Archive: December 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.
2 December 2002
- A profile of the new leadership in Beijing
- JVP-inspired violence leads to crackdown on Sri Lanka campuses
- Letters on "Bush picks Kissinger to head official probe: new stage in the September 11 cover-up"
-
"The most hateful thing they could do to us"
September 11 widow condemns US war plans - US docks union accepts job cuts, concessions in tentative contract
3 December 2002
- Bali victim’s father indicts Australian government
- British workers face spiralling levels of debt
-
Inventing a pretext for war against Iraq
Friedman of the Times executes an assignment for the Pentagon - Israel: Ethnic cleansing is now official government policy
- New York City mayor threatens transit workers
- Papua New Guinea slashes budget to provide corporate tax breaks
- US, British air strikes kill Iraqi oil workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
4 December 2002
- Australia: Nationwide protests against war in Iraq
- Britain: union suspends firefighters dispute
- Germany and Albania sign deportation agreement
- Letters on "September 11 widow condemns US war plans"
- Prague NATO summit: internal tensions near the breaking point
- Washington pushes LTTE for more concessions at Sri Lankan peace talks
5 December 2002
- A reply on Rosa Luxemburg’s attitude to Lenin
-
Victorian voters interviewed:
Alienation from Labor despite its apparent landslide - Britain’s dossier on Iraq: human rights as a pretext for war
- Bush slashes federal workers’ pay raise
- Prime Minister’s party reduced to a rump in Australian state election
-
Remade, and not for the better
Solaris, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Far From Heaven, directed by Todd Haynes - Unanswered questions regarding Kenya terror attacks
-
WSWS/SEP meeting in New York
Why the Bush administration wants war: The politics of American militarism in the 21st century
6 December 2002
- Argentine workers stage hunger march
- Europe: Thousands protest plans for US-led war against Iraq
- Medical experts warn of devastating impact of US war vs. Iraq
- Miembro del LTTE comparecerá ante tribunal de Sri Lanka por agredir a miembro del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad
- OECD predicts bleak outlook for Japanese economy
- Social discontent boils over in East Timor protests
- US manufacturing continues to decline: thousands more layoffs
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
7 December 2002
- Australian government invokes first-strike doctrine in Asia
-
Bush administration drives United Airlines into bankruptcy
Government panel demands all-out attack on airline workers - Ontario Tories re-impose cap on electricity rates
- US home foreclosures hit highest level in 30 years
- US unemployment surges in November
- White House demands weapons inspectors abduct Iraqi scientists
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 December 2002
-
Bush documentary: an "intimate" portrait of an empty vessel
Journeys with George, directed by Aaron Lubarsky and Alexandra Pelosi -
Former UN weapons inspector denounces Bush war plans against Iraq
Scott Ritter speaks at Oakland University in Michigan - Israel: An attempt to resuscitate the Labour Party
- Italian courts attack opponents of globalisation
- Taiwanese farmers demonstrate against government economic policies
10 December 2002
- Australian government determined to deport East Timorese refugees
- Britain: Documentary reveals how trade union leaders worked with secret services
- Bush administration moves to suppress documents on vaccines
-
Sri Lanka:
Court begins case involving LTTE attack on Socialist Equality Party - Long-term environmental damage due to NATO bombing in Yugoslavia
- US: Republican Senate leader regrets end of Jim Crow segregation
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
11 December 2002
- Britain: firefighters demonstration used as PR event for union bureaucracy
- Detainee dies during US interrogation in Afghanistan
- French right reorganises in new party
- How the Democrats assess their election debacle
-
United Airlines bankruptcy signals new attacks on US workers
US Airways and American seek millions in concessions - Venezuela: Is the CIA preparing another coup?
- Victim of police raids hounded from Australia
12 December 2002
-
Nueva etapa en el encubrimiento del 11 de septiembre
Bush escoge a Kissinger como director de la investigación oficial - Indonesian court delivers token guilty verdict in East Timor cases
- Islamic extremists come to power in two Pakistani provinces
- Israel targets civilians and UN personnel with impunity
- Italy: Strikes, protests against layoffs at Fiat
- New York: Governor and mayor threaten transit workers over strike
- Norway: Budget pledges attacks on social provisions, tax cuts and privatisation
- US seizes Iraqi UN documents to further war drive
13 December 2002
- Australian High Court libel ruling threatens Internet free speech
- Britain: Blair government under right-wing attack in "Cheriegate" scandal
-
EU summit in Copenhagen
Eastward expansion intensifies social antagonisms in European Union - Global survey reveals growing economic hardship, opposition to US
- US: Top AFL-CIO officials resign in insurance scandal
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
14 December 2002
- Bush reshuffles economic officials: more CEOs and bankers
- Kenya: Crackdown on refugees following hotel bombing
- La economía política del militarismo estadounidense durante el Siglo XXI
- Letters to the WSWS
- The New York City transit dispute—the class issues
-
The passion of the visual artist for the performing artist
"Degas and the Dance" at the Detroit Institute of Arts - The strange affair of the Yemeni Scud missiles
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
16 December 2002
-
A terrible story badly told
Ararat, written and directed by Atom Egoyan - Canada hides behind US to attack refugees
- French teachers, parents march against government cuts
- Kissinger resigns as head of September 11 probe
- Sri Lankan government and LTTE agree on scheme to end war
17 December 2002
-
A haunting portrait of US-backed terror in 1950s Vietnam
The Quiet American, directed by Phillip Noyce, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene - France deploys 1,700 troops in Ivory Coast
- Letters from our readers
- New Zealand lines up with Australia over preemptive military strikes
- WSWS holds New York meeting on the US drive to war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- World Socialist Web Site holiday schedule
- ¿De qué consiste la ideología de bin Laden?
18 December 2002
- Canada bans Hezbollah and Kurdish Workers Party
- David Walsh at Detroit forum: "Great questions confront artists and intellectuals"
- Detroit museum holds meeting on US war against Iraq
-
Mass eviction of Detroit’s poor
Tenement to be turned into upscale apartments - New York transit union leaders accept take-away contract
- Sydney fire crisis highlights increased reliance on volunteers
19 December 2002
- 30,000 British troops on standby for war vs. Iraq
- Anti-government strikes in Macedonia
- Britain: Socialist Equality Party holds meetings to oppose war against Iraq
- South Korean election dominated by debate over US alliance
- Washington maneuvers toward Venezuelan coup
20 December 2002
-
Ex-US bank chief to set monetary policy
Brazil: Lula’s appointments point to deeper austerity -
SEP public meeting in Colombo
Fifteen years since the death of Keerthi Balasuriya - Letters to the WSWS
-
Following student protests in Dili:
UN and East Timor government push for tougher police measures - US actor Sean Penn visits Baghdad
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
21 December 2002
- Al Gore and the politics of oligarchy
- Britain: Jury fails to convict man for beheading Thatcher statue
-
German TV airs documentary charging American war crimes in Afghanistan
US State Department denounces broadcast - South Korean election reveals deep-seated hostility to Washington
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 December 2002
- Britain: Bain review sets out a devastating government assault on fire service
- Inquest indicts Ontario Tories in welfare death
- The NSSP refuses to defend Sri Lankan socialists
- US immigration authorities detain hundreds of Middle Eastern men in Los Angeles
24 December 2002
- Anti-globalisation demonstrations in Copenhagen
- Australian government prepares military for Iraq war
- Blair seeks to bring Syria’s Assad behind war vs. Iraq
- The Republican Party and racism: from the "southern strategy" to Bush
-
US Senate leader Trent Lott resigns
Hypocrisy and posturing attend a reshuffling of reactionaries - Workers Struggles: The Americas
27 December 2002
- Canada’s Supreme Court sanctions dismantling of welfare
-
Hesse state election manifesto of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit of Germany
For social equality! No to the Iraq war! - US mayors’ report chronicles rising hunger and homelessness
- US prepares further military exercises in the Philippines
- US: State governments enacting budget cuts and tax hikes
28 December 2002
- Britain: More than half all London children living in poverty
- David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2002
- EU intensifies collaboration to deport refugees
- Gujarat election opens door for more communal violence in India
-
HBO film on Gulf War: self-congratulation and banality instead of history
Live from Baghdad, directed by Mick Jackson - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
30 December 2002
-
Latest attack on academic freedom
"Campus Watch" web site witch-hunts Middle Eastern studies professors in the US - Britain buys US plasma company due to continued vCJD threat
- Bush sets course for confrontation with North Korea
- New account of US torture of Afghan and Arab prisoners
31 December 2002
- Autoridades de Inmigración en Los Ángeles arrestan a cientos de personas procedentes del Medio Oriente
- Britain: Military testimony indicates Bloody Sunday cover-up
- Deflation threatens world economic growth
- Israel: Corruption scandal grips ruling Likud
- Los Angeles businesses press for expulsion of downtown homeless
- SEP in Sri Lanka commemorates 15th anniversary of Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
- Tribunal comienza trámites contra LTTE por haber agredido al Partido Socialista por la Igualdad
- WSWS celebra en Nueva York reunión sobre el rumbo de guerra que los Estados Unidos ha escogido
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
Follow us on