind Flight
14 July 2004
- Actors’ Equity and Broadway producers reach tentative agreement
- Aid organisations berate British government’s record
- Bill Cosby blames parents for US society’s ills
- Former BBC head attacks Blair government over Iraq war
- German Interior Minister plans massive restrictions on the right of assembly
- Huge abstention rate in Sri Lankan provincial council elections
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Protests mount against Democrats’ attempt to bar socialist candidate
Letters express popular commitment to democratic rights - Media suppresses news of Bush’s moves to cancel US elections
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What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 3: The doctrine of “White Australia” - Workers Struggles: The Americas
15 July 2004
- Aboriginal family dies in house fire: a tragedy caused by poverty
- Butler Inquiry exonerates Blair government on Iraq war lies
- The EU’s eastward expansion—the cases of Romania and Bulgaria
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Thirty years since the Portuguese Revolution
Part 1 - Washington Post calls Bush moves to postpone US elections “appropriate”
- Washington Post calls Bush moves to postpone US elections “appropriate”
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What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 4: From “White Australia” to Geoffrey Blainey
16 July 2004
- BBC vindicated on charge that government “sexed-up” Iraq dossier
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A travesty of democracy in Illinois
Democrats conspire against voters in bid to remove SEP from ballot - Letters on “Bush administration takes steps to cancel US election”
- More letters oppose Democrats’ attempt to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- Pentagon plans military tribunals for Guantánamo prisoners
- Philippines government to withdraw troops from Iraq
- Socialist Equality Party files petitions for Michigan congressional candidate
- Thirty years since the Portuguese Revolution—Part 2
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What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 5: John Howard and “the Australian way of life” - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
17 July 2004
- Beijing detains SARS doctor for raising questions about Tiananmen Square
- Britain: Blair knew claims on Iraqi WMDs were dubious
- Democratic candidate Kerry vows to maintain US troops in Iraq for years
- German auto workers protest job cuts by DaimlerChrysler
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Socialist Equality Party press conference in Illinois
Green Party, Libertarians join SEP to denounce attack on third party campaigns -
SEP candidate demands investigation
Letter to Illinois Inspector General from Tom Mackaman - Thirty years since the Portuguese Revolution—Part 3
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 July 2004
- Iraqi prime minister accused of murdering detainees
- More letters oppose Democrats’ attempt to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- Spain: military chiefs replaced over Yak-42 plane crash
- Sri Lanka: Bata footwear occupation enters fourth week
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What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 6: Keating versus Howard
20 July 2004
- Former general on top after first round of Indonesian presidential election
- German interior ministers end separation of police and intelligence services
- German “labour reform”: all-out attack on the unemployed
- Israel: Labour Party to prop up Sharon
- Notice of postponement: ICFI/WSWS public meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
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SEP defends ballot status for third-party candidates
Press conference denounces Illinois Democrats‘ effort to remove Nader from ballot - The New York Times and the threat to cancel the November election
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United Airlines announces deferment on pension payments
Major airlines continue assault on US workers -
What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 7: Inequality and the development of racial theory - Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 July 2004
- El gobierno de Bush toma pasos para cancelar las elecciones
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Crítica de cine
La contribución de Michael Moore -
What activists don’t know can hurt them:
May police now arrest people for refusing to identify themselves? - Portugal’s Prime Minister Barroso nominated as European Commission president
- Report highlights unchecked looting of Iraq’s oil resources
- Sweden: Anna Lindh killer’s conviction thrown out
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What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 8: Extermination of the Aborigines and the Nazi holocaust
22 July 2004
- Britain: Labour’s privatisation of roads
- European governments make an example of Cap Anamur refugees
- Motion to dismiss Illinois Democrats’ challenge to SEP candidate
- New York City officials muzzle anti-Republican protests
- School fire in southern India kills 90 children
- The Berger affair: Kerry campaign cowers before Republican provocation
- US media covers for Allawi—Washington’s executioner-in-chief in Iraq
- Victims of Indian school fire: “The government is responsible for this tragedy”
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What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 9: Windschuttle’s liberal critics
23 July 2004
- Britain: unions found anti-Blair ginger group
- Factional warfare breaks out in Palestinian Authority
- Growing imbalances belie Greenspan’s confidence
- More letters oppose Democrats’ attempt to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot
- WSWS readers comment on US government discussions on postponing election
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What is at stake in Australia’s “History Wars”
Part 10: Private property, the nation state and socialism
24 July 2004
- Bus drivers in South Yorkshire, England, strike over pay
- Illinois county clerk’s findings vindicate SEP petitions
- Indian budget: pro-business agenda dressed up in a pro-poor disguise
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Open Letter to the workers and students of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, from SEP candidate
Oppose the Democratic Party’s attack on voters’ rights - Spain: Socialist Party government to send troops to Afghanistan and Haiti
- What the 9/11 commission report ignores: the CIA-Al Qaeda connection
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 July 2004
- Australia: latest “terrorist” case relies on police entrapment
- Berlusconi government wracked by crisis
- Cassini-Huygens spacecraft begins systematic exploration of Saturn system
- Chairman of US Federal Reserve assures Congress wages will be kept low
- Huge funding shortfall for global AIDS epidemic
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51st Sydney Film Festival—Part 3
Some Australian documentaries: plenty of room for improvement - Support for SEP candidate builds in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
- The Democratic convention and the crisis of the two-party system
27 July 2004
- Acute power shortages cause disruptions across China
- Britain: the take-over battle for Marks & Spencer
- Democratic National Convention: Boston gripped by “anti-terror” security operation
- Germany: SPD/PDS senate jail Tamil refugee
- New York: Sotheby’s workers locked out for more than a week
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51st Sydney Film Festival—Part 4
The human cost of fratricidal war
Witnesses directed by Vinko Bresan - Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 July 2004
- Britain’s 380,000 “hidden homeless”
- Corporate America throws Democrats a $50 million party
- Humanitarian crisis in Sudan used as cover for neo-colonial ambitions
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Australia: TJ Hickey inquest concludes
Police involvement in death of Aboriginal youth exposed - Ruling coalition suffers backlash in Japan’s upper house election
- The Democratic convention and Kerry’s left apologists
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Un ritratto eterno della lotta anti-colonialista in Algeria
La Battaglia di Algeri, regia di Gillo Pontecorvo -
Interview with Bowie Hickey:
“There’s 67 percent poor people—we need our own government”
29 July 2004
- Anger at International AIDS Conference over Bush administration’s policies
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Lou Di Gregorio defends tramway sackings
Australian union continues to attack the SEP -
Lessons from Detroit
German DaimlerChrysler workers face political tasks - Populism and patriotism: behind the posturing at the Democratic National Convention
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Democrats’ stalling delays official ruling
Review upholds SEP ballot petitions in Illinois -
Letters to Champaign county clerk
Worldwide opposition to Democrats’ attempt to bar SEP candidate from Illinois ballot - Zionist settlements expanding in West Bank and Gaza
30 July 2004
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The Flood report on Iraq war intelligence
Another Australian whitewash - Britain: Blair’s claims on Iraqi mass graves refuted
- Democrats withdraw objections to SEP petitions: Tom Mackaman to be on the ballot in Illinois
- Official indifference as South Asia floods affect 40 million people
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SIEU head says unions might be better off if Democrats lose
Criticism of Kerry-Edwards ticket quickly retracted - The great unmentionable at the Democratic convention: Kerry’s antiwar past
- WSWS readers comment on the Democratic National Convention
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
31 July 2004
- Australia votes with the US against UN condemnation of Israel’s wall
- Germany: total union capitulation at DaimlerChrysler
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The meaning of the Democratic convention
Kerry, Edwards vow to continue war and social reaction - La convención Demócrata y la crisis política en EE.UU.
- Polio epidemic threatens Africa
- Spain seeks to extend its influence in North Africa
- United Airlines halts pension payments: a major attack on retirement programs in US
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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