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World Socialist Web Site Archive: April 2003

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.

30 April 2003
US troops gun down Iraqi demonstrators
Washington pushes for interim regime in order to pump Iraqi oil
A rebellion on its knees: German SPD bows to Schröder on social cutbacks
Despite government interference - Sri Lankan SEP May Day meeting to go ahead
Russia: School fires in Yakutiya and Dagestan kill 50 children
Obasanjo to be recognised despite rigged Nigerian election
Aftermath: Unanswered questions from 9/11 - An investigative documentary by Guerilla News Network (GNN) www.gnn.tv

29 April 2003
Bechtel awarded Iraq contract: War profits and the US "military-industrial complex"
New strategy needed to fight attack on New Yorkers' jobs and services
Bush defends Republican senator after attack on gays
ABC News Primetime interview: Country music group holds its own against right-wing attack
Menem, Kirchner in Argentine presidential run-off
Conventional "economic wisdom" overturned
Indonesian military court hands out light sentences for murder of Papuan leader
Netherlands coalition talks break off
Britain: Family win new inquiry into London police shooting
New York law students honor attorney framed on terrorism charges - Dean bans award at graduation ceremony
Workers Struggles: The Americas

28 April 2003
US will provide no estimate of Iraqi war casualties
Bush cancels Ottawa visit - Canada's right-wing jubilant
US bullies New Zealand prime minister into apologising over war comments
High death toll continues in China's coal mines
More evidence of police brutality produced at Toronto "riot" trial

26 April 2003
Why won't Washington allow the UN weapons inspectors into Iraq?
The German press and the Iraq war: "Might makes right"
CEO resigns over secret executive pay deal - American Airlines unions push through concessions after change at top
Austerity and repression overshadow Argentine elections
Africa hit by aid shortfall as famine worsens
WHO report: alarming increase in cancer rates
Greetings by Chris Marsden of the British Socialist Equality Party - "The war heralds a crisis of rule for British imperialism"
Greetings by Vladimir Volkov, of the Russian bureau of the WSWS International Editorial Board - "The Russian working class will once again summon up its great revolutionary traditions"
Greetings by Keith Jones of the Canadian SEP - "The working class in Canada must define itself as part of the international working class"
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 April 2003
Britain: Blair under pressure over failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
Ten years since the Waco massacre
The political lessons of the Waco massacre - Reprinted from The International Workers Bulletin
US Special Counsel Danforth whitewashes Waco massacre
SARS outbreak exposes public health decay in Toronto
Germany: Push to use military for domestic policing
Zimbabwe: General strike against fuel price rises
Greetings by Linda Tenenbaum of the Australian SEP - "The WSWS is the source of a new, international socialist perspective"
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

24 April 2003
US recruits Ba'athist police and functionaries for new Iraqi state
US provocations and Castroite repression - Washington steps up attack on Cuba over dissident trials
Australian government plans to repatriate refugees to war-torn Iraq
Turkey: Growing poverty and social inequality
Trial of Islamic cleric accused of terrorism begins in Jakarta
"War means an intensification of the exploitation of the US working class"
"We believe in the power of historically progressive ideas"
Letters to the WSWS

23 April 2003
Manufacturing the news: New York Times report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
Report from the World Socialist Web Site /Socialist Equality Party conference: "Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War" - The historic background and content of the struggle for the political independence of the working class
"The turn to authoritarian methods is a symptom of the failure of American capitalism"
Mounting attacks on free speech in US
Violent clashes in Buenos Aires on eve of election - Argentine police attack workers protest
Pentagon sabre-rattling prior to US-North Korean talks in Beijing
Air Canada using bankruptcy proceedings to gut jobs and wages
Australia: Unemployment rate climbs as major companies resume layoffs
Impassive resistance: Protest songs for today

22 April 2003
US administration plans for long-term military occupation in Iraq
What happened to Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction"?
Reports from the World Socialist Web Site /Socialist Equality Party conference: "Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War" - Contradictions and lies in the US case for war against Iraq
"Internationalism stands at the center of the history of the working class"
Jobless figures point to deepening problems for US economy
Brazil: Lula's first 100 days--austerity for the poor, tax cuts for the rich
Workers Struggles: The Americas

21 April 2003
Washington caught in "weapons of mass destruction" lies - New Iraq sanctions debate bares US-European tensions
US seizure of Baghdad provokes political crisis in France
US imposes sanctions on Pakistani nuclear firm
Leonardo da Vinci: the drawings and the public response

19 April 2003
Iraqis demand end to American occupation
The looting of Baghdad's museum and library - US government implicated in planned theft of Iraqi artistic treasures
US culture advisers resign in protest over looting of Iraqi museums
European Union summit: France, Germany seek rapprochement with US
New York City mayor presents "doomsday" budget
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

18 April 2003
A revealing glimpse of Washington's "free and democratic Iraq"
"Supporting the troops": a crisis of perspective
Massive wage cuts imposed on American Airlines workers
Mass social disaffection reflected in electoral rout of Quebec separatists
Australia: NSW government covers-up unsafe rail system
Henry Ford: American anti-Semitism and the class struggle
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

17 April 2003
SEP public meeting in Sydney - The fight against imperialist war: the socialist perspective
The German government and the Iraq war - A reply to Günter Grass
The ties that bind - Media giant headed by Bush cronies promotes Iraq war
Japan's part in the "coalition of the willing"
Image and reality: - How Britain's Blair government denies university education to working class students
Letters on the war against Iraq

16 April 2003
American troops massacre Iraqi protesters in Mosul
The sacking of Iraq's museums: US wages war against culture and history
Bush administration puts Syria in its gunsights
US prosecuted Nazi propagandists as war criminals - The Nuremberg tribunal and the role of the media
British activist in critical condition after being shot by Israeli military
Thousands face electricity cutoffs in Ontario
"To heighten our awareness of humanity" - Interview with Morris Gleitzman, author of Boy Overboard

15 April 2003
How and why the US encouraged looting in Iraq
"A rapacious colonial war": Interview with Arab journalist Said Dudin on US bombing of Al Jazeera
American "free press" in action - US networks agree to serve as Pentagon propaganda tool in Iraq
International protests against the US-led war on Iraq
US: Republicans seek to make Patriot Act provisions permanent
SARS outbreak the result of poor social conditions
IMF cuts global economic growth forecast
Belgian parliament guts "genocide law" to appease Bush administration
Workers Struggles: The Americas

14 April 2003
Worldwide protests against invasion and occupation of Iraq
WSWS Reports
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Berlin
Copenhagen and Rotterdam
Tel Aviv
Sydney
Melbourne
Newcastle
Wellington, New Zealand
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Baseball Hall of Fame cancels film ceremony in attack on antiwar performers
Israel's Histadrut trade union federation calls off planned general strike
On love and pain - Divine Intervention, a film by Elia Suleiman

12 April 2003
A spectacle of filth and reaction - New York union gangsters celebrate slaughter in Iraq
The stage-managed events in Baghdad's Firdos Square: image-making, lies and the "liberation" of Iraq
The battlefield deaths of American journalists Michael Kelly and David Bloom: some hard truths
US barbarism in Iraq - The way forward in the struggle against imperialist war
Political lessons of the war in Iraq
On the "Battle for Baghdad"
Protests in Israel against war in Iraq
US military kills 11 civilians in ongoing war in Afghanistan
Sharon authorises fresh Zionist settlement of Arab East Jerusalem
Sami Al-Arian and the attack on democratic rights in the US: an interview with Laila Al-Arian
New York City schools to ax 3,200 jobs
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 April 2003
US barbarism in Iraq - The way forward in the struggle against imperialist war
Political lessons of the war in Iraq
Putin, Schröder, Chirac to meet in St. Petersburg
Oakland residents demand accounting of police attack on antiwar protest
Sri Lankan SEP speaks in Jaffna against the Iraq war
Embedding, repression and murder: How the US military degraded journalism in Iraq
Deaths of two Spanish journalists in Iraq sparks protests
War overshadows Quebec election
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
A reader comments on Tears of the Sun: "Weapons of mass media"
Lenin, Kautsky and "ultra-imperialism"

10 April 2003
Liberation by murder: Baghdad falls to American invasion
Socialist Equality Party holds meeting against Iraq war in Colombo
US fires on Russian diplomats fleeing Baghdad
A groundswell of antiwar protests in Indonesia
US prison population--over 2 million--hits new record - 12 percent of black men in 20s and early 30s incarcerated
The campaign for Israeli divestment and the charge of anti-Semitism
A major step for European militarism - EU takes over NATO's mission in Macedonia
A policy to defend French workers' pensions and social gains
A graphic depiction of everyday life in Iraq
Letters on the war against Iraq

9 April 2003
Journalists' organizations demand inquiry - US bombs Al-Jazeera center in Baghdad
Berlin Attac stands by its act of political censorship
Australian foreign minister grovels in Washington
Family members demand answers from 9/11 commission
Provocative naval attack threatens future of Sri Lankan peace talks
Scotland: Labour fears electoral impact of antiwar sentiment
New York City mayor announces 3400 layoffs - Six firehouses, two companies to be closed
A certain sensitivity and depth - All the Real Girls, directed by David Gordon Green
Correspondence on the Blair government and the war vs. Iraq

8 April 2003
Bush, Blair haggle over Iraq war spoils
Police fire rubber bullets at anti-war protesters in California
CIA death squads operating in Iraq
Antiwar protests continue throughout Turkey
Antiwar protests in China despite police intimidation
Israel: Sharon government steps up attacks on Palestinians
War cannot resolve mounting US economic problems
Workers Struggles: The Americas

7 April 2003
US rampage through Baghdad kills thousands
Washington's colonial regime in waiting for Baghdad
US bases in Germany critical to assault on Iraq - Schröder government complicit in war
Britain: Blair government announces near doubling of budget for war vs. Iraq
More antiwar demonstrations throughout Europe
Toronto marchers denounce slaughter in Iraq
Western governments cut aid to Balkans - One millions refugees remain from 1990s wars
Letters on the war against Iraq

5 April 2003
Iraq: the digitalization of slaughter
US uses cluster bombs to spread death and destruction in Iraq
What are cluster weapons?
Australia: Hundreds of police mobilised to stop antiwar march
Another 100,000 jobs slashed as US economic slowdown deepens
Plebiscite in Chechnya held at the barrel of a gun
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
British artist refuses government money in protest against Iraq war
Letters on the firing of Peter Arnett

4 April 2003
Iraqi troops massacred from the air as US advances into Baghdad
Right-wing ideologue Peggy Noonan welcomes US casualties in Iraq - "Some good" from bloodier war, says Wall Street Journal columnist
WSWS international conference: Resolutions on war and the US social crisis, development of the World Socialist Web Site
Britain: Soldiers face court martial for refusing to fight in Iraq
AFL-CIO union federation pledges support to Iraq war
Australia: Continuing disaffection with major parties in NSW election
Casualties of Bush "anti-terror" campaign: Three deaths linked to smallpox vaccine
Samoans mount protests over restrictive New Zealand immigration law
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

3 April 2003
US forces rounding up Iraqi civilians - International condemnation of Guantanamo Bay plan
WSWS international conference: Resolutions call for political independence of working class, oppose attacks on democratic rights
World Socialist Web Site Review: April issue now available
Is the Bush administration seeking "regime change" in Canada?
Ireland: Mass opposition to war vs. Iraq
Signs of a growing antiwar movement in Malaysia
Nigerian president sends troops to restart flow of oil
Australian government prepares to further de-regulate higher education system

2 April 2003
Iraq checkpoint killings--the ugly face of imperialist war
WSWS international conference: Resolutions condemn war in Iraq, call for international unity of working class
Washington's warnings to Iran and Syria part of a broader agenda
Pentagon advisor Perle becomes first political casualty of US setbacks in Iraq
Britain: Labour's Cook and Mowlam rally round the flag
German Greens back airspace for US warplanes
Turkey: Protests against US army
Solomon Islands dragooned into the "coalition of the willing"
World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Sydney - The struggle against imperialism and war: the socialist perspective
Canadian workers under growing stress
Workers Struggles: The Americas

1 April 2003
World Socialist Web Site holds international conference on socialism and the struggle against war
Into the maelstrom: the crisis of American imperialism and the war against Iraq
The firing of Peter Arnett: right-wing straitjacket tightens on the US media
Two weeks into the Iraq war - Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
How the British bombed Iraq in the 1920s
Australian Labor leader Crean backs Iraq war
Australia: Families of Bali victims denounce Howard and the Iraq war
Spanish government to sue antiwar web site
Al-Jazeera web site under attack from pro-war hackers
30,000 antiwar protesters take to Paris streets

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