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World Socialist Web Site Archive: March 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.

March 2002

30 March 2002
Israeli military lays siege to Arafat's headquarters
Zimbabwe election used to pressure African leaders
Ontario Tories open door to 60-hour workweek
Indian ruling coalition in disarray over communal campaign
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
The view from the oasis - Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair

29 March 2002
US Mideast initiative faces collapse as Israel prepares offensive
The expulsion of the Palestinians and the origins of Land Day
Why the epidemic of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church?
Washington presides over a political and social disaster in Afghanistan
Bush expands "voluntary interviews" of Middle Eastern immigrants
A letter from a Chinese reader on workers' protests
Letters to the WSWS

28 March 2002
Bush's recipe for Latin America: austerity, repression and more US militarism
Campaign finance reform: A liberal fig leaf for the decay of American democracy
High-level US delegation issues veiled threat to Sri Lankan separatists
Britain: Sentences announced in "Donnygate" Labour Party corruption case
Official report into boy's death in rural Australia covers up underlying causes
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

27 March 2002
Defense reveals government conspiracy to deny John Walker Lindh access to counsel
The Milosevic trial: Damning admissions by former British Liberal Party leader Lord Ashdown
War danger grows on Korean peninsula
US economic recovery predicted but "imbalances" worsen
Correspondence on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic
Letters on US militarism

26 March 2002
Millions demonstrate in Rome against Berlusconi
Amnesty International report condemns US treatment of immigrant detainees
Interviews with supporters of Rabih Haddad - Muslim cleric the target of Bush "anti-terror" dragnet
Canada: Workers and unemployed protest outside Tory conference
Jakarta corruption trial aimed at reassuring foreign investors
Britain: Shock for millions of workers who rely on private pensions
Workers Struggles: the Americas
The 74th Academy Awards: of race, war and a lack of backbone

25 March 2002
Shock therapy for Argentina: 75,000 jobs disappear in one month
EU summit in Barcelona: silence over US war plans against Iraq
Victim of anti-Clinton witch-hunt denounces independent counsel's report on Lewinsky affair - An open letter from Julie Hiatt Steele
Leaked spy intercepts prove Australian complicity in Timor massacre
South Korean president threatens to sack striking power workers

23 March 2002
Question mark over the future of Australian prime minister
UK police mount political campaign against government reforms
Working class demonstrations spread in northern China
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Hollywood's ideological war - Two films: Collateral Damage and We Were Soldiers
Correspondence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

22 March 2002
The Wall Street Journal and the Pickering nomination: Is the Republican right preparing for violence?
World Socialist Web Site Review: April issue out now
Organization of American States human rights panel opposes Bush policy on POWs
The makings of a protracted colonial war in Afghanistan
Yugoslavia: Serbian Assembly restores partial autonomy to Vojvodina
Pan Am 103/Lockerbie: Appeal against guilty verdict thrown out
An unwelcome trend in British filmmaking - Last Orders, written and directed by Fred Schepisi

21 March 2002
Bush administration bases case against John Walker Lindh on coerced statements
The Pickering nomination: political warfare flares in Washington
Milosevic trial characterised by ineptitude and evasions
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Tolkien and the flight from modern life - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring directed by Peter Jackson
Behind the making of The Lord of the Rings
Letters on "German press turns anti-American"
Letters on the Andrea Yates case

20 March 2002
The CIA's international dirty war - US oversees abduction, torture, execution of alleged terrorists
Britain agrees to send marines to Afghanistan
Former Black Panther Jamil Al-Amin sentenced to life in prison
Europe on rations: the Afghan war and the dilemma of European capitalism
Amnesty International criticises Australia's human rights record on refugees
A revealing decision by the European Union economic summit
PBS documentary probes initial public offering swindles of 1990s

19 March 2002
Furor over visas for 911 hijackers - Bush sacks immigration officials: Who is accountable, and who is not
Massive protest against European Union summit in Barcelona
Europe on rations: the Afghan war and the dilemma of European capitalism - Part 1
Socialist Equality Party campaign frees two Tamil detainees in Sri Lanka
British Columbia government pressing forward with class war agenda
33,000 public sector workers strike in Ontario
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Machinery and the origins of surplus value

18 March 2002
British threats follow Mugabe's re-election in Zimbabwe
Bush's press conference: the questions not asked, the answers not given
60,000 German soldiers engaged in military interventions world-wide
Official figures show: Japan in worst postwar recession
Obituary - Leading Australian documentary filmmaker dies - Robin Anderson (1950-2002)

16 March 2002
Israel: US seeks to curb Sharon to further war drive against Iraq
The murder conviction of Andrea Yates: a tragic case, a barbaric verdict
The World Economic Crisis: 1991-2001 - Part 3
Trapped in Moscow: Exile and Stalinist Persecution, by Reinhard Müller - Stalin's persecution of German communists
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters on "US plans widespread use of nuclear weapons in war: Bush orders Pentagon to target seven nations for attack"
A letter on the detention of refugees in Australia

15 March 2002
White House defends nuclear war plans with sophistries and saber-rattling
US right wing discusses "nuking Mecca"
US "training exercise" in the Philippines sets stage for broader military operations
"Carlucci" bleeped from HBO version of Lumumba - Ex-CIA official threatened lawsuit
The World Economic Crisis: 1991-2001 - Part 2
Bush welfare plan: a draconian attack on the poor
Scotland: Gas monopoly faces killing charge over death of family

14 March 2002
US Vice President Cheney's tour gets off to rocky start
The World Economic Crisis: 1991-2001 - Part 1
British citizen executed in US despite international protests
Famine in Malawi as IMF policies bite
New government hangs by a thread in South Australia
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

13 March 2002
German press turns anti-American - Editorial of Gleichheit, published by the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America - Part 4
Zimbabwe, Fiji and the hypocrisy of British Commonwealth leaders
Ireland: government attack on abortion rights defeated in referendum
Graduate student instructors walk out at University of Michigan
The loss of objectivity - Storytelling, written and directed by Todd Solondz
Letter from an Australian Telstra worker on the death of a 10-year-old boy

12 March 2002
Bush marks six months since September 11 with war threats draped in platitudes
The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America - Part 3
Australian economic "boom": a widening gap between hype and reality
Egyptian economy facing major crisis
Workers Struggles: The Americas
A heartfelt but limited work - Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Philip Noyce
Letters on "US massacre in eastern Afghanistan"

11 March 2002
US plans widespread use of nuclear weapons in war - Bush orders Pentagon to target seven nations for attack
Who is the US military slaughtering in eastern Afghanistan?
Australian, British and US lawyers challenge detention of Guantanamo Bay prisoners
Former Black Panther convicted in Atlanta, Georgia murder trial
Britain: Strike vote by London teachers

9 March 2002
Sharon's bloody offensive plunges Israel into turmoil
British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares his hand on Zimbabwe
Gangsterism in the guise of diplomacy - US flaunts scheme to use weapons inspections as pretext for war vs. Iraq
The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America - Part 2
US retailer Kmart cuts 22,000 jobs
Unions isolate striking South Korean power workers
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 March 2002
The New York Times and Bush's "shadow government" - How the media covers up the threat to democratic rights
Steel decision threatens to spark trade war
The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America - Part 1
Hundreds attend funeral of Sri Lankan Trotskyist
Condolences on the death of Sabaratnam Rasendran
Britain: Government and civil service at loggerheads
Egypt: Building collapse claims dozens of lives

7 March 2002
US massacre in eastern Afghanistan
Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Rome against Berlusconi government
Thumbs down on latest Japanese economic package
Sri Lankan fishermen pressured to end protests during ceasefire talks
"I told you I was ill," Spike Milligan (1918-2002)
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Charlie Musselwhite—Music true to real life - A review of bluesman's new CD: "One Night In America"

6 March 2002
Further delay in US congressional investigation into September 11 attacks
Appeals court overturns New York police torture convictions
Pressure builds on Jakarta to toe the line on Bush's "war on terrorism"
Australian state government bows to media witchhunt on teenage paint sniffing
It didn't happen here: Why socialism failed in the United States - The failure of reformism, not socialism
Trisha Brown Dance Company: Just scratching the surface - The legacy of Postmodernism in contemporary dance
Correspondence on Serbian nationalism and Vojvodina

5 March 2002
India's ruling party abetted communal carnage in Gujarat
Greenspan knew share market boom was a financial "bubble"
Global downturn threatens Chinese economic growth
Sudanese government continues bombing of south
Britain: Big business ignores government pleas to "get green"
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters to the WSWS

4 March 2002
The shadow of dictatorship: Bush established secret government after September 11
Indian state election losses intensify tensions in ruling coalition
Unprecedented military security for Commonwealth meeting in Australia
70,000 workers lose health benefits at bankrupt US steelmaker
Letters to the WSWS on "The Killing of Daniel Pearl"

2 March 2002
ABC News' "Missed Opportunities" evades central questions of government role in September 11 attacks
British government faces legal action over Camp X-Ray detainees
Sabaratnam Rasendran 1947--2002 - Veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies in Colombo
The Hague Tribunal: Milosevic charges NATO with war crimes - Part Three
Scandal surrounding Australia's Governor-General threatens a "constitutional earthquake"
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
The 52nd Berlin Film Festival - Part 3

1 March 2002
US troops deployed to former Soviet republic of Georgia
Bush visit to Japan cements closer ties against China
The Hague Tribunal: Milosevic charges NATO with war crimes - Part Two
German court authorizes police dragnets
Madagascar: Opposition leader declares himself president
Dozens of companies bid to run Philadelphia public schools

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