Archive: 02/2003
2003-02-01
- Estados Unidos se enfrenta a déficits y reducciones de gastos que baten el récord
- Lula y Brasil: de Porto Alegre a Davos
- Fiebre de guerra de una clase gobernante en crisis
- European Rapid Reaction Force to deploy in Macedonia
- Workers Struggles: Australia and the Pacific
- Ireland: Fianna Fail and SDLP float unity pact
- Bush’s claims on Iraqi weapons--lies in pursuit of war
- India and Pakistan again escalate tensions
- In the classical realist tradition
- Colombian president seeks massive US intervention
2003-02-03
2003-02-04
- US economy stalls in fourth quarter
- The Columbia tragedy: NASA, Congress, Bush ignored safety warnings
- The Netherlands: Anti-immigrant List Pim Fortyn loses heavily in parliamentary elections
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New Kashmiri administration fails to deliver “healing touch”
- Israel: Sharon government builds fortified wall around West Bank
- US military chief admits American troops already in Iraq
2003-02-05
- Australia: Seven die in rail crash near Sydney
- Presidente colombiano pide a Estados Unidos que intervenga como en Irak
- “Left” apologists for US imperialism red-bait the antiwar movement
- An insightful view into an artist’s world
- IMF/World Bank policies pave way for continuing famine in Africa
- Letters from our readers
- Homeless, poor freeze in US cold wave
- Financial crisis staggers California
2003-02-06
- Homeless mother could be jailed for leaving baby at Toronto City Hall
- Scandinavian governments divided over US-led war vs. Iraq
- Powell’s UN speech triggers countdown to war against Iraq
- Texas executes British citizen despite international protests
- Australia: Thousands of households cut off electricity
- China prepares to fall into line with US war on Iraq
2003-02-07
- Australia bullies East Timor over oil and gas
- LTTE calls for SEP members in northern Sri Lanka to be “wiped out”
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Strike wave continues in Kenya
- German state elections: dramatic losses for Schröder’s Social Democratic Party
- TV documentary: US lied about Gulf War missile “hits”
2003-02-08
- Franco-British summit: Chirac signals Paris ready to back war vs. Iraq
- Bush threatens military action against North Korea
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kurds know nothing of “terrorist poison factory” cited by Powell
- Media pundits in lockstep behind US war drive
- UN conceals Picasso’s “Guernica” for Powell’s presentation
- Leading Democrats line up behind Bush on Iraq war
2003-02-10
- A look at rural life in British Ceylon
- White House cancels poetry symposium in response to protest
- Letters on “Powell’s UN speech triggers countdown to war against Iraq”
- Britain: Blair government caught out in plagiarism and lies over latest Iraq dossier
- Britain: Government and media conspire to whip-up anti-immigrant hysteria
- Australian government commits to US-led war in face of growing opposition
2003-02-11
- Judge upholds New York police ban on anti-war march
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- France: strikes, protests mount against plant closings and pension cuts
- Growing criticism of Bush budget deficit
- US congressman defends WWII internment of Japanese-Americans
- The Bush budget: blueprint for a right-wing assault on the working class
- South East Asia braces for political fallout from Iraq war
2003-02-12
- Britain: Labour government moves to “market based higher education”
- UN and US back French intervention in Ivory Coast
- The tasks facing the anti-war movement
- Social discontent escalates in China
- Welfare for the wealthy: the Bush tax plan
- Film exposing Pentagon war crimes premieres in US
- 75th Academy Award nominations: as eclectic and confounding as ever
2003-02-13
- Sri Lankan SEP replies to a right-wing supporter of the LTTE
- Jefe militar de los Estados Unidos admite que tropas estadounidenses ya se encuentran en Irak
- Discurso de Powell ante las Naciones Unidas comienza la cuenta regresiva para lanzar la guerra contra Irak
- US ambassador lambasts Australian Labor Party leader
- Wall Street Journal editor’s brief for a “Pax Americana”
- Court sanctions expanded political surveillance by New York City police
- Iraq war splits NATO
- French public sector workers demonstrate against pension cuts
- Las tareas que enfrenta el movimiento contra la guerra
- Bush budget targets the poor
2003-02-14
- Ankara lines up behind a war against Iraq
- Washington employs fear and panic as instruments of war
- Bush prepares alibi for slaughter in Iraq
- Britain: Why are troops really deployed in London?
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Powell’s Al Qaeda-Baghdad link falls apart
- Canada has decided to join in war on Iraq
- The Bush budget: subverting Medicare and Medicaid
2003-02-15
- WSWS to provide on-the-spot coverage of global anti-war rallies
- Treatment of refugees exposes Australian government hypocrisy on Iraq war
- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch explains why he backs war vs. Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- French Communist Party Chairman Hue loses his parliamentary seat
- Record numbers swamp New York City’s homeless shelters
- US right-wing media, politicians spit out anti-French venom
- Bush budget plan attacks public education
- Bush administration stung by second report of Iraq inspectors
- Incident in Alexandria: Antiwar outpouring in the Pentagon’s back yard
2003-02-17
- Thousands join protest in Wellington, New Zealand
- Vienna demonstration draws 30,000
- Young marchers predominate in Toronto
- Sydney: Australia’s largest ever demonstration
- Mass demonstrations inaugurate international antiwar movement
- Antiwar marchers defy large police presence in Seoul
- Three million take to the streets in Rome
- Thousands join rallies in Pittsburgh and nearby cities
- Protests in Perth, Brisbane and other Australian centres
- 200,000 march in Paris against Iraq war
- Massive New York City rally spills into streets
- Montreal antiwar demonstration the largest in Canadian history
- Melbourne: 200,000 take part in antiwar protest
- London: a massive rebuttal of Blair’s support for war
- 3,000 march in Tel Aviv
- Glasgow: 100,000 protest against Blair and Iraq war
- The Iraq War protests: An event of world historical significance
- Tens of thousands march in Dublin
- Thousands march in Detroit
- Copenhagen: 30,000 march past US and British embassies
- Protesters rally on Chicago’s North Side
- Tens of thousands protest in cities throughout California
- 100,000 demonstrate in Belgian capital
- Berlin: Largest demonstration in post-war German history
- Spain: more than 2 million march in Barcelona and Madrid
- Amsterdam protest confirms widespread antiwar sentiment
2003-02-18
- Tens of thousands march in South Africa against Iraq war
- Australia: Near disaster as runaway train crashes at major rail station
- A survivor of the Warsaw ghetto
- Washington prepares to tighten the economic noose around North Korea
- Persecution of homeless mother continues in Toronto
- London: antiwar protesters denounce Blair’s support for Bush
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath gives evidence to Bloody Sunday tribunal
- Air Canada demands massive concessions
- Bush uses AIDS funding as an instrument of foreign policy
2003-02-19
- Reports on February 15-16 antiwar demonstrations
- Oil and the coming war against Iraq
- Letters on global antiwar protests
- Desperately searching for allies: Washington fetes Australian prime minister
- Discussions with Paris antiwar demonstrators
- EU summit agrees on war against Iraq as a “last resort”
- South Africa: ANC escalates privatisations and economic restructuring
2003-02-20
- Sri Lankan police drag out hearings over LTTE’s threats against SEP
- Russia and the war against Iraq
- Reports on February 15-16 antiwar demonstrations
- Murdoch’s Sun dismisses million-strong London march as “nothing”
- Bush administration withholds evidence in case of Zacarias Moussaoui
- Bush administration accelerates US military buildup against Iraq
- Australia: Protestors express deep disgust with US war plans
- Economic “Perfect Storm” threatens to wreck US public education
2003-02-21
- Acontecimiento histórico de significado mundial
- Reports on February 14-16 antiwar demonstrations
- New Zealand antiwar protestors condemn Bush and Blair
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- French government party leaders solidarize themselves with American imperialism
- Wider US war threatened in Colombia
- US boosts military aid to Bolivia
- Bolivia: Military-provoked riots end in 33 deaths
- Britain: The significance of Blair’s response to the mass antiwar protest in London
- Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War: the Strategy and Program of a New International Working Class Movement
2003-02-22
- US government mounts conspiracy frame-up of Palestinian activists
- US telecom giants and the war in Iraq: It’s not just about oil
- Reports on February 14-16 antiwar demonstrations
- Bush administration preparing new police state measures
- A comment on The Pianist
- US troops to be involved in combat operations in the southern Philippines
- Public meetings in Britain on the tasks facing the antiwar movement
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Child starvation stalks Argentina’s northern provinces
2003-02-24
- New findings on Stonehenge point to continent-wide socio-cultural network
- Documentary exposes US aggression in Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan
- Rumsfeld pushes big lie on "human shields” in Iraq
- France: Former prime minister Jospin resurfaces in the pages of Le Monde
- Inadequate safety planning produces South Korean subway disaster
- Student protest exposes rift in Chinese regime
2003-02-25
- Record US trade deficit highlights global imbalances
- Pennsylvania state police cleared in killing of 12-year-old
- The New York Times’ brief for war against Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fiji’s cyclone victims still lack food, shelter and clean water
- UK government’s hypocritical stance over World Cup cricket match in Zimbabwe
- Jesse Jackson and the Chicago dance club tragedy
- Why Germany’s Christian Democrats support the war against Iraq
2003-02-26
- Britain: Labour government delays directors’ liability as work deaths rise
- Australian government backs imprisonment of Melbourne man in Pakistan
- US: Bethlehem Steel to terminate health and insurance benefits for 95,000 retirees
- Japan’s involvement in the Sri Lankan peace process
- Bush hands UN an ultimatum on Iraq war
- War crimes tribunal drops charges against Croatian general
2003-02-27
- National Express withdraws from Australian showpiece of privatised transport
- Australian legal experts declare an invasion of Iraq a war crime
- A victory for government by stealth: US congressional arm abandons suit against Cheney
- An interview with French Socialist Party spokesman Karim Pakzad
- Ebola outbreak in the Congo
- Senator Byrd laments Democrats’ silence on Iraq war
- Britain: Blair ignores popular opposition in parliamentary brief for war
2003-02-28
- Italian opponents of war block US military transports
- Police assault striking tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka
- A conversation with historian James M. McPherson
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Behind the “antiwar” stance of the Australian Greens
- The opposite of what’s needed
- Letters on US war against Iraq
- Bush lays out his “vision” for the Middle East
- WSWS/SEP public meetings in Melbourne and Sydney: the political tasks facing the antiwar movement
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