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World Socialist Web Site Archive: June 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.
June 2002
29 June 2002
Further
evidence of a massacre of Taliban prisoners
Washington's
phony pretext for Iraqi invasion
Sri
Lankan LSSP offers its services to big business as an advocate
of peace
Interview
with Israeli refusenik: "We can put in place a new leadership"
WorldCom
spearheads US job cuts
Workers
Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letter
from a Detroit school bus driver
28 June 2002
Threatened
collapse of WorldCom sends political establishment into crisis
Tense
military standoff continues between India and Pakistan
Police
kill two protesters in Argentina
US
"Pledge" ruling exposes political scoundrels
The
Trepca mining complex: How Kosovo's spoils were distributed
New
Zealand teachers' union calls off industrial ban in long-running
pay dispute
Canada:
Worker critically injured by Navistar strike-breaking operation
Confusion on every score - The Believer, directed
and written by Henry Bean
27 June 2002
PLO
leader bows to Bush
G-8
security operation-the stifling and criminalizing of dissent
Divided
US Supreme Court ruling bans execution of the mentally retarded
Australian
MP appeals against conviction for migration fraud
Employers
give cold shoulder to Australian government's anti-union inquiry
Members
of the French Young Communists Movement speak to the WSWS
Workers
Struggles: Europe and Africa
26 June 2002
Bush
gives Israel blank check in assault on Palestinians
Economic
problems mount as G-8 summit meets
Poverty and a lack of democratic rights - A first-hand report of life in LTTE-held areas of
Sri Lanka
Angola:
from cease fire to famine
The
French elections and the failure of the left
Letters
from our readers
25 June 2002
US
torture of John Walker Lindh exposed as frame-up continues
Interview
with French Communist Party deputy Maxime Gremetz
Australian
government to close state-run job agency
Interview on closure of Australian job agency - "The government's concern is to drive people
off benefits"
Hydro
One debacle highlights crisis of Ontario Tory regime
Workers
Struggles: The Americas
24 June 2002
Israel dismembers Palestinian Authority - Pledges
“crushing and decisive” military offensive
Afghanistan's loya jirga fails to provide even
the illusion of democracy
The case of Yaser Esam Hamdi
- Bush claims right to jail US citizens indefinitely, without
charges or hearing
US-backed
groups push North Korean asylum bids in China
An
exchange on the Colombian FARC
22 June 2002
Amnesty
documents human rights abuses in Middle East
Enron
execs looted company prior to bankruptcy
Brazil's
Workers Party chooses textile magnate as candidate
Crackdown
on Internet cafes in China follows Beijing fire
French
Whirlpool workers facing layoffs speak to WSWS
Comment
on the French parliamentary elections
Workers
Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 June 2002
World Socialist Web Site Review:
July-September issue now available
Air Force officer disciplined for saying Bush allowed
September 11 attacks - Hijacker attended US military school
India
and Pakistan continue to trade threats of war
Northern
Ireland security force links to loyalist gunmen exposed
Why
is the US media blacking out documentary on war crimes in Afghanistan?
Trying to have it both ways - Spiderman, directed
by Sam Raimi
20 June 2002
Karachi
bomb blast highlights Pakistani regime's political crisis
Famine
intensifies in southern Africa
European
Union plan to restrict immigration
Australian
Prime Minister goes "all the way" in Washington
A
tribute to Vadim Rogovin: "A passion for historical truth"
Workers
Struggles: Europe and Africa
19 June 2002
New York Times whitewashes
US torture
A chilling case of political censorship - Anti-Bush protesters ejected from Ohio State commencement
UN
food summit ends in fiasco
Brazil:
Workers Party officials accuse Wall Street of "electoral
terrorism"
Witnesses
in Jakarta trials testify to East Timor murders
New
Zealand students walk out to support striking teachers
18 June 2002
Record abstention in second round of election - French right-wing parties consolidate large parliamentary
majority
The
political impasse facing Israel's refuseniks
US
dollar's "virtuous circle" may be turning vicious
Tyco:
US conglomerate falls amid revelations of greed and corruption
Indonesian
military continues its repression in Aceh
Workers
Struggles: The Americas
17 June 2002
Afghan war documentary charges US with mass killings
of POWs - Showings in Europe spark demands for war crimes probe
Interview with Jamie Doran, director of Massacre
at Mazar
New
Jersey appeals court upholds secret detentions
An
encounter with Lutte Ouvrière: the political physiognomy
of centrism in France
Most radical "states' rights" ruling to date US Supreme Court steps up attack on federal regulatory
powers
US
Supreme Court packed with millionaires
Record
write-downs by telecom firms
15 June 2002
US
to hold Jose Padilla indefinitely without charges
US bullying and threats at Afghanistan's loya jirga
An
interview with Robert Hue, general secretary of the French Communist
Party
Robert Hue and the putrescence of French Stalinism
- A comment on Hue's interview with the WSWS
Residents
of French CP leader's constituency speak to the WSWS
Western
intervention increases instability in Somalia
Workers
Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 June 2002
India-Pakistan
cross-border barrages exact an appalling human toll
Congressional
agency debunks charges of vandalism by Clinton White House
Britain:
Labour government targets single parents and disabled for workfare
Career
bureaucrat named president of US auto union - Gettelfinger
defended Ford in 1999 blast that killed six workers
Australian
government incites company action to bust steel strike
Letters
to the WSWS
13 June 2002
Danger
of India-Pakistan war remains high despite peace gestures
Washington
seizes on Philippines hostage deaths to extend military presence
Danish
parliament co-opts anti-immigrant program of extreme right
US
welfare bill attacks the poor
Britain's
media proclaims the virtues of imprisoning parents
Workers
Struggles: Europe & Africa
12 June 2002
Another
step towards presidential dictatorship: Bush orders US citizen
held indefinitely by military
Bush
backs Sharon's refusal to hold talks with Palestinian Authority
France:
Socialist Party feigns shock over collusion between Chirac camp
and Le Pen
IMF
demands new austerity measures in Argentina
Germany:
The social and political background to the Erfurt school shootings
Australia:
New education minister launches higher education "review"
Algeria:
Record low election turnout as Berbers organise boycott
No substitute for thoughtful character development
- This is My Moon, written and directed by Asoka Handagama
11 June 2002
Right wing wins solid majority in French legislative
election - Record abstention reflects popular disaffection
Sri
Lanka to integrate into US regional military plans
European
parliament approves anti-privacy laws
Bahrain
bans al-Jazeera news station
Australian
government suffers second setback on terror laws
Workers
Struggles: The Americas
10 June 2002
US-Indian
military ties: an incendiary factor in an unstable region
The
French Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire defends its opportunism
An
interview with Olivier Besancenot, candidate of the Ligue Communiste
Révolutionnaire
National
Front stages violent provocation in Paris
Bono
and O'Neill's African tour: low farce against a backdrop of human
tragedy
8 June 2002
Bush's
new Department of Homeland Defense: the scaffolding of a police
state
French
factory workers discuss upcoming parliamentary election
Amnesty
says US leads in human rights violations following September 11
Indonesian
military steps up repression in West Papua
US
companies slashed thousands of jobs in May
Two decades of rising inequality
- Recession intensifies social polarization in the US
Workers
Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 June 2002
Bush administration cites September 11 "failures"
to attack democratic rights - FBI gets blank check for domestic
spying
Rising
poverty and exploitation: France on the eve of the parliamentary
elections
Calls
for state of emergency in Papua New Guinea elections
Restructuring
of Australian power industry decimates regional community
Britain:
White Paper heralds dismantling of National Health Service
Insomnia, directed by Christopher
Nolan - Once again, independent of what?
6 June 2002
Vietnam
charges ex-Senator Bob Kerrey with war crimes
The
French elections: Socialist Party meeting highlights political
vacuum on the left
Sacking of Finance Minister splits government - Will Canada's Prime Minister survive?
Central
Asia gas deal underscores the real reasons for the Afghan war
Workers
Struggles: Europe and Africa
Children trapped in the Middle East conflict - Promises,
directed by B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro and Carlos Bolado
September
11 and the "war on terror": Responses to inquiries and
criticisms
5 June 2002
September
11 hearings begin: Bush, Congress seek whitewash of government
role
Tense
military standoff between India and Pakistan continues
Bush's
Moscow summit: Putin submits to Washington's "partnership"
Wall
Street broker rebuked for misleading investors
Australian
court sentences Iranian seaman on "people smuggling"
charges
Britain
and Spain at loggerheads over Gibraltar
4 June 2002
Bush
speaks at West Point: from containment to "rollback"
French
parliamentary elections: political right benefits from prostration
of the left
Papua
New Guinea faces an HIV/AIDS epidemic
Workers
Struggles: The Americas
Tilt by Scott Walker: A
remarkable album by a serious musician
3 June 2002
Berlusconi
recasts Italian state television in his own image
Sri
Lankan SEP calls for the release of all Tamil political prisoners
Death on the tracks - New
Jersey couple's suicide highlights failure of US "drug war"
Australian
government deal with Kabul to repatriate Afghan asylum seekers
An
exchange of letters on the Working Families Party
1 June 2002
Israel
tightens grip on West Bank and Gaza
Questions
over the crash of China Airlines Flight 611
Britain:
Former Mirror editor admits slandering miners' leader
Workers
Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
An
exchange on socialism and the environment
Letters
to the WSWS
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