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Archive: January 2005

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 January 2005

• Britain: police given new powers against the young

3 January 2005

• The Asian tsunami: why there were no warnings
• The drug industry’s chokehold on America’s health care
• Torture practices in the German army
• Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific
• On-the-spot report from Sri Lanka
  Working with a medical team in Hambantota

4 January 2005

• Artie Shaw: a remarkable twentieth-century American life
• Britain: police given new powers against the young
• Germany: leniency for deputy police chief who threatened torture
• India: over 14,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced
• South Asia disaster appeal: White House tries to cover up Bush’s moment of truth
• Two prisoners shot dead as the tsunami hit Sri Lanka

5 January 2005

• Death toll reaches 185
  Demonstrators demand “justice” in Argentine nightclub blaze
• Four films
• In the wake of tsunami calamity
  Indonesian army steps up war in Aceh
• New Zealand parliament passes Civil Union Bill
• Tsunami disaster strips away Blair’s humanitarian pretence
• US government makes closing arguments in frame-up of New York attorney Lynne Stewart
• Washington prepares international network of permanent detention camps
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 January 2005

• Leading critics detained
  Beijing tightens political control over dissent
• As 109th Congress reconvenes
  Bush to resubmit ultra-right judicial nominees
• On-the-spot-report
  Devastation on the east coast of Sri Lanka
• European Union continues to build a “fortress Europe”
• Letters on the tsunami disaster
• Powell declares tsunami aid part of global war on terror
  Imperialism in Samaritan’s clothing
• Romania: elections in Europe’s poorhouse
• US client Yushchenko to assume Ukraine presidency

7 January 2005

• A question and reply on the 1974 Heath government in Britain
• El arresto de Pinochet en Chile y los asesinos del complot de la "Operación Cóndor" en Estados Unidos
• Gonzales hearings: Senate to confirm defender of torture as US attorney general
• Hypocrisy and self interest at tsunami summit in Jakarta
• Insurers relieved by low-level exposure to tsunami disaster
• Broad Front reassures US and local elite
  Uruguay: victorious left turns sharply to the right
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa

8 January 2005

• Gonzales nomination hearing: US Senate welcomes a war criminal
• Iraq elections loom as debacle for US occupation
• Tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka’s east speak to the WSWS
• WSWS journalist interviewed on Democracy Now! program
• Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific
• “We’re all a pack of strays”

10 January 2005

• Democrats rubber-stamp Bush victory in Electoral College
• India: tsunami warnings could have been made
• Livio Maitan, 1923-2004: una valutazione critica
  Prima Parte: Un “trotskista” nel Partito Comunista
• Oil giant Yukos and the struggle for Russian energy sources
• People of war-ravaged Jaffna hit hard by tsunami
• Portugal: inquiry concludes bomb killed Prime Minister Carneiro in 1980

11 January 2005

• How much “aid” will reach the tsunami survivors?
• Livio Maitan, 1923-2004: una valutazione critica
  Seconda Parte: Castro, Che Guevara e la lotta armata
• Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism
  Part One
• Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 takes People’s Choice Award
• More letters on the tsunami disaster
• Spain: Popular Party seeks to destabilise Socialist Party government
• Sri Lankan medical student speaks about relief work among tsunami victims
• US defends “evidence” obtained through torture at hearing for Guantanamo prisoners

12 January 2005

• CBS purges producer, executives for anti-Bush broadcast
• Extent of tsunami destruction along African coast slowly emerges
• Livio Maitan, 1923-2004: una valutazione critica
• Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism
  Part Two
• Palestinian election: a travesty of democracy
• US bankruptcy judge terminates contract of US Airways workers
• US military “mistake” claims 14 lives in occupied Iraq
• Under the guise of “humanitarianism”, US marines land in Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

13 January 2005

• “Support for our struggle is growing”
  Father of Guantánamo Bay prisoner speaks with WSWS
• Journalist took $240,000 to push Bush education program
• Marxism, the International Committee, and the science of perspective: an historical analysis of the crisis of American imperialism
  Part Three
• First-hand report from Sri Lanka
  On a medical team to an LTTE-controlled area
• First-hand report from Sri Lanka
  On a medical team to an LTTE-controlled area
• The “Salvador option”
  Pentagon plans death squad terror in Iraq
• US doctors tied to torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib
• Why this dishonest portrait of a despicable figure?

14 January 2005

• After the 2004 US elections: the Socialist Equality Party and the struggle for the political independence of the working class
• A consensus choice for attacks on democratic rights
  Bush nominates Chertoff to head Homeland Security Department
• Detroit mayor demands mass layoffs and cuts in city services
• Growing anxiety in US ruling circles over Iraq debacle
  New York Times calls for postponing January 30 election
• Report reveals the catastrophe in Sierra Leone and Liberia
• Sri Lankan president puts military in charge of relief operations
• The Asian Tsunami Disaster: Causes and Consequences
  WSWS & Socialist Equality Party Public Meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
• US releases Mamdouh Habib and four British prisoners from Guantánamo Bay
• When more could have been more
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

15 January 2005

• After the 2004 US elections: the Socialist Equality Party and the struggle for the political independence of the working class
  Part Two
• Australia’s disability pensioners to be “coerced” to work
• Brazil: profit and poverty fuel Amazon deforestation
• En Uruguay la izquierda triunfante se vira vigorosamente hacia la derecha
• España: comisión confirma conspiración de engaño para justificar guerra contra Irak
• Mbeki facilitates US-Sudan peace deal
• White House blocked Senate ban on torture
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• “Suicide by cop”: Marine provokes police shootout to avoid return to Iraq

17 January 2005

• Canada to lead chorus of support for sham election in Iraq
• Portugal: political crisis deepens ahead of February elections
• Rights group urges prosecution of Bush officials responsible for Iraq torture
• Sri Lanka: the day the tsunami devastated Hambantota
• Thai government puts tourism ahead of the poor in tsunami relief effort
• The invasion of Iraq and the crisis of American and world capitalism

18 January 2005

• China’s tsunami aid: political interests not humanitarian concern
• Christian right forces attack “blasphemous” British television comedy
• On-the-spot report
  Hospital staff in tsunami-hit eastern Sri Lanka speak of their experiences
• Letters from our readers
• Modigliani—an artist between worlds
• US officially ends hunt for Iraqi WMD
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

19 January 2005

• Abu Ghraib abuse trial shields Pentagon, White House war criminals
• Australia: James Hardie signs non-binding agreement on asbestos victims’ claims
• Bush tells Washington Post he is not accountable for Iraq war lies
• Fredric Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated
  At Venice’s Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
• Klansman arrested in 1964 killings of civil rights workers
• Letters on a review of Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator
• Massive police presence for Bush inauguration
• South Indian fishing villages devastated by tsunami

20 January 2005

• Australian policeman murdered in the Solomon Islands
• Bush inauguration: corporate America throws a party
• Death by “drowning”
  Germany: another African immigrant dies in police custody
• Inauguration Day 2005: imperial delusions and political reality
• New Yorker journalist corroborates murder allegations against Iraq’s prime minister
• Fallujah two months after the US military assault
  The “City of Mosques” has become the “City of Rubble”
• US carrying out acts of war against Iran, magazine reports

21 January 2005

• Bush’s second inauguration
  America’s day of shame
• Australia: Labor opposition caves in on unfair dismissal legislation
• Four Britons released from Guantanamo
  Lawyer charges “savage torture” at hands of US
• Tens of thousands protest Bush inauguration in Washington
• Tsunami survivors in southern India speak to the WSWS

22 January 2005

• Britain: rise in “superbug” cases linked to decrease in hospital cleaning staff
• Mass strikes by French public sector workers
• Spain: National talks break down as big business demands offensive on wages
• The absence of democratic sensibility in American filmmaking
• The death of Mandela’s son and the ANC’s AIDS policy
• The logic of the irrational: Bush’s inaugural address and the global strategy of American imperialism
• The social roots of the tsunami disaster
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

24 January 2005

• British court martial bares war crimes against Iraqi civilians
• Sri Lanka: the JVP’s bogus appeal for “unity” and “voluntary labour”
• UK Labour government wracked by Blair-Brown feud
• US and Australian governments delay release of Guantánamo detainee

25 January 2005

• American media whitewashes Bush’s global bullying
• Beijing on heightened alert after the death of Zhao Ziyang
• Europe alarmed by US threats against Iran
• Film on African catastrophe conceals more than it reveals
• France: strikes reveal lack of programme to fight austerity measures
• The Asian tsunami disaster: causes and consequences
  WSWS and Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Colombo
• Why has India blocked foreign tsunami aid to the Nicobar and Andaman islands?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

26 January 2005

• Academy fails to nominate Fahrenheit 9/11: Hollywood’s olive branch to Bush
• Los diarios de motocicleta
  Cuando más pudo haber sido más
• David North to speak at Sydney bookshop event
• Letters from our readers
• Sharp divisions in Jakarta over foreign presence in Aceh
• US occupation damages ancient sites at Babylon
  Imperialism and cultural vandalism in Iraq
• Mounting provocations against Venezuela
  Washington backs kidnapping of Colombian guerrilla exile in Caracas

27 January 2005

• Abkhazian elite come to settlement with Kremlin
• Australia: Labor’s crisis deepens as its new leader resigns, and quits politics
• Druba Jyoti Majumdar: pioneer Indian Trotskyist dies
• Iraq crisis dominates Bush press conference
• Russia: wave of protests against welfare cuts
• The Iraq election: a travesty of democracy
• The dawn of reformism in the US
• Two reports expose social conditions in Oregon

28 January 2005

• Anger over Sri Lankan government’s “rehabilitation” plans
• Australia’s tsunami aid package: neo-colonialism laced with hypocrisy
• Britain: government proposes house arrest of terror suspects
• Cheney at Auschwitz: an insult to the memory of Nazism’s victims
• Eleven dead in southern California train derailment
• Letters from our readers
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa

29 January 2005

• Congressional Democrats line up behind Bush request for $80 billion in war spending
• Court martial of British soldiers hears allegations of abuse orders
• Germany: redundancies loom at Opel
• Report documents torture by US-backed Iraqi police
• US group files war crimes complaint in Germany against Rumsfeld
  US defence secretary may skip Munich conference
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

31 January 2005

• El marxismo, el Comité Internacional y la ciencia de la perspectiva: un análisis histórico de la crisis del imperialismo estadounidense
• Germany: behind the ultra-right provocation in Saxony’s parliament
• Iraq elections set stage for deeper crisis of US occupation regime
• Sri Lankan president imposes anti-democratic emergency laws