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Archive: December 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 December 2006

• Australia: Police report reveals real instigators of Cronulla race riots
  Part 2
• Australia: national protests against Howard government’s industrial laws
• Bush-Maliki summit: White House rejects any withdrawal from Iraq
• Canada’s Liberal leadership contest—a race to the right
• From a reader: an incident in Toronto
• German Left Party leaders pay tribute to deceased spy boss Markus Wolf
• NATO summit in Riga: Sharp conflicts over Afghanistan
• Northern Ireland: The arrest of Kevin Fulton and the Omagh bombing
• Spain: Amnesty International details abuse of migrants
• Washington meeting gives green light for Sri Lankan military offensive
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• Workers speak out against Australian industrial relations laws

2 December 2006

• Australia: Police report reveals real instigators of Cronulla race riots
  Part 3
• Australian Labor Party’s latest leadership crisis comes to a head
• Britain: Calls for Herceptin breast cancer drug and healthcare rationing
• Britain’s prison population reaches record high
• Faux Fur
• Nearly half of US Ford workers accept buyouts: A vote of no confidence in the United Auto Workers union
• Volkswagen strike in Brussels enters third week
  German VW workers express solidarity with Belgium colleagues
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

4 December 2006

• The 2006 elections and the US two-party system
  Bush, Democrats disenfranchise antiwar voters
• Congress held in Madrid on 70th anniversary of Spanish Civil War
• Fijian political crisis intensifies amid continuing threats of a coup
• Spain: Socialist Party government betrays victims of Franco’s dictatorship
• Sri Lankan government brings down a war budget
• US seeks Shiite collaboration in attack on Moqtada al-Sadr

5 December 2006

• A socialist perspective for striking Sri Lankan plantation workers
• Australian Labor Party’s “fresh face” masks a pro-war, corporate agenda
• Beijing prepares the army to repress domestic unrest
• Congreso sobre el septuagésimo aniversario de la Guerra Civil Española se celebra en Madrid
• Scorsese’s The Departed: Stop and think
• Secret US database on international travelers exposed
• Video reveals US torture of “enemy combatant” José Padilla
• Why the Canadian Liberals elected Stéphane Dion as new leader
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 December 2006

• 20,000 march against closure of Volkswagen factory in Brussels
• Britain is video surveillance capital of the world
• Death toll continues to rise as Iraq war grinds on
• Fijian government ousted in military coup
• A Christmas disaster for Illinois households
  Illinois Democratic Party allows January 1 power rate increase
• Letters from our readers
• Opposition parties fail to oust Taiwanese president
• Social polarization in American academia
  Pay for US university presidents soars
• Senate committee votes unanimously to confirm Bush nominee for Pentagon chief

7 December 2006

• Hundreds killed as Typhoon Durian lashes the Philippines and Vietnam
• Iraq Study Group report highlights crisis of US imperialism in Iraq and at home
• Massive US prison population continues to grow
• Rafael Correa declared new president of Ecuador
• Sharp reversal for Social Democrats in Dutch elections
• The Queen: Mr. Blair comes to the rescue
• An appeal to the Orange Revolution’s paymaster
  Ukraine’s president writes in the Washington Post
• Vietnam signs up to World Trade Organisation

8 December 2006

• Bush rejects Iraq Study Group report
• Canada: Parti Québécois seeks to rally business support
• Casino Royale: the new James Bond film
• Fijian military regime moves to suppress any opposition
• Inquiry finds Australian soldier’s death in Iraq an “accident”
• Report documents extreme levels of global wealth inequality
• Sri Lanka: “Heroes Day” speech a symptom of the LTTE’s political bankruptcy
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa

9 December 2006

• Australian Wheat Board inquiry: a threadbare whitewash
• Britain: Asylum seekers protest treatment at detention centres
• Footy Legends: Australian suburban comedy recycles old myths
• German Green Party congress: “Peace” from the barrel of a gun
• Iraq Study Group: a bipartisan coverup of Washington’s war crimes
• Sri Lankan president reimposes anti-terror laws in preparation for intensified war
• US jobs report: More factory and construction jobs lost
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 December 2006

• Australia: Ajax workers facing loss of jobs and entitlements
• Blair’s Washington summit: What next for Britain in Iraq?
• Former detainees argue right to sue Rumsfeld over torture
• Introductory remarks by World Socialist Web Site correspondent at Madrid congress on Spanish Civil War
• Letters from our readers
• Nepali Maoists to lay down arms and enter the government
• Pinochet, Chile’s former US-backed dictator, dead at 91

12 December 2006

• Australian rallies demand release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay
• Britain: Blair stirs up Islamophobia
• Bush y los Demócratas rechazan el voto contra la guerra en las últimas elecciones
• Democrats vow to continue funding Iraq war
• From the archives of Marxism: lessons of the 1973 coup in Chile
• Further letters to Sri Lankan authorities demand full investigation of SEP supporter’s murder
• Italian right wing mobilizes against Prodi government
• Jeane Kirkpatrick: from “social democrat” to champion of death squads
• Pianist Jay McShann, last of Kansas City’s jazz giants, dies at 90
• 60 million Americans living on less than $7 a day
  US income figures show staggering rise in social inequality
• West Bengal’s Left Front regime suppresses protests against land seizures

13 December 2006

• Britain: an acute social divide in housing
• Japanese prime minister faces sharp fall in opinion polls
• Mourning for Pinochet — US establishment shows its affinity for fascism
• Opposition in Baghdad among Kurdish, Shiite parties to Iraq Study Group
• The role played by German VW works councils in the attack on Belgian workers’ jobs
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

14 December 2006

• Bush administration conspires to replace Iraqi government
• Half a million Sri Lankan plantation workers continue strike for higher pay
• Israel and the US threaten Iran and Syria
• Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto: a painful experience
• Millions to join one-day, all-India general strike
• New York State commission demands hospital closings
• Striking plantation workers speak to the WSWS
• US immigration agents arrest 1,282 in raids at six meatpacking plants

15 December 2006

• Australian lawyers launch court bid to secure David Hicks’s release from Guantánamo
• Bush administration preparing to boost US troop strength in Iraq
• German top banker and Mannesmann executives buy themselves free
• “Antiwar” candidate boosts illusions in a pro-war party
  Kucinich runs again for Democratic presidential nomination
• Letter from a correspondent in Poland
• New Zealand opposition leader quits
• Obituary: Naguib Mahfouz, novelist of Egypt and humanity
• US Supreme Court sloughs off right to fair trial in a murder case
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

16 December 2006

• Blair questioned in cash for peerages probe
• European disillusionment over the Baker-Hamilton report
• Filmmakers turn their attention to Africa—with limited results
• Israeli high court sanctions political assassinations
• Letters from our readers
• Pakistan drops terrorism charges against key suspect in Heathrow bomb plot
• Sri Lankan military launches new offensive in country’s east
• Washington pushes ahead with plans for Iraq “regime change”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

18 December 2006

• Abbas attempts a political coup on behalf of Washington
• Babel: Humanity is not the prisoner of fate
• Britain: Still no compensation one year after Buncefield explosion
• Bush administration elaborates plans for bloodbath in Iraq
• Evidence surfaces that Indonesian military executed “Balibo Five” Australian newsmen in 1975
• Following botched Florida lethal injection
  Executions on hold in two US states
• Grupo de Estudio sobre Irak destaca la crisis del imperialismo norteamericano en Irak y el propio Estados Unidos
• Oregon lawyer wins lawsuit over false arrest for Madrid bombings
• The German chancellor and the Baker-Hamilton report

19 December 2006

• Australia: No charges against police for killing Aboriginal prisoner
• Former Solomon Islands attorney-general acquitted of politically-driven charges
• Letters on art and culture
• Millions of Indian workers strike against Congress-led government’s economic policies
• Strike by Sri Lankan plantation workers at the crossroads
• Thousands march in New York to protest police killing
• UK troops rampage through Kandahar
• US general issues warning: politics must not interfere with 100-year “war on terror”
• Wall Street awards itself billions in Christmas bonuses
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 December 2006

• Argentina: landowners withhold meat supplies from country’s population
• Australia: High Court clears way for expansion of federal power
• Blair’s Middle East tour: “Jaw, Jaw” in furtherance of “War, War”
• Canada: The Arar Affair and the RCMP Commissioner’s resignation—the cover-up continues
• Darfur: Bush and Blair plan no-fly zone and consider air strikes against Sudan
• Deep divisions dominate European Union summit
• Pentagon report paints grim picture for US in Iraq
• Sellout at Brussels Volkswagen plant
  Trade unions agree to mass dismissals
• US-China “strategic economic dialogue” underscores sharpening trade tensions

21 December 2006

• Australia: one year after the Cronulla riots, racialist provocations continue
• Britain: High Court rejects Jean Charles de Menezes family appeal
• Britain’s establishment mourns Chilean dictator Pinochet
• Year-end press conference
  Bush sets stage for major escalation in Iraq
• Chronic drought conditions create hardship in Australian rural areas
• Judge in Padilla case orders mental evaluation
• Sri Lankan unions betray plantation workers strike
• The Robert Kennedy phenomenon goes unexplored in Bobby
• US breast cancer decrease tied to drop in hormone replacement therapy use
• US: Hundreds sickened by contaminated food

22 December 2006

• Berlin Senate adopts new austerity measures
• Fijian crisis drags on as military delays formation of interim administration
• Former Australian military chiefs challenge government over Iraq war
• Christmas cheer for Wall Street executives
  Goldman Sachs boss gets $53.4 million bonus
• Notice to our readers
• Power struggle in Saudi Arabia: a sign of regional instability
• Report exposes European complicity in CIA torture flights
• The International Socialist Organization: A profile of middle class radicalism

23 December 2006

• Britain: Conservative Party feigns concern for the poor—the better to oppose welfare state benefits
• German Social Democratic Party chairman badmouths the unemployed
• Iran’s Holocaust conference and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan plantation workers angry at unions and government
• US Marines charged in Haditha massacre of Iraqi civilians
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

27 December 2006

• A legal farce: Iraqi court confirms Saddam Hussein’s death sentence
• Bloc Québécois’ support for Canada’s Afghan war exposed
• Britain: Poorer student numbers fall as tuition fees are hiked up
• German government considers deploying air force in Afghanistan
• Nanni Moretti’s The Caiman: in the end, a chilling exposure of Berlusconi
• Rollback of post-Enron corporate regulations in US

28 December 2006

• Australia: A grim start to the summer bushfire season
• Fast Food Nation offers some bitter truths about America
• Former US President Gerald Ford dies
  Pardoned Nixon for Watergate crimes
• Letters from our readers
• Six-party talks on North Korean nuclear program reach dead end
• US backs Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia

29 December 2006

• Another deadly pipeline explosion in Nigeria
• Belgian TV hoax exposes political tensions
• Imperialist interests over-ride the “rule of law”
  Blair government cancels British Aerospace-Saudi arms inquiry
  Part one
• China admits to organ trade from executed prisoners
• Financial Times cautions the “plutocrats”
• New Year holiday publication schedule
• Two years after the Asian tsunami: thousands still suffering in India
• US-backed UN resolution heightens tensions with Iran
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Workplace deaths soar in Canada

30 December 2006

• Australian court orders re-trial on terrorist charges
• Imperialist interests over-ride the “rule of law”
  Blair government cancels British Aerospace-Saudi arms inquiry
  Part two
• David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2006
• Ethiopian troops occupy Mogadishu
• Germany: Left Party-PDS and Election Alternative agree on a common reformist program
• Government report concedes India’s Muslims are a socially deprived, victimised minority
• Maryland Reservist killed by police after refusing deployment to Iraq
• More US troops to Kuwait, as Bush moves to escalate the war in Iraq
• Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak out
• The execution of Saddam Hussein
• Two years after the Asian tsunami: Sri Lankan survivors face civil war and squalor
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific