Archive: July 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 July 2002
- An unstable new administration undemocratically installed in Afghanistan
- Australian secret police withhold young worker’s passport
- Britain: Open verdict on man shot by police
- Kosovo threatens to ignite fresh Balkan conflict
- On the death of paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould
- Xerox restates billions in revenue: yet another case of accounting fraud
2 July 2002
- Argentina’s police killings raise specter of dictatorship
- Drawing the lessons of WorldCom
- Tanzania’s worst ever rail crash
- US Supreme Court authorizes school vouchers: a simultaneous assault on freedom of thought and public education
- US prepares to extend its military presence in the Philippines
- Why the big fuss over Bush’s colonoscopy?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
3 July 2002
- G8 summit rejects Africa aid plea
- La Organización de Liberación Palestina (OLP) se postra ante Bush
- New York court defends inferior education for working class youth
- Sri Lankan government to implement new economic austerity measures
- The Milosevic Trial: Key prosecution witness discredited
- Toronto city workers strike against privatization
- US warplanes massacre villagers in central Afghanistan
- Why is the US government protecting the anthrax terrorist?
4 July 2002
- An interview with a supporter of the Stalinist Palestinian Peoples Party
- France: The war over the minimum wage never took place
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In favor of a police-state? Not quite ...
Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg - India rules out troop withdrawal from Pakistani border
- Palestinians march in Gaza to demand jobs
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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932-2002)
Pioneer of contemporary Aboriginal art dies - Reply to a reader on US Attorney General Ashcroft and the separation of church and state
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Washington demands impunity
US pushes Europe to the brink on international court - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
5 July 2002
- EU summit steps up attack on refugees and foreigners
- Exchanges with our readers
- Malaysian prime minister’s sudden resignation points to political instability ahead
- The political failure of the PLO and the origins of Hamas
- US Supreme Court Justice Scalia on capital punishment: "Death is no big deal"
- US media silent on anthrax cover-up charge
- Weakening US dollar threatens Japan’s recovery
6 July 2002
- Anti-US protest in Kabul: a sign of wider anger in Afghanistan
- Britain: Rail union slashes funding to Labour Party
- Canadian auto union leaders isolate fight against Navistar union-busting
- Sharon government scapegoats unemployed for Israel’s economic crisis
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The political failure of the PLO and the origins of Hamas
Part 2 - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 July 2002
- June unemployment figures show US "recovery" is jobless
- Papua New Guinea election plagued by corruption, violence and a lack of funds
- The French Communist Party discusses its latest electoral debacle
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The political failure of the PLO and the origins of Hamas
Part 3 - Toronto strike at the crossroads: Answer government strikebreaking with an industrial-political offensive against the Tories!
9 July 2002
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Another murky political intrigue
Afghan vice-president murdered in broad daylight - Australian government moves to end the right to strike
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On eve of Wall Street speech
Bush’s past business dealings come back to haunt him -
"The End is the Beginning" completes series on socialist opposition to Stalinism in the USSR
Final volume of ground-breaking history presented at tribute to Vadim Rogovin -
The Hartz Commission proposals
German SPD election campaign attacks jobless and welfare benefits -
German high school student kills himself in class
What is the source of violence in German schools? - Madagascar: Ravalomanana takes control with US support
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 July 2002
- Australian asylum seekers in desperate hunger strike
- Months of delays in scheduling Sri Lankan peace talks
- New York doctor charged with maiming mental patients at for-profit facilities
- Programme of the new Dutch government: xenophobia, welfare cuts and a stronger state
- Ray Brown, jazz bass virtuoso, dies
- Striking Toronto city workers rally
- Thirty-three killed as fire erupts in Ukranian mine
- US political establishment vilifies "Pledge" plaintiff
- US preparing full-scale invasion of Iraq
11 July 2002
- Big business backing Labour to win New Zealand election
- Britain overturns ban on selling arms to Israel
- Cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires—Cuarta parte
- Do cellular phones represent a health risk?
- New French prime minister outlines anti-working class program
- Noose tightens around North Korea following Yellow Sea naval battle
- Norway: left parties and trade unions embrace far-right Progress Party
12 July 2002
- Against the boycott of Israeli academics
- French teachers speak on the crisis in education
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49th Sydney Film Festival
Grappling with the plight of immigrants and asylum seekers -
Millions of poor US families face utility shutoffs
"We live in America ...but it’s like a Third World country" - Wall Street crisis staggers Bush
- Workers Struggles: Africa
13 July 2002
- After bullying fails, US blinks on global court
- Britain: Labour government seeks introduction of identity cards
- Ex-president stonewalls Mexican massacre probe
- More than one million people hit by Indian flooding
- Southern California: record poverty and industrial decay
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 July 2002
- A question on the falling rate of profit
- AIDS could kill 55 million in Africa over next two decades
- Latest figures reveal continued destruction of full-time jobs in Australia
- The morality of plutocracy: the Washington Post and the Harken Energy "distraction"
- Toronto: NDP and union leaders strangle city workers’ strike
16 July 2002
- Bush le da carta blanca a Israel para que continúe ataques contra palestinos
- Corporate Europe follows the Enron model
- Floods ravage China, worse feared to come
- India’s ruling party continues to fan communal tensions in Gujarat
- Michigan Democrats, unions refuse to break ties with anti-Semitic candidate
- New bombing raids on Iraq as US seeks pretext for war
- US deports 131 Pakistanis in secret airlift
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 July 2002
- An exchange of letters on the boycott of Israeli academics
- Detained Detroit Muslim cleric seeks political asylum
- French neo-Nazi attempts to assassinate Chirac
- Indonesian Supreme Court bows to international pressure in key bankruptcy case
- Letters on Bush, the Wall Street crisis and war threats against Iraq
- Outrage over police beating of black youth in Los Angeles suburb
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Air safety and the scramble for profits
The background to the air collision over Germany
18 July 2002
- Asesinatos policiales despiertan el espectro de la dictadura militar en Argentina
- Australia: Anti-democratic election laws behind trial of right-wing politicians
- Britain: Government seeks limit on jury trials
- Head of Bush’s "financial crimes swat team": a fox to guard the henhouse
- Israeli cabinet backs down from law banning Arab land ownership
- Legal witch-hunt of John Walker Lindh ends with plea bargain
- Little substance in Greenspan’s reassurances
- Reunión cumbre de la Unión Europea expande la agresión contra los extranjeros y los refugiados
- Washington threatens Bolivia on presidential vote
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
19 July 2002
- A scandal over genetically modified food dominates New Zealand election campaign
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Argentina’s ex-dictator Galtieri faces "Dirty War" trial
41 others charged with murder, torture - Britain: National strike by municipal workers against low pay
- Brutal killing in Kashmir threatens to raise India-Pakistan tensions
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Estudiante Alemán se suicida en salón de clases
¿Por qué tanta violencia en las escuelas alemanas? - Issues raised by the career of US filmmaker John Frankenheimer
- Letters on the "Pledge" ruling, the Supreme Court and democratic rights
- South Africa: apartheid victims sue ANC government for compensation
- Wall Street plunge swells US government deficit
- ¿Por qué el gobierno de los Estados Unidos protege al terrorista del ántrax?
20 July 2002
- Chilean Supreme Court ends legal proceedings against Pinochet
- Letters to the WSWS
- Sophistry in defense of opportunism: an exchange with a member of the French LCR
- The Milosevic Trial: William Walker’s role as provocateur
- Union betrayal at Navistar— A warning to Canadian auto workers
- What lies behind the political crisis in Turkey?
- Who is stonewalling the US anthrax investigation?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 July 2002
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Sydney Film Festival
Glimpses of daily life for ordinary Palestinians
A Wedding in Ramallah directed by Sherine Salama - Kenya: Malaria outbreak kills hundreds
- Mounting anger over US atrocities in Afghanistan
- Operation TIPS: Bush plan to recruit 1 million domestic spies
- Trans-Atlantic tensions worsen over agricultural policy
23 July 2002
- France: proposed security laws raise danger of police state
- Indian cabinet reshuffle: a desperate bid to restore support
- Northern Command chief backs domestic use of US military
- Spain and Morocco clash over a rock
- Sri Lanka: Cross infections kill seven children at pediatric hospital
- US moves closer to war against Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
24 July 2002
- German engineering giant Babcock Borsig collapses
- Karaoke bar fire kills 53 in Indonesia
- Once again: the New York Times and the case of John Walker Lindh
- Sharon’s latest war crime: Gaza missile attack kills 15
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A highly political decision:
Top court in Malaysia rejects Anwar’s appeal - US chief justice signals support for White House assault on constitutional rights
25 July 2002
- A reader responds to correspondence on the boycott of Israeli academics
- Bush comments fail to halt market roller coaster
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Filthy lives have filthy consequences
Road to Perdition, directed by Sam Mendes - Israel: Sharon government faces widespread condemnation
- Profiteering and the "war on terrorism": Cheney’s former firm cashes in on US militarism
- Washington provides troops to protect its political puppet in Afghanistan
26 July 2002
- Australia: "Anti-terror" laws passed with bipartisan support
- Bush civil rights commissioner warns of detention camps for Arab Americans
- Nine trapped in Pennsylvania coal mine
- Persecution of ethnic Pashtuns continues in northern Afghanistan
- US corporate reform bill: much fanfare for a fig leaf
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
27 July 2002
- A reply to a supporter of the Kosovo Liberation Army
- Behind the sacking of German Defence Minister Scharping
- Lord Weinstock and the near terminal decline of British industry
- The New Zealand elections: the anti-working class record of the Labour government
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Zimbabwe faces acute famine
29 July 2002
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Ground Zero exhibition in Detroit
Signs of a more critical mood among US artists - Nine US miners rescued after three-day ordeal
- Prisoners held in Australian police cells denied basic rights
30 July 2002
- Afghan boys denied asylum by Britain after escaping from Australian camp
- Anti-democratic measures guarantee Pakistan’s election will be a sham
- Indian workers speak about the dangers of war
- Letters from readers on the arts
- WSWS replies to letters on boycott of Israeli academics
31 July 2002
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