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World Socialist Web Site Archive: May 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 May 2003 
US government lied about Iraqi weapons to justify war
Britain: Blair caught in lies over Iraqi "WMDs"
Imperialism and Iraq: Lessons from the past - Part Three
New Dutch government plans drastic cuts
Homeless man robbed, killed and set on fire in Sydney, Australia
Canada: Lessons of the Vidéotron strike
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
The plight of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution: two films - Shanghai Ghetto and Nowhere in Africa

30 May 2003 
Faced with growing resistance - US prepares military repression in Iraq
Imperialism and Iraq: Lessons from the past - Part Two
The German Social Democratic Party: 140 years
SARS and the "openness" of the Beijing leadership
Britain: Iranian refugee mutilates himself to protest conditions facing asylum seekers
Australia: State Labor government and media attack Anti-Discrimination Board
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Andy Goldsworthy and the limits of working with nature - Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, written and directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer

29 May 2003 
Washington turns to "regime change" in Iran
Israel: Sharon has not changed his spots
Currency upheaval could have major consequences
Imperialism and Iraq: Lessons from the past - Part One
What lies behind the recent explosions in Chechnya?
Another US war crime: the use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq
Washington involved in drafting statements designed to split Europe prior to Iraq war

28 May 2003 
The politics of plunder: - Congress adopts Bush tax cut for the wealthy
Giving $100,000 to every US millionaire
Pretext for war exposed - CIA-backed exile was source for Times "scoops" on Iraqi arms program
Japanese bank bailout reveals deepening economic crisis
Philippine president renews her pledge of loyalty in Washington
Socialisation of losses, privatisation of profits - Metaleurop: The ugly face of European capitalism
Shareholders reject GlaxoSmithKline CEO's golden parachute: the reality behind the hyperbole
Court ruling on fare hikes exposes New York's class divide

27 May 2003 
The resignation of Ari Fleischer: Bush's official liar goes for the gold
Algerian earthquake disaster provokes wave of anger
Germany: Party of Democratic Socialism gripped by crisis
Nearly one million left homeless by Sri Lankan floods
Has the Australian government been lying to Iranian asylum seekers?
Sixty years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

26 May 2003
The UN vote on Iraq: the political issues
A million workers march against pension cuts in France
Howard government blocks release of Australians from Guantanamo Bay
Zambia: AIDS reduces life expectancy to 33 years
San Francisco International Film Festival--Part 3 - A growing seriousness
Letters to the WSWS

24 May 2003
A political strategy to fight the attack on workers' pensions in France
World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party public conference in Sydney, Australia - Imperialism and the war in Iraq: a socialist strategy for the international working class
Wolfowitz in Ankara: US urges military to overrule Turkish government
France leads clamour for Congo intervention
Mass unemployment in Israel, but austerity plan approved
Canada: Budget cuts played pivotal role in SARS crisis
Unemployment hits 8 percent in Oregon
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
An exchange with a US war correspondent

23 May 2003
UN legal fig leaf for illegal war:: Paris, Berlin, Moscow sanction US occupation of Iraq
The historical roots of neoconservatism: a reply to a slanderous attack on Trotskyism
BBC documentary exposes Pentagon lies: The staged rescue of Private Jessica Lynch
Britain: New Statesman publishes government report on illegality of Iraq war
Hecklers shout down journalist's anti-war speech at college commencement
Bitter Sri Lankan power struggle flares up over lotteries board
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
San Francisco International Film Festival--Part 2: But there is a great deal more to say
More letters on the New York Times and the firing of Jayson Blair

22 May 2003
Indonesia launches "shock and awe" military offensive in Aceh
Australian government announces new military force for domestic use
Germany's "Agenda 2010" - 10,000 demonstrate in Berlin against attack on social conditions
As unionists demonstrate: - New policy needed to fight Schröder's social cuts
Britain: Labour extends antiwar witch-hunt to Tam Dalyell
Britain: Sunday Times "Rich List" notes fall in combined wealth of super-rich
Decline of US dollar roils Canada's elite

21 May 2003
Dollar decline accelerates as US treasurer abandons "strong" currency policy
US budget and tax debate - Bush, Congress wrangle over how best to fatten the rich
Britain: Labour Party suspends MP George Galloway for antiwar stance
Top level US visit strengthens strategic ties with India
Belgium: Liberals and Social Democrats to renew coalition without the Greens
Move to revise communications regulations - FCC green light for US media monopolization
San Francisco International Film Festival--Part 1 - A modest proposal: a cinema of ideas

20 May 2003
Saudi Arabia, Morocco - Terror bombings bare US crisis in Middle East
Belgium: government seeks to block war crimes case against US General Tommy Franks
War crimes case against General Franks: Interview with Belgian lawyer Jan Fermon
Worsening global economic problems see G8 divisions deepen
Over 200 dead in worst Sri Lankan floods in 60 years
Community colleges in US facing massive cutbacks - Michigan highlights assault on education
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Politics and the theatre: two plays in Toronto
Interview with Dean Gabourie, director of Awake and Sing!

19 May 2003
New proconsul in Baghdad tightens US grip over Iraq
Australian companies rush to profit from Iraqi devastation
France renews ties with Malagasy President Ravalomanana
US and Britain in plans for "road map" for Zimbabwe
Britain: Foundation hospitals mean health inequality is official government policy

17 May 2003
No Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?--US media scoundrel shrugs his shoulders
Public meetings of the World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party - Lessons of the Iraq War: the tasks of the European working class
Republicans enlisted Department of Homeland Security in Texas political fight
Israel: Sharon's rejection of US "road map" has powerful support in Washington
Spain: Aznar's Popular Party faces electoral rout
Germany: WSWS editorial board member participates in forum on Iraq war
McCarthy transcripts released in Washington
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Simplification of a complex historic figure - Ned Kelly, directed by Gregor Jordan, screenplay by John Michael McDonagh from Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe

16 May 2003
Britain: Straw admits may never find Iraqi WMD
Australia: Labor reignites governor general scandal
18 migrant workers die in Texas - Victims of a brutal border policy
Schröder's policy of closing his eyes to reality - The German government seeks closer relations with the US
Thai toy factory fire: 10 years after the world's worst industrial inferno
Earthquake in Turkey sparks violent protests
Israel: Government threatens Histadrut as general strike continues
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

15 May 2003
A provocation against democratic rights: Texas Republicans order state police to seize Democratic legislators
The issues in the Texas redistricting
Britain: What Clare Short's resignation says about New Labour
Indonesia makes a small but significant purchase in Moscow
Israel: Security services arrest 15 leaders of Islamic Movement
Canada: Mistrial declared in trumped-up case against anti-poverty activists
Buenos Aires 5th International Festival of Independent Cinema--Part 4 - An Argentine tragedy

14 May 2003
Threat of greater repression - Shakeup in US occupation as Iraqi society disintegrates
Millions strike demonstrate in France to defend pension rights
Two Chinese workers sentenced to harsh prison terms
US Senate panel backs development of "usable" nuclear weapons
Australian budget advances "free market" agenda
Bush Omaha visit: company rescinds payless workday
Malaria's appalling death toll in sub-Saharan Africa
A moving portrayal of the tragedy suffered by young Russians - Lilja4Ever, directed by Lukas Moodysson
On the New York Times and the firing of Jayson Blair

13 May 2003
After the Iraq war - Editorial of the magazine Gleichheit
SEP holds May Day meeting in Colombo against imperialist war
Jayson Blair and Judith Miller - Journalistic ethics, hypocrisy and war at the New York Times
Indonesian military about to launch a major offensive in Aceh
The science and sociology of SARS - Part 2: Science, internationalism and the profit motive
France: For an international movement to defend pension rights
Extended unemployment benefits being cut in US
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Buenos Aires 5th International Festival of Independent Cinema-Part 3 - Structures of evasion

12 May 2003
US tables a transparent plan for plundering Iraqi oil
US Fed acknowledges deflation threat
The firing of Jayson Blair - Panic and hysteria reigns at the New York Times
The science and sociology of SARS - Part 1: Viruses and the nature of present outbreak
Austria's biggest strike in 50 years
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Episodes from the class struggle in Britain -Just Before the Rain and Coal Not Dole
Letters to the WSWS

10 May 2003
South Carolina Democratic debate: a spectacle of political prostration
The first US presidential contest: the money primary
American war German realpolitik and international law - A press roundup
Pakistan to release Australian Jack Thomas after five months jail without charge
Britain: Parliament backs plans to privatise health care
Music industry turns against file sharing customers
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters on the Iraq war

9 May 2003
The rape of Iraq
Looting of nuclear sites poses deadly threat in Iraq
Australian prime minister instructs UN: Legality of Iraq war no longer an issue
William Bennett: the secret high-stakes gambling life of a former drug "czar"
Berlusconi attacks independence of the Italian judiciary
America blocks UN operation in Ivory Coast conflict
Colorado disc jockeys suspended for protesting Dixie Chicks' ban
Thousands dead as a result of Thailand's "war on drugs"
Buenos Aires 5th International Festival of Independent Cinema--Part 2
- Films on the Middle East, texture in cinema and certain elusive figures

8 May 2003
Israel: US "road map" offers nothing to the Palestinians but continued repression
As US viceroy denies crisis - WHO warns of cholera epidemic in Iraq
Anti-US protest reveals depth of Afghanistan's social and political crisis
May Day at the pleasure park - German trade unions organise a symbolic protest
Union leader attacked during May Day demonstration in Spain
Tornadoes wreak havoc across four US states
Bush's new tax rules target the working poor
An evening with Nederlands Dans Theatre II - The challenges confronting contemporary modern dance

7 May 2003
War, oligarchy and the political lie
The attorney general's legal fictions - Cover-up for German complicity in Iraq war
Indonesian presidential decree hands more power to military in Papua
ACLU files lawsuit challenging "no-fly" list
Record number of US children in extreme poverty
Human Genome Project completed: an extraordinary scientific achievement
Buenos Aires 5th International Festival of Independent Cinema--Part 1 - The two paths

6 May 2003
Despite US denials, cluster bombs continue to claim lives in Iraq
The Columbia shuttle tragedy: Lessons of the Challenger inquiry
Stevens report on Northern Ireland - A glimpse into Britain's dirty war on the IRA
Charges in fatal contamination case - Canadian utility bosses scapegoats for Ontario Tory cutbacks
Papua New Guinea reacts angrily to call for direct Australian intervention
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Sale of Breton archives breaks up legacy of Surrealist movement

5 May 2003
US invasion produces human catastrophe in Iraq
Bush administration expands the infrastructure of a police state
Portland man indicted on terrorism charges
US rejects North Korean proposals for defusing confrontation
Israel: Histadrut trade union halts general strike against austerity plan

3 May 2003
Summit of Four in Brussels - Schröder and Chirac pledge their allegiance to Washington
Bush taps antiterrorism advisor as Iraq pro-consul - The shaping of a repressive colonial regime
Britain: Media attack on MP George Galloway aimed at smearing antiwar protests
SARS epidemic triggers political crisis in China
Britain: Significant losses for Labour in local elections
US jobless rate jumped to 6 percent in April
Letters on the Iraq war and the US media
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

2 May 2003
Militarist speech on the carrier Lincoln - Bush promises unending war in Iraq and internationally
Media bosses admit pro-war bias in coverage of Iraq
San Francisco newspaper fires antiwar reporter
India temporarily tones down its sabre rattling against Pakistan
Australian government attacks Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
The politics of tactical manoeuvre - Interview with Paolo Ferrero of Italy's Communist Refoundation Party
Flaunting rottenness: Plateforme, by Michel Houellebecq
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

1 May 2003
Second massacre in Iraqi town - A protracted, dirty war of colonial occupation
French concessions on Iraq met by US threats
Another criminal violation of human rights - US admits jailing children at Guantanamo Bay
Spanish government plan for drastic punishment of war opponents
LTTE protests over exclusion from US aid conference
Turkey's bloody 1977 May Day still clouded in mystery
A worthless attack on Goya - The Rape of Creativity by Jake and Dinos Chapman

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