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Archive: April 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 April 2002

• A blow to Australian Prime Minister: State Liberal leader deposed
• Britain: Veteran Labour MP challenges destruction of Lockerbie evidence
• Israel and Washington debate murder of Arafat, destruction of Palestinian Authority
• Jakarta’s flood victims face bureaucratic indifference and corruption
• US prosecution brief defends brutal treatment of American Taliban POW

2 April 2002

• Australia: Official report covers up deaths of disabled children
• Britain: Socialist Alliance vows political loyalty to the trade union bureaucracy
• Indian union leaders open the door for tough austerity measures in Kerala
• Pentagon rules for military tribunals violate constitutional rights
• Thousands rally in Michigan against Israeli attacks on Palestinians
• Was not Thomas Mann one of the great humanists?
  Comment on "Opulent, but flawed": a review of The Manns: a Novel of a Century
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 April 2002

• Billy Wilder, filmmaker and satirist, dead at 95
• Britain’s Guardian: An apologia for imperialist intervention in Zimbabwe
• As legal case against American Taliban POW unravels
  Judge shows pro-government bias at hearing for John Walker Lindh
• New Zealand teachers strike after rejecting pay deal
• Shootings in France reveal explosive social tensions
• Thousands retrenched, yet Australian government claims jobs revival
• US civil liberties group challenges closed deportation hearings for detained Muslim cleric

4 April 2002

• Britain: Maxwell brothers escape disqualification proceedings
• Chronology of a pogrom: How Sharon, US prepared assault on Palestinians
• Democracy and the "dictatorship of the proletariat"
• Older workers hardest hit by unemployment in Australia
• US executive pay soars again in 2001
• Denying the real continuity in German history
  Why Social Democrat Ludwig Stiegler has infuriated Germany’s Christian Democrats and Liberals
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

5 April 2002

• A peculiar economic recovery in the US
• Bush administration moves to gut Clean Air standards
• International protests against assault on Palestinian Authority
• Letters on "Why the epidemic of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church?"
• Los Angeles school bus drivers strike
• Thousands of Israeli workers and youth demonstrate against Sharon’s war
• US judge orders open hearings for detained Muslim cleric
• What is notable by its absence
  Iris, directed by Richard Eyre, written by Eyre and Charles Wood, based on John Bayley’s Iris: A Memoir and Elegy for Iris

6 April 2002

• Britain: Blair meets Bush amidst a growing governmental crisis
• Bush "peace initiative" prepares ground for wider war against Arab masses
• Israel carries out violent attacks on journalists
• Kabul police raids aimed at intimidating political opposition
• South Korean unions scuttle power workers strike
• University of Manitoba student newspaper apologizes for plagiarism of WSWS articles
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 April 2002

• LTTE’s chief negotiator returns to a political minefield in Sri Lanka
• Madagascar: division between contending rulers threatens increased conflict
• Thousands march in Australia against Israel’s aggression
• US Navy resumes Vieques bombings

9 April 2002

• Australian mining giant leaves environmental disaster in Papua New Guinea
• Britain: Top directors avoid pensions crisis
• German Social Democrats and Greens pass xenophobic immigration law
• Indian government rams repressive laws through parliament
• Inside and outside the family
  Alice Munro’s short stories
• With Washington’s tacit support, Sharon steps up West Bank assault
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 April 2002

• Australian "counter-terrorism" laws threaten fundamental democratic rights
• German opposition parties launch xenophobic campaign for national elections
• Indonesian generals display contempt for East Timor trials
• Israeli protestors speak out against Sharon’s war
• The Pickering nomination and right-wing threats of violence
  Patrick Martin replies to readers’ letters
• Thousands march in New York and New Jersey against Israeli aggression

11 April 2002

• Corruption allegations against Tanaka intensify factional warfare in Japan
• George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, Stalinism and the Spanish revolution
• IBM profit warning gives the market a jolt
• Malvinas War veterans protest Argentina’s social crisis
• The Queen Mother’s funeral and the campaign to save the British monarchy
• US indicts Sheik Rahman’s lawyer, escalating government attack on democratic rights
• University students in US protest Israeli aggression
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

12 April 2002

• Australia hostel fire trial: Who was really responsible?
• Israeli devastation of West Bank paves way for mass expulsions
• Letters on the Middle East crisis
• Grist for Israel’s propaganda war
  Sharon brandishes documents to justify slaughter of Palestinians
• Sweden: Social Democrats abandon 200 years of neutrality
• US administration pushes for military presence in Indonesia
• US war plans intensify political crisis in Turkey

13 April 2002

• A call to "burn out" the Palestinians: more filth from the Wall Street Journal
• Growing protests against Australian refugee detention camps
• Israeli massacre in the city of Jenin
• On Palestinian suicide bombings: letters to the WSWS and a reply by the editorial board
• Right-wing terror against New York family of Mideast activist
• The Angolan civil war and US foreign policy
• US jobless claims hit highest level in 19 years
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 April 2002

• A portrait of Italy’s Berlusconi government: "All for One, and One for Himself"
  Berlusconi’s Forza Italia: Part 1
• Chavez back...for now
  Abortive Venezuelan coup was made in the USA
• Evading serious issues
  The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville, Pan MacMillan Australia, ISBN 0-330-36206-2
• Papua New Guinea adopts Bougainville peace package
• The New York Times salutes a "democratic" coup

16 April 2002

• A portrait of Italy’s Berlusconi government: "All for One, and One for Himself"
  Berlusconi’s Forza Italia: Part 2
• European governments give Sharon a free hand against the Palestinians
• How Merrill Lynch boosted "junk" stocks
• Israel: The show-trial of Arab Knesset member Azmi Bishara
• Protests in US against Israeli atrocities
• US military plans for a long-term presence in the Philippines
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 April 2002

• Disaffection with major parties dominates French presidential elections
• Eight-hour general strike in Italy
• Father of Australian POW denounces illegal detention at Guantanamo Bay
• Letters on "On Palestinian suicide bombings: letters to the WSWS and a reply by the editorial board"
• Physiology, sociology and murder: a scientist looks at violence in America
• Tamil separatist leader confirms readiness for deal with Sri Lankan regime
• The case of Clifford Baxter: more questions raised over alleged suicide of Enron executive

18 April 2002

• Letters on "The Pickering nomination and right-wing threats of violence: Patrick Martin replies to readers’ letters"
• The Enronization of American business
  Michigan auto supplier robs workers’ wages, pensions, health benefits
• New Zealand’s Alliance party splits
• Powell ends Mideast trip: a US cover for Israeli war crimes
• Report shows impact of poor sanitation on world’s health
• US debacle in Venezuela: Bush administration backtracks on coup
• What the New York Times "overlooked" in the Venezuelan events

19 April 2002

• A socialist strategy to oppose war and defend democratic rights
• Dutch government resigns after critical report on Srebrenica massacre
• Government indifference as a second toxic blaze threatens West Australian residents
• Letters on the abortive coup in Venezuela
• The myth of Camp David: part of the US-Israeli disinformation campaign

20 April 2002

• Beijing to prosecute leaders of workers’ protests
• Britain: Media and big business denounce increase in public health spending
• Bush defends Sharon as Jenin massacre provokes international condemnation
• Police threats against Washington anti-war protesters
• Research suggests a more complex evolution and spread of modern humans
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

22 April 2002

• 75,000 march in Washington against US militarism and Israeli aggression
• American college students graduate with record levels of debt
• Broad support for the World Socialist Web Site at Washington demonstration
• UNICEF documents failure to alleviate child poverty and disease
• US belligerence encourages Japanese politician to rattle the nuclear sabre against China

23 April 2002

• Australian protests against Israeli invasion of the West Bank
• Death toll in India’s communal violence continues to rise
• Letters to the WSWS
• South Africa: Judge exonerates Dr. Death
• Neo-fascist Le Pen to face Gaullist Chirac in runoff for president
  Vote for National Front leader heightens political crisis in France
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Yugoslavia: Opposition grows to government collaboration with war crimes tribunal

24 April 2002

• "Cover-up of Convenience—the Hidden Scandal of Lockerbie"
  by John Ashton and Ian Ferguson, Mainstream Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1840183896
• Britain: Tax loophole for super rich remains after budget
• SPD government falls in Saxony-Anhalt
  German Social Democrats routed by conservatives in state election
• Germany’s Green Party demands a powerful professional army
• IMF says Japan’s economy is "serious concern'
• Ten million Indian workers strike against economic reforms

25 April 2002

• "How can one live without hope for the future?"
  La ville est tranquille (The Town is Quiet), directed by Robert Guédiguian
• Britain: Calls to appoint safety directors conceal government inaction
• Hearings reveal Enron at center of California energy crisis
• Israel reneges on investigation of Jenin atrocities
• Washington rolls out the welcome mat for Malaysia’s Mahathir
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

26 April 2002

• For a boycott of the French election
• France: Anti-Semitic attacks complement anti-Arab racism
• Howard government complicit in detention of Australian citizen by US military
• Human organs: the next futures market?
• Mounting international opposition to US steel tariffs
• South Africa: Court ruling forces only tactical retreat over AIDS drugs
• Why has South East Asia become the second front in Bush’s "war on terrorism"?

27 April 2002

• Argentine president bows to IMF and banks
• Australian Senate hearings reveal public opposition to "terrorism" laws
• British foreign policy adviser calls for a new imperialism
  Robert Cooper, The postmodern state and the world order, Demos, Second Edition 2000, ISBN 1-84180-010-4 Re-ordering the world—the long-term implications of 11 September, Foreign Policy Centre, 2002, ISBN 1-903558-10-7
• Illinois death penalty report reveals widespread abuse
• Letters to the WSWS
• The French presidential election: What the figures reveal
• US companies lay off thousands as jobless claims climb
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 April 2002

• AOL Time Warner announces record loss
• Bill Vann replies to a member of the International Socialist Organization
• Camp Bondsteel and America’s plans to control Caspian oil
• German school shooting exposes widespread social tensions
  19-year-old kills 17 in Erfurt
• Budget gap grows to $5 billion
  New York City mayor wants even bigger cuts
• No to Chirac and Le Pen! For a working class boycott of the French election
  An open letter to Lutte Ouvrière, Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire, and Parti des Travailleurs

30 April 2002

• Australian Prime Minister backs down on stem cell research
• Ericsson plan 17,000 more job losses
• Israel on Jenin: "Nothing to hide"... but no one can look
• Mass demonstrations against Le Pen throughout France
  Social democrats channel anti-fascist sentiment behind Chirac
• Pakistan’s military ruler holds referendum to tighten grip on power
• SEP to hold May 12 meeting in London: "The perspectives for socialism in the 21st century"
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

2 May 2002

• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa