Archive: February 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.
1 February 2003
- Bush’s claims on Iraqi weapons--lies in pursuit of war
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As Green Berets deploy in war zone
Colombian president seeks massive US intervention - Estados Unidos se enfrenta a déficits y reducciones de gastos que baten el récord
- European Rapid Reaction Force to deploy in Macedonia
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El discurso de Bush sobre el estado de la nación
Fiebre de guerra de una clase gobernante en crisis -
In the classical realist tradition
Sisila Gini Gani, directed by Prasanna Vithanage, script Sanath Gunathilaka and music by Premasiri Kemadasa - India and Pakistan again escalate tensions
- Ireland: Fianna Fail and SDLP float unity pact
- Lula y Brasil: de Porto Alegre a Davos
- Workers Struggles: Australia and the Pacific
3 February 2003
- Blair blurts out the US agenda on North Korea
- Britain’s Guardian newspaper says US sanctions torture against terrorist suspects
- Letters on US war buildup against Iraq
- PNG unions call off all action against budget cuts
- US: Contractors shredded thousands of immigration documents
4 February 2003
- Israel: Sharon government builds fortified wall around West Bank
- New Kashmiri administration fails to deliver “healing touch”
- The Columbia tragedy: NASA, Congress, Bush ignored safety warnings
- The Netherlands: Anti-immigrant List Pim Fortyn loses heavily in parliamentary elections
- US economy stalls in fourth quarter
- US military chief admits American troops already in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 February 2003
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An insightful view into an artist’s world
Francis Bacon Studio at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin - Australia: Seven die in rail crash near Sydney
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Financial crisis staggers California
Governor outlines draconian budget cuts - Homeless, poor freeze in US cold wave
- IMF/World Bank policies pave way for continuing famine in Africa
- Letters from our readers
- Presidente colombiano pide a Estados Unidos que intervenga como en Irak
- “Left” apologists for US imperialism red-bait the antiwar movement
6 February 2003
- Australia: Thousands of households cut off electricity
- China prepares to fall into line with US war on Iraq
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Dickensian conditions in Canada
Homeless mother could be jailed for leaving baby at Toronto City Hall - Powell’s UN speech triggers countdown to war against Iraq
- Scandinavian governments divided over US-led war vs. Iraq
- Texas executes British citizen despite international protests
7 February 2003
- Australia bullies East Timor over oil and gas
- German state elections: dramatic losses for Schröder’s Social Democratic Party
- LTTE calls for SEP members in northern Sri Lanka to be “wiped out”
- Strike wave continues in Kenya
- TV documentary: US lied about Gulf War missile “hits”
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
8 February 2003
- Bush threatens military action against North Korea
- Franco-British summit: Chirac signals Paris ready to back war vs. Iraq
- Kurds know nothing of “terrorist poison factory” cited by Powell
- Leading Democrats line up behind Bush on Iraq war
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After Powell’s speech
Media pundits in lockstep behind US war drive - UN conceals Picasso’s “Guernica” for Powell’s presentation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 February 2003
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A look at rural life in British Ceylon
Sudu Sevaneli, directed by Sunil Ariyarathne - Australian government commits to US-led war in face of growing opposition
- Britain: Blair government caught out in plagiarism and lies over latest Iraq dossier
- Britain: Government and media conspire to whip-up anti-immigrant hysteria
- Letters on “Powell’s UN speech triggers countdown to war against Iraq”
- White House cancels poetry symposium in response to protest
11 February 2003
- France: strikes, protests mount against plant closings and pension cuts
- Growing criticism of Bush budget deficit
- Judge upholds New York police ban on anti-war march
- South East Asia braces for political fallout from Iraq war
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The Bush budget: blueprint for a right-wing assault on the working class
Part one of five articles on Bush's 2004 budget proposal -
US congressman defends WWII internment of Japanese-Americans
Republican heads domestic security committee - Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 February 2003
- 75th Academy Award nominations: as eclectic and confounding as ever
- Britain: Labour government moves to “market based higher education”
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Afghan Massacre—Convoy of Death available on video
Film exposing Pentagon war crimes premieres in US - Social discontent escalates in China
- The tasks facing the anti-war movement
- UN and US back French intervention in Ivory Coast
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Welfare for the wealthy: the Bush tax plan
Part two of five articles on Bush’s 2004 budget proposal
13 February 2003
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Bush budget targets the poor
Part three of five articles on Bush’s 2004 budget proposal - Court sanctions expanded political surveillance by New York City police
- Discurso de Powell ante las Naciones Unidas comienza la cuenta regresiva para lanzar la guerra contra Irak
- French public sector workers demonstrate against pension cuts
- Iraq war splits NATO
- Jefe militar de los Estados Unidos admite que tropas estadounidenses ya se encuentran en Irak
- Las tareas que enfrenta el movimiento contra la guerra
- Sri Lankan SEP replies to a right-wing supporter of the LTTE
- US ambassador lambasts Australian Labor Party leader
- Wall Street Journal editor’s brief for a “Pax Americana”
14 February 2003
- Ankara lines up behind a war against Iraq
- Britain: Why are troops really deployed in London?
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“Human shields” charge
Bush prepares alibi for slaughter in Iraq -
Behind the posturing
Canada has decided to join in war on Iraq - Powell’s Al Qaeda-Baghdad link falls apart
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The Bush budget: subverting Medicare and Medicaid
Part four of five articles on Bush’s 2004 budget proposal -
The US terror alert
Washington employs fear and panic as instruments of war - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
15 February 2003
- Bush administration stung by second report of Iraq inspectors
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Bush budget plan attacks public education
Last of five articles on Bush’s 2004 budget proposal - French Communist Party Chairman Hue loses his parliamentary seat
- Incident in Alexandria: Antiwar outpouring in the Pentagon’s back yard
- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch explains why he backs war vs. Iraq
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"We are not animals, we are human beings"
Record numbers swamp New York City’s homeless shelters - Treatment of refugees exposes Australian government hypocrisy on Iraq war
- US right-wing media, politicians spit out anti-French venom
- WSWS to provide on-the-spot coverage of global anti-war rallies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
17 February 2003
- 100,000 demonstrate in Belgian capital
- 200,000 march in Paris against Iraq war
- 3,000 march in Tel Aviv
- Amsterdam protest confirms widespread antiwar sentiment
- An event of world historical significance
- Antiwar marchers defy large police presence in Seoul
- Berlin: Largest demonstration in post-war German history
- Copenhagen: 30,000 march past US and British embassies
- Glasgow: 100,000 protest against Blair and Iraq war
- London: a massive rebuttal of Blair’s support for war
- Mass demonstrations inaugurate international antiwar movement
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Despite police march ban
Massive New York City rally spills into streets - Melbourne: 200,000 take part in antiwar protest
- Montreal antiwar demonstration the largest in Canadian history
- Protesters rally on Chicago’s North Side
- Protests in Perth, Brisbane and other Australian centres
- Spain: more than 2 million march in Barcelona and Madrid
- Sydney: Australia’s largest ever demonstration
- Tens of thousands march in Dublin
- Tens of thousands protest in cities throughout California
- Thousands join protest in Wellington, New Zealand
- Thousands join rallies in Pittsburgh and nearby cities
- Thousands march in Detroit
- Three million take to the streets in Rome
- Vienna demonstration draws 30,000
- Young marchers predominate in Toronto
18 February 2003
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A survivor of the Warsaw ghetto
Roman Polanski’s The Pianist - Air Canada demands massive concessions
- Australia: Near disaster as runaway train crashes at major rail station
- Bush uses AIDS funding as an instrument of foreign policy
- Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath gives evidence to Bloody Sunday tribunal
- London: antiwar protesters denounce Blair’s support for Bush
- Persecution of homeless mother continues in Toronto
- Tens of thousands march in South Africa against Iraq war
- Washington prepares to tighten the economic noose around North Korea
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 February 2003
- Desperately searching for allies: Washington fetes Australian prime minister
- Discussions with Paris antiwar demonstrators
- EU summit agrees on war against Iraq as a “last resort”
- Letters on global antiwar protests
- Oil and the coming war against Iraq
- Reports on February 15-16 antiwar demonstrations
- South Africa: ANC escalates privatisations and economic restructuring
20 February 2003
- Australia: Protestors express deep disgust with US war plans
- Bush administration accelerates US military buildup against Iraq
- Bush administration withholds evidence in case of Zacarias Moussaoui
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Economic “Perfect Storm” threatens to wreck US public education
New York governor proposes $1.24 billion in school cuts - Murdoch’s Sun dismisses million-strong London march as “nothing”
- Reports on February 15-16 antiwar demonstrations
- Russia and the war against Iraq
- Sri Lankan police drag out hearings over LTTE’s threats against SEP
21 February 2003
- Acontecimiento histórico de significado mundial
- Bolivia: Military-provoked riots end in 33 deaths
- Britain: The significance of Blair’s response to the mass antiwar protest in London
- French government party leaders solidarize themselves with American imperialism
- New Zealand antiwar protestors condemn Bush and Blair
- Reports on February 14-16 antiwar demonstrations
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World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party Public Conference
Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War: the Strategy and Program of a New International Working Class Movement -
As coca leaders, government talk
US boosts military aid to Bolivia -
After capture of Pentagon contractors:
Wider US war threatened in Colombia - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
22 February 2003
- A comment on The Pianist
- Bush administration preparing new police state measures
- Child starvation stalks Argentina’s northern provinces
- Public meetings in Britain on the tasks facing the antiwar movement
- Reports on February 14-16 antiwar demonstrations
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A monstrous attack on democratic rights
US government mounts conspiracy frame-up of Palestinian activists - US telecom giants and the war in Iraq: It’s not just about oil
- US troops to be involved in combat operations in the southern Philippines
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
24 February 2003
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Documentary exposes US aggression in Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan
21st Century Wars: Unseen wars by Sorius Samura for Britain’s Channel 4 - France: Former prime minister Jospin resurfaces in the pages of Le Monde
- Inadequate safety planning produces South Korean subway disaster
- New findings on Stonehenge point to continent-wide socio-cultural network
- Rumsfeld pushes big lie on "human shields” in Iraq
- Student protest exposes rift in Chinese regime
25 February 2003
- Fiji’s cyclone victims still lack food, shelter and clean water
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Corruption and greed in the name of “civil rights”
Jesse Jackson and the Chicago dance club tragedy - Pennsylvania state police cleared in killing of 12-year-old
- Record US trade deficit highlights global imbalances
- The New York Times’ brief for war against Iraq
- UK government’s hypocritical stance over World Cup cricket match in Zimbabwe
- Why Germany’s Christian Democrats support the war against Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
26 February 2003
- Australian government backs imprisonment of Melbourne man in Pakistan
- Britain: Labour government delays directors’ liability as work deaths rise
- Bush hands UN an ultimatum on Iraq war
- Japan’s involvement in the Sri Lankan peace process
- US: Bethlehem Steel to terminate health and insurance benefits for 95,000 retirees
- War crimes tribunal drops charges against Croatian general
27 February 2003
- A victory for government by stealth: US congressional arm abandons suit against Cheney
- An interview with French Socialist Party spokesman Karim Pakzad
- Australian legal experts declare an invasion of Iraq a war crime
- Britain: Blair ignores popular opposition in parliamentary brief for war
- Ebola outbreak in the Congo
- National Express withdraws from Australian showpiece of privatised transport
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“There is no debate... There is nothing”
Senator Byrd laments Democrats’ silence on Iraq war
28 February 2003
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A conversation with historian James M. McPherson
How the US Civil War became “a remorseless revolutionary struggle” - Behind the “antiwar” stance of the Australian Greens
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Bush lays out his “vision” for the Middle East
US imperialism’s rendezvous with disaster - Italian opponents of war block US military transports
- Letters on US war against Iraq
- Police assault striking tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka
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The opposite of what’s needed
The Life of David Gale, directed by Alan Parker - WSWS/SEP public meetings in Melbourne and Sydney: the political tasks facing the antiwar movement
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
4 September 2008
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