Archive: December 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 December 2001
- Britain and Spain agree to negotiate constitutional changes in Gibraltar
- Ipperwash gunman remains on Ontario police force
- New US decree expands power to detain immigrants
- Ontario Premier forced to testify about Ipperwash killing
- SEP campaigners speak to voters in Sri Lankan election
- Socialist Equality Party holds election meeting in Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
3 December 2001
- Millions hungry in US
- Nigeria slides towards military rule
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Perceptive vision of social myopia
Focus, directed by Neal Slavin, written by Kendrew Lascelles, based on the novel by Arthur Miller -
Australia:
Radio talkback host anoints new NSW Police Minister - Russian airlift to Afghanistan highlights underlying US-Europe tensions
4 December 2001
- Britain: Top London hotel slashes wage rates
- French academic slanders surrealism
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La perspectiva socialista sobre la guerra en Afganistán
Primera parte -
La perspectiva socialista sobre la guerra en Afganistán
Segunda parte - Sri Lankan government opens housing project in bid for votes
- Teachers struggles erupt in New York, New Jersey
- US air strikes kill hundreds of Afghan civilians
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 December 2001
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Neo-nazis demonstrate against Wehrmacht exhibition
Anti-fascist demonstrators denounce Berlin police tactics - Election violence in Sri Lanka foreshadows further political turmoil
- Feltex dispute signals renewed offensive against Australian workers
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German parliament agrees second anti-terrorism law package
Experts warn of destruction of democratic rights - Letters on the massacre of Taliban POWs
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The lack of any real feeling for the world
Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan; Sexy Beast, directed by Jonathan Glazer -
Israel targets Arafat’s headquarters
US gives green light for war against Palestinian Authority
6 December 2001
- A red-baiting attack at the US Transport Workers Union convention
- Composer Pierre Boulez victim of Swiss police raid
- Enron: The real face of the "new economy"
- Is the US preparing an invasion of Somalia?
- State takeover of Philadelphia schools temporarily delayed
- Unions play key role in carve-up of Australian airline
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
7 December 2001
- Argentina al borde de la bancarrota—¿Quién sigue—Brasil?
- Australian Walkley Awards: Rewards for services rendered
- Britain: BAE ends production of commercial jets at cost of 1,700 jobs
- Britain: Police reform targeted at civil disorder
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Film on postwar Italian life falls short
The Way We Laughed, directed by Gianni Amelio -
As major powers jockey over aid
Millions of Afghanis lack food, shelter and medicine - The Geneva Convention and the US massacre of POWs in Afghanistan
- Two hundred arrests in New Jersey teachers strike
8 December 2001
- AIDS epidemic grows unchecked
- Letters on the WSWS Arts Review
- The fascist roots of Germany’s post-war Criminal Police Office
- UN unveils a quasi-colonial regime for Afghanistan
- US jobless rate hits six-year high
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 December 2001
- Britain: Dock company Euromin cleared of corporate manslaughter
- Japan moves into recession as credit rating cut again
- Letters in response to "Anti-Americanism: the ‘anti-imperialism’ of fools"
- Once again on the New York Times and Bush’s police-state measures
- Tommy Suharto given kid glove treatment by Indonesian police
- Why Britain should be indicted for war crimes: The SAS role in the Qala-i-Janghi massacre
11 December 2001
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A dull thud; or, Filmmaking in bad faith
Ocean’s Eleven, directed by Steven Soderbergh, screenplay by Ted Griffin - Another inquiry into Australia’s refugee detention centres
- Cholera epidemic spreads in Nigeria
- French officer accused of collaborating with Milosevic government
- Kandahar: the Taliban’s last stronghold in Afghanistan falls
- US war crime at Mazar-i-Sharif prison: new videotape evidence
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 December 2001
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Ashcroft defends Bush’s war against the Constitution
Tells Senate hearing that critics "aid terrorists" - Journalist Robert Fisk beaten by Afghan refugees
- Letters on the US massacre of POWs in Afghanistan
- Palestinian scholar held in Florida penitentiary
- US Fed cuts again amid deflation fears
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US cable channel whitewashes the CIA
Into the Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood, written, produced and directed by Charles C. Stuart
13 December 2001
- Anglo-American tensions over Afghanistan and Iraq
- Australian High Court rubberstamps Howard government’s treatment of Tampa refugees
- Britain: 30,000 job losses at Consignia
- FBI begins questioning of 5,000 Middle Eastern immigrants
- More evidence of US war crimes in Afghanistan: Taliban POWs suffocated inside cargo containers
- Philippine president uses September 11 attacks to forge closer ties with US
- US: shares of Cheney’s former company hit hard
- Workers Struggles: Europe, The Middle East and Africa
14 December 2001
- Canada: British Columbia to slash civil service by one-third
- Cohn-Bendit attacks German novelist Günter Grass for opposing Afghan war
- Corporate job-shedding continues in Australia
- Cynicism and political reaction in the Bush White House: the case of Karl Rove
- Kenya: 15 killed in slum clashes
- Rightwing UNP wins general election in Sri Lanka
- Strikebreaking judges, defiant teachers: the real face of class relations in the US
15 December 2001
- Anti-government hostility marks Chilean election campaign
- Finucane murder suspect shot dead in Northern Ireland
- Letters from US workers
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US companies shed 800,000 jobs in two months
Retail sales drop a record 3.7 percent - Widening assault on democratic rights in US
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
17 December 2001
- A letter on the contradictions of capitalism
- Afghanistan: US rules out surrender and turns Tora Bora into a killing field
- Britain: Report into summer riots recommends oath of national allegiance
- Elections confirm popular hostility towards Kosovo Liberation Army
- Protests mark 20 years since arrest of Mumia Abu-Jamal
18 December 2001
- Australian government threatens intervention in power dispute
- Bush administration seeks to relax curbs on FBI domestic spying
- General strike paralyzes Argentina as bankruptcy threatens economy
- The bin Laden videotape: the reactionary politics of terrorism
- Tonga announces the expulsion of hundreds of Chinese immigrants
- US proposes "limited operations" in Somalia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 December 2001
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A serious film requires a serious social viewpoint
Intimacy, directed by Patrice Chéreau - Britain: Asbestos ruling will limit compensation payments
- Former ruling party suffers heavy losses in Taiwan election
- German government bans Turkish Islamic group
- Sharon seeks destruction of Palestinian Authority
- US approved 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor
- US judge overturns Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence
20 December 2001
- A letter from a reader in South Africa
- Attack on Indian parliament heightens danger of Indo-Pakistan war
- Australian airline plans all-out assault on maintenance workers
- Britain: Parliament passes draconian anti-terror legislation
- Letters to the WSWS
- Malawi: Police shoot peaceful demonstrators
- Muslim leader in Michigan detained by US officials
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
21 December 2001
- Australian Alcoa workers strike over toxic emissions
- Bush blocks strike by United Airlines mechanics
- France: Former intelligence officer Bunel jailed
- Holiday gift from US corporations—more job cuts and plant closures
- Northern Ireland: Just incompetence or police collusion in Omagh bombing?
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IMF austerity sparks upheavals
Social unrest topples Argentina’s president
22 December 2001
- Britain: Open divisions emerge between army chiefs and Blair government
- Canada: Alberta Premier berates homeless in visit to shelter
- Ex-Stalinists join Social Democrats in Berlin city coalition
- Political crisis deepens in Argentina after De la Rua’s fall
- Report estimates Afghan deaths exceed Twin Towers figure
- The New York Times and the case of John Walker
- Washington’s man to be installed as Afghan prime minister
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 December 2001
- Australia’s secret police to get unprecedented powers
- Britain: Police will not face charges over Harry Stanley killing
- Refugees face "hell" in Australia’s offshore detention camps
- South African government to appeal against AIDS drug verdict
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Opulent, but flawed
The Manns: a Novel of a Century -
US judge approves shutdown of LTV Steel
7,500 jobs eliminated, retirees’ benefits cut - Withdrawal from ABM treaty signals escalation of US militarism
28 December 2001
- African man dies at the hands of German police
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Class analysis and feeling mean a great deal
Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman - Grinding rural poverty leads to suicide in Sri Lanka
- Large anti-government swing in Chilean elections
- One critic’s picks for best jazz and blues recordings of 2001
- US anthrax attacks linked to army biological weapons plant
29 December 2001
- As US bombs more civilian targets, Bush insists Afghan war must go on
- Australia’s largest city ringed by fires
- British government split over Tanzanian radar system
- David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2001
- India and Pakistan on threshold of war
- Letters on "The New York Times and the case of John Walker"
- State takeover of Philadelphia schools paves way for privatization
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4 September 2008
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