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World Socialist Web Site Archive: January 2002

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 2002

31 January 2002
State of the Union speech: Bush declares war on the world
Release Daniel Pearl!
Israeli army reservists refuse to serve in occupied territories
US Fed decision not a vote of confidence
Sri Lankan parties back imperialist war against Afghanistan
Deportation proceedings against family of Michigan Muslim leader
Letters on Enron and the death of J. Clifford Baxter
Letters on Afghan refugees in Australia

30 January 2002
Is the US preparing for action against Iran?
Sharon government scapegoats foreign workers in Israel
Main witness in German neo-Nazi party trial exposed as secret service agent
Japan heads into deflationary spiral
Kosovo still without a functioning government
A life is more than the sum total of its details - Ali, directed by Michael Mann

29 January 2002
The Enron collapse and the crisis of the profit system
Australia: Teenagers threaten suicide as refugee hunger strike escalates
Long prison sentences in Norwegian neo-Nazi murder trial
Britain's postal workers ballot for national strike
Canada: Teachers take action against B.C. government
Workers Struggles: The Americas

28 January 2002
The strange and convenient death of J. Clifford Baxter--Enron executive found shot to death
International aid pledges fall far short of Afghanistan's basic needs
291 dead in Lima: the social roots of Peru's tragic fire
Saudi government demolishes historic Ottoman castle

26 January 2002
Blair government says British terror suspects in Guantanamo should be tried in UK
Afghan refugees stage desperate hunger strike in Australia
Retailing giant Kmart files for bankruptcy
Britain: New "fat cats" row over £1 million corporate payoffs
Workers strike sausage plant in Dearborn, Michigan
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Landscapes which get in the way: Invincible, directed by Werner Herzog

25 January 2002
The Bush administration and John Walker Lindh: who are the real "conspirators"?
Australia-Indonesia Institute denies funding to academic conference
Nigeria: Unions call off general strike against fuel price increases
Britain: Government unveils measures to dismantle public health care
Beautiful and fascinating--but not urgent? - Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures at the Asia Society in New York
Letters to the WSWS on the US war in Afghanistan

24 January 2002
Terror suspects held in brutal conditions in British jail
Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? - Part 4: The refusal to investigate
Police raid exposes a secret Sri Lankan army assassination squad
Members named to commission to manage Philadelphia schools takeover
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Bosnian film: no finger-pointing? - No Man's Land, written and directed by Danis Tanovic
Recent letters to the WSWS

23 January 2002
US flouts world opinion and Geneva Convention in treatment of Afghan war prisoners
US anthrax attackers aimed to assassinate Democratic leaders - Media silent on military links
Britain: Government presses for £1 billion arms deal with India
Volcano causes widespread devastation in Congo
Australian union chief jeered as Qantas workers throw out pay deal
Letters on the Enron scandal

22 January 2002
Israel steps up assault on Palestinian Authority
Was the US government alerted to the September 11 attack? - Part 3: The United States and Mideast terrorism
Alberta spearheads assault on public health care
New school shootings in US: social issues once again come to the fore
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A letter from a reader in British Columbia

21 January 2002
The US extends "war on terrorism" into the Philippines
Muslim woman strip-searched at Chicago's OHare airport
Britain: Report highlights BSE danger from infected sheep
Yugoslavia: Union leaders order bank workers to end occupations
Letters and replies on anthrax attacks in the US

19 January 2002
US pushes Colombia to brink of all-out war
Italian foreign minister resigns
British Columbia to ravage public and social services
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Passive realism - In the Bedroom, directed by Todd Field
An exchange on nationalism in Serbia

18 January 2002
Enron and the Bush administration: kindred spirits in fraud and criminality
Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? - Part 2: Watching the hijackers
British government defends conditions at Guantanamo
New Sri Lankan government targets political opponents at workplaces
Recent correspondence to the WSWS

17 January 2002
Thousands more US layoffs in wake of Ford job-slashing
Detained Muslim cleric secretly moved to Chicago
Australia and New Zealand starve Solomon Islands of funds
Britain: Cash-for-beds scandal in National Health Service
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

16 January 2002
Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? Part 1: Warnings in advance
PDS leader Gysi takes over posts in Berlin cabinet Drastic budget cuts planned for the German capital
Britain temporarily "suspends" deportation of Zimbabwean refugees
VRE outbreak at major West Australian hospital
The unquiet death of Patrice Lumumba

15 January 2002
Pakistan's Musharraf walks a fine line between war and internal revolt
Second package of anti-terror laws rushed through German parliament
Spain: Opposition to universities reform law
Britain: Winter cold kills over 22,000 elderly
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters on the war in Afghanistan

14 January 2002
Afghan POWs at Guantanamo base: bound and gagged, drugged, caged like animals
US Supreme Court ruling limits disabled workers' rights
Workers lose jobs, health care and savings at Enron
Economic hardship afflicts Japanese working class
Sectarian tensions lead to riots and school closures in Northern Ireland

12 January 2002
Ford to cut 35,000 jobs worldwide, 22,000 in North America
Canada may declare G-8 summit site a militarized zone
Serious security flaws in Microsoft web browser - How safe is your computer?
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Clever, well-read. And what else? - The Royal Tenenbaums, directed by Wes Anderson
Letters on "Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan"

11 January 2002
US bases pave the way for long-term intervention in Central Asia
Indonesian president proposes to drop charges against Suharto
Gag order against former Black Panther leader on trial for murder
Britain: Behind the row over Jamaican "drug mules"
Apologetics for National Socialist aesthetics and politics - Taking Positions: Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich
Letters from US workers
Letters on Bush, Enron and the New York Times

10 January 2002
New York Times defends Bush on links to Enron corporate fraud
New Sri Lankan government seeks to impose slump on masses
Britain hit by rail strikes
Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
Detroit panel discusses role of art museum in twenty-first century
WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh's remarks to Detroit forum: "Serious artistic work is incompatible with intellectual cowardice"

9 January 2002
War crisis continues - India rejects Pakistani pleas for talks
New US dragnet to target Middle Eastern men for deportation
Japan militarisation accelerates after sinking of alleged North Korean spy ship
Not asking questions any more: The Navigators, a film by Ken Loach

8 January 2002
Thousands of POWs held in appalling conditions in Afghanistan
What does the euro mean for the working class?
Argentine devaluation: unelected government begins assault on living standards
Workers Struggles: The Americas
An exchange on wages under a socialist society

7 January 2002
New York's new mayor demands austerity
Indonesia: religious violence flares again in Central Sulawesi
Sectarian divisions widen in Northern Ireland
Letters to the WSWS

5 January 2002
The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to investigate man charged in September 11 attacks
Two million jobs wiped out in 2001 - US unemployment rate jumps to 5.8 percent
Australia: Carr scapegoats "arsonists" over bushfires
Zambia: New president installed amidst accusations of vote rigging
Montenegro: European Union opposes moves towards independence
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Four recent films: Bandits; Ghost World; Monster's Ball; Vanilla Sky

4 January 2002
Open-ended US bombing campaign results in further Afghan casualties
The case of Robert Kerrey: war crimes and their supporters in Vietnam and Afghanistan
Nigerian justice minister assassinated
Protests erupt at Australian refugee detention centre
From power shortage to power surplus - California's energy debacle continues
Workers Struggles: Europe

3 January 2002
Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan
New Sri Lankan government calls for peace talks with the LTTE
Job losses in Scotland's "Silicon Glen"
Five-fold increase in deaths from drug prescription errors in Britain's hospitals
Australian university refuses to reinstate victimised professor
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A major exhibition on the Spanish Civil War - "Dreams and Nightmares" -- at the Imperial War Museum, London, until April 28, 2002
A letter from France on the anti-globalisation movement Attac

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