Archive: February 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 February 2003
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As Green Berets deploy in war zone
Colombian president seeks massive US intervention -
In the classical realist tradition
Sisila Gini Gani, directed by Prasanna Vithanage, script Sanath Gunathilaka and music by Premasiri Kemadasa - India and Pakistan again escalate tensions
- Bush’s claims on Iraqi weapons--lies in pursuit of war
- Ireland: Fianna Fail and SDLP float unity pact
- Workers Struggles: Australia and the Pacific
- European Rapid Reaction Force to deploy in Macedonia
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El discurso de Bush sobre el estado de la nación
Fiebre de guerra de una clase gobernante en crisis - Lula y Brasil: de Porto Alegre a Davos
- Estados Unidos se enfrenta a déficits y reducciones de gastos que baten el récord
3 February 2003
- Letters on US war buildup against Iraq
- US: Contractors shredded thousands of immigration documents
- Blair blurts out the US agenda on North Korea
- PNG unions call off all action against budget cuts
- Britain’s Guardian newspaper says US sanctions torture against terrorist suspects
4 February 2003
- US military chief admits American troops already in Iraq
- Israel: Sharon government builds fortified wall around West Bank
- New Kashmiri administration fails to deliver “healing touch”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Netherlands: Anti-immigrant List Pim Fortyn loses heavily in parliamentary elections
- The Columbia tragedy: NASA, Congress, Bush ignored safety warnings
- US economy stalls in fourth quarter
5 February 2003
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Financial crisis staggers California
Governor outlines draconian budget cuts - Homeless, poor freeze in US cold wave
- Letters from our readers
- IMF/World Bank policies pave way for continuing famine in Africa
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An insightful view into an artist’s world
Francis Bacon Studio at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin - “Left” apologists for US imperialism red-bait the antiwar movement
- Presidente colombiano pide a Estados Unidos que intervenga como en Irak
- Australia: Seven die in rail crash near Sydney
6 February 2003
- China prepares to fall into line with US war on Iraq
- Australia: Thousands of households cut off electricity
- Texas executes British citizen despite international protests
- Powell’s UN speech triggers countdown to war against Iraq
- Scandinavian governments divided over US-led war vs. Iraq
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Dickensian conditions in Canada
Homeless mother could be jailed for leaving baby at Toronto City Hall
7 February 2003
- TV documentary: US lied about Gulf War missile “hits”
- German state elections: dramatic losses for Schröder’s Social Democratic Party
- Strike wave continues in Kenya
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- LTTE calls for SEP members in northern Sri Lanka to be “wiped out”
- Australia bullies East Timor over oil and gas
8 February 2003
- Leading Democrats line up behind Bush on Iraq war
- UN conceals Picasso’s “Guernica” for Powell’s presentation
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After Powell’s speech
Media pundits in lockstep behind US war drive - Kurds know nothing of “terrorist poison factory” cited by Powell
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush threatens military action against North Korea
- Franco-British summit: Chirac signals Paris ready to back war vs. Iraq
10 February 2003
- Australian government commits to US-led war in face of growing opposition
- Britain: Government and media conspire to whip-up anti-immigrant hysteria
- Britain: Blair government caught out in plagiarism and lies over latest Iraq dossier
- Letters on “Powell’s UN speech triggers countdown to war against Iraq”
- White House cancels poetry symposium in response to protest
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A look at rural life in British Ceylon
Sudu Sevaneli, directed by Sunil Ariyarathne
11 February 2003
- South East Asia braces for political fallout from Iraq war
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The Bush budget: blueprint for a right-wing assault on the working class
Part one of five articles on Bush's 2004 budget proposal -
US congressman defends WWII internment of Japanese-Americans
Republican heads domestic security committee - Growing criticism of Bush budget deficit
- France: strikes, protests mount against plant closings and pension cuts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Judge upholds New York police ban on anti-war march
12 February 2003
- 75th Academy Award nominations: as eclectic and confounding as ever
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Afghan Massacre—Convoy of Death available on video
Film exposing Pentagon war crimes premieres in US -
Welfare for the wealthy: the Bush tax plan
Part two of five articles on Bush’s 2004 budget proposal - Social discontent escalates in China
- The tasks facing the anti-war movement
- UN and US back French intervention in Ivory Coast
- Britain: Labour government moves to “market based higher education”
13 February 2003
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Bush budget targets the poor
Part three of five articles on Bush’s 2004 budget proposal - Las tareas que enfrenta el movimiento contra la guerra
- French public sector workers demonstrate against pension cuts
- Iraq war splits NATO
- Court sanctions expanded political surveillance by New York City police
- Wall Street Journal editor’s brief for a “Pax Americana”
- US ambassador lambasts Australian Labor Party leader
- Discurso de Powell ante las Naciones Unidas comienza la cuenta regresiva para lanzar la guerra contra Irak
- Jefe militar de los Estados Unidos admite que tropas estadounidenses ya se encuentran en Irak
- Sri Lankan SEP replies to a right-wing supporter of the LTTE
14 February 2003
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The Bush budget: subverting Medicare and Medicaid
Part four of five articles on Bush’s 2004 budget proposal -
Behind the posturing
Canada has decided to join in war on Iraq - Powell’s Al Qaeda-Baghdad link falls apart
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Britain: Why are troops really deployed in London?
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“Human shields” charge
Bush prepares alibi for slaughter in Iraq -
The US terror alert
Washington employs fear and panic as instruments of war - Ankara lines up behind a war against Iraq
15 February 2003
- Incident in Alexandria: Antiwar outpouring in the Pentagon’s back yard
- Bush administration stung by second report of Iraq inspectors
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Bush budget plan attacks public education
Last of five articles on Bush’s 2004 budget proposal - US right-wing media, politicians spit out anti-French venom
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"We are not animals, we are human beings"
Record numbers swamp New York City’s homeless shelters - French Communist Party Chairman Hue loses his parliamentary seat
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch explains why he backs war vs. Iraq
- Treatment of refugees exposes Australian government hypocrisy on Iraq war
- WSWS to provide on-the-spot coverage of global anti-war rallies
17 February 2003
- Amsterdam protest confirms widespread antiwar sentiment
- Spain: more than 2 million march in Barcelona and Madrid
- Berlin: Largest demonstration in post-war German history
- 100,000 demonstrate in Belgian capital
- Tens of thousands protest in cities throughout California
- Protesters rally on Chicago’s North Side
- Copenhagen: 30,000 march past US and British embassies
- Thousands march in Detroit
- Tens of thousands march in Dublin
- An event of world historical significance
- Glasgow: 100,000 protest against Blair and Iraq war
- 3,000 march in Tel Aviv
- London: a massive rebuttal of Blair’s support for war
- Melbourne: 200,000 take part in antiwar protest
- Montreal antiwar demonstration the largest in Canadian history
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Despite police march ban
Massive New York City rally spills into streets - 200,000 march in Paris against Iraq war
- Protests in Perth, Brisbane and other Australian centres
- Thousands join rallies in Pittsburgh and nearby cities
- Three million take to the streets in Rome
- Antiwar marchers defy large police presence in Seoul
- Mass demonstrations inaugurate international antiwar movement
- Sydney: Australia’s largest ever demonstration
- Young marchers predominate in Toronto
- Vienna demonstration draws 30,000
- Thousands join protest in Wellington, New Zealand
18 February 2003
- Bush uses AIDS funding as an instrument of foreign policy
- Air Canada demands massive concessions
- Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath gives evidence to Bloody Sunday tribunal
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- London: antiwar protesters denounce Blair’s support for Bush
- Persecution of homeless mother continues in Toronto
- Washington prepares to tighten the economic noose around North Korea
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A survivor of the Warsaw ghetto
Roman Polanski’s The Pianist - Australia: Near disaster as runaway train crashes at major rail station
- Tens of thousands march in South Africa against Iraq war
19 February 2003
- South Africa: ANC escalates privatisations and economic restructuring
- EU summit agrees on war against Iraq as a “last resort”
- Discussions with Paris antiwar demonstrators
- Desperately searching for allies: Washington fetes Australian prime minister
- Letters on global antiwar protests
- Oil and the coming war against Iraq
- Reports on February 15-16 antiwar demonstrations
20 February 2003
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Economic “Perfect Storm” threatens to wreck US public education
New York governor proposes $1.24 billion in school cuts - Australia: Protestors express deep disgust with US war plans
- Bush administration accelerates US military buildup against Iraq
- Bush administration withholds evidence in case of Zacarias Moussaoui
- Murdoch’s Sun dismisses million-strong London march as “nothing”
- Reports on February 15-16 antiwar demonstrations
- Russia and the war against Iraq
- Sri Lankan police drag out hearings over LTTE’s threats against SEP
21 February 2003
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World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party Public Conference
Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War: the Strategy and Program of a New International Working Class Movement - Britain: The significance of Blair’s response to the mass antiwar protest in London
- Bolivia: Military-provoked riots end in 33 deaths
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As coca leaders, government talk
US boosts military aid to Bolivia -
After capture of Pentagon contractors:
Wider US war threatened in Colombia - French government party leaders solidarize themselves with American imperialism
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- New Zealand antiwar protestors condemn Bush and Blair
- Reports on February 14-16 antiwar demonstrations
- Acontecimiento histórico de significado mundial
22 February 2003
- Child starvation stalks Argentina’s northern provinces
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Public meetings in Britain on the tasks facing the antiwar movement
- US troops to be involved in combat operations in the southern Philippines
- A comment on The Pianist
- Bush administration preparing new police state measures
- Reports on February 14-16 antiwar demonstrations
- US telecom giants and the war in Iraq: It’s not just about oil
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A monstrous attack on democratic rights
US government mounts conspiracy frame-up of Palestinian activists
24 February 2003
- Student protest exposes rift in Chinese regime
- Inadequate safety planning produces South Korean subway disaster
- France: Former prime minister Jospin resurfaces in the pages of Le Monde
- Rumsfeld pushes big lie on "human shields” in Iraq
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Documentary exposes US aggression in Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan
21st Century Wars: Unseen wars by Sorius Samura for Britain’s Channel 4 - New findings on Stonehenge point to continent-wide socio-cultural network
25 February 2003
- Why Germany’s Christian Democrats support the war against Iraq
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Corruption and greed in the name of “civil rights”
Jesse Jackson and the Chicago dance club tragedy - UK government’s hypocritical stance over World Cup cricket match in Zimbabwe
- Fiji’s cyclone victims still lack food, shelter and clean water
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The New York Times’ brief for war against Iraq
- Pennsylvania state police cleared in killing of 12-year-old
- Record US trade deficit highlights global imbalances
26 February 2003
- War crimes tribunal drops charges against Croatian general
- Bush hands UN an ultimatum on Iraq war
- Japan’s involvement in the Sri Lankan peace process
- US: Bethlehem Steel to terminate health and insurance benefits for 95,000 retirees
- Australian government backs imprisonment of Melbourne man in Pakistan
- Britain: Labour government delays directors’ liability as work deaths rise
27 February 2003
- Britain: Blair ignores popular opposition in parliamentary brief for war
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“There is no debate... There is nothing”
Senator Byrd laments Democrats’ silence on Iraq war - Ebola outbreak in the Congo
- An interview with French Socialist Party spokesman Karim Pakzad
- A victory for government by stealth: US congressional arm abandons suit against Cheney
- Australian legal experts declare an invasion of Iraq a war crime
- National Express withdraws from Australian showpiece of privatised transport
28 February 2003
- WSWS/SEP public meetings in Melbourne and Sydney: the political tasks facing the antiwar movement
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Bush lays out his “vision” for the Middle East
US imperialism’s rendezvous with disaster - Letters on US war against Iraq
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The opposite of what’s needed
The Life of David Gale, directed by Alan Parker - Behind the “antiwar” stance of the Australian Greens
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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A conversation with historian James M. McPherson
How the US Civil War became “a remorseless revolutionary struggle” - Police assault striking tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka
- Italian opponents of war block US military transports
4 September 2008
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