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Archive: January 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.

3 January 2002

• A letter from France on the anti-globalisation movement Attac
• A major exhibition on the Spanish Civil War
  "Dreams and Nightmares"—at the Imperial War Museum, London, until April 28, 2002
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Job losses in Scotland’s "Silicon Glen"
• Five-fold increase in deaths from drug prescription errors in Britain’s hospitals
• Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan
• New Sri Lankan government calls for peace talks with the LTTE
• Australian university refuses to reinstate victimised professor

4 January 2002

• Open-ended US bombing campaign results in further Afghan casualties
• From power shortage to power surplus
  California’s energy debacle continues
• The case of Robert Kerrey: war crimes and their supporters in Vietnam and Afghanistan
• Workers Struggles: Europe
• Protests erupt at Australian refugee detention centre

5 January 2002

• Four recent films
  Bandits; Ghost World; Monster’s Ball; Vanilla Sky
• Australia: Carr scapegoats "arsonists" over bushfires
• Two million jobs wiped out in 2001
  US unemployment rate jumps to 5.8 percent
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Montenegro: European Union opposes moves towards independence
• The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to investigate man charged in September 11 attacks
• Zambia: New president installed amidst accusations of vote rigging

7 January 2002

• Letters to the WSWS
• Indonesia: religious violence flares again in Central Sulawesi
• Sectarian divisions widen in Northern Ireland
• New York’s new mayor demands austerity

8 January 2002

• Thousands of POWs held in appalling conditions in Afghanistan
• Argentine devaluation: unelected government begins assault on living standards
• An exchange on wages under a socialist society
• What does the euro mean for the working class?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 January 2002

• South African asbestos victims win compensation, but claim halved
• New US dragnet to target Middle Eastern men for deportation
• War crisis continues
  India rejects Pakistani pleas for talks
• Japan militarisation accelerates after sinking of alleged North Korean spy ship
• Not asking questions any more: The Navigators, a film by Ken Loach

10 January 2002

• WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh’s remarks to Detroit forum
  "Serious artistic work is incompatible with intellectual cowardice"
• New York Times defends Bush on links to Enron corporate fraud
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• Detroit panel discusses role of art museum in twenty-first century
• Britain hit by rail strikes
• New Sri Lankan government seeks to impose slump on masses

11 January 2002

• US bases pave the way for long-term intervention in Central Asia
• Letters from US workers
• Letters on Bush, Enron and the New York Times
• Apologetics for National Socialist aesthetics and politics
  Taking Positions: Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich
• Gag order against former Black Panther leader on trial for murder
• Indonesian president proposes to drop charges against Suharto
• Britain: Behind the row over Jamaican "drug mules"

12 January 2002

• Canada may declare G-8 summit site a militarized zone
• Letters on "Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan"
• Ford to cut 35,000 jobs worldwide, 22,000 in North America
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Serious security flaws in Microsoft web browser
  How safe is your computer?
• Clever, well-read. And what else?
  The Royal Tenenbaums, directed by Wes Anderson

14 January 2002

• US Supreme Court ruling limits disabled workers’ rights
• Workers lose jobs, health care and savings at Enron
• Sectarian tensions lead to riots and school closures in Northern Ireland
• Economic hardship afflicts Japanese working class
• Afghan POWs at Guantanamo base: bound and gagged, drugged, caged like animals

15 January 2002

• Second package of anti-terror laws rushed through German parliament
• Letters on the war in Afghanistan
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Pakistan’s Musharraf walks a fine line between war and internal revolt
• Spain: Opposition to universities reform law
• Britain: Winter cold kills over 22,000 elderly

16 January 2002

• PDS leader Gysi takes over posts in Berlin cabinet
  Drastic budget cuts planned for the German capital
• The unquiet death of Patrice Lumumba
• Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?
  Part 1: Warnings in advance
• VRE outbreak at major West Australian hospital
• Britain temporarily "suspends" deportation of Zimbabwean refugees

17 January 2002

• Thousands more US layoffs in wake of Ford job-slashing
• Detained Muslim cleric secretly moved to Chicago
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Britain: Cash-for-beds scandal in National Health Service
• Australia and New Zealand starve Solomon Islands of funds

18 January 2002

• Recent correspondence to the WSWS
• Enron and the Bush administration: kindred spirits in fraud and criminality
• Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?
  Part 2: Watching the hijackers
• New Sri Lankan government targets political opponents at workplaces
• British government defends conditions at Guantanamo

19 January 2002

• British Columbia to ravage public and social services
• Passive realism
  In the Bedroom, directed by Todd Field
• US pushes Colombia to brink of all-out war
• Italian foreign minister resigns
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• An exchange on nationalism in Serbia

21 January 2002

• Britain: Report highlights BSE danger from infected sheep
• Muslim woman strip-searched at Chicago’s OHare airport
• Letters and replies on anthrax attacks in the US
• The US extends "war on terrorism" into the Philippines
• Yugoslavia: Union leaders order bank workers to end occupations

22 January 2002

• Alberta spearheads assault on public health care
• A letter from a reader in British Columbia
• Israel steps up assault on Palestinian Authority
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Was the US government alerted to the September 11 attack?
  Part 3: The United States and Mideast terrorism
• New school shootings in US: social issues once again come to the fore

23 January 2002

• US anthrax attackers aimed to assassinate Democratic leaders
  Media silent on military links
• Britain: Government presses for £1 billion arms deal with India
• Letters on the Enron scandal
• US flouts world opinion and Geneva Convention in treatment of Afghan war prisoners
• Australian union chief jeered as Qantas workers throw out pay deal
• Volcano causes widespread devastation in Congo

24 January 2002

• Terror suspects held in brutal conditions in British jail
• Recent letters to the WSWS
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Bosnian film: no finger-pointing?
  No Man’s Land, written and directed by Danis Tanovic
• Members named to commission to manage Philadelphia schools takeover
• Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?
  Part 4: The refusal to investigate
• Police raid exposes a secret Sri Lankan army assassination squad

25 January 2002

• Letters to the WSWS on the US war in Afghanistan
• Australia-Indonesia Institute denies funding to academic conference
• Britain: Government unveils measures to dismantle public health care
• Nigeria: Unions call off general strike against fuel price increases
• Beautiful and fascinating—but not urgent?
  Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures at the Asia Society in New York
• The Bush administration and John Walker Lindh: who are the real "conspirators"?

26 January 2002

• Workers strike sausage plant in Dearborn, Michigan
• Britain: New "fat cats" row over £1 million corporate payoffs
• Blair government says British terror suspects in Guantanamo should be tried in UK
• Landscapes which get in the way
  Invincible, directed by Werner Herzog
• Retailing giant Kmart files for bankruptcy
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Afghan refugees stage desperate hunger strike in Australia

28 January 2002

• International aid pledges fall far short of Afghanistan’s basic needs
• The strange and convenient death of J. Clifford Baxter—Enron executive found shot to death
• Saudi government demolishes historic Ottoman castle
• 291 dead in Lima: the social roots of Peru’s tragic fire

29 January 2002

• Canada: Teachers take action against B.C. government
• The Enron collapse and the crisis of the profit system
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Long prison sentences in Norwegian neo-Nazi murder trial
• Britain’s postal workers ballot for national strike
• Australia: Teenagers threaten suicide as refugee hunger strike escalates

30 January 2002

• A life is more than the sum total of its details
  Ali, directed by Michael Mann
• Is the US preparing for action against Iran?
• Sharon government scapegoats foreign workers in Israel
• Japan heads into deflationary spiral
• Kosovo still without a functioning government
• Main witness in German neo-Nazi party trial exposed as secret service agent

31 January 2002

• Letters on Afghan refugees in Australia
• State of the Union speech: Bush declares war on the world
• Letters on Enron and the death of J. Clifford Baxter
• US Fed decision not a vote of confidence
• Deportation proceedings against family of Michigan Muslim leader
• Israeli army reservists refuse to serve in occupied territories
• Release Daniel Pearl!
• Sri Lankan parties back imperialist war against Afghanistan