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Archive: November 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 November 2001

• 2001 Australian elections: The political issues facing the working class
  Part 2
• Lloyd’s members told "very large profits are possible" following September 11
• Hawks demand attack on Iraq, troops in Afghanistan
  Political war rages over Bush military strategy
• Sri Lankan downturn wipes out thousands of jobs
• Stalinism and Trotskyism in Occupied France
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

2 November 2001

• Britain: Guardian journalist seeks to neuter anti-war movement
• Japan’s trade surplus plummets
• Letters on US war in Afghanistan
• The struggle for influence and oil in the Caucasus
  Renewed fighting in Abkhazia
• Terminally ill in a sick world?
  Achim von Borries’ debut film England!
• The CIA, the American oligarchy and the war in Afghanistan
  A commentary on the Abdul Haq debacle

3 November 2001

• Another airline crisis—the case of Air New Zealand
• Biggest jump in US jobless rate in 20 years
• Britain: Labour introduces ID cards and routine detention for asylum seekers
• German government attacks fundamental democratic rights
• Vancouver International Film Festival—Part 3
  I’m Going Home and Mulholland Drive
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

5 November 2001

• Australian election: the gulf between promise and reality over the sale of Telstra
• In the guise of "economic stimulus"
  Bush pushes new tax windfall for the rich
• Anger over cutbacks
  New York firefighters storm "Ground Zero"
• Politically motivated attacks on the SEP in Sri Lanka

6 November 2001

• CNN tells reporters: No propaganda, except American
• Canada’s elite ponders implications of "Fortress America"
• Green Party opponent of Afghan war detained at US airport
• SEP holds meetings in Australia against the war in Afghanistan
• Settlement reached in Microsoft antitrust case
• Interviews from SEP public meeting:
  The war has "a hidden agenda"
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

7 November 2001

• Australian election: Labor’s micro-promise for dental care
• Britain and US revive nuclear energy policy
• Bush’s war at home: a creeping coup d’état
• Concerns that US may be going down the Japan road
• It’s not like "ER"-The scandal of patient dumping in US hospitals
• Millions of unemployed finding US safety net in shreds
• Novel questions media hysteria over children who kill
  Border Crossing, by Pat Barker Published by the Penguin Group (Viking), ISBN (hardback) 0-670-87841-3 (paperback) 0-670-89315-3

8 November 2001

• Australian unions back 18-month wage freeze at Qantas
• Britain: Labour moves to introduce US-style city mayors
• Chancellor Schröder calls for an expanded military role for Germany
• Indian government curbs democratic rights
• The New York Times and the "terror alert"
  How the US media lies for Bush
• The US war drive and the destabilisation of Egypt
  Part 1
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

9 November 2001

• Australian election: Why the silence on industrial relations?
• Income report highlights vast inequality in the US
• Letters on "Bush’s war at home: a creeping coup d’état"
• Letters on the US war in Afghanistan
• South Africa: ANC government pushes through draconian anti-terrorism legislation
• The US war drive and the destabilisation of Egypt
  Part 2
• SEP meetings in Australia
  The war in Afghanistan: the socialist perspective
  Part 1

10 November 2001

• Australian election: The Howard government’s big lie unravels
• Australian election: a bizarre five-week campaign
• British Muslims threatened with treason charges
• Bush’s speech on homeland defense: the banality of reaction
• Ford prepares for more job cuts in wake of management shake-up
• Northern Ireland: anti-Agreement unionists take legal action to force Assembly elections
• In the war to "defend civilization"
  US liberal pundits debate the value of torture
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

12 November 2001

• Assassination of Mexican human rights activist provokes political crisis
• Bloomberg victory highlights disintegration of New York Democrats
• La guerra de Bush contra el país: el golpe de estado se aproxima
• The killing fields of Afghanistan
• SEP meetings in Australia
  The war in Afghanistan: the socialist perspective
  Part 2

13 November 2001

• Britain: Job losses mount and personal debt increases
• Britain: Two die and thirteen injured in Corus steel plant explosion
• Bush order restricts access to presidential papers
• Creditors’ meeting highlights Indonesia’s economic and political fragility
• Inmigrante paquistaní muere en una prisión norteamericana
• Leader of the French OCI acknowledges past relations with Prime Minister Jospin
• Socialist Equality Party contests Sri Lankan general election
• The Barber of Santa Rosa
  The Man Who Wasn’t There, directed by Joel Coen, written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

14 November 2001

• Australian election reveals the decay of parliamentary politics
• Britain's "anti-terror" measures--a fundamental attack on democratic rights
• Britain: Job losses mount and personal debt increases
• El Talibán, Los Estados Unidos y los recursos del Asia Central
• After full-scale security alert is imposed
  Engine failure suspected in New York plane crash
• German government approves biggest military intervention since Second World War
• The 2000 election and Bush’s attack on democratic rights

15 November 2001

• Fall of Kabul sets stage for further political conflict in Afghanistan
• Fascist attacks in Moscow
• Chilling episode in Bush’s war on democratic rights
  Green Party activist recounts military detention at Maine airport
• Pennsylvania prepares privatization of Philadelphia public schools
• Scotland’s first minister resigns
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

16 November 2001

• A thoughtless protest against the banks
  The Bank, written and directed by Robert Connolly
• Chancellor Schroeder calls vote of confidence on German participation in the war
  An ultimatum to parliament and the people
• Death toll mounts as floods devastate Algiers
• Letters on assault on democratic rights in the US
• Media review of Florida ballots whitewashes theft of 2000 election
• SEP meetings in Britain
  The bombing of Afghanistan and the new "Great Game"

17 November 2001

• Britain: Jack Straw and "The Invention of Peace"
• Britain: government unveils draconian "anti-terror" bill
• Danish elections overshadowed by the "fight against terrorism"
• Interviews with voters on the Australian election
• Military tribunals, monitoring of lawyers: Bush announces new police-state measures
• Western powers consider further sanctions against Liberia
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

19 November 2001

• Hollywood enlists in Bush’s war drive
• Last-minute deal starts new trade round
• No substance to Blair’s new evidence against Al Qaeda
• US exploits chaos to push its own political agenda in Afghanistan

20 November 2001

• 100,000 demonstrate in London to demand end to war in Afghanistan
• Anti-war protestors speak out in London
• Australian companies slash jobs to protect profits
• Canadian "anti-terrorism" law attacks democratic rights
• Mass trial of opposition group in Iran
• UAW to cut benefits to Kentucky workers in four-year strike
• US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

21 November 2001

• America’s "killing hour": a revealing comment in the Wall Street Journal
• Arbitrary arrests of Muslims in Kenya
• Bulgaria: Presidential elections reveal drop in support for former Tsar Simeon II
• Infernal relations of rich and poor
  From Hell, directed by Allen and Albert Hughes
• Tensions in New Zealand government over Afghanistan war
• Why the US bombed al-Jazeera’s TV station in Kabul

22 November 2001

• Afghanistan: US sets stage for a massacre in Kunduz
• Corporate war at home continues
  Bush moves to block strike by United Airlines mechanics
• Collapse of Sabena heralds drastic cuts in European airline industry
• Federal agents visit "anti-American" art exhibition in Houston
• New attacks on academic free speech in US
• West Papuan separatist leader murdered in suspicious circumstances
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

23 November 2001

• A socialist platform for the 2001 Sri Lankan election
• Argentina on the edge of default—Is Brazil next?
• Britain: Parliament overwhelmingly approves anti-terrorism bill
• Four Weddings actress Charlotte Coleman dies, aged 33
• France: Support for war, attacks on democratic rights
• Stock markets rise but global growth forecasts revised down

24 November 2001

• Bush nominee linked to Latin American terrorism
• Canada’s social democrats debate winding up NDP
• Red-green great power politics
  German parliament votes for participation in Afghanistan war
• Letters on "US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11"
• Strikes mount as Israeli economy plunges into recession
• India
  Tamil Nadu government steps up repression to crush bus strike
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

26 November 2001

• A question on the contradictions of capitalism
• China’s stake in the US "war on terrorism"
• One in three jobless workers in US lack health insurance
• The New York Times and Bush’s military tribunals
• US attorney general supports fundamentalists on physician-assisted suicide

27 November 2001

• Kenyan herdsmen take court action against British Army
• Letters on war in Afghanistan and attack on civil liberties
• Race-based regime clings to power in Fiji
• Sri Lankan police kill three at fishermen’s protest
• US Middle East proposals strengthen Sharon’s position in Israel
• US war crime in Afghanistan: Hundreds of prisoners of war slaughtered at Mazar-i-Sharif
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

28 November 2001

• New government established in Burundi
• Nothing to say, badly said
  Novocaine, written and directed by David Atkins Sidewalks of New York, written and directed by Edward Burns
• Once again: government, media silent on right-wing role in US anthrax attacks
• Social Democrats routed in Danish parliamentary election
• Sri Lanka: JVP election campaign aimed at securing business support
• US atrocity against Taliban POWs: Whatever happened to the Geneva Convention?
• US recession now official: "new economy" expansion one of weakest on record

29 November 2001

• After US massacre of Taliban POWs: the stench of death and more media lies
• Arab residents denounce government witch-hunt at Detroit-area forum
• Britain: Government expands use of classroom assistants to cover teacher shortage
• Britain: Government suppresses report showing hospital patients face danger from Human BSE
• Deal to privatize Philadelphia schools
• En la guerra para "defender la civilización"
  Expertos liberales estadounidenses debaten la posibilidad de la tortura
• Hunger and homelessness on the rise in New York
• Major powers pull the strings at Bonn talks on Afghanistan
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

30 November 2001

• A desire for what?
  "Surrealism: Desire Unbound"— An exhibition at Tate Modern, London until 1 January 2002
• A revealing speech by a US Federal Reserve Board governor
• Felony charges dropped against "Charleston 5" dockworkers in South Carolina
• France: 5,000 Moulinex jobs slashed as workers end protest
• German Greens vote to support the war in Afghanistan
• Letters on US war in Afghanistan
• US steps up pressure on North Korea