Archive: 04/2001
2001-04-02
2001-04-03
- Spy plane standoff heightens US-China tensions
- Pakistani junta arrests hundreds in crackdown on opposition parties
- Milosevic's arrest dictated by the US
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain's Conservative Party exposes its racist underbelly
- Election in Vienna: Haider's anti-Semitic agitation backfires
2001-04-04
- London Underground hit by second strike against privatisation
- Bush administration ratchets up tensions on the Korean peninsula
- Stock market fall: More than a business cycle downturn
- Britain: Prime Minister Blair abandons plans for May elections
- Comair pilots strike against low wages at US regional airlines
- A journey through Africa's civilisations
- Australian-British mining merger will lead to a new round of cost-cutting
2001-04-05
- The political dead end of Labour Zionism
- Zimbabwe economy in free-fall
- US Supreme Court narrows right to counsel in criminal cases
- Tens of thousands of Australian students affected by school closure plan
- Workers struggles: Europe & Africa
- Strikes continue throughout Israel
- Readers respond to "Ralph Nader's political olive branch to Bush"
- Bomb blasts kill 108 in industrial city in China
2001-04-06
2001-04-07
- The political dead end of Labour Zionism
- New Australian police powers overturn presumption of innocence
- Swiss Company accused of poisoning workers in South Africa
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US unemployment rate rises in March as businesses slash nearly 8,000 jobs a day
- Italy: Berlusconi fans an atmosphere of intimidation
- Tens of thousands of jobs to go under IMF-World Bank restructuring plans
- Negotiations stepped up in US spy plane confrontation with China
2001-04-09
2001-04-10
- Another Detroit shopper killed in confrontation with security guard
- European report condemns British racism and xenophobia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Japan's latest economic package merely a 'band-aid'
- Deepa Mehta calls off production of her film Water
- What's behind Canadian Prime Minister Chretien's business scandal?
- Britain: Labour government outlines the next stage in its assault on the arts
2001-04-11
- Zapatistas' march on Mexico City ends in accommodation with President Fox
- Internal Revenue report: fewer rich Americans are paying taxes
- Bomb blasts claim 11 lives at Sri Lankan concert
- Mitsubishi workers in Australian plants face uncertain future
- Marconi to cut 3,000 jobs worldwide
- Open clashes between NATO and Croat separatists in Bosnia-Hercegovina
2001-04-12
2001-04-13
2001-04-14
2001-04-16
2001-04-17
2001-04-18
2001-04-19
- Yahoo's capitulation to right-wing pressure groups sets dangerous precedent
- African "slave ship" highlights spread of child slavery
- The Oklahoma City bombing: a somber warning to the working class
- Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh: the making of a mass murderer
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Letters on the US-China conflict
- State Labor government to make further inroads into workers compensation
2001-04-20
- As Turkish economic crisis deepens, tens of thousands protest IMF and government policies
- The Summit of the Americas and the development of a genuine opposition to global capital
- Correspondence on Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Media-sponsored recount in Florida slants results to legitimize Bush election
- Britain: New cybercrime police force threatens civil liberties
- Union undermines the defence of sacked Australian academic
- Commercialisation erodes academic freedom in Australian universities
2001-04-21
- The Kremlin assumes control over the NTV oppositional television station
- Summit of the Americas: security operation turns Quebec City into an armed camp
- Nader speaks in Detroit: Green Party presidential candidate keeps silent on Bush
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- South Korean government faces backlash over police violence against Daewoo workers
- Wasted opportunities—Blow, directed by Ted Demme
- South African court case ends in climb down by drug corporations
2001-04-23
- Political tensions continue in Vanuatu after Sope government's removal
- Britain: Supermarket profits boom while food poverty increases
- Documentary on Scottsboro case distorts 1930s struggle against racism in US South
- Hypocrisy over racism in run up to British general election
- Arroyo bans film at insistence of Philippines Catholic hierarchy
- New unemployment claims at five-year high as US companies slash thousands of jobs
2001-04-24
- Missionary plane shot down in Peru: collateral damage in US "drug war"
- Mobil plans strike-breaking operation at Adelaide refinery
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Gap widens between incomes of rich and poor
- Germany's Chancellor Schröder attacks the unemployed
- Reply to a letter on socialism and economic laws
2001-04-25
- US-European economic tensions increase
- "Ulbricht's helpers": the role of Hitler's army generals in former East Germany
- Financial markets slam Australian government over its rejection of Shell takeover bid
- Norway's far-right Progress Party splits
- Sharon faces criticism after Israel's forced withdrawal from Gaza Strip
- Letters on: "Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh: the making of a mass murderer"
2001-04-26
- World Trade Organisation agreement aims at privatising public services
- Australia refuses to relinquish control over Timor Sea oil and gas
- Marcha zapatista a la Ciudad de México termina en acuerdo con el Presidente Fox
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Britain: Racism row continues in run up to general election
- Law-and-order crackdown in aftermath of Cincinnati riots
- Another round of anti-government strikes and protests in Bangladesh
2001-04-27
- A first hand report from LTTE-controlled territory in Sri Lanka
- Bush hints at war with China over Taiwan
- Executions continue as US rejects worldwide moratorium on the death penalty
- Ethiopia: Students killed in brutal police attack
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: Labour promises "baby bonds" to legitimise its attacks on welfare rights
- A dangerous deterioration in air safety in Australia
2001-04-28
- Motorola closure heads new wave of European mobile phone job losses
- Montenegro split down the middle on separation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Koizumi's election: a turning point in Japanese politics
- IMF report points to global slowdown and potential disruption
- Angry young man going nowhere
- Britain: Labour government steps up persecution of asylum seekers
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