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Archive: April 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.

11 March 2003

• Sri Lankan SEP speaks in Jaffna against the Iraq war

1 April 2003

• 30,000 antiwar protesters take to Paris streets
• Al-Jazeera web site under attack from pro-war hackers
• Australia: Families of Bali victims denounce Howard and the Iraq war
• Australian Labor leader Crean backs Iraq war
• How the British bombed Iraq in the 1920s
• Into the maelstrom: the crisis of American imperialism and the war against Iraq
• Spanish government to sue antiwar web site
• The firing of Peter Arnett: right-wing straitjacket tightens on the US media
• Two weeks into the Iraq war
  Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
• World Socialist Web Site holds international conference on socialism and the struggle against war

2 April 2003

• Britain: Labour’s Cook and Mowlam rally round the flag
• Canadian workers under growing stress
• German Greens back airspace for US warplanes
• Iraq checkpoint killings—the ugly face of imperialist war
• Pentagon advisor Perle becomes first political casualty of US setbacks in Iraq
• Solomon Islands dragooned into the "coalition of the willing"
• World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Sydney
  The struggle against imperialism and war: the socialist perspective
• Turkey: Protests against US army
• WSWS international conference: Resolutions condemn war in Iraq, call for international unity of working class
• Washington’s warnings to Iran and Syria part of a broader agenda
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 April 2003

• Australian government prepares to further de-regulate higher education system
• Ireland: Mass opposition to war vs. Iraq
• Is the Bush administration seeking "regime change" in Canada?
• Los temas históricos de la guerra de los Estados Unidos contra Irak
• Nigerian president sends troops to restart flow of oil
• Signs of a growing antiwar movement in Malaysia
• US forces rounding up Iraqi civilians
  International condemnation of Guantanamo Bay plan
• WSWS international conference: Resolutions call for political independence of working class, oppose attacks on democratic rights
• World Socialist Web Site Review: April issue now available

4 April 2003

• AFL-CIO union federation pledges support to Iraq war
• Australia: Continuing disaffection with major parties in NSW election
• Britain: Soldiers face court martial for refusing to fight in Iraq
• Casualties of Bush "anti-terror" campaign: Three deaths linked to smallpox vaccine
• Iraqi troops massacred from the air as US advances to Baghdad
• Right-wing ideologue Peggy Noonan welcomes US casualties in Iraq
  "Some good" from bloodier war, says Wall Street Journal columnist
• Samoans mount protests over restrictive New Zealand immigration law
• WSWS international conference: Resolutions on war and the US social crisis, development of the World Socialist Web Site
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

5 April 2003

• Another 100,000 jobs slashed as US economic slowdown deepens
• Australia: Hundreds of police mobilised to stop antiwar march
• British artist refuses government money in protest against Iraq war
• Iraq: the digitalization of slaughter
• Letters on the firing of Peter Arnett
• Plebiscite in Chechnya held at gunpoint
• US uses cluster bombs to spread death and destruction in Iraq
• What are cluster weapons?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

7 April 2003

• Britain: Blair government announces near doubling of budget for war vs. Iraq
• Letters on the war against Iraq
• More antiwar demonstrations throughout Europe
• Toronto marchers denounce slaughter in Iraq
• US bases in Germany critical to assault on Iraq
  Schröder government complicit in war
• US rampage through Baghdad kills thousands
• Washington’s colonial regime in waiting for Baghdad
• Western governments cut aid to Balkans
  One millions refugees remain from 1990s wars

8 April 2003

• Antiwar protests continue throughout Turkey
• Antiwar protests in China despite police intimidation
• Bush, Blair haggle over Iraq war spoils
• CIA death squads operating in Iraq
• Israel: Sharon government steps up attacks on Palestinians
• Police fire rubber bullets at anti-war protesters in California
• War cannot resolve mounting US economic problems
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 April 2003

• A certain sensitivity and depth
  All the Real Girls, directed by David Gordon Green
• Australian foreign minister grovels in Washington
• Berlin Attac stands by its act of political censorship
• Correspondence on the Blair government and the war vs. Iraq
• Family members demand answers from 9/11 commission
• New York City mayor announces 3400 layoffs
  Six firehouses, two companies to be closed
• Provocative naval attack threatens future of Sri Lankan peace talks
• Scotland: Labour fears electoral impact of antiwar sentiment
• Journalists’ organizations demand inquiry
  US bombs Al-Jazeera center in Baghdad

10 April 2003

• A graphic depiction of everyday life in Iraq
• A groundswell of antiwar protests in Indonesia
• A policy to defend French workers’ pensions and social gains
• Conferencia de la WSWS: ¡Alto a la guerra contra Irak! Por la unidad internacional de la clase obrera
• A major step for European militarism
  EU takes over NATO’s mission in Macedonia
• Letters on the war against Iraq
• Liberation by murder: Baghdad falls to American invasion
• Socialist Equality Party holds meeting against Iraq war in Colombo
• The campaign for Israeli divestment and the charge of anti-Semitism
• US fires on Russian diplomats fleeing Baghdad
• US prison population—over 2 million—hits new record
  12 percent of black men in 20s and early 30s incarcerated

11 April 2003

• A reader comments on Tears of the Sun: "Weapons of mass media"
• Death of Spanish journalists in Iraq sparks protests
• Embedding, repression and murder: How the US military degraded journalism in Iraq
• Lenin, Kautsky and "ultra-imperialism"
• Oakland residents demand accounting of police attack on antiwar protest
• Political lessons of the war in Iraq
• Putin, Schröder, Chirac to meet in St. Petersburg
• US barbarism in Iraq
  The way forward in the struggle against imperialist war
• War overshadows Quebec election
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

12 April 2003

• New York City schools to ax 3,200 jobs
• A spectacle of filth and reaction
  New York union gangsters celebrate slaughter in Iraq
• On the "Battle for Baghdad"
• Protests in Israel against war in Iraq
• Sami Al-Arian and the attack on democratic rights in the US: an interview with Laila Al-Arian
• Sharon authorises fresh Zionist settlement of Arab East Jerusalem
• The battlefield deaths of American journalists Michael Kelly and David Bloom: some hard truths
• The stage-managed events in Baghdad’s Firdos Square: image-making, lies and the "liberation" of Iraq
• US military kills 11 civilians in ongoing war in Afghanistan
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 April 2003

• 10,000 march in Berlin against Iraq war
• Antiwar demonstrations in New Zealand cities
• Antiwar protests in Copenhagen and Rotterdam
• Antiwar rallies in Newcastle and other Australian cities
• Baseball Hall of Fame cancels film ceremony in attack on antiwar performers
• Britain: Determined opposition to US-UK occupation of Iraq
• Canada: Thousands protest against occupation of Iraq
• After the fall of Baghdad
  Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Rome
• Israel: Demonstrations in Tel Aviv and Haifa against occupation of Palestine territories and Iraq
• Israel’s Histadrut trade union federation calls off planned general strike
• Melbourne: 15,000 take part in antiwar rally
• On love and pain
  Divine Intervention, a film by Elia Suleiman
• Sydney protesters denounce US-led slaughter
• Tens of thousands march in Washington against Iraq slaughter
• Thousands of San Francisco antiwar protesters march in rainstorm
• Thousands protest in Sri Lanka against Iraq war
• Worldwide protests against invasion and occupation of Iraq

15 April 2003

• "A rapacious colonial war": Interview with Arab journalist Said Dudin on US bombing of Al Jazeera
• Belgian parliament guts "genocide law" to appease Bush administration
• How and why the US encouraged looting in Iraq
• IMF cuts global economic growth forecast
• International protests against the US-led war on Iraq
• SARS outbreak the result of poor social conditions
• American "free press" in action
  US networks agree to serve as Pentagon propaganda tool in Iraq
• US: Republicans seek to make Patriot Act provisions permanent
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

16 April 2003

• "To heighten our awareness of humanity"
  Interview with Morris Gleitzman, author of Boy Overboard
• American troops massacre Iraqi protesters in Mosul
• British activist in critical condition after being shot by Israeli military
• Bush administration puts Syria in its gunsights
• US prosecuted Nazi propagandists as war criminals
  The Nuremberg tribunal and the role of the media
• The sacking of Iraq’s museums: US wages war against culture and history
• Thousands face electricity cutoffs in Ontario

17 April 2003

• El barbarismo de los Estados Unidos en Irak
  Como llevar hacia adelante la lucha contra la guerra imperialista
• Image and reality:
  How Britain’s Blair government denies university education to working class students
• Japan’s part in the "coalition of the willing"
• Letters on the war against Iraq
• The ties that bind
  Media giant headed by Bush cronies promotes Iraq war
• The German government and the Iraq war
  A reply to Günter Grass
• SEP public meeting in Sydney
  The fight against imperialist war: the socialist perspective

18 April 2003

• "Supporting the troops": a crisis of perspective
• A revealing glimpse of Washington’s "free and democratic Iraq"
• Australia: NSW government covers-up unsafe rail system
• Henry Ford: American anti-Semitism and the class struggle
• Mass social disaffection reflected in electoral rout of Quebec separatists
• Massive wage cuts imposed on American Airlines workers
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

19 April 2003

• European Union summit: France, Germany seek rapprochement with US
• Iraqis demand end to American occupation
• New York City mayor presents "doomsday" budget
• US culture advisers resign in protest over looting of Iraqi museums
• The looting of Baghdad’s museum and library
  US government implicated in planned theft of Iraqi artistic treasures
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 April 2003

• Leonardo da Vinci: the drawings and the public response
• Washington caught in "weapons of mass destruction" lies
  New Iraq sanctions debate bares US-European tensions
• US imposes sanctions on Pakistani nuclear firm
• US seizure of Baghdad provokes political crisis in France

22 April 2003

• Report from the World Socialist Web Site /Socialist Equality Party conference: "Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War"
  "Internationalism stands at the center of the history of the working class"
• Brazil: Lula’s first 100 days—austerity for the poor, tax cuts for the rich
• Report from the World Socialist Web Site /Socialist Equality Party conference: "Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War"
  Contradictions and lies in the US case for war against Iraq
• Jobless figures point to deepening problems for US economy
• US administration plans for long-term military occupation in Iraq
• What happened to Iraq’s "weapons of mass destruction"?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 April 2003

• Report from the World Socialist Web Site /Socialist Equality Party conference: "Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War"
  "The turn to authoritarian methods is a symptom of the failure of American capitalism"
• Air Canada using bankruptcy proceedings to gut jobs and wages
• Violent clashes in Buenos Aires on eve of election
  Argentine police attack workers protest
• Australia: Unemployment rate climbs as major companies resume layoffs
• Impassive resistance: Protest songs for today
• Manufacturing the news: New York Times report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
• Mounting attacks on free speech in US
• Pentagon sabre-rattling prior to US-North Korean talks in Beijing
• Report from the World Socialist Web Site /Socialist Equality Party conference: "Socialism and the Struggle Against Imperialism and War"
  The historic background and content of the struggle for the political independence of the working class

24 April 2003

• "War means an intensification of the exploitation of the US working class"
• "We believe in the power of historically progressive ideas"
• Australian government plans to repatriate refugees to war-torn Iraq
• Letters to the WSWS
• Trial of Islamic cleric accused of terrorism begins in Jakarta
• Turkey: Growing poverty and social inequality
• US recruits Ba’athist police and functionaries for new Iraqi state
• US provocations and Castroite repression
  Washington steps up attack on Cuba over dissident trials

25 April 2003

• Britain: Blair under pressure over failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
• Bush cancels Ottawa visit
  Canada’s right-wing jubilant
• Germany: Push to use military for domestic policing
• Greetings to the WSWS/SEP Conference by Linda Tenenbaum of the Australian SEP
  "The WSWS is the source of a new, international socialist perspective"
• SARS outbreak exposes public health decay in Toronto
• Ten years since the Waco massacre
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Zimbabwe: General strike against fuel price rises

26 April 2003

• Africa hit by aid shortfall as famine worsens
• CEO resigns over secret executive pay deal
  American Airlines unions push through concessions after change at top
• Austerity and repression overshadow Argentine elections
• El saqueo de los museos de Irak
  Estados Unidos emprende guerra contra la cultura y la historia
• Greetings to the WSWS/SEP conference by Chris Marsden of the British Socialist Equality Party
  "The war heralds a crisis of rule for British imperialism"
• Greetings to the WSWS/SEP conference by Keith Jones of the Canadian SEP
  "The working class in Canada must define itself as part of the international working class"
• Greetings to the WSWS/SEP conference by Vladimir Volkov, of the Russian bureau of the WSWS International Editorial Board
  "The Russian working class will once again summon up its great revolutionary traditions"
• La crisis del capitalismo estadounidense y la guerra contra Irak
• The German press and the Iraq war: "Might makes right"
• WHO report: alarming increase in cancer rates
• Why won’t Washington allow the UN weapons inspectors into Iraq?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

28 April 2003

• Bush cancels Ottawa visit
  Canada’s right wing jubilant
• High death toll continues in China’s coal mines
• More evidence of police brutality produced at Toronto "riot" trial
• US bullies New Zealand prime minister into apologising over war comments
• US will provide no estimate of Iraqi war casualties

29 April 2003

• ABC News Primetime interview: Country music group holds its own against right-wing attack
• Bechtel awarded Iraq contract: War profits and the US “military-industrial complex”
• Britain: Family win new inquiry into London police shooting
• Bush defends Republican senator after attack on gays
• Conventional “economic wisdom” overturned
• Indonesian military court hands out light sentences for murder of Papuan leader
• Menem, Kirchner in Argentine presidential run-off
• Netherlands coalition talks break off
• New York law students honor attorney framed on terrorism charges
  Dean bans award at graduation ceremony
• New strategy needed to fight attack on New Yorkers’ jobs and services
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

30 April 2003

• Aftermath: Unanswered questions from 9/11
  An investigative documentary by Guerilla News Network (GNN) www.gnn.tv
• A rebellion on its knees:
  German SPD bows to Schröder on social cutbacks
• Obasanjo to be recognised despite rigged Nigerian election
• Russia: School fires in Yakutiya and Dagestan kill 50 children
• Despite government interference
  Sri Lankan SEP May Day meeting to go ahead
• US troops gun down Iraqi demonstrators
• Washington pushes for interim regime in order to pump Iraqi oil