Archive: 10/2002
2002-10-01
- US refuses visa to Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami
- Germany: Neo-Nazi attack on Green Party MP
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pyongyang summit: North Korean prostration answered with more Japanese demands
- Rice and Rumsfeld “discover” Al-Qaeda in Baghdad
- The Iraqi oppositionists and US plans for “regime change” in Baghdad
2002-10-02
- Countryside Alliance: Britain’s Tory Party rears its ugly head
- Toronto International Film Festival 2002: An interview with Frederick Wiseman, director of The Last Letter
- Oponerse a la guerra contra Irak! ¡Establecer un movimiento internacional contra el imperialismo!
- The US exploits “terrorist threats” to step up pressure on Indonesia
- Senegal ferry disaster kills close to a thousand passengers
- Wall Street suffers worst quarter since 1987
- The budget and penal reform in France: an acceleration of reaction
- Democratic Congressman admits no evidence against Iraq
- Crime pays: CEOs rake it in as stocks and jobs evaporate
2002-10-03
- The Torricelli case: another debacle for the Democratic Party
- Film director Spielberg lines up with Bush war drive
- Australia: Families face collective punishment after gang rape sentences
- Israel: Sharon stirs up conflict with Syria and Iran
- PDS suffers severe loss in east German state election
- Netherlands budget outlines spending cuts and privatisation
- Northern Sri Lanka: the struggle for survival amid the ruins of war
- Bush White House embraces assassination
2002-10-04
- Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Interview with Travis Wilkerson, director of An Injury to One
- Canada’s Vidéotron strike underscores need for working class political struggle
- Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Films on social and historical questions
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
- Striking Kenyan teachers defy government intimidation
- The war against Iraq and America’s drive for world domination
- Big business presses for Bush to intervene against California dockworkers
- Blair defends support for Bush on Iraq war
2002-10-05
- New York Times urges “debate” to prepare war
- Defend the democratic rights of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
- Britain: Labour conference votes for war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US job cuts accelerated in September
- US and French troops help force Côte D’Ivoire cease-fire
- German Social Democrats and trade unions demand cheap labour
- Letters on US war plans against Iraq
- Behind the delay in the Chinese Communist Party Congress
2002-10-07
- Yearning for the strongman—or how Süddeutsche Zeitung discovered the “visionary” Bush
- John Walker Lindh sentenced to 20 years
- More than 600 dead in Indian Kashmir as election draws to a close
- Journalist Christopher Hitchens fully embraces the Bush war camp
- Tens of thousands in US rally against war on Iraq
2002-10-08
- The wretched state of the Russian military
- Poll shows widespread disquiet in US over Iraq war
- Britain: Government advisor urges radical pensions overhaul
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Gujarat temple massacre inflames tensions between India and Pakistan
- Canada’s elite clamours for huge increase in military spending
- Brazil vote sets stage for deeper crisis
2002-10-09
- New Zealand policeman charged after brutal bashing of teenager
- Sharon pledges more to come after Israeli military kills 14 in Gaza Strip
- US plan for Iraq inspections: invasion under another guise
- France: national strike and mass protest against privatisation
- Atmospheric, but lacking substance
- Report reveals widespread and growing poverty in Berlin
2002-10-10
- France’s release of Maurice Papon: an incitement to political reaction
- Why the Bush administration wants war
- Bush administration proposes crippling cuts in Medicare
- Workers deported from Malaysia continue to perish in border camps
- Resignation of “militant” Australian union official contains vital political lessons
- Italy: state attorneys expose police provocation at Genoa G-8 summit
- Bush invokes anti-union Taft-Hartley law against West Coast longshoremen
- Letters on “Journalist Christopher Hitchens fully embraces the Bush war camp”
2002-10-11
- Britain’s Labour government: statistics, damned statistics, lies
- Condemn the LTTE’s violent attack on Sri Lankan socialist
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Florida execution of Aileen Wuornos: another morbid media spectacle
- Why the Democratic Party is backing Bush’s war drive vs. Iraq
- Britain: Labour government backtracks on corporate killing law
- Australian Labor Party conference: a disintegrating bureaucratic apparatus
2002-10-12
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese stock market tumbles after cabinet reshuffle
- Northern Ireland Assembly faces fourth suspension
- US demands total impunity on war crimes
- Opposition to war grows across Europe
- Nobel Peace Prize goes to Jimmy Carter—the “friendly” face of US imperialism
- WSWS campaign against LTTE death threats wins international support
2002-10-14
- El voto en Brasil preparauna crisis aún más profunda
- The Milosevic Trial: journalists warned to stop criticisms
- On capitalist economic relations and the foundations of law
- US plan for Iraq: Back to colonialism
- Washington seizes on Bali terror bombing to demand crackdown in Indonesia
- International campaign against attacks on Sri Lankan socialists: Asian Tribune publishes WSWS reply to LTTE apologist
2002-10-15
- Further indications of Indonesian military involvement in Papuan mine murders
- Anti-war protests begin in Asia-Pacific
- German Telekom plans to axe 55,000 jobs in three years
- Military-style killer on the loose near US capital
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New York City firefighters protest low salaries
- Canada falls in line behind US war drive
2002-10-16
- Britain’s Conservatives riven by factional infighting
- 25 years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977)
- A serious attempt to encourage Sri Lankan opera
- Wall Street/Washington insider spills the dirty secret of Iraq war
- Spain: Excavation of Franco’s mass graves demanded
- Deflation threat to world economy
2002-10-17
- Sweden: Social Democratic government propped up by Greens and Lefts
- Germany: Massive state infiltration of far-right party
- Further international protests against LTTE death threats
- Israel: Public sector strike and protests against austerity budget
- More than 41 million Americans without health insurance
- Protest against Iraq war in Dearborn, Michigan
- Anger mounts over Australian government’s failure to give Bali warning
2002-10-18
- Quebec government and unions conspire against Vidéotron strikers
- Nigerian regime loses legal dispute over oil
- Bush seizes on Washington sniper attacks to use military for domestic policing
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Queensland government calls in Hawke to attack the right to strike
- The Pentagon gassed American soldiers and civilians in 1960s tests
- Washington and Canberra push for military ties with Indonesia
2002-10-19
- Germany: Defeat for “reformers” at PDS conference in Gera
- Incoming Macedonian government pledges subservience to Western powers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Corporate corruption and academia: The Bush-Harvard-Enron connection
- Colombian army lays siege to Medellín neighborhood
- Canadian Auto Workers union pushes corporatist settlement at DaimlerChrysler
- Australian government uses Bali atrocity to demand new repressive powers
2002-10-21
2002-10-22
- Germany: SPD and Green Party present new coalition pact
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Kashmir election results in defeat for ruling party
- Israel: Clashes between settlers and soldiers destabilise Sharon’s coalition
- Iranian film director denounces US immigration policy
- Helsinki bomb tragedy points to social tensions in Finland
2002-10-23
- Festival Internacional de Cine en Toronto, 2002: Conversación acerca del cine
- Britain’s privatised energy industry on brink of bankruptcy
- Top LTTE leaders remain silent as SEP defence campaign gathers support
- La guerra contra Irak y la campaña de los Estados Unidos para dominar al mundo
- Indonesian government bows to foreign pressure and issues anti-terrorist decree
- Letters to the WSWS
- Iraqi tie to September 11 hijacker debunked
2002-10-24
- Festival Internacional de Cine en Toronto, 2002: ¿Por qué hay tantas películas tan decepcionantes?
- Condenar ataque violento de la LTTE contra socialista de Sri Lanka
- Census reports highlight dramatic social changes in Australia
- Pakistani election reveals growing opposition to Musharraf
- Right-wing government collapses in the Netherlands
- Bush employs lies and maneuvers to pave way for war against Iraq
- French diplomacy and Bush’s campaign against Iraq
- One year since the anthrax attacks on the US Congress
2002-10-25
- Australian Labor Party suffers humiliating by-election defeat in Wollongong
- “People are a lot more aware”
- Festival Internacional de Cine en Toronto, 2002: Los problemas persisten aún cuando se logra el éxito
- From a safe distance?: Reflections on an exhibition of surrealist art
- A political strategy to oppose war against Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Washington leaves open Israeli involvement in war against Iraq
- Ejército colombiano le pone sitio a barrio de Medellín
2002-10-26
- Ten people killed by police and Sinhala thugs in Eastern Sri Lanka
- Ireland: Yes vote in referendum on European Union expansion
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mass protests against job cuts in Italy
- US: West Coast shippers call for government sanctions against dockworkers
- UN report accuses Western companies of looting Congo
2002-10-28
- Coup attempts continue in Venezuela
- Hundreds of thousands in US protest Iraq invasion plans
- The Washington sniper and the undercurrent of rage in American society
- US demonstrators speak out against Iraq war
- Australian drought used to push small farmers off the land
- International demonstrations against Bush war plans
2002-10-29
- The death of US Senator Paul Wellstone: accident or murder?
- Putin’s gas attack in Moscow—the outcome of Russia’s barbaric war in Chechnya
- Two students killed in Australian university shooting
- Brazil’s "Lula" celebrates victory, IMF demands more austerity
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- India and Pakistan begin to demobilise troops
- An essentially unprincipled approach
2002-10-30
- Report on urban warfare points to US plans to destroy Iraqi cities
- Britain: child road deaths three times higher in deprived areas
- Exigen en España que se excaven las fosas comunes
- US profit rates decline despite productivity growth
- Actor Richard Harris: a great talent only occasionally fulfilled
- Letters to the WSWS on the "The Washington sniper and the undercurrent of rage in American society"
2002-10-31
- Letter from University of Arizona student on Monday’s campus shootings
- US uses nuclear revelations to raise tensions on Korean peninsula
- Spain: Socialist Party demands opening of Franco’s mass graves
- Alarming breast cancer rates in northern California county
- US returns to triple-digit budget deficits
- Brazil’s Lula reassures Wall Street, warns workers of austerity
- Bali bombing used to activate repressive laws in Australia
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