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Archive: November 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 November 2004

• Britain’s Guantanamo: indefinite detention has “severe adverse impact” on mental health
• CIA involved in illegal deportation of Iraqi prisoners
• Mass protests in China point to sharp social tensions
• On eve of 2004 election: US faces unprecedented social conflict
• They Were in Search of Life. Suicide: the Consequences of German Deportation Policies
  An indictment of Germany’s refugee policy
• US officials debate how to ration flu vaccine
• Yudhoyono’s cabinet mirrors conflicts within Indonesia’s ruling elite

2 November 2004

• Australia: new bipartisan assault on basic legal rights
• Anti-gay measures threaten democratic rights
  Ballot initiatives seek to bar same-sex marriage
• Following strike in Germany, GM fires Opel workers
• Outrage over murder of Thai Muslim demonstrators
• SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken speaks in New York
• Socialist debates Democrats, Libertarians at University of California-Davis
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 November 2004

• After the 2004 elections: the political and social crisis will intensify
• As Oregon’s economy “recovers,” hundreds of thousands go hungry
• CIA involved in illegal deportation of Iraqi prisoners
• Documentary focuses on struggle to control Angola’s oil
• Socialist candidate Tom Mackaman addresses SEP meeting at the University of Illinois
• Sri Lankan union betrays Bata jobs struggle
• The Australian 2004 election: the secret of Howard’s “success”
  Part 1
• UN hints at possible intervention in northern Uganda’s conflict

4 November 2004

• Former cabinet member Clare Short accuses Blair of lying over Iraq
• Frente Amplio wins elections in Uruguay
• Livio Maitan, 1923-2004: a critical assessment
  Part 1: A “Trotskyist” in the Communist Party
• Michelangelo Antonioni—a flawed legacy
  Part 1
• Socialist Equality Party gains significant support in US elections
• The Australian 2004 election: the secret of Howard’s “success”
  Part 2
• UK adolescent mental ill health rising

5 November 2004

• Fossil discovery rewrites human history
• Livio Maitan, 1923-2004: a critical assessment
  Part 2: Castro, Che Guevara and the armed struggle
• Massacre looms in Fallujah following the US election
• New York Times advises Bush opponents to accept new administration
• Swedish union bureaucracy uses GM strike to undercut German workers
• The SEP’s 2004 campaign: a preparation for coming battles
• The crisis of capitalism and the defence of the working class
  Editorial of Gleichheit, magazine of the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

6 November 2004

• Australian Labor lurches to the right after election debacle
• Colorado students occupy high school to protest war, Bush policies
• Despair and resignation characterise British elite’s response to Bush victory
• La crisis social y política de EE.UU. seguirá intensificándose tras las elecciones del 2004
• Letters on the US elections and flu vaccine crisis
• Livio Maitan, 1923-2004: a critical assessment
  Part 3: A “Trotskyist” in Rifondazione Comunista
• Polish parliament demands reparations from Germany
• Democrats’ pro-war campaigns produce debacle in congressional races
  Republicans strengthen grip on US House and Senate
• US Election Notes
• US troops witnessed looting of weapons at Al Qaqaa explosives dump
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 November 2004

• Accusations of Spanish involvement in coup highlight instability in Guinea
• Britain: armed police demand immunity from prosecution
• China lifts interest rates as imbalances grow
• Letters on the US elections
• The Democrats’ deconstruction: a post-election report from Kentucky
• US debt ceiling to be lifted
• Mike Hoffman of Iraq Veterans Against War speaks to the WSWS
  “We’re fighting average Iraqis who don’t want the US there”

9 November 2004

• Guantánamo Bay trial of David Hicks adjourned
• Ivory Coast: protests erupt vs. French military strikes
• Man commits suicide at World Trade Center site to protest Iraq war and Bush reelection
• New Jersey casino strike ends
• New York Times calls for more troops in Iraq
• New York Times’ Friedman gloats as Arafat lies near death
• Reactions to Bush win reveal growing US-Europe rift
• US media and liberal establishment: accomplices in the assault on Fallujah
• US troops begin slaughter in Fallujah
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 November 2004

• Michelangelo Antonioni—a flawed legacy
  Part 1
• The Vioxx recall: cover-up of health risks may have resulted in thousands of deaths
• Theo van Gogh murdered on the streets of Amsterdam
• US fighter jet strafes school in New Jersey
• US massacres civilians in Fallujah
• Why Israel will not allow Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem

11 November 2004

• An exchange on voting irregularities in the US elections
• Letters to US newspapers reflect widespread revulsion over Fallujah attack
• Michelangelo Antonioni—a flawed legacy
  Part 2
• Pessimism over latest attempts to restart peace talks in Sri Lanka
• The “Good Woman” of North London
• US assault leaves Fallujah in ruins and unknown numbers dead
• Iraq veteran Jimmy Massey speaks to the WSWS
  “We’re committing genocide in Iraq”

12 November 2004

• Australian soldiers fire on unarmed Iraqi civilians
• Crisis of the European Union commission overshadows signing of EU constitution
• Democrats ready to confirm defender of torture as new US attorney general
• Indonesian cleric faces trial again over Marriot and Bali bombings
• Schiller’s Don Carlos: the “light and warmth” of a timeless play
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Yasser Arafat: 1929-2004

13 November 2004

• After the US elections: the Democratic leadership bows to the far right
• Britain: growing opposition to occupation of Iraq as more Black Watch troops die
• La campaña del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad en el 2004:
  Hacer preparaciones para las luchas venideras
• Iraq aflame over mass killings in Fallujah
• Letters from our readers
• Palestinians turn burial into act of defiance
  Tens of thousands mourn Arafat in Ramallah
• The German media and Fallujah: accomplices to a war crime
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 November 2004

• After the 2004 election: perspectives and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
• Bush and Blair pledge to continue Middle East aggression
• Martial law declared as unrest deepens in rural China
• SEP candidate in Maine thanks voters and supporters
• Sri Lankan unions impose wage deal on plantation workers

16 November 2004

• Australian Aborigines become first target for “welfare reform”
• Court martial confirms Britain given advance warning of Iraq invasion
• Fallujah in US hands as uprising sweeps Sunni regions of Iraq
• Fifth German “Big Brother Awards”: attacks on privacy denounced
• A letter from Tom Mackaman
  SEP campaign in Illinois showed the power of an international party
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 November 2004

• An eyewitness account of Israeli occupation
• Australia: performance-based contracts planned for school principals
• Behind State Department, CIA shake-up: Bush-Cheney regime prepares a second term of all-out militarism
• German auto union head suggests GM cut US costs
• Letters from our readers
• Protracted crisis following government ouster in French Polynesia
• US media applauds destruction of Fallujah

18 November 2004

• The siege of Fallujah
  America on a killing spree
• Horrific scenes from the ashes of Fallujah
• Kmart-Sears merger threatens thousands of US jobs
• Leading journalist Robert Fisk asks: Who killed Margaret Hassan?
• Massive new round of cuts in Detroit Public Schools
• US dollar slide increases global tensions

19 November 2004

• Australia: Howard’s Senate victory fuels Coalition tensions
• Indian government seeks to curry Washington’s favor
• Mounting evidence of US destabilisation of Sudan
• Sri Lankan reaction to Bush victory: a declaration of dependence
• The death throes of a criminal regime
• The political lessons of the Australian and US elections
  SEP/WSWS public meeting in Sydney on December 7
• US: Republican Congress to pursue far-right agenda
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

20 November 2004

• After Bush re-election: German Greens shift further to the right
• Blair’s foreign policy: from a “bridge” to a bridgehead
• Chirac seeks to appease Washington while ensuring France gets its cut
• Opening of Bill Clinton’s library: a sordid gathering of the “fat cats”
• US soldiers in Iraq suffer horrific brain and mental injuries
• US-European tensions deepen over Iran’s nuclear program
• Union isolates locked-out San Francisco hotel workers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific

22 November 2004

• Iraqi elections announced amid mass repression
• Letters on the assault on Fallujah and the US elections
• Sri Lankan budget: a sign of political crisis
• The Vioxx scandal: damning Senate testimony reveals drug company, government complicity
• The rise of Britain’s super-rich

23 November 2004

• Australian police raid Aboriginal newspaper
• Bush provokes protests—and police—in Chile
• Spain seeks to appease Bush
• The Netherlands: xenophobic campaign follows Theo van Gogh murder
• The Pistons-Pacers brawl and sports violence in America
• US dollar slide to continue after G20 meeting
• Rumsfeld fails to forge new security pact
  US-Latin American tensions over “war on terror”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 November 2004

• A bold attempt, with more to come
  Canada House, a two-act play, by J. Karol Korczynski
• After the US election: the political issues
  SEP/ WSWS public lecture in Colombo on December 5
• Allegations of vote fraud in Ohio, Florida: Was the 2004 presidential election stolen?
• Bush pledges more funds for Colombia’s dirty war
• Fallujah and the laws of war
• Northern Ireland: New efforts to revive power sharing at Stormont
• South Korean government cracks down on public sector strike

25 November 2004

• Australia: Refugee detained for two years on false intelligence
• British Guantanamo victims sue Rumsfeld for authorising torture
• Great power rivalries erupt over disputed election in Ukraine
• How Britain’s trade unions support occupation of Iraq
• New York Times calls for more troops and more Fallujahs
• Sri Lanka sends troops to back US-installed regime in Haiti

26 November 2004

• Britain: Queen’s speech outlines assault on democratic rights
• Iraq: child malnutrition almost doubles after US invasion
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan president moves to reinstate the death penalty
• Thaksin stokes further conflict in southern Thailand
• Two opponents of the US occupation assassinated in Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa

27 November 2004

• Iraq: Reporters Without Borders condemns US report on killing of journalists
• Israel: Killing of Palestinian girl provides snapshot of a brutal regime
• Egyptian ministerial conference:
  Middle East leaders rubberstamp US occupation of Iraq
• Repeal of India’s draconian anti-terrorism law
  Largely a cosmetic change
• The debate over Muslim “parallel societies” in Germany
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 November 2004

• Germany: right-wing trajectory of conservative parties in wake of Bush re-election
• Japan uses submarine incident to whip up anti-Chinese nationalism
• The inglorious exit of CBS anchorman Dan Rather
• UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw rants against Trotskyism
• US dollar slide continues

30 November 2004

• Britain: Prince Charles bemoans “child-centred” education
• China: riot in Guangdong province points to broad social unrest
• Confused, struggling America
• Mass protests to greet Bush in Canada
  Oppose US imperialism by mobilizing the international working class
• Ralph Nader and the Democratic election debacle
• Sri Lankan driver held hostage in Iraq
• US intervenes in disputed Ukraine election: Who the hell asked you, Mr. Powell?
• Workers Struggles: US & Canada