Archive: 10/2003
2003-10-01
- New union contracts clear way for US automakers to cut 50,000 jobs
- Thailand sends troops to bolster US occupation of Iraq
- Los gobiernos ponen freno a la investigación sobre células troncales
- Economía mundial se expande, pero los déficits aumentan
- Bush ante las Naciones Unidas: un criminal de guerra sube al estrado
- US poverty up sharply for second year in a row
- An exchange over New Zealand’s military intervention in the Solomon Islands
- Liberia faced with continuing instability as UN agrees 15,000 troops
- John Christopher Burton replies to letters on the death penalty, parole and the California prison system
- Bush White House faces criminal investigation over Iraq smear campaign
- California recall: socialist candidate campaigns on college campuses
2003-10-02
- Australian government launches new offensive against university staff and students
- Spain: Thousands demonstrate against Iraq occupation
- Bush’s Postal Commission report: a blueprint for privatization
- Ontario Liberals preparing for power by shifting further right
- Johnny Cash: a timeless voice of country music
- Iraqis riot over unemployment, corruption
- Germany deports 50,000 immigrants a year
- South Africa: report reveals dire conditions facing farm workers
- California Governor Gray Davis and the politics of law and order
2003-10-03
- World Socialist Web Site Review: October 2003 issue now available
- Number of US uninsured rises to 43.6 million in 2002
- Music should not be a selfish thing
- The country boogie-woogie of Sleepy LaBeef
- Malaysian government detains opponents without trial for another two years
- Whispering retreat
- Baltic states vote reluctantly to join European Union
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The John Christopher Burton campaign and the fight for socialist policies
- The CIA leak case through the lens of the Wall Street Journal
2003-10-04
- Britain: New inquest into police shooting of Harry Stanley
- La campaña por la destitución del gobernador en California: candidato socialista visita universidades y escuelas secundarias
- California recall election: SEP candidate John Christopher Burton calls for “no” vote on Proposition 54
- Countdown to Poland’s entry into the European Union
- Pentagon calls up 10,000 National Guard for combat duty in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- WMD report: more proof Iraq war was based on lies
- Letters from our readers
2003-10-06
2003-10-07
- Thousands of poor expelled from Bangkok for APEC summit
- The bombing of Syria: a new eruption of US-Israeli aggression
- SEP meeting addresses political issues facing workers in California recall election
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Air France/KLM merger heralds further rationalisations and job cuts
- “The answer to the crisis is a socialist politicalmovement to fight for power”
- Thousands rally in New York for immigrant rights
2003-10-08
- Is the US plotting to murder Venezuela’s president?
- Schröder, Bush and the “Agenda 2010”
- Britain: Report highlights widespread child poverty
- Socialist Equality candidate’s statement on recall of California governor: “Democratic debacle vindicates fight to build SEP as the socialist alternative”
- Computer workers’ deaths linked to cancer-causing chemicals
- Guantanamo Bay detainee’s family speaks with WSWS
- History, program and the “unity of the left”: an exchange of letters
- Britain: Former minister Robin Cook says Blair lied over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
- New Zealand imprisons former Algerian parliamentarian as suspected “terrorist”
2003-10-09
- Australia: Alarming decline in apprenticeship training
- Germany: The Supreme Court headscarf ruling and the myth of religious “neutrality”
- Letter from a reader
- Law students’ forum reviews Australia’s “shrinking democracy”
- A letter from Roger Ebert on Leni Riefenstahl
- The CIA leak inquiry and the politics of criminality
- Lessons of the Democratic debacle in California
- Bush’s AIDS appointee spells out corporate agenda
2003-10-10
- Socialist Equality candidate John Burton wins 5,915 votes
- Turkey sends troops to Iraq
- Portuguese government criticised for failure to tackle forest fires
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- More questions on the deaths and illnesses of American soldiers
- Letters from our readers
- 17 deaths not included in the US military pneumonia investigation
2003-10-11
- Pennsylvania budget crisis threatens to bankrupt school districts
- Spain: Federico Garcia Lorca’s body to be exhumed
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UN estimate for rebuilding Iraq half that of Bush’s—where’s the money going?
- Schröder’s “Agenda 2010” and his offensive against the German population
- The Australian government and the “war on terrorism”
- Britain: Report documents brutality against asylum-seekers
2003-10-13
- US pressure continues over value of Chinese currency
- UN agency warns of “anxious time” for world economy
- Spain: Baltasar Garzón—the people’s judge as defender of the capitalist state
- Kucinich, Sharpton and the WSWS: letters and a reply
- California supermarket chains mount strikebreaking drive against grocery workers
2003-10-14
- The texture of life in a few instances
- "La debacle del Partido Demócrata reivindica la lucha para establecer al PSI como alternativa socialista"
- Lecciones de la debacle en California
- Rome conference on EU constitution reveals intra-European conflicts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Israel arms subs with nuclear weapons: an escalation of US-backed militarism
- Spain: Baltasar Garzón—The people’s judge as defender of the capitalist state
- More letters on Leni Riefenstahl
- The rise and decline of an Australian Labor reformist
- Bolivian troops massacre strikers
2003-10-15
- Mechanics’ strike shuts down mass transit in Los Angeles
- Sharon stirs up conflict in pursuit of Greater Israel policy
- Roger Sylvester: Jury rules London police unlawfully killed black man
- Pat Robertson calls for nuking the State Department
- US raises stakes over New Zealand’s foreign policy “differences”
- Australia: Reshuffle underscores deepening pressure on Howard government
- Letters from our readers
2003-10-16
- Toward a painstaking analysis of what actually is
- Political victimisation of SEP member in Sri Lanka
- Television review: PBS’s Frontline, “Truth, War and Consequences”
- Letters from US troops exposed as Pentagon fraud
- US army bulldozes Iraqi farms
- Australian officials detain French student of African descent
- Britain: Blair was responsible for naming whistleblower Kelly
2003-10-17
- Opposition builds in Western Australia to state Labor government health cuts
- UN report details Israel’s Human Rights abuses in Occupied Territories
- 26 years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977)
- ¿Trama Estados Unidos el asesinato del presidente Venezolano?
- The social cost of Slovakia’s “investors paradise”
- Former weapons inspector exposes “Big Lie” of Iraqi WMD
- The New York Times’s “liberal” argument for colonial occupation
- John Christopher Burton, socialist candidate in California recall election, declares solidarity with supermarket and transit strikers
- Bush administration backs massacres in Bolivia
2003-10-18
- UN vote on Iraq: Paris, Berlin and Moscow bow before Bush
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- As Bush lies, Iraq seethes against US occupation
- Strike wave envelops Greece
- Bomb attack against US convoy in Gaza as US-Israeli aggression continues
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- When baseball turns ugly—Chicago Cubs fan vilified following ballpark incident
2003-10-20
- Critical and intelligent voices, not squeezed lemons
- Australia: Protesters face jail over Opera House antiwar slogan
- Indian deputy prime minister exonerated over destruction of Ayodhya mosque
- Letters from our readers
- Unions isolate California supermarket strikers
- Germany: Brandenburg intelligence service slanders the World Socialist Web Site
2003-10-21
- China rejects US demands for currency float
- California: Schwarzenegger transition team reveals right-wing agenda
- German government, opposition and employers propose drastic pension cuts
- Britain: Blair outlines punitive law-and-order campaign
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Bolivia: Mass upheavals topple US-backed president
- Human rights group condemns Indonesia’s “hidden war” in Aceh
2003-10-22
- National strike closes universities across Australia
- Sri Lankan unions shut down health strike
- 26 años desde el asesinato de Tom Henehan (1951-1977)
- Two derailments on London Underground in 48 hours
- Los Angeles Times publishes letter from John Christopher Burton, SEP candidate in California recall election
- The WSWS and the California campaign of Peter Camejo: letters from the Green Party and a reply
- US Republican right defends religious zealot general
- Canada: Food bank use continues to rise
- Germany: SEP publishing house at Frankfurt Book Fair
2003-10-23
- SEP candidate John Christopher Burton speaks with picketing supermarket workers in Los Angeles
- Police spy uncovered in California peace group
- Britain: Planned disposal of defunct US ships poses environmental hazard
- Sri Lankan government corporatises state rail network
- Washington warns EU over NATO unity
- German government fleeces pensioners and the unemployed
- White House bans news coverage of coffins returning from Iraq
- Australia: Howard government announces draconian new industrial legislation
2003-10-24
- Art and the facts of daily life
- Sri Lankan government confronts growing opposition
- Masas bolivianas derrocan al presidente títere de Estados Unidos
- Growing anger among US troops in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Deepening poverty and inequality in Northern Ireland
- Hands off Iraq! Withdraw all US forces from the Middle East now! Build an antiwar movement based on the international working class!
- British Columbia: Tens of thousands may be cut off welfare next April
- The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003: Republicans drum up support from religious right
2003-10-25
- Child trafficking in eastern Europe: A trade in human misery
- How Sri Lanka’s “lefts” prop up the rightwing UNF government
- Estados Unidos fuera de Irak! ¡Fuera todas las fuerzas militares estadounidenses del Oriente Medio! ¡Por un movimiento contra la guerra basado en la clase obrera internacional!
- Protests greet Bush in Australia
- Britain awash with debt
- Letters from our readers
- Unprecedented security cocoon for Bush’s Australian visit
- Austrian voters reject government’s attacks on welfare state
2003-10-27
- Spain: Thousands protest outside Iraq donors’ conference
- Australian firms plunder Papua New Guinea
- Bush’s Madrid shakedown nets $13 billion in pledges
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Families of soldiers condemn Bush’s war
- Anti-war protests in Canada
- Tens of thousands in Washington demand end to US occupation of Iraq
2003-10-28
- New York City teachers rally against attacks on education
- Prolonged protest by unemployed Sri Lankan graduates
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Two interesting speeches by Australia’s new Governor-General
- Italy: 10-million-strong general strike protests pension cuts
- Israel steps up its war against the Palestinians
- US shaken by barrage of attacks from Iraqi resistance
- New York City: Children die in house fire, mother charged for being at work
2003-10-29
- Tongan monarchy defies mass protests and tightens media controls
- Bush’s Philippines model for Iraqi “democracy”
- Police murder French journalist in Ivory Coast
- Hunger deepens in the Northwest US
- The spectre of Diana returns to haunt Britain’s royals
- 17,000 violent deaths in Detroit—the social meaning of a horrifying statistic
- Democrats debate in Detroit: No alternative to Bush’s program of war and reaction
2003-10-30
- Groping their way toward power and wealth
- Casa Blanca prohíbe noticias acerca de ataúdes que regresan de Iraq
- Australia: Grieving families lead march against construction site deaths
- Huge losses for Social Democrats in German state election
- Britain: Labour expels antiwar MP Galloway
- Bush press conference: the bigger the crisis, the bigger the lies
- Azerbaijani presidential election fixed with the approval of Bush and Putin
- ASEAN’s problems on display at Bali summit
2003-10-31
- Mahathir’s anti-Semitic comments: fallout from Washington’s “war on terrorism”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
- Florida Governor Jeb Bush intervenes in “right-to-die” case: A cruel pandering to the religious right
- US growth rate climbs, but economic problems remain
- Letters on “Criminalizing the victim—New York City: Children die in house fire, mother charged for being at work”
- Letters on “The WSWS and the California campaign of Peter Camejo: letters from the Green Party and a reply”
- US: Bush education proposals target community college students
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