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Archive: March 2004

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 March 2004

• Canberra dictates terms in Solomon Islands pay dispute
• Russia: Putin sacks government on eve of presidential elections
• The overthrow of Haiti’s Aristide: a coup made in the USA
• US launches huge military operation to capture bin Laden
• Uganda: Hundreds of civilians massacred by Lord’s Resistance Army

2 March 2004

• 76th Academy Awards ceremony: for the most part, torpor and self-satisfaction
• A survivor against the odds—noted New Zealand writer Janet Frame dies
• Britain: Protests mount over tax rises
• Democratic frontrunner declares he will be stronger “war president” than Bush
• Director italiano Bernardo Bertolucci artista de la "Generación del 1968" encuentra su destino
  Los soñadores, dirigida por Bernardo Bertolucci
• Socialist Equality Party to stand in Sri Lankan elections
• Sri Lankan SEP to hold election meeting in Colombo
• US Marines occupy Haitian capital amid charges Aristide was kidnapped
• US auto union calls off parts strike, accepts multi-tier contract
• Union surrenders benefits, wages in sellout of California grocery strike
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 March 2004

• Australia’s richest man profits from Solomon Islands intervention
• ETA ceasefire in Catalonia
• Israel: Mordechai Vanunu to be placed under supervision but not arrest
• As Marines occupy Port-au-Prince:
  Reign of terror follows US-backed coup in Haiti
• Sincere, but avoiding difficult questions
• South Africa: Farmworkers murdered by employers
• UN endorses US plans for an unelected Iraqi government

4 March 2004

• No such thing as full-time retirement
  Australian government moves to raise retirement age and end aged pensions
• Canadian judge calls for investigation into Britain’s “dirty war” in Northern Ireland
• A tragedy born of poverty and unemployment
  Fired transit worker kills two supervisors at New York City rail yard
• German Chancellor Schröder comes to the aid of Bush
• India’s Hindu chauvinist-led coalition government calls early election
• Slovakia: Social cuts provoke violent clashes
• US political elite engineers a Kerry-Bush election
• What’s behind the attack on pensions and social security?

5 March 2004

• Britain: 20 years since the year-long miners’ strike
  Part One
• Australian investigation into Iraqi WMD
  Howard government exonerated despite proof of lies
• Latvian government collapses
• Letters from our readers
• The division of labor behind the US-made coup in Haiti
• Who benefits from the Karbala and Baghdad bombings?
• Why has The Passion of the Christ evoked such a popular response in America?
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

6 March 2004

• Another violation of ethics law by US Supreme Court Justice Scalia
• Australia: Maternity units forced to close
• Britain: 20 years since the year-long miners strike
  Part Two
• Haiti: Thousands march in Port-au-Prince against US-backed coup
• Israel: Mass unemployment deepens internal social divisions
• US job growth at a standstill
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 March 2004

• A pretence of democracy for the 2004 Indonesian elections
• Britain: The Royal Mail’s 300-year monopoly ends
• Bush campaign ads provoke protests from families of September 11 victims
• Did the FBI conceal wider right-wing involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing?
• The NSSP, the “peace process” and the Sri Lankan elections

9 March 2004

• “McKinsey Is Coming”
  A feeble warning to the German business and political establishment by playwright Rolf Hochhuth
• Britain: Kurds on hunger strike against deportation
• Forbes report: Billionaires’ wealth grew by 36 percent in last year
• Minnesota transit workers strike against assault on benefits
• Passage of California austerity measures shows dead end of two-party system
• SEP candidates speak on Sri Lankan TV
• “Bye-bye Aristide, Chavez you’re next!”
  Venezuela: Right-wing opposition clamours for another US-backed coup
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 March 2004

• Australian government gets “carte blanche” to outlaw organisations
• Britain: Detainees returning from Guantanamo face arrest and surveillance
• Indian Supreme Court grants trial in Gujarat riot case
• Iraqis tortured and killed by British troops
• Letters on The Passion of the Christ
• 54th Berlin Film Festival—Part 3
  New films by Ken Loach, John Boorman and Hans Petter Moland
• Report details abuse, torture of prisoners by US forces in Afghanistan

11 March 2004

• France: researchers protest Raffarin government with mass resignations
• Haiti: US Marines expand operations as Washington assembles puppet regime
• Indonesia: Fire in state-owned gold mine claims 13 lives
• Iraqis tortured and killed by British troops
• Libya confirms it “bought peace” with the US
• Record number of “independents” stand in Sri Lankan election
• The Mannesmann trial: German business and union bureaucracy in the dock

12 March 2004

• Blair: Scrap international law vs. aggressive war
• Japan’s fragile economic recovery
• On the rise and fall of Martha Stewart
• Sri Lankan SEP replies to an appeal from ruling UNF
• Terrorist atrocity in Madrid kills at least 192 people
• The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
  Part one: Monarchical Iraq and the growth of social antagonisms
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

13 March 2004

• Bush administration cancels maintenance of Hubble Space Telescope
• Iraq’s illegitimate interim constitution
• Madrid terror bombings strengthen right-wing on eve of Spanish elections
• Right-wing comes to power in Greece
• The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
  Part two: The Iraqi nationalist movements, the permanent revolution, and the Cold War
• US: Weirton Steel cancels health care for 10,000 retirees
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 March 2004

• An antidote to government lies about David Hicks
  The President versus David Hicks, directed by Curtis Levy and Bentley Dean
• Families come to US to demand release of Guantanamo detainees
• Filmmaker speaks with WSWS about Guantanamo Bay and David Hicks
• Guantanamo Bay detainee returned to Spain
• US trade gap highlights rising debt burden
• World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party hold conference on “The 2004 US Election: the Case for a Socialist Alternative”

16 March 2004

• Drive for coal produces more deaths in China’s mines
• France: Teachers strike against government cutbacks
• India reacts with dismay to recent US legislation on outsourcing
• Political volatility surrounds Taiwanese election
• Spain: Aznar routed as a result of mass anti-war sentiment
• The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
  Part three: The Iraqi Baath Party, from its origins to political power
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 March 2004

• An exchange on “Forbes report: Billionaires’ wealth grew by 36 percent in last year”
• Australia: “MedicarePlus” aims to kill off Medicare
• Australia’s largest bank shaken by speculative trading losses
• Britain: Truth suppressed about pensions crisis
• The diplomacy of Imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
  Part four: Iraq in the 1970s and the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War
• Opening report to WSWS-Socialist Equality Party conference
  The political strategy of the SEP in the 2004 US elections

18 March 2004

• A split in the LTTE heightens danger of war in Sri Lanka
• Britain: Coroner rejects inquest into death of Dr. David Kelly
• 54th Berlin Film Festival—Part 4
  German films at the Berlin Film Festival: Confused emotions
• Germany: Hamburg state elections—SPD in free fall
• Letters from our readers
• Zimbabwe government arrests coup plotters
• Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Bill Van Auken addresses WSWS-SEP conference
  “A voice for the international working class in the 2004 US elections”

19 March 2004

• Britain: Freed Guantanamo Bay detainees detail beatings and abuse
• IMF managing director nominated for German president
  Who is Horst Köhler?
• One year since the US invasion of Iraq
• Australia:
  Spanish defeat exposes vulnerability of Howard government
• The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
  Part five: Donald Rumsfeld and the Washington-Saddam Hussein connection
• Socialist Equality Party election statement
  The socialist alternative in the Sri Lankan elections
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Socialist Equality Party vice-presidential candidate Jim Lawrence addresses WSWS-SEP conference
  “The working class must develop a political strategy to defend jobs and living standards”

20 March 2004

• In the absence of an explanation: the World Trade Center memorial site
• Lead contamination of water supply in US capital
• More letters on “Why has The Passion of the Christ evoked such a popular response in America?”
• SEP candidate Bill Van Auken on Bush’s war anniversary speech: “Threadbare lies in defense of a criminal war”
• Spain: How Aznar’s lies paved the way for his defeat
• US-led occupation force targets Haiti’s slums
• One year since the murder of Rachel Corrie by Israeli military
  Wall Street Journal marks anniversary with lies and slander
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• World Socialist Web Site Review: March-May 2004 issue now available

22 March 2004

• A good deal to chew, and not all of it edible: Brecht and Mother Courage
• 13,000 jobs to be cut in merger of giant banks
  Bank of America-FleetBoston deal highlights criminalization of US corporate elite
• Britain: 25,000-plus protesters march to rally in Trafalgar Square
• Canada: Protests in more than 50 cities
• Germany: antiwar protests in Berlin and at US air base in Ramstein
• Hundreds of thousands join in international protests against Iraq war
  Demonstrations in more than 45 countries
• Hundreds of thousands march in Spain
• Iraqi journalists protest US killing of two Al Arabiya reporters
• Massive anti-war protest in Rome
• Over 100,000 in New York City march against Iraq occupation
• Protests in Australia and New Zealand mark war anniversary
• Spain: protestors discuss Madrid bombings, Aznar’s lies, the election aftermath
• US: Protests on the West Coast and in Michigan
• Richard Phillips from the SEP in Australia addresses WSWS-SEP conference
  “The great issues before workers require global perspective”

23 March 2004

• American militarism through a somewhat paranoid prism
• Australian pilots aborted US-assigned bombing raids during Iraq war
• Austria: Social democrats form coalition in Carinthia with Haider
• A medida que los marinos de guerra ocupan a Puerto Príncipe
  Estados Unidos respalda golpe de estado en Haití e impone reino de terror
• Former terrorism aide charges Bush manufactured case for Iraq war
• Israeli assassination of Hamas leader: a provocation, incitement and prelude to stepped-up aggression
• Slain Irish soldier’s mother condemns Iraq war
• The Islamic headscarf ban: a French teacher’s view
• US-backed military offensive in Pakistan costs scores of lives
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Peter Schwarz from the PSG in Germany addresses WSWS-SEP conference
  “Our party intervenes in the European election on an internationalist socialist program”

24 March 2004

• Britain: The beating of Delbo King highlights police racism and brutality
• Germany: Trial against former SS member Herbertus Bikker abandoned
• Intriguing new discoveries on Mars
• SEP presidential candidate Bill Van Auken condemns US-backed assassination of Hamas leader
  “A savage act by a criminal regime”
• The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
  Part six: Reagan administration deepens ties with Hussein
• Citing killing of civilians, lies:
  US soldier refuses to return to Iraq
• United Nations report: Israeli forces have inflicted a “reign of terror”
• Julie Hyland from the SEP in Britain addresses WSWS-SEP conference
  “Blair-Bush alliance is an expression of the reemergence of naked imperialism and colonialism”

25 March 2004

• The modus operandi of a coverup
  9/11 hearings ignore political, historical issues behind terrorist attacks
• Regional elections in France
  A defeat for the camp of the conservative government
• Final public meeting for SEP election campaign in Sri Lanka
• Haiti’s US-installed prime minister hails fascist gunmen
• How Joe Lieberman won the Democratic presidential nomination
• New York mayor imposes mandatory tests for school promotion
• Political tensions escalate after Taiwan’s disputed presidential election
• SEP candidate in TV debate over the Sri Lankan civil war

26 March 2004

• Frame-up prosecution of Guantanamo Bay chaplain collapses
• Iraq’s missing weapons—Bush and the media share an inside joke
• President impeached as South Korean democracy unravels
• Sri Lankan opposition spells out anti-working class agenda
• The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
  Part seven: US financial assistance for Hussein in the 1980s
• The science of remembering
• US and Israel exploit Syrian/Kurdish tensions
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• WSWS-SEP conference remarks
  “Reality will dawn on masses of people with American speed and ferocity”—David Walsh

27 March 2004

• Australia: Transport union collaborates in destruction of tram jobs
• Blair’s visit to Libya: It’s about oil, Got it?
• Election statement of German SEP: For the United Socialist States of Europe
• European Union extends transport network into accession states
• Letters from our readers
• New Zealand: Labour government dispatches SAS troops to Afghanistan
• WSWS-SEP conference
  On events in Haiti: “Imperialism can only be fought as a globally unified struggle”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Crítica de cine
  ¿Por qué ha provocado tanto interés en Estados Unidos La Pasión del Cristo?

29 March 2004

• Government routs opposition parties in Malaysian elections
• Israel: Sharon government creates ever widening social inequality
• WSWS-SEP conference
  On the US election: “The two-party system is a two-headed monster”
• Australia:
  Political uproar over Labor leader’s call for troop withdrawal from Iraq
• The Bush administration and September 11: the implications of Richard Clarke’s revelations
• The diplomacy of imperialism: Iraq and US foreign policy
  Part eight: The end of the Iran-Iraq war

30 March 2004

• German reactions to Aznar defeat: Die Zeit insults Spanish voters
• Sri Lankan election: SEP opposes disenfranchisement of voters in LTTE areas
• US Justice Scalia’s memo on Cheney case: contempt for the law and democratic rights
• US shuts down anti-occupation Iraqi newspaper
• Why won’t Condoleezza Rice give open, sworn testimony on 9/11?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• “Independent” candidate Ralph Nader offers alliance with Democrat Kerry

31 March 2004

• An exchange on the Australian intervention in the Solomon Islands
• Canada’s new prime minister delivers more austerity
• WSWS-SEP conference
  Discussion on the arts, democratic rights and Nader
• European antitrust case finds against Microsoft
• Film-making in the service of identity politics
  Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro
• France: Government parties routed in regional elections
• Israel: Sharon, facing indictment, threatens new government
• Letter from Dominic Morice, media manager, AusAID
• The selling of Bush’s Medicare plan: a case history of political gangsterism