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Archive: April 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.

2 April 2001

• American jazz great John Lewis dead at 80
• Britain: New report finds over five million live in absolute poverty
• Papua New Guinea mutiny ends but basic demands remain
• SEP member in Sri Lanka victimised and sacked
• The shredding of the US "safety net": most laid off workers denied unemployment benefits

3 April 2001

• Britain's Conservative Party exposes its racist underbelly
• Election in Vienna: Haider's anti-Semitic agitation backfires
• Milosevic's arrest dictated by the US
• Pakistani junta arrests hundreds in crackdown on opposition parties
• Spy plane standoff heightens US-China tensions
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 April 2001

• A journey through Africa's civilisations
  Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates Jnr., published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2001, ISBN: 0375709487
• Australian-British mining merger will lead to a new round of cost-cutting
• Britain: Prime Minister Blair abandons plans for May elections
• Comair pilots strike against low wages at US regional airlines
• London Underground hit by second strike against privatisation
• Stock market fall: More than a business cycle downturn

5 April 2001

• A symptom of deep social tensions
  Bomb blasts kill 108 in industrial city in China
• Readers respond to "Ralph Nader's political olive branch to Bush"
• Strikes continue throughout Israel
• Tens of thousands of Australian students affected by school closure plan
• The political dead end of Labour Zionism
  Part 1—The origins and class character of political Zionism
• US Supreme Court narrows right to counsel in criminal cases
• Workers struggles: Europe & Africa
• Zimbabwe economy in free-fall

6 April 2001

• British government rushes through legislation postponing elections until June 7
• Bush administration ratchets up tensions on the Korean peninsula
• Bush ends American Bar Association pre-screening of judicial nominees
• Documentary exposes workplace, environmental poisoning
  PBS TV's "Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report"
• The political dead end of Labour Zionism
  Part 2— The convergence of the Labour Zionists and Revisionist Zionism
• Transatlantic relations enter an ice age

7 April 2001

• Italy: Berlusconi fans an atmosphere of intimidation
• Negotiations stepped up in US spy plane confrontation with China
• New Australian police powers overturn presumption of innocence
• Swiss Company accused of poisoning workers in South Africa
• The cost of the war in Sri Lanka
  Tens of thousands of jobs to go under IMF-World Bank restructuring plans
• The political dead end of Labour Zionism
  Part 3—The June 1967 &"Six Day War"—A turning point in the evolution of Israel
• US unemployment rate rises in March as businesses slash nearly 8,000 jobs a day
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

9 April 2001

• Australian dollar plunge an expression of global tendencies
• Background to the 2000 US election
  Florida's legacy of voter disenfranchisement
• The "crimes" of the generation of '68
  How the student movement tried to expose the Nazi past of the German judiciary
• Letters to the WSWS
• On the US spy plane standoff with China
• Torture in the Algerian war (1954-62)
  The Algerian war 1954-62

10 April 2001

• Another Detroit shopper killed in confrontation with security guard
• Britain: Labour government outlines the next stage in its assault on the arts
• Deepa Mehta calls off production of her film Water
• European report condemns British racism and xenophobia
• Japan's latest economic package merely a 'band-aid'
• What's behind Canadian Prime Minister Chretien's business scandal?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

11 April 2001

• Gangs, soldiers and politicians
  Bomb blasts claim 11 lives at Sri Lankan concert
• Internal Revenue report: fewer rich Americans are paying taxes
• Marcha zapatista a la Ciudad de México termina en acuerdo con el Presidente Fox
• Marconi to cut 3,000 jobs worldwide
• Mitsubishi workers in Australian plants face uncertain future
• Open clashes between NATO and Croat separatists in Bosnia-Hercegovina
• Zapatistas' march on Mexico City ends in accommodation with President Fox

12 April 2001

• California energy crisis deepened by bankruptcy filing of utility company
• Global growth forecast revised down
• Indonesian president authorises military crackdown in Aceh
• Letters to the WSWS
• WSWS replies to letters on US-China confrontation
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

13 April 2001

• Britain: Law Commission recommends striking out double jeopardy rule
• Europe rearms
• Khan Younis raid escalates Israel's war against the Palestinians
• Sri Lankan government prepares for peace talks with the LTTE
• State of emergency declared
  Three nights of rioting follow police shooting in Cincinnati

14 April 2001

• Britain: judge halts high profile trial of Leeds footballers
• German-Russian summit in St. Petersburg: big expectations, little achieved
• Leadership battle in Japan provokes debate over economic policy
• South African football stampede kills 43
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 April 2001

• US adopts aggressive anti-China posture in aftermath of spy plane crisis

16 April 2001

• Ohio city under martial law, hundreds arrested
  2,000 demonstrate against police violence in Cincinnati
• Britain's Labour Party cuddle up to US right
• The Maxwell report: a revealing picture of life in the City of London

17 April 2001

• Burundi civil war escalates
• Detroit school restructuring plan attacks workers and students
• Scotland: "Silicon Glen" hit as Motorola sheds 26,000 jobs worldwide
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

18 April 2001

• Australian government announces tougher laws against asylum seekers
• European Central Bank rate decision opens up a financial rift
• Japanese government issues economic downgrade
• Pride in Germany—an absurd debate
• War danger grows in Middle East

19 April 2001

• African "slave ship" highlights spread of child slavery
• Letters on the US-China conflict
• Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh: the making of a mass murderer
• Australia:
  State Labor government to make further inroads into workers compensation
• The Oklahoma City bombing: a somber warning to the working class
  Republished from the May 8, 1995 issue of the International Workers Bulletin
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• Yahoo's capitulation to right-wing pressure groups sets dangerous precedent

20 April 2001

• As Turkish economic crisis deepens, tens of thousands protest IMF and government policies
• Britain: New cybercrime police force threatens civil liberties
• Commercialisation erodes academic freedom in Australian universities
• Correspondence on Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Media-sponsored recount in Florida slants results to legitimize Bush election
• The Summit of the Americas and the development of a genuine opposition to global capital
• Union undermines the defence of sacked Australian academic

21 April 2001

• Nader speaks in Detroit: Green Party presidential candidate keeps silent on Bush
• South African court case ends in climb down by drug corporations
• South Korean government faces backlash over police violence against Daewoo workers
• Summit of the Americas: security operation turns Quebec City into an armed camp
• Freedom of speech under attack in Russia
  The Kremlin assumes control over the NTV oppositional television station
• Wasted opportunities—Blow, directed by Ted Demme
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 April 2001

• Arroyo bans film at insistence of Philippines Catholic hierarchy
• Britain: Supermarket profits boom while food poverty increases
• Documentary on Scottsboro case distorts 1930s struggle against racism in US South
• Hypocrisy over racism in run up to British general election
• New unemployment claims at five-year high as US companies slash thousands of jobs
• Political tensions continue in Vanuatu after Sope government's removal

24 April 2001

• Britain: Gap widens between incomes of rich and poor
• Germany's Chancellor Schröder attacks the unemployed
• Missionary plane shot down in Peru: collateral damage in US "drug war"
• Mobil plans strike-breaking operation at Adelaide refinery
• Reply to a letter on socialism and economic laws
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

25 April 2001

• "Ulbricht's helpers": the role of Hitler's army generals in former East Germany
• Financial markets slam Australian government over its rejection of Shell takeover bid
• Letters on: "Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh: the making of a mass murderer"
• Norway's far-right Progress Party splits
• Sharon faces criticism after Israel's forced withdrawal from Gaza Strip
• US-European economic tensions increase

26 April 2001

• Another round of anti-government strikes and protests in Bangladesh
• Australia refuses to relinquish control over Timor Sea oil and gas
• Britain: Racism row continues in run up to general election
• Law-and-order crackdown in aftermath of Cincinnati riots
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• World Trade Organisation agreement aims at privatising public services

27 April 2001

• A dangerous deterioration in air safety in Australia
• Growing hostility to the government and the LTTE
  A first hand report from LTTE-controlled territory in Sri Lanka
• Britain: Labour promises "baby bonds" to legitimise its attacks on welfare rights
• Bush hints at war with China over Taiwan
• Ethiopia: Students killed in brutal police attack
• Executions continue as US rejects worldwide moratorium on the death penalty
• Letters from our readers

28 April 2001

• Angry young man going nowhere
  Thomas Ostermeier's adaptation of Büchner's classic Danton's Death at the Berlin Schaubühne
• Britain: Labour government steps up persecution of asylum seekers
• IMF report points to global slowdown and potential disruption
• Koizumi's election: a turning point in Japanese politics
• Montenegro split down the middle on separation
• Motorola closure heads new wave of European mobile phone job losses
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

30 April 2001

• Confused and cold-hearted
  The Goddess of 1967, directed by Clara Law
• Job cutting continues in the slumping US market
• Mahathir reacts to growing criticism
  Nine opposition leaders in Malaysia arrested in government crackdown
• The Sunday Times "Rich List"-Britain's wealthiest 1,000
• The far-right Austrian Freedom Party under the magnifying glass
  Hans-Hennig Scharsach/Kurt Kuch: Haider—Schatten ueber Europa("Haider—A shadow over Europe"), Kiepenheuer und Witsch 2000

13 June 2001

• Execution Day in America