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Archive: April 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.

31 March 2005

• Jesse Jackson at the Schiavo hospice: Democrats make common cause with Christian right

1 April 2005

• Appeals for wage restraint as New Zealand companies record huge profits
• Bush-appointed intelligence commission whitewashes war based on lies
• Fuel price rise in Indonesia triggers protests
• La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
  Primera Parte
• Quebec student strike widens
• UNICEF study shows child poverty increasing in advanced countries
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

2 April 2005

• After Terri Schiavo’s death: new threats against democratic and constitutional rights
• Britain: row over spending cuts hits Conservative election bid
• Bush critics barred from “town hall” meetings on Social Security
• Indonesian inquiry unearths conspiracy to murder civil rights activist
• La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
  Segunda Parte
• Political tensions rise in Spain
• WSWS/SEP public meeting in New York
  The Terri Schiavo case and the crisis of politics and culture in the US
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

4 April 2005

• A cynical twist in Australia’s mandatory refugee detention regime
• French referendum on the European constitution: opinion polls point to defeat
• La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
  Tercera Parte
• Letters on the Terri Schiavo case
• Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting in tsunami-affected Matara
• The case of Terri Schiavo and the crisis of politics and culture in the United States

5 April 2005

• Australia: huge police mobilisation against refugee protest
• Fox’s 24: propaganda thinly disguised as television programming
• La decadencia histórica del imperialismo estadounidense y las posibilidades del socialismo
  Cuarta Parte
• March jobs report shows US “recovery” offers no relief for workers
• Oil-for-food scandal: Washington’s preemptive strike on the UN
• UK government launches new plan for Africa
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 April 2005

• British general election announced for May 5
• Burma visit highlights India’s “Look East” strategy
• Ghost town
• Letters from our readers
• Muted response by Canberra as Australian woman faces death penalty in Indonesia
• Nevada: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository stalled
  Government altered data on environmental dangers
• Pope John Paul II: a political obituary
• The US media and the pope—an assault on the separation of church and state

7 April 2005

• Germany: major churches, conservative opposition line up with US Christian right on Schiavo case
• Indian Stalinists reaffirm support for Congress-led regime committed to neo-liberal policies
• Jefe del Pentágono intensifica sus amenazas contra Venezuela
• La propaganda de la derecha y la veracidad científica en el caso Schiavo
• Letters on Terri Schiavo
• Right-wing US senators target federal judges
• Sri Lankan chauvinists stir up tensions in tsunami-affected East
• Still no truth after year-long inquiry into British Army trainee deaths

8 April 2005

• Anti-Japanese protests erupt in China
• Britain: public service unions save Blair the embarrassment of a pre-election strike
• Letters from our readers
• New puppet government takes shape in Iraq
• The French left and the referendum on the European constitution
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

9 April 2005

• Attacks on Abu Ghraib highlight continuing Iraqi armed resistance
• Berlusconi suffers major defeat in Italian regional elections
• German business to strengthen its involvement in India
• Israeli human rights groups condemn Sharon government’s Gaza policies
• New York Times joins witch-hunt of Columbia University professors
• Washington sought to suppress UN report on progress of democracy in Middle East
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 April 2005

• Baghdad protest demands an end to US occupation of Iraq
• Britain: opposition to Iraq war led to Labour vote-rigging in 2004 elections
• Cardinal disgraced in sex-abuse scandal plays prominent role in papal funeral rites
• French high school students continue their struggle
• New Zealand judge criticises violent police culture

12 April 2005

• Global financial system faces growing risks
• India joins the scramble for oil
• Indian government to merge state-run oil firms
• Jakarta pours troops into Papua amid signs of intensified repression
• The British working class and the 2005 general election
  Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain) 12 April 2005
• Workers struggles: The Americas

13 April 2005

• A culture at the end of its rope, continued
• Canberra’s slavish support for US brings short-term pay-offs in Asia
• Letters on the death of Pope John Paul II
• Rumsfeld’s mission to Baghdad: keeping Saddam’s secret police in power
• Sri Lankan government plans to restructure oil and electricity corporations
• Western powers dispute Mugabe’s victory in Zimbabwe poll

14 April 2005

• Wanted for jetliner bombing
  Bush silent as top terrorist seeks US asylum
• Disturbing new facts emerge on incarceration of Australian woman
• German Social Democrats launch state election campaign
  SPD candidate: “I am not promising jobs”
• Hundreds die in severe flooding in western Pakistan
• No pension crisis for US corporate bosses
• Removal of Francoist symbols heightens class tensions in Spain
• Students for Social Equality public meeting in Los Angeles
  Two years since the invasion of Iraq: the war and the political crisis in America
• The orgy continues: American CEOs pocket billions more in pay and perks

15 April 2005

• Israel: government of provocateurs denounces settler provocation in Jerusalem
• Letters from our readers
• Rumsfeld pushes for permanent US bases in Afghanistan
• Senate panel debates Bolton nomination for UN ambassador post
• Violence in southern Thailand escalates
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

16 April 2005

• Anti-abortion fanatic Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to terrorist bombings
• Bush’s meeting with Sharon confirms US support for West Bank land grab
• French government orders police crackdown against high school protesters
• India adopts WTO patent law with Left Front support
• Japan stokes tensions with China
• Advance Notice
  May Day 2005 Public Meetings
• US Marshals, local police stage nationwide mass arrests
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

18 April 2005

• Britain: report alleges assaults on immigration detainees
• British royal wedding: from fairy tale to fiasco
• Impeachment of Mexico City mayor sparks political crisis
• Respect-Unity coalition in Britain: a marriage of Labourism and Islamism
  Part one
• Who is Iraq’s new prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari?
• World markets expecting further falls

19 April 2005

• Australian media debates legalisation of torture
• Bangladeshi factory collapse kills more than 70 workers
• Democrats back Negroponte nomination as new documents detail role in contra war
• France: Chirac TV appeal for “yes” vote fails to shift growing sentiment against European constitution
• Main Basque nationalist party suffers losses in Spanish regional elections
• Ten years since the Oklahoma City bombing
• Detroit borrows $1.2 billion from Wall Street
  US cities face crushing debt burden
• Videos expose false arrests at 2004 Republican Convention protests in New York
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 April 2005

• An interview with Louis Pizzitola, author of Hearst Over Hollywood
• Austria: behind the split in the Freedom Party
• Canada’s Liberal government faces imminent defeat
• Letters from our readers
• Longstanding Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies
  Velupillai Sarawanaperumal (1948-2005)
• Respect-Unity coalition in Britain: a marriage of Labourism and Islamism
  Part two
• State investigation clears Michael Schiavo of all abuse charges
• Students for Social Equality public meeting at University of Maine
  Two years since the invasion of Iraq: the war and the political crisis in America
• Washington Post glorifies US military “ruthlessness” in Iraq

21 April 2005

• Australia: Victorian government forces young teacher to quit
• Britain: trial finds no evidence of “ricin plot”
  Another Iraq war lie exposed
• Bush guarda silencio mientras conocido terrorista busca asilo en Estados Unidos
• Eminem’s new release, Encore: delusions, megalomania and social confusion
• From “grand inquisitor” to pope: Benedict XVI to head crusade vs. secularism, democracy
• Israeli military court clears officer in killing of British filmmaker
• University of California service workers strike for a day

22 April 2005

• Australian government bullies PNG over airport security incident
• German government uses anti-terror laws to head off protests
• Germany: facing defeat in state election, SPD chairman talks “left”
• Iraqi legislators denounce US assault on assembly member
• Pope Benedict XVI’s political resume: theocracy and social reaction
• Socialist Equality Party May Day meeting in Colombo
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

23 April 2005

• An uncensored look at America’s young soldiers in Iraq
  Gunner Palace, directed by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein
• Australian Reserve Bank reveals another Howard government lie
• Bush signs bankruptcy law: another cruel blow in a one-sided class war
• Germany: conflicts in the Foreign Ministry over past fascist links
• Germany: neo-Nazi killer acquitted on “self-defense” grounds
• Growing social inequality in Israel
• Labour policies make London a haven for the super-rich
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 April 2005

• An exchange on the nationalism of the Scottish Socialist Party
• Bush administration terrorist list excludes right-wing groups
• Jury throws out charges in first Australian “terrorist” trial
• Letters from our readers
• New York protest against Bush’s cuts in adult literacy funding
• Behind China-Japan tensions
  Washington fuels Japanese militarism
  Part One

26 April 2005

• Bush administration hails Moussaoui guilty plea—continues 9/11 cover-up
• More evidence of US military’s culture of torture in Iraq
• Nader solidarizes himself with extreme right in Terri Schiavo case
• The closure of MG Rover and the need for an international perspective
  Part One
• Behind China-Japan tensions
  Washington fuels Japanese militarism
  Part Two
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• “Secularism” and hypocrisy: official France mourns pope and bans Muslim scarf

27 April 2005

• Australia: school principal denounces removal of teacher
• Britain: university student debt reaches record levels
• Canada: Using corruption scandal as a smokescreen, Tories prepare neo-conservative assault
• MG Rover and the need for an international perspective
  Part Two
• Mutual concern over US militarism brings China and India closer
• US rights group calls for criminal probe of Rumsfeld

28 April 2005

• A spate of police killings in Sri Lanka
• German Interior Minister Schily tests out “zero tolerance” in Berlin
• Inconclusive peace talks between Jakarta and Acehnese separatists
• Letter from a US airline worker and a reply
• The Republican Party and the Christian right: sowing the seeds of an American fascist movement
• The closure of MG Rover and the need for an international perspective
  Part Three

29 April 2005

• Anti-Japanese protests and the reactionary nature of Chinese nationalism
• Britain: Islamic fundamentalist group threatens candidates and voters
• Graduate students strike at Columbia and Yale universities
• Iraqi cabinet announced under US pressure
• Italy: a week-long government crisis in Rome
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

30 April 2005

• Australian government poised to make sweeping industrial relations “reform”
• Britain: Blair forced to publish legal advice on Iraq war
• Bush demands deep cuts in Social Security benefits
• Christian fundamentalist bigotry reigns at US Air Force Academy
• New York bus workers end strike
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific