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World Socialist Web Site Archive: March 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.

31 March 2003
Another market massacre in Baghdad
International protests against Iraq war continue over weekend
100,000 in Germany demonstrate for an immediate end to the war
Antiwar protests across Britain
Australia: Thousands rally in Melbourne protest against war
US-UK conflict over the spoils of war
Blair's proposed destruction of public services opens "second front" at home
Over 200 artists perform at London Concert for Peace

29 March 2003
Bush and Blair hold crisis summit
Blair caught lying about soldier's "execution"
BBC complains of Pentagon lies
Washington's use and abuse of the Geneva Conventions
Russia: Putin condemns Iraq war as an "error"
Anti-war protests in Turkey
Pittsburgh police lock up antiwar protesters for 30 hours
US Air Force Academy chiefs removed over rape scandal
Israel: Netanyahu's nephew victimised for refusing military service
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

28 March 2003
Washington's hypocrisy over Iraqi "war crimes"
Baghdad market massacre sheds ghastly light on nature of US invasion
Washington's dirty military intrigues in northern Iraq
WSWS/SEP to hold public meeting in Colombo against US war on Iraq
Protest in Colombo against the US war on Iraq
Democratic Party leaders embrace Bush's war of aggression
War coverage takes over as top Internet search
2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction: a static view of American life: - Richard Russo's Empire Falls
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

27 March 2003
British troops lay siege to Basra
Blair's press conference: lies and self-delusion
Iraq war: suspected war criminal at the side of Bush?
Australia: Police arrest student antiwar demonstrators
International protests continue against US war in Iraq
France: Iraq war speeds up government's austerity measures
Germany: Embezzlement scandal at telecom giant Mannesmann
Talking about not too much, unfortunately - Talk to Her, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Letters on US war against Iraq

26 March 2003
Faced with popular resistance - US prepares for slaughter in Iraq
Against political censorship and bureaucratic caprice - An open letter from the WSWS Editorial Board to the Attac movement in Berlin
Britain: Media report widespread hostility to US/UK forces in Iraq
Australian unions guarantee no ban on war materials
US Homeland Security's "Operation Liberty Shield" targets democratic rights - "Orange" terror alert designed to terrorize and intimidate
White House dictates war coverage to a pliant media - Office of Global Communications oversees press censorship
Antiwar web site shut down
International legal experts regard Iraq war as illegal
Indonesian president "strongly deplores" US attack on Iraq
War and the dismantling of the welfare state - German Chancellor Schröder attacks the socially disadvantaged
Ontario Tories' Hydro One debacle: the political issues
The ideological forebears of Washington's "neo-conservatives"
Singer Iris DeMent refuses to perform in protest against Iraq war

25 March 2003
Iraqi resistance shatters US propaganda of "liberation" war
The speech that could not be delivered: What WSWS spokesman planned to tell Berlin rally
The US media: propagandists for a criminal war
Media lies and war crimes: the instructive case of Juliu
Britain's Socialist Workers Party suppresses dissent at antiwar "People's Assembly"
Antiwar protests in France
India offers half-hearted criticism of US war on Iraq
War rally on Wall Street may be short-lived
"These the times ... this the man": an appraisal of historian Christopher Hill
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Iraq war dominates 75th Academy Awards - Filmmaker Michael Moore denounces Bush
Antiwar protest outside Oscar ceremony

24 March 2003
The US war against Iraq: the historical issues
Socialist Equality Party holds public meetings in Australia against Iraq war
Millions around the world join weekend antiwar protests
WSWS Reports
New York City
Chicago
Los Angeles
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Montreal
Toronto and Ottawa
Britain
London
Europe
Berlin
Spain
Sydney
Melbourne
Perth
New Zealand
France dispatches troops to Central African Republic

22 March 2003
A shameful day in American history - US blitzkrieg turns Baghdad into an inferno
Thousands arrested at US antiwar protests
Australian cabinet rubberstamps military commitment to Iraq war
Canadian law professors declare US-led war illegal
Britain: Trades Union Congress disowns antiwar movement
Britain: Protesters condemn military assault on Iraq
Ann Arbor, Michigan high school students speak out against war
Reports on international protests against Iraq war
Blacklist excludes antiwar celebrities from Oscar Awards broadcast
Right-wing campaign against US country music group
Russia: Izvestia changes its design and redefines its "values"
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Modes of resistance - Safe Conduct (Laissez-passer), directed by Bertrand Tavernier

21 March 2003
The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
Build an international working class movement against imperialist war
Worldwide protests against US invasion of Iraq: millions take to the streets
WSWS Reports
Germany
Frankfurt
Britain
British student strike
Toronto
New York City
Pittsburgh
The controversy over US Congressman Moran: anti-Semitism, Zionism and the Iraq war
Northern Ireland Assembly elections delayed
75 million had no health insurance in US some time during 2001-02
Australia: New South Wales election campaign reveals alienation from major parties
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Letters on Rachel Corrie, US student murdered by Israeli military

20 March 2003
The twenty lies of George W. Bush
Britain: Blair suffers second parliamentary rebellion over war vs. Iraq
Labour MPs animated by concerns over Britain's isolation
Britain: Antiwar protesters lobby Parliament
Canada balks at joining US war on Iraq
Antiwar protests grow in India
New Zealand teacher faces victimisation following antiwar demonstration
Violence increases as Nigerian elections approach
Royal Shakespeare Company on tour in the US - Midnight's Children cast members speak out on war against Iraq

19 March 2003
Chirac and Schröder reject Bush's road to war
British government encourages anti-French hysteria over Iraq
Protests in France against the war
Rachel Corrie: a victim of Israeli policy and US complicity
Killing of Rachel Corrie condemned around the world
A tribute to Rachel Corrie, US student murdered by Israeli military
Continuing civilian deaths in US operations in Afghanistan
US war drive dominates Finnish elections
Austria: New government continues austerity policy
The legacy of retiring Chinese premier: social inequality and unrest
Mounting inequality in Canada

18 March 2003
The Bush administration repudiates international law
British journalist Felicity Arbuthnot speaks on Iraq - "There is going to be a bloodbath"
Israeli military kills US student - Sharon regime implicated in premeditated murder
Washington shrugs off Israeli murder of US student in Gaza
Britain: 10,000 march in Leeds against war
US Air Force base authorizes deadly force against antiwar protesters
Czech student kills himself in protest against war and corruption
Britain: BP and Shell demand a share of the spoils of war
US boosts capacity to launch air strikes on North Korea
Cracks appear in police evidence at Toronto "riot" trial - Jury shown videos of police violence
Ex-German Stalinists in PDS back social cuts
Germany: Increase in extremist right-wing violence
Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 March 2003
The Azores summit: Bush sets deadline for US aggression against Iraq
Millions join in worldwide protests against US war with Iraq
WSWS Reports
Washington DC
Cambridge, Massachusetts
San Francisco, Los Angeles
Montreal
Toronto
Berlin, Frankfurt
Brussels
On the eve of Iraq war - America snubs new International Criminal Court
Howard confirms Canberra's commitment to a US-invasion of Iraq
In German TV documentary: - Afghan officials confirm US role in massacre of Taliban prisoners
New Zealand: Maori Labour MP delivers vicious attack on social welfare
Is there anything to the Dogme 95 group? Open Hearts, The Lawless Heart

15 March 2003
Britain: Charities warn 11 million Iraqis face starvation in event of war
Paris, Berlin and the war against Iraq
Antiwar protests in Pakistan rattle the Musharraf regime
Large antiwar rallies in Indonesia and Japan
An interview with Jacques Nikonoff, president of Attac
Turkey: AKP leader Erdogan wins by-election in Siirt
Chirac promotes French interests in Algeria
Democratic senators join Republicans to attack latest court ruling on Pledge of Allegiance
European Commission and US Customs deal - US authorities gain access to international air travellers' personal data
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Actors stage Aristophanes' Lysistrata to protest war against Iraq

14 March 2003
Britain: Blair government called to order by Washington
Blair's six-point "benchmark" for Iraq: A thinly disguised pretext for war
Faced with mass opposition to war - Mexico's President Fox leans toward US on Iraq
New York's City Council opposes Iraq war
Setback for US plan to send combat troops to the Philippines
Homeless activists' trial opens in Toronto - Canada's National Post demands "harsh" sentences for anti-poverty protesters
California budget crisis deepens
Australia: State election descends into law-and-order bidding war
Canada: Concordia University witch-hunts anti-Zionist protesters
Lead poisoning imperils thousands of Detroit's children
Professor's charges against MIT expose fraud in US missile defense program
Heribert Prantl's book "Suspicious" - Growth of police-state measures in Germany
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

13 March 2003
Wall Street Journal editorial reveals imperialist arrogance and racism behind US war drive
Essential reading on Persian Gulf War - Desert Slaughter: The Imperialist War Against Iraq
British intelligence employee arrested for leaks on US bugging of UN
Thatcher backed British firm in building "chemical weapons" plant in Iraq
Australian intelligence analyst resigns, declaring Iraq war "unjustified"
US-Australia free trade deal: a dubious payoff for joining Iraq war
Antiwar protest in Sri Lankan capital
Union bows to producers' job-cutting - Broadway musicians end strike on 'minimums'
Broadway violinist on the issues of the strike: "Jobs have been cut and music has suffered"
Letters protest expulsion of board member from Detroit architects' group

12 March 2003
Top US firms vie for post-war Iraq contracts - Billions in profits seen from seizing oil fields
In response to exposé on Pentagon war hawk's conflict of interest - Richard Perle brands journalist Seymour Hersh a "terrorist"
Israel exploits world focus on Iraq to intensify terror against Palestinians
Comment from builder of bombed pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum: Britain's record on Sudan highlights hypocrisy over Iraq
Labor for Peace meeting in Detroit: a platform for union fakers
A glimpse into the background of an Iraqi "oppositionist"
Antiwar protests follow Australian Prime Minister Howard during New Zealand visit
Actor Martin Sheen attacked for antiwar views
Australian government blackmails East Timor into ratifying oil and gas deal

11 March 2003
US, Britain intensify air strikes against Iraq - Hundreds of daily sorties in run-up to invasion
Britain: Blair's warmongering denounced by MTV audience
Naval incident exposes deep rift in Sri Lankan ruling circles
Derivatives pose "potentially lethal" threat to financial system
New York transit management raises fares
Workers Struggles: The Americas
53rd Berlin Film Festival--Part 2 - Additional Berlinale competition films
Letters on "The presidential press conference"

10 March 2003
International protests continue against US war in Iraq
Antiwar protests held across the UK
The presidential press conference
Britain's Jack Straw warns Europe not to anger the US
Israel: Netanyahu to impose austerity policies
US tortures two detainees to death in Afghanistan
Workers and graduate students end five-day strike at Yale
An exchange with a striker at the Canadian cable company Vidéotron

8 March 2003
Britain: Times leaks secret UN blueprint for post-war Iraq
Archaeologists warn of Iraq war's devastating consequences
Reports on March 5 student protests
As Iraq war looms: Australian government shuts down parliament for two weeks
308,000 jobs lost in US in February
Afghan President Karzai back in Washington--and few take notice
Leading German police officers and judges argue for the admissibility of torture
Peace T-shirt arrest sparks protests in New York
Interview with Force Ouvrière's Marc Blondel: portrait of a French trade union bureaucrat
Broadway musicians strike over "canned" music threat|
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
X-raying postwar Japan - Ikiru (1952)

7 March 2003
The Bush administration, Turkey and democracy
The Wall Street Journal spells it out: Turkey could lose "oil spoils" of war
Australian students protest in numerous cities and towns
Interviews with students at the Sydney "Books not Bombs" protest
Reports on March 5 student protests
British ex-radical berates antiwar protestors for failing to back Iraqi "democrats"
British academic accused of planning terrorism by US
Pensions under threat in France
Bush at War: a flattering portrait of a government of the political underworld
English National Opera choristers strike against job cuts
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
53rd Berlin Film Festival--Part 1 - Varied responses to the state of the world

6 March 2003
Students stage international protests against war on Iraq
Ann Arbor, Michigan
New York City
Los Angeles
Pittsburgh
Reno, Nevada
Toronto and Montreal
Sheffield, UK
Sydney
Melbourne
Perth
Bugging, bribes and bullying: US thuggery in advance of UN vote

5 March 2003
The fight against war: an open letter to students from the World Socialist Web Site
Antiwar protests in southern India
Pentagon, media agree on Iraq war censorship - Reporters to be "embedded" in military
CNN imposes new "script control"
Ireland's Bernadette Devlin McAliskey deported from the US
Detroit architects group expels member for political beliefs
Portland, Oregon schools face $28 million deficit - Teachers contract imposes unprecedented concessions
A letter and reply on the "Sraffa-based" critique of Marx

4 March 2003
Turkish parliament votes down US war plans
Who's going to be next? - Canada's prime minister denounces US "regime change" policy
Washington Post justifies jingoism on Iraq
Transcript of interview with Iraqi defector exposes White House lies on Iraqi weapons
Israeli officer court-martialled for refusing order to target civilians
Nurturing a sense of fairness and humanity - Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman, Puffin Books
Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 March 2003
Mass demonstrations in Middle East against Iraq war
Franco-African summit: the scramble for Africa intensifies
Israel: Sharon establishes new government with ultra-nationalist and fascistic parties
Bank of Japan appointment sparks new round of criticism
New Zealand police criticise US embassy over release of hoax terror letter

1 March 2003
Britain's parliament votes for war, after one third of MPs register protest
Spain: Mass demonstrations against government's right-wing policies and warmongering
Australian sailors en route to the Gulf refuse anthrax vaccine
Quebec's indépendantiste government seeking to hijack antiwar movement
German writer Ralph Giordano attacks the antiwar movement
US health care workers spurn Bush smallpox vaccination plan
As hunt for captured "contractors" continues - US escalates Colombian military intervention
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

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