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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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