Archive: March 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.
22 March 2004
- Britain: government issues first “control orders” imposing house arrest
- Letters from our readers
- The dysfunctional society: US billionaires on the rise—roads, bridges in decay
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
1 March 2005
- 77th Academy Awards ceremony—a miserable showing
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Australia: Palm Island’s dark history of Aboriginal repression
Part One - Britain: Blair was advised that Iraq invasion could be illegal
- Letters from our readers
- US-Japan security statement heightens tensions with China
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 March 2005
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Australia: Palm Island’s dark history of Aboriginal repression
Part Two - Australia: SEP candidate opposes closure of maternity ward in Sydney’s west
- Despite US pressure, Russia signs nuclear fuel deal with Iran
- Judge orders end to indefinite detention of Jose Padilla
- More letters on the Ward Churchill question
- Report documents poverty and social misery in Afghanistan
- Romania: new right-wing government slashes taxes, fuels social tensions
3 March 2005
- Australia: Sydney suburb remains tense following four days of conflict
- Britain: Labour and Conservative parties compete over anti-immigrant measures
- Letters on the 77th Academy Awards ceremony
- Narrow majority on US Supreme Court bans juvenile death penalty
- Sri Lankan bus workers denounce union betrayal
- Sri Lankan unions scuttle islandwide bus strike
- State Department rights survey denounces as “torture” methods used by US
4 March 2005
- Asian tsunami: the New Zealand government’s pathetic record
- Australian economic slowdown undermines Howard government
- Britain: house arrest legislation a fundamental attack on democratic rights
- Iraq suicide bombing campaign: a reactionary diversion from the political struggle against imperialism
- US central bank chief backs budget cuts and privatization
- Vermont town meetings vote against Iraq war
- White supremacist group suspected in killing of Chicago judge’s family
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
5 March 2005
- A reply to a reader on “Recruit’s death highlights brutality of Marine training”
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The 55th Berlin Film Festival—Part 3
An increasingly complex portrayal of German anti-fascism -
Judge’s family slain
Bush administration keeps silent on terrorist killings in US - German unemployment highest since 1933
- London meeting presses Palestinian Authority for further concessions
- New York meeting supports US sailor who refused orders to Iraq
- Sri Lankan SEP holds public meeting in tsunami-affected south
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 March 2005
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Macquarie Fields residents speak out
Australia: working class suburb under police siege - Canada-US frictions intensify after Ottawa balks at joining missile defence
- Did the US military target Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena in Iraq?
- More letters on the Academy Awards
- New push by Britain and Ireland for IRA disbandment
- US rejects Assad’s concessions and steps up threats against Syria
8 March 2005
- A marriage of political convenience in Taiwan
- Afghan and Iraqi prisoners detail abuse by US torturers
- Federal suit charges Rumsfeld authorized detainee torture
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Jorge Medina, father of soldier killed in Iraq, speaks to the WSWS
“Thousands of soldiers are dying and they don’t care” - Pro-independence parties topple government following Tahiti by-election
- Spain: PSOE government immigration policy aimed at tightening borders
- Two readers respond to “Arthur Miller, an American playwright”
- US: bonuses for CEOs soared in 2004
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 March 2005
- An interview with Nathan Steinberger (1997)
- Australia: Macquarie Fields—the political issues
- Bush picks right-wing attack dog as UN ambassador
- Bush visits the CIA: reassuring America’s Murder Inc.
- India: further evidence Hindu-supremacist BJP culpable in Gujarat pogrom
- Letters from our readers
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Nathan Steinberger dies at 94
A life dedicated to the fight against fascism and Stalinism - Sharpening tensions in Sri Lankan government over talks with LTTE
10 March 2005
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“I feel that there has been an enormous betrayal of truth and principle”
An interview with the mother and widow of a former Iraqi contractor - Australia: Labor Party candidate in Werriwa by-election silent on vital issues
- German Chancellor Schröder’s business trip to the Gulf States
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As Bush tells Lebanese “we are with you”
Massive rally in Beirut rejects US intervention - The growing class divide in New Zealand’s education system
- Turkey: union bureaucracy works to sabotage paper workers’ occupation
- US Senate clears last obstacle for bill to punish bankrupt debtors
11 March 2005
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The 55th Berlin Film Festival—Part 4
Aesthetic choices: Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun - An appeal to students who oppose the war in Iraq
- Bush administration repudiates World Court jurisdiction in death penalty cases
- General strike in France as workers continue protests against Raffarin government
- India-Pakistan talks hold out the promise of a Kashmiri bus service
- Kentucky students victimized by “zero-tolerance” policies
- Lockheed workers in Georgia walk out over health benefits
- Washington resumes officer training for the Indonesian military
- Wealth and poverty in modern Russia
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
12 March 2005
- Chinese president preaches the need for “a harmonious society”
- Haiti: the forgotten milestone in Bush’s crusade for “freedom”
- International health experts demand inquiry into number of Iraqi war casualties
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Opposition to Iraq war hitting US military recruitment
Black and female enlistment down sharply - Report highlights costs of occupation for Israeli society
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 March 2005
- Deregulation leads to Britain’s largest ever food recall
- Letters from our readers
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Military interference in American film production
Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies by David L. Robb -
Pentagon plans rendition of Guantánamo prisoners
Detainees face torture in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Yemen - Western Australian election: Labor returned to office with help from the media
15 March 2005
- Berlusconi government in predicament over US shooting of Italian journalist
- Britain: government to expand privately-run state schools
- Letters from our readers
- Quebec: Student strikes exemplify mounting social discontent
- SEP holds second public meeting in Australian by-election
- Turkey: union leadership intervenes to end paper workers’ struggle
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 March 2005
- An epidemic of murder-suicide in the US
- Britain: BBC documentary exposes abuse of asylum seekers
- China’s “anti-secession law” adds to tension in North East Asia
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Germany: Opel works committee signs a “Pact for the Future”
Union endorses wage cuts -
Werriwa by-election
Iraq, Macquarie Fields and Australia’s “History Wars” -
Kosovo prime minister charged with war crimes
US-backed ex-militia leader on trial - Violent eruptions in Wisconsin and Georgia: the pathology of a society in crisis
17 March 2005
- Australia strong-arms East Timor over new oil and gas plan
- Australian government appoints Murdoch hack to ABC board
- Bush administration defends use of covert propaganda in US
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White House press conference
Bush defends rendition of detainees to torture regimes -
Sharon regime finalises West Bank land seizure plan
Israeli security wall to encircle East Jerusalem - The media, the entertainment industry and Michael Jackson
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To “hold the world but as the world...”
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, directed by Michael Radford
18 March 2005
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Werriwa by-election
A record number of candidates, but no policies for working people - Ebbers found guilty in WorldCom fraud: a case study of US corporate criminality
- French referendum on European constitution set for May 29
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GM announces sharply lower profit figures
Decline of auto giant highlights crisis of US manufacturing - Indonesian cleric convicted of conspiracy in Bali bombings
- Unite European workers and youth against militarism and social reaction
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 March 2005
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After the March 10 demonstrations
France: Chirac government, Socialist Party close ranks on European constitutional referendum - Germany: Foreign Ministry under fire in “visa affair”
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Werriwa by-election
Socialist Alliance promotes Australian Greens as “a progressive alternative” - The latest Bush provocation: Wolfowitz named to head World Bank
- US Congress witch-hunts players in baseball steroids scandal
- Washington’s criminal war against Iraq enters its third year
- Workers Struggle: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 March 2005
- Brussels: workers from East and West demonstrate for a “social” Europe
- Bush, Congress intervene in Terri Schiavo case: political thuggery in the service of reaction
- Canada: protests against US occupation of Iraq in 40 cities
- Europe: tens of thousands protest on second anniversary of Iraq war
- Iraq war veterans, military families hold protest in North Carolina
- Iraq’s national assembly shows its subservience to Washington
- Northern Ireland: McCartney murder used to increase pressure on IRA to disband
- Rallies in Australia, New Zealand and Asia demand troops out of Iraq
- Thousands in cities across US demand an end to the Iraq war
22 March 2005
- Australia: economic slowdown threatens to push up unemployment
- Funding cuts undermine Sri Lanka’s public hospitals
23 March 2005
- Australia: Werriwa by-election result no great boost for Labor
- Australian by-election: a microcosm of political alienation and hostility
- Democrats complicit with Christian right, Republicans in Schiavo case
- Indian budget: a balancing act that cannot long be sustained
- Minnesota: Ten killed in deadliest school shooting since Columbine massacre
- Portugal: New Socialist Party government intensifies social attacks
- The Schiavo case: Bush and Congress trample on science and the Constitution
24 March 2005
- A sign of desperation: Beijing ousts Hong Kong’s chief executive
- American war resister in Canada speaks with WSWS: “The wealthy oil people are making money off of this”
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Former Clinton aide and Kerry adviser hails choice of Wolfowitz for World Bank
James Rubin lauds neo-conservative crusade for “democracy” - Israel to build thousands more settler homes in West Bank
- Letters from our readers
- Top insurance company mired in allegations of accounting fraud
- Ukrainian President Yushchenko presses for closer ties with European Union
25 March 2005
- Deadly explosion at Texas oil refinery part of a broader pattern
- Germany: Interior Minister Schily bans Turkish newspaper
- Letters from WSWS readers on the Schiavo case
- US-EU deal on Iran: a step towards confrontation, not a negotiated settlement
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- “Culture of life” or culture of lies: an exchange with WSWS readers on the Terri Schiavo case
26 March 2005
- Britain: Conservative Party promotes racist campaign against gypsies
- Britain: government refuses to release information on Israeli killing of UN worker
- More letters on the case of Terri Schiavo
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Rumsfeld’s Latin American tour
Pentagon chief escalates threats against Venezuela - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 March 2005
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The fraud of US democracy crusade
American media silent over mass protest in Bahrain - CR letter to the WSWS
- Italy: Rifondazione joins with Prodi
- Kyrgyz president forced to flee as opposition seizes power
- Letters from our readers
- New details of Australian involvement in the torture of Mamdouh Habib
- Right-wing propaganda and scientific fact in the case of Terri Schiavo
- US money and personnel behind Kyrgyzstan’s “Tulip Revolution”
29 March 2005
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The fraud of US democracy crusade
American media silent over mass protest in Bahrain - China: Shenzhen protest highlights frustration among unemployed graduates
- Further letters on Terri Schiavo
- New cases of bird flu underscore dangers of a global pandemic
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Christian right zealots incite violence
North Carolina man arrested for soliciting Michael Schiavo’s murder - Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 March 2005
- Government crisis in Poland—prime minister to resign
- Indonesia hit by another devastating earthquake
- Letters on “Right-wing propaganda and scientific fact in the case of Terri Schiavo”
- New documents confirm widespread US abuse of Iraqi prisoners, implicate top general
- Philippine police crush jail rebellion
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WSWS/SEP public meetings in Ann Arbor and New York
The Terri Schiavo case and the crisis of politics and culture in the US - US increases pressure on Lebanon amid growing instability
31 March 2005
- Crisis of labor bureaucracy dominates US union summit
- Germany: parliament curbs freedom of speech and assembly
- Iraqi puppet parliament adjourns in disarray
- Jesse Jackson at the Schiavo hospice: Democrats makes common cause with Christian right
- More letters on the Terri Schiavo case
- New malaria study reveals huge underestimation of disease
- US Secretary of State presses India and Pakistan to abandon Iranian gas pipeline
- “Reality television” and the American reality that produces it
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