Archive: 01/2001
2001-01-03
- Sweden strives to deepen EU penetration of Baltic states
- China pushes into Central Asia for oil and gas
- Britain: Company faces corporate manslaughter charges over death of student
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Bomb blasts in Indonesia: a sign of escalating political instability
- Millions in US rely on food banks to meet basic needs
- Six hundred years since the birth of Johannes Gutenberg—inventor of the printing press
2001-01-04
- Tons of contaminated poultry sold for human consumption in Britain
- Cyclone wreaks havoc across northern Sri Lanka
- Unions settle with Detroit News and Free Press: lessons of another AFL-CIO debacle
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- A fresh lesson: The end of the Detroit newspaper strike and the crisis of the labor movement
- Conservative candidate elected in Ghana: President Jerry Rawlings to step down
- Fijian military government defies another High Court order
- Letters on the aftermath of the US election crisis
2001-01-05
- New Serbian regime faces major difficulties
- Yahoo bans sale of Nazi memorabilia from its Internet auctions
- Australian asylum seekers protest death of fellow detainee
- Surprise cut in US interest rates highlights alarm over sinking economy
- Bush cabinet choices set the stage for mass social, political struggles
- Bangladesh's worst ferry disaster claims nearly 200 lives
2001-01-06
- Billionaire tycoon the likely winner in Thailand's election
- An interview with Paul Cox, director of Innocence: "Filmmakers have a duty to speak out against the injustices in the world"
- The death of former New York Mayor John Lindsay and the passing of liberalism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- WSWS replies to letters on US election crisis
- Unicef report highlights situation of children in E. Europe and the former Soviet Union: The terrible price of capitalist restoration
- Canadian Alliance in disarray
2001-01-08
- Unhealthy conditions in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone factories
- 12 immigrant workers killed at Spanish railway crossing
- Who is the Wall Street Journal's Robert Bartley?
- Discussion intensifies in Japan over remilitarisation
- House fire in Delaware claims the lives of 11 members of one family
- Congressional Democrats ratify Bush election coup in US
2001-01-09
- Depleted uranium responsible for cancer among Europe's Balkan troops
- Must we celebrate Sade?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Mumia Abu-Jamal supporter Clark Kissinger remains in federal detention
- Jesse Jackson drops protest against Bush presidency
- India's entire northern electricity grid collapses for 12 hours
- Haiti's wealthy pin hopes on Bush
- South African provinces gripped by cholera epidemic
2001-01-10
- Australian court endorses Murdoch takeover of rugby league
- The Congo: How and why the West organised Lumumba's assassination
- The privatisation of the London Underground
- George Gittoes' World Diary reinforces media clichés
- US set to execute 13 death row inmates this month
- An exchange on a socialist approach to the protection of the environment
- Two boys convicted of Jamie Bulger killing win anonymity ruling
2001-01-11
- Thai billionaire capitalises on anti-IMF sentiment to win national elections
- Israel: report highlights deteriorating social conditions
- The German PDS joins the political campaign to limit immigration
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Kirsty MacColl: a life in song
- Pay-for-performance reintroduced into Australian schools
2001-01-12
- Taiwan and China act to open direct contacts and ease tensions
- Britain: new email spy laws lead to sackings
- Israeli right wing demands no compromise with the Palestinians
- Another result of deregulation: natural gas prices soar in the US
- A comment on Quills and the Marquis de Sade
- Australian airline ignores critical maintenance checks
2001-01-13
- Bush preparing to axe vital medical research into stem cells
- Conclusions about the media in general, the liberal press in particular
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- A tragedy waiting to happen: alarm system non-existent in Australian backpacker hostel fire
- Letters and replies on the US economy
- A passing comment from Clinton: the US election was stolen
2001-01-15
- The Wall Street Journal demands Clinton's indictment
- US families forced off welfare face struggle for basic necessities
- Mounting evidence of Philippine president's involvement in shady dealings
- Australian immigration minister peddles anti-refugee propaganda in the Middle East
- Demonstrations support occupation of Czech state television station
2001-01-16
- Sri Lankan SEP renews its call for the release of the Hatton six
- Hundreds die in El Salvador earthquake
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- London's Hackney Council to impose £58m cuts package
- Longshoremen involved in protest face felony charges in South Carolina
- The sad life and death of a Cuban poet
- Mass layoffs hit US auto industry
2001-01-17
- Massive police buildup in preparation for protests at Bush inauguration
- Union ends STP strike with workers still owed millions of dollars
- Northern Ireland Sentence Review Commission agrees to continue detaining Loyalist leader
- UN agency reports more than 800 million hungry worldwide
- Germany: two more ministers resign from Schröder cabinet
- Nothing to kick about
2001-01-18
2001-01-19
- New security measures turn Sri Lanka's plantation areas into a virtual war zone
- On the death of Ernst Schwarz (1957-2001)
- Tense standoff in the Philippines after Estrada impeachment trial comes to a halt
- Stop the war against Iraq!
- Ten years since the Gulf War—US and Britain insist sanctions continue against Iraq
- South Australian police raid bookshop and seize Mapplethorpe's Pictures
- The Ashcroft nomination: a new stage in the attack on democratic rights in the United States
2001-01-20
- Washington inaugural celebrations: corporate America welcomes Bush
- Strike looms over safety on London Underground following privatisation
- West Australian nurses issue challenge to government's health cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mounting layoffs in US point to onset of recession
- Australian Federal Court decision sets the stage for further spread of non-union contracts
2001-01-22
2001-01-23
2001-01-24
- "The election shows that we are not a true democracy and that our vote does not count"
- An exchange with a Teamsters official on the end of the Detroit newspaper strike
- Bush commitment to US National Missile Defense causes international protests
- Continuities and discontinuities in art
- Bush bans funds for international family planning groups that support abortion
2001-01-25
- The death of Georgy Gongadze—Ukrainian state implicated in journalist's murder
- Clinton refuses to pardon Leonard Peltier
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Will George W. Bush launch a new US war of aggression against Iraq?
- Funeral for Ernst Schwarz held in Dortmund, Germany
- The Congo: Unanswered questions surround Kabila's assassination
- Messages of condolence for Ernst Schwarz
2001-01-26
- Mounting evidence points to poisonous legacy of NATO's depleted uranium munitions
- DNA evidence exonerates two Texas inmates imprisoned since 1988
- Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson resigns from British government a second time
- "Economy-class syndrome" a major health threat
- Letters to the WSWS
- DaimlerChrysler to cut thousands of US auto jobs
2001-01-27
- US central bank chief boosts Bush tax cut for the wealthy
- Britain: Privatisation of hospital cleaning is costing lives
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India's most powerful earthquake in 50 years claims at least 2,000 lives
- The legacy of Hans-Olaf Henkel: portrait of a German industrial leader
- Child abuse in Britain: Young girl's death highlights cutbacks in social services
2001-01-29
2001-01-30
2001-01-31
- Philippine military and big business join hands to oust Estrada
- Northern Ireland: Eyewitness accounts of 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacre indict British army
- US-backed "Plan Colombia" to escalate bloody civil war
- Detroit Chrysler workers react to company plans to slash 26,000 jobs
- Germany utilises BSE crisis to implement EU plans to restructure agriculture
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