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Archive: September 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 September 2001

• Australian government increasingly desperate to remove Tampa refugees
• Iranian court orders arrest of filmmaker
• Letters on the Tampa refugee crisis
• Mexican VW workers reject settlement, continue strike
• Mounting layoffs fuel drop in US consumer confidence
• The disappearance of Chandra Levy: how the US media turned a family tragedy into a sex scandal
• US comes to the defence of Zionism at UN conference on racism
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

3 September 2001

• Freed Tamil detainees speak:
  "The conditions in Sri Lanka were exposed before the international community"
• Labor Day 2001: US workers without a voice
• Sri Lankan authorities forced to release two more of the Hatton Six
• The Socialist Labour Party: Scargill seeks to resurrect Stalinism under a flag of convenience
• US actor-director Sean Penn on Hollywood and protests against global capitalism

4 September 2001

• Bush administration stonewalls on energy task force documents
• European Union extends investigation of Microsoft
• Flood tragedy in Thailand linked to deforestation
• Malaysian human rights report details methods of police repression
• Northern Ireland: Allegations of British collusion in Omagh bombing
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

5 September 2001

• Australia mounts military operation to expel Tampa refugees
• Central American famine worsens
• France: Growing desperation amongst Sangatte refugees
• German union chief faces criminal probe after takeover of telecom giant
• Northern Ireland: Catholic girls school becomes focus for sectarian violence
• Sri Lankan government reaches deal with the chauvinist JVP
• Stocks plunge amid fears of world slump

6 September 2001

• Australian nurses union accepts cuts to conditions
• Britain: Livingstone’s legal challenge to Labour government fails
• Germany: Conservatives advance Wisconsin as model for attacks on welfare
• IMF points to danger of a "protracted global downturn"
• Israel and US walk out of UN conference on racism
• Reunión del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad
  Robert Kerrey y el legado sangriento de la Guerra de Vietnam
• Some recent films—The Deep End, The Others, Down From the Mountain, Planet of the Apes, Legally Blonde
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

7 September 2001

• Australian parents pay for schools’ basic needs
• Lumber dispute strains Canada-US relations
• More letters on the Tampa refugee crisis
• Sleeping Sickness rampant in Sub-Saharan Africa
• The political significance of Israel’s assassination policy
• 2001 Sydney Film Festival
  Two fine examples of "direct cinema"
  LaLee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton directed by Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson and Albert Maysles Facing the Music directed by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson
• Two letters on Eritrea and a reply

8 September 2001

• A director treading water
  What Time is it There? Directed by Tsai Ming-liang Screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival
• Israel: Leadership election plunges Labour Party into factional warfare
• A landmark in the fight against capital punishment in the US
  Lessons of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case
• Letters to the WSWS
• A new attack on freedom of the press
  US Justice Department subpoenas reporter’s phone records
• US jobless total leaps by half a million to highest in four years
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

10 September 2001

• Pappa Tarahumara, a Japanese contemporary dance company
  Frustrated resignation
• Globalisation, Jospin and the political program of Attac
  Part One
• Polish elections—Democratic Party of the Left announces plans for further attacks on social gains
• US Justice Department drops demand for Microsoft break-up

11 September 2001

• Britain: Big increase in human form of "Mad Cow Disease"
• Britain: Links with fascists exposed during Conservative Party leadership contest
• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge trial expected by end of year
• Globalisation, Jospin and the political program of Attac
  Part Two
• Strike by Mexican Volkswagen workers ends
• Sydney migrant farmers exposed to chemical risks
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

12 September 2001

• A failed attempt at "relevance"
  The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, directed by Andrew Benedict
• Britain: Protests as High Court rules government illegally detains asylum seekers
• East Timor election reveals disaffection with Fretilin
• German union teams up with Volkswagen to create low-wage sector
  The new "5000 by 5000" model
• Oxbridge--the British Establishment’s essential club
• The political roots of the terror attack on New York and Washington

13 September 2001

• Australian union hoses down another entitlement dispute
• Britain: Start of new term sees education system near collapse
• Court rules that Australian government illegally detained Tampa refugees
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

14 September 2001

• Germany: Extreme right could make gains in upcoming elections in Hamburg
• Global technology slowdown hits "Asian tiger" economies
• Layoff announcements point to global recession
• Edinburgh Film Festival
  Two contrasting films about asylum seekers
  Gas Attack, directed by Kenny Glenaan, and Roadblocks directed by Stavros Ioannou
• Why the Bush administration wants war
• Zimbabwe land agreement reflects West’s concern over instability in Africa

15 September 2001

• Arab-Americans and Muslims attacked in the US
• Australia’s second biggest airline collapses
• Britain and France seek tougher measures against refugees
• Britain: Duncan Smith wins easily in Conservative Party leadership contest
• Three youth jump to their death
  The group suicide in Reichenbach, Germany
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

17 September 2001

• Berliners react to terror attacks in US: shock, grief and fear of American military action
• Britain: BBC kow-tows to right-wing calls for censorship
• Las raíces políticas del ataque terrorista contra Nueva York y Washington
• Mounting concerns in Britain over US war drive
• Opposition to Labor’s ethnic scapegoating in Australian byelection
• Race-based government formed in Fiji
• South Africa: President Mbeki again downplays AIDS epidemic

18 September 2001

• Bougainville autonomy deal remains fragile
• Japanese economy plunges
• Letters on terror attacks and US war preparations
• Record one-day point fall on Wall Street
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

19 September 2001

• Australian Ombudsman condemns officials over refugee’s suicide
• Communal violence in Nigeria
• Correspondence on Africa
• Democratic rights in America: the first casualty of Bush’s anti-terror war
• European declarations of solidarity mask tensions with the US
• The debate in Germany over the crimes of Hitler’s Wehrmacht
  Part 1
• To explore one of the dark episodes in Indonesian history
  Interview with Garin Nugroho, director of The Poet

20 September 2001

• Australian government extends unconditional support to US war drive
• Escalating attacks on Muslims and Arabs in Australia
• In the name of America’s "war on terrorism"
  Hindu regime in India fans anti-Muslim sentiment
• More letters on the terror attacks and US war preparations
• The debate in Germany over the crimes of Hitler’s Wehrmacht
  Part 2
• The rehabilitation of British artist Stanley Spencer
• No truce in the corporate war at home
  US air industry launches massive attack on jobs
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• ¿Por qué el gobierno de Bush busca la guerra?

21 September 2001

• The "Teissier affair"
  Astrology rehabilitated at the Sorbonne university in Paris
• Australian court overturns ruling against removal of Tampa refugees
• Markets continue to "rollercoaster down"
• Middle East ceasefire aimed at securing Arab support for US war drive
• 2001 Toronto International Film Festival—Part 1
  The success and failure of the international "Style of Quality" in cinema
• Three killed as racist attacks increase in US

22 September 2001

• Anti-Americanism: The “anti-imperialism” of fools
• Britain: Trade unions line up behind Blair’s calls for national unity
• German government restricts democratic rights
• Italy’s right-wing government unveils new attacks on workers
• Sri Lankan business demands deal with LTTE to end war
• US Congress set to approve sweeping attacks on civil liberties
• Where is the Bush administration taking the American people?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

24 September 2001

• CEO pay soars as US stocks plummet
• Internet privacy threatened following terrorist attacks on US
• Norway: Conservatives and far-right Progress Party on brink of power
• Salinity: a major environmental crisis in Australia
• Sri Lankan government exploits terror attack in US

25 September 2001

• A humanitarian catastrophe in the making in Afghanistan
• Chemical explosion in Toulouse, France leaves at least 29 dead
• European Union to restrict civil liberties
• New York Times, Washington Post suppress media recount of Florida vote
• Opel car company prepares mass job cuts throughout Europe
  Part 1: German trade unions agree to the Olympia restructuring plan
• Pakistan’s military regime rallies to US war coalition
• Sri Lankan court orders release of banned film
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

26 September 2001

• African leaders support US, but fear domestic opposition
• Australian government detains nearly 1,000 refugees offshore
• Iran seeks detente with US
• Letters on the terror attacks and the US war drive
• Opel car company prepares mass job cuts throughout Europe
  Part 2: The role played by the Bochum factory committee
• US bails out airlines, ignores plight of workers

27 September 2001

• Alabama mine blast kills thirteen
• Britain: Recession intensified by terror attacks in US
• 2001 Toronto International Film Festival—Part 2
  Five films on historical and political themes
• German government announces far-reaching restrictions on civil liberties
• IMF’s reduced growth prediction could be too optimistic
• Megawati’s support for US war drive exacerbates tensions in Indonesia
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

28 September 2001

• A postcard view of history
  Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, directed by John Madden
• Britain: Racist attacks escalate
• North Korea seeks rapprochement with South and the US
• Problems escalate for Bush in Middle East
• State of emergency declared after acquittal of Cincinnati cop who shot youth
• White House lied about threat to Air Force One

29 September 2001

• Britain: Why Blair is backing the US war drive
• Bush administration moves to silence dissent
• Muslims, anti-globalization movements labeled enemies of the "West"
  Racist vomit from Italy’s PM Berlusconi
• Turkey: "War against terrorism" emboldens fascists and the military
• Unions agree to carve-up of Australian airline
• White House reneges on proof of bin Laden’s guilt
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific