Archive: 06/2001
2001-06-01
- Alleged coup plot in Zimbabwe
- British police acquitted of wrongdoing after shooting unarmed man
- What is at stake in the fight to remove Robert Kerrey?
- Indonesian parliament votes for impeachment proceedings against the president
- Report into Australian rail disaster shows government decisions undermined safety
- Problems in Latin American cinema
2001-06-02
- Britain: Union lefts neuter opposition to privatisation of London Underground
- Sri Lankan Attorney General stalls on bail application for Tamil detainees
- Britain: Sheffield steel workers locked out following dispute over pay cuts
- Deepening social crisis underlies Republican loss of US Senate
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Striking steelworkers talk to the World Socialist Web Site
- US slowdown hits Asian economies
2001-06-04
2001-06-05
- Scottish and Welsh nationalism: self-enrichment masquerading as social reformism
- Manufacturing production slows worldwide
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- An interview with Ana Poliak, director of La fe del volcán (The Faith of the Volcano)
- Britain's general election: Labour plans to eliminate public housing
- Some Argentine films
- A revealing budget reply from Australian Labor leader
2001-06-06
- SEP (US) statement: New strategy needed to fight police violence and racism
- Bizarre royal murders plunge Nepal into political turmoil
- Deaths continue in West Australian mines
- Britain's general election: Business press and "top people's" paper call for a Labour vote
- European Parliament concludes Echelon electronic spy network does exist
- Demonstrators in Cincinnati demand end to police brutality
2001-06-07
- On Britain's general election day: workers confront the task of building their own party
- Japanese history textbook provokes sharp controversy
- El cine necesita una perspectiva nueva
- Six films
- Judge denies stay of McVeigh execution
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Welfare reports document increasing homelessness in Australia
- The British election: ruling circles remain divided over Europe
2001-06-08
- Collapse of Australia's fourth largest telco adds to growing list of corporate failures
- Britain: Opposition grows to Labour's plans to sell off National Health Service
- The McVeigh ruling--a travesty of justice
- Britain: Heavy-handed policing provokes riots in Leeds
- Collapse of Balco strike opens way for further privatisation in India
- Britain's general election: Labour secures second term, but turnout plummets to record low
- US Civil Rights Commission report: Florida officials disenfranchised thousands of voters
- African bombing verdict could presage new US attacks in Middle East and Asia
2001-06-09
- Five homeless people froze to death in US capital last winter
- Britain: Labour's second term presages social and political conflict
- US Senate Republican leader complains of "one-man coup"
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- First tentative talks between India and Pakistan in two years
- More evidence of price-gouging in California energy market
- Berlin coalition government breaks up
2001-06-11
2001-06-12
- Moves towards peace talks stall as Sri Lankan government refuses to lift ban on LTTE
- Britain's general election: Lower than average turnout in Scotland
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Japan's economy contracts as Koizumi announces restructuring plans
- British general election: Northern Ireland vote deepens instability
- Rally held in South Carolina for the "Charleston Five" longshoremen
2001-06-13
- Some limited but honest films, and the social role of pessimism
- Protests continue in Australian detention centres
- Execution Day in America
- Lionel Jospin's "Euro speech": European integration process falters
- A question on “rent-seeking”
- Letters on the McVeigh execution
- Australian state premier declares he will "cement" long-term prisoners in their cells
2001-06-14
- Strike wave rocks Zambia
- General election presages sea change in British politics
- Tercer Festival de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires—Segunda Parte
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Record low turnout in Irish referendum returns "No" vote for European Union expansion
- Khatami confirmed as president of Iran
- Indonesian police and thugs break up anti-globalisation conference
- Bank report points to growing difficulties for world economy
- Canada: business "flabbergasted" by British Columbia government's tax cut
2001-06-15
- Britain: Wyre Forest protest vote exposes limitation of single-issue politics
- Oregon welfare applicants told to dig through trash to save money
- Italy: Berlusconi forms ultra-right cabinet
- Severe shortage of casual teachers in disadvantaged Australian schools
- Letters on "Execution Day in America"
- Chinese think-tank warns of growing unrest over social inequality
2001-06-16
- Britain: Prime Minister Blair selects new cabinet for Labour's second term
- IMF insists on far-reaching market reforms in Sri Lanka
- An exhibition in memory of Australian painter John Perceval
- Oxfam report says "rigged trade" is widening gap between rich and poor countries
- Ohio executes schizophrenic death row inmate
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- An exchange of letters on Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh
2001-06-18
2001-06-19
- Britain: Labour government awards itself a large pay rise
- Nova Scotia to outlaw strikes by health care workers
- Striking Minneapolis nurses describe chronic staffing shortages
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Second US federal execution set for Tuesday morning
- France implicated in attempted coup in Central African Republic
- Bush’s European tour signals fracturing of Atlantic Alliance
- Australian university refuses to reinstate sacked academic
2001-06-20
2001-06-21
2001-06-22
2001-06-23
- Widespread protests against fuel increases in Zimbabwe
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Powell sent to rescue Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire
- Bush administration widens reach of federal death penalty
- Angry protest in Australia against Labor government changes to workers compensation
- Australian newspaper chain launches unprecedented smear against Aboriginal official
2001-06-25
2001-06-26
2001-06-27
- Workers condemn company over sulphur fumes at West Australian mine
- Lionel Jospin and Trotskyism: the debate over the French prime minister’s past
- Another rail disaster in India claims 59 lives
- How IBM helped the Nazis
- Britain: Burnley hit by riots
- The Jamie Bulger case: Release of Thompson and Venables sparks rightwing media backlash
2001-06-28
- A glitzy promotion for Murdoch’s Australian studios
- Macedonia: US troops intervene to save Albanian separatists
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Job losses in Australia continue despite claims of recovery
- Fijian regime seeks to stall two threatening court cases
- Fed interest rate cut will not halt US downturn
2001-06-29
- Salon and the decay of American liberal journalism
- Papua New Guinea government under siege after police kill three protesters
- The passing of a blues legend: John Lee Hooker
- Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky’s legacy and his place in the history of the 20th century
- Letters on the Jamie Bulger case in Britain
- Interview with the filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik
- The films of Zelimir Zilnik
2001-06-30
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