Archive: October 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 October 2001
- Malaysia’s Mahathir in a delicate balancing act
- New York economy hit hard by terror attacks
- PGP creator defends right to encrypt emails
- US jobless claims soar
2 October 2001
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Governor uses National Guard as strikebreakers
30,000 state workers walk out in Minnesota - Australian cancer patients denied radiation therapy
- Chilean regime signs electoral pact with Communist Party
- Germany: Hamburg elections deliver a serious warning
- Letters on "Bush lied about threat to Air Force One"
- Pessimism and the historical painter: Leon Golub
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
3 October 2001
- An exchange of letters on "Anti-Americanism: The ‘anti-imperialism’ of fools"
- Correspondence on "Anti-Americanism: The ‘anti-imperialism’ of fools"
- El gobierno de Bush se embarca en la supresión de la disidencia
- FBI send agents to Kenya
- Fed cuts rates again with US recession "no longer in doubt"
- Hand-picked cabinet in East Timor
- La Casa Blanca fracasa en presentar pruebas sobre la culpabilidad de bin Laden
- President Putin visits Germany: Moscow and Berlin seek a new role in world politics
- Tens of thousands march in the US and Europe against war preparations
4 October 2001
- Bomb attack in Kashmir heightens tensions between India and Pakistan
- Minnesota state workers defend strike
- New York mayor exploits tragedy in bid to prolong his term
- Scandinavian governments support Bush’s war against terrorism
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2001 Toronto International Film Festival—Part 3
Struggling, alive, contradictory... -
Australia:
US terror attacks used to introduce sweeping police powers - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
5 October 2001
- A combustible political situation in Pakistan
- A wave of job losses in Australia
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Carnegie Medal for children’s fiction:
Naidoo’s story of two young refugees wins 2001 prize - Northern Nigeria hit by floods
- Political tensions increase in Northern Ireland
- Suspicious trading points to advance knowledge by big investors of September 11 attacks
- The political depravity of journalist Christopher Hitchens
6 October 2001
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US auto union defeated at Japanese transplant
Another debacle for the UAW - Australian government calls snap election for November 10
- Britain: Blair outlines his imperial mission
- Germany: Arab students witch-hunted
- More questions than answers in Siberian Airlines jet explosion
- Tony Blair’s bin Laden dossier: a pretext instead of proof
- US airlines exploit crisis to slash jobs and benefits
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Nearly 600 detained
Widespread violations of civil liberties in US dragnet - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 October 2001
- Australian government backs Church bid to overturn IVF ruling
- Corporate Canada announces staggering job cuts
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2001 Toronto International Film Festival—Part 4
Films by Godard, Cox, Imamura and others - Los reclamos de seguro de desempleo aumentan estrepitosamente
- US war drive threatens to destabilise Saudi Arabia
9 October 2001
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Australian general election:
Both parties stoke anti-immigrant prejudice - British army practises expeditionary operations in Oman
- Layoffs soar throughout US economy
- Mass shooting reveals dark side of Swiss society
- The Minnesota workers strike and the class divide in America
- Whistling in the dark at G7 finance meeting
- Why we oppose the war in Afghanistan
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 October 2001
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A gentle appeal for justice
Aliwa, by Dallas Winmar Directed by Neil Armfield at the Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney - Arafat cracks down on Palestinian protests
- Austria: Government limits democratic rights and boosts military spending
- Indonesian court overturns conviction of Tommy Suharto
- Letters on the war in Afghanistan
- US Supreme Court Justice O’Connor says "personal freedom" will be curbed
- Worldwide protests against US bombing of Afghanistan
11 October 2001
- German government plans second "anti-terror" package
- Japan moving from recession to depression
- Reply to a defender of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party
- Serbia faces increased political and social turmoil
- Western Australian government plans to carve up electricity network
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
12 October 2001
- Bush’s economic plan: a wartime gift to corporate America
- More letters on "Why we oppose the war in Afghanistan"
- New York City protest opposes war in Afghanistan
- Poland: Democratic Left Party heads new coalition government
- Por qué nos oponemos a la guerra contra Afganistán
- US food drops: a cynical propaganda exercise
- United Nations slashes growth forecast
13 October 2001
- Australian navy opens fire on refugee boat
- Britain: Blair government caught in media manipulation row
- Bush’s war at home: government censorship, secrecy, and lies
- Canadian government attacks civil liberties
- Civilian casualties mount in Afghanistan
- The collapse of Swissair
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 October 2001
- Eye-witnesses confirm that police killed Papua New Guinea students
- Job cuts continue to mount in US
- Milosevic trial: Hague Tribunal shows its partisan nature
- Spanish government beats the drums of war
- Sri Lankan president shuts down parliament and calls early election
16 October 2001
- Anti-war demonstrations in Europe
- Australian economy reveals trend to global recession
- Bulgaria: New government implements cuts and privatisation
- Canada joins war on Afghanistan
- Pakistani leader faces an uncertain future as protests continue
- The media and Mr. Bush
- Union officials accept deal to end Minnesota state workers strike
- Why is Bush refusing to negotiate with the Taliban?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 October 2001
- An exchange on the land occupations in Zimbabwe
- Chronic power shortages in Sri Lanka
- El plan económico de Bush: buen regalo de guerra para las corporaciones estadounidenses
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Howard versus Beazley
More unanimity than conflict in Australian election debate - Suben desmesuradamente los despidos en la economía de Los Estados Unidos
- US foreign policy shift destabilises Israeli government
18 October 2001
- Behind the “anti-terrorism” mask: imperialist powers prepare new forms of colonialism
- Britain: Parliamentary debate reveals growing dissent in "war against terrorism"
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La reunión sobre la economía
Del Grupo de los Siete: Silbando en la oscuridad - How the US airlines got their $15 billion bailout
- Letters on "The media and Mr. Bush"
- US-Uzbekistan pact sheds light on Washington’s war aims in Central Asia
- Vietnam’s Mekong delta suffers third year of flooding
- War in Afghanistan gives rise to tensions in France
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
19 October 2001
- Australian unions help destroy thousands of airline jobs
- Britain: Labour government plans to introduce internment
- Civilian death toll mounts in Afghanistan
- German Green Party supports war against Afghanistan
- Global downturn could set off financial turbulence
- Pacifist moralizers rally behind the US war drive
- US government steps up press censorship
20 October 2001
- Anti-war protests in Australian cities
- Bush aides push war with Iraq
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First things first...
Bush protects drug giant’s patent on anthrax medicine -
Troop deployment announced
Howard plays the war card in Australian elections - Protest against Afghan bombings sparks ethnic conflict in Nigeria
- Sharon utilizes Ze’evi assassination as a pretext for Israeli war-drive
- US jobless claims approach nine-year high
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 October 2001
- Academics critical of war face harassment in US
- Britain: Railtrack collapse sparks political crisis
- Megawati continues balancing act in Indonesia
- OECD slashes growth forecast
- South African report shows devastating impact of HIV/AIDS
23 October 2001
- Afghan death toll mounts as US warplanes hit civilian targets
- An exchange on "Pacifist moralizers rally behind the US war drive"
- China, Russia fall in behind Bush’s "war against terrorism" at APEC summit
- Crisis facing immigrant workers in New York exacerbated by attacks
- More letters on "Pacifist moralizers rally behind the US war drive"
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Ontario Premier resigns
Amid mounting legal and political crises -
Australia:
Police deeply entrenched in Sydney’s drug traffic - Workers Struggles: The Americas
24 October 2001
- 350 refugees drown trying to get to Australia
- Britain: Government member says war is "not a matter of conscience"
- More letters on the US war in Afghanistan
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Vancouver International Film Festival—Part 1
Once again on the problem of perspective - The Taliban, the US and the resources of Central Asia
- US and Israel clash over West Bank incursions
- US considers use of torture in interrogation of terrorism suspects
25 October 2001
- Berlin elections reveal instability and divisions
- Northern Ireland: IRA decommissions arms
- Ominous threats from US against Nicaraguan Sandinistas
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The Taliban, the US and the resources of Central Asia
Part 2 -
SEP public meetings in Australia
The war in Afghanistan: the socialist perspective - Unprecedented police raid on nightclubs in Australia’s largest city
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
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Bush declara guerra contra su propio país con
la censura, las mentiras y los secretos
26 October 2001
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Interview with Jürgen Bochert
"If Attac did not exist, big business would have to invent it" - Attac conference in Berlin: opportunism and unwavering loyalty to the state
- Britain: Labour government accused of cover-up over BSE experiments
- Mass arrests at anti-war demo in Britain
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Remembered horrors of a religious education
The Christian Brothers at The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House until November 3 - Two revealing comments on the war against Afghanistan
- US secretary of state’s visit to Pakistan and India fails to quell tensions
27 October 2001
- Britain: Reports admit this is a war for oil
- Nigerian soldiers carry out massacres
- Sharp fall in global trade growth
- US anthrax scare: Why the silence on right-wing terrorism?
- US postal workers denounce government negligence in anthrax attacks
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- World Socialist Web Site Review: November issue out now
29 October 2001
- Drowned refugees were victims of Australian policy
- Israeli Defence Force massacres inhabitants of Beit Rima
- Letters on the US war in Afghanistan
- Media witchhunt Australian boxer for opposing US war
- The New York Times and the dirty secret of US-Saudi relations
30 October 2001
- Britain: Labour MPs oppose bombing--but not war
- Five workers killed in New York City construction accident
- Iranian filmmaker faces death penalty in upcoming trial
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Los poderes imperialistas se esconden detrás de la máscara del 'anti terrorismo' para preparar nuevas formas del colonialismo
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- Pakistani immigrant dies in US custody
- Socialist Equality Party and World Socialist Web Site public meetings in Britain: "Why we oppose the war in Afghanistan"
- US propagandists invoke the Cold War
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
31 October 2001
- 2001 Australian elections: The political issues facing the working class
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2001 Australian elections: The political issues facing the working class
Part 1 - Bush "anti-terror" law mandates sweeping attacks on democratic rights
- General Motors plans to axe thousands of jobs in Europe
- Indian government cracks down on Islamic student organisation
- Japanese parliament votes for military role in Afghan war
- Lloyd’s members insist "very large profits are possible" following September 11
- New York mayoral race reflects growing social tensions
- Northern Ireland: How the US told the IRA to begin decommissioning
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Vancouver International Film Festival—Part 2
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