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Archive: October 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 October 2004

• America’s oligarchy in the mirror of the debacle in Iraq
• Bush-Kerry debate: two candidates committed to war
• Democratic keynote speaker Barack Obama calls for missile strikes on Iran
• Prisoner releases expose illegal nature of Guantanamo Bay detentions
• The Balkans continue to fracture
  Part 2
• Washington’s policy of sadism and sexual abuse: excerpts from Seymour Hersh’s Chain of Command

2 October 2004

• Afghanistan’s presidential election: a mockery of democracy
• Australia: SEP candidate for Werriwa, Mike Head, addresses university forum
• Britain: Labour Party conference endorses occupation of Iraq
• Toronto International Film Festival 2004
  Interview with Bahman Ghobadi, director of Turtles Can Fly
• Israel: General strike over unpaid salaries
• Notice to WSWS readers in Australia: Socialist Equality Party election meetings
• Toronto International Film Festival 2004-Part 3
  Orphaned by history
• Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate to speak in London
  SEP/World Socialist Web Site public meeting: the US elections and the war against Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

4 October 2004

• Australia: Labor’s schools policy will further privatise education
• German interior minister bans Islamic conference
• Nigerian government launches assault on civilians in Delta region
• SEP candidate on Illinois public radio
• SEP presents evidence of voter disenfranchisement in Ohio ballot case
• US troops storm Iraqi city of Samarra
• SEP campaigns in Mark Latham’s seat:
  War, social conditions dominate discussion in Australian working class

5 October 2004

• Australia: SEP holds public meeting in Werriwa in lead up to federal election
• Contradictions of Bush-Kerry debate: pro-war candidates confront debacle in Iraq and antiwar sentiment at home
• Fifteen years after fall of Berlin wall:
  50,000 march to oppose cutbacks in Germany
• Israeli offensive in Gaza kills, wounds hundreds
• Lessons of Peter Garrett’s evolution: from radical activist to Australian Labor politician
• The historical basis of socialism
  Nick Beams addresses Australian SEP election meeting
• SEP Congressional candidate Jerome White speaks on children’s health issues
• The international crisis of capitalism and the bankruptcy of the “social market economy”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 October 2004

• Britain: Guantanamo detainee alleges “vindictive torture” and murder
• Defence witnesses at Milosevic trial refuse to testify
• Democrat Edwards backs war, austerity in vice presidential debate
• Indonesian editor jailed under repressive libel laws
• Kodak to shut Australian plant and destroy hundreds of jobs
• Ohio appeals court upholds exclusion of SEP candidates

7 October 2004

• Australia: an exchange on Sydney’s Claymore housing estate
• German war crimes in Italy: part one
  Sixty years since the massacre at Sant’ Anna di Stazzema
• Indian Stalinists’ alliance with the Congress-led UPA: a trap for the working class
• Locusts threaten food supplies in North West Africa
• Toronto International Film Festival 2004: Part four
  Some things are difficult, but they need to be done
• US uses Israel as its proxy to threaten Syria
• The socialist alternative to war and inequality
  Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party in the Australian elections

8 October 2004

• Aboriginal health and social crisis ignored in Australian election campaign
• Australia: campaign in Batman differentiates SEP from all other parties
• German war crimes in Italy: part two
  Nazi terror and the resistance in Italy
• Iraq WMD report proves Bush, Democrats lied to justify Iraq war
• Medicine and the market: the Vioxx and flu vaccine debacles
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

9 October 2004

• Australia: arts funding crisis ignored in federal election
• German war crimes in Italy: part three
  A scorched-earth policy
• Israel: Top adviser reveals Sharon set out to sabotage peace talks
• Israel: Top adviser reveals Sharon set out to sabotage peace talks
• Italy carries out mass deportation of refugees
• Kerry plugs his conservative credentials in second presidential debate
• Letters from our readers
• Socialist Equality Party US presidential candidate to speak in Sri Lanka
  SEP/World Socialist Web Site public meetings: the US election and the war against Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 October 2004

• A sincere and evocative protest
  Letters to Ali, directed by Clara Law
• Australia: Howard government returned, courtesy of Labor
• Crisis in the US airlines industry: the case for public ownership
• Russia-Georgia tensions worsen following Beslan siege
• Spain: PSOE government promises limited amnesty to immigrants
• Clara Law speaks with WSWS
  “Australia’s inhuman treatment of asylum seekers has to be confronted”

12 October 2004

• Afghanistan election descends into farce
• Australian elections: the media rewrites history
• Toronto International Film Festival 2004—Part 5
  Limited range
• More terror arrests in Spain, but still no evidence presented
• US corporations continue to slash thousands of jobs
• US election stokes fears of military draft
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

13 October 2004

• Blair visits Africa
• Republican governor vetoes minimum wage increase
  Democrats, unions capitulate to new attacks by Schwarzenegger on California workers
• FBI shuts down 20 antiwar web sites: an unprecedented act of Internet censorship
• Koizumi reshuffles Japanese cabinet to pursue right-wing agenda
• Some of Hitler’s unwilling victims
  Rosenstrasse, directed by Margarethe von Trotta
• The New York Times and the road to war

14 October 2004

• A painter of raw nerve: Leon Golub, 1922-2004
• An exchange with the Australian’s Iraq correspondent
• Australia continues to pressure East Timor on oil and gas
• Britain: more lies over Iraq war
• Final presidential debate confirms: no choice for working people in Bush-Kerry contest
• Letters from our readers
• Legal fight to place socialist candidates on November ballot
  SEP challenges ballot access laws in Ohio Supreme Court
• Union hobbles Canada-wide federal workers strike

15 October 2004

• Vancouver International Film Festival 2004—Part 1
  Asian films and Asian life
• Communal protests inflame tensions in eastern Sri Lanka
• German Green Party congress: a middle-class party of German imperialism
• Scottish National Party reelects Salmond as leader
• WSWS Chairman David North denounces Iraq war at Dublin debate

16 October 2004

• Aid workers charge political motives in US claim of “genocide” in Darfur
• Canada’s social democrats helping sustain big business Liberals in power
• Considerably more than a libertine
  The Libertine, directed by Laurence Dunmore
• Discontent rife in US military ranks
• Right-wing Christian party may gain the balance of power in Australian Senate
• SEP to hold public meetings in final weeks of 2004 US election campaign
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

18 October 2004

• Haiti’s US-installed government cracks down on opponents
• More terror arrests in Spain, but still no evidence presented
• SEP campaigns for Sri Lankan meetings of US presidential candidate
• US soldiers mutiny over “suicide mission” in Iraq

19 October 2004

• Big business spells out economic agenda for new Indonesian president
• German Opel workers: ”We cannot compete with wages of 3-4 euros”
• Germany: Opel cuts over 10,000 auto jobs
• Iraq’s nuclear-related equipment goes missing under the US occupation
• SEP participates in third-party debate in Tennessee
• SEP presidential candidate addresses London meeting
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 October 2004

• As early balloting begins: tensions build over Bush vote-suppression drive
• Greyhound bus lines: stranding America’s poor in pursuit of profits
• Group suicides in Japan: a symptom of social malaise
• Iraqi social crisis continues unabated as US slashes funding
• Israel moves to impede UN relief to Palestinians
• Spain: Socialist Party government moves to rehabilitate Francoite fascists

21 October 2004

• Campaign material suppressed in Australian election
• Deaths of schoolchildren expose Israeli brutality
• France: murder of work inspectors reveals deepening social tensions
• Iraq: US assault underway on Fallujah
• SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken speaks to South Asian press in Sri Lanka
• The New York Times and the reservists in Iraq who said “No”
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2004—Part 2
  Once again, avoiding the more difficult problems

22 October 2004

• Four-day general strike in Nigeria
• GM workers hold European-wide day of action against job cuts
• New Indian government demonstrates loyalty to Washington
• Spain pressured to strengthen border with North Africa
• Sri Lankan students and railway workers discuss US election campaign
• The political issues facing Opel workers
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

23 October 2004

• Australia’s peak union body rules out opposition to Howard government’s agenda
• Britain agrees to troop redeployment to back Fallujah offensive
• Letters from WSWS readers
• Minnesota senator closes Washington office, citing terrorist threat
• Carl Cooley: SEP candidate for Congress
  Socialist campaign reaches thousands of Maine voters
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 October 2004

• Australian elections: voting trends reveal deepening disaffection
• Behind the military leadership changeover in China
• Germany: union, works committee stifle Opel strike in Bochum
• Illinois SEP campaign reaches wide audience
  Candidate Tom Mackaman to speak at Thursday evening meeting on University of Illinois campus
• The New York Times and the Bush “disaster”
• Why is IG Metall sabotaging the struggle at Opel?

26 October 2004

• Historic resonances in German foreign minister’s statements
• London: lessons of the European Social Forum
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2004—Part 3
  No answers yet to new problems
• The US flu vaccine crisis: a debacle for profit-based medicine
• Thousands of US elderly line up for flu shots
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

27 October 2004

• Australian foreign minister smears journalist kidnapped in Iraq
• British MI6 agents named in Balkans
• Guerilla attacks increase as US forces continue air raids against Fallujah
• Letters from WSWS readers
• SEP congressional candidate addresses workers, youth in Michigan
• Spain’s draft budget presages escalating social conflict

28 October 2004

• Britain: government extends attack on defendants’ rights
• Lithuania: election sees low turnout, large gains for Labour Party
• Missing explosives at Al Qaqaa: Bush caught in another Iraq war lie
• SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken to speak Saturday in New York
• Following the SEP meetings in Colombo and Kandy
  Sri Lankans speak about the Iraq war, the US election and internationalism
• US SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken addresses two meetings in Sri Lanka
• US elections: Republicans marshal “poll watchers” to suppress working class vote

29 October 2004

• A correction to “British MI6 agents named in Balkans”
• Bid-rigging scandal envelops top insurance broker in US
• Britain: second inquest held into police shooting of Harry Stanley
• SEP congressional candidate John Christopher Burton speaks at LA-area debate
• US SEP presidential candidate addresses Sri Lanka meetings
  “Our campaign fights to unify workers internationally”
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• An interview with Brian Deegan:
  “I wanted to voice my concerns over the Australian government’s illegal foreign policy”

30 October 2004

• Arafat health drama: a symbol of Israel’s imprisonment of the Palestinian people
• Expanding Halliburton probe confirms Bush administration is most corrupt in US history
• SEP election meeting in Cincinnati discusses attacks on voting rights
• As US prepares mass killings in Fallujah
  Study estimates 100,000 additional Iraqi deaths since the invasion
• US introduces sanctions against Belarus
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific