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Archive: 03/2006

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.

March 1, 2006

• 56th Berlin Film Festival—Part1
  Further stirrings
• US Fed chairman Bernanke will not prick asset bubbles
• Pentagon whitewash for Halliburton corruption in Iraq
• Protests against Bush in India: For an international socialist strategy to fight imperialism
• Federal Reserve report documents widening inequality in US
• Bush administration drags Iraq towards the abyss of civil war
• Germany’s Left Party and the public service strike
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Nick Beams: Report on world economy in 2006
  Part Two
• British defence secretary offers a rationalisation for war crimes
• Australian jury dismisses main charges in Melbourne “terrorism” case

March 2, 2006

• AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting marks further disintegration of US labor federation
• Bangladesh: 54 workers killed in textile factory fire
• Debate over censorship emerges in China
• Federal Reserve report documents widening inequality in US
• Israel conducts military offensive in the West Bank and Gaza
• After deadly blast, Mexican miners launch strikes to demand safe conditions
• SEP (Canada) to hold public meeting in Montreal
• New York Times raises new charges against German intelligence
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Nick Beams: Report on world economy in 2006
  Part Three
• With bipartisan support, US Senate agrees to Patriot Act renewal
• The political tasks in the German public service strike

March 3, 2006

• 78th Academy Awards: Hollywood’s new “seriousness” and its serious limitations
• Hundreds of thousands protest Bush’s visit to India
• Capitulation to Zionist censors
  Play on Rachel Corrie canceled by New York theater group
• Bush secures nuclear accord with India
• Iraq: violence continues and sectarian divide widens
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The consequences of the US-led war against Iraq
• AK Steel locks out 2,700 Ohio workers and hires replacements
• US tries to use Saddam Hussein trial to justify its own crimes
• Tahitian parliamentary report: France covered up nuclear test fallout
• Snap election heightens political crisis in Thailand

March 4, 2006

• An act of social cruelty: South Dakota bars abortions for victims of rape and incest
• Letter from worker locked out by AK Steel in Ohio
• 56th Berlin Film Festival—Part 2
  Crossing the “red line”: Iranian films and censorship
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Report on US: The Bush administration and the global decline of American capitalism
  Part One
• The Clintons, the Doles and the Dubai port deal: political duplicity and class interest
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Bird flu in India: profits override public health concerns
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Britain: Behind the suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone
• Unions for flight attendants, pilots agree to huge concessions at Northwest Airlines
• Opel chairman warns of plant closure in Europe
• Bush visit to Pakistan will intensify Musharraf’s crisis

March 6, 2006

• Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals assassinated by death squads
• WSWS International Editorial Board Meeting
  Report on US: The Bush administration and the global decline of American capitalism
  Part Two
• Australian Treasurer Peter Costello joins anti-Muslim bandwagon
• France: Ilan Halimi tortured and murdered for money
• India’s “pro-poor” budget boosts military spending and market reforms
• Nobel Prize for Medicine for gastric ulcer breakthrough
• Classic Vidas Secas by Nelson Pereira dos Santos released on DVD
  “Hell” in Brazil

March 7, 2006

• AT&T acquisition of BellSouth to eliminate 10,000 jobs
• California Sheriff admits spying on antiwar group
• Australia’s secret or not-so-secret past
  The Secret River, by Kate Grenville, Text Publishing, 2005
• US holding thousands without trial
  Torture in Iraq worse since Abu Ghraib
• Japan: Koizumi’s popularity slumps amid debate on social inequality
• National strike by miners, steelworkers reveals class tensions in Mexico
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The social and political crisis in the United States and the 2006 SEP election campaign
  Part One
• CBS’ “60 Minutes” expose on killings in Afghanistan
  Former aide to Powell: authorization for torture came from “the very top”
• Taiwanese president stokes tensions with China
• Britain: Culture secretary embroiled in Silvio Berlusconi bribery scandal
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

March 8, 2006

• Right-wing campaign targets Colorado teacher for anti-Bush remarks
• Graffiti computer game banned in Australia
  Bi-partisan censorship campaign targets youth
• Letters from our readers
• Guantánamo files offer glimpse of Pentagon’s kangaroo courts
• Germany: IG Metall union capitulates to Electrolux
• US ambassador to UN warns of “painful consequences” for Iran
• An exchange with readers on Iran’s nuclear programs
• London Olympics 2012: Regeneration promises don’t add up
• 78th Academy Awards: why such a poor showing?
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The social and political crisis in the United States and the 2006 SEP election campaign
  Part Two
• Britain: Government minister admits US “rendition” planes landed in UK

March 9, 2006

• US: AK Steel lockout enters second week
• Britain: Private capital and the crisis in the National Health Service
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The implications of China for world socialism
  Part One
• Divisions emerge in Germany’s Left Party
• Hunger in America: 25 million depend on emergency food aid
• Inquiry into police killing at Ipperwash implicates Tory government
• Italy’s National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe: the significance of a neo-fascist commemoration
• Deregulation of coal industry behind fatal accidents in US mines
• Unions collaborate in ongoing destruction of Air New Zealand jobs
• US Senate panel votes to sanction illegal spying
  Rubberstamp for police-state measures
• Protesting Sri Lankan tsunami refugees occupy government building

March 10, 2006

• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The implications of China for world socialism
  Part Two
• Everything about this performance felt right
  Chronicles—a lamentation by the Teatre Piesn Kizla
• National Day Labor Study exposes exploitation of day laborers
• Harlem art exhibition commemorates police shooting victim Amadou Diallo
• Former CFO testifies in Enron case
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Germany: parliamentary panel to probe intelligence service’s role in Iraq war
• Hospital workers in northern Sri Lanka strike for better conditions
• WSWS Chairman David North to speak at Montreal meeting this Saturday
• Returning to the scene of the crime: Bush visits New Orleans
• US pushes for larger UN intervention in western Sudan

March 11, 2006

• Abu Ghraib to close, abuse to continue
• 56th Berlin Film Festival—Part 3
  The work of theatre director Robert Wilson and other documentary films
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The implications of China for world socialism
  Part Three
• France: A million protest against government attack on job security for young workers
• Egypt: Mubarak regime cracks down on opposition
• US drumbeat against Iran threatens new war of aggression
• Washington’s “democracy” in Iraq hangs 13 political prisoners
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Bush’s public slap in the face to Pakistan’s president
• Poland: Winter of death for impoverished
• A socialist answer to the danger of war in Sri Lanka
• Britain: Liberal Democrats’ new leader shifts party to the right
• India: Police and Hindu supremacists engage in provocations following Varanasi bombings

March 13, 2006

• Stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984: Puppets of the police state
• Bird flu threat grows in Europe and Africa
• Letters from our readers
• Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War
  Right wing in Spain attempts to rehabilitate Franco
  Part One
• Three years after Iraq invasion, US targets Iran
  Socialism and the struggle against imperialist war
  SEP public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
• Media lies and hypocrisy in wake of Milosevic’s death
• Political tensions continue after Philippine state of emergency ends
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
  Part One

March 14, 2006

• Scientists criticize UK government for lack of preparedness over avian flu
• Bank of Japan policy shift will have global impact
• France: riot police attack student protesters at the Sorbonne
• Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War
  Right wing in Spain attempts to rehabilitate Franco
  Part Two
• Arbeiterpresse Verlag represented at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair
• Mystery deepens over Milosevic’s death
  Sordid end to “international justice” charade
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
  Part Two
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

March 15, 2006

• Chikungunya epidemic on the French Island of Réunion: a “natural” catastrophe
• Denmark: Police arrest members of the Left Socialist Party
• Washington seeks to bully UN Security Council over Iran
• Kentucky mine operators gear up for a coal revival
• China’s National People’s Congress focusses on social instability
• Portugal: Right-wing president will promote austerity measures
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class
  Part Three

March 16, 2006

• Canadian prime minister proclaims major shift with Afghanistan visit
• Letters from our readers
• Seventy years since the Spanish Civil War
  Right wing attempts to rehabilitate Franco
  Part Three
• Siege of Jericho prison: US, Britain complicit in Israeli war crime
• Britain: Tessa Jowell and the politics of kleptocracy
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain
  Part One
• “No threat”—but massive security at Melbourne Games
• Government misconduct derails Moussaoui death penalty case
• Germany: The role of the trade union and works council at Opel
• Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
  Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, Miegunyah Press
• Next round of Sri Lankan peace talks hangs in the balance
• Not a film review, properly speaking: Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy
• US balance of payments deficit hits another record

March 17, 2006

• France: National student protest held against government attack on young workers
• Transcripts of Guantánamo hearings: a window into Washington’s gulag
• Australia: Why the Howard government has remained in office for 10 years
• Saddam Hussein turns the tables at US-run show trial
• Premature applause for Japan’s one quarter of promising economic growth
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain
  Part Two
• US: Florida Medicaid cuts target food for disabled children
• Socialist Equality Party public meetings:
  Three years since the invasion of Iraq: historical lessons and political perspectives
• SEP public meeting in Montreal assesses fundamental changes in world and Canadian politics
• Bush administration renews “preemptive war” strategy
• Tongan public servants threaten to strike against government restructuring
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

March 18, 2006

• Belarus: imperialist intervention in presidential election
• 56th Berlin Film Festival—Part 4
  Back to Basics?: The Elementary Particles by Oskar Roehler
• Canadian troops gun down Afghan civilian
• Germany: 22,000 hospital physicians to strike
• France: Hundreds of youth arrested following anti-government protests
• Sixth week of German public sector strike
• Amid mounting sectarian violence, political stalemate continues in Iraq
• As Iraq war enters fourth year
  For the immediate withdrawal of all US troops
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• France: Political issues in the fight against the government’s “First Job Contract”
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Report on Latin American perspectives
  Part One

March 20, 2006

• North American protests mark third anniversary of Iraq war
• Thousands march in antiwar rallies in Australia and Asia
• Europe: antiwar protests draw largest numbers in London and Rome
• France: one million protest government offensive against young workers’ conditions
• Judge rejects government demand for Google search terms
• French demonstrators: “What we say is ignored, they don’t give a damn about us”
• Israeli officials threaten to assassinate Palestinian prime minister
• Attack on public housing tenants
  New York to impose fees on poor to cover budget deficit
• Britain: government seeks wide-ranging powers to bypass parliament
• Witchhunt of Sri Lankan newspaper for allegedly breaching “national security”
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Report on Latin American perspectives
  Part Two

March 21, 2006

• Australia: Cyclone Larry leaves thousands homeless and destroys livelihoods
• Religion and science: a reply to a right-wing attack on philosopher Daniel Dennett
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Artistic and cultural problems in the current situation
  Part One
• Socialist Equality Party announces candidates in New York, Michigan and California
• Socialist Equality Party announces candidates in New York, Michigan and California
• France: Dispute escalates over “First Job Contract”
• France: Dispute escalates over “First Job Contract”
• Britain: The “loans for peerages” scandal and the terminal decline of New Labour
• Marine recruiters accused of rape: California high school students file suit
• Bush administration refuses to collect penalties for mine safety violations
• Condoleezza Rice visits Australia and Indonesia to tighten US ties against China
• Sri Lanka: 300,000 public sector workers strike for higher pay
• Turkey: public prosecutor accuses general of involvement in terrorist attacks

March 22, 2006

• Australia: Pre-selection brawls demonstrate Labor’s internal rot
• Bush says US troops to remain in Iraq indefinitely
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Artistic and cultural problems in the current situation
  Part Two
• France: Police assault leaves protesting worker in coma
• A comment on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
  Part One
• Polish President Kaczynski visits Berlin
• FBI agent testifies: Bureau resisted Moussaoui investigation before 9/11 attacks
• Britain: Inquiry details inhumane treatment of children in prison
• Tense confrontation continues between Thai prime minister and protestors

March 23, 2006

• Australian Workers Union washes its hands of Boeing workers
• China’s new five-year plan: a mixture of futile hopes and false promises
• Letters from our readers
• France: University and high school students continue anti-government protests
• GM, Delphi, US autoworkers’ union agree to massive job-cutting program
• A comment on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
  Part Two
• Israel announces plans to annex more Palestinian land
• On orders from prime minister’s department and police: Australian web site shut down
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Democratic rights and the attack on constitutionalism
• New York Times details secret US military torture operation

March 24, 2006

• Britain: Blair sets out ideological justification for new wars of aggression
• The French Popular Front of 1936: Historical lessons in the “First Job Contract” struggle
• Mass student protests in France: trade unions come to Villepin’s rescue
• India’s pro-investor plans for urban renewal
• Iraq’s “National Security Council”: a move toward open dictatorship
• Music wins battle over barbarism, if only for a moment
• New York Times columnist Frank Rich at the University of Michigan: thin gruel
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  South Asia and the political bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism and Stalinism
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

March 25, 2006

• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Africa and the perspective of international socialism
  Part One
• An administration in deepening crisis: Some reflections on the Bush press conference
• Labor wins Australian state elections with business backing
• France: May-June 1968 and today
• France: Mass movement against “First Job Contract” in danger
  Trade unions meet with prime minister
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Peter Watkins’ Edvard Munch: Diagnosing panic and dread
• Netherlands: Government suffers heavy losses in local election
• Appalling conditions continue in China’s toy factories

March 27, 2006

• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Africa and the perspective of international socialism
  Part Two
• Terrible conditions facing workers in Asian ship-breaking yards
• Wagging the dog in Belarus
• France: Students and workers prepare mobilisation against government’s “First Job Contract”
• Strikebreakers in the trade union leadership
  Germany: Verdi union boss attacks striking doctors
• More than a million march in Los Angeles, other US cities in defense of immigrant rights
• Australia: Howard’s draconian industrial relations laws come into operation today
• Britain: More evidence suggests July 7 bombings were preventable
• Union orchestrates end to Ontario college teachers’ strike
• Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
  Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, Miegunyah Press
• State authorities threaten to impose contract on New York transit workers
• Confused, not thought through: V for Vendetta

March 28, 2006

• Australia: Anger mounts over government response to Cyclone Larry
• France: Fight vs. “First Job Contract” raises need for new working class leadership
• US home foreclosures on the rise
• Iraq: US mosque massacre deepens occupation’s crisis
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
  Part One
• Local government employees in Britain strike to defend pension provision
  For a European-wide strategy to defend workers’ social gains
• Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
  Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, Miegunyah Press
• Spain: Bomb threats and funding cuts follow theatre show
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

March 29, 2006

• Australian parliament embraces Blair’s lies and hypocrisy
• Britain: Drug trial leaves volunteers seriously ill
  Scientist attacks lax regulatory regime
• France: Millions of workers and students strike against Gaullist government
• As mass demonstrations continue, Republicans split over anti-immigration bill
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
  Part Two
• Socialist Equality Party public meetings
  Three years since the invasion of Iraq: historical lessons and political perspectives
• Britain: More than one million strike over cuts in pension provision, but unions limit protest
• Ex-radical stands for Colombo mayor on ticket of Sri Lankan ruling coalition
• Thousands of students walk out of schools in Southern California to protest anti-immigration legislation
• The Ukrainian parliamentary elections and the fraud of the “Orange Revolution”

March 30, 2006

• Political crisis deepens in Brazil: The rise and fall of Palocci
• White House chief of staff steps down
• Beijing’s new moral model: from peasant soldier to middle class consumer
• Letters from our readers
• France: Unions appeal to President Chirac to resolve “First Job Contract” crisis
• Despite vote declines for CDU and SPD
  German coalition parties hail state elections as mandate for anti-social “reforms”
• Narrow victory for Kadima in Israeli elections
• Puerto Rico sues FBI for stonewalling probe of independentista’s murder
• Local government elections in Sri Lanka heighten political instability
• Thousands of students walk out of schools in Southern California to protest anti-immigration legislation

March 31, 2006

• Britain: Breast cancer patient’s legal challenge highlights rationing of health care
• Democrats unveil midterm election platform: a blueprint for endless war
• Theodore Draper—American historian and social critic
• France: “First Job Contract” legislation approved by Constitutional Council
• UN Security Council bows to US pressure for a statement against Iran
• Seven years after US-led war on Yugoslavia
  Deadlocks continue at Kosovo final status talks
  Part One
• Record attendance at Leipzig Book Fair
  Peter Schwarz presents new German edition of Trotsky’s In Defence of Marxism
• US: Plan to drive homeless out of downtown Richmond, Virginia
• Amnesty International reports 152 taser-related deaths in the US
  Electric shock becomes accepted police procedure
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa