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Archive: November 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 November 2005

• 5,000 Philadelphia transit workers walk out
• Australian minister admits unemployed will be compelled to accept inferior conditions
• Bush names favorite of Christian right to Supreme Court
  Democrats back off of filibuster threat
• Delphi demands US auto workers accept poverty wages
• Sharon government escalates military offensive against Palestinians
• Sri Lankan SEP presidential candidate to address public meeting in India
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2005—Part 3
  Strengths and weaknesses of Asian cinema
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

2 November 2005

• To silence opposition to police-state measures
  Australian government declares “urgent” terrorist threat
• On eve of Americas Summit
  Bush faces mass protests, opposition to trade pact in Argentina
• German minister employs Nazi vocabulary to describe long-term unemployed
• Iraq election to exacerbate slide toward civil war
• Letters from our readers
• London: demonstration demands end to shoot-to-kill policy
• Paris hit by anti-police riots
• Sri Lankan presidential election:
  SLFP candidate issues a manifesto for communal violence and war
• The California Union Paycheck Initiative and the political tasks facing the working class
  Vote “no” on Proposition 75! Break with the Democrats! For the political independence of the working class!
• US military massacres Iraqi civilians near Syrian border

3 November 2005

• "The Massacre" de 50 Cent vende 4 millones de copias: ¿por qué alcanza tanto exito el atraso social?
  Primera Parte
• Australia signs military pact with the Philippines
• Australia’s “Anti-Terrorism” Bill: the framework for a police state
• Britain: Blunkett forced to resign from Cabinet
• Bush bird flu plan includes windfall for pharmaceuticals giants
• Germany: SPD chairman resigns in midst of grand coalition talks
• New Delhi bomb blasts a heinous crime
• Democrats complicit in Iraq war lies
  US Senate’s closed session: The short, noisy reign of Harry Reid

4 November 2005

• "The Massacre" de 50 Cent vende 4 millones de copias: ¿por qué alcanza tanto éxito el atraso social?
  Segunda Parte
• A silver lining for Rumsfeld in the bird flu threat
• Australian legal experts condemn Anti-Terrorism Bill
• British government and security agencies seek to legitimise torture
• Canada: Telus workers reject concession-laden settlement
• France: widening anti-police riots provoke government crisis
• Italy: Berlusconi changes electoral law to remain in power
• Monsoon rains reveal social crisis in Bangalore, the city hyped as India’s Silicon Valley
• The CIA’s global gulag
• The dangers of a global bird flu pandemic
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

5 November 2005

• A Little History is a dangerous thing
• An inside job—US Labor Department and Wal-Mart’s secret agreement on child labor
• Bush’s visit sparks upheavals in Argentina
• Eyewitness to Paris riots charges police with deliberate provocation
• Politics, socialism and the struggle of Delphi workers
• Record numbers in US prisons
  Women, children and immigrants top incarceration increases
• Threats of violence against SEP meeting in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
• Unanswered questions about Australia’s “terrorist” alert
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

7 November 2005

• Unanimous backing for Howard’s emergency anti-terror laws
  A revealing line-up in the Australian Senate
• No deal in Argentina
  Americas summit ends in debacle for Bush
• Britain’s Railtrack: shareholders flex their muscles against government
• Bush sinks in opinion polls, but Democrats offer no alternative
• After 11 days of clashes between youth and police
  French government and opposition back intensified repression
• As protests against police violence spreads
  High court declares Marseilles transport workers strike illegal
• Letters from our readers
• More than 5,000 Philadelphia transit workers continue walkout
• Right-wing initiatives dominate California special election
• Sri Lankan filmmakers oppose military threats

8 November 2005

• A timely film on Murrow and McCarthy
• Australia: Socialist Alliance provides platform for supporters of Howard’s police-state legislation
• Within days of Howard’s terror “alert”
  Australian government seeks expanded powers to call out troops
• Former US public broadcasting chairman resigns in disgrace
• France: “far-left” LCR refuses to take a stand on police repression
• New York City’s Radio City Music Hall locks out musicians for holiday show
• As Congress prepares to expand Patriot Act
  Report documents stepped-up FBI surveillance of ordinary Americans
• Rosa Parks and the lessons of the civil rights movement
• Socialist Equality Party meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
  Australia’s “Anti-Terrorism” Bill: the framework for a police state
• Improved quality of life for whom?
  The New York Times endorses Mayor Bloomberg for re-election
• Tornado kills 22 in US Midwest
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• “Steel curtain” in Iraq—another US war crime

9 November 2005

• Britain: Iraq murder court-martial collapses
• Bush: “We don’t torture”—but don’t put it in writing
• Ceasing to be the voice of a generation
• After the deaths in Ceuta and Melilla
  European Union agrees to set up holding camps for refugees
  Part 1
• Indian Stalinists pledge to stamp out further IT work disruptions
• Oppose the state of emergency in France!
• Howard’s terrorist “alert” leads to
  Politically manipulated police raids in Australia
• SEP presidential candidate from Sri Lanka addresses Madras meeting
• St. Louis: ‘urban revitalization’ targets the homeless
• Why US big business is pleased with Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court

10 November 2005

• Anger mounts over Australia’s anti-terror laws
• California Special Election: voters reject right-wing measures
• France: state of emergency escalates attacks on the rights of youth and workers
• Letters from our readers
• Second defence lawyer assassinated
  More accusations of US-backed death squads in Iraq
• Novel about POWs wins PEN/Faulkner Award
• Sri Lankan presidential election: the NSSP and the dead-end of national opportunism
• From Franz Müntefering to Mathias Platzeck
  The German Social Democrats: on the way to “New Labour”
• US Senate feigns outrage over big oil’s windfall profits
• US auto workers union launches sham “war” against Delphi
• US: off-year elections deal losses to Republicans
• As jobs and wages decline
  Wall Street bonuses expected to soar again in 2005

11 November 2005

• A revealing episode in the Sri Lankan election: troops deployed against striking workers
• An interview with Marcellino de Baggis, writer and director of Quintosole
• Answer British Terrorism Bill with a class-based defence of democratic rights
• Film documents American use of chemical weapons in Iraq
• Burying the lies on Iraq war
  Judith Miller and the New York Times make a deal
• Police seek to censor painting from Brixton Riots exhibition
• Thirty years since the “Canberra Coup”
• US: Senate Republicans demand probe into leak on CIA’s gulag
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

12 November 2005

• A grand ceremony for Confucius: Beijing turns to the old imperial ideology
• Britain: defence argues Spanish extradition could lead to human rights abuses
• Bush administration retreats from probe of veterans’ benefits
• France’s state of emergency—Sarkozy threatens mass deportations
• Kansas school board passes anti-evolution science standards
• Sri Lankan budget: a brazen exercise in electioneering
• The pain you go through in this country to start a new life ...
• Legislating a war crime
  US Senate moves to ban court review of Guantánamo detentions
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 November 2005

• Australian Wheat Board implicated in “oil-for-food scandal”
• Ban on gatherings in Paris
• Bush’s counteroffensive on Iraqi WMD
  A new wave of lies and intimidation
• Canada: Social democrats withdraw support for Liberal government
• Market reform and Japanese nationalism: the twin policies of Koizumi’s government
• SEP debates radical “left” in Sri Lankan presidential election campaign
• Simon Wiesenthal: Nazi-hunter dead at 96—part 1
  “Only a regime which admits to historical truth can learn from the past”
• Soviet era posters at London’s Tate Modern
  From Bolshevik internationalism to Stalinist nationalism
• Wall Street Journal defends torture

15 November 2005

• A tragedy presented, not explained
• Australian government rams through parliament draconian new workplace laws
• Canada: union bureaucrats sponsor candidate for Parti Québécois leadership
• After the deaths in Ceuta and Melilla
  European Union agrees to set up holding camps for refugees
  Part 2
• A soldier’s story
  Fugitive GI speaks to WSWS on Iraq war
• GM retiree denounces UAW “sham” vote to cut medical benefits
• Letters from our readers
• New York University graduate student-workers on strike
• Simon Wiesenthal: Nazi-hunter dead at 96—part 2
  “Only a regime which admits to historical truth can learn from the past”
• Sri Lankan elections: a conspiracy to prevent Tamils from voting
• The terrorist bombings in Jordan
  A byproduct of US aggression
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

16 November 2005

• Australia: 500,000 workers demonstrate against Howard’s industrial legislation
• Australian workers denounce new industrial laws
• Colombo meeting concludes Sri Lankan SEP election campaign
• German parliament snubs Left Party’s chairman for fourth time
• Senate Democrats back Iraq war, Guantánamo prison camp
• Writing off Europe
• “Only the SEP advances a clear program against war and social inequality”
  Colombo meeting participants attracted to internationalism

17 November 2005

• American artists and American tragedy
• FEMA to evict tens of thousands of Katrina victims
• France: state of emergency extended for three months
• Memo exposes anti-democratic agenda of US Supreme Court nominee
• Police claims raise new questions about “terrorist” raids in Australia
• Political issues facing US auto workers discussed at Kokomo meeting
• Quebec public sector workers launch rotating strikes
• Sri Lankan election: Vote for Wije Dias and the Socialist Equality Party
• Students, parents rebuff US military recruiters

18 November 2005

• High inflation follows Indonesian president’s fuel price hike
• Right-wing smear campaign against antiwar vet Jimmy Massey
• Presidential election interviews
  Sri Lankan voters reveal deep disaffection
• The JVP and the political crisis in Sri Lanka
• More evidence of US dirty war in Iraq
  Torture centre discovered in Baghdad
• When is an ‘antiwar film’ not an antiwar film?
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

19 November 2005

• Basque separatist leader faces jail for “insulting” the king
• Delphi plans to cut 24,000 US auto jobs
• German coalition government accord: a declaration of war on working people
• Iraq fraud arrests expose criminality of US occupation
• Political conflict intensifies over Bush’s Iraq war lies
• Rajapakse narrowly wins Sri Lankan presidential election
• Sri Lankan election: Wije Dias speaks at poll declaration
• US House of Representatives approves $50 billion in social cuts
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 November 2005

• Letters from our readers
• More rural suicides in Sri Lanka
• New revelations of US military use of white phosphorus in Iraq
• Solomon Island prisoners accuse Australian authorities of abuses
• Spain: labour reforms threaten “winter of discontent”
• Uproar in US Congress over Iraq withdrawal vote

22 November 2005

• After the Sri Lankan election: what next for the working class?
• France: Gaullist officials stoke up racism to justify state of emergency
• General Motors to close 9 plants, slash 30,000 North American jobs
• German trade unions rally to the grand coalition
• India: removal of foreign minister points to struggle over extent of US ties
• The return of Dickensian London
• Witnesses at Australian Senate hearings warn: “terror” laws aimed at dissent
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 November 2005

• Australia: right-wing columnists label political dissent akin to “terrorism”
• Francia extiende estado de emergencia por tres meses
• GM job cuts will devastate North American cities
• Growing international tension over the Arctic
• La contraofensiva de Bush en cuanto a las armas para la destrucción en masa
  Nueva ola de mentiras e intimidación
• La tragedia de El Salvador: presentada no explicada
• Los Angeles Times fires liberal columnist Robert Scheer
• Senado de Estados Unidos prohíbe la revisión de detenciones en Guantánamo
• Sri Lanka’s new president faces crisis over forming a government
• Study documents exploitation in Indian call centres
• US secures continued control of Internet naming system

24 November 2005

• 20,000 demonstrate against US military torture training center
• British government threatens prosecution to suppress claim that Bush sought to bomb Al Jazeera
• French unions seeking end to national rail strike
• Indictment of Jose Padilla: another chapter in Bush’s war on democratic rights
• Poignant cries for freedom
  Another country, edited by Rosie Scott and Thomas Keneally, Halstead Press and the Sydney branch of PEN
• Report: Steep decline in Illinois workers’ income
• SPD party congress united behind Germany’s grand coalition
• Sri Lanka: unemployed youth speak to WSWS
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 November 2005

• APEC: mass protests and political tension in South Korea
• Australian “terror” raids target Tamil groups
• Brutal clampdown by Ethiopian regime
• Letters from our readers
• The implications of Bush’s diplomatic debacle in Asia
• Thousands arbitrarily deprived of vote in Sri Lankan presidential election
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

26 November 2005

• Behind the LTTE’s boycott of the Sri Lankan election
• Bush administration plays to religious right in delaying contraceptive approval
• Merkel elected as Germany’s chancellor: grand coalition to implement social cuts
• Peruvians demand extradition of ex-president Fujimori
• Violence against occupation opponents continues in lead-up to Iraq election
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

28 November 2005

• Australia: “Welfare to work” Bill will enforce cheap labour
• French Socialist Party congress backs government repression
• Kashmir earthquake fails to advance India-Pakistan cooperation
• Larger mysteries left unsolved
• Military trial of David Hicks and other Guantánamo prisoners deferred

29 November 2005

• Australia: Telstra to slash 12,000 jobs
• Canada’s Liberal government falls, setting stage for January election
• Guardian newspaper forced to retract Noam Chomsky interview
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan newspaper advocates anti-democratic restrictions for future elections
• The Abramoff affair: Corruption scandal threatens Republican control of US Congress
• The Abramoff affair: Snapshots from an empire of corruption
• The death of China’s “red capitalist” and the 1949 revolution
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

30 November 2005

• 50,000 Katrina evacuees without permanent housing
  FEMA to stop paying hotel bills
• Australian government deserts young man due to hang in Singapore
• Clinton paints false picture of “progress” for Sri Lanka’s tsunami victims
• India in quandary over US-Iran conflict
• Israel: Behind Sharon’s break with Likud
• One earthquake could leave two-thirds of Californians without drinking water
• Saddam Hussein trial resumes: a grotesque display of imperial justice
• US-backed government in Iraq: “The same as Saddam’s time and worse”