Archive: September 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 September 2004
- Arson attack on Jewish social centre in Paris
- Australian election announced: a campaign of lies and provocation
- Hicks pleads not guilty at Guantanamo Bay “kangaroo court”
- Israel to expand West Bank settlements with US support
- Republican convention opens: panic-mongering in the service of war and reaction
- SEP candidate in Ohio responds to court ruling: “No opposition to two-party monopoly will be allowed”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 September 2004
- Britain: furore over A-level exams motivated by defence of class privilege
- Libyan government to execute foreign health workers
- Millions affected by drought in Sri Lanka
- The Hartz IV measures in Germany and the international crisis of capitalism
- The Republican convention: Wall Street fetes its political stooges
- The execution of the 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq
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Crackdown on anti-Bush protests
Thousands arrested in New York City
3 September 2004
- Belgian gas explosion: questions remain unanswered
- Greenspan warns cuts to Social Security may be “abrupt and painful”
- Indonesian court dismisses Bali bombing charges as unconstitutional
- Keynote speech at Republican convention: a fascistic rant from a pro-Bush Democrat
- Mother of British soldier killed in Iraq demands troop withdrawal
- Musharraf imposes former Citibank official as Pakistan’s prime minister
- SEP candidate answers smear by Champaign, Illinois, newspaper
- US judge throws out Detroit terrorist “sleeper cell” convictions
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New York protest revealed mass opposition to Bush war policies
Where were the Democrats on August 29?
4 September 2004
- Attack on Bangladesh opposition rally heightens political tensions
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Germany: Monday protests continue against Hartz IV
60,000 demonstrate in Leipzig -
La alternativa socialista a Bush y a Kerry
¡Romper con los Demócratas! ¡Por la creación de un partido independiente de masas de la clase obrera! - Russia: school hostage atrocity ends in bloodbath
- The Republican convention and the specter of dictatorship
- US: August jobs report provides no relief for workers
- Unholy circumstances
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
6 September 2004
- Defend free speech at the University of Illinois! Hands off SEP candidate Tom Mackaman!
- Report shows widespread undernourishment in Africa
- South Korea admits to carrying out secret nuclear experiments
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The socialist alternative in the 2004 Australian election
Support the Socialist Equality Party campaign - “Best” short stories of 2003 could do better
7 September 2004
- Burundi massacre and the continuing conflict in the Congo
- Chinese filmmakers need to see a way out
- Recent older children’s fiction: a new golden age?--Part 1
- SEP candidate addresses retired workers at Illinois forums
- The US sinks deeper into the Iraqi quagmire
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David North addresses public meetings in Australia and New Zealand
The war in Iraq and the 2004 US presidential election - Wellington and Sydney WSWS/ICFI meetings discuss Iraq war and the US, Australian elections
8 September 2004
- Hague tribunal stops Milosevic defending himself
- Interest rate scare campaign in Australian elections
- Readers protest University of Illinois attack on SEP candidate Tom Mackaman
- Recent older children’s fiction: a new golden age?--Part 2
- The Beslan hostage tragedy: the lies of the Putin government and its media
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Nick Beams addresses Sydney WSWS/ICFI meeting
The Iraq war and the Australian elections -
Complaint filed with Pentagon over Kerry medals
The anatomy of a right-wing provocation in US election campaign - Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 September 2004
- A question and reply on law under socialism
- Australia: Murdoch and Howard join forces to vilify the Greens
- Britain: soldier charged with murder of Iraqi civilian
- French government encourages employers’ jobs blackmail
- Labor’s tax and welfare plan: social reaction in “modernist” garb
- Recent older children’s fiction: a new golden age?—Part 3
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As the 1,000th US soldier dies in Iraq
The fight to end the war means opposing both Bush and Kerry
10 September 2004
- Cheney bullies the American people: vote for Bush or else
- China’s new personality cult surrounding Deng Xiaoping
- Consumer organisation highlights security hole in US vote-counting system
- More letters protest University of Illinois attack on SEP candidate Tom Mackaman
- State elections in the Saarland: support for Germany’s SPD plummets
- The political issues behind the Jakarta bomb blast
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 September 2004
- An exchange on Sudan’s Darfur conflict
- As superbug problem mounts, drug companies slash antibiotics research
- Israel targets Palestinians, threatens Syria
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Death toll rises on US-Mexico border
Stop the persecution of immigrant workers! - US military launches bloody attacks on rebel strongholds in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
13 September 2004
- Australian election debate follows the script... almost
- California Performance Review: Republicans, Democrats underwrite multibillion-dollar handout to big business
- Hundreds of police break up factory occupation in China
- Spain: Zapatero tries to control the regions
- State of Ohio seeks to deny ballot status for SEP presidential ticket
14 September 2004
- A daily toll of US atrocities in Iraq
- Correspondence on animal rights
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Terry Hicks speaks with WSWS
Father of Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner denounces Howard government - Germany: Who is responsible for the increased vote for the extreme right?
- SEP public meeting to warn of the dangers of war in Sri Lanka
- Vote tampering feared in US presidential race
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Asbestos industry—corporate murder on a global scale
“You will know them by their trail of death”—an investigation into the asbestos industry
Review of a Real Life documentary produced in the UK for ITN television.
15 September 2004
- Australia: coroner’s findings whitewash police role in death of TJ Hickey
- In a highly political decision, Malaysian court frees Anwar Ibriham
- India: popular agitation against army atrocities engulfs the northeast state of Manipur
- Kosovo protectorate “on point of near collapse” after March riots
- The filthy underside of American “democracy”: how Ohio officials have conspired against the SEP and its supporters
- US media covers up American war crimes in Iraq
16 September 2004
- Canada’s Supreme Court hears case aimed at overturning public health care system
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Conrad Black and Hollinger International: a financial oligarchy out of control
Part one - Hong Kong elections reveal a marked political radicalisation
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Leipzig: “industrial beacon” and growing poverty
Snapshot of an east German metropolis - SEP obtains Minnesota ballot status for presidential candidates
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Cantor-Fitzgerald, Port Authority sue Saudis
September 11-the official story and the bottom line -
The ideology and politics of the Australian Greens
Part one
17 September 2004
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Conrad Black and Hollinger International: a financial oligarchy out of control
Part two - Kerry pledges fiscal austerity in speech to business leaders in Detroit
- Reaction to the French hostage crisis
- SEP candidate for Congress addresses forum on disability issues in Maine
- SEP files challenge to place candidates on Ohio ballot
- Sri Lankan government confronts deepening economic crisis
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The ideology and politics of the Australian Greens
Part two - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
18 September 2004
- Federal judge upholds decision to bar SEP candidates from Ohio ballot
- Letters denounce effort to bar SEP candidates from Ohio ballot
- Mounting concern in US, Europe over Iraq debacle
- Putin strengthens his authoritarian regime
- SEP candidate speaks at environmental forum in Champaign, Illinois
- Sharon threatens to kill Arafat
- Sri Lankan union leaders prepare to sell out Bata workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
20 September 2004
- Australian Labor’s militarist plans for South-East Asia
- Britain: behind the factional warfare in Labour’s cabinet
- Florida court rejects Democratic Party suit to keep Nader off the ballot
- Sudan: why Powell calls Darfur violence “genocide”
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Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2004 US elections
20 September 2004
21 September 2004
- Australia: former union official Craig Johnston jailed for nine months
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To all US readers of the WSWS
Back the SEP election campaign! Donate today—we need your support now! - German President Koehler says inequality must be the new norm
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A visit to Sydney’s Claymore housing estate
Mark Latham’s “vision” for Australian working people - Mother of slain US soldier arrested at Bush campaign event
- Official probes of US prisoner abuse document crimes, exonerate arch criminals
- Russia: Putin lays siege to social benefits
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New move against free speech on campuses
University of Illinois restricts use of student e-mails to justify attack on SEP candidate - Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 September 2004
- Australia’s highest court backs anti-democratic election laws
- Britain: pro-hunt protest utilised to force through attacks on democratic rights
- Britain: right-wing think tank opens new school
- Bush defends Iraq war before a hostile UN General Assembly
- Chinese authors charged with libel for exposing rural crisis
- More letters denounce effort to bar SEP candidates from Ohio ballot
- The politics behind Kerry’s Iraq speech
23 September 2004
- Australia: SEP holds election campaign public meetings
- Britain: dramatic increase in self-harm by children
- CWC joins an unstable Sri Lankan government
- Failing Eisenstein: The Pet Shop Boys’ new score for Battleship Potemkin in Trafalgar Square
- German state elections: far-right NPD enters parliament in Saxony
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Nick Beams addresses Australian election meetings in Kingsford Smith and Batman
“The SEP’s campaign is about ideas, not votes”
24 September 2004
- Australia: Mark Latham and Liverpool Council-what the record shows
- Britain: Iraq debacle deepens crisis of Blair government
- Bush administration sabotages attempt to save British hostage in Iraq
- CBS admits being duped over Bush National Guard memos
- SEP takes ballot access fight to Ohio appeals court
- Sri Lankan SEP meeting warns of the danger of renewed civil war
- The deportation of Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
- US Congress hails Washington’s Iraqi stooge
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
25 September 2004
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Toronto International Film Festival 2004-Part 1
A certain polarization - Another Guantanamo “spying” frame-up collapses
- Bush administration escalates confrontation with Iran
- Canada: two “good news” studies conceal growing economic hardship
- Nader at the University of Michigan: independent candidate courts the Democratic Party
- The fate of Ken Bigley and the struggle against the occupation of Iraq
- Washington turns its back on Haitian catastrophe
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 September 2004
- Australia at the forefront of housing bubble
- Dutch government uses terrorist threat to justify greater police powers
- Forbes 400 list of richest Americans: snapshot of a financial oligarchy
- Northern Ireland: British government announces inquiry into Pat Finucane’s assassination
- Sri Lankan fishermen protest against LTTE attack
28 September 2004
- An open letter to Michael Moore
- Australian election: the “save Medicare” sham
- Britain: anti-asylum measures lead to suicides and self-harm
- Democrats back fourth Bush tax cut for wealthy, business
- Ex-general wins Indonesian presidential election
- SEP candidate addresses University of Maine meeting on “Marxism, Militarism and War”
- The Caucasus powder keg: Russia threatens military interventions
29 September 2004
- Another round of US airstrikes on Fallujah
- Australia: asbestos poisoning victims sacrificed to corporate profit
- Historic showing of Viola Liuzzo documentary in Detroit
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Toronto International Film Festival 2004
Interview with Jia Zhang-ke, director of The World - Oregon Supreme Court denies Nader ballot access
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The Balkans continues to fracture
Part 1 -
Toronto International Film Festival 2004—Part 2
The problem of producing great works ... and today’s best works
30 September 2004
- Australia: SEP candidate James Cogan speaks at Kingsford Smith community forums
- Britain: Blair’s defence of his record on Iraq given standing ovation
- CBS cancels broadcast on Bush’s use of forged Iraqi WMD documents
- Citizen of the world: a brief survey of the life and times of Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
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Australian 2004 election:
Howard and Latham united on Iraq war cover-up - Ohio appeals court hears Socialist Equality Party ballot access case
- The release of Yaser Hamdi: legal manipulation of “enemy combatant” cases
- West Bengal carries out first hanging in India in a decade
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