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Archive: May 2006

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 May 2006

• France backs Chad regime against coup attempt
• Hospital blast in China kills at least 33
• Join the fight to place Socialist Equality Party on the ballot in Michigan
• New fossils illuminate the evolution of land vertebrates from fish
• Over 100,000 march in New York against Iraq war
• Rent hikes to hit New York public housing tenants
• Socialist Equality Party rejects Sri Lankan government appeal to call off May Day rallies
• Volkswagen autos to implement drastic savings program
• As Big Oil posts record profits
  Washington warns no relief from soaring gas prices

2 May 2006

• Bush administration demands UN action against Iran
• Energy policies bringing Spain into conflict with European Commission
• France: CGT union federation moves further to the right
• Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism
  A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx by Tom Rockmore
• Life and work in a UK care home
• Three years since Bush’s “Mission Accomplished”: Torture, corruption, growing resistance in Iraq
• US dollar fall raises questions on global stability
• US: Millions of immigrant workers join May 1st “boycott”
• WSWS arts editor David Walsh discusses art and the present political situation
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 May 2006

• Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism
  A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx by Tom Rockmore
• How the French government treats older workers from the colonies
• Hungarian elections: Victory for a “socialist” millionaire
• Indian Stalinists take leading role in New Delhi’s efforts to contain Nepal crisis
• Medical emergency: Facilities and care in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
• Police gun down demonstrators in East Timor
• Tensions between Japan and South Korea heighten over island dispute
• Washington renews demand for cuts to Social Security, Medicare

4 May 2006

• Australian police harass former Guantánamo prisoner
• Britain: Leading Labourites play the race card
• Elderly people die alone and unnoticed in Australia
• Duisburg-Essen University
  Germany: Students protest implementation of tuition fees
• Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
  Part 1: The German Enlightenment and Amadeus
• SEP candidate Bill Van Auken to speak at NYC meeting
• Sri Lankan SEP rejects government appeal and holds May Day meeting
• The implications of the immigrant demonstrations for the class struggle in America

5 May 2006

• Australia’s low jobless rate cloaks growing hardship
• Bush, US media respond to Stephen Colbert’s comic assault: “We are not amused”
• Canada: Conservative budget launches new assault on public and social services
• Egypt: Mubarak extends repressive Emergency Law
• Germany: “Election Alternative” defends policies of Berlin state government
• Morales’s nationalization in Bolivia: Who got stabbed?
• Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
  Part 2: Paris and London
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer, novelist of the colonial oppressed, dead at 81
• The Moussaoui verdict deals blow to Bush administration’s 9/11 coverup
• US government continues to escalate domestic spying
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

6 May 2006

• Spelling freedom as O-I-L
  Cheney lectures Russia on “democracy”
• Germany: Election Alternative, the Socialist Alternative Group and Trotskyism
• Left prop for Prodi
  Italy: Bertinotti voted speaker in the Italian parliament
• Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
  Part 3: The Italian and German classical styles
• New Solomon Islands PM tries to placate discontent with Australian occupation
• SEP candidate Jerome White to speak: “The Iraq War and the Democratic Party: A Socialist Alternative”
• Sri Lanka: Behind talk of peace, threat of full-scale war looms
• Corporate America’s best and brightest:
  The “unwritten rules” of Raytheon’s William Swanson
• Tony Blair reshuffles Cabinet after Labour’s local election debacle
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 May 2006

• An uncensored look at America’s young soldiers in Iraq
  Gunner Palace, directed by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein
• Belgium: Teenager’s murder exploited for right-wing agenda
• Germany’s Merkel sides with Bush against Iran
• Letters from our readers
• Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
  Part 4: Mozart in Vienna
• New Nepalese government seeks to defuse mass protest movement
• Sri Lanka: Two killed in attack on Tamil newspaper office
• Sudden resignation of CIA Director Goss: Another tremor in Bush administration
• “Botched executions” findings expose grisly practice
  US: Legal challenges to lethal injection as “cruel and unusual”
• West Bengal state elections: Left Front lurches further right

9 May 2006

• Asian growth rates rise but employment problems deepen
• Australia: Jubilation greets the rescue of trapped Beaconsfield miners
• Britain: the political issues behind Labour’s factional warfare
• Germany: Union officials back Volkswagen boss
• Letters on “Hegel, Marx, Engels and the Origins of Marxism”
• Mozart turns two hundred and fifty
  Part 5: The Classical period: Mozart and Haydn
• Strike threats as 100,000 remain jobless
  Puerto Rico government-school shutdown enters second week
• Some insights into American life as it is: Doctorow’s Sweet Land Stories
• US Democrat Biden advocates the communal break-up of Iraq
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 May 2006

• Australian budget: a blatant appeal to the rich
• Cheney’s speech will deepen divisions in Europe over energy
• Chinese leader’s trip to Saudi Arabia and Africa highlights growing resource rivalry
• Fijian elections could ignite social and political tinderbox
• Letters on Steven Colbert, the Bush administration, and the US media
• Relative of Sago miner, rescuer denounce whitewash
• Rupert Murdoch backs Hillary Clinton: by their friends you shall know them
• Thousands of jobs axed at British car plants
• West Virginia hearing continues cover-up of Sago Mine disaster

11 May 2006

• A barometer of the American cultural zeitgeist: the Whitney Biennial 2006
• Another unexplained death of a Sri Lankan worker in Saudi Arabia
• As Bush’s popularity sinks to new lows—a boost from Hillary Clinton
• Australian Wheat Board inquiry underscores real motivations behind Iraq war
• On-the-spot report from Honiara
  Australian occupation creates a “time-bomb” in Solomon Islands
• Following his attack on satirist Stephen Colbert
  Columnist Richard Cohen denounces his critics
• Democratic Congressman backs continuing military occupation of Iraq at California meeting
• Indian government connives with BJP in Gujarat following anti-Muslim provocation
• Whirlpool layoffs latest in US corporate assault on jobs and wages
• Whirlpool layoffs latest in US corporate assault on jobs and wages

12 May 2006

• Helicopter downing in Basra underscores hostility to British occupation
• India: Maharashtra cotton farmers face destitution
• Israel: Labour Party backs Kadima’s austerity budget
• Poland: Right-wing extremists officially join government
• UN hearings probe Washington’s systematic use of torture at home and abroad
• Framework for a police state
  US government phone spying targets all Americans
• United 93: Everything but how and why it happened
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

13 May 2006

• Britain: More official lies and evasions on London bombings
• Fiji: government and union assist Emperor Gold Mine to slash jobs
• Tax change law 2007
  German government fleeces low and average wage earners
• Major naval battle: Sri Lanka plunges toward open civil war
• NATO troops deploy to suppress growing resistance in Afghanistan
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2006—Part 1
  Film and history
• US Congress passes more tax cuts for the rich
• US media, Democrats deflect opposition to government spying on Americans
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 May 2006

• Britain: Sunday Times “Rich List” celebrates unprecedented wealth accumulation
• The conflict between the desire for freedom and backward religious traditions
  Deepa Mehta speaks with WSWS
• NSA phone spying program: a blueprint for mass repression
• New Zealand government reinforces Solomons intervention
• Socialist Equality Party to contest state elections in Illinois, Maine, Oregon and Washington
• The plight of widows in India
  Water, written and directed by Deepa Mehta

16 May 2006

• A history lesson from Britain fails to shed much light
• Bush’s immigration speech—an appeal to militarism and reaction
• France: Thousands march in Paris against immigration bill
• German hospital physicians expand strike
  Conservative-led states seek confrontation
• Gunboat diplomacy: Australian warships deploy to East Timor
• Indian state election results: a distorted expression of popular opposition to neo-liberal reform
• More letters on Stephen Colbert and the American media
• US administration slams door on negotiations with Iran
• As humanitarian crisis hits Palestinian territories
  US and Israel continue drive to overthrow Hamas-led government
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 May 2006

• A letter on John Edwards, the Democratic Party and American imperialism
• Australia: More damning facts about fatal Beaconsfield gold mine incident
• Britain’s Compass group: Former Blair acolytes seek to rescue New Labour
• Escalating killing of civilians and army harassment in northern Sri Lanka
• FBI tracking reporters’ phone calls in CIA leak investigation
• Germany: The murder of Hatun Sürücü and the debate over “honour killings”
• John Negroponte and the Latin Americanization of US politics
• The Clearstream affair: French right wing in crisis

18 May 2006

• Brazil: The social contradictions underlying the violent eruption in Sao Paulo
• Massive bad debt highlights China’s financial instability
• More than 200 dead in Lagos suburb
  Pipeline explosion highlights legacy of imperialism in Nigeria
• Interviews from Honiara
  Solomon Islanders hostile to Australian “bullying”
• US offers closer defence links with New Zealand
• US: Pentagon prepares for “use of force” on Mexican border

19 May 2006

• A letter and reply on Britain’s “New Labour” Party
• A turbulent week on global financial markets
• Britain: Vauxhall axes 900 car jobs
• In the face of mounting popular opposition
  Canada dramatically escalates its military intervention in Afghanistan
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2006—Part 2
  Creditable works
• German secret service spies on journalists, employs Stasi methods
• Reports expose myth of upward social mobility in US
• SEP candidate Bill Van Auken to speak at NYC meeting Saturday
• Senate hearing on CIA nominee: Democrats rubberstamp Bush police-state spying
• Slaughter and ethnic cleansing accelerates in Iraq
• Sri Lankan Central Bank attempts to cover up deepening economic contradictions
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

20 May 2006

• Cuts to NASA budget gut space research
• Guantánamo prisoners clash with guards after new rash of suicide attempts
• Prodi government takes power in Italy: a right-wing regime with a left fig leaf
• Reports expose myth of upward social mobility in US
• The Australian media and the Beaconsfield mine rescue
• Witnesses, video document massacre in Haditha
  US Marines killed Iraqi civilians “in cold blood”
• US Senate declares English the “national language”: a boost to chauvinism and racism
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

22 May 2006

• Britain: Blair pledges to override Human Rights Act
• Bush administration defends US military aid to Egypt
• Slaughter in US coal industry continues
  Five miners killed in Kentucky explosion
• John Negroponte y la latinoamericanización de la política de Estados Unidos
• Kosovo “final status” talks break up without agreement
• Munich: El poder humanizador del arte
• Official response to Aboriginal child sexual abuse in Australia: more law and order
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2006—Part 3
  Political exposures and more ... or less
• Putin’s speech to the nation: Tensions increase between the US and Russia

23 May 2006

• Australian government moves to abolish Aboriginal “land rights”
• Independent panel report on Hurricane Katrina
  Cost-cutting and poor planning behind New Orleans levee failures
• George McGovern on class relations in America
  Democrats’ liberal icon justifies wage cuts for workers, bonuses for CEOs
• English council elections: “Fascist threat” exaggerated to channel support back behind Labour
• European governments cover up illegal CIA abductions
• New School University students protest commencement speech by John McCain
• Supporters of SEP campaign meet in Michigan
• A turning point in the drift to war
  Unanswered questions remain about the killing of Sri Lankan foreign minister
• Why Canada’s Conservative government chose to celebrate Australia’s John Howard
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 May 2006

• Britain’s “Euston Manifesto”: Ex-liberals for imperialism and war
• FBI stages unprecedented raid on congressman’s office
• Fractured new Iraqi regime: a prelude to deepening sectarian violence
• Germany: Election Alternative leaders purge regional executives and withdraw candidates
• IMF cuts off credit to Bolivia
• Lack of oxygen supplies killed three in Kentucky mine disaster
• Letters from our readers
• World’s largest steelmaker in $33 billion takeover bid for the second largest

25 May 2006

• Australian troops deployed to occupy East Timor
• Democrats ensure confirmation of NSA spy chief to head CIA
• El marxismo, el arte y el debate soviético sobre la "cultura proletaria"
  Primera Parte
• German cabinet agrees on military operation in the Congo
• The crisis in Australia’s Aboriginal communities
  How right-wing ideologues stand reality on its head
• Caste-ism vs. ‘Merit’:
  India’s toilers should reject framework of reservation debate
• Israel: Bush endorses Olmert’s West Bank land grab
• Machinists union reaches tentative agreement with Northwest Airlines
• Sri Lankan government drafts new Patriotic Act in preparation for war
• The Da Vinci Code, novel and film, and ‘countercultural’ myth
• US military massacres 80 villagers in Afghanistan

26 May 2006

• Australia: Inquiry into Beaconsfield mine tragedy already smells of cover up
• Constitutional crisis over FBI raid on US congressman
• El marxismo, el arte y el debate soviético sobre la 'cultura proletaria'
  Segunda Parte
• Fiji’s election results in unstable coalition government
• Germany: Christian Democrats and Greens form coalition government in Frankfurt
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2006—Part 4
  Other European and Asian films
• Two more US coal miners killed in Kentucky and West Virginia
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

27 May 2006

• Australian military occupation of East Timor proceeds “full steam ahead”
• Blair joins Bush to defend Iraq occupation and back preemptive action vs. Iran
• Canadian Prime Minister Harper attempts to muzzle the press
• El marxismo, el arte y el debate soviético sobre la "cultura proletaria"
  Tercera Parte
• Montenegro: Independence vote completes dismemberment of Yugoslavia
• US Senate passes Democratic-backed version of anti-immigrant legislation
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 May 2006

• Earthquake kills more than 5,100 on Indonesian island of Java
• El marxismo, el arte y el debate soviético sobre la "cultura proletaria"
  Cuarta Parte
• Local election results in Sri Lanka reflect widespread fears of war
• Lopsided vote in US Senate to confirm NSA spy chief to head CIA
  Most Democrats back General Hayden
• Scottish Socialist Party leader jailed
• The Enron verdicts: corruption and American capitalism
• US Marines to stand trial for massacre of Iraqi civilians in Haditha

30 May 2006

• Canada-US softwood lumber pact paves way for greater co-operation between Harper and Bush
• Letters from our readers
• South Africa: Factional war intensifies between Mbeki and Zuma supporters in ANC
• “No real cinema can be built within the framework imposed by those who banned my film”
  Sri Lankan filmmaker Asoka Handagama speaks with the WSWS
• Sri Lankan government bans local film Aksharaya (Letter of Fire)
• Why Australia wants “regime change” in East Timor
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

31 May 2006

• Cindy Sheehan condemns Australian prime minister as an “illegal combatant”
• Football World Cup 2006—a multibillion-euro business
• Germany: Deportations increase as asylum applications plummet
• Mass rioting reveals depth of Afghan opposition to US occupation
• Québec Solidaire: a new mechanism for tying workers to the Parti Québécois
• SEP candidate responds on Iraq war stance of California Democrat Adam Schiff
• Solomon Islands: Australia’s neo-colonial “model” for East Timor?