Archive: July 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 July 2001
- Australian government lashes out against refugee detention report
- Nokia: Falling profits mean further layoffs
- Texas mother drowns children: Andrea Yates and "family values"
- US union leaders seek closer ties to Bush
3 July 2001
- Actor Jack Lemmon dead at 76: something essential about postwar America
- Australia: Sydney schools to close despite widespread opposition
- Japan adopts restructuring plan amid signs of recession
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
4 July 2001
- Behind the Milosevic trial: the US, Europe and the Balkan catastrophe
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Career opportunities
Songcatcher, written and directed by Maggie Greenwald - Letters on Andrea Yates and "family values"
- Rising number of dowry deaths in India
- Sri Lankan director speaks to WSWS about chauvinist attack on film
5 July 2001
- Homeless advocates discuss shortage of affordable housing in Cincinnati
- Jail deaths spark protest in Chile
- Northern Ireland’s First Minister Trimble resigns
- The Cincinnati riots and the housing crisis in the US
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Book Review
The Reichstag Fire, 68 years on
Alexander Bahar, Wilfried Kugel: Der Reichstagbrand - Wie Geschichte gemacht wird (The Reichstag Fire - How History is Created), edition q, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86124-523-2, 864 pages, price: 68.00 DM - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
6 July 2001
- 14-year-old dies in Arizona, latest casualty of "boot camps"
- Australia’s Rich 200 hold onto wealth despite major share falls
- Britain: Government think tank sets out plans for privatisation of essential services
- German Green Party seeks coalition with conservative CDU in Frankfurt
- The Microsoft lawsuit: Appeals court ruling favours company
- World Health Organisation says BSE is a major threat
7 July 2001
- A rape on Okinawa highlights fragility of US-Japan relations
- Cyprus: Riots outside British military base
- PDS leader Gysi announces candidacy in Berlin mayoral election
- Patients’ Bill of Rights: not even a band-aid for US health care crisis
- Sharon makes clear his expansionist policies for Israel
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 July 2001
- Documents confirm soldiers were exposed to nuclear tests in Australia
- Lithuanian government resigns amidst bitter intrigues over privatisations
- Protests over new Indonesian labour laws and fuel subsidy cuts
- UN AIDS Conference ends as a fiasco
10 July 2001
- Britain: Bradford is fourth city hit by riots
- Labour’s elder statesman Roy Hattersley calls on party to “rise up” against Prime Minister Blair
- Letters on "boot camps" for youth
- Letters on the Milosevic war crimes trial
- Protests in Sri Lanka against the rape and torture of Tamil women
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
11 July 2001
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Violent excess and vague liberalism
Amores Perros, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - An exchange on the use of shock therapy in psychiatry
- Croatian government crisis over extraditions to UN tribunal
- Koizumi threatens ruling party factions in Japan with a split
- New Timor Gap treaty secures Australian control of oil and gas projects
- World Socialist Web Site Review: July-September issue out now
12 July 2001
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Sydney Film Festival 2001
An ironic look at some reluctant heroes
Divided We Fall, directed by Jan Hrebejk, script by Petr Jarchovsky - Britain: Second vote by Conservative MPs to choose new party leader
- Esso Australia convicted of safety breaches in fatal gas explosion
- Letters to the WSWS
- Marconi job losses rise to 10,000
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UN Security Council deadlocked
Washington forced to shelve Iraq sanctions plan - Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
13 July 2001
- German troops to join NATO force in Macedonia
- Indonesia’s political crisis deepens as Wahid orders the arrest of police chief
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Only elements of a critique
The Anniversary Party, written and directed by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming - Reports highlight inequality and insecurity in America
- South Africa: ANC government evicts poor squatters
- US job losses highest since ’91 recession
14 July 2001
- Britain: Conservative MPs vote in final ballot for party leadership candidates
- Chilean court ends Pinochet’s trial
- Growing evidence of Israel’s plans to invade the West Bank and Gaza
- Recession and global financial turbulence return
- Riots hit Northern Ireland
- Sri Lankan President suspends parliament to avoid no-confidence vote
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
16 July 2001
- British judge loosens restrictions against Internet service providers in Jamie Bulger case
- Letters in response to "An exchange on the use of shock therapy in psychiatry"
- Rural MP’s defection exposes rifts in Australia’s governing coalition
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Starting over
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg - US Supreme Court completes term with rulings attacking democratic rights
17 July 2001
- Alienation from the major parties revealed in Australian by-election
- Another question on socialist planning
- Audience defy police threats to see "Injustice" film
- BAE Systems to lay off 1,000 workers at Glasgow shipyards
- Bush pushes rapid development of US missile defense
- US study reveals poor voters more likely to have ballots discarded
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
18 July 2001
- Australian business decidedly cool on Labor’s "Knowledge Nation" plan
- German Foreign Minister Fischer wants carte blanche for overseas military operations
- New German edition of Leon Trotsky’s Problems of Everyday Life
- Recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site
- UN imposes tight control over East Timor elections
- World Bank admits 85 percent of world’s population has no retirement income
19 July 2001
- A "modest proposal" from tobacco giant Philip Morris
- Britain: Labour government plans further cut in disability benefits
- Greenspan points to further economic weakness
- Letters in response to the WSWS review of A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- New York Times documents military role in theft of 2000 election
- TB poses growing international health threat
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
20 July 2001
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Acting is not the problem
crazy/beautiful, written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, directed by John Stockwell -
"I didn’t have a trial, I had a political process"
An interview with Julie Hiatt Steele, victim of Kenneth Starr’s witch-hunt - LSSP acts as chief apologist for Sri Lankan president’s autocratic moves
- Massive police operation at G8 summit in Genoa
- Ontario premier stonewalls inquiry into Walkerton deaths
- Tensions heighten over Japan’s endorsement of nationalist textbook
21 July 2001
- Britain: Leadership contest threatens to split Conservative Party
- Council of Europe finds "general climate" fostering racism in Germany
- High-profile official accuses New Zealand government of victimisation
- Jobs destruction continues in US
- Letters to the World Socialist Web Site
- Ontario presses ahead with privatization of electricity utility
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 July 2001
- Britain: Police shoot two dead in four days
- China-Russia treaty: a reaction against aggressive unilateralism in Washington
- Divisions widen at Genoa in the face of global economic downturn
- G8 summit: Brutal policing in Genoa leaves one dead and hundreds injured
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US House sanctions anti-gay discrimination by religious groups
License for bias in Bush "faith-based" bill
24 July 2001
- Britain: Bradford report shows dead end of racially-based politics
- Ex-King Simeon II named new prime minister of Bulgaria
- Indonesian military emerges as powerbroker in Megawati’s installation as president
- Letters to the WSWS
- Police crackdown on opposition protest in Sri Lanka leaves two dead
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 July 2001
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As markets applaud cuts
Argentine workers strike against austerity measures - Australia: Aboriginal leader pushes anti-welfare agenda
- Bush administration renews US drive to militarize space
- Growing opposition to "high-stakes" testing in US schools
- Mahathir detains Malaysian student leaders
- The G-8 summit in Genoa: illusion and reality
26 July 2001
- Australian government minister blames the poor for poverty
- Britain: Labour government steps up moves to privatise the postal services
- Californians express growing opposition to energy companies
- Political issues arising from the Genoa summit
- TB threat grows in Britain
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
27 July 2001
- An exchange on "US union leaders seek closer ties to Bush"
- Australian union officials charged over "run through" stunt
- Britain: Pay survey highlights growth of inequality
- Bush, the Pope and stem cell research
- Germany: Increasing instability of the Gerhard Schröder government
- Worst flood in eastern Indian state for 50 years
28 July 2001
- African Union initiative offers little prospect of end to Burundi civil war
- Bush administration torpedoes germ warfare treaty
- Israeli attacks on Palestinians aimed at provoking all out war
- Koizumi’s support to be tested in Japanese upper house elections
- Slumping US economy spurs new round of international job-cutting
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
30 July 2001
- Leadership tensions mount as Australian Treasurer outlines new agenda
- Lucent Technologies to cut 15,000 to 20,000 more jobs
- Oklahoma denies clemency to death row inmate from Mexico
- Recriminations follow the collapse of the India-Pakistan summit
31 July 2001
- Britain: Inquiry reveals role of NHS cuts in deaths of child heart patients in Bristol
- Britain: Labour government attacks right to fight unfair dismissal and discrimination
- Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka opposes moves to authoritarian rule
- US downturn deepens trend to world recession
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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