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Archive: May 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 May 2001

• An exchange on socialism and human nature
• Ban on "Revolutionary May Day demonstration" in Berlin
• Britain's Foot and Mouth epidemic raises wider public health concerns
• Group of Seven meeting calls a "ceasefire" but interest rate "war" not over
• London Mayor Ken Livingstone joins witchhunt of May Day protestors
• More reactionary rulings from US Supreme Court
• Reply to Nick Beams
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

2 May 2001

• Bonanza for US top executives continues despite falling corporate profits
• European Union expands eastward and reinforces its borders
• Goya's private albums: A unique exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London
• As parliament issues a second censure
  Indonesian president's future increasingly in doubt
• International Committee of the Fourth International's May Day greetings to the workers of Valea Jiului, Romania
• Rubber bullets, tear gas and mass arrests at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City
• School massacre scare backfires on Australian state government

3 May 2001

• Affirmative action and the right to education: a socialist response
• Britain: Labour government announces small rise in minimum wage
• Governments resort to police violence against international May Day protests
• Washington's colonial arrogance
  Hundreds arrested as US Navy bombs Vieques, Puerto Rico
• Recording industry giants vie for Napster user base
• Sri Lankan government to privatise remaining factories in the war-torn north
• The University of Michigan Law School case and affirmative action: the politics of race
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

4 May 2001

• AIDS becomes a serious health problem in India
• German SPD politician warns Turkish immigrants: learn German or face deportation
• Inequality, poverty and family stress undermine child health in Australia
• Iranian director protests harassment by US immigration officials
• Racism row continues to embroil Britain's Conservatives
• Robert Kerrey and the bloody legacy of Vietnam
• War in Sierra Leone and Guinea spreads to Liberia

5 May 2001

• Interview with Australian postal worker:
  "Hell will freeze over before I believe that these illnesses are a coincidence"
• Britain: Thousands of tons of condemned meat "laundered" for human consumption
• Former Klansman convicted in deadly 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Alabama church
• Jazz drummer Billy Higgins dies
• Cancer danger at Australian mail centre
  Postal workers demand inquiry and relocation
• US regulatory commission sanctions profit-gouging by energy suppliers to California
• US suffers largest job loss since February 1991
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

7 May 2001

• BSE / "Mad Cow Disease" spreading in Spain
• Democrats and Republicans whip up anti-immigrant racism in Suffolk County, New York
• Italy's Berlusconi and his "House of Freedoms"—a new dimension in the development of the right wing in Europe
• OECD cuts growth forecast
• Philippine president declares "state of rebellion" and cracks down on opposition

8 May 2001

• Largest recorded outbreak of TB in a British school
• Letters from our readers
• Microsoft launches attack on open source software
• Misdemeanor charges for Cincinnati cop who killed unarmed black teenager
• Proposed cutbacks at the Smithsonian research center in Virginia provoke protests by scientists
• Following a major military setback
  Sri Lankan government puts peace talks back on the agenda
• Western Australian Ombudsman's report highlights deteriorating prison conditions
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 May 2001

• Britain: General election set for June 7
• Change of leadership in Vietnam signals a move to accelerate market reform
• Education programs for disabled students under attack in Michigan
• Letters on "Robert Kerrey and the bloody legacy of Vietnam"
• Thousands rally against cutbacks at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Union calls off strike against privatisation of London's Underground rail network

10 May 2001

• Algeria shaken by riots
• Police killing sparks protests in New Jersey
  Unarmed man shot in front of children
• Sri Lankan Muslims protest violent attacks by racist thugs
• Twelve die in South African gold mine disaster
• UN human rights vote fuels US-Europe conflict
• US-Australian military exercise rehearses for gunboat diplomacy in the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

11 May 2001

• European Court finds Britain guilty of human rights violations in Ireland
• HIV/AIDS danger increasing in the West
• Indian "left" forms an unholy alliance with fascistic Shiv Sena
• Of perpetrators and victims: the making of a German child killer
• Surprise interest rate cut by European Central Bank

12 May 2001

• Arms decommissioning central to election in Northern Ireland
• Australian jury finds passive smoking causes cancer in landmark legal case
• Macedonia "on the brink of the abyss"
• One hundred and thirty people die in Ghana football disaster
• Turkey: PKK offers its services to Finance Minister Dervis and the military
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 May 2001

• Australian call centres—sweatshops of the electronic age
• Inside Out—new Chinese art and the political conditions that produced it
• New School students demand ouster of Kerrey over Vietnam War atrocity
• Response to a letter on crime and criminals

15 May 2001

• Divisive union campaign raises vital questions for Australian workers
• Fresh revelations on secret British terror organisation in Northern Ireland
• Letters to the WSWS
• Military officer reveals Australian responsibility for Timor massacre
• Berlusconi wins parliamentary vote
  Right-wing media mogul set to head new Italian government
• Tory defector imposed as Labour candidate in British general election
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

16 May 2001

• Basque nationalists win regional elections
• Draft report on Hatfield train crash in Britain leaked to press
• Buenos Aires 3rd International Festival of Independent Cinema—Part 1
  Filmmaking needs a new perspective
• India embraces Bush and national missile defence project
• The Bush cabinet: a government of the financial oligarchy
• The Carlyle Group: ex-government officials cash in
• US Fed cuts rates, citing decline in investment

17 May 2001

• A failure to confront reality
  Yolngu Boy directed by Stephen Johnson, script by Chris Anastassiades
• Australian companies shed thousands of jobs as economy deteriorates
• Britain's general election: The disenfranchisement of the working class and the need for a new socialist party
• British Conservatives' proposed tax cut backfires
• Canadian Alliance splits
• Robert Kerrey defends Vietnam War in meeting with New School students
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

18 May 2001

• A reply on globalisation and the significance of the Russian Revolution
• Australian doctors call for urgent review of government health funding
• Britain: Deputy Prime Minister Prescott punches protester
• British Columbia elections: social democrats pave reaction's road to power
• History has not ended, or retreated
• Indonesian president running out of options as third parliamentary censure approaches
• The case of Robert Kerrey: how the US media covered up Vietnam War atrocity story
• Un intercambio acerca de la planificación socialista

19 May 2001

• Britain's general election: Labour Manifesto sets out privatisation of health and education
• Flemish Interior Minister exposed as fascist SS supporter
• International condemnation of Israeli settlements dominates events in Middle East
• Buenos Aires 3rd International Festival of Independent Cinema-Part 2
  Intuition and consciousness in filmmaking
• Italy: Berlusconi to name "post-fascist" Fini as deputy prime minister
• Philippine president fails to obtain a clear mandate in national elections
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 May 2001

• An exchange on Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love
• Britain's general election: Big business backs New Labour
• India-Bangladesh border still tense after worst clash in 30 years
• Untempered childhood memories
  15 Amore, written, directed and produced by Maurice Murphy

22 May 2001

• Australian government forced to call royal commission into major insurance collapse
• Britain's general election: Labour and Conservatives vie over which has toughest asylum policy
• German trade union officials attack striking Lufthansa pilots
• Koizumi's agenda for Japan: economic austerity and rightwing nationalism
• Under international pressure, Haitian president Aristide embraces his right-wing opponents
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 May 2001

• Australian government budget: a last-ditch attempt to avoid election defeat
• Britain's general election: Labour pressures media to censor election coverage
• Democrats retreat on nomination of anti-Clinton conspirator Theodore Olson
  An inveterate dissembler
• Letters to the WSWS
• Papua New Guinea government obtains shaky weapons disposal pact in Bougainville
• Sharon calls ceasefire but says Israeli settlements will continue
• Theodore Olson: a record of political reaction and provocation

24 May 2001

• Government report reveals growing social inequality in Germany
• South Africa: Report cites faulty fan in mine explosion
• Sri Lankan government cracks down on student protest over university privatisation
• The Cincinnati riots and the class divide in America
  Part 1: gentrification and police repression
• Reply to a reader
  The SEP's attitude to the Socialist Alliance in Australia
• University of Cincinnati sociologists describe conditions that triggered recent riots
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

25 May 2001

• Britain's general election: Unions desperate to ensure industrial peace for polling day
• Defection costs Republicans control of the US Senate
• Indonesian military chiefs defy president's plans for a state of emergency
• Louisiana resolution brands Charles Darwin a racist
• Pennsylvanian mayor indicted for murder of black woman during civil rights era
• Rural revolts in China reveal widespread disaffection over tax burdens
• Scotland: Asylum seekers hounded and beaten
• US Senate approves record tax cut for the wealthy

26 May 2001

• Ancient city dated as oldest in Americas
• Australian government refuses to release its own youth report
• Britain: London judge expresses sympathy for vigilante-style killing
• Fallout from energy deregulation continues
  Californians hit by sharp rise in electricity rates
• Economic slowdown in euro zone
• Somali refugees drowned after being forced off boat at gunpoint
• Why the government's rush to execute Timothy McVeigh?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

28 May 2001

• Abandoned search for Tasmanian fishermen reveals impact of cost-cutting
• An overview of the 12th Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London
• Australian unions give go-ahead for closure of major biscuit plant in Melbourne
• Florida ballot review shows voters preferred Gore
  Media slants results to favor Bush
• More victims of US immigration policy: 14 Mexicans die in Arizona Desert
• The effects of the AIDS epidemic on Southern Africa's children
• The 12th Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London
  Trade Off and Pester Power: Radicalism's dead end critique of globalisation

29 May 2001

• Britain's general election: The Socialist Alliance and Socialist Labour Party—No alternative to Blair's New Labour
• Britain: Oldham riots sparked by deliberate cultivation of racism
• The 12th Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London
  Five political films
• Indian state elections reveal hostility to the ruling BJP
• Japan: Mounting economic contradictions confront Koizumi
• Pennsylvania governor withholds funds to train death penalty defense lawyers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

30 May 2001

• Austria's right-wing Freedom Party riven by disputes
• France: Wave of mass redundancies throws Jospin government into crisis
• Hundreds of jobs axed after takeover of Australian cut-price airline
• Israeli government launches inquiry into worst-ever civil disaster
• Letters and a reply on Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love
• New report details corruption of New York's municipal workers union
• Two decades after the burning down of the Jaffna library in Sri Lanka

31 May 2001

• Artistic integrity at the "big end of town"
  Up for Grabs by David Williamson
• Britain: Kent County Council creates its own private police force
• The 12th Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London
  Injustice: A film by Ken Fero
• Iran: political crisis overshadows presidential campaign
• Reports highlight psychological suffering of detained refugees in Australia
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa