Archive: September 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.
2 September 2002
- Australia: intra-union brawl opens door to state attacks
- Austria: power struggle within Haider’s Freedom Party
- Cheney’s brief for war: a mass of lies and historical falsifications
3 September 2002
- Australia seeks to tighten its grip on Pacific island nations
- Britain: Media exploits death of school girls for law-and-order binge
- Major League baseball players settle contract dispute
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The FBI and Albert Einstein
The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist, by Fred Jerome. St. Martin’s Press, 2002. 348 pages. ISBN 0-312-28856-5 - US seeks Japanese government support for war on Iraq
4 September 2002
- Fear of global slump sparks share market plunge
- Kosovo: UN forces arrest former KLA commanders
- Newsweek exposé of war crimes in Afghanistan whitewashes US role
- Sri Lankan government imposes longer hours on female workers
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Two toothless, pointless films about the film industry
Full Frontal, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Simone, written and directed by Andrew Niccol - Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 September 2002
- Britain: Nationwide firefighters strike draws closer
- European Union foreign ministers divided on Iraq war
- Pakistani strongman imposes anti-democratic constitutional changes
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The PDS and the German floods
The case of Dresden - US dockworkers rally in Los Angeles
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
6 September 2002
- Australia: 20-year-old jailed for 55 years on gang rape charges
- Social tensions escalate conflicts within Iranian regime
- US documents implicate Kissinger in Argentine atrocities
- US, UK step up air war on Iraq
- WSWS interviewed by US radio on dash for African oil
- What lies behind India’s planned trip to the moon?
7 September 2002
- Afghan puppet government shaken by twin attacks
- Decrease in Australia’s unemployment rate masks ongoing job losses
- Ontario Tories impose massive cuts on urban schools
- US layoffs mount—68,000 lost factory jobs in August
- What water privatisation means for Africa
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 September 2002
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A forceful reminder of the plight of seafarers and immigrants
The Death Ship by Ret Marut/B. Traven - Holland: Pim Fortuyn List leads new government’s right-wing assault
- Indian supreme court overrules BJP push for early election in Gujarat
- Oppose US war against Iraq! Build an international movement against imperialism!
10 September 2002
- After the debt default: Argentine economy in deepest-ever recession
- Behind German Chancellor Schröder’s opposition to war on Iraq
- Britain: Blair spurns popular opposition to back US war vs. Iraq
- Indonesian court imposes nominal jail term on parliamentary speaker
- Michigan judge rejects early release for Nathaniel Abraham
- US dock talks reach agreement on health care benefits
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
11 September 2002
- Behind the "refashioning" of the Australian Labor Party
- Koizumi’s visit to North Korea: a first for Japanese imperialism
- One year since September 11: an unprecedented assault on democratic rights
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The Milosevic Trial: Key prosecution witness backs deposed Yugoslav president
Officials used threats to extract testimony, ex-spy chief says - UN summit subordinates environment and development to corporate interests
12 September 2002
- A blatant cover-up: US releases report on Afghan massacre
- Indian court refuses to reduce homicide charges over Bhopal disaster
- OECD study shows growing gulf between rich and poor
- One year after the terror attacks: still no official investigation into September 11
- Readers respond to WSWS statement vs. Iraq war
- UN report on Middle East catalogues widening inequality
13 September 2002
- Ambush near US-owned mine in Papua suggests Indonesian army involvement
- Australian government echoes Bush rhetoric on Iraq
- Bush at the UN: Washington’s war ultimatum to the world
- September 11—exploiting grief to prepare for war
- The German PDS: an establishment party which calls itself socialist
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
14 September 2002
- Alabama miner speaks on 2001 explosion that claimed 13 lives
- Britain’s trade union federation lines up behind Bush/Blair war drive
- El costo social de la crisis argentina
- Las montañas de mentiras y falsificaciones de Cheney en su campaña a favor de la guerra
- Letters on US war plans against Iraq
- Palestinian-American professors victimized: An attack on academic freedom and free speech
- September 11 in Chile—clashes on coup’s anniversary
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
16 September 2002
- Another Florida election debacle, and its political lessons
- Israeli government censors architectural exhibition
- LTTE official issues death threat against SEP in Sri Lanka
- Spain to outlaw Basque nationalist party
17 September 2002
- General Electric’s Jack Welch and the corporate plundering of America
- Germany: Deportation centre opens in Bavaria
- IMF report warns of global financial risks
- Threat of plant closures dominates Canadian auto talks
- US bribes and threatens “allies” over Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
18 September 2002
- Israel expels relatives of assassinated Al-Aqsa Brigades member
- Letters from our readers
- Swedish Social Democrats hold on to government
- The Bush administration wants war
- The stock market bubble and Mr Greenspan
- US military scapegoats pilots over “friendly fire” deaths in Afghanistan
19 September 2002
- 200,000 protest in Rome vs Berlusconi’s legal “reforms”
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As workers launch general strike
Colombia’s President Uribe intensifies repression -
Racism and small-town bigotry
Australian Rules, directed by Paul Goldman - Russia: a railroad deal lies behind Putin’s meeting with North Korean leader
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
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“A cause worth fighting for”
An interview with Phillip Gwynne and Lisa Flanagan
20 September 2002
- Australian government commits to Bush’s war
- Bush’s pay-off to China over Iraq: Uighur group declared “terrorist”
- Oil and “conspiracy theories”: a reply to a liberal apologist for the US war in Afghanistan
- The Toronto International Film Festival 2002: A conversation about cinema
- US drops accusation that Somalis supported Al Qaeda
- What really happened to the League of Nations
- Zionist right attacks Britain’s chief rabbi for criticising Israeli policy
21 September 2002
- Britain: Endowment mortgages showing massive shortfalls
- Democrats jump on Bush’s war wagon
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Election statement of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party) of Germany
Build an independent political movement of the working class - Haider brings down the Austrian government
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Oil and “conspiracy theories”: a reply to a liberal apologist for the US war in Afghanistan
Part two - Sri Lankan peace talks: the LTTE bows to international capital
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 September 2002
- Bush administration abets right-wing provocation on eve of German election
- Hundreds of Tamils held without trial despite Sri Lankan peace talks
- Malaysian court rules: no evidence to justify political detentions
- Serbia holds presidential elections two years after Milosevic’s fall
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Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Why are there so many disappointing films?
Part 2
24 September 2002
- An exchange on Zimbabwe
- Britain: Firefighters speak on threatened strike
- German elections: Social Democrats and Greens retain power with a narrow majority
- Global imbalances are “unsustainable” says IMF
- Likely cause of Indian rail disaster: neglect not “sabotage”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 September 2002
- Canada: Right-wing furor over student protest against Netanyahu
- Nigerian factory fire kills 45 workers
- Nurses quit Australian hospitals in record numbers
- The Florida terror attack that never was: a case study in media hysteria, anti-Muslim bigotry and police abuse
- US press enlists for war on Iraq
- United Nations ignores worsening famine in Southern Africa
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Australian nurses speak:
“You don’t have time to care for patients properly”
26 September 2002
- Bank of Japan announces desperate measures to shore up banking system
- El gobierno de Bush quiere la guerra
- Israeli siege aimed at driving Arafat into exile
- New York state “terror” arrests—test case in attack on rights
- New Zealand opposition leader launches racist diatribe against immigrants
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Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Even in success, problems
Part 3 - US congressional hearings on September 11: more evidence of provocation and cover-up
27 September 2002
- Blair’s Iraq dossier: a transparently trumped-up case for war
- Britain: Preparations for war underway despite Blair’s assurances
- Quebec elite’s new consensus: public and social services must be gutted
- US poverty rose sharply in 2001
- US, UK warplanes bomb civilian airport in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- World economy like a “house of cards”
28 September 2002
- Australian government rejects call for caution on US war
- Democrat Carl Levin rebuffs Michigan peace activists
- Luego de declarar incumplimiento de deudas, la economía argentina sufre la peor recesión de su historia
- Mass arrests at anti-IMF protest in Washington
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Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Eight films
Part 4 - US media begins preparing the public for mass slaughter in Iraq
- Utilities commission charges energy companies with fraud in California crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
30 September 2002
- Hundreds of thousands march in London to oppose war vs. Iraq
- Tensions flare between Washington and Berlin
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The Iraqi oppositionists and US plans for “regime change” in Baghdad
Part 1 - The logic of dictatorship: Bush demands workers sacrifice rights to “homeland security"
- US shippers lock out dockworkers on West Coast
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