Archive: October 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 October 2002
- Germany: Neo-Nazi attack on Green Party MP
- Pyongyang summit: North Korean prostration answered with more Japanese demands
- Rice and Rumsfeld “discover” Al-Qaeda in Baghdad
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The Iraqi oppositionists and US plans for “regime change” in Baghdad
Part 2 - US refuses visa to Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 October 2002
- Countryside Alliance: Britain’s Tory Party rears its ugly head
- Crime pays: CEOs rake it in as stocks and jobs evaporate
- Democratic Congressman admits no evidence against Iraq
- Oponerse a la guerra contra Irak! ¡Establecer un movimiento internacional contra el imperialismo!
- Senegal ferry disaster kills close to a thousand passengers
- The US exploits “terrorist threats” to step up pressure on Indonesia
- The budget and penal reform in France: an acceleration of reaction
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Toronto International Film Festival 2002: An interview with Frederick Wiseman, director of The Last Letter
Part 5 -
Capital markets are “not functioning”
Wall Street suffers worst quarter since 1987
3 October 2002
- Australia: Families face collective punishment after gang rape sentences
- Bush White House embraces assassination
- Film director Spielberg lines up with Bush war drive
- Israel: Sharon stirs up conflict with Syria and Iran
- Netherlands budget outlines spending cuts and privatisation
- Northern Sri Lanka: the struggle for survival amid the ruins of war
- PDS suffers severe loss in east German state election
- The Torricelli case: another debacle for the Democratic Party
4 October 2002
- Big business presses for Bush to intervene against California dockworkers
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Labourites’ imperial strategy
Blair defends support for Bush on Iraq war - Canada’s Vidéotron strike underscores need for working class political struggle
- Striking Kenyan teachers defy government intimidation
- The war against Iraq and America’s drive for world domination
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Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Films on social and historical questions
Part 6 - Toronto International Film Festival 2002: Interview with Travis Wilkerson, director of An Injury to One
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
5 October 2002
- Behind the delay in the Chinese Communist Party Congress
- Britain: Labour conference votes for war
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WSWS launches campaign against LTTE death threats
Defend the democratic rights of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) - German Social Democrats and trade unions demand cheap labour
- Letters on US war plans against Iraq
- New York Times urges “debate” to prepare war
- US and French troops help force Côte D’Ivoire cease-fire
- US job cuts accelerated in September
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 October 2002
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WSWS interview with defense attorney
John Walker Lindh sentenced to 20 years - Journalist Christopher Hitchens fully embraces the Bush war camp
- More than 600 dead in Indian Kashmir as election draws to a close
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New York to California
Tens of thousands in US rally against war on Iraq - Yearning for the strongman—or how Süddeutsche Zeitung discovered the “visionary” Bush
8 October 2002
- Brazil vote sets stage for deeper crisis
- Britain: Government advisor urges radical pensions overhaul
- Canada’s elite clamours for huge increase in military spending
- Gujarat temple massacre inflames tensions between India and Pakistan
- Poll shows widespread disquiet in US over Iraq war
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The wretched state of the Russian military
Soldat, directed by Paul Jenkins - Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 October 2002
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Atmospheric, but lacking substance
Beneath Clouds, written and directed by Ivan Sen - France: national strike and mass protest against privatisation
- New Zealand policeman charged after brutal bashing of teenager
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Twelve years after reunification
Report reveals widespread and growing poverty in Berlin - Sharon pledges more to come after Israeli military kills 14 in Gaza Strip
- US plan for Iraq inspections: invasion under another guise
10 October 2002
- Bush administration proposes crippling cuts in Medicare
- Bush invokes anti-union Taft-Hartley law against West Coast longshoremen
- France’s release of Maurice Papon: an incitement to political reaction
- Italy: state attorneys expose police provocation at Genoa G-8 summit
- Letters on “Journalist Christopher Hitchens fully embraces the Bush war camp”
- Resignation of “militant” Australian union official contains vital political lessons
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WSWS & SEP (Australia) public lecture in Melbourne
Why the Bush administration wants war - Workers deported from Malaysia continue to perish in border camps
11 October 2002
- Australian Labor Party conference: a disintegrating bureaucratic apparatus
- Britain: Labour government backtracks on corporate killing law
- Britain’s Labour government: statistics, damned statistics, lies
- Condemn the LTTE’s violent attack on Sri Lankan socialist
- Florida execution of Aileen Wuornos: another morbid media spectacle
- Why the Democratic Party is backing Bush’s war drive vs. Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
12 October 2002
- Japanese stock market tumbles after cabinet reshuffle
- Nobel Peace Prize goes to Jimmy Carter—the “friendly” face of US imperialism
- Northern Ireland Assembly faces fourth suspension
- Opposition to war grows across Europe
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Ultimatum to Europe in advance of Iraq war
US demands total impunity on war crimes - WSWS campaign against LTTE death threats wins international support
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 October 2002
- El voto en Brasil preparauna crisis aún más profunda
- International campaign against attacks on Sri Lankan socialists: Asian Tribune publishes WSWS reply to LTTE apologist
- On capitalist economic relations and the foundations of law
- The Milosevic Trial: journalists warned to stop criticisms
- US plan for Iraq: Back to colonialism
- Washington seizes on Bali terror bombing to demand crackdown in Indonesia
15 October 2002
- Anti-war protests begin in Asia-Pacific
- Canada falls in line behind US war drive
- Further indications of Indonesian military involvement in Papuan mine murders
- German Telekom plans to axe 55,000 jobs in three years
- Military-style killer on the loose near US capital
- New York City firefighters protest low salaries
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 October 2002
- 25 years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977)
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A serious attempt to encourage Sri Lankan opera
Sonduru Varnadasi (The Alluring Courtesan), directed by Premasiri Khemadasa, libretto by Lucien Bulathsinghala - Britain’s Conservatives riven by factional infighting
- Deflation threat to world economy
- Spain: Excavation of Franco’s mass graves demanded
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Wall Street/Washington insider spills the dirty secret of Iraq war
“Getting control of that oil will make a vast difference”
17 October 2002
- Anger mounts over Australian government’s failure to give Bali warning
- Further international protests against LTTE death threats
- Germany: Massive state infiltration of far-right party
- Israel: Public sector strike and protests against austerity budget
- More than 41 million Americans without health insurance
- Protest against Iraq war in Dearborn, Michigan
- Sweden: Social Democratic government propped up by Greens and Lefts
18 October 2002
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Bush seizes on Washington sniper attacks to use military for domestic policing
Deployment of Army planes breaches Posse Comitatus law - Nigerian regime loses legal dispute over oil
- Quebec government and unions conspire against Vidéotron strikers
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Australia:
Queensland government calls in Hawke to attack the right to strike - The Pentagon gassed American soldiers and civilians in 1960s tests
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After the Bali bombing:
Washington and Canberra push for military ties with Indonesia - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
19 October 2002
- Australian government uses Bali atrocity to demand new repressive powers
- Canadian Auto Workers union pushes corporatist settlement at DaimlerChrysler
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As US intervention grows:
Colombian army lays siege to Medellín neighborhood - Corporate corruption and academia: The Bush-Harvard-Enron connection
- Germany: Defeat for “reformers” at PDS conference in Gera
- Incoming Macedonian government pledges subservience to Western powers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 October 2002
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One year after the SIEV X drownings
Australian police agents involved in sabotage of refugee boats - Famine could affect 15 million in Ethiopia and Eritrea
- Mass abstentions nullify Serbian election result
- Why the US plans to bomb Iraq and not North Korea
22 October 2002
- Germany: SPD and Green Party present new coalition pact
- Helsinki bomb tragedy points to social tensions in Finland
- Iranian film director denounces US immigration policy
- Israel: Clashes between settlers and soldiers destabilise Sharon’s coalition
- Kashmir election results in defeat for ruling party
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 October 2002
- Britain’s privatised energy industry on brink of bankruptcy
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Festival Internacional de Cine en Toronto, 2002: Conversación acerca del cine
Primera Parte - Indonesian government bows to foreign pressure and issues anti-terrorist decree
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Prague meeting—one of many lies
Iraqi tie to September 11 hijacker debunked - La guerra contra Irak y la campaña de los Estados Unidos para dominar al mundo
- Letters to the WSWS
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Sri Lanka:
Top LTTE leaders remain silent as SEP defence campaign gathers support
24 October 2002
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Amid signs of dissent within military circles
Bush employs lies and maneuvers to pave way for war against Iraq - Census reports highlight dramatic social changes in Australia
- Condenar ataque violento de la LTTE contra socialista de Sri Lanka
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Festival Internacional de Cine en Toronto, 2002: ¿Por qué hay tantas películas tan decepcionantes?
Segunda parte - French diplomacy and Bush’s campaign against Iraq
- One year since the anthrax attacks on the US Congress
- Pakistani election reveals growing opposition to Musharraf
- Right-wing government collapses in the Netherlands
25 October 2002
- A political strategy to oppose war against Iraq
- Australian Labor Party suffers humiliating by-election defeat in Wollongong
- Ejército colombiano le pone sitio a barrio de Medellín
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Festival Internacional de Cine en Toronto, 2002: Los problemas persisten aún cuando se logra el éxito
Tercera Parte -
From a safe distance?: Reflections on an exhibition of surrealist art
Surrealism 1919-1944: an exhibition in Düsseldorf - Washington leaves open Israeli involvement in war against Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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Interviews with Wollongong voters
“People are a lot more aware”
26 October 2002
- Ireland: Yes vote in referendum on European Union expansion
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Fiat to sack 25 percent of workforce
Mass protests against job cuts in Italy - Ten people killed by police and Sinhala thugs in Eastern Sri Lanka
- UN report accuses Western companies of looting Congo
- US: West Coast shippers call for government sanctions against dockworkers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 October 2002
- Australian drought used to push small farmers off the land
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As Washington eyes Latin "axis of evil"
Coup attempts continue in Venezuela - Hundreds of thousands in US protest Iraq invasion plans
- International demonstrations against Bush war plans
- The Washington sniper and the undercurrent of rage in American society
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US demonstrators speak out against Iraq war
"A slaughter for oil and private profit"
29 October 2002
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An essentially unprincipled approach
Heaven, directed by Tom Tykwer; The Grey Zone, directed by Tim Blake Nelson; Late Marriage, directed by Dover Kosashvili - Brazil’s "Lula" celebrates victory, IMF demands more austerity
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As US prepares for war in Iraq
India and Pakistan begin to demobilise troops - Putin’s gas attack in Moscow—the outcome of Russia’s barbaric war in Chechnya
- The death of US Senator Paul Wellstone: accident or murder?
- Two students killed in Australian university shooting
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 October 2002
- Actor Richard Harris: a great talent only occasionally fulfilled
- Britain: child road deaths three times higher in deprived areas
- Exigen en España que se excaven las fosas comunes
- Letters to the WSWS on the "The Washington sniper and the undercurrent of rage in American society"
- Report on urban warfare points to US plans to destroy Iraqi cities
- US profit rates decline despite productivity growth
31 October 2002
- Alarming breast cancer rates in northern California county
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Violent police raids in Sydney and Perth
Bali bombing used to activate repressive laws in Australia - Brazil’s Lula reassures Wall Street, warns workers of austerity
- Letter from University of Arizona student on Monday’s campus shootings
- Spain: Socialist Party demands opening of Franco’s mass graves
- US returns to triple-digit budget deficits
- US uses nuclear revelations to raise tensions on Korean peninsula
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