Archive: February 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 February 2001
- Ericsson outsourcing deal threatens 11,000 jobs worldwide
- Marxism and the AIDS dissidents: Part 2—Scientific objectivity
- Preparations for peace talks drag out as Sri Lankan government continues military offensive
- Spain: Thousands march in support of immigrant hunger strikers
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US economy shows weakest growth in five years
Layoffs mount, consumer confidence plummets - Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East
- Workers strike against mass layoffs at European GM plants
2 February 2001
- Bush backs "faith-based" programs: holy water for the social crisis in America
- Growing concern about "Mad Cow Disease" in the US
- Marxism and the AIDS dissidents: Part 3—Drug therapies, statistical studies and the pharmaceutical corporations
- Northern Ireland: High Court overturns ban on Sinn Fein ministers attending cross-border talks
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A mix of radicalism and banality
The film The Princess and the Warrior directed by Tom Tykwer - US will not prosecute New York police in Diallo killing
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7,200 confirmed dead, 500,000 homeless
Western powers provide a pittance Indian earthquake victims
3 February 2001
- Africa: Refugee crisis in Guinea produces a humanitarian disaster
- An interview with German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff
- Australian government responds to corporate criticism with Innovation Action Plan
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Career spanned rise and decay of US auto union
Former UAW President Leonard Woodcock dies - The School Report: Why Britain's Schools are Failing — a book by Nick Davies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 February 2001
- Britain: Corus announce over 6,000 steel jobs to go
- Censure of President Wahid reveals shifting political alliances in Indonesia
- Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote
- Pinochet appeals against arrest order in Chile
- Quebec premier's resignation intensifies crisis within separatist movement
6 February 2001
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A response to the interview with filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff
A clarification of essential historical issues - Britain: Paddington rail crash hero sacked
- China pushes North Korea to accelerate free market policies
- Letters to the WSWS
- Mounting criticism of the Indian government as earthquake toll rises
- The world historical implications of the political crisis in the United States
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 February 2001
- Australia pushes Papua New Guinea to accept Bougainville secession vote
- Former Teamsters President Ron Carey indicted for perjury
- London Underground hit by drivers' strike
- Munich security conference shows mutual distrust inside NATO
- Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie verdict politically motivated
- The Cuban missile crisis in historical perspective: some thoughts on the film Thirteen Days
- The Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie verdict: What the judges said
8 February 2001
- Australian government under fire over digital television
- Bush's tax cut plan: big lies and a little truth
- Crisis at WBAI radio in New York: an attempt to silence alternative views
- Is the US economy on the Japanese road?
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The official version
Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Stephen Gaghan - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
9 February 2001
- Australian central bank cites US slowdown in interest rate cut
- Correspondence on the Jamie Bulger killing
- Disaffection and volatility dominate West Australian election
- Latest survey shows wealth and poverty side-by-side across Britain
- New Directions faction takes control of New York City transit union
- South Africa: Volkswagen blocks sacked workers from returning
10 February 2001
- Another workplace shooting in the US: five dead at Chicago Navistar plant
- Australian companies axe thousands of jobs amid signs of downturn
- Spanish government honours Franco's fascists
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Economic pressure mounts to end the war
Sri Lankan rupee plunges following currency free float -
Whither the Coen Brothers?
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, directed by Joel Coen, written by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen -
Laid-off garment workers end protest campaign in Thailand
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Laid-off garment workers end protest campaign in Thailand
12 February 2001
- Forensic report throws doubt on US/NATO claims of Racak "massacre"
- More than 275,000 layoffs in the US in the last two months
- Political tensions rise in Fiji ahead of court ruling
- Pontiac, Michigan shelter to close emergency center
13 February 2001
- Bush bans strike by Northwest Airlines mechanics
- Bush's political honeymoon: why the Democrats are rallying behind an illegitimate government
- California energy crisis continues as state moves to bail out utility firms
- Mass protests against racist murder in Norway
- Strikes and demonstrations in France against raising the retirement age
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 February 2001
- Albanian separatists continue fighting in Kosovo buffer zone
- Austria's right-wing government marks one year in office
- Testimony highlights Greenspan's erratic course
- The 2001 Academy Award nominations: all in all, not much
- Two decades after the Chrysler bailout: US auto workers face new assault
15 February 2001
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State Liberal government thrown out
Another shock election result in Australia - Britain calls for revision of Geneva Convention on asylum
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Le Carré's new novel questions his previous Cold War certainties
John le Carré's The Constant Gardener, Hodder and Stoughton, £16.99 ISBN 0-340-7337-3 - Letters to the WSWS
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US and Russia pressure the Taliban
New UN sanctions worsen plight of Afghanistan's people - US Court rejects Napster appeal
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
16 February 2001
- German Green party leaders suppress protests against transport of nuclear waste
- Japanese economy continues to stagnate
- Kansas board of education restores teaching of evolution
- Labour and Likud seek national government as Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensifies
- Media and business back Australian Labor Party in Queensland state election
17 February 2001
- Australian professor warns that poor will have to pay more for drugs
- Canadian big business rattled by deteriorating economic situation
- Corporate appointee undermines Australian drug advisory committee
- In praise of classical guitarists Alexandre Lagoya and Ida Presti
- Tanzania: Brutal government clampdown on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba
- US-British air strikes on Baghdad: Bush draws first blood
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 February 2001
- As layoffs continue, US consumer sentiment lowest since 1993
- Concerns grow behind G-7 official optimism
- Correspondence on US recession
- Indonesian leaders desperate to keep power struggle within ruling circles
20 February 2001
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Child victims of the industrial revolution
Orphans of History—The Forgotten Children of the First Fleet by Robert Holden The Text Publishing Company 1999, ISBN 1- 8758477 -08-1 - Commando-style police raid in Sydney designed to intimidate youth
- Germany: new law allows more extensive government monitoring of phone calls and email
- New Thai cabinet loaded with businessmen, bureaucrats and ex-generals
- US and Britain isolated over Baghdad raid
21 February 2001
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A sorry attempt to press-gang workers
Australian unions demand service fees from non-members - France seeks to block asylum for over 900 Kurdish "boat people"
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Only self -important
Cast Away, Chocolat and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -
US sub joyride kills nine Japanese
The USS Greeneville and the arrogance of power - US Navy to be sued for depleted uranium use on Caribbean island
- US scandal over Marc Rich pardon: big money politics and right-wing provocation
- Workers fight union-busting at a Canadian metal fabricating plant
22 February 2001
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51st Berlinale: Part 1
A miserable gruel: European films at this year's Berlin Film Festival - Auto workers vote for strike action at Britain's GM-Vauxhall plants
- Britain: New anti-terror law threatens basic democratic rights
- New York City homelessness at highest level in more than a decade
- Pressure for Indian government intervention against Left Front in West Bengal
- US embassy bombing case: conspiracy trial perverts judicial system
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
23 February 2001
- Congo peace talks revived after Kabila's assassination
- Conservative parties routed in another Australian election
- Corruption row sparks financial storm in Turkey
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De-Stalinisation and the German Democratic Republic
Die Architekten (The Architects), by Stefan Heym, Bertelsmann Verlag, 2000 - Human rights groups condemn Israel for assassinations and indiscriminate killing
- Letters to the WSWS
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
24 February 2001
- Bush's first press conference: a craven media welcomes a political impostor
- Israel's Sharon sets out militarist agenda in advance of talks with Colin Powell
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The 51st Berlinale: Part 2
More works from the Berlin film festival - Napster offers record companies a new commercial arrangement
- Ontario, Canada: Union scuttles Falconbridge strike
- South Korean government orders massive police assault on Daewoo workers
- Store guards kill another worker in Detroit
- Submarine collision provokes anger and anti-US sentiment in Japan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
26 February 2001
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With trade war looming
Canada rescinds ban on Brazilian beef - Pakistani regime shuts newspaper and charges editors with blasphemy
- Papua New Guinea government overturns minimum pay rise
- The Jamie Bulger case: Press seek to thwart release of Robert Thompson
- Union membership in US at lowest level in 60 years
- Why was Stanley Kramer so unfashionable at the time of his death?
27 February 2001
- Germany seeks to normalise relations with Iran
- Germany: State attorney launches investigation of Foreign Minister Fischer
- Germany: Violence against foreigners increases by 40 percent
- Navy report confirms: civilians distracted crew of US sub
- Racial killings in Borneo: a symptom of deep-seated social tensions
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A further erosion of democratic rights
Sri Lankan government postpones local elections for 12 months - Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 February 2001
- AOL-Time Warner threatens children running Harry Potter fan sites
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A test case for free speech
Australian academic dismissed for opposing falling university standards - Blair-Bush meeting highlights growing rift between US and Europe
- Mozambique flood disaster returns
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A remarkable achievement for mankind
Scientists release a map of the human genome - US executive compensation rose 16 percent in 2000
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