Archive: March 2001
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 March 2001
- "It Began With a Lie": German TV report refutes government propaganda in Balkan War
- Bush addresses the US Congress: An illegitimate president, a dubious surplus, a mounting social crisis
- Federal police used to intimidate Australian Broadcasting Corporation staff
- Foot and mouth disease spreads throughout Europe
- Layoffs continue to mount in US
- Powell's Middle East tour highlights crisis of US policy
- Slowdown in US economy to continue, says Greenspan
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The 51st Berlinale: Part 3
Unresolved historical questions
German feature and documentary films at the Berlin Film Festival - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2 March 2001
- $45 million fine against pilots union upheld by US Supreme Court
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Political payoffs to supporters and opponents alike
Arroyo attempts to shore up her grip on the Philippine presidency - Britain's latest rail disaster claims 13 lives
- Canada mounts biggest-ever security operation for Summit of the Americas
- Japan gets credit downgrade as recession tendencies grow
- Letters to the WSWS
- On the US-British bombing of Iraq
3 March 2001
- An interview with the directors of the Austrian documentary Spiegelgrund
- Britain: Labour government bans 21 organisations under new anti-terror laws
- Domino Sugar strike in Brooklyn ends in defeat
- Fijian government declared illegal but refuses to resign
- Oxfam reports show adverse health impact of drug patents on developing countries
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The 51st Berlinale: Part 4
Revealing old and enduring horrors
Spiegelgrund by Angelika Schuster and Tristan Sindelgruber - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 March 2001
- Canada: What lies behind the split in the union officialdom?
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Campaign to release Sri Lankan detainees
Hatton Six face another year's jail without trial - Napster seeks to block access to copyrighted music
- Surplus value and the Bush tax cut plan
6 March 2001
- Britain: Union hotline reveals widespread exploitation of call centre staff
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Campaign to release Sri Lankan detainees
Hatton Six face another year's jail without trial - Letters to the WSWS
- New York transit union calls off strike on commuter bus line
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- World economy moving towards recession
7 March 2001
- A presidential family in time of war
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The 51st Berlinale: Part 5
Asian films at the Berlin Film Festival - Australian prime minister reverses key policy as split looms in ruling coalition
- Britain: Hillsborough disaster families condemn payment to policeman
- Political and social dimensions of the Turkish financial crisis
- Taliban regime sets out to obliterate Afghanistan's cultural heritage
8 March 2001
- An expert's view on why foot and mouth disease has reemerged in Britain
- Australian economy heads for recession
- BP responsible for Papua New Guinea kerosene explosions
- Europe's foot and mouth disease outbreak was foreseeable and preventable
- The deadly consequences of Germany's refugee policy
- Why the rush to get US Vice President Cheney back on the job?
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
9 March 2001
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The military refashions its image
An unprecedented standdown of the Australian armed forces - Britain: Labour delivers a pre-election budget
- Nick Beams replies to two readers on the issue of surplus value
- The case of Julie Hiatt Steele: the human cost of the Kenneth Starr witch-hunt
- The strange case of accused US counterspy Robert Hanssen
- US Congress eliminates new workplace safety standards
10 March 2001
- Correspondence on the impact of depleted uranium on Vieques
- Letter from SK
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A reply to an LTTE supporter
Marxism and the national question in Sri Lanka
Part One -
Rebel in need of a cause
The Pledge, directed by Sean Penn - US Commission on Civil Rights charges "voter disenfranchisement... at heart" of Bush victory in Florida
- US forces conflict with KLA-backed Albanian separatists in Macedonia
- Wahid's position as Indonesian president looks increasingly shaky
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 March 2001
- Bush blocks strike by Northwest Airlines mechanics
- Chilean court dismisses murder charges against Pinochet
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A reply to an LTTE supporter
Marxism and the national question in Sri Lanka
Part Two - US media seize on partial Florida vote recount to bolster Bush
13 March 2001
- Bush tax cut campaign piles lie upon lie
- Fijian chiefs split over political crisis
- How Bush's tax cut plan favors the rich
- Japan government package fails to win support
- Political impasse as Japanese prime minister denies intention to resign
- The dispute in Germany over the generation of '68
- US auto industry slump leads to more job losses
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 March 2001
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Child labour in schools widespread
Fifty Chinese children killed in school fireworks explosion - Former US Secretary of State Baker presses for deal on Western Sahara
- Lecciones de la historia: las elecciones del 2000 y el nuevo "conflicto irreprimible"
- Lecciones de la historia: las elecciones del 2000 y el nuevo "conflicto irreprimible": preguntas y respuestas
- Reports document the impact of US welfare reform
- Stock markets take a "fundamental" hit
- US has highest childhood poverty rate of industrialized countries
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US networks, Congress whitewash media role in 2000 election
First of a two-part series
15 March 2001
- A new round of school shootings in the US
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The 51st Berlinale: Part 6
Berlin retrospective devoted to the films of Fritz Lang - British ban on LTTE strengthens Sinhalese extremists in Sri Lanka
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Australian government strategy succeeds:
Private school enrolments rise at expense of public schools - Trade barriers go up as foot and mouth disease spreads to France
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US networks, Congress whitewash media role in 2000 election
Second of a two-part series - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
16 March 2001
- Australian dollar falls below 50 US cents amid growing signs of recession
- Fighting in Macedonia threatens wider Balkan conflict
- Germany: Christian Democratic leader seeks ban on political activity by asylum-seekers
- Indian government hands down a budget to please big business
- Letters to the WSWS
- Nineteen US death row inmates executed so far this year
17 March 2001
- Britain: Teachers take industrial action over staff shortages
- Correspondence on global recessionary trends
- France: First round in local elections reveals political turmoil
- South Korean president boasts to US investors of crackdown on Daewoo workers
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US Senate passes bankruptcy "reform"
"The best bill money can buy" - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 March 2001
- Britain: Questions remain despite "passports for cash" inquiry clearing former minister
- Fiji's illegal government reinstalled
- Germany: Still no compensation for Nazi forced labour victims
- New issue of World Socialist Web Site Review now available
- Ugandan elections: Museveni holds onto power
20 March 2001
- Arms corruption scandal erupts in South Africa
- Continuing government cover-up of asbestos health disaster in Australia
- Further court delay to Sri Lankan legal challenge of film ban
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Once more, the emperor's new clothes
In the Mood for Love, written and directed by Wong Kar-wai -
WSWS interviews Dr Tony Sasse
Respiratory physician calls for mass screening of asbestos victims - Socialist Equality Party of Germany holds memorial meeting to honour Ernst Schwarz
- US stock market slide: a turning point in American and world politics
- US: third major Amtrak accident in three months
- Workers Struggles
21 March 2001
- Italian elections set for May 13
- Letters on US politics
- Middle class voters desert Liberal government in Australian by-election
- The flawed legacy of Scottish popular historian John Prebble
- US, Japan interest rate cuts point to global problems
- Why did the US media black out the Civil Rights Commission report on the Florida vote?
22 March 2001
- Britain: Unions agree to Vauxhall/GM restructuring programme
- Britain: Vauxhall worker condemns restructuring agreement
- Sri Lanka's budget: hoping for peace and planning for war
- Tuberculosis on the rise in the Washington DC area
- Week-long military revolt shakes Papua New Guinea government
- Western powers reject NATO intervention against Albanian insurgency in Macedonia
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Rolling blackouts continue in US's largest state
What underlies the energy crisis in California? - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
23 March 2001
- Britain: Foot and mouth disease "an epidemic waiting to happen"
- China's optimistic economic plans undermined by looming global recession
- France: Government parties experience substantial losses in local elections
- Germany: Green party moves further to the right
- Nigeria's fuel protests gather support
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Nothing to boast about
Last Resort & When Brendan Met Trudy - Right wing in German CDU senses new opportunities
- Tamil detainees in Sri Lanka appeal for support for their release
24 March 2001
- "New wave of pessimism" about US economy, as job cuts deepen
- British Telecom confronts falling share prices and £30bn debt
- Indian government reeling after website exposes high-level arms procurement corruption
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The 51st Berlinale: Part 7
Just how important is ethnic identity?
A beautiful day directed by Thomas Arslan - US Supreme Court strips workers of right to sue for discrimination
- Union pay case will entrench poverty level wages for Australian workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
26 March 2001
- An uncertain future for Malaysia's prime minister
- Italian elections: Berlusconi presents himself as the employers' man
- Letters on the California energy crisis, the US stock market fall
- On the fighting in Macedonia
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World Without End: Photography and the 20th Century
Some rare photographs but a flawed approach
27 March 2001
- Australian-sponsored Bougainville settlement breaks down
- Britain: Report links CJD cluster to local farming and butchery practices
- Students protest lack of funding at University of Western Sydney
- The 73rd Academy Awards: Hollywood displays its wares
- US Air Line Pilots Association strikes Comair
- UWS students condemn lack of resources
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 March 2001
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Argentina: Congress grants Cavallo emergency powers
Wall Street's man in charge - Bill 112: the Ontario Tory government and the McMichael Art Gallery
- Bosnia-Herzegovina faces dissolution
- Correspondence on economic recession in the US
- Sri Lankan plantation unions shut down wage campaign to forestall government crisis
- US campaign finance reform: the substance behind the "democratic" hype
- US prison population to reach a record two million by year's end
29 March 2001
- California to hike electricity rates by 40 percent
- Letters on the Academy Awards
- New York: Forced labor program for tenants
- Reports reveal systematic abuse in Australia's refugee detention centres
- Solomon Islands faces economic and social disintegration
- Spanish government imposes labour reforms
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
30 March 2001
- Acclamation of new Quebec premier underscores crisis in separatist movement
- Germany: Record abstentions in recent state elections
- Indonesian president moves one step closer to impeachment
- Japanese insurance firm collapses and more could follow
- Kenya: School fire kills at least 59 students
- Ralph Nader's political olive branch to Bush
31 March 2001
- Britain: Calls mount for Blair to delay general election due to foot and mouth crisis
- Israel steps up military offensive against Palestinians
- Job cuts continue as US economic growth slows to lowest rate in five years
- New report suggests link between power lines and risk of childhood leukemia
- The limitations of Ed Harris's Pollock
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Dulal Bose, 1918-2001
Veteran Indian Trotskyist dies in Calcutta, aged 82 - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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