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Archive: May 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 May 2003

• Second massacre in Iraqi town
  A protracted, dirty war of colonial occupation
• A worthless attack on Goya
  The Rape of Creativity by Jake and Dinos Chapman
• French concessions on Iraq met by US threats
• LTTE protests over exclusion from US aid conference
• Spanish government plan for drastic punishment of war opponents
• Turkey’s bloody 1977 May Day still clouded in mystery
• Another criminal violation of human rights
  US admits jailing children at Guantanamo Bay

2 May 2003

• Australian government attacks Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
• Militarist speech on the carrier Lincoln
  Bush promises unending war in Iraq and internationally
• Flaunting rottenness: Plateforme, by Michel Houellebecq
• India temporarily tones down its sabre rattling against Pakistan
• The politics of tactical manoeuvre
  Interview with Paolo Ferrero of Italy’s Communist Refoundation Party
• Media bosses admit pro-war bias in coverage of Iraq
• San Francisco newspaper fires antiwar reporter
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

3 May 2003

• Britain: Media attack on MP George Galloway aimed at smearing antiwar protests
• Britain: Significant losses for Labour in local elections
• Bush taps antiterrorism advisor as Iraq pro-consul
  The shaping of a repressive colonial regime
• Letters on the Iraq war and the US media
• SARS epidemic triggers political crisis in China
• Summit of Four in Brussels
  Schröder and Chirac pledge their allegiance to Washington
• US jobless rate jumped to 6 percent in April
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

5 May 2003

• Bush administration expands the infrastructure of a police state
• Israel: Histadrut trade union halts general strike against austerity plan
• Portland man indicted on terrorism charges
• US invasion produces human catastrophe in Iraq
• US rejects North Korean proposals for defusing confrontation

6 May 2003

• Stevens report on Northern Ireland
  A glimpse into Britain’s dirty war on the IRA
• Charges in fatal contamination case
  Canadian utility bosses scapegoats for Ontario Tory cutbacks
• Despite US denials, cluster bombs continue to claim lives in Iraq
• Papua New Guinea reacts angrily to call for direct Australian intervention
• Sale of Breton archives breaks up legacy of Surrealist movement
• The Columbia shuttle tragedy: Lessons of the Challenger inquiry
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

7 May 2003

• ACLU files lawsuit challenging “no-fly” list
• The attorney general’s legal fictions
  Cover-up for German complicity in Iraq war
• Human Genome Project completed: an extraordinary scientific achievement
• Indonesian presidential decree hands more power to military in Papua
• Record number of US children in extreme poverty
• Buenos Aires 5th International Festival of Independent Cinema—Part 1
  The two paths
• War, oligarchy and the political lie

8 May 2003

• Anti-US protest reveals depth of Afghanistan’s social and political crisis
• Bush’s new tax rules target the working poor
• May Day at the pleasure park
  German trade unions organise a symbolic protest
• Israel: US “road map” offers nothing to the Palestinians but continued repression
• An evening with Nederlands Dans Theatre II
  The challenges confronting contemporary modern dance
• Tornadoes wreak havoc across four US states
• Union leader attacked during May Day demonstration in Spain
• As US viceroy denies crisis
  WHO warns of cholera epidemic in Iraq
• Washington intensifica agresión contra Cuba debido a juicios de disidentes

9 May 2003

• America blocks UN operation in Ivory Coast conflict
• Australian prime minister instructs UN: Legality of Iraq war no longer an issue
• Berlusconi attacks independence of the Italian judiciary
• Colorado disc jockeys suspended for protesting Dixie Chicks’ ban
• Buenos Aires 5th International Festival of Independent Cinema—Part 2
  Films on the Middle East, texture in cinema and certain elusive figures
• Looting of nuclear sites poses deadly threat in Iraq
• The rape of Iraq
• Thousands dead as a result of Thailand’s “war on drugs”
• William Bennett: the secret high-stakes gambling life of a former drug “czar”

10 May 2003

• American war, German realpolitik and international law
  A press round-up
• Britain: Parliament backs plans to privatise health care
• Letters on the Iraq war
• Music industry turns against file sharing customers
• Pakistan to release Australian Jack Thomas after five months jail without charge
• South Carolina Democratic debate: a spectacle of political prostration
• The first US presidential contest: the money primary
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

12 May 2003

• Austria’s biggest strike in 50 years
• Episodes from the class struggle in Britain
  Just Before the Rain and Coal Not Dole
• Letters to the WSWS
• The firing of Jayson Blair
  Panic and hysteria reign at the New York Times
• The science and sociology of SARS
  Part 1: Viruses and the nature of present outbreak
• US Fed acknowledges deflation threat
• US tables a transparent plan for plundering Iraqi oil
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

13 May 2003

• After the Iraq war
  Editorial of the magazine Gleichheit
• Extended unemployment benefits being cut in US
• France: For an international movement to defend pension rights
• Indonesian military about to launch a major offensive in Aceh
• Jayson Blair and Judith Miller
  Journalistic ethics, hypocrisy and war at the New York Times
• SEP holds May Day meeting in Colombo against imperialist war
• Buenos Aires 5th International Festival of Independent Cinema-Part 3
  Structures of evasion
• The science and sociology of SARS
  Part 2: Science, internationalism and the profit motive
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

14 May 2003

• A moving portrayal of the tragedy suffered by young Russians
  Lilja4Ever, directed by Lukas Moodysson
• Australian budget advances “free market” agenda
• Bush Omaha visit: company rescinds payless workday
• Contradicciones y mentiras de la causa bélica de los Estados Unidos contra Irak
• La crisis del imperialismo: los Estados Unidos y la guerra contra Irak Los Estados Unidos se lanza al torbellino
• Lecciones políticas de la guerra de Irak
• Malaria’s appalling death toll in sub-Saharan Africa
• Millions strike, demonstrate in France to defend pension rights
• On the New York Times and the firing of Jayson Blair
• Threat of greater repression
  Shakeup in US occupation as Iraqi society disintegrates
• Two Chinese workers sentenced to harsh prison terms
• US Senate panel backs development of “usable” nuclear weapons

15 May 2003

• A provocation against democratic rights: Texas Republicans order state police to seize Democratic legislators
• Buenos Aires 5th International Festival of Independent Cinema—Part 4
  An Argentine tragedy
• An interview with Nicolás Wainszelbaum and Roberto Testa, directors of Flowers of September
• Britain: What Clare Short’s resignation says about New Labour
• Canada: Mistrial declared in trumped-up case against anti-poverty activists
• Indonesia makes a small but significant purchase in Moscow
• Israel: Security services arrest 15 leaders of Islamic Movement
• The issues in the Texas redistricting

16 May 2003

• 18 migrant workers die in Texas
  Victims of a brutal border policy
• Australia: Labor reignites governor general scandal
• Britain: Straw admits may never find Iraqi WMD
• Earthquake in Turkey sparks violent protests
• Israel: Government threatens Histadrut as general strike continues
• Schröder’s policy of closing his eyes to reality
  The German government seeks closer relations with the US
• Thai toy factory fire: 10 years after the world’s worst industrial inferno
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

17 May 2003

• Germany: WSWS editorial board member participates in forum on Iraq war
• Israel: Sharon’s rejection of US “road map” has powerful support in Washington
• Public meetings of the World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party
  Lessons of the Iraq War: the tasks of the European working class
• McCarthy transcripts released in Washington
• No Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?—US media scoundrel shrugs his shoulders
• Republicans enlisted Department of Homeland Security in Texas political fight
• Simplification of a complex historic figure
  Ned Kelly, directed by Gregor Jordan, screenplay by John Michael McDonagh from Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe
• Spain: Aznar’s Popular Party faces electoral rout
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

19 May 2003

• Australian companies rush to profit from Iraqi devastation
• Britain: Foundation hospitals mean health inequality is official government policy
• France renews ties with Malagasy President Ravalomanana
• New proconsul in Baghdad tightens US grip over Iraq
• US and Britain in plans for “road map” for Zimbabwe

20 May 2003

• Belgium: government seeks to block war crimes case against US General Tommy Franks
• Community colleges in US facing massive cutbacks
  Michigan highlights assault on education
• Entrevista con Nicolás Wainszelbaum y Roberto Testa, directores de Flores de Septiembre
• Interview with Dean Gabourie, director of Awake and Sing!
• Over 200 dead in worst Sri Lankan floods in 60 years
• Politics and the theatre: two plays in Toronto
• Saudi Arabia, Morocco
  Terror bombings bare US crisis in Middle East
• Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente
  Una tragedia argentina
• War crimes case against General Franks: Interview with Belgian lawyer Jan Fermon
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Worsening global economic problems see G8 divisions deepen

21 May 2003

• San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 1
  A modest proposal: a cinema of ideas
• Belgium: Liberals and Social Democrats to renew coalition without the Greens
• Britain: Labour Party suspends MP George Galloway for antiwar stance
• US budget and tax debate
  Bush, Congress wrangle over how best to fatten the rich
• Dollar decline accelerates as US Treasury abandons “strong” currency policy
• Move to revise communications regulations
  FCC green light for US media monopolization
• Top level US visit strengthens strategic ties with India

22 May 2003

• Germany’s “Agenda 2010”
  10,000 demonstrate in Berlin against attack on social conditions
• Australian government announces new military force for domestic use
• Britain: Labour extends antiwar witch-hunt to Tam Dalyell
• Britain: Sunday Times “Rich List” notes fall in combined wealth of super-rich
• Decline of US dollar roils Canada’s elite
• Indonesia launches “shock and awe” military offensive in Aceh
• As unionists demonstrate:
  New policy needed to fight Schröder’s social cuts

23 May 2003

• BBC documentary exposes Pentagon lies: The staged rescue of Private Jessica Lynch
• Bitter Sri Lankan power struggle flares up over lotteries board
• Britain: New Statesman publishes government report on illegality of Iraq war
• Ciencia y sociología del SARS
• Hecklers shout down journalist’s antiwar speech at college commencement
• More letters on the New York Times and the firing of Jayson Blair
• UN legal fig leaf for illegal war
  Paris, Berlin, Moscow sanction US occupation of Iraq
• The historical roots of neoconservatism: a reply to a slanderous attack on Trotskyism
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 2
  “But there is a great deal more to say”

24 May 2003

• A political strategy to fight the attack on workers’ pensions in France
• An exchange with a US war correspondent
• Canada: Budget cuts played pivotal role in SARS crisis
• France leads clamour for Congo intervention
• Mass unemployment in Israel, but austerity plan approved
• World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party Public Conference
  Political lessons of the war on Iraq: the way forward for the international working class
• Problemas económicos mundiales empeoran e intensifican las divisiones del grupo G8
• Wolfowitz in Ankara:
  US urges military to overrule Turkish government
• Unemployment hits 8 percent in Oregon
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

26 May 2003

• San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 3
  A growing seriousness
• A million workers march against pension cuts in France
• Howard government blocks release of Australians from Guantanamo Bay
• Letters to the WSWS
• The UN vote on Iraq: the political issues
• Zambia: AIDS reduces life expectancy to 33 years

27 May 2003

• Algerian earthquake disaster provokes wave of anger
• Germany: Party of Democratic Socialism gripped by crisis
• Has the Australian government been lying to Iranian asylum seekers?
• Nearly one million left homeless by Sri Lankan floods
• Sixty years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• The resignation of Ari Fleischer: Bush’s official liar goes for the gold

28 May 2003

• Pretext for war exposed
  CIA-backed exile was source for Times “scoops” on Iraqi arms program
• The politics of plunder:
  Congress adopts Bush tax cut for the wealthy
• Court ruling on fare hikes exposes New York’s class divide
• Giving $100,000 to every US millionaire
• Japanese bank bailout reveals deepening economic crisis
• Socialisation of losses, privatisation of profits
  Metaleurop: The ugly face of European capitalism
• Philippine president renews her pledge of loyalty in Washington
• Shareholders reject GlaxoSmithKline CEO’s golden parachute: the reality behind the hyperbole

29 May 2003

• Another US war crime: the use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq
• Currency upheaval could have major consequences
• Imperialism and Iraq: Lessons from the past
  Part One
• Israel: Sharon has not changed his spots
• La ONU: Excusas ilegales para una guerra ilegal
  Paris, Berlín y Moscú autorizan ocupación de Irak por EEUU.
• Washington involved in drafting statements designed to split Europe prior to Iraq war
• Washington turns to “regime change” in Iran
• What lies behind the recent explosions in Chechnya?

30 May 2003

• Andy Goldsworthy and the limits of working with nature
  Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, written and directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer
• Australia: State Labor government and media attack Anti-Discrimination Board
• Britain: Iranian refugee mutilates himself to protest conditions facing asylum seekers
• Guerra Oligarquía y la Mentira política
• Imperialism and Iraq: Lessons from the past
  Part Two
• Las raíces históricas del neoconservadurismo
  Réplica a un difamatorio ataque al trotskismo
• SARS and the “openness” of the Beijing leadership
• The German Social Democratic Party: 140 years
• Faced with growing resistance
  US prepares military repression in Iraq
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

31 May 2003

• Britain: Blair caught in lies over Iraqi “WMDs”
• Canada: Lessons of the Vidéotron strike
• Homeless man robbed, killed and set on fire in Sydney, Australia
• Imperialism and Iraq: Lessons from the past
  Part Three
• New Dutch government plans drastic cuts
• The plight of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution: two films
  Shanghai Ghetto and Nowhere in Africa
• US government lied about Iraqi weapons to justify war
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa