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Archive: December 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.

27 June 1998

• The political economy of “New Labor”

1 December 2003

• Indian elections reveal chasm between political elite and voters
• Michael Jackson’s tragedy
• New York: Homeless man crushed to death by sanitation vehicle
• Portugal slashes corporate tax and government spending
• The Michael Jackson case: the New York Times piles on
• US military adopts “no-holds barred” tactics against Iraqi resistance

2 December 2003

• Australia: Ansett workers still not paid their full entitlements
• Australian government moves to dismantle Medicare bulk-billing
• FBI memo encourages local police to spy on protest groups
• Friedman of the New York Times attacks London anti-Bush protest
• La "guerra contra el terrorismo": signos ominosos para la democracia de Estados Unidos
• Mass protest against Quebec government’s demolition of public and social services
• UN International AIDS Day report reveals growing pandemic
• US military opens fire on Iraqi civilians following skirmish in Samarra
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 December 2003

• Political stupidity or provocation?
  Brandenburg “anti-racist group” attacks World Socialist Web Site
• Cincinnati police beat unarmed black man to death
• German Social Democrats endorse government austerity program
• Investigations announced into alleged Indonesian atrocities in West Papua
• Letters on the Michael Jackson case
• Massacre in Samarra: US lies and self-delusion
• Northern Ireland elections: Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein gain support
• The California recall in historical perspective: Lessons of Upton Sinclair’s 1934 campaign

4 December 2003

• 50 Años del Comité Internacional de la Cuarta Internacional
  En Australia: reunión pública del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad
• A reply to “Sylvia Plath is hardly present: a review of Sylvia, directed by Christine Jeffs”
• Ashcroft defends US victimization and abuse of Maher Arar
• Australia:
  Election of new Labor leader marks unabashed embrace of free-market agenda
• Israel: Air Force pilots reject participation in targeted assassinations
• Se intensifica oposición a Estados Unidos en Afganistán
• Spain: Congress belatedly honours victims of Franco
• US soldiers’ families, veterans go to Iraq to oppose war
• US: Regional, industry conflicts stall energy bill

5 December 2003

• Alarming rise in suicides among US troops in Iraq
• An exchange on “Medicare bill marks major step in destruction of government health plan for US seniors”
• British poet rejects Order of the British Empire award
• Oil intrigue and US Realpolitik heighten tensions in the Caucasus
  Georgia’s “rose revolution”: a made-in-America coup
• Political impasse deepens in Sri Lanka
• Student protests at Berlin universities
• US-China tensions loom over Taiwan
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

6 December 2003

• Colorado court strikes down Republican gerrymandering
• Bush ally on the brink
  Ecuador: Drug scandal rocks Gutiérrez government
• German Greens conference supports eastward expansion of European Union
• Marginal rise in US employment in November
• Meetings on 50 years of the International Committee of the Fourth International
  Peter Schwarz: “The founding principles have been confirmed”
• Quebec premier baits unions
• US pushes through tough IAEA resolution targetting Iran
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 December 2003

• British hypocrisy at Commonwealth conference in Nigeria
• Meetings on 50 years of the International Committee of the Fourth International
  Chris Marsden: The split with the WRP and the ascendancy of Trotskyism
• Pakistan extends ban on Islamic groups
• South Korea begins to deport migrant workers
• US air strike kills nine children in Afghanistan

9 December 2003

• Australian film industry: the futility of calls for “cultural protection”
• British whistleblower faces trial for exposing US spying on UN delegates
• Amid Sri Lankan political crisis
  LTTE offers reassurances to major powers
• Letters from our readers
• Portland, Oregon: Muslim defendants sentenced in treason trial
• Spain: Aznar opposes pullout from Iraq
• The Medicare fraud and the decay of American democracy
• US media, Ashcroft silent on conviction of right-wing terrorists in Texas
  Conspirators built chemical bomb
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 December 2003

• Rumsfeld in Mazar-i-Sharif
  A war criminal visits the scene of the crime
• Florida National Guardsmen victimized for wedding Iraqi women
• Iraqi colonel says he is source of 45-minute claim on Iraqi WMDs
• Longtime supporter of International Committee in US dies
• New York City seeks to limit liability in Staten Island ferry disaster
• Australia:
  New laws cloak ASIO detentions in secrecy
• Talks break down in Southern California supermarket strike
• Two recent American films
  Bad Santa, directed by Terry Zwigoff; The Station Agent, written and directed by Thomas McCarthy
• US prepares “Big Brother” system to monitor immigrants
• US, Israel prepare mass killings in Iraq
• WSWS arts editor appears on Wisconsin Public Radio

11 December 2003

• Heavy losses for Congress in Indian state elections
• Irish budget hands millions of euros to business
• La diatriba del New York Times contra Michael Jackson
• La tragedia de Michael Jackson
• New York City seeks to limit liability in Staten Island ferry disaster
• Northern Ireland: Unions derail opposition to Bombardier job cuts
• Pro-US Iraqi factions enlisted for counterinsurgency operations
• Quebec: A socialist perspective to defeat Charest government’s plans for social demolition
• Rome: Mass demonstration to defend pensions
• A holiday “gift” for the jobless
  US Congress blocks extension of federal unemployment benefits
• With endorsement of Dean, Gore seeks to revive Democrats and contain political crisis

12 December 2003

• A young US Marine’s death in Iraq
  An interview with the father of Jesús Suárez del Solar
• British Columbia: Ferry workers defy government strikebreaking
• Eastern Europe faces HIV-AIDS epidemic
• War criminal to probe mass murder
  Ex-Senator Bob Kerrey appointed to 9/11 panel
• Florida National Guardsmen victimized for wedding Iraqi women
• Historic Toronto theatre collapse kills one
• On the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination
• Spain: Catalan election threatens further instability
• Sri Lankan artist speaks about death threats by Sinhala extremists
• US court case: Renewed attack on open source software

13 December 2003

• Australia: NSW teachers endorse 48-hour strike in February
• Britain: Blair government seeks massive hike in university tuition fees
• Bush backs blacklist on reconstruction deals in Iraq
• Iraqi “reconstruction” as corporate looting
• Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: A case of the imaginary concrete
• US military kills six Afghan children in new atrocity
• US: Hundreds of job cuts hit Oregon’s manufacturing sector
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

15 December 2003

• Berlin: 40,000 demonstrate to defend education and social programs
• SEP statement to Berlin demonstration
  Germany: education is a fundamental right—not a commodity
• As deadline approaches
  No resolution to Sri Lankan political crisis
• Saddam Hussein’s capture will not resolve Iraqi quagmire
• US and European leaders court North Africa
• US occupation authority suppresses study of Iraqi civilian casualties

16 December 2003

• Brazil’s Workers Party government expels ‘left’ legislators
• Democrats praise Bush after capture of Hussein
• Koizumi sends Japanese troops to Iraq
• Legal observer details police violence against FTAA protesters in Miami
• Quebec: Mounting opposition to Liberals’ class war agenda
• The Thatcherisation of the German CDU
  The significance of the end of social solidarity
• The official US response to the capture of Saddam Hussein: a degrading spectacle
• SEP public meeting
  The political crisis in Sri Lanka: the way forward for the working class
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 December 2003

• Arrest of Zak Mallah: test case for Australia’s anti-terror laws
• Bush administration embroiled in Boeing scandal
• Day three of US media coverage of Hussein’s capture: no let-up in the hysteria
• French students protest university reforms
• Letters on the capture of Saddam Hussein
• Military’s “espionage” case against Guantanamo chaplain collapses
• National tensions sink agreement on European Union constitution
• Other letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan health workers picket parliament
• Thailand: 295 workers strike Nasawat Apparel factory

18 December 2003

• Afghanistan’s loya jirga convened to rubber-stamp an anti-democratic constitution
• Australian parliament adopts legislation to restructure universities
• British Columbia: Unions suppress ferry and forest strikes
• Bush calls for Hussein’s execution: a portrait of sadism and ignorance
• Russian elections: Putin consolidates regime of “managed democracy”
• Spain: Prime Minister Aznar may face slander charges
• US: Another Senate Democrat steps down to aid Republicans

19 December 2003

• Under new prime minister
  Canada’s Liberal government veers right
• Deadline passes with no sign of any end to the Sri Lankan political crisis
• Desperation fuels hunger strikes in Australian refugee camps
• Three-quarters of top US orchestras in the red
  Detroit Symphony Orchestra faces $2 million deficit
• Pentagon fired military lawyers assigned to defend Guantánamo prisoners
• The sculpture of Edgar Degas
  Degas Sculptures, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 11, 2003, to January 4, 2004
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• World hunger report: 842 million starve in the midst of plenty

20 December 2003

• Australian Labor backs call for execution of Hussein
• Britain: Labour Party leadership paves way for the return of Ken Livingstone
• Three-quarters of top US orchestras in the red
  Detroit Symphony Orchestra faces $2 million deficit
• Howard Dean and the shrinking US political “mainstream”
• Muerte de un joven marino de guerra en Irak
  Entrevista con el padre de Jesús Suárez del Solar
• Spain marks 25th anniversary of democratic transition
• The slight and the reprehensible
• Wall Street Journal’s Robert Bartley dead at 66
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

22 December 2003

• A crude attempt to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism
• Bush placates China over Taiwan, for now
• Influenza nearing epidemic levels in the US
• On the social crisis in Oregon—and the political malaise in the US
• US military metes out collective punishment to Iraqi city

23 December 2003

• Australia’s next neo-colonial intervention begins in Papua New Guinea
• European battle over software patents
• Ireland: Barron report confirms British collusion in 1974 Dublin bombings
• Meetings on 50 years of the International Committee of the Fourth International
  Nick Beams: “The program of the ICFI has stood the test of time”
• Amid mounting political crisis
  Pakistan’s military dictator survives assassination attempt
• The anti-Semitism and anti-Bolshevism of the German Nazis: a letter and reply
• Two appellate courts rule against Bush administration detentions
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 December 2003

• California Governor announces millions more in cuts
• Australia:
  Deaths in Sydney hospitals used to boost private health care
• Howard Dean rejects Washington Post charge that he is “beyond the mainstream”
• Israel: Elite commandos refuse to serve in Occupied Territories
• Orange alert in US—terrorizing the American public again
• Sri Lankan political crisis heightens tensions in Jaffna
• US media, government scramble to obscure criminal dealings with Hussein
• US voting machines: Will 2004 elections be electronically rigged?

27 December 2003

• An exchange on Bolshevism and revolutionary violence
• Britain: Senior politicians condemn internment of foreign terrorist suspects
• Behind the economic “recovery”
  Hunger and homelessness in US continue to rise in 2003
• Lithuanian president faces impeachment
• More letters on the capture of Saddam Hussein
• US Justice Department admits abuse of immigrant detainees after September 11
• Washington scuttles six-nation talks over North Korean nuclear crisis
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 December 2003

• Australia: New fare hikes and job cuts in NSW public transport
• Australian government joins Bush’s “missile defence” system
• Behind the India-Pakistan ceasefire
• Nine months after US invasion
  Fuel shortages, blackouts heighten Iraqi opposition to American occupation
• Georgia: “Rose revolution” destabilises southern Caucasus
  Part 1
• Letters from our readers

30 December 2003

• A song, an era that still haunt us
• Australian detainee at Guantanamo Bay pressured to plead guilty
• Earthquake kills tens of thousands in Iran
• Georgia: “Rose revolution” destabilises southern Caucasus
  Part 2
• Libyan government assists US aggression in the Middle East
• SEP holds public meeting on the political crisis in Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

31 December 2003

• Blair caught out again over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
• David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2003
• Gas explosion turns Chinese villages into “a death zone”
• Kissinger and Argentina: a case study in US support for state terror
• Milosevic trial sets precedent: US granted right to censor evidence
• Nauru hunger strikers left to face death
• US: Hundreds denied early retirement at Verizon telecommunications