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Archive: June 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 June 2005

• An exchange of letters on the British elections and Labour lefts
• Australian state government appoints non-elected cabinet members
• Catholic Church calls for extra-parliamentary opposition to Spanish government
• Letters from our readers
• European Constitution rejected
  The political consequences of the French “no” vote
• US child poverty on the rise—statistics mask depth of crisis
• US military recruitment crisis deepens

2 June 2005

• After the defeat of the referendum in France
  Chirac appoints a new government
• Cancelled high-level meeting fuels tensions between China and Japan
• Fatal stumble in the jungle
• Lebanon’s election and Washington-style democracy
• As $1 billion is earmarked for stadium
  New York City teachers mark two years without a contract
• Review of Robert Service’s Stalin: A Biography–Part One
  Harvard University Press, 2005, 715 pages
• The Netherlands: decisive “no” vote on European constitution
• US and Iraqi government troops begin lockdown of Baghdad

3 June 2005

• Washington sees threat to “stability”
  Bolivia rocked by mass protests over energy law
• Further details released of British Army abuses in Iraq
• Germany: divisions and conflicts within the SPD-Green coalition
• New evidence confirms killing of Afghan villagers by Australian soldiers
• Review of Robert Service’s Stalin. A Biography—Part Two
  Harvard University Press, 2005, 715 pages
• SEP meeting commemorates veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist
• Watergate in historical perspective: Why does today’s criminal White House face no similar challenge?
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

4 June 2005

• British lecturers’ union overturns boycott of Israeli academics
• Bush picks anti-regulatory hard-liner to head Wall Street oversight board
• Netherlands: referendum revealed broad opposition to EU constitution
• PNG court rules Australian police presence unconstitutional
• Pakistani workers revolt against PTCL privatization
  Security forces poised to attack occupation
• Artists Fernando Botero and Steve Mumford depict the Iraq war
  Pulling one’s head out of the sand
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific

6 June 2005

• European Union: political lobbyists oppose disclosure
• Hundreds swept up in Baghdad crackdown
• Letters from our readers
• Life as a low-wage worker in Australia
  Dirt Cheap, Life at the wrong end of the job market by Elisabeth Wynhausen, Macmillan, Sydney 2005
• Ohio sheriff delivers reactionary tirade
• Republican assault on public broadcasting targeted liberal commentator Bill Moyers
• US: slowest job growth in two years fuels concerns on economy

7 June 2005

• An exchange over the nature of the JHU in Sri Lanka
• Australia: “People smuggler” trial highlights cover-up of refugee deaths
  SIEV X survivors give evidence
• Britain: police officers face murder charge over killing of Harry Stanley
• Bush at the OAS: a profile in imperialist hypocrisy
• Bush revela sus planes para crear una oficina colonial de EE.UU.
• Letters from our readers
• The US media and the French referendum
• US shows OAS delegates American democracy in action
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

8 June 2005

• A show trial in the making: Iraqi officials outline charges vs. Saddam Hussein
• Amnesty International refuses to retract torture charges against US
• An absurdist play fails to withstand the test of time
• Bush administration intensifies pressure on North Korea
• Canada: ex-union bureaucrat to head Parti Québécois executive
• Forum in New York City on “the question of torture”
• Record number of US millionaires
• Social conditions in Poland—a letter from a reader

9 June 2005

• America’s internal “gulag”-the imprisonment of immigrants in the US
• Bolivia’s president resigns warning of civil war
• Erection of Buddha statue produces communal tensions in Sri Lanka
• General Motors announces plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs in US
• Highest Wall Street pay tops $1 billion a year
• Spain’s Popular Party seeks to destabilise PSOE government
• The Howard government, the Australian media and the Schapelle Corby case

10 June 2005

• Animosity toward military service produces desperate US recruiting measures
• Blair and Bush on Africa: pretense of aid masks predatory aims
• Britain: the death of James Callaghan
  “A good Labour man” and the end of reformism
• Suicides highlight desperate conditions facing Sri Lankan farmers
• White House pushes for renewal of Patriot Act
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

11 June 2005

• Canada’s Supreme Court sanctions drive to dismantle public health care
• Democrats and Guantánamo: an exercise in damage control
• Eight characters in search of an inner life
• Estados Unidos muestra a delegados de la OEA la democracia en acción
• Florida trial begins on terror charges against four Palestinian activists
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan government in crisis over tsunami aid
• Terrorism case in Lodi, California begins to unravel
• Turkey: poverty increases with economic expansion
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific

13 June 2005

• Bush’s gift to big tobacco
• The dead end of national reformism
  Germany: Lafontaine and his “Party of the Left”
• Government case exposed conspiracy of US tobacco giants
• Home foreclosures surge—no housing boom for poor families in the US
• Artists Fernando Botero and Steve Mumford depict the Iraq war: Part 2
  New York art world’s apology for the Iraq war
• Pakistani troops seize telephone network, strike leaders arrested
• Rafsanjani favored to win Iranian presidential election

14 June 2005

• Australia: New workplace laws to slash pay and conditions
• Global interest rate “conundrum” recalls the 1930s
• Mass protests against housing shortages in South Africa
• Spanish court sentences Argentine “dirty warrior” to 640 years
• Supreme Court upholds federal ban on medical marijuana use
• US auto union signals capitulation on GM health-care costs
  Stock soars following meeting of UAW officials
• US: Five children killed in Philadelphia house fire
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

15 June 2005

• Bush administration begins to privatize the skies
• FBI inspector general’s report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks
• G8 agrees to paltry debt forgiveness package
• Germany: sacked Opel worker fights victimisation
• Jakarta pressures Acehnese rebels over peace deal
• The Michael Jackson verdict
• US and EU provoke trade friction with China over textiles

16 June 2005

• Hundreds face trial for dictatorship’s crimes
  Argentine court strikes down amnesty for torturers
• Autopsy proves Terri Schiavo was in vegetative state
• Everyone’s hope is no one’s hope
• Fijian government moves to pardon coup plotters
• New Zealand: Labour’s election year budget under fire
• New Zealand: Labour’s election year budget under fire
• Sharp conflicts precede European Union summit
• State Department cable details ethnic cleansing by US-backed forces in Iraq
• 24 years after PATCO strike
  US: dispute over air traffic control staffing

17 June 2005

• Detention of US security contractors highlights “culture of impunity” in Iraq
• German chancellor says he will not yield on Agenda 2010 cuts
• Letters on the Michael Jackson verdict
• Sri Lankan government on the brink of collapse
• Swing to right-wing Christian leader Aoun in Lebanese elections
• Posada Carriles case
  Venezuela demands US hand over CIA terrorist for trial
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa

18 June 2005

• Australia: Chinese defectors given cold shoulder
• Bush aide who doctored global warming documents joins ExxonMobil
• Bush faces growing opposition to Iraq war
• Letters from our readers
• Pakistan: Bush ally Musharraf mounts terror campaign against telecommunication workers
• Public defense system crisis denies justice to poor in US courts
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific

20 June 2005

• An attack on science: Smithsonian Institution to show film on Intelligent Design
• Bush administration defends Guantánamo prison camp
• Nanotechnology and the treatment of cancer
• Northwest Airlines workers protest attack on pensions and jobs
• Peasant unrest continues in China
• Portuguese government launches emergency austerity measures

21 June 2005

• Basque parliamentary negotiations strengthen regionalism
• Budget conflict splits European Union
• Case of 1964 civil rights killings goes to the jury
• Florida Governor Jeb Bush renews persecution of Michael Schiavo
• Over 100 children drown as flood season begins in China
• The media and Terri Schiavo: the case of Fox News
• US deficit hits a new record
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

22 June 2005

• Blair steps up campaign against “old Europe”
• Bush, Congress snatch funds from injured 9/11 workers
• Interview with Elizabeth Ruiz, author of Death by Survival
• Living with the fear factor
  Death by Survival, written by Elizabeth Ruiz, directed by Dori Salois
• Political turmoil surrounds Philippines President Arroyo
• The Washington Post and the Downing Street memo

23 June 2005

• “You can speak your truth more easily in the theatre”
  An interview with Australian playwright Hannie Rayson
• Ethiopia: West plays down murder of demonstrators
• Increasing attacks on US and allies in Afghanistan
• Letters on the Smithsonian Institution and Intelligent Design
• Ringleader in 1964 civil rights murders convicted of manslaughter
• Tense Iranian election goes into second round
• The New York Times’ Joseph Lelyveld: another “liberal” defense of torture
• US: mass layoffs continue
  Job cuts hit retail, auto industries

24 June 2005

• Blair threatens European parliament: “change or die”
• Durbin’s tearful apology
  Democrats make cowardly retreat on Guantánamo torture
• Germany: report exposes massive state spying
• Letters on the Terri Schiavo case
• SEP leaflet distributed at Michigan rally
  New political strategy needed to defend public education
• Questions surround rescue of kidnapped Australian in Iraq
• Unions provide platform for Democrats at Michigan rally vs. school cuts
• Why are they smirking?
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

25 June 2005

• A letter from a flight service worker
• Blair’s Britain and what it means for Europe
• Germany begins deportations of Afghan refugees
• Instability follows final round of Lebanon elections
• Letters from our readers
• Protests erupt in tsunami-devastated areas of Sri Lanka
• White House aide Karl Rove witch-hunts Iraq war opponents
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific

27 June 2005

• Protest against poverty
  Couple set themselves on fire at Chile’s presidential palace
• Donald Fell case: Bush administration attempts to impose death penalty on Vermont
• Italy seeks arrest of 13 CIA agents for abduction of Egyptian cleric
• Supreme Court upholds government land grabs for developers
• Tsunami aid deal plunges Sri Lanka into deeper political turmoil
• Under mounting pressure, Australian government modifies refugee detention
• Whitewash of Christian fundamentalist bigotry at US Air Force Academy

28 June 2005

• Letters on Ethiopia
• Letters on the media and the war
• New York teenager deported to Bangladesh
  FBI held girl as “suicide bomber” suspect
• Two Australian “terrorist” trials set dangerous precedents
• US military sinks further into the Iraqi quagmire
• Washington in crisis over opposition to Iraq war
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

29 June 2005

• Whatever happened to “new” Europe?
  Britain and new eastern EU members at loggerheads over budget
• Bush at Fort Bragg—fear-mongering, lies and desperation
• Democrats praise treatment of Guantánamo detainees
• For social equality. For the United Socialist States of Europe. Vote PSG.
  Statement of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party) on the 2005 German elections
• Former colonial official named Hong Kong chief executive
• Over his head
• The impact of war on daily life in Sri Lanka

30 June 2005

• Ireland’s dilemma after rejection of European Union budget
• Letters from our readers
• New wave of police “anti-terror” raids in Australia
• Sri Lankan Supreme Court overturns convictions in Bindunuwewa massacre
• The New York Times closes ranks with Bush on Iraq war

4 September 2008

• World Socialist Web Site Archive: June 2005