Archive: July 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 July 2005
- How not to build an antiwar movement: a comment on the politics of the ISO
- Iran’s presidential election a harbinger of social and political convulsions
- Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq
- Schröder at the White House: cuddling up to Bush
- South African strike against unemployment and poverty
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On-the-spot report
Thousands lack aid in tsunami-affected areas of Sri Lanka - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- “Live 8”--a political fraud on behalf of imperialism
2 July 2005
- Australia: mass protests against industrial relations legislation
- Canada to establish permanent military base in Persian Gulf region
- EU budget debacle leaves Spain isolated
- Letters on Bush speech on the Iraq war
- O’Connor retirement triggers drive for rightward shift on US Supreme Court
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“It never should have got to this point”
Protesting workers discuss Australia’s new industrial laws - Sharon offers nothing to Palestinian leadership
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Claims that new president was hostage-taker
US prepares new provocations against Iran - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
4 July 2005
- Atlanta officials continue campaign against the homeless
- Germany: powerful response to PSG election campaign
- Helicopter downing highlights upsurge in Afghan armed resistance
- Letters on Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Batman
- Live 8 Edinburgh: marching for the establishment
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Chancellor Schröder justifies no-confidence vote:
New German elections aimed at breaking resistance to Agenda 2010
5 July 2005
- A warning to the G-8 from the bankers’ bank
- An exchange of letters on the Balkans
- Lincoln’s Cooper Union address—an appeal to reason
- Spain: Popular Party loses control of its heartland
- Why did the CIA abduct an Egyptian cleric from the streets of Milan?
6 July 2005
- Britain: government plans peak-time road charges
- Bush en Fort Bragg: inculca el miedo basándose en las mentiras y en la desesperación
- California governor announces special election to push through right-wing measures
- China’s bid for Unocal heightens tension with the US
- Democrats signal retreat on Supreme Court nomination
- States enact Medicaid cuts in new fiscal year
- US Supreme Court weakens church/state separation in Ten Commandments rulings
- US “democracy” in Iraq: death squads, torture and terror
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 July 2005
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52nd Sydney Film Festival
A generally disappointing selection - Bush creates new FBI spy unit—further step towards a secret police force
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Europe in crisis
Editorial of the Gleichheit, journal of the SEP, Germany - Great power tensions dominate G8 summit
- Jailing of Times reporter: an attack on press freedom and democratic rights
- Philippines president fails to stem political crisis
- The politics of opportunism: a look at the International Socialist Organization
8 July 2005
- Fishing dispute between Taiwan and Japan leads to diplomatic tensions
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Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel
Part 1: East Germany—youth and political beginnings - Letters from our readers
- London terror bombings: a political crime
- US military reprisal in Afghanistan kills 17 civilians
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 July 2005
- At least 50 dead in London bombings
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Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel
Part 2: From Kohl’s “little girl” to the conservatives’ chancellor candidate - Israeli soldier found guilty in the killing of Tom Hurndall
- Ralph Edmond (1926-2005): worker and socialist
- Report documents Canada’s welfare “disaster”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
11 July 2005
- Live 8: Who organised the PR campaign for Blair and Bush?
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One hundred years since Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis
Part 1 - Papua New Guinea: Bougainville election sets stage for renewed tensions
- Unanswered questions in London bombings
- Why the WSWS opposes the jailing of Judith Miller—a reply to readers
12 July 2005
- G8 communiqué fails to cover over conflicts between great powers
- Household debt soars in Spain
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One hundred years since Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis
Part 2 -
52nd Sydney Film Festival
Reality confronted, with passion and humanity - The split in the AFL-CIO
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 July 2005
- Bulgarian elections: support for former king collapses
- Exposure of Rove’s lies throws Bush White House into crisis
- London bombings: Why does Blair oppose an inquiry into intelligence failures?
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One hundred years since Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis
Part 3 - Scores of Muslim men jailed as “material witnesses” in wake of 9/11 attacks
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52nd Sydney Film Festival
“A return from a different kind of investment”
Amma Asante, A Way of Life writer and director, speaks with WSWS
14 July 2005
- Ambivalence, unease and discomfort—but not enough
- Further shift to the right by the German Green Party
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on the London bombings
- More killings of civilians by US-led forces in Iraq
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One hundred years since Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis
Part 4 - Racist reprisals feared for London terror bombing
15 July 2005
- Another angry protest in China
- Bush administration refuses to relinquish US control of Internet
- Germany: North Rhine Westphalia government adopts austerity programme
- More letters on the jailing of Judith Miller
- The London bombings: Why did it happen here?
- US Supreme Court rules in favor of entertainment giants and big cable Internet providers
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Worsening health inequality in Australia
16 July 2005
- American Samoa: factory owner jailed for 40 years over “human trafficking”
- Amidst new torture reports, US military defends architect of abuse at Guantánamo
- An exchange on science, evolution and intelligent design
- Hunger in California’s Central Valley: rising poverty in leading food-producing region
- Spain: Vatican intensifies campaign against Socialist Party government
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Former WorldCom CEO sentenced to 25 years
The rise and fall of Bernie Ebbers - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s ”Operation Murambatsvina”
18 July 2005
- Attack on civil liberties intensifies after London bombing
- Australia: Victorian Labor government scraps gambling research
- France: Villepin government attacks the working class
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On-the-spot report
Lack of aid for tsunami victims on Sri Lanka’s east coast - Secularism and the American Constitution
19 July 2005
- An exchange with an Ohio auto worker
- Australian government sends troops back to Afghanistan
- Detroit area nursing home workers locked out
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2,000 signatures collected
Germany: PSG campaign finds a positive response in Hesse - PDS, unions impose wage cut on Berlin transit workers
- US court upholds military trials for Guantánamo prisoners
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 July 2005
- 14,500 jobs to be slashed at Hewlett-Packard
- A legal sham: first charges laid against Saddam Hussein
- A tale of two classes
- Australian government exploits “people smuggler” conviction to continue SIEV X cover-up
- Demythologising requires a political appraisal
- Letters from our readers
21 July 2005
- German Green Party election program—tailored to the interest of big business
- Greenspan points to “significant uncertainties” in US economy
- Letters from our readers
- Obituary: Alvaro Cunhal—leading betrayer of Portugal’s 1974 revolution
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52nd Sydney Film Festival
Some interesting documentaries - Who is Judge Roberts?
22 July 2005
- Enron unmasked, but not comprehended
- Philippines President Arroyo refuses to step down
- The formation of Iraq’s interim government and the missing billions
- US woos India with support in becoming a “world power”
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
23 July 2005
- A government of lies: The political meaning of the Rove affair
- New York Times’ Thomas Friedman libels opponents of Iraq war
- The state of the modern soul
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On-the-spot report
Tsunami victims struggling to survive in eastern Sri Lanka - US military exonerated torturers of John Walker Lindh
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
25 July 2005
- Former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath dies
- Four unions announce boycott of AFL-CIO convention
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New name, old program
German Party of Democratic Socialism renames itself “The Left Party” - German president clears way for early elections
- Letters, and some replies, on “One hundred years since Einstein’s annus mirabilis”
- Police gun down worker in London subway: another tragic consequence of Blair’s war policy
- Report implicates Indonesian intelligence in murder of human rights activist
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52nd Sydney Film Festival
Yugoslav filmmaker at an impasse
Life is a Miracle (Zivot Je Cudo), directed and co-written by Emir Kusturica
26 July 2005
- Homeless die in Arizona heat wave
- Iran-Contra redux: Bush White House ran “off-the-books” covert operation for Iraq elections
- Letters from our readers
- Letters, and some replies, on “One hundred years since Einstein’s annus mirabilis”
- Life sentence for Islamic fundamentalist Al-Timimi: an attack on free speech
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A falling out within the US labor bureaucracy
Service workers, Teamsters split from AFL-CIO - Study documents US-inflicted carnage on Iraqi people
- “I am in the world to change the world”: The art and life of Käthe Kollwitz
27 July 2005
- An exchange of letters on the crisis in the AFL-CIO
- Brazil: angry protests hit state murder in London
- Britain: media defend state killing, police chief warns more to come
- Life sentence for Islamic fundamentalist Al-Timimi: an attack on free speech
- New Zealand: election date set as Labour government’s support slumps
- The miserable end of the “Volkswagen model”
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52nd Sydney Film Festival
The struggle against superstition in a West African village
Moolaadé, written and directed by Ousmane Sembène - Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 July 2005
- Afghans besiege US base to protest arrests
- An exchange on “One hundred years since Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis”
- British soldiers face war crimes charges for killing Iraqi civilians
- China faces worst floods since 1998
- Democratic Leadership Council drafts right-wing platform for coming elections
- Germany: labour court confirms dismissal of Opel auto worker in “wildcat strike”
- The split in the AFL-CIO and the organization of the unorganized
29 July 2005
- Blair defends Iraq war, vows new attacks on civil liberties and social conditions
- China’s yuan revaluation a response to increased US pressure
- NASA grounds space shuttle fleet after near-disaster in Discovery launch
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Twenty years since the Air India bombings
Part 1: Why is the Canadian government resisting a public inquiry? - US energy bill funnels billions to oil, utility corporations
- US: mass layoffs continue, consumer confidence declines
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “Free market” Beijing: an on-the-spot report
30 July 2005
- AFL-CIO conference passes pro-war resolution
- Amid “civil war” warnings, Rumsfeld flies to Iraq
- Britain: Police shoot-to-kill policy part of onslaught against democratic rights
- Russia and China call for closure of US bases in Central Asia
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Twenty years since the Air India bombings—Part 2
Why is the Canadian government resisting a public inquiry? - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
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