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Archive: July 2003

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 2003

• Finland: Prime minister resigns over Iraq war scandal
• New Zealand commits troops and police to Solomon Islands occupation force
• Women in the Russian Revolution
  The letters of Natalia Sedova to Leon Trotsky
• US Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action: the language of oligarchy
• US: Incomes of the ultra-rich quadrupled in eight years
• ASIO Terrorism Act
  Unprecedented police-state measures passed by Australian parliament
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

2 July 2003

• Another detainee dies in US custody in Afghanistan
• Australia: Rail crash inquiry reveals serious mechanical flaws left uncorrected
• Britain: Blair government blames BBC for crisis over Iraqi war lies
• Bush accuses Europe of starving Africa
• El imperialismo en Iraq: lecciones del pasado
  Segunda Parte
• Amid propaganda campaign over Iraq:
  Guatemala’s mass graves ignored by mass media
• The mountain troops and their victims
  How the German army celebrates its past

3 July 2003

• Britain: Parliamentary probe exposes lies on Iraqi weapons
  Part 1: Clare Short, Robin Cook and Andrew Gilligan
• El imperialismo en Irak: lecciones del pasado
  Tercera Parte
• Iraq and liberation
• Oppose Australia's colonial-style intervention in the Solomons
• In the midst of budget meltdown
  Republican right tries to overthrow California Governor
• US government jails thousands of juvenile refugees
• What is a “work of realism”?
  Raising Victor Vargas, written and directed by Peter Sollett

4 July 2003

• Britain: Parliamentary probe exposes lies on Iraqi weapons
  Part 2—Andrew Wilkie and Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi
• Ex-general installed as Australian head of state
• US political life 227 years after the Declaration of Independence
• US subjects Iraqi detainees to “inhuman treatment”
• US: Four dead, five wounded after Missouri factory shooting
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

5 July 2003

• Christian Science Monitor admits using forged documents against antiwar British MP Galloway
• Una visita presidencial a Auschwitz
  El Holocausto y la fortuna de la familia Bush
• Interview with photographer Jason Murphy, participant in Art Against War
• Israeli army whitewashes its murder of US peace activist Rachel Corrie
• The Times‘ William Safire: an old Nixon hand covers for Bush’s WMD lies
• The art of making protest art
• 35 countries denied arms aid
  US retaliates over war crime immunity demand
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

7 July 2003

• 40 millionaires in US Senate
• Britain: Parliamentary probe exposes lies on Iraqi weapons
  Part 3: Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
• Bush administration divided over intervention in Liberia
• Sydney Film Festival—Part 1
  Classic films a festival highlight
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lanka: displaced Jaffna refugees want military zones dismantled

8 July 2003

• Huge rally in Hong Kong against anti-subversion laws
• Silicosis deaths in Pondicherry, India
  Women victims of lack of safety standards
• Singapore witnesses bolster flagging Jakarta terrorist trial
• Spain: Madrid threatens withdrawal of Basque autonomy
• Amid official predictions of recovery
  US jobless rate soared in June
• US, Israel push Palestinian prime minister to launch crackdown
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 July 2003

• Asylum-seekers targeted by rioters in Wales
• Letters from our readers
• Parliamentary whitewash of Blair’s lies on Iraq falls flat
• US cable network fires right-winger after anti-gay tirade
• US: State budget cuts fuel social crisis
• World Socialist Web Site Review: July issue now available
• World Socialist Web Site holds conference on the political lessons of the war on Iraq

10 July 2003

• An exchange on the proposed constitution for Europe
• Australia: Police block protest screening of banned film
• Study on Iraq coverage shows
  BBC was most pro-war of British networks
• Guantanamo detainees face military tribunals
  Bush picks six for drumhead trials, possible execution
• The Carnegie Hall-New York Philharmonic merger and the state of classical music
• The Wall Street Journal and the occupation of Iraq
• The political economy of American militarism
  Part 1
• The political economy of American militarism

11 July 2003

• Continuing turmoil in Nepal after king appoints new government
• Ireland: Health care cuts claim child’s life
• Letters from our readers
• Mounting casualties, Iraqi resistance take toll on US troops
• One week in America: workplace shootings, murder-suicides, killing spree plot
• The political economy of American militarism
  Part 2
• Total oil in France’s biggest postwar financial scandal
• US Supreme Court strikes down anti-gay laws

12 July 2003

• Benton Harbor, Michigan: A socialist strategy to oppose police brutality and inequality
  Statement of the WSWS and Socialist Equality Party
• Britain: Second Iranian asylum seeker risks death in protest
• Solomon Islands bullied into accepting Australian-led military intervention
• Spain: Telefonica to slash 15,000 jobs
• Studies reveal significant levels of depression, inadequate care in the US
• Washington seeks cover for occupation
  US convenes Iraqi council with aim of grabbing oil
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 July 2003

• Bush White House in crisis over Iraq war lies
• Democratic governor imposing austerity budget in Pennsylvania
• Fosas comunes de Guatemala ignoradas por la prensa popular
• Moral de soldados estadounidenses se tambalea en el pantano de Irak
• WSWS/SEP international conference:
  Resolutions condemn war in Iraq, Australian intervention in Solomons
• The Australian Democrats and Greens and the ASIO detention bill
• Vida política de los Estados Unidos 227 años después de la Declaración de Independencia
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa

15 July 2003

• Antiwar song banned from Spanish television
• Bush hangs Blair out to dry over Iraqi nuclear claims
  Prominent MPs call for Blair to resign
• Bush’s tour and US imperialism’s designs on Africa
• Rally against police brutality held in Benton Harbor, Michigan
• Release David Hicks and all Guantanamo Bay detainees
• WSWS/SEP international conference:
  Resolutions on the international unity and political independence of the working class
• The work of British composer Mark Anthony Turnage
• After the mass protests and strikes
  What way forward for working people in France?

16 July 2003

• Berlusconi and Europe
• Iraq war lies rebound on Australian PM
• Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Peck and American filmmaking
• Letters from our readers
• WSWS/SEP international conference:
  Resolutions on the war, social crisis and assault on democratic rights and the development of the World Socialist Web Site
• Spanish judge demands extradition of Argentine officers
• 439,000 file new claims
  US unemployment lines hit 20-year peak
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 July 2003

• Belgium: New government to scrap universal war crimes law
• California Republicans propose drastic cuts in social spending
• Indian unions call off stoppage after state government sacks 200,000 strikers
• Union leaders call off crucial strike
  Lessons of the German metalworkers’ struggle
• Madagascar faces devastating famine
• WSWS/SEP international conference
  The Iraq war and the Blair government
• War, football and the 1914 Christmas truce
  War Game, directed by Dave Unwin

18 July 2003

• Sydney Film Festival
  Blind Shaft director speaks about filmmaking in China
  Part 2
• German artist Käthe Kollwitz at the Art Gallery of Ontario
• How the labor bureaucracy scabbed on the Portland school janitors
• Letters on “Bush White House in crisis over Iraq war lies”
• September 11 commission complains of “intimidation” and stonewalling
• Turkey: Power struggle between government and army
• US: Tax shelters for the rich starve state budgets
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• WSWS/SEP international conference
  “Europe confronts a profound dilemma”

19 July 2003

• A provocative step towards a US-led military blockade of North Korea
• Bush’s hatchet man: two biographies of Karl Rove
  Bush’s Brain and Boy Genius
• Ferry disaster in Bangladesh claims hundreds of lives
• German artist Käthe Kollwitz at the Art Gallery of Ontario
• Letters on “Bush White House in crisis over Iraq war lies”
• The Iraq war and the debate on phony intelligence
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 July 2003

• Blair addresses US Congress: ovations fail to dispel storm clouds of crisis
• La guerra contra Irak: Punto decisivo en la política internacional
• Liberian war restarts
• Pakistan delays sending troops to Iraq
• WSWS/SEP international conference
  The eruption of militarism and the crisis of American capitalism
• US troops voice anger at Pentagon

22 July 2003

• An obsession, and not much more
  Owning Mahowny, directed by Richard Kwietniowski
• Demonstrations greet Spanish government vote to send troops to Iraq
• Die Zeit pleads for German interests in Iraq
• WSWS/SEP international conference
  Eruption of US militarism forces all states to redefine their relationship with America
• Sri Lankan union leaders call off health workers strike
• The Times’ Thomas Friedman on Iraq: spreading “democracy” with missiles and lies
• US and Europe renege on AIDS pledges
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 July 2003

• Britain: Anti-terrorism sweep creates climate of fear
• British report details tremendous obstacles facing asylum-seekers
• German teenager shoots himself at school
• House Republicans call police on Democratic congressmen
• Letters from our readers
• Solomon Islands parliament approves Australian-led military take-over
• Thousands of refugees perish on European Union borders
  United network documents nearly 4,000 deaths in 10 years
• US recession declared over but economic problems deepen

24 July 2003

• Bali bombing trials leave key questions unanswered
• Britain: Whistleblower Kelly’s death shakes Blair government
• Bush government deports Muslim cleric to Lebanon
• South Asian floods kill hundreds and leave millions homeless
• The killing of Hussein’s sons: the Nuremberg precedent and the criminalization of the US ruling elite
• Military review reveals more government lies
  US launched air war against Iraq in 2002
• US: Report shows additional millions affected by lead poisoning

25 July 2003

• Britain: Was whistleblower Kelly’s death suicide?
• WSWS/SEP international conference
  Discussion on war and internationalism
• Italian government takes tougher line on refugees
• Letters from our readers
• Oldest modern human fossil discovered in Ethiopia
• Questions Blair government must answer over death of whistleblower Dr Kelly
• Release of Hussein sons’ photos: Washington exposes its own barbarism
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

26 July 2003

• Australian and British governments claim military trials will be “fair”
• Blair government surrenders rights of Britons held in Guantanamo
• International outcry over release of Hussein sons’ photos and video
• Spanish cut-price music web site forced to close
• Turkish-US tensions continue over Kurds in northern Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

28 July 2003

• Letters on the killing of Hussein’s sons
• Australia:
  NSW police attempt to ban anti-government demonstration
• Political issues behind the murder in New York’s City Hall
• Recall election for California governor set for October 7
• UN report says one billion suffer extreme poverty

29 July 2003

• Bush attack on overtime pay passes House
• WSWS/SEP international conference
  Discussion on political program, social conditions and democratic rights, and the WSWS
• Iraqi Communist Party joins Washington’s puppet administration in Baghdad
• Not exactly a nourishing meal
  Bread and Tulips, directed by Silvio Soldini
• Split in Spanish Socialist Party
• US, Europe intervene to protect oil interests
  West Africa: Coup aborted in São Tomé and Principe
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

30 July 2003

• America’s maimed come home from Iraq
• Australian unions grovel before rightwing media campaign
• Britain’s whistleblower scandal: Slanders against BBC’s Andrew Gilligan
• Hong Kong protests leave Tung administration isolated
• Irish government prepares airport and transport privatisation
• Letters on the death of British whistleblower Dr. David Kelly
• The art of ancient Sumer
  The Art of the First Cities at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City

31 July 2003

• A German ex-radical adds to the anti-Trotskyist slanders
• Military mutiny in the Philippines: a sign of deeper political tensions
• Modern life and modern tragedy
  Capturing the Friedmans, directed by Andrew Jarecki
• Pentagon scheme for a futures market in terror
• Report denounces Israel’s human rights abuses
• US government deports Haddad family
  Supporters organize a spirited send-off rally
• 78,000 workers face contract expiration
  US: Verizon demands employees pay for collapse of telecom bubble