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Archive: 05/2006

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.

May 1, 2006

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

May 2, 2006

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

May 3, 2006

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

May 4, 2006

• Elderly people die alone and unnoticed in Australia
• Britain: Leading Labourites play the race card
• Australian police harass former Guantánamo prisoner
• The implications of the immigrant demonstrations for the class struggle in America
• 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
• Duisburg-Essen University
  Germany: Students protest implementation of tuition fees

May 5, 2006

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

May 6, 2006

• Tony Blair reshuffles Cabinet after Labour’s local election debacle
• Spelling freedom as O-I-L
  Cheney lectures Russia on “democracy”
• Left prop for Prodi
  Italy: Bertinotti voted speaker in the Italian parliament
• SEP candidate Jerome White to speak: “The Iraq War and the Democratic Party: A Socialist Alternative”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• 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
• 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
• Germany: Election Alternative, the Socialist Alternative Group and Trotskyism

May 8, 2006

• Belgium: Teenager’s murder exploited for right-wing agenda
• West Bengal state elections: Left Front lurches further right
• Sudden resignation of CIA Director Goss: Another tremor in Bush administration
• Letters from our readers
• An uncensored look at America’s young soldiers in Iraq
  Gunner Palace, directed by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein
• “Botched executions” findings expose grisly practice
  US: Legal challenges to lethal injection as “cruel and unusual”
• Germany’s Merkel sides with Bush against Iran
• 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

May 9, 2006

• Asian growth rates rise but employment problems deepen
• US Democrat Biden advocates the communal break-up of Iraq
• Letters on “Hegel, Marx, Engels and the Origins of Marxism”
• Some insights into American life as it is: Doctorow’s Sweet Land Stories
• Britain: the political issues behind Labour’s factional warfare
• Australia: Jubilation greets the rescue of trapped Beaconsfield miners
• 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
• Germany: Union officials back Volkswagen boss
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

May 10, 2006

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

May 11, 2006

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

May 12, 2006

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

May 13, 2006

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

May 15, 2006

• 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
• Britain: Sunday Times “Rich List” celebrates unprecedented wealth accumulation
• Socialist Equality Party to contest state elections in Illinois, Maine, Oregon and Washington
• New Zealand government reinforces Solomons intervention
• The plight of widows in India
  Water, written and directed by Deepa Mehta

May 16, 2006

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

May 17, 2006

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

May 18, 2006

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

May 19, 2006

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

May 20, 2006

• US Senate declares English the “national language”: a boost to chauvinism and racism
• 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
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Witnesses, video document massacre in Haditha
  US Marines killed Iraqi civilians “in cold blood”
• The Australian media and the Beaconsfield mine rescue
• Reports expose myth of upward social mobility in US
• Cuts to NASA budget gut space research

May 22, 2006

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

May 23, 2006

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

May 24, 2006

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

May 25, 2006

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

May 26, 2006

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

May 27, 2006

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

May 29, 2006

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

May 30, 2006

• South Africa: Factional war intensifies between Mbeki and Zuma supporters in ANC
• Canada-US softwood lumber pact paves way for greater co-operation between Harper and Bush
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan government bans local film Aksharaya (Letter of Fire)
• “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
• Why Australia wants “regime change” in East Timor
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

May 31, 2006

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