Archive: 11/2003
2003-11-01
- Sri Lankan opposition launches anti-government campaign
- Quebec Liberal government plans sweeping privatization
- London: Royal Mail provokes unofficial postal strike
- Duranty’s Pulitzer and the hypocrisy of the New York Times
- 50 Years of the International Committee of the Fourth International
- Two films at the Montreal World Film Festival
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Brandenburg intelligence service slanders the WSWS: What really took place in Frankfurt-Oder?
- California wildfires raise social questions
- Bush’s London speech: A defense of aggression and lawlessness
2003-11-03
2003-11-04
- Review of Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
- Khodorkovsky’s arrest and the defenders of billionaires’ “democracy”
- Pakistan intensifies military operations in Afghan border areas
- The New York Times’ Friedman libels the Iraqi resistance
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A political answer to social cuts and war
- 100,000 demonstrate in Berlin against Schröder’s Agenda 2010
- More sensational “terror cell” claims: but where is the evidence?
2003-11-05
- Union moves to weaken California grocery workers’ struggle
- Linda Tripp to collect bonanza from Pentagon: $595,000 payoff for Clinton tapes
- Zionists try to prevent Hanan Ashrawi receiving the Sydney Peace Prize
- Sri Lanka plunges into constitutional crisis
- En Italia: 10 millones se van en huelga general en contra de las reducciones de las pensiones
- Israel intensifica guerra contra palestinos
- US television network caves in to right wing over Reagan mini-series
- The probability of dissent
- Spain: Popular Party accused of stealing Madrid election
- New York City officials scapegoat captain in Staten Island ferry disaster
- Atlantic City, New Jersey: 4 workers killed, 21 injured in construction collapse
2003-11-06
- Taiwan’s president outlines pro-independence election strategy
- Relatives of US soldiers killed in Iraq denounce Bush policy
- Socialist Equality Party condemns Sri Lankan president’s constitutional coup
- Australian central bank lifts interest rate
- Britain: Union sells out postal strike
- German parliament expands army mandate in Afghanistan
- Iraqi police to be trained in Jordan
- In wake of helicopter attack—Washington prepares for mass killing in Iraq
2003-11-07
- US: Democrats lose two more governorships in off-year elections
- Confusion surrounds Sri Lanka’s state of emergency
- New York Times on the Reagan series controversy: in praise of cowardice
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Northern Ireland: Adams offers to disband IRA as new elections are called
- Washington rejected sweeping Iraqi concessions on eve of war
- Interview with US soldier who refused to abandon children and return to Iraq
- Letters from our readers
2003-11-08
- Los Angeles transit strikers vote down management’s “final offer”
- Ohio newspaper uncovers Vietnam war crimes
- Britain: Anti-terror legislation opens up broad attack on civil liberties
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US: Job cuts mount amid signs of upturn
- European poll identifies Israel and US as greatest threats to world peace
- Hanson verdict short-circuits political frame-up
- Michigan: Two construction workers killed when crane hits electrical wire
- Bush vows decades of war for “democracy” in the Middle East
2003-11-10
2003-11-11
- US unleashes renewed bombing raids on Iraqi towns
- Swiss elections: End of political consensus?
- The Milosevic Trial: Last prime minister of Yugoslavia breaks 12-year silence
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Quentin Tarantino’s playful violence and high body count
- US extends its military influence in Eastern Europe
- Arguments of an authoritarian state: Brandenburg intelligence service slanders the WSWS
2003-11-12
- US: Gunpoint police raid at South Carolina school
- Canada’s social democrats court “progressive” Tories
- The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
- New evidence of official lies on Iraq’s “nuclear program”
- US high court to hear Guantanamo appeal
- Gore issues warning over “Big Brother” regime in US
- A convenient vagueness: A review of Elephant, directed and written by Gus Van Sant
- Britain: Blair’s apologia for Iraq war on eve of Bush visit
2003-11-13
- Liberia: US puts a bounty on Charles Taylor’s head
- The political economy of the Sri Lankan “peace process”
- Congress strips profiteering penalties from $87.5 billion Iraqi occupation bill
- The Saudi bombing—who benefits from this atrocity?
- The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
- Israel’s crisis opens rift within Sharon government
- Heinrich Hannover defends WSWS against slanderous attack by Brandenburg intelligence service
- Letters from families of US soldiers
- Washington Post shrugs its shoulders over torture victim case
2003-11-14
- The political economy of the Sri Lankan “peace process”
- Netherlands: Trade unions agree to two-year wage freeze
- War on terror methods for Miami anti-globalization protests
- Protesting textile workers killed by Lesotho police
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
- Germany: MP’s anti-Semitic speech exposes ugly face of the CDU
- Can Hollywood be subversive?
- The crisis of American democracy: its social and political roots
2003-11-15
- No resolution to Sri Lankan political crisis
- Mother of US soldier: “Bush killed my son”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel: Histadrut suspends general strike against pension reform
- US “turning point” in Iraq—deeper into the abyss
- WSWS republishes extracts from The Heritage We Defend by David North, chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board
- The entanglement with life
- Chapter 18: James P. Cannon’s “Open Letter”
- Chapter 17: The Split in the Fourth International
- Britain: New government attack on asylum seekers
2003-11-17
- The political economy of the Sri Lankan “peace process”
- Sinhalese extremist thugs attack arts festival in Colombo
- Australian government flouts international law to eject Kurdish refugees
- Why are retirement pensions under attack?
- US media sanctions campaign of atrocities in Iraq
- European Social Forum: French LCR seeks to channel popular opposition to official left parties
- Provocateurs and criminals in the employ of the Brandenburg intelligence service
2003-11-18
- Bush aboga por décadas de guerra para establecer la "democracia" en el Oriente Medio
- US: State scapegoats parents, workers in New Jersey child welfare scandal
- Los Angeles County and public employees union reach tentative contract
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Teenager’s death highlights terrible toll in Australian workplaces
- Japanese government holds power, but with reduced majority
- Briefly noted
- Canadian authorities complicit in Arar’s illegal detention and torture
- Bush’s visit to London: Is a state provocation being prepared?
- The Maher Arar case: Washington’s practice of torture by proxy
2003-11-19
- US: 21,000 Verizon workers accept buyout
- Jessica Lynch criticizes government-backed lies
- Thousands of workers in South Korea strike against repressive labour laws
- The New York Times “sours” on Bush’s new plan for Iraq
- Election fraud induces political crisis in Georgia
- Arizona sheriff introduces female chain gangs
- Letters from our readers
- An international socialist strategy to oppose militarism and war
- Conservatives and Greens form coalition government in Upper Austria
2003-11-20
- US: 21,000 Verizon workers accept buyout
- India: Tamil Nadu government launches far-reaching attack on the press
- Bush’s London visit highlights mass opposition to US and British governments
- Washington demands “triggers” for attack on Iran
- Spain: Investigation into death at sea of 36 African migrants
- Arson destroys Indiana Holocaust museum
2003-11-21
- Terror blasts in Istanbul: atrocities aid Bush’s “war on terror”
- Massachusetts high court rules in favor of same-sex marriages
- Love and anti-refugee racism in rural Australia
- Britain: Massive turnout at demonstration against Bush and Iraq war
- Fissures deepen within Israeli political establishment
- “Free trade lite” deal papers over US-Latin American conflict
- David North addresses Sri Lankan Trotskyists on the 50th anniversary of the ICFI
- Federal appeals court upholds Bush abuse of “material witness” statute
2003-11-22
- Uzbekistan: Britain’s ambassador embarrasses Bush administration
- Striking Los Angeles transit workers return to work without a contract
- Sylvia Plath is hardly present
- New York police assault fundraiser for anarchist group
- Paul Martin to be Canada’s new prime minister
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Reflections on the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Letters from our readers
- “Meet the people”—Bush and Blair style
2003-11-24
- International and corporate pressure for a political compromise in Sri Lanka
- Indonesia: Trials underway into Suharto-era atrocities
- An exchange on “Friedman of the Times declares war on France”
- Britain: Police chief apologises to family of man shot dead by officers
- Terrorism commission caves in to White House over 9/11 documents
2003-11-25
- Report exposes criminal connections of Lithuanian president
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Unemployment rate in Australia twice the official figure
- US occupation authority tramples on Iraqi workers’ rights
- France: Elf verdicts reveal state corruption at highest levels
- Whither the US dollar?
- Spain: Relatives of military plane crash victims met with official indifference
2003-11-26
- Bush, House Republicans rig vote to pass Medicare bill
- Northern Ireland election: An attempt to rescue the Good Friday Agreement
- Police violence at Miami FTAA protest
- Medicare bill marks major step in destruction of government health plan for US seniors
- The New York Times: a proposal for ethnic cleansing in Iraq
- On “State scapegoats parents, workers in New Jersey child welfare scandal”
- Political crackdown in China as leadership prepares mass privatisations
2003-11-27
- The “war on terror” and American democracy—some ominous warnings
- Britain: Media and government use Istanbul bombings to intimidate antiwar dissent
- Las raíces sociales y políticas de la crisis de la democracia en Estados Unidos
- New Zealand anti-terror legislation gives police sweeping new powers
- European Union to deport immigrants
- Facts, but no framework
- Letters from our readers
- Afghanistan: escalating opposition to the US occupation
2003-11-28
2003-11-29
- Britain: Survey shows increase in social inequality
- Sri Lankan government treads a fine line over the budget
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Marking Time scriptwriter speaks with WSWS
- California Governor Schwarzenegger launches right-wing agenda
- Bush’s PR stunt in Baghdad underscores US crisis
- Britain: Blair’s relations with Europe deteriorate after Bush’s state visit
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