Archive: 01/2006
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.
January 3, 2006
- Market commentators cheer China’s revised economic figures
- Large vote against union-backed concessions at Ford
- Germany: SPD-Green “reforms” spell bonanza for shareholders
- West Virginia explosion traps 13 coal miners
- The Bush administration and the Padilla case: White House caught in its own lies
- Sri Lankan fertiliser scheme in shambles due to lack of funds
- Egyptian police kill at least 20 Sudanese protesters
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
January 4, 2006
- Tsunami survivors left to suffer on Andaman and Nicobar islands
- Bolivia’s “socialist” president-elect Morales guarantees private property
- Letters from our readers
- US: low-fare Independence Air to shut down
- Reports document growing social inequality in Australia
- Twelve of 13 miners found dead after false rescue report
- Amid danger of civil war, Sri Lankan president visits New Delhi
- London Underground workers strike over new working patterns
- The Wall Street Journal responds with venom to Spielberg’s Munich
January 5, 2006
- Top Republican lobbyist turns state’s evidence in Washington corruption scandal
- Britain: police given unprecedented arrest and surveillance powers
- Two recent films: Brokeback Mountain and Walk the Line
- The gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine
- European media report US plans to strike Iran
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Kerry Packer (1937-2005)
Why the endless eulogies for Australia’s richest man? - Germany: ice rink collapse leaves at least 14 dead
- West Virginia mine tragedy: Families denounce company, state officials
- Sri Lanka on the road back to civil war
January 6, 2006
- Deposed deputy prime minister back on the Malaysian political stage
- Bush administration seeks dismissal of Guantánamo habeas corpus suits
- Another war crime: US air raid kills Iraqi family
- West Virginia towns mourn deaths of 12 coal miners
- Australia: Child’s death exposes impact of privatisation of refugee services
- Sharon’s stroke plunges Israel into political turmoil
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
January 7, 2006
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18-year-old shot by Border Patrol
Killing fuels Mexican anger over US immigration policy - Bush meets the “wise men”: A cynical charade to legitimize Iraq war
- Letters on the West Virginia mine disaster
- Germany: study draws devastating balance of the Hartz labour reforms
- US: IBM to freeze pension plan in 2008
- Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific
- More revelations of illegal spying by US government
- Sri Lankan security forces conduct massive sweep of Tamils in Colombo
January 9, 2006
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s “inexplicable” intervention into Canada’s election campaign
A warning to the working class - Letters from our readers
- Australia: Police use new powers to “lock down” rural housing estate
- Britain: Blair government refuses public inquiry into biggest fire in Europe
- Iraqi oil minister resigns amid protests and economic chaos
- Mine safety cuts hindered West Virginia rescue
January 10, 2006
- Hong Kong “political reform” package rejected
- Israeli media rallies behind Sharon’s Kadima party
- Germany: Mannesmann corruption ruling unleashes new debate over “entrepreneurial culture”
- US media sheds crocodile tears for West Virginia miners
- Sri Lankan foreign minister discusses war, not peace, in Washington
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
January 11, 2006
- Canadian party leaders’ debate—populist posturing and lies
- Lasse Hallström’s direction of Casanova: more purposeful than usual
- Republican Party crisis deepens: DeLay forced out of congressional leadership
- Iraqi journalist seized by US troops while investigating corruption
- After the West Virginia mine disaster, the official whitewash begins
- Britain: former top general calls for Blair’s impeachment over Iraq war
- Relatives of recently killed Sri Lankan soldiers speak to WSWS
- Germany: politicians urge army’s deployment for World Cup
- Australia: 1975 documents underscore right-wing character of Whitlam government
January 12, 2006
- Senate Democrats prostrate as Alito confirmation hearings get under way
- For a socialist alternative in the 2006 US elections
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Imperialist apologetics from Johann Hari
Independent journalist who attacked Harold Pinter turns on World Socialist Web Site - Hundreds die in Indonesia as monsoonal rains cause landslides
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Florida college professor and wife arrested as Cuban spies
Covering up for US-backed terror -
Death toll continues to rise in US coal mines
Kentucky miner crushed to death in roof collapse - Oppressive conditions in a Sri Lankan garment factory
- Australian terrorist trials face lengthy delays
January 13, 2006
- Political victimisation of an Australian academic
- German media reports on collusion of German intelligence agents in Iraq war
- Letters on the West Virginia mine disaster
- Back on “the main stage”: Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum—part 1
- US living standards in 2005 continued downward trend
- US, EU set to refer Iran to the UN Security Council
- German Chancellor Merkel in Washington
- Wall Street grabs $21.5 billion in bonuses
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
January 14, 2006
- Germany: the closure of Nuremberg’s AEG works and the role of the unions
- Australia: Labor leader recommends Iraq “exit strategy”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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The Sago Mine disaster
Safety reports document deadly conditions at West Virginia mine - Canada’s social-democrats hope to sustain Liberals in power after January elections
- Canada’s social-democrats hope to sustain Liberals in power after January elections
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City residents denounce “Bring New Orleans Back” rebuilding plan
Remaking New Orleans for the wealthy - US ambassador to Sri Lanka threatens the LTTE
January 16, 2006
- Fiji remains tense after new coup threat
- Collaboration with CIA renditions highlights France’s assault on democratic rights
- US living standards in 2005 continued downward trend
- Kashmir earthquake survivors abandoned to freezing winter
- US bombing in northern Pakistan: an act of imperialist recklessness
- Back on “the main stage”: Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum—part 2
- Spain: General calls for military intervention over Catalonia
January 17, 2006
- Classic African films released on DVD: Ousmane Sembène’sBorom Sarret and Black Girl
- The Canadian elections and the phony gun-crime epidemic
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Michelle Bachelet elected president
Socialist-Christian Democratic coalition retains power in Chile - Beijing abolishes centuries-old agricultural tax
- California governor denies clemency—76-year-old dies by lethal injection
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US coal miners denounce deadly conditions
The government is giving a green light to the coal operators to violate safety -
US coal miners denounce deadly conditions
“The government is giving a green light to the coal operators to violate safety” - Memorial service for Sago miners preaches fatalism and submission
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The class issues in the 2006 Canadian elections
SEP (Canada) to hold Toronto meeting - India: twelve protestors killed in police shooting
January 18, 2006
- The Bloc Québécois: populism and nationalism in the service of the Québec bourgeoisie
- Bush administration domestic spying provokes lawsuits, calls for impeachment
- Letters from our readers
- European-wide dock workers strike against port deregulation
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University of Michigan evolutionary theme semester
Geneticist Svante Pääbo speaks on chimpanzee genome -
New citizenship tests
Germany: spying and discrimination against Muslims - New date set for Haitian vote as crisis mounts
- A year after the Hacienda Luisita massacre in the Philippines—no one charged
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Ariel Sharon: a political assessment
Part one - Sri Lankan authorities mount increasing attacks on media freedom
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
January 19, 2006
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How deep does the state penetration of Sinn Fein go?
Northern Ireland: the Donaldson affair and the threat to democratic rights - Community Colleges snubbed by Michigan Governor and state legislature
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Miller takes the Fifth
US general withholds testimony in Abu Ghraib abuse trial - Pakistan: anger mounts against Musharraf in wake of US air strike
- Ariel Sharon: a political assessment-Part two
- Thousands of Tamils flee from government-controlled areas in Sri Lanka
- Dreiser’s classic An American Tragedy is brought to the New York opera stage
January 20, 2006
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: unsafe conditions cause another death on Sydney’s construction sites
- Who is Stephen Harper, the Conservative poised to be Canada’s next prime minister?
- American freelance journalist kidnapped in Iraq
- Indonesian police detain eight Papuans over Freeport murders
- More evidence of European collaboration with CIA torture flights and prisons
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A report from the scene of the Sago Mine disaster
Lack of decent-paying jobs drives workers into West Virginia mines - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
January 21, 2006
- Canadian elections herald a dramatic intensification of class conflict
- French president Chirac threatens nuclear retaliation in the event of terrorist attacks
- Not so much fun for Dick and Jane
- US government demands Google hand over Internet search data
- The political issues behind the Iranian nuclear confrontation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Report into death of Jean Charles de Menezes handed to Crown Prosecution Service
- Two missing in fire at West Virginia coal mine
- Bush administration uses Gulf Coast reconstruction to push for dismantling of public education
- Germany: Finance Minister Steinbrück’s tirade against the welfare state
January 23, 2006
- California Democrats rally behind Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
- New accident claims two more West Virginia coal miners
- Palestinian election reveals widespread hostility to Abbas
- Bush administration report defends spying, unconstrained executive powers
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Defying the political establishment and trade union leaders
New York City transit workers reject contract
January 24, 2006
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SEP public meeting on Canadian elections
Workers need a new political orientation - China’s growing trade with Africa indicative of Sino-Western energy conflicts
- Ford to cut 30,000 jobs in North America
- India: victims of Gujarat pogrom found in mass grave
- Northwest Airlines demands concessions, job cuts in bankruptcy court
- Germany: Turhan Ersin wins case against dismissal at Opel
January 25, 2006
- Germany: Workers strike at AEG’s Nuremberg plant
- Canada’s new Conservative government will intensify assault on workers’ and democratic rights
- Homeless suffer in Indian cold wave
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History of bitter struggle by US miners
In the background of the Sago Mine disaster -- part 1 - Bush administration launches campaign of lies in defense of government spying
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Seven-year-old girl murdered in Brooklyn
Child abuse tragedy shines spotlight on social crisis - England and Wales lead Europe in imprisonment
January 26, 2006
- Australian corporate executives rake in millions
- Letters from our readers
- France: Judge Bruguière—utilising anti-terrorism as a political instrument
- German government blocking inquiry into secret aid provided for Iraq invasion
- What Al Gore’s speech reveals about the state of US politics
- Protests against UN and French occupation of Ivory Coast
- US: New Medicare plan triggers health crisis for thousands
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History of bitter struggle by US miners
In the background of the Sago Mine disaster—part 2
January 27, 2006
- The Democrats and Alito’s Supreme Court confirmation
- George Galloway on “Celebrity Big Brother”
- Thousands of Sri Lankan garment workers retrenched
- Hamas victory in Palestinian election
- Bush mine safety official walks out of Senate hearing into Sago disaster
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Lessons from the Great Flood of 1927
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood and How it Changed America by John M. Barry - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
January 28, 2006
- Bush defends NSA spying program at White House press conference
- General Motors lost $8.6 billion in 2005
- White House stonewalls official Hurricane Katrina inquiry
- British scientist challenges pharmaceutical company over research paper
- Spain: More military threats against Zapatero government
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
January 30, 2006
- Army court martial conceals CIA involvement in death of former Iraqi general
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Born into disadvantage—Australian children face growing inequality
Children of the Lucky Country? How Australian society has turned its back on children and why children matter, by Fiona Stanley, Sue Richardson and Margot Prior, Macmillan, Sydney 2005. - Diabetes in the US: a social epidemic
- US, EU threaten cut-off of funds to Palestinian Authority following Hamas victory
- Punishment Park—1970s radical protest film released on DVD
- Sri Lankan government and LTTE agree to hold talks
January 31, 2006
- With the help of the Democrats, Alito to be confirmed as US Supreme Court Justice
- Canadian mine rescue highlights failings of US mine safety
- Letters from our readers
- France: Students mobilise against destruction of working conditions for youth
- China and India manoeuvre to secure energy supplies
- Hussein trial descends into a legal farce
- Australian state government set to dredge Melbourne’s bay despite opposition
- US military recruiters target rural and depressed areas
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
