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Archive: March 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.

1 March 2002

• Bush visit to Japan cements closer ties against China
• Dozens of companies bid to run Philadelphia public schools
• German court authorizes police dragnets
• Madagascar: Opposition leader declares himself president
• The Hague Tribunal: Milosevic charges NATO with war crimes
  Part 2
• US troops deployed to former Soviet republic of Georgia

2 March 2002

• ABC News’ "Missed Opportunities" evades central questions of government role in September 11 attacks
• British government faces legal action over Camp X-Ray detainees
• Scandal surrounding Australia’s governor-general threatens a "constitutional earthquake"
• The 52nd Berlin Film Festival
  Part 3
• The 52nd Berlin Film Festival
  Part 3
• The Hague Tribunal: Milosevic charges NATO with war crimes
  Part 3
• Sabaratnam Rasendran 1947—2002
  Veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies in Colombo
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

4 March 2002

• 70,000 workers lose health benefits at bankrupt US steelmaker
• Indian state election losses intensify tensions in ruling coalition
• Letters to the WSWS on "The Killing of Daniel Pearl"
• The shadow of dictatorship: Bush established secret government after September 11
• Unprecedented military security for Commonwealth meeting in Australia

5 March 2002

• Britain: Big business ignores government pleas to "get green"
• Global downturn threatens Chinese economic growth
• Greenspan knew share market boom was a financial "bubble"
• India’s ruling party abetted communal carnage in Gujarat
• Letters to the WSWS
• Sudanese government continues bombing of south
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 March 2002

• Appeals court overturns New York police torture convictions
• Australian state government bows to media witchhunt on teenage paint sniffing
• Correspondence on Serbian nationalism and Vojvodina
• Further delay in US congressional investigation into September 11 attacks
• It didn’t happen here: Why socialism failed in the United States
  The failure of reformism, not socialism
• Pressure builds on Jakarta to toe the line on Bush’s "war on terrorism"
• Trisha Brown Dance Company: Just scratching the surface
  The legacy of Postmodernism in contemporary dance

7 March 2002

• "I told you I was ill," Spike Milligan (1918-2002)
• Charlie Musselwhite—Music true to real life
  A review of bluesman's new CD: "One Night In America"
• Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Rome against Berlusconi government
• Sri Lankan fishermen pressured to end protests during ceasefire talks
• Thumbs down on latest Japanese economic package
• US massacre in eastern Afghanistan
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

8 March 2002

• Britain: Government and civil service at loggerheads
• Condolences on the death of Sabaratnam Rasendran
• Egypt: Building collapse claims dozens of lives
• Hundreds attend funeral of Sri Lankan Trotskyist
• Steel decision threatens to spark trade war
• The New York Times and Bush’s "shadow government"
  How the media covers up the threat to democratic rights
• The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America
  Part 1
• The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America
• The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America

9 March 2002

• British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares his hand on Zimbabwe
• Sharon’s bloody offensive plunges Israel into turmoil
• The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America
  Part 2
• Gangsterism in the guise of diplomacy
  US flaunts scheme to use weapons inspections as pretext for war vs. Iraq
• US retailer Kmart cuts 22,000 jobs
• Unions isolate striking South Korean power workers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 March 2002

• Australian, British and US lawyers challenge detention of Guantanamo Bay prisoners
• Britain: Strike vote by London teachers
• Former Black Panther convicted in Atlanta, Georgia murder trial
• US plans widespread use of nuclear weapons in war
  Bush orders Pentagon to target seven nations for attack
• Who is the US military slaughtering in eastern Afghanistan?

12 March 2002

• A heartfelt but limited work
  Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Philip Noyce
• Australian economic "boom": a widening gap between hype and reality
• Bush marks six months since September 11 with war threats draped in platitudes
• Catedráticos universitarios se declaran a favor de la guerra y muestran su política reaccionaria y charlatanería intelectual
• Egyptian economy facing major crisis
• Letters on "US massacre in eastern Afghanistan"
• The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America
  Part 3
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

13 March 2002

• German press turns anti-American
  Editorial of Gleichheit, published by the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
• Graduate student instructors walk out at University of Michigan
• Ireland: government attack on abortion rights defeated in referendum
• Letter from an Australian Telstra worker on the death of a 10-year-old boy
• The loss of objectivity
  Storytelling, written and directed by Todd Solondz
• The war in Afghanistan and the crisis of political rule in America
  Part 4
• Zimbabwe, Fiji and the hypocrisy of British Commonwealth leaders

14 March 2002

• British citizen executed in US despite international protests
• Famine in Malawi as IMF policies bite
• New government hangs by a thread in South Australia
• The World Economic Crisis: 1991-2001
• The World Economic Crisis: 1991-2001
  Part 1
• US Vice President Cheney’s tour gets off to rocky start
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

15 March 2002

• "Carlucci" bleeped from HBO version of Lumumba
  Ex-CIA official threatened lawsuit
• Bush welfare plan: a draconian attack on the poor
• Scotland: Gas monopoly faces killing charge over death of family
• The World Economic Crisis: 1991-2001
  Part 2
• US "training exercise' in the Philippines sets stage for broader military operations
• US right wing discusses "nuking Mecca"
• White House defends nuclear war plans with sophistries and saber-rattling

16 March 2002

• A letter on the detention of refugees in Australia
• Israel: US seeks to curb Sharon to further war drive against Iraq
• Letters on "US plans widespread use of nuclear weapons in war: Bush orders Pentagon to target seven nations for attack"
• Trapped in Moscow: Exile and Stalinist Persecution, by Reinhard Müller
  Stalin’s persecution of German communists
• The World Economic Crisis: 1991-2001
  Part 3
• The murder conviction of Andrea Yates: a tragic case, a barbaric verdict
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

18 March 2002

• 60,000 German soldiers engaged in military interventions world-wide
• British threats follow Mugabe’s re-election in Zimbabwe
• Bush’s press conference: the questions not asked, the answers not given
• Leading Australian documentary filmmaker dies
  Robin Anderson (1950-2002)
• Official figures show: Japan in worst postwar recession

19 March 2002

• 33,000 public sector workers strike in Ontario
• British Columbia government pressing forward with class war agenda
• Furor over visas for 911 hijackers
  Bush sacks immigration officials: Who is accountable, and who is not
• Europe on rations: the Afghan war and the dilemma of European capitalism
• Europe on rations: the Afghan war and the dilemma of European capitalism
• Europe on rations: the Afghan war and the dilemma of European capitalism
  Part 1
• Machinery and the origins of surplus value
• Massive protest against European Union summit in Barcelona
• Socialist Equality Party campaign frees two Tamil detainees in Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 March 2002

• A revealing decision by the European Union economic summit
• Amnesty International criticises Australia’s human rights record on refugees
• Britain agrees to send marines to Afghanistan
• Europe on rations: the Afghan war and the dilemma of European capitalism
  Part 2
• Former Black Panther Jamil Al-Amin sentenced to life in prison
• PBS documentary probes initial public offering swindles of 1990s
• The CIA’s international dirty war
  US oversees abduction, torture, execution of alleged terrorists

21 March 2002

• Behind the making of The Lord of the Rings
• Bush administration bases case against John Walker Lindh on coerced statements
• Letters on "German press turns anti-American"
• Letters on the Andrea Yates case
• Milosevic trial characterised by ineptitude and evasions
• The Pickering nomination: political warfare flares in Washington
• Tolkien and the flight from modern life
  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring directed by Peter Jackson
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

22 March 2002

• An unwelcome trend in British filmmaking
  Last Orders, written and directed by Fred Schepisi
• Organization of American States human rights panel opposes Bush policy on POWs
• Pan Am 103/Lockerbie: Appeal against guilty verdict thrown out
• The Wall Street Journal and the Pickering nomination: Is the Republican right preparing for violence?
• The makings of a protracted colonial war in Afghanistan
• World Socialist Web Site Review: April issue out now
• Yugoslavia: Serbian Assembly restores partial autonomy to Vojvodina

23 March 2002

• Correspondence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Hollywood’s ideological war
  Two films: Collateral Damage and We Were Soldiers
• Question mark over the future of Australian prime minister
• UK police mount political campaign against government reforms
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Working class demonstrations spread in northern China

25 March 2002

• EU summit in Barcelona: silence over US war plans against Iraq
• Leaked spy intercepts prove Australian complicity in Timor massacre
• Shock therapy for Argentina: 75,000 jobs disappear in one month
• South Korean president threatens to sack striking power workers
• Victim of anti-Clinton witch-hunt denounces independent counsel’s report on Lewinsky affair
  An open letter from Julie Hiatt Steele

26 March 2002

• Amnesty International report condemns US treatment of immigrant detainees
• Britain: Shock for millions of workers who rely on private pensions
• Canada: Workers and unemployed protest outside Tory conference
• Jakarta corruption trial aimed at reassuring foreign investors
• Millions demonstrate in Rome against Berlusconi
• Interviews with supporters of Rabih Haddad
  Muslim cleric the target of Bush "anti-terror" dragnet
• The 74th Academy Awards: of race, war and a lack of backbone
• Workers Struggles: the Americas

27 March 2002

• Correspondence on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic
• Defense reveals government conspiracy to deny John Walker Lindh access to counsel
• Letters on US militarism
• The Milosevic trial: Damning admissions by former British Liberal Party leader Lord Ashdown
• US economic recovery predicted but "imbalances" worsen
• War danger grows on Korean peninsula

28 March 2002

• Bush’s recipe for Latin America: austerity, repression and more US militarism
• Campaign finance reform: A liberal fig leaf for the decay of American democracy
• High-level US delegation issues veiled threat to Sri Lankan separatists
• Official report into boy’s death in rural Australia covers up underlying causes
• Sentences announced in Britain's "Donnygate" Labour Party corruption case
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

29 March 2002

• A letter from a Chinese reader on workers’ protests
• Bush expands "voluntary interviews" of Middle Eastern immigrants
• Letters to the WSWS
• The expulsion of the Palestinians and the origins of Land Day
• US Mideast initiative faces collapse as Israel prepares offensive
• Washington presides over a political and social disaster in Afghanistan
• Why the epidemic of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church?

30 March 2002

• Indian ruling coalition in disarray over communal campaign
• Israeli military lays siege to Arafat’s headquarters
• Ontario Tories open door to 60-hour workweek
• The view from the oasis
  Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Zimbabwe election used to pressure African leaders