Archive: 03/2003
2003-03-01
- US health care workers spurn Bush smallpox vaccination plan
- Spain: Mass demonstrations against government’s right-wing policies and warmongering
- Quebec’s indépendantiste government seeking to hijack antiwar movement
- Britain’s parliament votes for war, after one third of MPs register protest
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German writer Ralph Giordano attacks the antiwar movement
- US escalates Colombian military intervention
- Australian sailors en route to the Gulf refuse anthrax vaccine
2003-03-03
- Franco-African summit: the scramble for Africa intensifies
- Israel: Sharon establishes new government with ultra-nationalist and fascistic parties
- New Zealand police criticise US embassy over release of hoax terror letter
- Mass demonstrations in Middle East against Iraq war
- Bank of Japan appointment sparks new round of criticism
- Israeli officer court-martialled for refusing order to target civilians
2003-03-04
- Turkish parliament votes down US war plans
- The fight against war: an open letter to students from the World Socialist Web Site
- Washington Post justifies jingoism on Iraq
- Transcript of interview with Iraqi defector exposes White House lies on Iraqi weapons
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Israeli officer court-martialled for refusing order to target civilians
- Canada’s prime minister denounces US “regime change” policy
- Nurturing a sense of fairness and humanity
2003-03-05
- Portland, Oregon schools face $28 million deficit
- Pentagon, media agree on Iraq war censorship
- Antiwar protests in southern India
- Detroit architects group expels member for political beliefs
- Ireland’s Bernadette Devlin McAliskey deported from the US
- A letter and reply on the “Sraffa-based” critique of Marx
- CNN imposes new “script control”
2003-03-06
- Student protestors march on the US embassy
- Bugging, bribes and bullying: US thuggery in advance of UN vote
- Britain: School pupils protest war vs. Iraq
- Sydney: 7, 000 students strike and rally against war
- Students stage international protests against war on Iraq
- Student antiwar protests in Reno, Nevada
- Pittsburgh: high school students rally outside school board building
- New York City: thousands of high school students walk out to protest Iraq war
- Antiwar actions at the University of Michigan include rallies and teach-ins
- Thousands of students leave school to attend antiwar protest
- Canadian students join antiwar protests
- Thousands of California students protest against a war on Iraq
2003-03-07
- The Wall Street Journal spells it out: Turkey could lose “oil spoils” of war
- The Bush administration, Turkey and democracy
- Reports on March 5 student protests
- English National Opera choristers strike against job cuts
- British ex-radical berates antiwar protestors for failing to back Iraqi “democrats”
- British academic accused of planning terrorism by US
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Interviews with students at the Sydney “Books not Bombs” protest
- Pensions under threat in France
- Bush at War: a flattering portrait of a government of the political underworld
- Varied responses to the state of the world
- Australian students protest in numerous cities and towns
2003-03-08
- Britain: Times leaks secret UN blueprint for post-war Iraq
- German police, judges argue for admissibility of torture
- Reports on March 5 student protests
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Afghan President Karzai back in Washington—and few take notice
- 308,000 jobs lost in US in February
- X-raying postwar Japan
- Peace T-shirt arrest sparks protests in New York
- Broadway musicians strike over “canned” music threat
- The presidential press conference
- Interview with Force Ouvrière’s Marc Blondel: portrait of a French trade union bureaucrat
- As Iraq war looms: Australian government shuts down parliament for two weeks
- Archaeologists warn of Iraq war’s devastating consequences
2003-03-10
- Workers and graduate students end five-day strike at Yale
- Bush presenta su 'visión' para Medio Oriente
- Antiwar protests held across the UK
- Britain’s Jack Straw warns Europe not to anger the US
- Entrevista con desertor iraquí desmiente las mentiras de la Casa Blanca
- Israel: Netanyahu to impose austerity policies
- International protests continue against US war in Iraq
- US tortures two detainees to death in Afghanistan
2003-03-11
- New York transit management raises fares
- Naval incident exposes deep rift in Sri Lankan ruling circles
- Britain: Blair’s warmongering denounced by MTV audience
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US, Britain intensify air strikes against Iraq
- Derivatives pose “potentially lethal” threat to financial system
- Letters on “The presidential press conference”
- Additional Berlinale competition films
2003-03-12
- Top US firms vie for post-war Iraq contracts
- Australian government blackmails East Timor into ratifying oil and gas deal
- Britain’s record on Sudan highlights hypocrisy over Iraq
- Actor Martin Sheen attacked for antiwar views
- Richard Perle brands journalist Seymour Hersh a “terrorist”
- Labor for Peace meeting in Detroit: a platform for union fakers
- Antiwar protests follow Australian Prime Minister Howard during New Zealand visit
- Israel exploits world focus on Iraq to intensify terror against Palestinians
- A glimpse into the background of an Iraqi “oppositionist”
2003-03-13
- Wall Street Journal editorial reveals imperialist arrogance and racism behind US war drive
- Australian intelligence analyst resigns, declaring Iraq war “unjustified”
- Broadway violinist on the issues of the strike
- US-Australia free trade deal: a dubious payoff for joining Iraq war
- Antiwar protest in Sri Lankan capital
- British intelligence employee arrested for leaks on US bugging of UN
- Letters protest expulsion of board member from Detroit architects’ group
- Essential reading on Persian Gulf War
- Thatcher backed British firm in building “chemical weapons” plant in Iraq
- Broadway musicians end strike on ‘minimums’
2003-03-14
- Blair’s six-point “benchmark” for Iraq: A thinly disguised pretext for war
- Heribert Prantl’s book “Suspicious”
- Setback for US plan to send combat troops to the Philippines
- Canada’s National Post demands “harsh” sentences for anti-poverty protesters
- New York’s City Council opposes Iraq war
- Australia: State election descends into law-and-order bidding war
- Professor’s charges against MIT expose fraud in US missile defense program
- Mexico’s President Fox leans toward US on Iraq
- Lead poisoning imperils thousands of Detroit’s children
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Canada: Concordia University witch-hunts anti-Zionist protesters
- California budget crisis deepens
- Britain: Blair government called to order by Washington
2003-03-15
- Turkey: AKP leader Erdogan wins by-election in Siirt
- Britain: Charities warn 11 million Iraqis face starvation in event of war
- Carta y respuesta a la crítica de Marx basada en las ideas de Sraffa
- Democratic senators join Republicans to attack latest court ruling on Pledge of Allegiance
- Antiwar protests in Pakistan rattle the Musharraf regime
- Actors stage Aristophanes’ Lysistrata to protest war against Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Large antiwar rallies in Indonesia and Japan
- Paris, Berlin and the war against Iraq
- An interview with Jacques Nikonoff, president of Attac
- Chirac promotes French interests in Algeria
- US authorities gain access to international air travellers’ personal data
2003-03-17
- DC march circles White House to protest war
- Toronto antiwar march exceeds organizers’ expectations
- Millions join in worldwide protests against US war with Iraq
- New Zealand: Maori Labour MP delivers vicious attack on social welfare
- Montreal: 250,000 condemn US war on Iraq
- High school students rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- America snubs new International Criminal Court
- Howard confirms Canberra’s commitment to a US-invasion of Iraq
- Is there anything to the Dogme 95 group?
- Tens of thousands in California denounce war on Iraq
- Brussels protest draws 50,000
- Germany: 100,000 join antiwar protest in Berlin
- The Azores summit: Bush sets deadline for US aggression against Iraq
- British journalist Felicity Arbuthnot speaks on Iraq
- Afghan officials confirm US role in massacre of Taliban prisoners
2003-03-18
- Germany: Increase in extremist right-wing violence
- Ex-Stalinists in German PDS back social cuts
- Britain: BP and Shell demand a share of the spoils of war
- Cracks appear in police evidence at Toronto “riot” trial
- US boosts capacity to launch air strikes on North Korea
- Britain: 10,000 march in Leeds against war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington shrugs off Israeli murder of US student in Gaza
- Israeli military kills US student
- US Air Force base authorizes deadly force against antiwar protesters
- Czech student kills himself in protest against war and corruption
- The Bush administration repudiates international law
- British journalist Felicity Arbuthnot speaks on Iraq
2003-03-19
- A tribute to Rachel Corrie, US student murdered by Israeli military
- Richard Perle llama terrorista al destacado periodista Seymour Hersh
- La conferencia de prensa del presidente
- Reunión cumbre en las Azores: Bush fija fecha para la agresión contra Irak
- Protests in France against the war
- Violence increases as Nigerian elections approach
- Killing of Rachel Corrie condemned around the world
- US war drive dominates Finnish elections
- Chirac and Schröder oppose Bush’s war ultimatum
- Rachel Corrie: a victim of Israeli policy and US complicity
- The legacy of retiring Chinese premier: social inequality and unrest
- Mounting inequality in Canada
- British government encourages anti-French hysteria over Iraq
- Austria: New government continues austerity policy
- Continuing civilian deaths in US operations in Afghanistan
2003-03-20
- Midnight’s Children cast members speak out on war against Iraq
- Violence increases as Nigerian elections approach
- New Zealand teacher faces victimisation following antiwar demonstration
- Britain: Antiwar protesters lobby Parliament
- Antiwar protests grow in India
- Labour MPs animated by concerns over Britain’s isolation
- Canada balks at joining US war on Iraq
- The twenty lies of George W. Bush
- Britain: Blair suffers second parliamentary rebellion over war vs. Iraq
2003-03-21
- 75 million had no health insurance in US some time during 2001-02
- Thousands of students join Toronto antiwar rally
- Britain: Pupils join nationwide school strike to protest war vs. Iraq
- Build an international working class movement against imperialist war
- Worldwide protests against US invasion of Iraq: millions take to the streets
- 5,000 march in downtown Pittsburgh—dozens arrested
- Thousands protest war in New York City
- Australia: New South Wales election campaign reveals alienation from major parties
- Northern Ireland Assembly elections delayed
- The controversy over US Congressman Moran: anti-Semitism, Zionism and the Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vertice delle Azzore: Bush Fissa la Scadenza per un’ Aggressione Americana Contro Irak
- The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
- Hundreds of thousands take to the streets across Germany
- School students protest in Frankfurt
- Britain: Thousands join campaign of civil disobedience to oppose war vs. Iraq
- Letters on Rachel Corrie, US student murdered by Israeli military
2003-03-22
- Britain: Trades Union Congress disowns antiwar movement
- Modes of resistance
- Reports on international protests against Iraq war
- Blacklist excludes antiwar celebrities from Oscar Awards broadcast
- Canadian law professors declare US-led war illegal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Russia: Izvestia changes its design and redefines its “values”
- Right-wing campaign against US country music group
- Britain: Protesters condemn military assault on Iraq
- US blitzkrieg turns Baghdad into an inferno
- Australian cabinet rubberstamps military commitment to Iraq war
- Thousands arrested at US antiwar protests
- Ann Arbor, Michigan high school students speak out against war
2003-03-24
- Socialist Equality Party speaker addresses antiwar rally in Perth
- Attac leader bars World Socialist Web Site speaker from addressing Berlin anti-war rally
- Antiwar protests in Canada’s principal cities
- 50,000 antiwar protesters march through Sydney
- A million march in Spain against war
- Millions around the world join weekend antiwar protests
- A massive march against war in heart of New York City
- New Zealand: Tens of thousands join antiwar protests
- The US war against Iraq: the historical issues
- Giant antiwar protest in Montreal
- Four days of antiwar protests in Melbourne
- Socialist Equality Party holds public meetings in Australia against Iraq war
- Hundreds of thousands march in London
- Los Angeles antiwar protests draw tens of thousands
- Hundreds of thousands demonstrate across Germany
- Millions march in Europe against Iraq war
- Chicago: Antiwar demonstrators defy police intimidation
- France dispatches troops to Central African Republic
- Antiwar demonstrations throughout the UK
- Students walk out and rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan
2003-03-25
- The speech that could not be delivered: What WSWS spokesman planned to tell Berlin rally
- Media lies and war crimes: the instructive case of Julius Streicher
- Muerte de Rachel Corrie condenada por el mundo
- Rachel Corrie: víctima de la política israelí y la complicidad de los Estados Unidos
- Por el establecimiento de un movimiento internacional de la clase obrera contra la guerra imperialista
- Iraq war dominates 75th Academy Awards
- The US media: propagandists for a criminal war
- War rally on Wall Street may be short-lived
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- British journalist killed by American troops
- Lo Sviluppo di un Movimento Proletario Internazionale Contro La Guerra Imperialista
- Iraqi resistance shatters US propaganda of "liberation" war
- India offers half-hearted criticism of US war on Iraq
- "These the times ... this the man": an appraisal of historian Christopher Hill
- Antiwar protests in France
- Antiwar protest outside Oscar ceremony
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party suppresses dissent at antiwar "People’s Assembly"
2003-03-26
- Antiwar web site shut down
- US Homeland Security’s "Operation Liberty Shield" targets democratic rights
- The ideological forebears of Washington’s "neo-conservatives"
- US prepares for slaughter in Iraq
- Singer Iris DeMent refuses to perform in protest against Iraq war
- Britain: Media report widespread hostility to US/UK forces in Iraq
- Indonesian president "strongly deplores" US attack on Iraq
- International legal experts regard Iraq war as illegal
- Ontario Tories’ Hydro One debacle: the political issues
- German Chancellor Schröder attacks the socially disadvantaged
- White House dictates war coverage to a pliant media
- An open letter from the WSWS Editorial Board to the Attac movement in Berlin
- Australian unions guarantee no ban on war materials
2003-03-27
- Talking about not too much, unfortunately
- Australia: Police arrest student antiwar demonstrators
- Argentina: Masiva marcha contra la guerra y por la memoria de los desaparecidos
- International protests continue against US war in Iraq
- Germany: Embezzlement scandal at telecom giant Mannesmann
- Iraq war: suspected war criminal at the side of Bush?
- France: Iraq war speeds up government’s austerity measures
- Letters on US war against Iraq
- Blair’s press conference: lies and self-delusion
- British troops lay siege to Basra
2003-03-28
- Protest in Colombo against the US war on Iraq
- WSWS/SEP to hold public meeting in Colombo against US war on Iraq
- 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction: a static view of American life
- Baghdad market massacre sheds ghastly light on nature of US invasion
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Washington’s dirty military intrigues in northern Iraq
- War coverage takes over as top Internet search
- Democratic Party leaders embrace Bush’s war of aggression
- Washington’s hypocrisy over Iraqi "war crimes"
2003-03-29
- Antiwar protests in Turkey
- Russia: Putin condemns Iraq war as an "error"
- Israel: Netanyahu’s nephew victimised for refusing military service
- Washington’s use and abuse of the Geneva Conventions
- Pittsburgh police lock up antiwar protesters for 30 hours
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush and Blair hold crisis summit
- Blair caught lying about soldier’s "execution"
- BBC complains of Pentagon lies
- US Air Force Academy chiefs removed over rape scandal
2003-03-31
- International protests against Iraq war continue over weekend
- Australia: Thousands rally in Melbourne protest against war
- Another market massacre in Baghdad
- 100,000 in Germany demonstrate for an immediate end to the war
- US-UK conflict over the spoils of war
- Over 200 artists perform at London Concert for Peace
- Antiwar protests across Britain
- Blair’s proposed destruction of public services opens "second front" at home
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