Archive: 05/2001
2001-05-01
- More reactionary rulings from US Supreme Court
- London Mayor Ken Livingstone joins witchhunt of May Day protestors
- Reply to Nick Beams
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Group of Seven meeting calls a "ceasefire" but interest rate "war" not over
- Britain's Foot and Mouth epidemic raises wider public health concerns
- An exchange on socialism and human nature
- Ban on "Revolutionary May Day demonstration" in Berlin
2001-05-02
- International Committee of the Fourth International's May Day greetings to the workers of Valea Jiului, Romania
- Rubber bullets, tear gas and mass arrests at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City
- Indonesian president's future increasingly in doubt
- Goya's private albums: A unique exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London
- European Union expands eastward and reinforces its borders
- Bonanza for US top executives continues despite falling corporate profits
- School massacre scare backfires on Australian state government
2001-05-03
- Britain: Labour government announces small rise in minimum wage
- Hundreds arrested as US Navy bombs Vieques, Puerto Rico
- Sri Lankan government to privatise remaining factories in the war-torn north
- Recording industry giants vie for Napster user base
- Governments resort to police violence against international May Day protests
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- The University of Michigan Law School case and affirmative action: the politics of race
- Affirmative action and the right to education: a socialist response
2001-05-04
- German SPD politician warns Turkish immigrants: learn German or face deportation
- Racism row continues to embroil Britain's Conservatives
- War in Sierra Leone and Guinea spreads to Liberia
- Robert Kerrey and the bloody legacy of Vietnam
- Iranian director protests harassment by US immigration officials
- Inequality, poverty and family stress undermine child health in Australia
- AIDS becomes a serious health problem in India
2001-05-05
- Postal workers demand inquiry and relocation
- "Hell will freeze over before I believe that these illnesses are a coincidence"
- Britain: Thousands of tons of condemned meat "laundered" for human consumption
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US suffers largest job loss since February 1991
- Jazz drummer Billy Higgins dies
- US regulatory commission sanctions profit-gouging by energy suppliers to California
- Former Klansman convicted in deadly 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Alabama church
2001-05-07
- Philippine president declares "state of rebellion" and cracks down on opposition
- OECD cuts growth forecast
- Italy's Berlusconi and his "House of Freedoms"—a new dimension in the development of the right wing in Europe
- Democrats and Republicans whip up anti-immigrant racism in Suffolk County, New York
- BSE / "Mad Cow Disease" spreading in Spain
2001-05-08
- Western Australian Ombudsman's report highlights deteriorating prison conditions
- Largest recorded outbreak of TB in a British school
- Sri Lankan government puts peace talks back on the agenda
- Proposed cutbacks at the Smithsonian research center in Virginia provoke protests by scientists
- Microsoft launches attack on open source software
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
- Misdemeanor charges for Cincinnati cop who killed unarmed black teenager
2001-05-09
- Change of leadership in Vietnam signals a move to accelerate market reform
- Union calls off strike against privatisation of London's Underground rail network
- Britain: General election set for June 7
- Education programs for disabled students under attack in Michigan
- Letters on "Robert Kerrey and the bloody legacy of Vietnam"
- Thousands rally against cutbacks at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2001-05-10
- UN human rights vote fuels US-Europe conflict
- Sri Lankan Muslims protest violent attacks by racist thugs
- US-Australian military exercise rehearses for gunboat diplomacy in the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Police killing sparks protests in New Jersey
- Twelve die in South African gold mine disaster
- Algeria shaken by riots
2001-05-11
2001-05-12
- Turkey: PKK offers its services to Finance Minister Dervis and the military
- Australian jury finds passive smoking causes cancer in landmark legal case
- Macedonia "on the brink of the abyss"
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Arms decommissioning central to election in Northern Ireland
- One hundred and thirty people die in Ghana football disaster
2001-05-14
2001-05-15
- Divisive union campaign raises vital questions for Australian workers
- Tory defector imposed as Labour candidate in British general election
- Military officer reveals Australian responsibility for Timor massacre
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Right-wing media mogul set to head new Italian government
- Fresh revelations on secret British terror organisation in Northern Ireland
- Letters to the WSWS
2001-05-16
- Basque nationalists win regional elections
- Draft report on Hatfield train crash in Britain leaked to press
- India embraces Bush and national missile defence project
- US Fed cuts rates, citing decline in investment
- The Carlyle Group: ex-government officials cash in
- The Bush cabinet: a government of the financial oligarchy
- Filmmaking needs a new perspective
2001-05-17
- A failure to confront reality
- Britain's general election: The disenfranchisement of the working class and the need for a new socialist party
- British Conservatives' proposed tax cut backfires
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Robert Kerrey defends Vietnam War in meeting with New School students
- Australian companies shed thousands of jobs as economy deteriorates
- Canadian Alliance splits
2001-05-18
- Un intercambio acerca de la planificación socialista
- Britain: Deputy Prime Minister Prescott punches protester
- History has not ended, or retreated
- The case of Robert Kerrey: how the US media covered up Vietnam War atrocity story
- Indonesian president running out of options as third parliamentary censure approaches
- Australian doctors call for urgent review of government health funding
- A reply on globalisation and the significance of the Russian Revolution
- British Columbia elections: social democrats pave reaction's road to power
2001-05-19
- Philippine president fails to obtain a clear mandate in national elections
- Britain's general election: Labour Manifesto sets out privatisation of health and education
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italy: Berlusconi to name "post-fascist" Fini as deputy prime minister
- International condemnation of Israeli settlements dominates events in Middle East
- Flemish Interior Minister exposed as fascist SS supporter
- Intuition and consciousness in filmmaking
2001-05-21
2001-05-22
- German trade union officials attack striking Lufthansa pilots
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Koizumi's agenda for Japan: economic austerity and rightwing nationalism
- Australian government forced to call royal commission into major insurance collapse
- Under international pressure, Haitian president Aristide embraces his right-wing opponents
- Britain's general election: Labour and Conservatives vie over which has toughest asylum policy
2001-05-23
- Sharon calls ceasefire but says Israeli settlements will continue
- Papua New Guinea government obtains shaky weapons disposal pact in Bougainville
- Theodore Olson: a record of political reaction and provocation
- Democrats retreat on nomination of anti-Clinton conspirator Theodore Olson
- Letters to the WSWS
- Australian government budget: a last-ditch attempt to avoid election defeat
- Britain's general election: Labour pressures media to censor election coverage
2001-05-24
- Sri Lankan government cracks down on student protest over university privatisation
- The SEP's attitude to the Socialist Alliance in Australia
- South Africa: Report cites faulty fan in mine explosion
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Government report reveals growing social inequality in Germany
- University of Cincinnati sociologists describe conditions that triggered recent riots
- The Cincinnati riots and the class divide in America
2001-05-25
- Pennsylvanian mayor indicted for murder of black woman during civil rights era
- US Senate approves record tax cut for the wealthy
- Defection costs Republicans control of the US Senate
- Indonesian military chiefs defy president's plans for a state of emergency
- Scotland: Asylum seekers hounded and beaten
- Louisiana resolution brands Charles Darwin a racist
- Rural revolts in China reveal widespread disaffection over tax burdens
- Britain's general election: Unions desperate to ensure industrial peace for polling day
2001-05-26
- Australian government refuses to release its own youth report
- Somali refugees drowned after being forced off boat at gunpoint
- Ancient city dated as oldest in Americas
- Why the government's rush to execute Timothy McVeigh?
- Britain: London judge expresses sympathy for vigilante-style killing
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Economic slowdown in euro zone
- Californians hit by sharp rise in electricity rates
2001-05-28
- Trade Off and Pester Power: Radicalism's dead end critique of globalisation
- An overview of the 12th Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London
- Florida ballot review shows voters preferred Gore
- Abandoned search for Tasmanian fishermen reveals impact of cost-cutting
- Australian unions give go-ahead for closure of major biscuit plant in Melbourne
- More victims of US immigration policy: 14 Mexicans die in Arizona Desert
- The effects of the AIDS epidemic on Southern Africa's children
2001-05-29
- Britain's general election: The Socialist Alliance and Socialist Labour Party—No alternative to Blair's New Labour
- Pennsylvania governor withholds funds to train death penalty defense lawyers
- Britain: Oldham riots sparked by deliberate cultivation of racism
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Japan: Mounting economic contradictions confront Koizumi
- Indian state elections reveal hostility to the ruling BJP
- Five political films
2001-05-30
- Two decades after the burning down of the Jaffna library in Sri Lanka
- Israeli government launches inquiry into worst-ever civil disaster
- Hundreds of jobs axed after takeover of Australian cut-price airline
- Austria's right-wing Freedom Party riven by disputes
- France: Wave of mass redundancies throws Jospin government into crisis
- New report details corruption of New York's municipal workers union
- Letters and a reply on Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love
2001-05-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Britain: Kent County Council creates its own private police force
- Iran: political crisis overshadows presidential campaign
- Reports highlight psychological suffering of detained refugees in Australia
- Injustice: A film by Ken Fero
- Artistic integrity at the "big end of town"
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