Archive: 04/2002
2002-04-01
- Britain: Veteran Labour MP challenges destruction of Lockerbie evidence
- US prosecution brief defends brutal treatment of American Taliban POW
- A blow to Australian Prime Minister: State Liberal leader deposed
- Jakarta’s flood victims face bureaucratic indifference and corruption
- Israel and Washington debate murder of Arafat, destruction of Palestinian Authority
2002-04-02
- Pentagon rules for military tribunals violate constitutional rights
- Britain: Socialist Alliance vows political loyalty to the trade union bureaucracy
- Was not Thomas Mann one of the great humanists?
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Indian union leaders open the door for tough austerity measures in Kerala
- Thousands rally in Michigan against Israeli attacks on Palestinians
- Australia: Official report covers up deaths of disabled children
2002-04-03
- Britain’s Guardian: An apologia for imperialist intervention in Zimbabwe
- Billy Wilder, filmmaker and satirist, dead at 95
- New Zealand teachers strike after rejecting pay deal
- Judge shows pro-government bias at hearing for John Walker Lindh
- Thousands retrenched, yet Australian government claims jobs revival
- US civil liberties group challenges closed deportation hearings for detained Muslim cleric
- Shootings in France reveal explosive social tensions
2002-04-04
- Why Social Democrat Ludwig Stiegler has infuriated Germany’s Christian Democrats and Liberals
- Britain: Maxwell brothers escape disqualification proceedings
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Chronology of a pogrom: How Sharon, US prepared assault on Palestinians
- Democracy and the "dictatorship of the proletariat"
- US executive pay soars again in 2001
- Older workers hardest hit by unemployment in Australia
2002-04-05
- A peculiar economic recovery in the US
- Los Angeles school bus drivers strike
- Thousands of Israeli workers and youth demonstrate against Sharon’s war
- International protests against assault on Palestinian Authority
- What is notable by its absence
- US judge orders open hearings for detained Muslim cleric
- Letters on "Why the epidemic of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church?"
- Bush administration moves to gut Clean Air standards
2002-04-06
- Britain: Blair meets Bush amidst a growing governmental crisis
- University of Manitoba student newspaper apologizes for plagiarism of WSWS articles
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- South Korean unions scuttle power workers strike
- Israel carries out violent attacks on journalists
- Bush "peace initiative" prepares ground for wider war against Arab masses
- Kabul police raids aimed at intimidating political opposition
2002-04-08
2002-04-09
- Australian mining giant leaves environmental disaster in Papua New Guinea
- Britain: Top directors avoid pensions crisis
- Inside and outside the family
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- With Washington’s tacit support, Sharon steps up West Bank assault
- Indian government rams repressive laws through parliament
- German Social Democrats and Greens pass xenophobic immigration law
2002-04-10
- The Pickering nomination and right-wing threats of violence
- Thousands march in New York and New Jersey against Israeli aggression
- Israeli protestors speak out against Sharon’s war
- Indonesian generals display contempt for East Timor trials
- German opposition parties launch xenophobic campaign for national elections
- Australian "counter-terrorism" laws threaten fundamental democratic rights
2002-04-11
- US indicts Sheik Rahman’s lawyer, escalating government attack on democratic rights
- The Queen Mother’s funeral and the campaign to save the British monarchy
- University students in US protest Israeli aggression
- George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Stalinism and the Spanish revolution
- Malvinas War veterans protest Argentina’s social crisis
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Corruption allegations against Tanaka intensify factional warfare in Japan
- IBM profit warning gives the market a jolt
2002-04-12
- US war plans intensify political crisis in Turkey
- Sweden: Social Democrats abandon 200 years of neutrality
- Israeli devastation of West Bank paves way for mass expulsions
- US administration pushes for military presence in Indonesia
- Letters on the Middle East crisis
- Australia hostel fire trial: Who was really responsible?
- Sharon brandishes documents to justify slaughter of Palestinians
2002-04-13
- A call to "burn out" the Palestinians: more filth from the Wall Street Journal
- On Palestinian suicide bombings: letters to the WSWS and a reply by the editorial board
- Right-wing terror against New York family of Mideast activist
- Growing protests against Australian refugee detention camps
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US jobless claims hit highest level in 19 years
- Israeli massacre in the city of Jenin
- The Angolan civil war and US foreign policy
2002-04-15
2002-04-16
- US military plans for a long-term presence in the Philippines
- How Merrill Lynch boosted "junk" stocks
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- European governments give Sharon a free hand against the Palestinians
- Protests in US against Israeli atrocities
- Israel: The show-trial of Arab Knesset member Azmi Bishara
- A portrait of Italy’s Berlusconi government: "All for One, and One for Himself"
2002-04-17
- Tamil separatist leader confirms readiness for deal with Sri Lankan regime
- Eight-hour general strike in Italy
- Father of Australian POW denounces illegal detention at Guantanamo Bay
- Disaffection with major parties dominates French presidential elections
- Letters on "On Palestinian suicide bombings: letters to the WSWS and a reply by the editorial board"
- The case of Clifford Baxter: more questions raised over alleged suicide of Enron executive
- Physiology, sociology and murder: a scientist looks at violence in America
2002-04-18
- US debacle in Venezuela: Bush administration backtracks on coup
- Report shows impact of poor sanitation on world’s health
- Powell ends Mideast trip: a US cover for Israeli war crimes
- What the New York Times "overlooked" in the Venezuelan events
- New Zealand’s Alliance party splits
- Michigan auto supplier robs workers’ wages, pensions, health benefits
- Letters on "The Pickering nomination and right-wing threats of violence: Patrick Martin replies to readers’ letters"
2002-04-19
- Government indifference as a second toxic blaze threatens West Australian residents
- Dutch government resigns after critical report on Srebrenica massacre
- A socialist strategy to oppose war and defend democratic rights
- Letters on the abortive coup in Venezuela
- The myth of Camp David: part of the US-Israeli disinformation campaign
2002-04-20
- Research suggests a more complex evolution and spread of modern humans
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush defends Sharon as Jenin massacre provokes international condemnation
- Police threats against Washington anti-war protesters
- Beijing to prosecute leaders of workers’ protests
- Britain: Media and big business denounce increase in public health spending
2002-04-22
- US belligerence encourages Japanese politician to rattle the nuclear sabre against China
- Broad support for the World Socialist Web Site at Washington demonstration
- 75,000 march in Washington against US militarism and Israeli aggression
- American college students graduate with record levels of debt
- UNICEF documents failure to alleviate child poverty and disease
2002-04-23
- South Africa: Judge exonerates Dr. Death
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Death toll in India’s communal violence continues to rise
- Yugoslavia: Opposition grows to government collaboration with war crimes tribunal
- Vote for National Front leader heightens political crisis in France
- Australian protests against Israeli invasion of the West Bank
- Letters to the WSWS
2002-04-24
- Britain: Tax loophole for super rich remains after budget
- "Cover-up of Convenience—the Hidden Scandal of Lockerbie"
- IMF says Japan’s economy is "serious concern'
- Ten million Indian workers strike against economic reforms
- Germany’s Green Party demands a powerful professional army
- German Social Democrats routed by conservatives in state election
2002-04-25
- Britain: Calls to appoint safety directors conceal government inaction
- "How can one live without hope for the future?"
- Washington rolls out the welcome mat for Malaysia’s Mahathir
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Israel reneges on investigation of Jenin atrocities
- Hearings reveal Enron at center of California energy crisis
2002-04-26
- Mounting international opposition to US steel tariffs
- France: Anti-Semitic attacks complement anti-Arab racism
- Howard government complicit in detention of Australian citizen by US military
- For a boycott of the French election
- Human organs: the next futures market?
- Why has South East Asia become the second front in Bush’s "war on terrorism"?
- South Africa: Court ruling forces only tactical retreat over AIDS drugs
2002-04-27
- The French presidential election: What the figures reveal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US companies lay off thousands as jobless claims climb
- Illinois death penalty report reveals widespread abuse
- Letters to the WSWS
- British foreign policy adviser calls for a new imperialism
- Australian Senate hearings reveal public opposition to "terrorism" laws
- Argentine president bows to IMF and banks
2002-04-29
- No to Chirac and Le Pen! For a working class boycott of the French election
- Camp Bondsteel and America’s plans to control Caspian oil
- New York City mayor wants even bigger cuts
- Bill Vann replies to a member of the International Socialist Organization
- German school shooting exposes widespread social tensions
- AOL Time Warner announces record loss
2002-04-30
- SEP to hold May 12 meeting in London: "The perspectives for socialism in the 21st century"
- Australian Prime Minister backs down on stem cell research
- Mass demonstrations against Le Pen throughout France
- Pakistan’s military ruler holds referendum to tighten grip on power
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Israel on Jenin: "Nothing to hide"... but no one can look
- Ericsson plan 17,000 more job losses
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