Archive: 05/2003
2003-05-01
- Turkey’s bloody 1977 May Day still clouded in mystery
- LTTE protests over exclusion from US aid conference
- Spanish government plan for drastic punishment of war opponents
- A protracted, dirty war of colonial occupation
- US admits jailing children at Guantanamo Bay
- A worthless attack on Goya
- French concessions on Iraq met by US threats
2003-05-02
- Interview with Paolo Ferrero of Italy’s Communist Refoundation Party
- Flaunting rottenness: Plateforme, by Michel Houellebecq
- San Francisco newspaper fires antiwar reporter
- Media bosses admit pro-war bias in coverage of Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- India temporarily tones down its sabre rattling against Pakistan
- Australian government attacks Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
- Bush promises unending war in Iraq and internationally
2003-05-03
- SARS epidemic triggers political crisis in China
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US jobless rate jumped to 6 percent in April
- Britain: Media attack on MP George Galloway aimed at smearing antiwar protests
- Britain: Significant losses for Labour in local elections
- Letters on the Iraq war and the US media
- Schröder and Chirac pledge their allegiance to Washington
- Bush taps antiterrorism advisor as Iraq pro-consul
2003-05-05
2003-05-06
- Canadian utility bosses scapegoats for Ontario Tory cutbacks
- Papua New Guinea reacts angrily to call for direct Australian intervention
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A glimpse into Britain’s dirty war on the IRA
- Despite US denials, cluster bombs continue to claim lives in Iraq
- The Columbia shuttle tragedy: Lessons of the Challenger inquiry
- Sale of Breton archives breaks up legacy of Surrealist movement
2003-05-07
- War, oligarchy and the political lie
- Record number of US children in extreme poverty
- Indonesian presidential decree hands more power to military in Papua
- Cover-up for German complicity in Iraq war
- Human Genome Project completed: an extraordinary scientific achievement
- The two paths
- ACLU files lawsuit challenging “no-fly” list
2003-05-08
- Tornadoes wreak havoc across four US states
- Bush’s new tax rules target the working poor
- Washington intensifica agresión contra Cuba debido a juicios de disidentes
- Union leader attacked during May Day demonstration in Spain
- Israel: US “road map” offers nothing to the Palestinians but continued repression
- The challenges confronting contemporary modern dance
- WHO warns of cholera epidemic in Iraq
- German trade unions organise a symbolic protest
- Anti-US protest reveals depth of Afghanistan’s social and political crisis
2003-05-09
- Thousands dead as a result of Thailand’s “war on drugs”
- Looting of nuclear sites poses deadly threat in Iraq
- America blocks UN operation in Ivory Coast conflict
- The rape of Iraq
- Australian prime minister instructs UN: Legality of Iraq war no longer an issue
- Colorado disc jockeys suspended for protesting Dixie Chicks’ ban
- Berlusconi attacks independence of the Italian judiciary
- William Bennett: the secret high-stakes gambling life of a former drug “czar”
- Films on the Middle East, texture in cinema and certain elusive figures
2003-05-10
- Pakistan to release Australian Jack Thomas after five months jail without charge
- Music industry turns against file sharing customers
- The first US presidential contest: the money primary
- Britain: Parliament backs plans to privatise health care
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- American war, German realpolitik and international law
- South Carolina Democratic debate: a spectacle of political prostration
- Letters on the Iraq war
2003-05-12
- The science and sociology of SARS
- Episodes from the class struggle in Britain
- Panic and hysteria reign at the New York Times
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US tables a transparent plan for plundering Iraqi oil
- US Fed acknowledges deflation threat
- Letters to the WSWS
- Austria’s biggest strike in 50 years
2003-05-13
- Extended unemployment benefits being cut in US
- SEP holds May Day meeting in Colombo against imperialist war
- The science and sociology of SARS
- France: For an international movement to defend pension rights
- Journalistic ethics, hypocrisy and war at the New York Times
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- After the Iraq war
- Structures of evasion
- Indonesian military about to launch a major offensive in Aceh
2003-05-14
- Contradicciones y mentiras de la causa bélica de los Estados Unidos contra Irak
- La crisis del imperialismo: los Estados Unidos y la guerra contra Irak Los Estados Unidos se lanza al torbellino
- Lecciones políticas de la guerra de Irak
- US Senate panel backs development of “usable” nuclear weapons
- Malaria’s appalling death toll in sub-Saharan Africa
- A moving portrayal of the tragedy suffered by young Russians
- Shakeup in US occupation as Iraqi society disintegrates
- Millions strike, demonstrate in France to defend pension rights
- On the New York Times and the firing of Jayson Blair
- Two Chinese workers sentenced to harsh prison terms
- Bush Omaha visit: company rescinds payless workday
- Australian budget advances “free market” agenda
2003-05-15
- The issues in the Texas redistricting
- A provocation against democratic rights: Texas Republicans order state police to seize Democratic legislators
- Britain: What Clare Short’s resignation says about New Labour
- Canada: Mistrial declared in trumped-up case against anti-poverty activists
- Israel: Security services arrest 15 leaders of Islamic Movement
- An interview with Nicolás Wainszelbaum and Roberto Testa, directors of Flowers of September
- Indonesia makes a small but significant purchase in Moscow
- An Argentine tragedy
2003-05-16
- Earthquake in Turkey sparks violent protests
- Britain: Straw admits may never find Iraqi WMD
- Schröder’s policy of closing his eyes to reality
- 18 migrant workers die in Texas
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Thai toy factory fire: 10 years after the world’s worst industrial inferno
- Israel: Government threatens Histadrut as general strike continues
- Australia: Labor reignites governor general scandal
2003-05-17
- No Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?—US media scoundrel shrugs his shoulders
- Republicans enlisted Department of Homeland Security in Texas political fight
- Spain: Aznar’s Popular Party faces electoral rout
- Israel: Sharon’s rejection of US “road map” has powerful support in Washington
- Lessons of the Iraq War: the tasks of the European working class
- McCarthy transcripts released in Washington
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Simplification of a complex historic figure
- Germany: WSWS editorial board member participates in forum on Iraq war
2003-05-19
2003-05-20
- Over 200 dead in worst Sri Lankan floods in 60 years
- Entrevista con Nicolás Wainszelbaum y Roberto Testa, directores de Flores de Septiembre
- Una tragedia argentina
- Terror bombings bare US crisis in Middle East
- Politics and the theatre: two plays in Toronto
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Interview with Dean Gabourie, director of Awake and Sing!
- Worsening global economic problems see G8 divisions deepen
- War crimes case against General Franks: Interview with Belgian lawyer Jan Fermon
- Community colleges in US facing massive cutbacks
- Belgium: government seeks to block war crimes case against US General Tommy Franks
2003-05-21
- A modest proposal: a cinema of ideas
- Top level US visit strengthens strategic ties with India
- Britain: Labour Party suspends MP George Galloway for antiwar stance
- FCC green light for US media monopolization
- Dollar decline accelerates as US Treasury abandons “strong” currency policy
- Bush, Congress wrangle over how best to fatten the rich
- Belgium: Liberals and Social Democrats to renew coalition without the Greens
2003-05-22
- Britain: Sunday Times “Rich List” notes fall in combined wealth of super-rich
- Britain: Labour extends antiwar witch-hunt to Tam Dalyell
- 10,000 demonstrate in Berlin against attack on social conditions
- Decline of US dollar roils Canada’s elite
- Australian government announces new military force for domestic use
- Indonesia launches “shock and awe” military offensive in Aceh
- New policy needed to fight Schröder’s social cuts
2003-05-23
- Paris, Berlin, Moscow sanction US occupation of Iraq
- Britain: New Statesman publishes government report on illegality of Iraq war
- Bitter Sri Lankan power struggle flares up over lotteries board
- Ciencia y sociología del SARS
- The historical roots of neoconservatism: a reply to a slanderous attack on Trotskyism
- “But there is a great deal more to say”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- BBC documentary exposes Pentagon lies: The staged rescue of Private Jessica Lynch
- Hecklers shout down journalist’s antiwar speech at college commencement
- More letters on the New York Times and the firing of Jayson Blair
2003-05-24
- US urges military to overrule Turkish government
- Problemas económicos mundiales empeoran e intensifican las divisiones del grupo G8
- Canada: Budget cuts played pivotal role in SARS crisis
- Unemployment hits 8 percent in Oregon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- An exchange with a US war correspondent
- Mass unemployment in Israel, but austerity plan approved
- A political strategy to fight the attack on workers’ pensions in France
- France leads clamour for Congo intervention
- Political lessons of the war on Iraq: the way forward for the international working class
2003-05-26
2003-05-27
- Sixty years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Nearly one million left homeless by Sri Lankan floods
- Has the Australian government been lying to Iranian asylum seekers?
- Germany: Party of Democratic Socialism gripped by crisis
- The resignation of Ari Fleischer: Bush’s official liar goes for the gold
- Algerian earthquake disaster provokes wave of anger
2003-05-28
- Giving $100,000 to every US millionaire
- Congress adopts Bush tax cut for the wealthy
- Philippine president renews her pledge of loyalty in Washington
- Court ruling on fare hikes exposes New York’s class divide
- CIA-backed exile was source for Times “scoops” on Iraqi arms program
- Metaleurop: The ugly face of European capitalism
- Japanese bank bailout reveals deepening economic crisis
- Shareholders reject GlaxoSmithKline CEO’s golden parachute: the reality behind the hyperbole
2003-05-29
- Paris, Berlín y Moscú autorizan ocupación de Irak por EEUU.
- Israel: Sharon has not changed his spots
- Imperialism and Iraq: Lessons from the past
- Washington turns to “regime change” in Iran
- Washington involved in drafting statements designed to split Europe prior to Iraq war
- Currency upheaval could have major consequences
- Another US war crime: the use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq
- What lies behind the recent explosions in Chechnya?
2003-05-30
- Guerra Oligarquía y la Mentira política
- Réplica a un difamatorio ataque al trotskismo
- Britain: Iranian refugee mutilates himself to protest conditions facing asylum seekers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Imperialism and Iraq: Lessons from the past
- US prepares military repression in Iraq
- Andy Goldsworthy and the limits of working with nature
- The German Social Democratic Party: 140 years
- SARS and the “openness” of the Beijing leadership
- Australia: State Labor government and media attack Anti-Discrimination Board
2003-05-31
- US government lied about Iraqi weapons to justify war
- Canada: Lessons of the Vidéotron strike
- The plight of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution: two films
- New Dutch government plans drastic cuts
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Imperialism and Iraq: Lessons from the past
- Britain: Blair caught in lies over Iraqi “WMDs”
- Homeless man robbed, killed and set on fire in Sydney, Australia
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