Archive: June 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 June 2001
- Alleged coup plot in Zimbabwe
- British police acquitted of wrongdoing after shooting unarmed man
- Indonesian parliament votes for impeachment proceedings against the president
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Buenos Aires 3rd International Festival of Independent Cinema-Part 3
Problems in Latin American cinema - Report into Australian rail disaster shows government decisions undermined safety
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New York's New School president accused of war crimes
What is at stake in the fight to remove Robert Kerrey?
2 June 2001
- Britain: Sheffield steel workers locked out following dispute over pay cuts
- Britain: Striking steelworkers talk to the World Socialist Web Site
- Britain: Union lefts neuter opposition to privatisation of London Underground
- Deepening social crisis underlies Republican loss of US Senate
- Sri Lankan Attorney General stalls on bail application for Tamil detainees
- US slowdown hits Asian economies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4 June 2001
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An interview with Mojgan Khadem
"Not just to entertain but to take the audience's breath away intellectually" -
A little known-aspect of Australian history
Serenades, directed by Mojgan Khadem - Britain: Labour promises further privatisation in state education
- Britain: Study finds Labour government spent less than the Conservatives
5 June 2001
- A revealing budget reply from Australian Labor leader
- An interview with Ana Poliak, director of La fe del volcán (The Faith of the Volcano)
- Britain's general election: Labour plans to eliminate public housing
- Manufacturing production slows worldwide
- Scottish and Welsh nationalism: self-enrichment masquerading as social reformism
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Buenos Aires 3rd International Festival of Independent Cinema—Part 4
Some Argentine films - Workers Struggles: The Americas
6 June 2001
- Bizarre royal murders plunge Nepal into political turmoil
- Britain's general election: Business press and "top people's" paper call for a Labour vote
- Deaths continue in West Australian mines
- Demonstrators in Cincinnati demand end to police brutality
- European Parliament concludes Echelon electronic spy network does exist
- SEP (US) statement: New strategy needed to fight police violence and racism
7 June 2001
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Tercer Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires
El cine necesita una perspectiva nueva - Japanese history textbook provokes sharp controversy
- Judge denies stay of McVeigh execution
- On Britain's general election day: workers confront the task of building their own party
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2001 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 1
Six films - The British election: ruling circles remain divided over Europe
- Welfare reports document increasing homelessness in Australia
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
8 June 2001
- African bombing verdict could presage new US attacks in Middle East and Asia
- Britain's general election: Labour secures second term, but turnout plummets to record low
- Britain: Heavy-handed policing provokes riots in Leeds
- Britain: Opposition grows to Labour's plans to sell off National Health Service
- Collapse of Australia's fourth largest telco adds to growing list of corporate failures
- Collapse of Balco strike opens way for further privatisation in India
- The McVeigh ruling--a travesty of justice
- US Civil Rights Commission report: Florida officials disenfranchised thousands of voters
9 June 2001
- Berlin coalition government breaks up
- Britain: Labour's second term presages social and political conflict
- First tentative talks between India and Pakistan in two years
- Five homeless people froze to death in US capital last winter
- More evidence of price-gouging in California energy market
- US Senate Republican leader complains of "one-man coup"
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 June 2001
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Falsification and unreality
Pearl Harbor, directed by Michael Bay, written by Randall Wallace - Malaysian judge orders the release of two opposition detainees
- Reply to a criticism of globalisation lecture
- US Secretary of State Colin Powell's Africa tour: a picture of arrogance and hypocrisy
12 June 2001
- Britain's general election: Lower than average turnout in Scotland
- British general election: Northern Ireland vote deepens instability
- Japan's economy contracts as Koizumi announces restructuring plans
- Moves towards peace talks stall as Sri Lankan government refuses to lift ban on LTTE
- Rally held in South Carolina for the "Charleston Five" longshoremen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 June 2001
- A question on "rent-seeking"
- Australian state premier declares he will "cement" long-term prisoners in their cells
- Execution Day in America
- Letters on the McVeigh execution
- Lionel Jospin's "Euro speech": European integration process falters
- Protests continue in Australian detention centres
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2001 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 2
Some limited but honest films, and the social role of pessimism
14 June 2001
- Bank report points to growing difficulties for world economy
- Canada: business "flabbergasted" by British Columbia government's tax cut
- General election presages sea change in British politics
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A warning sign of a resurgent rightwing
Indonesian police and thugs break up anti-globalisation conference -
Khatami confirmed as president of Iran
Iranian establishment closes ranks against the population - Record low turnout in Irish referendum returns "No" vote for European Union expansion
- Strike wave rocks Zambia
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Tercer Festival de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires—Segunda Parte
La intuición y la consciencia cinematográfica - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
15 June 2001
- Britain: Wyre Forest protest vote exposes limitation of single-issue politics
- Chinese think-tank warns of growing unrest over social inequality
- Italy: Berlusconi forms ultra-right cabinet
- Letters on "Execution Day in America"
- Oregon welfare applicants told to dig through trash to save money
- Severe shortage of casual teachers in disadvantaged Australian schools
16 June 2001
- An exchange of letters on Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh
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The Last of the Angry Penguins
An exhibition in memory of Australian painter John Perceval - Britain: Prime Minister Blair selects new cabinet for Labour's second term
- IMF insists on far-reaching market reforms in Sri Lanka
- Ohio executes schizophrenic death row inmate
- Oxfam report says "rigged trade" is widening gap between rich and poor countries
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
18 June 2001
- Labour-Alliance budget cuts New Zealand health and education services
- Nortel losses rock Canadian capital
- South Korean unions rapidly shut down national strike campaign
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Three demonstrators shot, hundreds arrested at Göteborg EU summit
European leaders demand harsher police action - US industrial output falls for the eighth consecutive month
19 June 2001
- Australian university refuses to reinstate sacked academic
- Britain: Labour government awards itself a large pay rise
- Bush’s European tour signals fracturing of Atlantic Alliance
- France implicated in attempted coup in Central African Republic
- Nova Scotia to outlaw strikes by health care workers
- Second US federal execution set for Tuesday morning
- Striking Minneapolis nurses describe chronic staffing shortages
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 June 2001
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Henry James and his adaptors
The Golden Bowl, directed by James Ivory - Prisoners die in Chinese mines: an indictment of "reform through labour"
- Rail union winds down opposition to London Underground privatisation
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A political quagmire
Sri Lankan government faces two no-confidence motions and an impeachment - The crisis of the Bankgesellschaft Berlin (BGB)
21 June 2001
- A dismal anniversary of the Korean summit
- Letters on the WSWS coverage of Timothy McVeigh’s execution
- US and Europe split on GE takeover of Honeywell
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US auto union rallies behind Ford bosses
UAW lackeys on parade - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
22 June 2001
- Canadian immigration officials falsified documents to bar refugees
- Further correspondence on socialism and human nature
- Peruvian court sentences Lori Berenson to 20 years
- Philippine President Arroyo takes hardline stance over hostage crisis
- Twenty-three reported dead in new US-British attacks on Iraq
23 June 2001
- Angry protest in Australia against Labor government changes to workers compensation
- Australian newspaper chain launches unprecedented smear against Aboriginal official
- Bush administration widens reach of federal death penalty
- Powell sent to rescue Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire
- Widespread protests against fuel increases in Zimbabwe
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
25 June 2001
- Andrei Sakharov and the fate of liberal democratic thought in post-Soviet Russia
- Britain: Damning report on 1999 Paddington rail crash
- Deteriorating conditions in Sri Lankan psychiatric hospitals
- Trial of Thai prime minister heightens political uncertainty
26 June 2001
- Balkan Black Box: a festival of Balkan film in Berlin—Part 1
- Sectarian riots in Northern Ireland
- Sri Lanka government in a minority as key coalition partner quits
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The Cincinnati riots: social inequality in the Queen City
Part two of a series - The German Greens and the nuclear industry
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
27 June 2001
- Another rail disaster in India claims 59 lives
- Britain: Burnley hit by riots
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How IBM helped the Nazis
IBM and the Holocaust By Edwin Black, Little Brown, ISBN 0-316-85769-6, Hardback, £20 - Lionel Jospin and Trotskyism: the debate over the French prime minister’s past
- The Jamie Bulger case: Release of Thompson and Venables sparks rightwing media backlash
- Workers condemn company over sulphur fumes at West Australian mine
28 June 2001
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A glitzy promotion for Murdoch’s Australian studios
Moulin Rouge, directed by Baz Luhrmann, script by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce - Fed interest rate cut will not halt US downturn
- Fijian regime seeks to stall two threatening court cases
- Job losses in Australia continue despite claims of recovery
- Macedonia: US troops intervene to save Albanian separatists
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
29 June 2001
- Interview with the filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik
- Letters on the Jamie Bulger case in Britain
- Papua New Guinea government under siege after police kill three protesters
- Salon and the decay of American liberal journalism
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Balkan Black Box: a festival of Balkan film in Berlin—Part 2
The films of Zelimir Zilnik - The passing of a blues legend: John Lee Hooker
- Toward a reconsideration of Trotsky’s legacy and his place in the history of the 20th century
30 June 2001
- Businessman escapes jail term after killing a New Zealand picket
- Canada: Evidence links Tories to Walkerton deaths
- Letters to the WSWS
- Popular revolt against Algeria’s military regime spreads
- Solomon Islands government fighting for survival
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4 September 2008
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