Archive: 03/2004
2004-03-01
2004-03-02
- Britain: Protests mount over tax rises
- Union surrenders benefits, wages in sellout of California grocery strike
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold election meeting in Colombo
- Director italiano Bernardo Bertolucci artista de la "Generación del 1968" encuentra su destino
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Democratic frontrunner declares he will be stronger “war president” than Bush
- US Marines occupy Haitian capital amid charges Aristide was kidnapped
- A survivor against the odds—noted New Zealand writer Janet Frame dies
- Socialist Equality Party to stand in Sri Lankan elections
- US auto union calls off parts strike, accepts multi-tier contract
- 76th Academy Awards ceremony: for the most part, torpor and self-satisfaction
2004-03-03
- Israel: Mordechai Vanunu to be placed under supervision but not arrest
- UN endorses US plans for an unelected Iraqi government
- Australia’s richest man profits from Solomon Islands intervention
- South Africa: Farmworkers murdered by employers
- Reign of terror follows US-backed coup in Haiti
- ETA ceasefire in Catalonia
- Sincere, but avoiding difficult questions
2004-03-04
- Fired transit worker kills two supervisors at New York City rail yard
- Slovakia: Social cuts provoke violent clashes
- Australian government moves to raise retirement age and end aged pensions
- What’s behind the attack on pensions and social security?
- US political elite engineers a Kerry-Bush election
- Canadian judge calls for investigation into Britain’s “dirty war” in Northern Ireland
- India’s Hindu chauvinist-led coalition government calls early election
- German Chancellor Schröder comes to the aid of Bush
2004-03-05
- Who benefits from the Karbala and Baghdad bombings?
- Why has The Passion of the Christ evoked such a popular response in America?
- Britain: 20 years since the year-long miners’ strike
- Latvian government collapses
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- The division of labor behind the US-made coup in Haiti
- Letters from our readers
- Howard government exonerated despite proof of lies
2004-03-06
- Another violation of ethics law by US Supreme Court Justice Scalia
- Britain: 20 years since the year-long miners strike
- Australia: Maternity units forced to close
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US job growth at a standstill
- Israel: Mass unemployment deepens internal social divisions
- Haiti: Thousands march in Port-au-Prince against US-backed coup
2004-03-08
- Britain: The Royal Mail’s 300-year monopoly ends
- The NSSP, the “peace process” and the Sri Lankan elections
- Did the FBI conceal wider right-wing involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing?
- A pretence of democracy for the 2004 Indonesian elections
- Bush campaign ads provoke protests from families of September 11 victims
2004-03-09
- Venezuela: Right-wing opposition clamours for another US-backed coup
- SEP candidates speak on Sri Lankan TV
- Minnesota transit workers strike against assault on benefits
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Kurds on hunger strike against deportation
- A feeble warning to the German business and political establishment by playwright Rolf Hochhuth
- Forbes report: Billionaires’ wealth grew by 36 percent in last year
- Passage of California austerity measures shows dead end of two-party system
2004-03-10
- Iraqis tortured and killed by British troops
- Indian Supreme Court grants trial in Gujarat riot case
- Britain: Detainees returning from Guantanamo face arrest and surveillance
- Letters on The Passion of the Christ
- New films by Ken Loach, John Boorman and Hans Petter Moland
- Australian government gets “carte blanche” to outlaw organisations
- Report details abuse, torture of prisoners by US forces in Afghanistan
2004-03-11
- Record number of “independents” stand in Sri Lankan election
- The Mannesmann trial: German business and union bureaucracy in the dock
- Libya confirms it “bought peace” with the US
- Iraqis tortured and killed by British troops
- Indonesia: Fire in state-owned gold mine claims 13 lives
- Haiti: US Marines expand operations as Washington assembles puppet regime
- France: researchers protest Raffarin government with mass resignations
2004-03-12
- On the rise and fall of Martha Stewart
- Sri Lankan SEP replies to an appeal from ruling UNF
- Terrorist atrocity in Madrid kills at least 192 people
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Japan’s fragile economic recovery
- The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
- Blair: Scrap international law vs. aggressive war
2004-03-13
- US: Weirton Steel cancels health care for 10,000 retirees
- Madrid terror bombings strengthen right-wing on eve of Spanish elections
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
- Bush administration cancels maintenance of Hubble Space Telescope
- Right-wing comes to power in Greece
- Iraq’s illegitimate interim constitution
2004-03-15
- Guantanamo Bay detainee returned to Spain
- Families come to US to demand release of Guantanamo detainees
- An antidote to government lies about David Hicks
- US trade gap highlights rising debt burden
- Filmmaker speaks with WSWS about Guantanamo Bay and David Hicks
- World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party hold conference on “The 2004 US Election: the Case for a Socialist Alternative”
2004-03-16
- Political volatility surrounds Taiwanese election
- Spain: Aznar routed as a result of mass anti-war sentiment
- India reacts with dismay to recent US legislation on outsourcing
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
- France: Teachers strike against government cutbacks
- Drive for coal produces more deaths in China’s mines
2004-03-17
- Britain: Truth suppressed about pensions crisis
- Australia’s largest bank shaken by speculative trading losses
- Australia: “MedicarePlus” aims to kill off Medicare
- The diplomacy of Imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
- The political strategy of the SEP in the 2004 US elections
- An exchange on “Forbes report: Billionaires’ wealth grew by 36 percent in last year”
2004-03-18
- Zimbabwe government arrests coup plotters
- A split in the LTTE heightens danger of war in Sri Lanka
- Britain: Coroner rejects inquest into death of Dr. David Kelly
- Germany: Hamburg state elections—SPD in free fall
- Letters from our readers
- “A voice for the international working class in the 2004 US elections”
- German films at the Berlin Film Festival: Confused emotions
2004-03-19
- One year since the US invasion of Iraq
- The socialist alternative in the Sri Lankan elections
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- IMF managing director nominated for German president
- “The working class must develop a political strategy to defend jobs and living standards”
- The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
- Britain: Freed Guantanamo Bay detainees detail beatings and abuse
- Spanish defeat exposes vulnerability of Howard government
2004-03-20
- In the absence of an explanation: the World Trade Center memorial site
- World Socialist Web Site Review: March-May 2004 issue now available
- More letters on “Why has The Passion of the Christ evoked such a popular response in America?”
- Spain: How Aznar’s lies paved the way for his defeat
- Lead contamination of water supply in US capital
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US-led occupation force targets Haiti’s slums
- Wall Street Journal marks anniversary with lies and slander
- SEP candidate Bill Van Auken on Bush’s war anniversary speech: “Threadbare lies in defense of a criminal war”
2004-03-22
- US: Protests on the West Coast and in Michigan
- Hundreds of thousands join in international protests against Iraq war
- Hundreds of thousands march in Spain
- Massive anti-war protest in Rome
- “The great issues before workers require global perspective”
- Over 100,000 in New York City march against Iraq occupation
- A good deal to chew, and not all of it edible: Brecht and Mother Courage
- Britain: 25,000-plus protesters march to rally in Trafalgar Square
- Iraqi journalists protest US killing of two Al Arabiya reporters
- Spain: protestors discuss Madrid bombings, Aznar’s lies, the election aftermath
- Germany: antiwar protests in Berlin and at US air base in Ramstein
- Bank of America-FleetBoston deal highlights criminalization of US corporate elite
- Canada: Protests in more than 50 cities
- Protests in Australia and New Zealand mark war anniversary
2004-03-23
- Israeli assassination of Hamas leader: a provocation, incitement and prelude to stepped-up aggression
- American militarism through a somewhat paranoid prism
- Estados Unidos respalda golpe de estado en Haití e impone reino de terror
- Australian pilots aborted US-assigned bombing raids during Iraq war
- “Our party intervenes in the European election on an internationalist socialist program”
- US-backed military offensive in Pakistan costs scores of lives
- Slain Irish soldier’s mother condemns Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Islamic headscarf ban: a French teacher’s view
- Former terrorism aide charges Bush manufactured case for Iraq war
- Austria: Social democrats form coalition in Carinthia with Haider
2004-03-24
- SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken condemns US-backed assassination of Hamas leader
- United Nations report: Israeli forces have inflicted a “reign of terror”
- US soldier refuses to return to Iraq
- Intriguing new discoveries on Mars
- “Blair-Bush alliance is an expression of the reemergence of naked imperialism and colonialism”
- The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
- Britain: The beating of Delbo King highlights police racism and brutality
- Germany: Trial against former SS member Herbertus Bikker abandoned
2004-03-25
- Political tensions escalate after Taiwan’s disputed presidential election
- SEP candidate in TV debate over the Sri Lankan civil war
- Final public meeting for SEP election campaign in Sri Lanka
- Haiti’s US-installed prime minister hails fascist gunmen
- A defeat for the camp of the conservative government
- New York mayor imposes mandatory tests for school promotion
- How Joe Lieberman won the Democratic presidential nomination
- 9/11 hearings ignore political, historical issues behind terrorist attacks
2004-03-26
- Frame-up prosecution of Guantanamo Bay chaplain collapses
- US and Israel exploit Syrian/Kurdish tensions
- Sri Lankan opposition spells out anti-working class agenda
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- President impeached as South Korean democracy unravels
- The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
- The science of remembering
- “Reality will dawn on masses of people with American speed and ferocity”—David Walsh
- Iraq’s missing weapons—Bush and the media share an inside joke
2004-03-27
- Australia: Transport union collaborates in destruction of tram jobs
- ¿Por qué ha provocado tanto interés en Estados Unidos La Pasión del Cristo?
- Election statement of German SEP: For the United Socialist States of Europe
- New Zealand: Labour government dispatches SAS troops to Afghanistan
- Blair’s visit to Libya: It’s about oil, Got it?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- European Union extends transport network into accession states
- Letters from our readers
- On events in Haiti: “Imperialism can only be fought as a globally unified struggle”
2004-03-29
- Government routs opposition parties in Malaysian elections
- Political uproar over Labor leader’s call for troop withdrawal from Iraq
- Israel: Sharon government creates ever widening social inequality
- The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
- On the US election: “The two-party system is a two-headed monster”
- The Bush administration and September 11: the implications of Richard Clarke’s revelations
2004-03-30
- German reactions to Aznar defeat: Die Zeit insults Spanish voters
- Sri Lankan election: SEP opposes disenfranchisement of voters in LTTE areas
- US Justice Scalia’s memo on Cheney case: contempt for the law and democratic rights
- US shuts down anti-occupation Iraqi newspaper
- Why won’t Condoleezza Rice give open, sworn testimony on 9/11?
- “Independent” candidate Ralph Nader offers alliance with Democrat Kerry
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2004-03-31
- An exchange on the Australian intervention in the Solomon Islands
- Film-making in the service of identity politics
- European antitrust case finds against Microsoft
- The selling of Bush’s Medicare plan: a case history of political gangsterism
- Letter from Dominic Morice, media manager, AusAID
- Israel: Sharon, facing indictment, threatens new government
- France: Government parties routed in regional elections
- Discussion on the arts, democratic rights and Nader
- Canada’s new prime minister delivers more austerity
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