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World Socialist Web Site Archive: October 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 October 2003
Florida Governor Jeb Bush intervenes in "right-to-die" case: A cruel pandering to the religious right
US growth rate climbs but economic problems remain
Mahathir’s anti-Semitic comments: fallout from Washington’s “war on terrorism”
US: Bush education proposals target community college students
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
Letters on "Criminalizing the victim--New York City: Children die in house fire, mother charged for being at work"
Letters on "The WSWS and the California campaign of Peter Camejo: letters from the Green Party and a reply"

30 October 2003
Bush press conference: the bigger the crisis, the bigger the lies
Huge losses for Social Democrats in German state election
Britain: Labour expels antiwar MP Galloway
ASEAN's problems on display at Bali summit
Australia: Grieving families lead march against construction site deaths
Azerbaijani presidential election fixed with the approval of Bush and Putin
Vancouver International Film Festival--Part 4 - Groping their way toward power and wealth

29 October 2003
Democrats debate in Detroit: No alternative to Bush's program of war and reaction
17,000 violent deaths in Detroit--the social meaning of a horrifying statistic
Bush's Philippines model for Iraqi "democracy"
The spectre of Diana returns to haunt Britain's royals
Hunger deepens in the Northwest US
Police murder French journalist in Ivory Coast
Tongan monarchy defies mass protests and tightens media controls

28 October 2003
US shaken by barrage of attacks from Iraqi resistance
Israel steps up its war against the Palestinians
Two interesting speeches by Australia's new Governor-General
Italy: 10-million-strong general strike protests pension cuts
Prolonged protest by unemployed Sri Lankan graduates
Criminalizing the victim - New York City: Children die in house fire, mother charged for being at work
New York City teachers rally against attacks on education
Workers Struggles: The Americas

27 October 2003
Tens of thousands in Washington demand end to US occupation of Iraq
Families of soldiers condemn Bush's war
Anti-war protests in Canada
Bush's Madrid shakedown nets $13 billion in pledges
Spain: Thousands protest outside Iraq donors' conference
Australian firms plunder Papua New Guinea
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 October 2003
Unprecedented security cocoon for Bush's Australian visit
Protests greet Bush in Australia
Hands off Iraq! Withdraw all US forces from the Middle East now! Build an antiwar movement based on the international working class!
How Sri Lanka's "lefts" prop up the rightwing UNF government
Child trafficking in eastern Europe: A trade in human misery
State elections in Upper Austria and Tyrol - Austrian voters reject government's attacks on welfare state
Britain awash with debt
Letters from our readers

24 October 2003
Hands off Iraq! Withdraw all US forces from the Middle East now! Build an antiwar movement based on the international working class!
Sri Lankan government confronts growing opposition
Stars & Stripes poll reveals: Growing anger among US troops in Iraq
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003: Republicans drum up support from religious right
Deepening poverty and inequality in Northern Ireland
British Columbia: Tens of thousands may be cut off welfare next April
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Vancouver International Film Festival--Part 3 - Art and the facts of daily life

23 October 2003
White House bans news coverage of coffins returning from Iraq
Washington warns EU over NATO unity
German government fleeces pensioners and the unemployed
SEP candidate John Christopher Burton speaks with picketing supermarket workers in Los Angeles
Police spy uncovered in California peace group
Sri Lankan government corporatises state rail network
Australia: Howard government announces draconian new industrial legislation
Britain: Planned disposal of defunct US ships poses environmental hazard

22 October 2003
US Republican right defends religious zealot general
The WSWS and the California campaign of Peter Camejo: letters from the Green Party and a reply
Los Angeles Times publishes letter from John Christopher Burton, SEP candidate in California recall election
Sri Lankan unions shut down health strike
Germany: SEP publishing house at Frankfurt Book Fair - Arbeiterpresse Verlag presents Voronsky's Art as the Cognition of Life
Canada: Food bank use continues to rise
Two derailments on London Underground in 48 hours
National strike closes universities across Australia

21 October 2003
China rejects US demands for currency float
Bolivia: Mass upheavals topple US-backed president
California: Schwarzenegger transition team reveals right-wing agenda
Britain: Blair outlines punitive law-and-order campaign
Human rights group condemns Indonesia's "hidden war" in Aceh
German government, opposition and employers propose drastic pension cuts
Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 October 2003
Germany: Brandenburg intelligence service slanders the World Socialist Web Site
A highly political decision - Indian deputy prime minister exonerated over destruction of Ayodhya mosque
Unions isolate California supermarket strikers
Australia: Protesters face jail over Opera House antiwar slogan
Vancouver International Film Festival--Part 2 - Critical and intelligent voices, not squeezed lemons
Letters from our readers

18 October 2003
UN vote on Iraq: Paris, Berlin and Moscow bow before Bush
As Bush lies, Iraq seethes against US occupation
Bomb attack against US convoy in Gaza as US-Israeli aggression continues
When baseball turns ugly--Chicago Cubs fan vilified following ballpark incident
Strike wave envelops Greece
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

17 October 2003
26 years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977)
The New York Times's "liberal" argument for colonial occupation
John Christopher Burton, socialist candidate in California recall election, declares solidarity with supermarket and transit strikers
Nearly 90 killed by troops - Bush administration backs massacres in Bolivia
UN report details Israel's Human Rights abuses in Occupied Territories
The social cost of Slovakia's "investors paradise"
Opposition builds in Western Australia to state Labor government health cuts
Former weapons inspector exposes "Big Lie" of Iraqi WMD

16 October 2003
Letters from US troops exposed as Pentagon fraud
US army bulldozes Iraqi farms
A rare media exposure of Bush administration lies about Iraq - Television review: PBS's Frontline, "Truth, War and Consequences"
Britain: Blair was responsible for naming whistleblower Kelly
Political victimisation of SEP member in Sri Lanka
Australian officials detain French student of African descent
Vancouver International Film Festival--Part 1 - Toward a painstaking analysis of what actually is

15 October 2003
Bitter recriminations in Bush camp - Pat Robertson calls for nuking the State Department
Mechanics' strike shuts down mass transit in Los Angeles
Sharon stirs up conflict in pursuit of Greater Israel policy
Australia: Reshuffle underscores deepening pressure on Howard government
US raises stakes over New Zealand's foreign policy "differences"
Roger Sylvester: Jury rules London police unlawfully killed black man
Letters from our readers

14 October 2003
Rome conference on EU constitution reveals intra-European conflicts
26 reported killed - Bolivian troops massacre strikers
Israel arms subs with nuclear weapons: an escalation of US-backed militarism
Jim Cairns dead at 89 - The rise and decline of an Australian Labor reformist
Spain: Baltasar Garzón--The people's judge as defender of the capitalist state - Part 2
Workers Struggles: The Americas
The texture of life in a few instances - The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States 1990-2003
More letters on Leni Riefenstahl

13 October 2003
UN agency warns of "anxious time" for world economy
California supermarket chains mount strikebreaking drive against grocery workers
US pressure continues over value of Chinese currency
Spain: Baltasar Garzón--the people's judge as defender of the capitalist state
Kucinich, Sharpton and the WSWS: letters and a reply

11 October 2003
UN estimate for rebuilding Iraq half that of Bush's--where's the money going?
One year after the Bali bombing - The Australian government and the "war on terrorism"
Schröder's "Agenda 2010" and his offensive against the German population
Spain: Federico Garcia Lorca's body to be exhumed - Victim of Franco's Falangist militia
Harmondsworth Detention Centre - Britain: Report documents brutality against asylum-seekers
Pennsylvania budget crisis threatens to bankrupt school districts
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

10 October 2003
California recall results - Socialist Equality candidate John Burton wins 5,915 votes
Turkey sends troops to Iraq
More questions on the deaths and illnesses of American soldiers
17 deaths not included in the US military pneumonia investigation
Portuguese government criticised for failure to tackle forest fires
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Letters from our readers

9 October 2003
Lessons of the Democratic debacle in California
The CIA leak inquiry and the politics of criminality
Bush's AIDS appointee spells out corporate agenda
Germany: The Supreme Court headscarf ruling and the myth of religious "neutrality"
Australia: Alarming decline in apprenticeship training
Law students' forum reviews Australia's "shrinking democracy"
A letter from Roger Ebert on Leni Riefenstahl

8 October 2003
Socialist Equality candidate's statement on recall of California governor: "Democratic debacle vindicates fight to build SEP as the socialist alternative"
Britain: Former minister Robin Cook says Blair lied over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
Is the US plotting to murder Venezuela's president?
Schröder, Bush and the "Agenda 2010"
Guantanamo Bay detainee's family speaks with WSWS - "Why isn't the US military up on trial for terrorism?"
New Zealand imprisons former Algerian parliamentarian as suspected "terrorist"
IBM "corporate mortality file" - Computer workers' deaths linked to cancer-causing chemicals
Britain: Report highlights widespread child poverty
History, program and the "unity of the left": an exchange of letters

7 October 2003
SEP meeting addresses political issues facing workers in California recall election
Speech to SEP meeting in Los Angeles - "The answer to the crisis is a socialist political movement to fight for power"
The bombing of Syria: a new eruption of US-Israeli aggression
Thousands of poor expelled from Bangkok for APEC summit
Air France/KLM merger heralds further rationalisations and job cuts
Thousands rally in New York for immigrant rights
Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 October 2003
California recall election: media push for Schwarzenegger leaves Democrats in disarray
A modest proposal for colonialism
Britain: Labour Party conference prostrate before Blair
CIA-MI6 planned to assassinate Syrian leaders in 1957

4 October 2003
WMD report: more proof Iraq war was based on lies
Pentagon calls up 10,000 National Guard for combat duty in Iraq
California recall election: SEP candidate John Christopher Burton calls for "no" vote on Proposition 54
Countdown to Poland's entry into the European Union
Britain: New inquest into police shooting of Harry Stanley
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

3 October 2003
The CIA leak case through the lens of the Wall Street Journal
World Socialist Web Site Review: October 2003 issue now available
Malaysian government detains opponents without trial for another two years
One in six lacks health coverage - Number of US uninsured rises to 43.6 million in 2002
Baltic states vote reluctantly to join European Union
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Whispering retreat - Lost in Translation, written and directed by Sofia Coppola
The John Christopher Burton campaign and the fight for socialist policies

2 October 2003
As Washington readies "reconstruction" - Iraqis riot over unemployment corruption
California Governor Gray Davis and the politics of law and order
Spain: Thousands demonstrate against Iraq occupation
South Africa: report reveals dire conditions facing farm workers
Germany deports 50,000 immigrants a year
Australian government launches new offensive against university staff and students
Ontario Liberals preparing for power by shifting further right
Obituary - Johnny Cash: a timeless voice of country music

1 October 2003
Bush White House faces criminal investigation over Iraq smear campaign
California recall: socialist candidate campaigns on college campuses
US poverty up sharply for second year in a row
Thailand sends troops to bolster US occupation of Iraq
Liberia faced with continuing instability as UN agrees 15,000 troops
New union contracts clear way for US automakers to cut 50,000 jobs
John Christopher Burton replies to letters on the death penalty, parole and the California prison system
An exchange over New Zealand's military intervention in the Solomon Islands

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