Archive: January 2001
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.
3 January 2001
- Bomb blasts in Indonesia: a sign of escalating political instability
- Britain: Company faces corporate manslaughter charges over death of student
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Economic and strategic interests at stake
China pushes into Central Asia for oil and gas -
Millions in US rely on food banks to meet basic needs
New studies document growing hunger -
Six hundred years since the birth of Johannes Gutenberg—inventor of the printing press
An assessment of his significance - Sweden strives to deepen EU penetration of Baltic states
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
4 January 2001
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A fresh lesson: The end of the Detroit newspaper strike and the crisis of the labor movement
Reprinted from the International Workers Bulletin of February 24, 1997 - Conservative candidate elected in Ghana: President Jerry Rawlings to step down
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Nine dead and 500,000 refugees
Cyclone wreaks havoc across northern Sri Lanka - Fijian military government defies another High Court order
- Letters on the aftermath of the US election crisis
- Tons of contaminated poultry sold for human consumption in Britain
- Unions settle with Detroit News and Free Press: lessons of another AFL-CIO debacle
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
5 January 2001
- Australian asylum seekers protest death of fellow detainee
- Bangladesh's worst ferry disaster claims nearly 200 lives
- Bush cabinet choices set the stage for mass social, political struggles
- New Serbian regime faces major difficulties
- Surprise cut in US interest rates highlights alarm over sinking economy
- Yahoo bans sale of Nazi memorabilia from its Internet auctions
6 January 2001
- An interview with Paul Cox, director of Innocence: "Filmmakers have a duty to speak out against the injustices in the world"
- Billionaire tycoon the likely winner in Thailand's election
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Canadian Alliance in disarray
Frustrated right rails against electorate - The death of former New York Mayor John Lindsay and the passing of liberalism
- Unicef report highlights situation of children in E. Europe and the former Soviet Union: The terrible price of capitalist restoration
- WSWS replies to letters on US election crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 January 2001
- 12 immigrant workers killed at Spanish railway crossing
- Congressional Democrats ratify Bush election coup in US
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In the aftermath of the US election
Discussion intensifies in Japan over remilitarisation - House fire in Delaware claims the lives of 11 members of one family
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Over 200 workers hospitalised
Unhealthy conditions in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone factories -
The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 6
Who is the Wall Street Journal's Robert Bartley?
9 January 2001
- Depleted uranium responsible for cancer among Europe's Balkan troops
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As US isolates Aristide
Haiti's wealthy pin hopes on Bush -
Rundown and inadequate infrastructure
India's entire northern electricity grid collapses for 12 hours -
Whipped into line by Wall Street
Jesse Jackson drops protest against Bush presidency - Mumia Abu-Jamal supporter Clark Kissinger remains in federal detention
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Must we celebrate Sade?
Quills, directed by Philip Kaufman, screenplay by Doug Wright, based on his play - South African provinces gripped by cholera epidemic
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 January 2001
- An exchange on a socialist approach to the protection of the environment
- Australian court endorses Murdoch takeover of rugby league
- George Gittoes' World Diary reinforces media clichés
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The Congo: How and why the West organised Lumumba's assassination
Review of two BBC documentaries: Who Killed Lumumba?, and Mobutu -
The privatisation of the London Underground
Mayor Livingstone offers Labour government a lifeline - Two boys convicted of Jamie Bulger killing win anonymity ruling
- US set to execute 13 death row inmates this month
11 January 2001
- Israel: report highlights deteriorating social conditions
- Kirsty MacColl: a life in song
- Pay-for-performance reintroduced into Australian schools
- Thai billionaire capitalises on anti-IMF sentiment to win national elections
- The German PDS joins the political campaign to limit immigration
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
12 January 2001
- A comment on Quills and the Marquis de Sade
- Another result of deregulation: natural gas prices soar in the US
- Australian airline ignores critical maintenance checks
- Britain: new email spy laws lead to sackings
- Israeli right wing demands no compromise with the Palestinians
- Taiwan and China act to open direct contacts and ease tensions
13 January 2001
- A passing comment from Clinton: the US election was stolen
- A tragedy waiting to happen: alarm system non-existent in Australian backpacker hostel fire
- Bush preparing to axe vital medical research into stem cells
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The US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic rights—Part 7
Conclusions about the media in general, the liberal press in particular - Letters and replies on the US economy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 January 2001
- Australian immigration minister peddles anti-refugee propaganda in the Middle East
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Demonstrations support occupation of Czech state television station
Background to the conflict over "Ceska Televize" - Mounting evidence of Philippine president's involvement in shady dealings
- The Wall Street Journal demands Clinton's indictment
- US families forced off welfare face struggle for basic necessities
16 January 2001
- Hundreds die in El Salvador earthquake
- London's Hackney Council to impose £58m cuts package
- Longshoremen involved in protest face felony charges in South Carolina
- Mass layoffs hit US auto industry
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Detained for over two years
Sri Lankan SEP renews its call for the release of the Hatton six -
The sad life and death of a Cuban poet
Before Night Falls, directed by Julian Schnabel, written by Cunningham O'Keefe, Lázaro Gómez Carriles and Julian Schnabel - Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 January 2001
- Germany: two more ministers resign from Schröder cabinet
- Massive police buildup in preparation for protests at Bush inauguration
- Northern Ireland Sentence Review Commission agrees to continue detaining Loyalist leader
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Nothing to kick about
Almost Famous, written and directed by Cameron Crowe - UN agency reports more than 800 million hungry worldwide
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Australia:
Union ends STP strike with workers still owed millions of dollars
18 January 2001
- Blackouts hit California as energy crisis deepens
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The case of Battery Park City
How New York politicians scuttled plans for low-cost housing - Much ado about Joschka Fischer—the debate over the German foreign minister's past
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Chilean government seeks to protect military
Pinochet may be found fit for trial - Ten years of the World Wide Web
- The Congo: President Kabila assassinated
19 January 2001
- New security measures turn Sri Lanka's plantation areas into a virtual war zone
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On the death of Ernst Schwarz (1957-2001)
A fighter for socialist perspectives in the workplace - South Australian police raid bookshop and seize Mapplethorpe's Pictures
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Down with US imperialism
Stop the war against Iraq!
Reprinted from the Bulletin of January 18, 1991 - Ten years since the Gulf War—US and Britain insist sanctions continue against Iraq
- Tense standoff in the Philippines after Estrada impeachment trial comes to a halt
- The Ashcroft nomination: a new stage in the attack on democratic rights in the United States
20 January 2001
- Australian Federal Court decision sets the stage for further spread of non-union contracts
- Mounting layoffs in US point to onset of recession
- Strike looms over safety on London Underground following privatisation
- Washington inaugural celebrations: corporate America welcomes Bush
- West Australian nurses issue challenge to government's health cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 January 2001
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As long as you don't look too closely
State and Main, written and directed by David Mamet - Bush inaugurated in atmosphere of foreboding
- Clinton investigations end, not with a bang, but a whimper
- Thousands protest Bush inauguration
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Zionism's legacy of ethnic cleansing
Part 1—Israel and the Palestinian right of return
23 January 2001
- A letter from Ecuador
- BSE/"mad cow disease" crisis spreads throughout Europe
- Bougainville autonomy talks to resume
- US health plans drop coverage for nearly one million elderly and disabled members
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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Zionism's legacy of ethnic cleansing
Part 2—Israeli expansion creates more Palestinian refugees
24 January 2001
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Protesters at the inauguration in Washington
"The election shows that we are not a true democracy and that our vote does not count" - An exchange with a Teamsters official on the end of the Detroit newspaper strike
- Bush bans funds for international family planning groups that support abortion
- Bush commitment to US National Missile Defense causes international protests
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Continuities and discontinuities in art
"Encounters, New Art From Old": A Millennium Exhibition at the National Gallery in London
25 January 2001
- Clinton refuses to pardon Leonard Peltier
- Funeral for Ernst Schwarz held in Dortmund, Germany
- Messages of condolence for Ernst Schwarz
- The Congo: Unanswered questions surround Kabila's assassination
- The death of Georgy Gongadze—Ukrainian state implicated in journalist's murder
- Will George W. Bush launch a new US war of aggression against Iraq?
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
26 January 2001
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"Economy-class syndrome" a major health threat
Airlines fail to warn of the dangers of DVT - DNA evidence exonerates two Texas inmates imprisoned since 1988
- DaimlerChrysler to cut thousands of US auto jobs
- Letters to the WSWS
- Mounting evidence points to poisonous legacy of NATO's depleted uranium munitions
- Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson resigns from British government a second time
27 January 2001
- Britain: Privatisation of hospital cleaning is costing lives
- Child abuse in Britain: Young girl's death highlights cutbacks in social services
- India's most powerful earthquake in 50 years claims at least 2,000 lives
- The legacy of Hans-Olaf Henkel: portrait of a German industrial leader
- US central bank chief boosts Bush tax cut for the wealthy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
29 January 2001
- An exchange on Ralph Nader's silence during the US election crisis
- Glasgow city's art collection in peril
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"The Ghost of Christmas Past"
Report shows health gap between Britain's rich and poor still as marked as in Dickens' day - Rising fuel costs in US punish consumers, boost profits for big oil companies
30 January 2001
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DaimlerChrysler to wipe out 26,000 jobs in its US division
Six plants to be closed over the next two years - Further turmoil in Balkans at prospect of independence for Montenegro
- Pontiac, Michigan police raid homeless shelter
- Recession clouds gather over Davos summit
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
31 January 2001
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Detroit Chrysler workers react to company plans to slash 26,000 jobs
"It's going to mean longer lines at the employment center" - Germany utilises BSE crisis to implement EU plans to restructure agriculture
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Marxism and the AIDS dissidents:
Part 1-the dissidents' critique of orthodox AIDS theories - Northern Ireland: Eyewitness accounts of 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacre indict British army
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Behind the façade of People Power
Philippine military and big business join hands to oust Estrada - US-backed "Plan Colombia" to escalate bloody civil war
1 February 2001
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