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.
1 December 2003
- Indian elections reveal chasm between political elite and voters
- US military adopts “no-holds barred” tactics against Iraqi resistance
- The Michael Jackson case: the New York Times piles on
- New York: Homeless man crushed to death by sanitation vehicle
- Portugal slashes corporate tax and government spending
- Michael Jackson’s tragedy
2 December 2003
- UN International AIDS Day report reveals growing pandemic
- Australia: Ansett workers still not paid their full entitlements
- FBI memo encourages local police to spy on protest groups
- Friedman of the New York Times attacks London anti-Bush protest
- US military opens fire on Iraqi civilians following skirmish in Samarra
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian government moves to dismantle Medicare bulk-billing
- Mass protest against Quebec government’s demolition of public and social services
- La "guerra contra el terrorismo": signos ominosos para la democracia de Estados Unidos
3 December 2003
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Political stupidity or provocation?
Brandenburg “anti-racist group” attacks World Socialist Web Site - Cincinnati police beat unarmed black man to death
- 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
- German Social Democrats endorse government austerity program
- Investigations announced into alleged Indonesian atrocities in West Papua
4 December 2003
27 June 1998
4 December 2003
- A reply to “Sylvia Plath is hardly present: a review of Sylvia, directed by Christine Jeffs”
- US: Regional, industry conflicts stall energy bill
- US soldiers’ families, veterans go to Iraq to oppose war
- Israel: Air Force pilots reject participation in targeted assassinations
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Australia:
Election of new Labor leader marks unabashed embrace of free-market agenda - Se intensifica oposición a Estados Unidos en Afganistán
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50 Años del Comité Internacional de la Cuarta Internacional
En Australia: reunión pública del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad - Spain: Congress belatedly honours victims of Franco
5 December 2003
- Student protests at Berlin universities
- US-China tensions loom over Taiwan
- An exchange on “Medicare bill marks major step in destruction of government health plan for US seniors”
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Oil intrigue and US Realpolitik heighten tensions in the Caucasus
Georgia’s “rose revolution”: a made-in-America coup - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Political impasse deepens in Sri Lanka
- Alarming rise in suicides among US troops in Iraq
- British poet rejects Order of the British Empire award
6 December 2003
- Colorado court strikes down Republican gerrymandering
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Bush ally on the brink
Ecuador: Drug scandal rocks Gutiérrez government - German Greens conference supports eastward expansion of European Union
- US pushes through tough IAEA resolution targetting Iran
- Marginal rise in US employment in November
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Meetings on 50 years of the International Committee of the Fourth International
Peter Schwarz: “The founding principles have been confirmed” - Quebec premier baits unions
8 December 2003
- US air strike kills nine children in Afghanistan
- South Korea begins to deport migrant workers
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Meetings on 50 years of the International Committee of the Fourth International
Chris Marsden: The split with the WRP and the ascendancy of Trotskyism - British hypocrisy at Commonwealth conference in Nigeria
- Pakistan extends ban on Islamic groups
9 December 2003
- Letters from our readers
- British whistleblower faces trial for exposing US spying on UN delegates
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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Amid Sri Lankan political crisis
LTTE offers reassurances to major powers - The Medicare fraud and the decay of American democracy
- Australian film industry: the futility of calls for “cultural protection”
- Portland, Oregon: Muslim defendants sentenced in treason trial
- Spain: Aznar opposes pullout from Iraq
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US media, Ashcroft silent on conviction of right-wing terrorists in Texas
Conspirators built chemical bomb
10 December 2003
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Australia:
New laws cloak ASIO detentions in secrecy - New York City seeks to limit liability in Staten Island ferry disaster
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Two recent American films
Bad Santa, directed by Terry Zwigoff; The Station Agent, written and directed by Thomas McCarthy - Talks break down in Southern California supermarket strike
- US prepares “Big Brother” system to monitor immigrants
- US, Israel prepare mass killings in Iraq
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Rumsfeld in Mazar-i-Sharif
A war criminal visits the scene of the crime - Florida National Guardsmen victimized for wedding Iraqi women
- Longtime supporter of International Committee in US dies
- WSWS arts editor appears on Wisconsin Public Radio
- Iraqi colonel says he is source of 45-minute claim on Iraqi WMDs
11 December 2003
- Northern Ireland: Unions derail opposition to Bombardier job cuts
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A holiday “gift” for the jobless
US Congress blocks extension of federal unemployment benefits - New York City seeks to limit liability in Staten Island ferry disaster
- With endorsement of Dean, Gore seeks to revive Democrats and contain political crisis
- Heavy losses for Congress in Indian state elections
- Pro-US Iraqi factions enlisted for counterinsurgency operations
- Irish budget hands millions of euros to business
- Quebec: A socialist perspective to defeat Charest government’s plans for social demolition
- Rome: Mass demonstration to defend pensions
- La tragedia de Michael Jackson
- La diatriba del New York Times contra Michael Jackson
12 December 2003
- Eastern Europe faces HIV-AIDS epidemic
- Spain: Catalan election threatens further instability
- British Columbia: Ferry workers defy government strikebreaking
- On the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination
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War criminal to probe mass murder
Ex-Senator Bob Kerrey appointed to 9/11 panel - Florida National Guardsmen victimized for wedding Iraqi women
- US court case: Renewed attack on open source software
- Sri Lankan artist speaks about death threats by Sinhala extremists
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A young US Marine’s death in Iraq
An interview with the father of Jesús Suárez del Solar - Historic Toronto theatre collapse kills one
13 December 2003
- US military kills six Afghan children in new atrocity
- Bush backs blacklist on reconstruction deals in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Iraqi “reconstruction” as corporate looting
- Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: A case of the imaginary concrete
- US: Hundreds of job cuts hit Oregon’s manufacturing sector
- Australia: NSW teachers endorse 48-hour strike in February
- Britain: Blair government seeks massive hike in university tuition fees
15 December 2003
- Berlin: 40,000 demonstrate to defend education and social programs
- US occupation authority suppresses study of Iraqi civilian casualties
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SEP statement to Berlin demonstration
Germany: education is a fundamental right—not a commodity - US and European leaders court North Africa
- Saddam Hussein’s capture will not resolve Iraqi quagmire
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As deadline approaches
No resolution to Sri Lankan political crisis
16 December 2003
- Brazil’s Workers Party government expels ‘left’ legislators
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The Thatcherisation of the German CDU
The significance of the end of social solidarity - Democrats praise Bush after capture of Hussein
- The official US response to the capture of Saddam Hussein: a degrading spectacle
- Koizumi sends Japanese troops to Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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SEP public meeting
The political crisis in Sri Lanka: the way forward for the working class - Legal observer details police violence against FTAA protesters in Miami
- Quebec: Mounting opposition to Liberals’ class war agenda
17 December 2003
- Bush administration embroiled in Boeing scandal
- Letters on the capture of Saddam Hussein
- Other letters from our readers
- Day three of US media coverage of Hussein’s capture: no let-up in the hysteria
- National tensions sink agreement on European Union constitution
- French students protest university reforms
- Sri Lankan health workers picket parliament
- Thailand: 295 workers strike Nasawat Apparel factory
- Military’s “espionage” case against Guantanamo chaplain collapses
- Arrest of Zak Mallah: test case for Australia’s anti-terror laws
18 December 2003
- Afghanistan’s loya jirga convened to rubber-stamp an anti-democratic constitution
- Bush calls for Hussein’s execution: a portrait of sadism and ignorance
- Australian parliament adopts legislation to restructure universities
- British Columbia: Unions suppress ferry and forest strikes
- Russian elections: Putin consolidates regime of “managed democracy”
- US: Another Senate Democrat steps down to aid Republicans
- Spain: Prime Minister Aznar may face slander charges
19 December 2003
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The sculpture of Edgar Degas
Degas Sculptures, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 11, 2003, to January 4, 2004 - Pentagon fired military lawyers assigned to defend Guantánamo prisoners
- World hunger report: 842 million starve in the midst of plenty
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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Under new prime minister
Canada’s Liberal government veers right - Desperation fuels hunger strikes in Australian refugee camps
- Deadline passes with no sign of any end to the Sri Lankan political crisis
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Three-quarters of top US orchestras in the red
Detroit Symphony Orchestra faces $2 million deficit
20 December 2003
- Wall Street Journal’s Robert Bartley dead at 66
- Howard Dean and the shrinking US political “mainstream”
- The slight and the reprehensible
- Australian Labor backs call for execution of Hussein
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Labour Party leadership paves way for the return of Ken Livingstone
- Spain marks 25th anniversary of democratic transition
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Muerte de un joven marino de guerra en Irak
Entrevista con el padre de Jesús Suárez del Solar -
Three-quarters of top US orchestras in the red
Detroit Symphony Orchestra faces $2 million deficit
22 December 2003
- 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
- A crude attempt to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism
23 December 2003
- The anti-Semitism and anti-Bolshevism of the German Nazis: a letter and reply
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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” - Ireland: Barron report confirms British collusion in 1974 Dublin bombings
- Two appellate courts rule against Bush administration detentions
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Amid mounting political crisis
Pakistan’s military dictator survives assassination attempt - Australia’s next neo-colonial intervention begins in Papua New Guinea
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
24 December 2003
- California Governor announces millions more in cuts
- Howard Dean rejects Washington Post charge that he is “beyond the mainstream”
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Australia:
Deaths in Sydney hospitals used to boost private health care - US media, government scramble to obscure criminal dealings with Hussein
- Israel: Elite commandos refuse to serve in Occupied Territories
- Sri Lankan political crisis heightens tensions in Jaffna
- Orange alert in US—terrorizing the American public again
- US voting machines: Will 2004 elections be electronically rigged?
27 December 2003
- More letters on the capture of Saddam Hussein
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Lithuanian president faces impeachment
- Britain: Senior politicians condemn internment of foreign terrorist suspects
29 December 2003
- Letters from our readers
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Georgia: “Rose revolution” destabilises southern Caucasus
Part 1 - Behind the India-Pakistan ceasefire
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Nine months after US invasion
Fuel shortages, blackouts heighten Iraqi opposition to American occupation - Australian government joins Bush’s “missile defence” system
- Australia: New fare hikes and job cuts in NSW public transport
22 December 2003
30 December 2003
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Georgia: “Rose revolution” destabilises southern Caucasus
Part 2 - A song, an era that still haunt us
- Australian detainee at Guantanamo Bay pressured to plead guilty
- Earthquake kills tens of thousands in Iran
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Libyan government assists US aggression in the Middle East
- SEP holds public meeting on the political crisis in Sri Lanka
31 December 2003
- David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2003
- Milosevic trial sets precedent: US granted right to censor evidence
- Gas explosion turns Chinese villages into “a death zone”
- Blair caught out again over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
- Kissinger and Argentina: a case study in US support for state terror
23 December 2003
31 December 2003
- Nauru hunger strikers left to face death
- US: Hundreds denied early retirement at Verizon telecommunications
27 December 2003
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