Archive: January 2003
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 2003
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Legal sophistry to justify aggression
Germany’s "Red-Green" government to participate in war against Iraq - Letters from our readers
- Moi’s successor defeated in Kenyan election
- New US pension rules to cut benefits for millions of retirees
- New revelations about Guantanamo Bay prisoners
4 January 2003
- Canberra displays callous indifference toward storm-ravaged Pacific islanders
- Michigan rally marks one year since the arrest of Rabih Haddad
- New Israeli budget underscores growing social inequality
- US accelerates preparations for invasion of Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
6 January 2003
- An uneasy peace deal signed between Indonesian government and Aceh rebels
- Britain: Labour government moves to dismantle public health care
- On eve of US war against Iraq: the political challenge of 2003
- Ontario Tories deny farm workers trade union rights
- Unions accept massive cutbacks at US Airways
7 January 2003
- Australian intelligence inquiry into Bali warnings "a whitewash"
- Austria: Greens bid for coalition with conservative ÖVP
- France goes on the offensive in Ivory Coast
- French government moves toward participation in Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
8 January 2003
- Bangladesh government exploits bomb blasts to detain political opponents
- Britain: High Court decision attacks embryo-based medical science
- Bush’s tax cut plan: The economics of the American plutocracy
- New York police seek new spying powers
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No to war against Iraq
Editorial of Gleichheit, magazine of the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
9 January 2003
- Britain’s prison population reaches record high
- Israel: Election Commission excludes Arab candidates from Knesset race
- New Zealand row over government bonus for union members
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The maladjusted and the all-too-easily adjusted
Catch Me If You Can, directed by Steven Spielberg; Adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze - Turkey prepares to line up behind US war vs. Iraq
- US: Racist campaign against Somali immigrants in Maine
10 January 2003
- Britain: Blair forecasts "dangerous problems" in 2003
- France: Government greets New Year with austerity measures
- HIH inquiry seeks scapegoats for Australia’s biggest bankruptcy
- LTTE makes further threats against SEP members in Sri Lanka
- Letters on war threat against Iraq and the attack on civil liberties in the US
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
11 January 2003
- Britain: Conservative government considered "forcible resettlement" of Northern Ireland in 1972
- European fishing industry in crisis
- Health unions in Sri Lanka engage in futile internecine dispute
- Surrealist leader André Breton’s archives up for auction
- US: 101,000 jobs lost in December
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
13 January 2003
- Australia: Telstra union imposes deal eroding conditions and jobs
- German Christian Democratic official gives interview to neo-Nazi newspaper
- Obituary: Joe Strummer of The Clash, dead at 50
- UN report details humanitarian disaster expected from war vs. Iraq
14 January 2003
- Britain: Foreign secretary admits oil central to war vs. Iraq
- Federal appeals court upholds indefinite detention of US citizen
- New DNA research points to origins of dogs
- Thousands in Los Angeles protest war vs. Iraq
- Witch-hunting trial of homeless advocates opens in Toronto
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
15 January 2003
- Australian government launches "anti-terrorist" advertising campaign
- Bush tax cut provides billions for the wealthy
- California universities and public schools face massive budget cuts
- Canada intensifies support for US war on Iraq
- Letters from our readers
- New York Times’ Thomas Friedman: "No problem with a war for oil"
- Striker killed on GE picket line in Kentucky
16 January 2003
- Argentine military commander eulogizes ex-dictator
- Britain: Train drivers refuse to move supplies for war vs. Iraq
- German government signals support for Iraq war
- Misanthropy and contemporary American filmmaking
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The Milosevic trial
Pro-western Bosnian Serb leader given exceptional treatment - Pyongyang reacts to US threats by withdrawing from non-proliferation treaty
17 January 2003
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A life’s labors lost
About Schmidt, directed by Alexander Payne - Letters from our readers
- The political issues in the struggle against war
- US blocks cheap drugs for undeveloped world
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Worsening problems for global economy
18 January 2003
- Blair warns United Nations has no veto over US-led war vs. Iraq
- Britain: Firefighters to resume nationwide strike
- Mass jobs destruction at US retailer Kmart
- Sri Lankan peace talks run into difficulties over LTTE disarmament
- US pilots face trial for Canadian "friendly fire" deaths in Afghanistan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
20 January 2003
- Britain: Pension proposals do nothing to resolve retirement income crisis
- Canada: Mass protests against war on Iraq
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Hundreds of thousands protest US war drive vs. Iraq
Demonstrations in Washington, San Francisco and cities worldwide - Questions on socialist organisation and planning
- Venezuela “strike”: the anatomy of a US-backed provocation
- Washington demonstrators speak out against war on Iraq
21 January 2003
- Blueprint for a US colonial regime in Baghdad
- Britain: demonstrators speak out against war vs. Iraq
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In runup to key state elections
German Green Party proposes drastic cuts in Frankfurt - New York Times discovers the opposition to war in Iraq
- Pay deal in the German public sector
- Trade deficit up, as US economy turns down
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 January 2003
- Australian government deploys military forces to the Persian Gulf
- French airline steward detained for nine months in US
- Letters on the growing opposition to US war against Iraq
- US military insists on right of “hot pursuit” inside Pakistan
- US: New attacks on Medicare and Medicaid
- Zimbabwe: Britain and South Africa in Mugabe retirement plot
23 January 2003
- Commutation of death sentences in Illinois deals blow to capital punishment
- Firestorm wreaks havoc in Australia’s capital city
- Law and order in Illinois—frame-up, torture and legal murder
- One-quarter of British army sent for war vs. Iraq
- Two Chinese workers tried for subversion over protests
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Virginia Woolf cannot be held responsible
The Hours - Washington escalates military buildup in Latin America
24 January 2003
- A pittance in international aid after cyclone devastates Fiji
- FBI dispatched to Indonesia to deal with Freeport murders
- Race to lead Canada’s social democrats limps to finish
- War plans against Iraq aggravate conflict over Cyprus
- Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly red-baits the Workers World Party
- Widespread industrial unrest in Kenya
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
25 January 2003
- Britain: Refugees face destitution under new asylum law
- Coal mine explosion kills three in West Virginia
- How to deal with America? The European dilemma
- Toronto police harass anti-poverty activists during trial
- US Senate upholds Bush aid to air polluters
- US: anti-immigrant dragnet in advance of Super Bowl
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Casting about for a pretext for war
Washington insists Iraqi scientists submit to private interviews - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 January 2003
- Brazil’s Lula: From Porto Alegre to Davos
- Britain: Spending watchdog publishes damning report on PFI school projects
- Germany: Berlin public services face drastic cuts
- Letters on “Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly red-baits the Workers World Party”
- US establishes closer military ties with Nepal
28 January 2003
- Davos summit: From the “new economy” to war and recession
- Israeli elections highlight disaster facing Middle East
- New York City transit workers narrowly approve pact
- New York Times offers “friendly advice” to abort the anti-war movement
- New Zealand policeman acquitted in private prosecution for murder
- US faces record budget deficits, new spending cuts
- Unions set Air Canada flight attendants against each other
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
29 January 2003
- Australian construction union moves to shut down Grocon dispute
- Australian fires: Canberra residents left to fend for themselves
- Blix report to the UN: diplomatic charade masks US imperialist war aims
- Britain: Police raid on mosque aimed at intimidating immigrants
- Britain: SEP supporter addresses Bradford anti-war meeting
- Corporate bankruptcies exhaust US pension guaranty fund
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Leaving the others behind
Antwone Fisher, directed by Denzel Washington - The changing face of Canada
30 January 2003
- 10,000 march and rally in Pittsburgh against Iraq war
- Australian prime minister assists US push for war
- Bush’s State of the Union speech: the war fever of a ruling elite in crisis
- Canada’s NDP opts for leader promising image makeover
- France’s Internal Security law and the cult of Interior Minister Sarkozy
- Ivory Coast peace deal flounders
- US plans "shock and awe" blitzkrieg in Iraq
31 January 2003
- Britain: Labour government threatens ban on UK firefighters strike
- Chinese capitalism: industrial powerhouse or sweatshop of the world?
- Israel: Sharon’s victory presages internal strife amidst escalating aggression
- Political disaffection spreads throughout the former Yugoslavia
- Toronto students protest visit by "Campus Watch" founder
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Signs of growing opposition:
US launches large military operation in southern Afghanistan - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
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