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World Socialist Web Site Archive: March 2004

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 2004
France: Government parties routed in regional elections
Israel: Sharon, facing indictment, threatens new government
The selling of Bush's Medicare plan: a case history of political gangsterism
An exchange on the Australian intervention in the Solomon Islands
Canada's new prime minister delivers more austerity
European antitrust case finds against Microsoft
WSWS-SEP conference - Discussion on the arts, democratic rights and Nader
Film-making in the service of identity politics - Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro

30 March 2004
Why won't Condoleezza Rice give open, sworn testimony on 9/11?
“Independent” candidate Ralph Nader offers alliance with Democrat Kerry
Sri Lankan election: - SEP opposes disenfranchisement of voters in LTTE areas
US shuts down anti-occupation Iraqi newspaper
US Justice Scalia's memo on Cheney case: contempt for the law and democratic rights
German reactions to Aznar defeat: Die Zeit insults Spanish voters
Workers Struggles: The Americas

29 March 2004
The Bush administration and September 11: the implications of Richard Clarke's revelations
Australia: Political uproar over Labor leader's call for troop withdrawal from Iraq
Government routs opposition parties in Malaysian elections
Israel: Sharon government creates ever widening social inequality
The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy - Part eight: The end of the Iran-Iraq war
WSWS-SEP conference - On the US election: "The two-party system is a two-headed monster"

27 March 2004
Election statement of German SEP: For the United Socialist States of Europe
Blair's visit to Libya: It's about oil, Got it?
European Union extends transport network into accession states
New Zealand: Labour government dispatches SAS troops to Afghanistan
WSWS-SEP conference - On events in Haiti: "Imperialism can only be fought as a globally unified struggle"
Australia: Transport union collaborates in destruction of tram jobs
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters from our readers

26 March 2004
Iraq's missing weapons--Bush and the media share an inside joke
Sri Lankan opposition spells out anti-working class agenda
President impeached as South Korean democracy unravels
Frame-up prosecution of Guantanamo Bay chaplain collapses
US and Israel exploit Syrian/Kurdish tensions
WSWS-SEP conference remarks - "Reality will dawn on masses of people with American speed and ferocity"--David Walsh
The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
Part seven: US financial assistance for Hussein in the 1980s
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
The science of remembering - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directed by Michel Gondry

25 March 2004
The modus operandi of a coverup - 9/11 hearings ignore political, historical issues behind terrorist attacks
How Joe Lieberman won the Democratic presidential nomination
SEP candidate in TV debate over the Sri Lankan civil war
Final public meeting for SEP election campaign in Sri Lanka
Political tensions escalate after Taiwan's disputed presidential election
Regional elections in France - A defeat for the camp of the conservative government
Haiti's US-installed prime minister hails fascist gunmen
New York mayor imposes mandatory tests for school promotion

24 March 2004
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Bill Van Auken condemns US-backed assassination of Hamas leader - "A savage act by a criminal regime"
United Nations report: Israeli forces have inflicted a "reign of terror"
Citing killing of civilians, lies: US soldier refuses to return to Iraq
The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy - Part six: Reagan administration deepens ties with Hussein
Julie Hyland from the SEP in Britain addresses WSWS-SEP conference - "Blair-Bush alliance is an expression of the reemergence of naked imperialism and colonialism"
Germany: Trial against former SS member Herbertus Bikker abandoned
Britain: The beating of Delbo King highlights police racism and brutality
Intriguing new discoveries on Mars

23 March 2004
Israeli assassination of Hamas leader: a provocation, incitement and prelude to stepped-up aggression
Former terrorism aide charges Bush manufactured case for Iraq war
US-backed military offensive in Pakistan costs scores of lives
Australian pilots aborted US-assigned bombing raids during Iraq war
Peter Schwarz from the PSG in Germany addresses WSWS-SEP conference - "Our party intervenes in the European election on an internationalist socialist program"
The Islamic headscarf ban: a French teacher's view
Austria: Social democrats form coalition in Carinthia with Haider
Slain Irish soldier's mother condemns Iraq war
Workers Struggles: The Americas
American militarism through a somewhat paranoid prism - Spartan, written and directed by David Mamet

22 March 2004
Hundreds of thousands join in international protests against Iraq war
Demonstrations in more than 45 countries
New York City
US West Coast and Michigan
Canada
Rome
Spain
Interviews from Madrid
London
Germany
Australia and New Zealand
Iraqi journalists protest US killing of two Al Arabiya reporters
13,000 jobs to be cut in merger of giant banks - Bank of America-FleetBoston deal highlights criminalization of US corporate elite
Richard Phillips from the SEP in Australia addresses WSWS-SEP conference - "The great issues before workers require global perspective"
A good deal to chew, and not all of it edible: Brecht and Mother Courage

20 March 2004
SEP candidate Bill Van Auken on Bush's war anniversary speech: "Threadbare lies in defense of a criminal war"
One year since the US invasion of Iraq
World Socialist Web Site Review: March-May 2004 issue now available
One year since the murder of Rachel Corrie by Israeli military - Wall Street Journal marks anniversary with lies and slander
Spain: How Aznar's lies paved the way for his defeat
US-led occupation force targets Haiti's slums
Lead contamination of water supply in US capital
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
In the absence of an explanation: the World Trade Center memorial site
More letters on "Why has The Passion of the Christ evoked such a popular response in America?"

19 March 2004
One year since the US invasion of Iraq
Socialist Equality Party election statement - The socialist alternative in the Sri Lankan elections
Socialist Equality Party vice-presidential candidate Jim Lawrence addresses WSWS-SEP conference - “The working class must develop a political strategy to defend jobs and living standards”
The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy - Part five: Donald Rumsfeld and the Washington-Saddam Hussein connection
Australia: Spanish defeat exposes vulnerability of Howard government
IMF managing director nominated for German president - Who is Horst Köhler?
Britain: Freed Guantanamo Bay detainees detail beatings and abuse
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

18 March 2004
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Bill Van Auken addresses WSWS-SEP conference - A voice for the international working class in the 2004 US elections
A split in the LTTE heightens danger of war in Sri Lanka
Britain: Coroner rejects inquest into death of Dr. David Kelly
Zimbabwe government arrests coup plotters
Germany: Hamburg state elections--SPD in free fall
54th Berlin Film Festival--Part 4 - German films at the Berlin Film Festival: Confused emotions
Letters from our readers

17 March 2004
Opening report to WSWS-Socialist Equality Party conference - The political strategy of the SEP in the 2004 US elections
The diplomacy of Imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy - Part four: Iraq in the 1970s and the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War
Britain: Truth suppressed about pensions crisis
Australia: "MedicarePlus" aims to kill off Medicare
Australia's largest bank shaken by speculative trading losses
An exchange on "Forbes report: Billionaires' wealth grew by 36 percent in last year"

16 March 2004
Spain: Aznar routed as a result of mass anti-war sentiment
The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy - Part three: The Iraqi Baath Party, from its origins to political power
Political volatility surrounds Taiwanese election
India reacts with dismay to recent US legislation on outsourcing
Drive for coal produces more deaths in China's mines
France: Teachers strike against government cutbacks
Workers Struggles: The Americas

15 March 2004
World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party hold conference on "The 2004 US Election: the Case for a Socialist Alternative"
US trade gap highlights rising debt burden
Families come to US to demand release of Guantanamo detainees
Guantanamo Bay detainee returned to Spain
An antidote to government lies about David Hicks - The President versus David Hicks, directed by Curtis Levy and Bentley Dean
Filmmaker speaks with WSWS about Guantanamo Bay and David Hicks

13 March 2004
Madrid terror bombings strengthen right-wing on eve of Spanish elections
Iraq's illegitimate interim constitution
The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy - Part two: The Iraqi nationalist movements, the permanent revolution, and the Cold War
Right-wing comes to power in Greece
US: Weirton Steel cancels health care for 10,000 retirees
Bush administration cancels maintenance of Hubble Space Telescope
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

12 March 2004
Terrorist atrocity in Madrid kills at least 192 people
The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy - Part one: Monarchical Iraq and the growth of social antagonisms
Sri Lankan SEP replies to an appeal from ruling UNF
Blair: Scrap international law vs. aggressive war
On the rise and fall of Martha Stewart
Japan's fragile economic recovery
Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

11 March 2004
Haiti: US Marines expand operations as Washington assembles puppet regime
Iraqis tortured and killed by British troops - Part Two
France: researchers protest Raffarin government with mass resignations
Record number of "independents" stand in Sri Lankan election
Indonesia: Fire in state-owned gold mine claims 13 lives
Libya confirms it "bought peace" with the US
The Mannesmann trial: German business and union bureaucracy in the dock

10 March 2004
Report details abuse, torture of prisoners by US forces in Afghanistan
Iraqis tortured and killed by British troops
Britain: Detainees returning from Guantanamo face arrest and surveillance
Australian government gets "carte blanche" to outlaw organisations
Indian Supreme Court grants trial in Gujarat riot case
54th Berlin Film Festival--Part 3 - New films by Ken Loach, John Boorman and Hans Petter Moland
Letters on The Passion of the Christ

9 March 2004
Passage of California austerity measures shows dead end of two-party system
Forbes report: Billionaires' wealth grew by 36 percent in last year
SEP candidates speak on Sri Lankan TV
"Bye-bye Aristide, Chavez you're next!"- Venezuela: Right-wing opposition clamours for another US-backed coup
Britain: Kurds on hunger strike against deportation
Minnesota transit workers strike against assault on benefits
Workers Struggles: The Americas
"McKinsey Is Coming" - A feeble warning to the German business and political establishment by playwright Rolf Hochhuth

8 March 2004
Did the FBI conceal wider right-wing involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing?
Bush campaign ads provoke protests from families of September 11 victims
The NSSP, the "peace process" and the Sri Lankan elections
A pretence of democracy for the 2004 Indonesian elections
Britain: The Royal Mail's 300-year monopoly ends

6 March 2004
Haiti: Thousands march in Port-au-Prince against US-backed coup
US job growth at a standstill
Another violation of ethics law by US Supreme Court Justice Scalia
Britain: 20 years since the year-long miners strike - Part Two
Israel: Mass unemployment deepens internal social divisions
Australia: Maternity units forced to close
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

5 March 2004
The division of labor behind the US-made coup in Haiti
Who benefits from the Karbala and Baghdad bombings?
Australian investigation into Iraqi WMD - Howard government exonerated despite proof of lies
Britain: 20 years since the year-long miners' strike - Part One
Latvian government collapses
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Why has The Passion of the Christ evoked such a popular response in America? - The Passion of the Christ, directed by Mel Gibson
Letters from our readers

4 March 2004
US political elite engineers a Kerry-Bush election
India's Hindu chauvinist-led coalition government calls early election
A tragedy born of poverty and unemployment - Fired transit worker kills two supervisors at New York City rail yard
German Chancellor Schröder comes to the aid of Bush
No such thing as full-time retirement - Australian government moves to raise retirement age and end aged pensions
What's behind the attack on pensions and social security?
Slovakia: Social cuts provoke violent clashes
Canadian judge calls for investigation into Britain's "dirty war" in Northern Ireland

3 March 2004
As Marines occupy Port-au-Prince: - Reign of terror follows US-backed coup in Haiti
UN endorses US plans for an unelected Iraqi government
Israel: Mordechai Vanunu to be placed under supervision but not arrest
South Africa: Farmworkers murdered by employers
Australia's richest man profits from Solomon Islands intervention
ETA ceasefire in Catalonia
Sincere, but avoiding difficult questions - City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles

2 March 2004
Socialist Equality Party to stand in Sri Lankan elections
Sri Lankan SEP to hold election meeting in Colombo
US Marines occupy Haitian capital amid charges Aristide was kidnapped
Democratic frontrunner declares he will be stronger "war president" than Bush
Britain: Protests mount over tax rises
Union surrenders benefits, wages in sellout of California grocery strike
US auto union calls off parts strike, accepts multi-tier contract
Workers Struggles: The Americas
76th Academy Awards ceremony: for the most part, torpor and self-satisfaction
A survivor against the odds--noted New Zealand writer Janet Frame dies

1 March 2004
The overthrow of Haiti's Aristide: a coup made in the USA
US launches huge military operation to capture bin Laden
Russia: Putin sacks government on eve of presidential elections
Canberra dictates terms in Solomon Islands pay dispute
Uganda: Hundreds of civilians massacred by Lord's Resistance Army

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