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Archive: January 2002

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.

3 January 2002

• A letter from France on the anti-globalisation movement Attac
• A major exhibition on the Spanish Civil War
  "Dreams and Nightmares"—at the Imperial War Museum, London, until April 28, 2002
• Australian university refuses to reinstate victimised professor
• Five-fold increase in deaths from drug prescription errors in Britain’s hospitals
• Job losses in Scotland’s "Silicon Glen"
• New Sri Lankan government calls for peace talks with the LTTE
• Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 January 2002

• From power shortage to power surplus
  California’s energy debacle continues
• Open-ended US bombing campaign results in further Afghan casualties
• Protests erupt at Australian refugee detention centre
• The case of Robert Kerrey: war crimes and their supporters in Vietnam and Afghanistan
• Workers Struggles: Europe

5 January 2002

• Australia: Carr scapegoats "arsonists" over bushfires
• Four recent films
  Bandits; Ghost World; Monster’s Ball; Vanilla Sky
• Montenegro: European Union opposes moves towards independence
• The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to investigate man charged in September 11 attacks
• Two million jobs wiped out in 2001
  US unemployment rate jumps to 5.8 percent
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Zambia: New president installed amidst accusations of vote rigging

7 January 2002

• Indonesia: religious violence flares again in Central Sulawesi
• Letters to the WSWS
• New York’s new mayor demands austerity
• Sectarian divisions widen in Northern Ireland

8 January 2002

• An exchange on wages under a socialist society
• Argentine devaluation: unelected government begins assault on living standards
• Thousands of POWs held in appalling conditions in Afghanistan
• What does the euro mean for the working class?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 January 2002

• War crisis continues
  India rejects Pakistani pleas for talks
• Japan militarisation accelerates after sinking of alleged North Korean spy ship
• New US dragnet to target Middle Eastern men for deportation
• Not asking questions any more: The Navigators, a film by Ken Loach
• South African asbestos victims win compensation, but claim halved

10 January 2002

• WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh’s remarks to Detroit forum
  "Serious artistic work is incompatible with intellectual cowardice"
• Britain hit by rail strikes
• Detroit panel discusses role of art museum in twenty-first century
• New Sri Lankan government seeks to impose slump on masses
• New York Times defends Bush on links to Enron corporate fraud
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

11 January 2002

• Apologetics for National Socialist aesthetics and politics
  Taking Positions: Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich
• Britain: Behind the row over Jamaican "drug mules"
• Gag order against former Black Panther leader on trial for murder
• Indonesian president proposes to drop charges against Suharto
• Letters from US workers
• Letters on Bush, Enron and the New York Times
• US bases pave the way for long-term intervention in Central Asia

12 January 2002

• Canada may declare G-8 summit site a militarized zone
• Clever, well-read. And what else?
  The Royal Tenenbaums, directed by Wes Anderson
• Ford to cut 35,000 jobs worldwide, 22,000 in North America
• Letters on "Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan"
• Serious security flaws in Microsoft web browser
  How safe is your computer?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 January 2002

• Afghan POWs at Guantanamo base: bound and gagged, drugged, caged like animals
• Economic hardship afflicts Japanese working class
• Sectarian tensions lead to riots and school closures in Northern Ireland
• US Supreme Court ruling limits disabled workers’ rights
• Workers lose jobs, health care and savings at Enron

15 January 2002

• Britain: Winter cold kills over 22,000 elderly
• Letters on the war in Afghanistan
• Pakistan’s Musharraf walks a fine line between war and internal revolt
• Second package of anti-terror laws rushed through German parliament
• Spain: Opposition to universities reform law
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

16 January 2002

• Britain temporarily "suspends" deportation of Zimbabwean refugees
• PDS leader Gysi takes over posts in Berlin cabinet
  Drastic budget cuts planned for the German capital
• The unquiet death of Patrice Lumumba
• VRE outbreak at major West Australian hospital
• Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?
  Part 1: Warnings in advance

17 January 2002

• Australia and New Zealand starve Solomon Islands of funds
• Britain: Cash-for-beds scandal in National Health Service
• Detained Muslim cleric secretly moved to Chicago
• Thousands more US layoffs in wake of Ford job-slashing
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

18 January 2002

• British government defends conditions at Guantanamo
• Enron and the Bush administration: kindred spirits in fraud and criminality
• New Sri Lankan government targets political opponents at workplaces
• Recent correspondence to the WSWS
• Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?
  Part 2: Watching the hijackers

19 January 2002

• An exchange on nationalism in Serbia
• British Columbia to ravage public and social services
• Italian foreign minister resigns
• Passive realism
  In the Bedroom, directed by Todd Field
• US pushes Colombia to brink of all-out war
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 January 2002

• Britain: Report highlights BSE danger from infected sheep
• Letters and replies on anthrax attacks in the US
• Muslim woman strip-searched at Chicago’s OHare airport
• The US extends "war on terrorism" into the Philippines
• Yugoslavia: Union leaders order bank workers to end occupations

22 January 2002

• A letter from a reader in British Columbia
• Alberta spearheads assault on public health care
• Israel steps up assault on Palestinian Authority
• New school shootings in US: social issues once again come to the fore
• Was the US government alerted to the September 11 attack?
  Part 3: The United States and Mideast terrorism
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 January 2002

• Australian union chief jeered as Qantas workers throw out pay deal
• Britain: Government presses for £1 billion arms deal with India
• Letters on the Enron scandal
• US anthrax attackers aimed to assassinate Democratic leaders
  Media silent on military links
• US flouts world opinion and Geneva Convention in treatment of Afghan war prisoners
• Volcano causes widespread devastation in Congo

24 January 2002

• Bosnian film: no finger-pointing?
  No Man’s Land, written and directed by Danis Tanovic
• Members named to commission to manage Philadelphia schools takeover
• Police raid exposes a secret Sri Lankan army assassination squad
• Recent letters to the WSWS
• Terror suspects held in brutal conditions in British jail
• Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack?
  Part 4: The refusal to investigate
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

25 January 2002

• Australia-Indonesia Institute denies funding to academic conference
• Beautiful and fascinating—but not urgent?
  Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures at the Asia Society in New York
• Britain: Government unveils measures to dismantle public health care
• Letters to the WSWS on the US war in Afghanistan
• Nigeria: Unions call off general strike against fuel price increases
• The Bush administration and John Walker Lindh: who are the real "conspirators"?

26 January 2002

• Afghan refugees stage desperate hunger strike in Australia
• Blair government says British terror suspects in Guantanamo should be tried in UK
• Britain: New "fat cats" row over £1 million corporate payoffs
• Landscapes which get in the way
  Invincible, directed by Werner Herzog
• Retailing giant Kmart files for bankruptcy
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers strike sausage plant in Dearborn, Michigan

28 January 2002

• 291 dead in Lima: the social roots of Peru’s tragic fire
• International aid pledges fall far short of Afghanistan’s basic needs
• Saudi government demolishes historic Ottoman castle
• The strange and convenient death of J. Clifford Baxter—Enron executive found shot to death

29 January 2002

• Australia: Teenagers threaten suicide as refugee hunger strike escalates
• Britain’s postal workers ballot for national strike
• Canada: Teachers take action against B.C. government
• Long prison sentences in Norwegian neo-Nazi murder trial
• The Enron collapse and the crisis of the profit system
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

30 January 2002

• A life is more than the sum total of its details
  Ali, directed by Michael Mann
• Is the US preparing for action against Iran?
• Japan heads into deflationary spiral
• Kosovo still without a functioning government
• Main witness in German neo-Nazi party trial exposed as secret service agent
• Sharon government scapegoats foreign workers in Israel

31 January 2002

• Deportation proceedings against family of Michigan Muslim leader
• Israeli army reservists refuse to serve in occupied territories
• Letters on Afghan refugees in Australia
• Letters on Enron and the death of J. Clifford Baxter
• Release Daniel Pearl!
• Sri Lankan parties back imperialist war against Afghanistan
• State of the Union speech: Bush declares war on the world
• US Fed decision not a vote of confidence