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WSWS : News & Analysis : Medicine and Health
 
Cancer and Industrial Pollution

     

14 September 2004
Asbestos industry--corporate murder on a global scale
"You will know them by their trail of death"--an investigation into the asbestos industry

3 February 2004
Poisoning for profit: Book exposes US corporate cover-up of toxic pollution
Part 2

Poisoning for profit: Book exposes US corporate cover-up of toxic pollution
Part 1

8 October 2003
IBM "corporate mortality file"
Computer workers' deaths linked to cancer-causing chemicals

26 April 2003
WHO report: alarming increase in cancer rates

11 July 2002
Do cellular phones represent a health risk?

30 May 2002
Rights of British mesothelioma victims restored

21 May 2002
Britain: Asbestos ruling opens way for compensation claims

7 February 2002
Big business concerned over compensation claims from developing world

21 December 2001
Australian Alcoa workers strike over toxic emissions

11 September 2001
Sydney migrant farmers exposed to chemical risks

19 July 2001
A "modest proposal" from tobacco giant Philip Morris

5 May 2001
Cancer danger at Australian mail centre Postal workers demand inquiry and relocation

Interview with Australian postal worker:
"Hell will freeze over before I believe that these illnesses are a coincidence"

6 October 2000
US chemical pollution threatens child health and development

2 March 2000
Hundreds of residents register for class action against lead smelter pollution in Australia

15 January 2000
Alcoa Australia admits cancer dangers

15 November 1999
Australian steel company leaves deadly toxic legacy

11 November 1999
Workers and residents in Western Australia suffer health problems from Alcoa's alumina plant

1 June 1999
US study establishes link between dioxin and cancer

13 May 1999
Cancer and social life:
Review of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, by Sandra Steingraber

10 February 1999
Wollongong steelworks pumps out dangerous dioxins
Report confirms Workers Inquiry findings

3 February 1999
Health hazards in Bangladesh
15,000 children in Dhaka die every year from pollution

2 February 1999
£500 million paid for "vibration white finger"
Labour's compensation deal for British miners not all that it appears

31 July 1998
Australia: Labor seeks to block pollution documents

22 July 1998
Test case in Australia
Resident fights for release of pollution documents

3 June 1998
Australia
Workers and farmers outraged by toxic dump

7 April 1998
Industry link to leukaemia and cancer confirmed
Australian Workers Inquiry answers government challenge

21 February 1998
A telling saga of cancer and the courts

 

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Cancer and Industrial Pollution
A record of the campaign and investigation conducted in the Australian city of Wollongong from November 1996 through to the January 1998.

 

 

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