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Archive: June 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 June 2002

• An exchange on socialism and the environment
• Britain: Former Mirror editor admits slandering miners’ leader
• Israel tightens grip on West Bank and Gaza
• Letters to the WSWS
• Questions over the crash of China Airlines Flight 611
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

3 June 2002

• An exchange of letters on the Working Families Party
• Australian government cuts deal with Kabul to repatriate Afghan asylum seekers
• Berlusconi recasts Italian state television in his own image
• Death on the tracks
  New Jersey couple’s suicide highlights failure of US "drug war"
• Sri Lankan SEP calls for the release of all Tamil political prisoners

4 June 2002

• Bush speaks at West Point: from containment to "rollback"
• French parliamentary elections: political right benefits from prostration of the left
• Papua New Guinea faces an HIV/AIDS epidemic
• Tilt by Scott Walker: A remarkable album by a serious musician
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

5 June 2002

• Australian court sentences Iranian seaman on "people smuggling" charges
• Britain and Spain at loggerheads over Gibraltar
• Bush’s Moscow summit: Putin submits to Washington’s "partnership"
• September 11 hearings begin: Bush, Congress seek whitewash of government role
• Tense military standoff between India and Pakistan continues
• Wall Street broker rebuked for misleading investors

6 June 2002

• Bono and US Treasury Secretary O’Neill tour Africa
• Central Asia gas deal underscores the real reasons for the Afghan war
• Children trapped in the Middle East conflict
  Promises, directed by B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro and Carlos Bolado
• September 11 and the "war on terror": Responses to inquiries and criticisms
• The French elections: Socialist Party meeting highlights political vacuum on the left
• Vietnam charges ex-Senator Bob Kerrey with war crimes
• Sacking of Finance Minister splits government
  Will Canada’s Prime Minister survive?
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

7 June 2002

• Britain: White Paper heralds dismantling of National Health Service
• Bush administration cites September 11 "failures" to attack democratic rights
  FBI gets blank check for domestic spying
• Calls for state of emergency in Papua New Guinea elections
• Insomnia, directed by Christopher Nolan
  Once again, independent of what?
• Two decades of rising inequality
  Recession intensifies social polarization in the US
• Restructuring of Australian power industry decimates regional community
• Rising poverty and exploitation: France on the eve of the parliamentary elections

8 June 2002

• Amnesty says US leads in human rights violations following September 11
• Bush’s new Department of Homeland Defense: the scaffolding of a police state
• French factory workers discuss upcoming parliamentary election
• Indonesian military steps up repression in West Papua
• Two decades of rising inequality
  Recession intensifies social polarization in the US
• US companies slashed thousands of jobs in May
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

10 June 2002

• An interview with Olivier Besancenot, candidate of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire
• Bono and O’Neill’s African tour: low farce against a backdrop of human tragedy
• National Front stages violent provocation in Paris
• The French Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire defends its opportunism
• US-Indian military ties: an incendiary factor in an unstable region

11 June 2002

• Australian government suffers second setback on terror laws
• Bahrain bans al-Jazeera news station
• European parliament approves anti-privacy laws
• Right wing wins solid majority in French legislative election
  Record abstention reflects popular disaffection
• Sri Lanka to integrate into US regional military plans
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

12 June 2002

• Algeria: Record low election turnout as Berbers organise boycott
• Another step towards presidential dictatorship: Bush orders US citizen held indefinitely by military
• Australia: New education minister launches higher education "review"
• Bush backs Sharon’s refusal to hold talks with Palestinian Authority
• France: Socialist Party feigns shock over collusion between Chirac camp and Le Pen
• Germany: The social and political background to the Erfurt school shootings
• IMF demands new austerity measures in Argentina
• No substitute for thoughtful character development
  This is My Moon, written and directed by Asoka Handagama

13 June 2002

• Britain’s media proclaims the virtues of imprisoning parents
• Danger of India-Pakistan war remains high despite peace gestures
• Danish parliament co-opts anti-immigrant program of extreme right
• US welfare bill attacks the poor
• Washington seizes on Philippines hostage deaths to extend military presence
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

14 June 2002

• Australian government incites company action to bust steel strike
• Britain: Labour government targets single parents and disabled for workfare
• Career bureaucrat named president of US auto union
  Gettelfinger defended Ford in 1999 blast that killed six workers
• Congressional agency debunks charges of vandalism by Clinton White House
• Gobernando con provocaciones: la administración de Bush aumenta sus alertas de terror
• India-Pakistan cross-border barrages exact an appalling human toll
• Letters to the WSWS

15 June 2002

• An interview with Robert Hue, general secretary of the French Communist Party
• Residents of French CP leader’s constituency speak to the WSWS
• Robert Hue and the putrescence of French Stalinism
  A comment on Hue’s interview with the WSWS
• US bullying and threats at Afghanistan’s loya jirga
• US to hold Jose Padilla indefinitely without charges
• Western intervention increases instability in Somalia
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

17 June 2002

• Afghan war documentary charges US with mass killings of POWs
  Showings in Europe spark demands for war crimes probe
• An encounter with Lutte Ouvrière: the political physiognomy of centrism in France
• Interview with Jamie Doran, director of Massacre at Mazar
• New Jersey appeals court upholds secret detentions
• Record write-downs by telecom firms
• US Supreme Court packed with millionaires
• Most radical "states’ rights" ruling to date
  US Supreme Court steps up attack on federal regulatory powers

18 June 2002

• Record abstention in second round of election
  French right-wing parties consolidate large parliamentary majority
• Indonesian military continues its repression in Aceh
• The political impasse facing Israel’s refuseniks
• Tyco: US conglomerate falls amid revelations of greed and corruption
• US dollar’s "virtuous circle" may be turning vicious
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

19 June 2002

• A chilling case of political censorship
  Anti-Bush protesters ejected from Ohio State commencement
• Brazil: Workers Party officials accuse Wall Street of "electoral terrorism"
• New York Times whitewashes US torture
• New Zealand students walk out to support striking teachers
• UN food summit ends in fiasco
• Witnesses in Jakarta trials testify to East Timor murders

20 June 2002

• A tribute to Vadim Rogovin: "A passion for historical truth"
• Australian Prime Minister goes "all the way" in Washington
• European Union plan to restrict immigration
• Famine intensifies in southern Africa
• Karachi bomb blast highlights Pakistani regime’s political crisis
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

21 June 2002

• Air Force officer disciplined for saying Bush allowed September 11 attacks
  Hijacker attended US military school
• India and Pakistan continue to trade threats of war
• Northern Ireland security force links to loyalist gunmen exposed
• Trying to have it both ways
  Spiderman, directed by Sam Raimi
• Why is the US media blacking out documentary on war crimes in Afghanistan?
• World Socialist Web Site Review: July-September issue now available

22 June 2002

• Amnesty documents human rights abuses in Middle East
• Brazil’s Workers Party chooses textile magnate as candidate
• Comment on the French parliamentary elections
• Crackdown on Internet cafes in China follows Beijing fire
• Enron execs looted company prior to bankruptcy
• French Whirlpool workers facing layoffs speak to WSWS
• Cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires—Primera parte
  Todavía persisten varios problemas, aún cuando las condiciones han cambiado
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

24 June 2002

• Afghanistan’s loya jirga fails to provide even the illusion of democracy
• An exchange on the Colombian FARC
• The case of Yaser Esam Hamdi
  Bush claims right to jail US citizens indefinitely, without charges or hearing
• Israel dismembers Palestinian Authority
  Pledges “crushing and decisive” military offensive
• US-backed groups push North Korean asylum bids in China

25 June 2002

• Interview on closure of Australian job agency:
  "The government’s concern is to drive people off benefits"
• Australian government to close state-run job agency
• Hydro One debacle highlights crisis of Ontario Tory regime
• Interview with French Communist Party deputy Maxime Gremetz
• Cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires—Segunda parte
  Las películas del director taiwanés, Hou Hsiao-hsien, y varios documentales
• O Partido dos Trabalhadores escolhe um magnata da indústria têxtil como candidato
• US torture of John Walker Lindh exposed as frame-up continues
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

26 June 2002

• Poverty and a lack of democratic rights
  A first-hand report of life in LTTE-held areas of Sri Lanka
• Angola: from cease fire to famine
• Bush gives Israel blank check in assault on Palestinians
• Cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires—Tercera parte
  Dramas, ideas, vida
• Economic problems mount as G-8 summit meets
• Cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires
  El acero y la Virgen
• Letters from our readers
• The French elections and the failure of the left

27 June 2002

• Australian MP appeals against conviction for migration fraud
• Divided US Supreme Court ruling bans execution of the mentally retarded
• Employers give cold shoulder to Australian government’s anti-union inquiry
• G-8 security operation-the stifling and criminalizing of dissent
• Members of the French Young Communists Movement speak to the WSWS
• PLO leader bows to Bush
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

28 June 2002

• Canada: Worker critically injured by Navistar strike-breaking operation
• Confusion on every score
  The Believer, directed and written by Henry Bean
• New Zealand teachers’ union calls off industrial ban in long-running pay dispute
• Police kill two protesters in Argentina
• Tense military standoff continues between India and Pakistan
• The Trepca mining complex: How Kosovo’s spoils were distributed
• Threatened collapse of WorldCom sends political establishment into crisis
• US "Pledge" ruling exposes political scoundrels

29 June 2002

• Further evidence of a massacre of Taliban prisoners
• Interview with Israeli refusenik: "We can put in place a new leadership"
• Letter from a Detroit school bus driver
• Sri Lankan LSSP offers its services to big business as an advocate of peace
• Washington’s phony pretext for Iraqi invasion
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• WorldCom spearheads US job cuts