Archive: August 2001
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
1 August 2001
- Iran-Contra gangsters resurface in Bush administration
- Letters on "Bush, the Pope and stem cell research"
- Papua New Guinea government vows to continue IMF program
- German chancellor’s outburst against sexual offenders: "Lock them up—and throw away the key"
- Daniel Barenboim conducts Wagner in Israel
2 August 2001
- Upper house election weakens Japan’s Koizumi
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East
- US Teamsters union campaigns against Mexican truckers
- Australia: "Anti-social conduct" outlawed in the Northern Territory
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Sydney Film Festival 2001
“Art wedded to truth must, in the end, have its rewards”
The Apu Trilogy, written and directed by Satyajit Ray
3 August 2001
- Arsenic and old waste: US Congress debates Bush environmental policy
- Another Florida teenager receives harsh adult prison sentence
- Massacre of Japanese school-children provokes questioning of society
- China reacts sharply against US proposal for Asia security forum
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False advertising
America’s Sweethearts, directed by Joe Roth, written by Billy Crystal and Peter Tolan
4 August 2001
- British Columbia government slashes corporate taxes, breaks strikes
- Talks between Burmese junta and opposition stagnate
- US manufacturing slump continues: 49,000 factory jobs slashed in July
- Behind Israeli assassination policy: Sharon seeks pretext for military onslaught
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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The Lingalayam Dance Company
Exploring human expression but struggling with a theme
6 August 2001
- HIV/AIDS epidemic in rural China
- Australian government launches anti-union royal commission
- Letters to the WSWS
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A significant technical advance
First self-contained mechanical heart implanted in the US
7 August 2001
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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Spinoza revisited
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity1650-1750, by Jonathan I. Israel, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-820608-9, £30.00 - The new Know-Nothings: US House votes to outlaw therapeutic cloning
- Thai court ignores evidence and acquits prime minister of corruption charges
- WTO’s "reality check" reveals widening differences
- Pennsylvania mayor arraigned for 1969 racist murder
8 August 2001
- Letters on "The new Know-Nothings: US House votes to outlaw therapeutic cloning"
- IRA offers plan to put its weapons "beyond use"
- A question on Marx and Keynes
- Australian play from the 1930s strikes a contemporary chord
- Hacia una nueva apreciación del patrimonio de León Trotsky y su lugar en la historia del Siglo XX
- Death toll mounts in aftermath of Taiwan typhoon
9 August 2001
- Asylum seeker killed in Glasgow, Scotland
- US moves towards deeper intervention in Colombia civil war
- Some"fundamentals" of the "new economy" exposed
- Joe Henderson: Another jazz great dies
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
10 August 2001
- A question on currency contradictions
- New Indonesian cabinet dominated by pro-IMF bureaucrats and Suharto-era thugs
- US Vice President Cheney endorses Israel’s assassination policy
- The NFL meat grinder: US pro football player dies in training camp
- UK manufacturing officially in recession
11 August 2001
- War creates a humanitarian disaster in the Congo
- Israel seizes control of East Jerusalem
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Australia’s refugee detention policy called into question
Borderline: Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers by Peter Mares, University of New South Wales Press, ISBN 0 86840 746 1 -
Referendum on constitution postponed
Big business pushes for national unity government in Sri Lanka - Bush panel recommends diverting Social Security funds into stock market
13 August 2001
- China’s public education system in decay
- Homelessness skyrockets in New York
- Growing famine in Central America
- Christopher Skase—a convenient scapegoat for Australian business
14 August 2001
- British Columbia suspends health care workers’ basic union rights
- Britain: Inquiries into foot and mouth epidemic to be held behind closed doors
- US job cuts approach 1 million in 2001
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
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Campaign to free Hatton six
Sri Lankan prison officials refuse to release two detainees freed by court - Bush’s stem cell decision: an attack on medical science and democratic rights
- Australian unions end Tristar strike over workers’ entitlements
15 August 2001
- Letters to the WSWS
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Expressions Dance Company
A one-dimensional exploration of narcissism and love - Growing international condemnation of police violence in Genoa
- Hearing on new evidence in case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Coroner absolves company of blame for West Australian miners’ deaths
- Britain: Report shows Labour and Conservatives dependant on handful of wealthy backers
- European Court confirms ban on Turkish Islamic Party
16 August 2001
- Indian court supports astrology as a university science subject
- Britain: Government plans forcible removal of 60,000 asylum seekers
- When the Bretton Woods system collapsed
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
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Sydney Film Festival 2001
Collaboration and resistance in Vichy France
The Sorrow and the Pity directed by Marcel Ophuls - Vanuatu—a picture of stark inequality in the South Pacific
17 August 2001
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Too little
Bride of the Wind, directed by Bruce Beresford, written by Marilyn Levy - Last minute stay delays Texas execution
- US and Britain step up bombing of Iraq
- Koizumi’s visit to the Yasukuni shrine legitimises Japanese militarism
- British and Czech governments suspend racist anti-Roma airport checks
- A sharp increase in welfare cutoffs in Australia
18 August 2001
- UN criticises British media for scapegoating refugees
- Unionist opposition threatens collapse of Northern Ireland Assembly
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Ford to cut up to 5,000 white-collar jobs in North America
Layoffs hit US manufacturing, airline, e-commerce and financial sectors - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Islamic party in Malaysia targetted in latest government crackdown
- Zimbabwe: Mugabe regime steps up repression as economy collapses
20 August 2001
- Killing at Australian abortion clinic raises disturbing questions
- Wall Street loots Argentine workers’ pensions
- Palestinians under military and economic siege
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Sydney Film Festival 2001
Two flawed attempts to dramatise child poverty
Ali Zaoua and Animals Crossing the Road
21 August 2001
- US television network CBS pulls program to please corporate sponsor
- Diabetes: a major new health problem
- Questions raised after five mentally-ill prisoners die in Australia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Report confirms US government misconduct in Wen Ho Lee spy case
- Mumia Abu-Jamal barred from Philadelphia hearing
22 August 2001
- Letters to the WSWS
- Federal Reserve cuts rates but markets fall
- Germany: Schroeder government under pressure as recession bites
- US-European antagonisms sharpen over Macedonia
- A glimpse inside an Australian refugee detention centre
23 August 2001
- Train bombing signals new UNITA offensive in Angola
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Another landslide election loss for Australian conservative parties
- Philippines hotel fire reveals neglect of safety standards
- Kosovan refugee drowns trying to swim to Britain
- Coal mine explosion in Ukraine kills at least 37
24 August 2001
- Bolivia’s Banzer cedes power to a "technocrat"
- Eritrea: two students die in government clampdown
- Suit charges Florida election reform violates voting rights
- British pensioner dies after waiting nine hours on hospital trolley
- A revealing line-up of radical organisations in Sri Lanka’s political crisis
- Papunya Tula--the birthplace of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art
- Eight million removed from US welfare rolls since 1993
25 August 2001
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American Madness
Apocalypse Now Redux, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, written by John Milius, Coppola and Michael Herr - Fijian election dominated by racialist politics and instability
- IMF fears Japan’s economic outlook is worsening
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Tensions deepen as NATO begins Macedonia mission
- An exchange: How should socialists approach the issue of stem cell research?
27 August 2001
- Britain: Report critical of treatment of child refugees
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On the picket line at Maintrain
Bitter lessons from years of job destruction - Mass layoffs underway in Japan
- Former Australian prime minister hired to close down Maintrain strike
28 August 2001
- The thoroughly conformist world of Amelie
- Minutes point to mounting problems for the US Fed
- With murder of Palestinian leader, Israel escalates provocations and violence
- US unemployment claims hit nine-year high
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Socialist Equality Party public meeting
Robert Kerrey and the bloody legacy of the Vietnam War
Thursday, September 13, 7 p.m. The Cooper Union School of Engineering Building, Room 605E 51 Astor Place (Between Third and Fourth Aves.) - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian government turns away 400 refugees stranded at sea
29 August 2001
- Megawati apologises but Indonesian army repression continues in Aceh
- AIDS campaigners sue South African government
- Britain: Labour places biggest ever government order for closed circuit cameras
- Letters to the WSWS
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Socialist Equality Party public meeting
Robert Kerrey and the bloody legacy of the Vietnam War
Thursday, September 13, 7 p.m. The Cooper Union School of Engineering Building, Room 605E 51 Astor Place (between Third and Fourth Aves.) New York City - Economic and political disintegration on display at Pacific Islands Forum
- Wall Street Saquea Fondos de Pensión Argentinos
- Bush torpedea tratado de armas biológicas
- The social consequences of Ukrainian independence
30 August 2001
- How the social democrats came to the aid of Pinochet
- Europe seeks greater role in Middle East
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The curse of the self-involved Manhattanite
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, written and directed by Woody Allen - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Bush’s nominee to head Joint Chiefs promotes militarization of space
- Australian SAS troops seize Norwegian freighter to prevent refugees from landing
- A highly-orchestrated election in East Timor
31 August 2001
- Sangatte camp exposes brutal French and British asylum policy
- German parliament votes to send troops to Macedonia
- Jesse Helms to retire from US Senate: a career based on racism, bigotry and contempt for democratic rights
- Why the Tampa refugees should be free to live in Australia
- Taiwan to increase economic links with China
- "Ending welfare as we know it" spells poverty for millions of America’s working poor
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