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Archive: August 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 August 2003

• A review of music from the motion picture The Pianist
• Australia: Ticket inspectors on Victorian train leave youth for dead
• Britain: Government attack on BBC threatens press freedom
• Freddie Mac report: a further exposure of profit manipulations
• Letters from our readers
• Wolfowitz on Iraq: “Murky intelligence” suffices for pre-emptive wars
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

2 August 2003

• Afghanistan: Report documents violence and repression by US-backed warlords
• Britain’s media glorify convicted killer
• Bush press conference highlights government crisis
• Iraqi civilians gunned down in US military raids
• One million deaths later: South African government continues to stall on AIDS treatment
• Quetta massacre: sectarian violence on the rise in Pakistan
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

4 August 2003

• Australia:
  Anti-welfare agenda behind moves to oust Aboriginal leaders
• Are American soldiers in Iraq dying due to depleted uranium?
• France: Artists and entertainers strike continues
• Growth rate up but little evidence of extended US recovery
• La economía política del militarismo estadounidense
  Primera Parte
• Letters from our readers
• 470,000 stopped looking for work in July
  Long-term unemployment on the rise in US

5 August 2003

• A major discovery of Aboriginal cave paintings in Australia
• Australian survey shows continuing destruction of full time jobs
• Blair’s press conference and the crisis of political legitimacy
• Citigroup, Morgan Chase fined for Enron deals: corruption at the heights of American finance
• La economía política del militarismo estadounidense
  Segunda Parte
• Niger president challenges Blair government over uranium allegations
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 August 2003

• British Airways: Unions collude with management to avert further wildcat strikes
• California budget imposes massive spending cuts
• Fassbinder’s Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
  German director’s work available on DVD
• Iraq war lies and impeachment: Official Washington tiptoes round the “i” word
• Letters from our readers
• Shanmugam Sundaralingam 1956-2003
  Untimely death of a Sri Lankan Trotskyist
• Washington talks provide cover for Israeli repression

7 August 2003

• A story, not the story of the Depression years
  Seabiscuit, written and directed by Gary Ross
• Britain: Asylum-seekers detained under prison-like conditions
• Military families speak out against Iraq war at Pittsburgh rally
• Poland sends troops to Iraq
• Sydney Film Festival—Part 3
  Two perceptive Indian films
• Washington and Canberra seize on Jakarta bombing to further justify “war on terror”
• West African military force enters Liberia

8 August 2003

• Germany: Fewer asylum-seekers and more deportations
• Japanese parliament gives green light for troops to Iraq
• Letters from our readers
• Obituary: John Schlesinger, filmmaker, 1926-2003
• The Australian media and terrorism “expert” Dr Rohan Gunaratna
• US occupation forces attack Iraqi journalists
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa

9 August 2003

• Bush administration lengthens workday for US truck drivers
• Candidate’s statement of John Christopher Burton
• Declaración de candidatura de John Christopher Burton
• Partido Socialista por la Igualdad (PSI) respalda campaña de John Christopher Burton en California
• Pontiac, Michigan: Immigrant mother and five children perish in house fire
• Spain: Aznar rejects public inquiry into military plane crash
• The “Steak Knife” affair and Britain’s dirty war in Northern Ireland
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 August 2003

• Britain: the political issues underlying the Hutton Inquiry
• Indonesia’s dirty war of repression in Aceh
• Massive job cuts in California
• Over 100 candidates certified for California recall ballot
• US interest spike could hit home mortgage market and economy

12 August 2003

• Father of Australian Guantanamo prisoner speaks to WSWS
• Germany: All-party coalition agrees drastic reform of health system
• International governments hold back stem cell research
• New round of police violence hits New York area
• Socialist candidate John Christopher Burton placed on ballot in California recall election
• Spanish troops in Iraq to wear Christian badge
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

13 August 2003

• Al Gore attacks Bush on Iraq War
• Australia: State Labor government hands police unprecedented powers
• European Union prepares its energy security
• France: The anti-Muslim campaign and the phony debate on secularism
• Israel: Apartheid-style law passed by Knesset
• Letters from our readers
• Growing national “pushout” crisis
  US “school reform” throws students into the street

14 August 2003

• An American city: Benton Harbor and the social crisis in the United States
• Bali verdict: a political show trial based on unconstitutional law
• Class, race and the social problems in Benton Harbor: interviews with city residents
• Moves to restart Sri Lankan peace talks
• Spain: Aznar government faces crisis over Iraqi WMD
• Thousands die in European heat wave
• Walkerton: Key truths submerged in journalist’s account of contaminated water tragedy

15 August 2003

• Behind the Solomons intervention: Australia stakes out its sphere of influence in the Pacific
• Britain: Food Agency plays Russian roulette with BSE/Mad Cow Disease
• Iraq war: more revelations of lies over Niger uranium
• Massive power blackout hits millions in Canada and the US
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

16 August 2003

• Britain: Hutton Inquiry hears damning evidence against government
• John Christopher Burton, socialist candidate for California governor, demands full investigation into eastern US blackout
• Lenient judgement for Cologne police
• Moroccan immigrants die trying to reach Spain
• Ontario: Blackout highlights crisis in infrastructure
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific

18 August 2003

• Australian central bank report points to credit bubble
• California recall exposes political myths
• International clamour for revaluation of the Chinese yuan
• US antiwar protesters face $10,000 fines for travel to Iraq
• US force enters Liberia as former president goes into exile
• Verizon negotiations continue as unions reject strike

19 August 2003

• Bush grants permanent legal immunity to US corporations looting Iraqi oil
• Iraq: Civil unrest hits British-controlled Basra
• Iraq: No letup in anti-US riots and guerrilla attacks
• John Christopher Burton, candidato socialista para gobernador de California, exige investigación completa del apagón en el este de Estados Unidos
• Spain: ETA bombing campaign aids government offensive against democratic rights
• Texas Republicans impose heavy fines on boycotting Democratic legislators
• Turkey: Reform limits some military powers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

20 August 2003

• Australian prime minister bullies the Pacific Islands Forum
• Letters from our readers
• Luchas obreras en las Américas
• Why are they dying?
  More questions over US military fatalities in Iraq
• Northern Ireland: Human rights redefined on sectarian lines
• Ontario Tories unveil incendiary election platform
• The UN bombing: a product of the US occupation of Iraq
• The US blackout and “homeland security”
• US: Impact of Northeast blackout continues to emerge

21 August 2003

• A weak satire sans politics
  Buffalo Soldiers, directed by Gregor Jordan
• Australian Council of Trades Unions Congress 2003: another demoralised affair
• Britain: overcrowded prisons in chaos
• Ontario: State of emergency continues one week after blackout
• Revientan mitos acerca de la política de Estados Unidos con elecciones de California para sacar al gobernador de su cargo
• The Iraq quagmire
• US military kills another journalist in Iraq

22 August 2003

• Australian military renews ties with Indonesia’s military thugs
• Chancellor Schröder moves toward a German military mission in Iraq
• France: More than 10,000 dead in record heat wave
• Freeport murders hamper US plans for ties with the Indonesian military
• Letters from our readers
• Showcomotion 2003: Children and young peoples’ film festival screens more than 100 films
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

23 August 2003

• A letter from John Christopher Burton, socialist candidate in California, to “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno
• A profile of Ohio-based FirstEnergy
  Enron was no aberration
• Australia: Media promotes Labor’s Mark Latham
• The death of Dr. Kelly
  Britain: Inquiry exposes lies on Iraq war
• Israel assassinates Hamas leader
• Showcomotion 2003: Children and young peoples’ film festival screens more than 100 films
  Part Two
• The North American blackout: deregulation, profit and the decay of the social infrastructure
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 August 2003

• A travesty of justice:
  Acquittals in cases of communal violence in India
• Al Gore critica la política de Bush en cuanto a la guerra contra Irak
• California’s Governor Davis denounces “right-wing power grab”
• Carta de John Christopher Burton, candidato del socialista en California, a Jay Leno, anfitrión del programa de televisión, The Tonight Show
• General Motors: From auto manufacturer to financial institution
• How “entertaining” is the American entertainment industry?
  Charlie’s Angels; Hulk; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• Lockerbie: Libyan compensation offer clarifies nothing
• Luchas obreras en las Américas

26 August 2003

• Alabama judge engineers Ten Commandments showdown
• Malaysia rounds up Acehnese refugees for deportation
• Spinoza Reconsidered
  Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 Oxford University Press
• UK asylum policy faces criticism as Kurdish family is deported
• US occupation force in Iraq recruiting former Iraqi secret police
• Rumsfeld: “Frontline in terror war”
  Washington signals escalation of US intervention in Colombia
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

27 August 2003

• A mirage, not an oasis
  Swimming Pool, directed by François Ozon
• Australian officials take control in the Solomon Islands
• As “post-war” casualties top invasion’s
  Bush Iraq policy in disarray
• Hutton Inquiry: How Dr Kelly and the Foreign Affairs Committee were used by the government
• Letters from our readers
• Republicans and Democrats unveil right-wing economic programs in California recall
• US menaces Al Jazeera over Iraq reportage

28 August 2003

• A filmmaker sides with the unemployed, but ...
  Mondays in the Sun, directed by Fernando León de Aranoa
• Bush lied to NYC on post-9/11 pollution crisis
• Cuts in education funding will improve academic performance. Honest.
• Letters on the death of Dr. David Kelly and the Hutton Inquiry
• The Hutton Inquiry: British spy chief’s testimony exposes lies on Iraq war
• The UN, de Mello and the US occupation of Iraq

29 August 2003

• Britain’s Hutton Inquiry: Still no account of how Dr. Kelly died
• Bush cites “war on terror” to slash federal workers’ pay raises
• Egypt antiwar protesters face sedition trial
• Australia:
  Jailing of One Nation leaders sets anti-democratic precedent
• Latest workplace shooting in US
  Seven dead in Chicago warehouse killings
• US launches military offensive to crush growing Afghan opposition
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

30 August 2003

• Australian prime minister embroiled in ethanol scandal
• Bush guts pollution controls on energy industry
• Canada takes leading role in Afghan occupation
• Iraq: Attack on UN spurs plans for international military force
• The Hutton Inquiry: Blair’s testimony deepens government crisis
• Socialist Equality Party statement on the California recall election
  Vote “no” on the California recall. Vote John Christopher Burton for governor, for a socialist solution to the crisis
  Jobs for the unemployed! Billions for education, health care and housing! US troops out of Iraq!
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific