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Archive: February 2002

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 2002

• Afghanistan: US forces carry out cold-blooded murder at Kandahar hospital
• Ammunition dump explodes in Lagos
• Enron fall-out threatens Britain’s Labour government
• Europe reacts nervously to Bush’s State of the Union speech
• Letters on the US war in Afghanistan and the case of John Walker Lindh
• Malaysian government uses "terrorist" smear to bolster its political fortunes
• Nombran a ex asesor de empresa petrolera como representante de los EE.UU. en Afganistán.
• Recent letters to the WSWS

2 February 2002

• Anti-European agenda of the Freedom Party provokes government crisis in Austria
• Last-ditch deal ends Woomera refugee hunger strike in Australia
• Relatives of September 11 victims expose human toll of US war in Afghanistan
• Revenue shortfalls lead to job losses and funding freezes in New Jersey
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

4 February 2002

• California’s economic downturn: history repeats itself
• India continues to stoke conflict with Pakistan
• Malaysian government cracks down on immigrant workers
• White House stonewalls Congressional probe into Enron links
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

5 February 2002

• Australian government unreservedly backs Bush’s open-ended war
• Danish government toughens laws for foreigners
• Defending the indefensible: more US lies on Afghan prisoners and Geneva Convention
• Dismissal of Japanese foreign minister may spark political turmoil
• General strike in Madagascar
• International concern over US support for Israeli war drive
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 February 2002

• Australian rural students face severe disadvantage
• Billions for war and repression: Bush budget for a garrison state
• German authorities suspend right to demonstrate outside Munich Security Conference
• Palestinian professor victimized in Florida
• Surplus value and the rate of profit
• Sweden’s Ericsson posts historic losses

7 February 2002

• Claims of US "recovery" look premature
• International Security Conference in Munich exposes growing NATO tensions
• Letters on Israeli army reservists’ protest
• Letters on the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl
• A first-hand account
  Life inside an Australian refugee detention centre
• Media uses Pearl kidnapping to whitewash American society
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

8 February 2002

• "Strange Fruit": the story of a song
• Australian detainee at Guantanamo Bay abandoned by Howard government
• Britain: opposition mounts to Labour’s privatisation policies
• Class war at home: the social dimensions of the new Bush budget
• Interview on case of Guantanamo Bay detainee: "A blatant disregard for human rights"
• Letters on Bush’s State of the Union speech
• Scotland report exposes child poverty

9 February 2002

• Ken Burns’ Mark Twain: a not quite unflinching portrait
• New York City police crack down on World Economic Forum protests
• Protest by Israeli reservists opens new chapter in the struggle against Zionism
• Sinhala chauvinist JVP makes significant gains in Sri Lankan election
• The political vendetta against John Walker Lindh continues
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 February 2002

• Canada’s prime minister accuses opposition of assisting terrorists
• Deaths in US capital highlight homelessness crisis
• Human carnage continues in the Chinese coal industry
• Papua New Guinea government offers free education in election bid
• Privatisation drive in Yugoslavia could provoke a "social bomb"
• ¿Había estado los Estados Unidos prevenido del ataque del 11 de septiembre?
  Primera parte: Advertencias

12 February 2002

• Corporate Detroit demands more school cuts
• India: Ayodhya campaign heightens the danger of communal conflict and war
• Letters on "Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?"
• The cause of capitalist crises
• The promise of Iranian cinema
  Close-up, directed by Abbas Kiarostami (1990)
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• ¿Había estado los Estados Unidos prevenido del ataque del 11 de septiembre?
  Segunda parte: Vigilando a los piratas aéreos

13 February 2002

• 291 personas mueren en Lima—las raíces sociales del terrible incendio
• A woman in war
  Charlotte Gray, directed by Gillian Armstrong
• At least 50 dead as floods inundate much of Jakarta
• Britain: Postal workers vote for national pay strike
• Bush targets Middle Eastern immigrants in new police dragnet
• G-7 meeting keeps silent on major problems
• Germany: Christian Democrats nominate right-winger Stoiber to run for chancellor
• Letters on the Enron collapse
• ¿Había estado los Estados Unidos prevenido del ataque del 11 de septiembre?
  Tercera parte: Los Estados Unidos y el terrorismo del Medio Oriente

14 February 2002

• Afghan villagers killed and prisoners beaten in US military "mistake"
• Britain: Scargill’s cronies proclaim him honorary president for life of miners union
• Dave Van Ronk, folk and blues artist, dead at 65
• Share market fall deepens Japan’s banking crisis
• US layoffs continue to mount in new year
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

15 February 2002

• 5,800 job cuts at British Airways provokes strike threat
• Australian government launches new attacks on free speech
• Britain: Case against Algerian sought by FBI collapses
• Bush’s "evil axis" speech destabilises the Korean peninsula
• European foreign ministers attack Bush’s policy
• France: the politics of presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Chevènement

16 February 2002

• Blair’s neocolonialist vision for Africa
• Bush administration confirms plans for war against Iraq
• Letters on Dave Van Ronk
• The New York Times on the Milosevic trial: a triumph of cynicism
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• ¿Había estado los Estados Unidos prevenido del ataque del 11 de septiembre?
  Cuarta parte: La negativa en investigar

18 February 2002

• A letter from David North to the New York Times on the obituary of Dave Van Ronk
• Africa and the perspective of international socialism
• Blair government refuses to protest false imprisonment of British nationals by Saudi Arabia
• Bush le declara guerra al mundo en su discurso sobre el Estado de la Nación
• El presupuesto de Bush convierte al país en guarnición con billlones de dólares para la guerra y represión
• Political reaction and intellectual charlatanry: US academics issue statement in support of war
• The New Zealand Greens and the war in Afghanistan

19 February 2002

• Black Hawk Down: naked propaganda masquerading as entertainment
• Howard’s dirty tricks campaign committee
  How the Australian election was subverted
• Murder of an Afghan minister reveals a weak, divided government
• US war plans panic Canada’s elite
• What is behind the Olympics figure skating furor?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 February 2002

• Al Gore backs Bush’s war plans
• Australian government drops threat to bar UN visit to detention centre
• Hollywood heart-strings need a transplant
  John Q, directed by Nick Cassevetes, written by James Kearns
• Lockerbie appeal raises new questions
• Two exchanges on the US economy
• US militarism targets South American oil
• Labor officials stave off strike
  United Airlines, machinists union reach accord

21 February 2002

• Britain: Fire at Yarl’s Wood detention centre highlights plight of refugees
• Bush doubletalk on Afghan POWs: US continues to flout Geneva Conventions
• Enron fallout is spreading
• Sri Lankan SEP demands the release of two Tamil detainees
• Two films mark thirtieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday
• Why the MDC opposition in Zimbabwe fell for a transparent sting operation
• Workers Struggles: Europe

22 February 2002

• Detroit school employees march against layoffs
• Enron VP tells Congress she feared for her life
  But media remains silent on Baxter "suicide"
• Hundreds dead in Egyptian rail disaster
• Letters on "State of the Union speech: Bush declares war on the world"
• Sharon’s war crimes in Lebanon: the record
• Tensions continue to wrack Fijian government
• This year’s Academy Awards nominations

23 February 2002

• Bush announces new global warming plan: a Valentine’s Day gift for energy corporations
• Letters and replies on Bush’s State of the Union speech
• Nepali regime steps up oppression of Maoists and civilians
• Sharon’s war crimes in Lebanon: the record
  Part Two
• 52nd Berlin Film Festival
  Still awaiting the long anticipated revival of German film
• The killing of Daniel Pearl
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 February 2002

• Australian government cost-cutting results in death of 10-year-old boy
• British government accedes to demands for new corporate killing offence
• FBI knows anthrax mailer but won’t make an arrest, US scientist charges
• Sharon’s war crimes in Lebanon: the record
  Part Three
• Technology, the service industries and socialism

26 February 2002

• Australia: Labor trials "rent-a-cop" plan
• British Columbia: Mass protest against gutting of public and social services
• British shooting of civilians heightens tensions in Afghanistan
• German government bypasses parliament to fund military project
• The "fog of war"
  How the US media covers up civilian deaths in Afghanistan
• Koizumi promises a plan as debt problems deepen
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

27 February 2002

• Australian government refuses to transfer refugees from malaria-ridden camp
• Britain: Scandal over Mittal’s donation to Labour reveals sharp divisions within establishment
• Conference of US right-wingers hears call to execute John Walker
  Let liberals know “they can be killed too”, says TV commentator
• European Union takes united action against Zimbabwe
• Letters on "Political reaction and intellectual charlatanry: US academics issue statement in support of war"
• New York City mayor slashes public services
• Sri Lankan government and LTTE sign a tentative cease-fire agreement

28 February 2002

• Australia’s second largest airline collapses, again
• Greenspan predicts US "recovery" but sounds some warnings
• The 52nd Berlin Film Festival
  Part 2
• The Hague Tribunal: Milosevic charges NATO with war crimes
  Part 1
• US court sanctions further media monopolization
• US troops join invasion of Colombian rebel zone
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa