Archive: 02/2001
2001-02-01
- Preparations for peace talks drag out as Sri Lankan government continues military offensive
- Spain: Thousands march in support of immigrant hunger strikers
- Workers strike against mass layoffs at European GM plants
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East
- Ericsson outsourcing deal threatens 11,000 jobs worldwide
- US economy shows weakest growth in five years
- Marxism and the AIDS dissidents: Part 2—Scientific objectivity
2001-02-02
- The film The Princess and the Warrior directed by Tom Tykwer
- Northern Ireland: High Court overturns ban on Sinn Fein ministers attending cross-border talks
- Western powers provide a pittance Indian earthquake victims
- US will not prosecute New York police in Diallo killing
- Bush backs "faith-based" programs: holy water for the social crisis in America
- Growing concern about "Mad Cow Disease" in the US
- Marxism and the AIDS dissidents: Part 3—Drug therapies, statistical studies and the pharmaceutical corporations
2001-02-03
- Former UAW President Leonard Woodcock dies
- An interview with German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff
- Australian government responds to corporate criticism with Innovation Action Plan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Africa: Refugee crisis in Guinea produces a humanitarian disaster
- The School Report: Why Britain's Schools are Failing — a book by Nick Davies
2001-02-05
- Pinochet appeals against arrest order in Chile
- Censure of President Wahid reveals shifting political alliances in Indonesia
- Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote
- Britain: Corus announce over 6,000 steel jobs to go
- Quebec premier's resignation intensifies crisis within separatist movement
2001-02-06
- A response to the interview with filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff
- Britain: Paddington rail crash hero sacked
- Mounting criticism of the Indian government as earthquake toll rises
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- China pushes North Korea to accelerate free market policies
- The world historical implications of the political crisis in the United States
- Letters to the WSWS
2001-02-07
- London Underground hit by drivers' strike
- Former Teamsters President Ron Carey indicted for perjury
- Australia pushes Papua New Guinea to accept Bougainville secession vote
- Munich security conference shows mutual distrust inside NATO
- Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie verdict politically motivated
- The Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie verdict: What the judges said
- The Cuban missile crisis in historical perspective: some thoughts on the film Thirteen Days
2001-02-08
2001-02-09
- Disaffection and volatility dominate West Australian election
- South Africa: Volkswagen blocks sacked workers from returning
- New Directions faction takes control of New York City transit union
- Latest survey shows wealth and poverty side-by-side across Britain
- Correspondence on the Jamie Bulger killing
- Australian central bank cites US slowdown in interest rate cut
2001-02-10
- Sri Lankan rupee plunges following currency free float
- Spanish government honours Franco's fascists
- Another workplace shooting in the US: five dead at Chicago Navistar plant
- Whither the Coen Brothers?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian companies axe thousands of jobs amid signs of downturn
2001-02-12
2001-02-13
- Mass protests against racist murder in Norway
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Strikes and demonstrations in France against raising the retirement age
- Bush's political honeymoon: why the Democrats are rallying behind an illegitimate government
- California energy crisis continues as state moves to bail out utility firms
- Bush bans strike by Northwest Airlines mechanics
2001-02-14
2001-02-15
- Another shock election result in Australia
- US Court rejects Napster appeal
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Letters to the WSWS
- Le Carré's new novel questions his previous Cold War certainties
- Britain calls for revision of Geneva Convention on asylum
- New UN sanctions worsen plight of Afghanistan's people
2001-02-16
- Media and business back Australian Labor Party in Queensland state election
- Kansas board of education restores teaching of evolution
- Japanese economy continues to stagnate
- Labour and Likud seek national government as Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensifies
- German Green party leaders suppress protests against transport of nuclear waste
2001-02-17
- Tanzania: Brutal government clampdown on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba
- Australian professor warns that poor will have to pay more for drugs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US-British air strikes on Baghdad: Bush draws first blood
- In praise of classical guitarists Alexandre Lagoya and Ida Presti
- Canadian big business rattled by deteriorating economic situation
- Corporate appointee undermines Australian drug advisory committee
2001-02-19
2001-02-20
- New Thai cabinet loaded with businessmen, bureaucrats and ex-generals
- Commando-style police raid in Sydney designed to intimidate youth
- Child victims of the industrial revolution
- US and Britain isolated over Baghdad raid
- Germany: new law allows more extensive government monitoring of phone calls and email
2001-02-21
- US Navy to be sued for depleted uranium use on Caribbean island
- The USS Greeneville and the arrogance of power
- US scandal over Marc Rich pardon: big money politics and right-wing provocation
- France seeks to block asylum for over 900 Kurdish "boat people"
- Australian unions demand service fees from non-members
- Workers fight union-busting at a Canadian metal fabricating plant
- Only self -important
2001-02-22
- Auto workers vote for strike action at Britain's GM-Vauxhall plants
- Britain: New anti-terror law threatens basic democratic rights
- US embassy bombing case: conspiracy trial perverts judicial system
- New York City homelessness at highest level in more than a decade
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- A miserable gruel: European films at this year's Berlin Film Festival
- Pressure for Indian government intervention against Left Front in West Bengal
2001-02-23
- Corruption row sparks financial storm in Turkey
- Conservative parties routed in another Australian election
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Human rights groups condemn Israel for assassinations and indiscriminate killing
- De-Stalinisation and the German Democratic Republic
- Letters to the WSWS
- Congo peace talks revived after Kabila's assassination
2001-02-24
- Store guards kill another worker in Detroit
- Napster offers record companies a new commercial arrangement
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Submarine collision provokes anger and anti-US sentiment in Japan
- Israel's Sharon sets out militarist agenda in advance of talks with Colin Powell
- Ontario, Canada: Union scuttles Falconbridge strike
- South Korean government orders massive police assault on Daewoo workers
- Bush's first press conference: a craven media welcomes a political impostor
- More works from the Berlin film festival
2001-02-26
- Papua New Guinea government overturns minimum pay rise
- Pakistani regime shuts newspaper and charges editors with blasphemy
- Why was Stanley Kramer so unfashionable at the time of his death?
- Canada rescinds ban on Brazilian beef
- The Jamie Bulger case: Press seek to thwart release of Robert Thompson
- Union membership in US at lowest level in 60 years
2001-02-27
- Navy report confirms: civilians distracted crew of US sub
- Sri Lankan government postpones local elections for 12 months
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany seeks to normalise relations with Iran
- Racial killings in Borneo: a symptom of deep-seated social tensions
- Germany: Violence against foreigners increases by 40 percent
- Germany: State attorney launches investigation of Foreign Minister Fischer
2001-02-28
- Australian academic dismissed for opposing falling university standards
- AOL-Time Warner threatens children running Harry Potter fan sites
- Mozambique flood disaster returns
- Scientists release a map of the human genome
- US executive compensation rose 16 percent in 2000
- Blair-Bush meeting highlights growing rift between US and Europe
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