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: February 2001
World Socialist Web Site Archive: February 2001
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted
on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive
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February 2001
28 February 2001
Blair-Bush
meeting highlights growing rift between US and Europe
US
executive compensation rose 16 percent in 2000
Mozambique
flood disaster returns
A test case for free speech
- Australian academic dismissed for opposing falling university
standards
AOL-Time
Warner threatens children running Harry Potter fan sites
A remarkable achievement for mankind - Scientists release a map of the human genome
27 February 2001
Germany:
State attorney launches investigation of Foreign Minister Fischer
Racial
killings in Borneo: a symptom of deep-seated social tensions
Navy
report confirms: civilians distracted crew of US sub
Germany:
Violence against foreigners increases by 40 percent
A further erosion of democratic rights - Sri Lankan government postpones local elections
for 12 months
Germany
seeks to normalise relations with Iran
Workers
Struggles: The Americas
26 February 2001
Union
membership in US at lowest level in 60 years
With trade war looming -
Canada rescinds ban on Brazilian beef
Pakistani
regime shuts newspaper and charges editors with blasphemy
Papua
New Guinea government overturns minimum pay rise
The
Jamie Bulger case: Press seek to thwart release of Robert Thompson
Why
was Stanley Kramer so unfashionable at the time of his death?
24 February 2001
Bush's
first press conference: a craven media welcomes a political impostor
Israel's
Sharon sets out militarist agenda in advance of talks with Colin
Powell
Submarine
collision provokes anger and anti-US sentiment in Japan
Napster
offers record companies a new commercial arrangement
Store
guards kill another worker in Detroit
Ontario,
Canada: Union scuttles Falconbridge strike
South
Korean government orders massive police assault on Daewoo workers
Workers
Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
The 51st Berlinale: Part 2
- More works from the Berlin film festival
23 February 2001
Corruption
row sparks financial storm in Turkey
Conservative
parties routed in another Australian election
Human
rights groups condemn Israel for assassinations and indiscriminate
killing
Congo
peace talks revived after Kabila's assassination
Workers
Struggles: The Americas
De-Stalinisation and the German Democratic Republic
- Die Architekten (The Architects), by Stefan Heym, Bertelsmann
Verlag, 2000
Letters to the WSWS
22 February 2001
US
embassy bombing case: conspiracy trial perverts judicial system
New
York City homelessness at highest level in more than a decade
Britain:
New anti-terror law threatens basic democratic rights
Pressure
for Indian government intervention against Left Front in West
Bengal
Auto
workers vote for strike action at Britain's GM-Vauxhall plants
Workers
Struggles: Europe & Africa
51st Berlinale: Part 1 -
A miserable gruel: European films at this year's Berlin Film Festival
21 February 2001
US
scandal over Marc Rich pardon: big money politics and right-wing
provocation
US sub joyride kills nine Japanese - The USS Greeneville and the arrogance of power
France
seeks to block asylum for over 900 Kurdish "boat people"
US
Navy to be sued for depleted uranium use on Caribbean island
A sorry attempt to press-gang workers - Australian unions demand service fees from non-members
Workers
fight union-busting at a Canadian metal fabricating plant
Only self-important - Cast Away, Chocolat
and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
20 February 2001
US
and Britain isolated over Baghdad raid
Germany:
new law allows more extensive government monitoring of phone calls
and email
New
Thai cabinet loaded with businessmen, bureaucrats and ex-generals
Commando-style
police raid in Sydney designed to intimidate youth
Child victims of the industrial revolution - Orphans
of History--The Forgotten Children of the First Fleet by Robert
Holden
19 February 2001
Concerns
grow behind G-7 official optimism
Indonesian
leaders desperate to keep power struggle within ruling circles
As
layoffs continue, US consumer sentiment lowest since 1993
Correspondence
on US recession
17 February 2001
US-British
air strikes on Baghdad: Bush draws first blood
Canadian
big business rattled by deteriorating economic situation
Tanzania:
Brutal government clampdown on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba
Corporate
appointee undermines Australian drug advisory committee
Australian
professor warns that poor will have to pay more for drugs
Workers
Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
In
praise of classical guitarists Alexandre Lagoya and Ida Presti
16 February 2001
Labour
and Likud seek national government as Israeli-Palestinian conflict
intensifies
German
Green party leaders suppress protests against transport of nuclear
waste
Kansas
board of education restores teaching of evolution
Japanese
economy continues to stagnate
Media
and business back Australian Labor Party in Queensland state election
The sad life and death of a Cuban poet - Before
Night Falls, directed by Julian Schnabel, written by Cunningham
O'Keefe, Lázaro Gómez Carriles and Julian Schnabel
15 February 2001
Britain
calls for revision of Geneva Convention on asylum
US
Court rejects Napster appeal
State Liberal government thrown out - Another shock election result in Australia
US and Russia pressure the Taliban - New UN sanctions worsen plight of Afghanistan's
people
Workers
Struggles: Europe & Africa
Le Carré's new novel questions his previous
Cold War certainties: John le Carré's The Constant Gardener,
Hodder and Stoughton, £16.99, ISBN 0-340-7337-3
Letters to the WSWS
14 February 2001
Two
decades after the Chrysler bailout: US auto workers face new assault
Testimony
highlights Greenspan's erratic course
Australian
government unveils draconian new measures to silence refugee protests
Austria's
right-wing conservative government marks one year in office
Albanian
separatists continue fighting in Kosovo buffer zone
The
2001 Academy Award nominations: all in all, not much
13 February 2001
Bush's
political honeymoon: why the Democrats are rallying behind an
illegitimate government
Strikes
and demonstrations in France against raising the retirement age
Mass
protests against racist murder in Norway
California
energy crisis continues as state moves to bail out utility firms
Bush
bans strike by Northwest Airlines mechanics
Workers
Struggles: The Americas
An
exchange on the anti-Estrada movement in the Philippines
12 February 2001
More
than 275,000 layoffs in the US in the last two months
Political
tensions rise in Fiji ahead of court ruling
Forensic
report throws doubt on US/NATO claims of Racak "massacre"
Pontiac,
Michigan shelter to close emergency center
10 February 2001
Another
workplace shooting in the US: five dead at Chicago Navistar plant
Australian
companies axe thousands of jobs amid signs of downturn
Economic pressure mounts to end the war - Sri Lankan rupee plunges following currency free
float
Spanish
government honours Franco's fascists
Workers
Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Whither the Coen Brothers? - O Brother, Where Art
Thou?, directed by Joel Coen, written by Ethan Coen and Joel
Coen
9 February 2001
Disaffection
and volatility dominate West Australian election
Australian
central bank cites US slowdown in interest rate cut
Latest
survey shows wealth and poverty side-by-side across Britain
New
Directions faction takes control of New York City transit union
South
Africa: Volkswagen blocks sacked workers from returning
Correspondence
on the Jamie Bulger killing
8 February 2001
Sharon's
election presages escalating conflict in Israel and Middle East
Bush's
tax cut plan: big lies and a little truth
Is
the US economy on the Japanese road?
Australian
government under fire over digital television
Crisis
at WBAI radio in New York: an attempt to silence alternative views
Workers
Struggles: Europe & Africa
The official version - Traffic, directed by
Steven Soderbergh, written by Stephen Gaghan
7 February 2001
Munich
security conference shows mutual distrust inside NATO
Pan
Am 103 / Lockerbie verdict politically motivated
The
Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie verdict: What the judges said
Former
Teamsters President Ron Carey indicted for perjury
Australia
pushes Papua New Guinea to accept Bougainville secession vote
London
Underground hit by drivers' strike
The Cuban missile crisis in historical perspective:
some thoughts on the film Thirteen Days
6 February 2001
The
world historical implications of the political crisis in the United
States
Mounting
criticism of the Indian government as earthquake toll rises
China
pushes North Korea to accelerate free market policies
Britain:
Paddington rail crash hero sacked
Workers
Struggles: The Americas
A response to the interview with filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff
- A clarification of essential historical issues
Letters to the WSWS
5 February 2001
Newspaper
studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote
Censure
of President Wahid reveals shifting political alliances in Indonesia
Quebec
premier's resignation intensifies crisis within separatist movement
Pinochet
appeals against arrest order in Chile
Britain:
Corus announce over 6,000 steel jobs to go
3 February 2001
Africa:
Refugee crisis in Guinea produces a humanitarian disaster
Australian
government responds to corporate criticism with Innovation Action
Plan
Career spanned rise and decay of US auto union Former UAW President Leonard Woodcock dies
The School Report: Why Britain's Schools are Failing -- a book by Nick Davies
Workers
Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
An
interview with German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff
2 February 2001
7,200 confirmed dead, 500,000 homeless - Western powers provide a pittance in aid for Indian
earthquake victims
US
will not prosecute New York police in Diallo killing
Bush
backs "faith-based" programs: holy water for the social
crisis in America
Growing
concern about "Mad Cow Disease" in the US
Northern
Ireland: High Court overturns ban on Sinn Fein ministers attending
cross-border talks
Marxism
and the AIDS dissidents: Part 3--Drug therapies, statistical studies
and the pharmaceutical corporations
A mix of radicalism and banality: - The film The
Princess and the Warrior directed by Tom Tykwer
1 February 2001
US economy shows weakest economic growth in five years
- Layoffs mount, consumer confidence plummets
Preparations
for peace talks drag out as Sri Lankan government continues military
offensive
Spain:
Thousands march in support of immigrant hunger strikers
Ericsson
outsourcing deal threatens 11,000 jobs worldwide
Marxism and the AIDS dissidents: Part 2--Scientific
objectivity
Workers
strike against mass layoffs at European GM plants
Workers
Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East
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