Archive: October 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 October 2002
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The Iraqi oppositionists and US plans for “regime change” in Baghdad
Part 2 - Rice and Rumsfeld “discover” Al-Qaeda in Baghdad
- Pyongyang summit: North Korean prostration answered with more Japanese demands
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany: Neo-Nazi attack on Green Party MP
- US refuses visa to Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami
2 October 2002
- Crime pays: CEOs rake it in as stocks and jobs evaporate
- Democratic Congressman admits no evidence against Iraq
- The budget and penal reform in France: an acceleration of reaction
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Capital markets are “not functioning”
Wall Street suffers worst quarter since 1987 - Senegal ferry disaster kills close to a thousand passengers
- The US exploits “terrorist threats” to step up pressure on Indonesia
- Oponerse a la guerra contra Irak! ¡Establecer un movimiento internacional contra el imperialismo!
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Toronto International Film Festival 2002: An interview with Frederick Wiseman, director of The Last Letter
Part 5 - Countryside Alliance: Britain’s Tory Party rears its ugly head
3 October 2002
- Bush White House embraces assassination
- Northern Sri Lanka: the struggle for survival amid the ruins of war
- Netherlands budget outlines spending cuts and privatisation
- PDS suffers severe loss in east German state election
- Israel: Sharon stirs up conflict with Syria and Iran
- Australia: Families face collective punishment after gang rape sentences
- Film director Spielberg lines up with Bush war drive
- The Torricelli case: another debacle for the Democratic Party
4 October 2002
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Labourites’ imperial strategy
Blair defends support for Bush on Iraq war - Big business presses for Bush to intervene against California dockworkers
- The war against Iraq and America’s drive for world domination
- Striking Kenyan teachers defy government intimidation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
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Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Films on social and historical questions
Part 6 - Canada’s Vidéotron strike underscores need for working class political struggle
- Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Interview with Travis Wilkerson, director of An Injury to One
5 October 2002
- Behind the delay in the Chinese Communist Party Congress
- Letters on US war plans against Iraq
- German Social Democrats and trade unions demand cheap labour
- US and French troops help force Côte D’Ivoire cease-fire
- US job cuts accelerated in September
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Labour conference votes for war
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WSWS launches campaign against LTTE death threats
Defend the democratic rights of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) - New York Times urges “debate” to prepare war
7 October 2002
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New York to California
Tens of thousands in US rally against war on Iraq - Journalist Christopher Hitchens fully embraces the Bush war camp
- More than 600 dead in Indian Kashmir as election draws to a close
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WSWS interview with defense attorney
John Walker Lindh sentenced to 20 years - Yearning for the strongman—or how Süddeutsche Zeitung discovered the “visionary” Bush
8 October 2002
- Brazil vote sets stage for deeper crisis
- Canada’s elite clamours for huge increase in military spending
- Gujarat temple massacre inflames tensions between India and Pakistan
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Government advisor urges radical pensions overhaul
- Poll shows widespread disquiet in US over Iraq war
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The wretched state of the Russian military
Soldat, directed by Paul Jenkins
9 October 2002
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Twelve years after reunification
Report reveals widespread and growing poverty in Berlin -
Atmospheric, but lacking substance
Beneath Clouds, written and directed by Ivan Sen - France: national strike and mass protest against privatisation
- US plan for Iraq inspections: invasion under another guise
- Sharon pledges more to come after Israeli military kills 14 in Gaza Strip
- New Zealand policeman charged after brutal bashing of teenager
10 October 2002
- Letters on “Journalist Christopher Hitchens fully embraces the Bush war camp”
- Bush invokes anti-union Taft-Hartley law against West Coast longshoremen
- Italy: state attorneys expose police provocation at Genoa G-8 summit
- Resignation of “militant” Australian union official contains vital political lessons
- Workers deported from Malaysia continue to perish in border camps
- Bush administration proposes crippling cuts in Medicare
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WSWS & SEP (Australia) public lecture in Melbourne
Why the Bush administration wants war - France’s release of Maurice Papon: an incitement to political reaction
11 October 2002
- Australian Labor Party conference: a disintegrating bureaucratic apparatus
- Britain: Labour government backtracks on corporate killing law
- Why the Democratic Party is backing Bush’s war drive vs. Iraq
- Florida execution of Aileen Wuornos: another morbid media spectacle
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Condemn the LTTE’s violent attack on Sri Lankan socialist
- Britain’s Labour government: statistics, damned statistics, lies
12 October 2002
- WSWS campaign against LTTE death threats wins international support
- Nobel Peace Prize goes to Jimmy Carter—the “friendly” face of US imperialism
- Opposition to war grows across Europe
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Ultimatum to Europe in advance of Iraq war
US demands total impunity on war crimes - Northern Ireland Assembly faces fourth suspension
- Japanese stock market tumbles after cabinet reshuffle
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 October 2002
- International campaign against attacks on Sri Lankan socialists: Asian Tribune publishes WSWS reply to LTTE apologist
- Washington seizes on Bali terror bombing to demand crackdown in Indonesia
- US plan for Iraq: Back to colonialism
- On capitalist economic relations and the foundations of law
- The Milosevic Trial: journalists warned to stop criticisms
- El voto en Brasil preparauna crisis aún más profunda
15 October 2002
- Canada falls in line behind US war drive
- New York City firefighters protest low salaries
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Military-style killer on the loose near US capital
- German Telekom plans to axe 55,000 jobs in three years
- Anti-war protests begin in Asia-Pacific
- Further indications of Indonesian military involvement in Papuan mine murders
16 October 2002
- Deflation threat to world economy
- Spain: Excavation of Franco’s mass graves demanded
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Wall Street/Washington insider spills the dirty secret of Iraq war
“Getting control of that oil will make a vast difference” -
A serious attempt to encourage Sri Lankan opera
Sonduru Varnadasi (The Alluring Courtesan), directed by Premasiri Khemadasa, libretto by Lucien Bulathsinghala - 25 years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977)
- Britain’s Conservatives riven by factional infighting
17 October 2002
- Anger mounts over Australian government’s failure to give Bali warning
- Protest against Iraq war in Dearborn, Michigan
- More than 41 million Americans without health insurance
- Israel: Public sector strike and protests against austerity budget
- Further international protests against LTTE death threats
- Germany: Massive state infiltration of far-right party
- Sweden: Social Democratic government propped up by Greens and Lefts
18 October 2002
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After the Bali bombing:
Washington and Canberra push for military ties with Indonesia - The Pentagon gassed American soldiers and civilians in 1960s tests
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Australia:
Queensland government calls in Hawke to attack the right to strike - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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Bush seizes on Washington sniper attacks to use military for domestic policing
Deployment of Army planes breaches Posse Comitatus law - Nigerian regime loses legal dispute over oil
- Quebec government and unions conspire against Vidéotron strikers
19 October 2002
- Australian government uses Bali atrocity to demand new repressive powers
- Canadian Auto Workers union pushes corporatist settlement at DaimlerChrysler
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As US intervention grows:
Colombian army lays siege to Medellín neighborhood - Corporate corruption and academia: The Bush-Harvard-Enron connection
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Incoming Macedonian government pledges subservience to Western powers
- Germany: Defeat for “reformers” at PDS conference in Gera
21 October 2002
- Famine could affect 15 million in Ethiopia and Eritrea
- Why the US plans to bomb Iraq and not North Korea
- Mass abstentions nullify Serbian election result
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One year after the SIEV X drownings
Australian police agents involved in sabotage of refugee boats
22 October 2002
- Helsinki bomb tragedy points to social tensions in Finland
- Iranian film director denounces US immigration policy
- Israel: Clashes between settlers and soldiers destabilise Sharon’s coalition
- Kashmir election results in defeat for ruling party
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany: SPD and Green Party present new coalition pact
23 October 2002
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Prague meeting—one of many lies
Iraqi tie to September 11 hijacker debunked - Letters to the WSWS
- Indonesian government bows to foreign pressure and issues anti-terrorist decree
- La guerra contra Irak y la campaña de los Estados Unidos para dominar al mundo
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Sri Lanka:
Top LTTE leaders remain silent as SEP defence campaign gathers support - Britain’s privatised energy industry on brink of bankruptcy
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Festival Internacional de Cine en Toronto, 2002: Conversación acerca del cine
Primera Parte
24 October 2002
- One year since the anthrax attacks on the US Congress
- French diplomacy and Bush’s campaign against Iraq
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Amid signs of dissent within military circles
Bush employs lies and maneuvers to pave way for war against Iraq - Right-wing government collapses in the Netherlands
- Pakistani election reveals growing opposition to Musharraf
- Census reports highlight dramatic social changes in Australia
- Condenar ataque violento de la LTTE contra socialista de Sri Lanka
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Festival Internacional de Cine en Toronto, 2002: ¿Por qué hay tantas películas tan decepcionantes?
Segunda parte
25 October 2002
- Ejército colombiano le pone sitio a barrio de Medellín
- Washington leaves open Israeli involvement in war against Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- A political strategy to oppose war against Iraq
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From a safe distance?: Reflections on an exhibition of surrealist art
Surrealism 1919-1944: an exhibition in Düsseldorf -
Festival Internacional de Cine en Toronto, 2002: Los problemas persisten aún cuando se logra el éxito
Tercera Parte -
Interviews with Wollongong voters
“People are a lot more aware” - Australian Labor Party suffers humiliating by-election defeat in Wollongong
26 October 2002
- UN report accuses Western companies of looting Congo
- US: West Coast shippers call for government sanctions against dockworkers
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Fiat to sack 25 percent of workforce
Mass protests against job cuts in Italy - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ireland: Yes vote in referendum on European Union expansion
- Ten people killed by police and Sinhala thugs in Eastern Sri Lanka
28 October 2002
- International demonstrations against Bush war plans
- Australian drought used to push small farmers off the land
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US demonstrators speak out against Iraq war
"A slaughter for oil and private profit" - The Washington sniper and the undercurrent of rage in American society
- Hundreds of thousands in US protest Iraq invasion plans
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As Washington eyes Latin "axis of evil"
Coup attempts continue in Venezuela
29 October 2002
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An essentially unprincipled approach
Heaven, directed by Tom Tykwer; The Grey Zone, directed by Tim Blake Nelson; Late Marriage, directed by Dover Kosashvili -
As US prepares for war in Iraq
India and Pakistan begin to demobilise troops - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Brazil’s "Lula" celebrates victory, IMF demands more austerity
- Two students killed in Australian university shooting
- Putin’s gas attack in Moscow—the outcome of Russia’s barbaric war in Chechnya
- The death of US Senator Paul Wellstone: accident or murder?
30 October 2002
- Letters to the WSWS on the "The Washington sniper and the undercurrent of rage in American society"
- Actor Richard Harris: a great talent only occasionally fulfilled
- US profit rates decline despite productivity growth
- Exigen en España que se excaven las fosas comunes
- Britain: child road deaths three times higher in deprived areas
- Report on urban warfare points to US plans to destroy Iraqi cities
31 October 2002
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Violent police raids in Sydney and Perth
Bali bombing used to activate repressive laws in Australia - Brazil’s Lula reassures Wall Street, warns workers of austerity
- US returns to triple-digit budget deficits
- Alarming breast cancer rates in northern California county
- Spain: Socialist Party demands opening of Franco’s mass graves
- US uses nuclear revelations to raise tensions on Korean peninsula
- Letter from University of Arizona student on Monday’s campus shootings
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