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Archive: August 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.

2 August 2004

• BSE/Mad Cow Disease crisis provokes trade war
• Former US soldier arrives in Japan
  Charles Jenkins: a pawn on the international chessboard
• Delayed conference underscores phony character of Iraqi “democracy”
• Turkey’s train wreck: a tragedy rooted in the drive for profit
• US army officially whitewashes Abu Ghraib torture

3 August 2004

• Anthony Sampson surveys a transformed Britain 40 years on
  Part one
• Champaign, Illinois Electoral Board places SEP candidate on ballot
• Corruption scandal signals sharp differences in Chinese ruling elite
• Murder allegations against Iraq’s Allawi: an exchange of letters with the New York Times’ public editor
• South Korean government uses police measures against striking workers
• Terror alerts set stage for election based on fear
• US: record numbers in prison and on parole
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 August 2004

• An exchange of letters on United Airlines and “employee ownership”
• Anthony Sampson surveys a transformed Britain 40 years on
  Part two
• German interior minister proposes African internment camps for refugees
• Germany: Mannesmann execs acquitted in corruption trial
• El significado de la Convención del Partido Demócrata
  Kerry y Edwards prometen continuar con la guerra y la reacción social
• SEP launches presidential petition drive in Washington state
• The US prepares another democratic charade in Afghanistan

5 August 2004

• A show of force by the Chinese military in Hong Kong
• An honorable effort, but it lacks fire
• Britain: Labour unveils its latest assault on democratic rights
• Colombia’s Uribe: US ally in “war on terror” named as drug trafficker
• Spain: bank takeover raises fears of job losses
• Survey claims 37,000 Iraqi civilians killed in first seven months of war
• Terror scare paves way for police-state measures
• US whitewashes Indonesian military over Papuan murders

6 August 2004

• Britons release devastating account of torture and abuse by US forces at Guantanamo
• Ninetieth anniversary of the German SPD voting for war
  August 4, 1914, and its consequences
• Recent letters from WSWS readers
• “There’s something magical about music”
  Singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw speaks with the World Socialist Web Site
• Sri Lankan president offers empty apology for 1983 pogrom
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

7 August 2004

• An attempt to grasp the whole: One World, a play by Robert Litz, opens in Hollywood
• July jobless figures debunk claims of US economic recovery
• Kerry campaigns as candidate of big business
• New York Times offers Bush friendly advice on terror alerts
• SEP challenges Ohio petition deadline in US District Court
• Sri Lankan government launches major police operation against Bata strikers
• Sudan: western powers move towards military intervention
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

9 August 2004

• Following TJ Hickey’s death
  Australian parliamentary report rubberstamps police buildup in Redfern
• Chinese police crackdown on village protest over illicit land seizure
• Il governo Berlusconi distrutto da crisi
• “We want a full public inquiry into all non-combat deaths”
  Lynn Farr, mother of dead British soldier, speaks to the World Socialist Web Site
• Portugal’s electoral coup
• US assault kills hundreds of Iraqis in Najaf

10 August 2004

• Britain: Blair government outlines fresh attack on civil liberties
• Iraqi interim regime implements further police state measures
• New Zealand imposes diplomatic sanctions on Israel over Mossad operation
• SEP candidates on the ballot in New Jersey
• Six people murdered in Florida tragedy
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

11 August 2004

• Australia: cynical shadow boxing between Howard and Latham over US trade deal
• Britain: government outlines plans to dismantle state education
• Fiji vice-president jailed for treason over 2000 coup attempt
• Quebec unions shelve plans for one-day strike
• Spain: Commission of Inquiry into Madrid bombings allows right-wing to regroup
• Two “sting” operations raise disturbing questions about US terror alert

12 August 2004

• Britain: anti-terror raids condemned as victimisation
• Free market blueprint for Australian intervention in PNG
• Germany: workers respond angrily to deal at DaimlerChrysler
• Kerry: “I would still have voted for Iraq war”
• New Guantanamo Bay torture allegations incriminate Australian government
• A letter from Tom Mackaman
  SEP candidate in Illinois thanks supporters of ballot access fight
• US commanders stop troops from protecting Iraqi torture victims

13 August 2004

• Britain: Court of Appeals rules evidence obtained through torture is admissible
• Democrats drop opposition to CIA nominee: another capitulation to Bush
• Former top Australian officials denounce Howard for deception over Iraq War
• Russian-Georgian tensions escalate
• Standing up to a right-wing witch hunt
• ICFI/WSWS public meetings in New Zealand and Australia
  The Iraq War and the 2004 US elections
• US atrocity in Najaf
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

14 August 2004

• Ivory Coast: Two years of French and United Nations occupation
• Kerry and the Democratic campaign: a descent into farce
• UK government spending review pledges job cuts and defence spending hike
• US onslaught on Najaf triggers protests and fighting across Iraq
• White supremacist wins Republican nomination for Tennessee congressional seat
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

16 August 2004

• A modern day slave trade: Indonesian domestic servants in Malaysia
• Germany: What is Oskar Lafontaine up to?
• Two weeks before Republican convention:
  New York City denies demonstrators’ new bid for park permit
• Refugees barred from Australia on hunger strike in Indonesia
• Showcomotion 2004: children’s and young people’s film festival--Part 1
• Socialist Equality Party campaign makes gains in Iowa, Ohio, Michigan

17 August 2004

• Another vicious police attack on Bata strikers in Sri Lanka
• CIA-backed opposition suffers defeat in Venezuelan referendum
• Fifty-five Dominican refugees die at sea
• Fighting in Najaf exposes an unpopular, isolated Iraqi regime
• Germany: Magdeburg demonstrators denounce Hartz IV cuts
• Germany: tens of thousands protest against government assault on welfare state
• Interview with Reuben Irving of Gorilla Cinema
• Showcomotion 2004: children’s and young people’s film festival—Part 2

18 August 2004

• Britain: new findings point to larger outbreaks of vCJD “mad cow disease”
• Specter of a police state
  FBI “anti-terror” task force targets Bush administration opponents
• India: Hindu supremacist BJP in disarray
• Norway: “anti-terror” investigation exposes US-backed torture in northern Iraq
• Solomon Islands: prison protest over lack of rights under Australian intervention
• Sri Lanka returns to the brink of war
• Workers struggles: The Americas

19 August 2004

• Australia’s jobless rate back on the rise
• Britain: social inequalities widen under Blair government
• Canberra tightens its hold over the Pacific Islands Forum
• FBI’s Albany terror “sting” begins to unravel
• Judge rejects ballot lawsuit of SEP congressional candidate in Ohio
• La campaña política de Kerry y del Partido Demócrata se convierte en farsa
• New York Times and Washington Post remain silent on murder allegations against Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi
• SEP files petitions for presidential ballot status in Ohio
• WSWS readers write on terror alerts and the war against Iraq

20 August 2004

• Civil rights advocates denounce FBI harassment of protesters
• Debate on troop redeployment: saber-rattling from both Bush and Kerry
• Germany: political double talk—the PDS and the “Hartz IV” welfare reforms
• Hundreds of nurses strike Michigan hospital over staffing cuts
• Ohio SEP candidate David Lawrence appeals for support in fight for ballot status
• Stabbing in a Beijing kindergarten: another sign of social breakdown in China
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

21 August 2004

• An exposé of dishonest media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict
• To all US readers of the WSWS
  Back the SEP election campaign! Donate today—we need your support now!
• Germany: Which way forward in the struggle against Hartz IV?
• Mexico: judge quashes “genocide” indictment of former president Luis Echeverría
• Mounting protests against social cuts in Germany
  "Monday demonstrations" spread to more than 100 towns
• Oil workers’ strike heightens Sri Lankan government crisis
• Scotland: explosion the result of industrial deregulation
• Why was Senator Kennedy placed on US “no fly” list?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 August 2004

• Britain: soldier opposed to Iraq war commits suicide
• Canada: meatpackers profit from BSE crisis
• Henri Cartier-Bresson dies—a pioneer of modern photography
• Republican congressman calls Iraq war “a costly mess”
• The battle for Najaf and the US crisis in Iraq

24 August 2004

• Australian foreign minister falls off the diplomatic tightrope in Asia
• Australia’s highest court sanctions indefinite detention
• Bank with close ties to Bush administration engulfed in scandal
• California National Guardsman files suit against extension of tour of duty
• Kerry’s dilemma: defending medals from a criminal war
• Spanish government discusses extending scope of Anti-Terror Pact
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

25 August 2004

• A letter from the great niece of civil rights martyr Viola Liuzzo
• Australia: Howard’s 2001 election lies return to haunt him
• Champaign newspaper publishes smear against SEP candidate Tom Mackaman
• Detroit schools open following a summer of discontent
• Former detainees detail abuses at Guantanamo Bay
• In run-up to Republican convention: 24-hour surveillance of protest organizers
• SEP presidential campaign files petitions in Washington state
• The Corporation: a reformist plea for state regulation
• The Monday Demonstrations in Germany—1989 and today
• WSWS readers condemn denial of ballot status to SEP candidate in Ohio

26 August 2004

• Democrats’ drive to keep Nader off ballot: a reactionary attack on democratic rights
• Layoffs plague Detroit city services
• New European Commission dedicated to free market offensive
• New Zealand High Court overturns conviction for flag burning
• Russian miners protest again, as they did 15 years ago
• Socialist Equality Party candidates attain ballot status in Washington, Iowa and Michigan
• Spanish government immigration policy costs migrant lives
• Suharto’s political machine backs Megawati in Indonesian poll

27 August 2004

• Britain: Iraqi asylum seeker ends 46-day hunger strike
• Canada to expand its armed forces to facilitate foreign interventions
• Florida man burns himself over son’s death in Iraq
• Four workers die in Japanese nuclear plant accident
• Mark Thatcher arrested over alleged African coup plot
• Small oases and the much larger desert

28 August 2004

• Fuerza de tarea "contra el terrorismo" persigue a los adversarios de Bush
• Germany: protests held in over 140 towns and cities
• New Bush administration rules slash overtime pay for millions of workers
• Spain: controversy surrounds opening of Garcia Lorca’s grave
• The family business and its discontents
  Rutherford and Son, by Githa Sowerby, directed by Jackie Maxwell
• The socialist alternative to Bush and Kerry
  • Stop the war in Iraq! Withdraw all US troops now! • For a socialist program for jobs, education and health care! • Break with the Democrats; build an independent mass party of the working class!
• As thousands march to demand end to siege
  US pulls back from Najaf
• US torturers in Afghanistan were redeployed to Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

30 August 2004

• An exchange on the crisis in Sudan’s western Darfur region
• Appeals court upholds discriminatory filing deadline: Ohio SEP candidate to conduct write-in campaign
• Canada: budget cuts have contributed to spread of super-bug
• Chinese police generate “sex scandal” against Hong Kong election candidate
• Documents confirm US colluded in Indonesia’s 1969 incorporation of Papua
• On eve of Republican Convention
  Massive anti-Bush march in New York

31 August 2004

• Australia: Howard government cynically “tweaks” its anti-refugee policy
• Germany: establishment parties unite behind Hartz IV laws
• Head of Spain’s largest bank calls for an end to Europe’s welfare state
• Influence and the rise of modern art
  Turner Whistler Monet: Impressionist Visions, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, June 12 to September 12
• The JVP intensifies its campaign against Sri Lankan peace talks
• US census figures show rise in poverty, uninsured