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
- Letters to the WSWS
- An exchange on socialism and the environment
- Israel tightens grip on West Bank and Gaza
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Former Mirror editor admits slandering miners’ leader
- Questions over the crash of China Airlines Flight 611
3 June 2002
- Berlusconi recasts Italian state television in his own image
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Death on the tracks
New Jersey couple’s suicide highlights failure of US "drug war" - Australian government cuts deal with Kabul to repatriate Afghan asylum seekers
- Sri Lankan SEP calls for the release of all Tamil political prisoners
- An exchange of letters on the Working Families Party
4 June 2002
- Bush speaks at West Point: from containment to "rollback"
- French parliamentary elections: political right benefits from prostration of the left
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Papua New Guinea faces an HIV/AIDS epidemic
- Tilt by Scott Walker: A remarkable album by a serious musician
5 June 2002
- Britain and Spain at loggerheads over Gibraltar
- Tense military standoff between India and Pakistan continues
- Australian court sentences Iranian seaman on "people smuggling" charges
- Wall Street broker rebuked for misleading investors
- Bush’s Moscow summit: Putin submits to Washington’s "partnership"
- September 11 hearings begin: Bush, Congress seek whitewash of government role
6 June 2002
- Central Asia gas deal underscores the real reasons for the Afghan war
- Bono and US Treasury Secretary O’Neill tour Africa
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Sacking of Finance Minister splits government
Will Canada’s Prime Minister survive? - 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
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
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Children trapped in the Middle East conflict
Promises, directed by B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro and Carlos Bolado
7 June 2002
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Bush administration cites September 11 "failures" to attack democratic rights
FBI gets blank check for domestic spying -
Two decades of rising inequality
Recession intensifies social polarization in the US - Rising poverty and exploitation: France on the eve of the parliamentary elections
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Insomnia, directed by Christopher Nolan
Once again, independent of what? - Restructuring of Australian power industry decimates regional community
- Britain: White Paper heralds dismantling of National Health Service
- Calls for state of emergency in Papua New Guinea 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
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Two decades of rising inequality
Recession intensifies social polarization in the US - French factory workers discuss upcoming parliamentary election
- US companies slashed thousands of jobs in May
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indonesian military steps up repression in West Papua
10 June 2002
- Bono and O’Neill’s African tour: low farce against a backdrop of human tragedy
- An interview with Olivier Besancenot, candidate of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire
- The French Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire defends its opportunism
- National Front stages violent provocation in Paris
- 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
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Right wing wins solid majority in French legislative election
Record abstention reflects popular disaffection - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- European parliament approves anti-privacy laws
- Sri Lanka to integrate into US regional military plans
12 June 2002
- Algeria: Record low election turnout as Berbers organise boycott
- IMF demands new austerity measures in Argentina
- Another step towards presidential dictatorship: Bush orders US citizen held indefinitely by military
- Germany: The social and political background to the Erfurt school shootings
- France: Socialist Party feigns shock over collusion between Chirac camp and Le Pen
- Bush backs Sharon’s refusal to hold talks with Palestinian Authority
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No substitute for thoughtful character development
This is My Moon, written and directed by Asoka Handagama - Australia: New education minister launches higher education "review"
13 June 2002
- Britain’s media proclaims the virtues of imprisoning parents
- Danish parliament co-opts anti-immigrant program of extreme right
- Danger of India-Pakistan war remains high despite peace gestures
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Washington seizes on Philippines hostage deaths to extend military presence
- US welfare bill attacks the poor
14 June 2002
- Australian government incites company action to bust steel strike
- Letters to the WSWS
- Congressional agency debunks charges of vandalism by Clinton White House
- India-Pakistan cross-border barrages exact an appalling human toll
- Gobernando con provocaciones: la administración de Bush aumenta sus alertas de terror
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Career bureaucrat named president of US auto union
Gettelfinger defended Ford in 1999 blast that killed six workers - Britain: Labour government targets single parents and disabled for workfare
15 June 2002
- US bullying and threats at Afghanistan’s loya jirga
- An interview with Robert Hue, general secretary of the French Communist Party
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Robert Hue and the putrescence of French Stalinism
A comment on Hue’s interview with the WSWS - Residents of French CP leader’s constituency speak to the WSWS
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US to hold Jose Padilla indefinitely without charges
- Western intervention increases instability in Somalia
17 June 2002
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Afghan war documentary charges US with mass killings of POWs
Showings in Europe spark demands for war crimes probe - Interview with Jamie Doran, director of Massacre at Mazar
- An encounter with Lutte Ouvrière: the political physiognomy of centrism in France
- US Supreme Court packed with millionaires
- New Jersey appeals court upholds secret detentions
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Most radical "states’ rights" ruling to date
US Supreme Court steps up attack on federal regulatory powers - Record write-downs by telecom firms
18 June 2002
- Indonesian military continues its repression in Aceh
- US dollar’s "virtuous circle" may be turning vicious
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Record abstention in second round of election
French right-wing parties consolidate large parliamentary majority - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The political impasse facing Israel’s refuseniks
- Tyco: US conglomerate falls amid revelations of greed and corruption
19 June 2002
- Brazil: Workers Party officials accuse Wall Street of "electoral terrorism"
- UN food summit ends in fiasco
- Witnesses in Jakarta trials testify to East Timor murders
- New York Times whitewashes US torture
- New Zealand students walk out to support striking teachers
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A chilling case of political censorship
Anti-Bush protesters ejected from Ohio State commencement
20 June 2002
- Famine intensifies in southern Africa
- Australian Prime Minister goes "all the way" in Washington
- European Union plan to restrict immigration
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Karachi bomb blast highlights Pakistani regime’s political crisis
- A tribute to Vadim Rogovin: "A passion for historical truth"
21 June 2002
- India and Pakistan continue to trade threats of war
- Why is the US media blacking out documentary on war crimes in Afghanistan?
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Air Force officer disciplined for saying Bush allowed September 11 attacks
Hijacker attended US military school - Northern Ireland security force links to loyalist gunmen exposed
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Trying to have it both ways
Spiderman, directed by Sam Raimi - 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
- Crackdown on Internet cafes in China follows Beijing fire
- Comment on the French parliamentary elections
- Enron execs looted company prior to bankruptcy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires—Primera parte
Todavía persisten varios problemas, aún cuando las condiciones han cambiado - French Whirlpool workers facing layoffs speak to WSWS
24 June 2002
- Afghanistan’s loya jirga fails to provide even the illusion of democracy
- An exchange on the Colombian FARC
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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
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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
- Interview with French Communist Party deputy Maxime Gremetz
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US torture of John Walker Lindh exposed as frame-up continues
- Hydro One debacle highlights crisis of Ontario Tory regime
- O Partido dos Trabalhadores escolhe um magnata da indústria têxtil como candidato
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Cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires—Segunda parte
Las películas del director taiwanés, Hou Hsiao-hsien, y varios documentales
26 June 2002
- Angola: from cease fire to famine
- Bush gives Israel blank check in assault on Palestinians
- Letters from our readers
- Economic problems mount as G-8 summit meets
- The French elections and the failure of the left
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Cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires—Tercera parte
Dramas, ideas, vida -
Cuarto Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires
El acero y la Virgen -
Poverty and a lack of democratic rights
A first-hand report of life in LTTE-held areas of Sri Lanka
27 June 2002
- PLO leader bows to Bush
- Employers give cold shoulder to Australian government’s anti-union inquiry
- G-8 security operation-the stifling and criminalizing of dissent
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Members of the French Young Communists Movement speak to the WSWS
- Divided US Supreme Court ruling bans execution of the mentally retarded
- Australian MP appeals against conviction for migration fraud
28 June 2002
- Police kill two protesters in Argentina
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Confusion on every score
The Believer, directed and written by Henry Bean - Tense military standoff continues between India and Pakistan
- Canada: Worker critically injured by Navistar strike-breaking operation
- New Zealand teachers’ union calls off industrial ban in long-running pay dispute
- US "Pledge" ruling exposes political scoundrels
- The Trepca mining complex: How Kosovo’s spoils were distributed
- Threatened collapse of WorldCom sends political establishment into crisis
29 June 2002
- Further evidence of a massacre of Taliban prisoners
- Letter from a Detroit school bus driver
- Washington’s phony pretext for Iraqi invasion
- WorldCom spearheads US job cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan LSSP offers its services to big business as an advocate of peace
- Interview with Israeli refusenik: "We can put in place a new leadership"
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