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Archive: August 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 August 2003

• Britain: Government attack on BBC threatens press freedom
• Letters from our readers
• Freddie Mac report: a further exposure of profit manipulations
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• A review of music from the motion picture The Pianist
• Australia: Ticket inspectors on Victorian train leave youth for dead
• Wolfowitz on Iraq: “Murky intelligence” suffices for pre-emptive wars

2 August 2003

• Afghanistan: Report documents violence and repression by US-backed warlords
• One million deaths later: South African government continues to stall on AIDS treatment
• Bush press conference highlights government crisis
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Britain’s media glorify convicted killer
• Quetta massacre: sectarian violence on the rise in Pakistan
• Iraqi civilians gunned down in US military raids

4 August 2003

• Australia:
  Anti-welfare agenda behind moves to oust Aboriginal leaders
• Letters from our readers
• Are American soldiers in Iraq dying due to depleted uranium?
• France: Artists and entertainers strike continues
• 470,000 stopped looking for work in July
  Long-term unemployment on the rise in US
• La economía política del militarismo estadounidense
  Primera Parte
• Growth rate up but little evidence of extended US recovery

5 August 2003

• Blair’s press conference and the crisis of political legitimacy
• Citigroup, Morgan Chase fined for Enron deals: corruption at the heights of American finance
• Australian survey shows continuing destruction of full time jobs
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Niger president challenges Blair government over uranium allegations
• A major discovery of Aboriginal cave paintings in Australia
• La economía política del militarismo estadounidense
  Segunda Parte

6 August 2003

• British Airways: Unions collude with management to avert further wildcat strikes
• California budget imposes massive spending cuts
• Letters from our readers
• Fassbinder’s Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
  German director’s work available on DVD
• Iraq war lies and impeachment: Official Washington tiptoes round the “i” word
• Washington talks provide cover for Israeli repression
• Shanmugam Sundaralingam 1956-2003
  Untimely death of a Sri Lankan Trotskyist

7 August 2003

• Britain: Asylum-seekers detained under prison-like conditions
• Washington and Canberra seize on Jakarta bombing to further justify “war on terror”
• West African military force enters Liberia
• Poland sends troops to Iraq
• A story, not the story of the Depression years
  Seabiscuit, written and directed by Gary Ross
• Sydney Film Festival—Part 3
  Two perceptive Indian films
• Military families speak out against Iraq war at Pittsburgh rally

8 August 2003

• Germany: Fewer asylum-seekers and more deportations
• Letters from our readers
• The Australian media and terrorism “expert” Dr Rohan Gunaratna
• Japanese parliament gives green light for troops to Iraq
• US occupation forces attack Iraqi journalists
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
• Obituary: John Schlesinger, filmmaker, 1926-2003

9 August 2003

• Candidate’s statement of John Christopher Burton
• Pontiac, Michigan: Immigrant mother and five children perish in house fire
• The “Steak Knife” affair and Britain’s dirty war in Northern Ireland
• Declaración de candidatura de John Christopher Burton
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Partido Socialista por la Igualdad (PSI) respalda campaña de John Christopher Burton en California
• Spain: Aznar rejects public inquiry into military plane crash
• Bush administration lengthens workday for US truck drivers

11 August 2003

• Indonesia’s dirty war of repression in Aceh
• Over 100 candidates certified for California recall ballot
• Britain: the political issues underlying the Hutton Inquiry
• Massive job cuts in California
• US interest spike could hit home mortgage market and economy

12 August 2003

• Socialist candidate John Christopher Burton placed on ballot in California recall election
• Germany: All-party coalition agrees drastic reform of health system
• Father of Australian Guantanamo prisoner speaks to WSWS
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• New round of police violence hits New York area
• Spanish troops in Iraq to wear Christian badge
• International governments hold back stem cell research

13 August 2003

• Letters from our readers
• European Union prepares its energy security
• France: The anti-Muslim campaign and the phony debate on secularism
• Al Gore attacks Bush on Iraq War
• Israel: Apartheid-style law passed by Knesset
• Australia: State Labor government hands police unprecedented powers
• Growing national “pushout” crisis
  US “school reform” throws students into the street

14 August 2003

• An American city: Benton Harbor and the social crisis in the United States
• Thousands die in European heat wave
• Bali verdict: a political show trial based on unconstitutional law
• Class, race and the social problems in Benton Harbor: interviews with city residents
• Spain: Aznar government faces crisis over Iraqi WMD
• Moves to restart Sri Lankan peace talks
• Walkerton: Key truths submerged in journalist’s account of contaminated water tragedy

15 August 2003

• Britain: Food Agency plays Russian roulette with BSE/Mad Cow Disease
• Massive power blackout hits millions in Canada and the US
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Iraq war: more revelations of lies over Niger uranium
• Behind the Solomons intervention: Australia stakes out its sphere of influence in the Pacific

16 August 2003

• Lenient judgement for Cologne police
• John Christopher Burton, socialist candidate for California governor, demands full investigation into eastern US blackout
• Britain: Hutton Inquiry hears damning evidence against government
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
• Moroccan immigrants die trying to reach Spain
• Ontario: Blackout highlights crisis in infrastructure

18 August 2003

• Australian central bank report points to credit bubble
• California recall exposes political myths
• US force enters Liberia as former president goes into exile
• US antiwar protesters face $10,000 fines for travel to Iraq
• Verizon negotiations continue as unions reject strike
• International clamour for revaluation of the Chinese yuan

19 August 2003

• Iraq: Civil unrest hits British-controlled Basra
• Spain: ETA bombing campaign aids government offensive against democratic rights
• Iraq: No letup in anti-US riots and guerrilla attacks
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Bush grants permanent legal immunity to US corporations looting Iraqi oil
• John Christopher Burton, candidato socialista para gobernador de California, exige investigación completa del apagón en el este de Estados Unidos
• Texas Republicans impose heavy fines on boycotting Democratic legislators
• Turkey: Reform limits some military powers

20 August 2003

• US: Impact of Northeast blackout continues to emerge
• Letters from our readers
• Why are they dying?
  More questions over US military fatalities in Iraq
• Australian prime minister bullies the Pacific Islands Forum
• The UN bombing: a product of the US occupation of Iraq
• Northern Ireland: Human rights redefined on sectarian lines
• Ontario Tories unveil incendiary election platform
• The US blackout and “homeland security”
• Luchas obreras en las Américas

21 August 2003

• Australian Council of Trades Unions Congress 2003: another demoralised affair
• A weak satire sans politics
  Buffalo Soldiers, directed by Gregor Jordan
• The Iraq quagmire
• US military kills another journalist in Iraq
• Ontario: State of emergency continues one week after blackout
• Britain: overcrowded prisons in chaos
• Revientan mitos acerca de la política de Estados Unidos con elecciones de California para sacar al gobernador de su cargo

22 August 2003

• Letters from our readers
• Chancellor Schröder moves toward a German military mission in Iraq
• France: More than 10,000 dead in record heat wave
• Showcomotion 2003: Children and young peoples’ film festival screens more than 100 films
• Australian military renews ties with Indonesia’s military thugs
• Freeport murders hamper US plans for ties with the Indonesian military
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

23 August 2003

• The North American blackout: deregulation, profit and the decay of the social infrastructure
• A profile of Ohio-based FirstEnergy
  Enron was no aberration
• The death of Dr. Kelly
  Britain: Inquiry exposes lies on Iraq war
• Israel assassinates Hamas leader
• Showcomotion 2003: Children and young peoples’ film festival screens more than 100 films
  Part Two
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Australia: Media promotes Labor’s Mark Latham
• A letter from John Christopher Burton, socialist candidate in California, to “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno

25 August 2003

• California’s Governor Davis denounces “right-wing power grab”
• How “entertaining” is the American entertainment industry?
  Charlie’s Angels; Hulk; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• Al Gore critica la política de Bush en cuanto a la guerra contra Irak
• A travesty of justice:
  Acquittals in cases of communal violence in India
• Luchas obreras en las Américas
• Carta de John Christopher Burton, candidato del socialista en California, a Jay Leno, anfitrión del programa de televisión, The Tonight Show
• Lockerbie: Libyan compensation offer clarifies nothing
• General Motors: From auto manufacturer to financial institution

26 August 2003

• Rumsfeld: “Frontline in terror war”
  Washington signals escalation of US intervention in Colombia
• US occupation force in Iraq recruiting former Iraqi secret police
• UK asylum policy faces criticism as Kurdish family is deported
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Malaysia rounds up Acehnese refugees for deportation
• Alabama judge engineers Ten Commandments showdown
• Spinoza Reconsidered
  Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 Oxford University Press

27 August 2003

• US menaces Al Jazeera over Iraq reportage
• Republicans and Democrats unveil right-wing economic programs in California recall
• Letters from our readers
• As “post-war” casualties top invasion’s
  Bush Iraq policy in disarray
• Hutton Inquiry: How Dr Kelly and the Foreign Affairs Committee were used by the government
• Australian officials take control in the Solomon Islands
• A mirage, not an oasis
  Swimming Pool, directed by François Ozon

28 August 2003

• Letters on the death of Dr. David Kelly and the Hutton Inquiry
• Cuts in education funding will improve academic performance. Honest.
• Bush lied to NYC on post-9/11 pollution crisis
• The Hutton Inquiry: British spy chief’s testimony exposes lies on Iraq war
• The UN, de Mello and the US occupation of Iraq
• A filmmaker sides with the unemployed, but ...
  Mondays in the Sun, directed by Fernando León de Aranoa

29 August 2003

• US launches military offensive to crush growing Afghan opposition
• Latest workplace shooting in US
  Seven dead in Chicago warehouse killings
• Egypt antiwar protesters face sedition trial
• Bush cites “war on terror” to slash federal workers’ pay raises
• Australia:
  Jailing of One Nation leaders sets anti-democratic precedent
• Britain’s Hutton Inquiry: Still no account of how Dr. Kelly died
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

30 August 2003

• The Hutton Inquiry: Blair’s testimony deepens government crisis
• Socialist Equality Party statement on the California recall election
  Vote “no” on the California recall. Vote John Christopher Burton for governor, for a socialist solution to the crisis
  Jobs for the unemployed! Billions for education, health care and housing! US troops out of Iraq!
• Canada takes leading role in Afghan occupation
• Australian prime minister embroiled in ethanol scandal
• Iraq: Attack on UN spurs plans for international military force
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Bush guts pollution controls on energy industry