Archive: September 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 September 2003
- A comment on the jailing of Hanson and Ettridge in Australia
- Bush cites “war on terror” to slash federal workers’ pay raises
- Indian bomb blasts: the end product of communal politics
- The Najaf bombing: US occupation yields catastrophe
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The heartless of a heartless world
The Magdalene Sisters, written and directed by Peter Mullan
2 September 2003
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A human sound of the world
The Hour of Two Lights, an album by Terry Hall and Mushtaq - British troops killed in Iraq totals 50
- France: José Bové’ s perspective is a blind alley
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California recall election
John Christopher Burton, socialist gubernatorial candidate, discusses California crisis - Letters from our readers
- London power blackout and the cost of privatisation
- No agreement reached in Beijing over North Korea’s nuclear program
3 September 2003
- Britain: Leading Tory calls for inquiry into Iraq war
- Larzac anti-globalisation conference throws French left into crisis
- Rabbit Proof Fence translated into French
- Tamil Nadu sackings signal new offensive against Indian workers
- The US media and the “Ten Commandments” controversy in Alabama
- Washington’s Iraqi stooge urges mass repression
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Yale University workers strike
4 September 2003
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A sensitive portrayal of East Germany’s collapse
Good Bye Lenin—a film by Wolfgang Becker - Britain: Campbell’s resignation throws spotlight on Labour’s loss of credibility
- Bush seeks UN bailout of Iraqi occupation
- German government sends more troops to Afghanistan
- Pittsburgh, Pa.: Workers protest layoffs and austerity budget
- Rising levels of untreated mental illness in Australia
- Scant media coverage as Malaysia keeps Anwar in jail
5 September 2003
- AFL-CIO’s Sweeney voices solidarity with Bush’s wars
- British army admits brutalising Iraqi civilians
- Letter from a FirstEnergy worker on the US blackout
- New book published in controversy over Australian Aboriginal history
- The International Socialist Organisation and the jailing of Pauline Hanson
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
6 September 2003
- 11 million remain jobless in US
- Anti-abortion murderer executed in Florida
- First debate in California recall election: Snapshot of a political system in crisis
- Hutton Inquiry: Blair government’s lies on Iraqi WMD unravel
- New evidence points to Australia’s predatory motives in the Solomons
- Spain’s worst refinery fire kills six workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 September 2003
- Britain: massive increase in political police operations
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Meacher: terrorism a pretext for conquest
British official charges US “stood down” on 9/11 -
Desperate over growing debacle:
Bush justifies Iraq occupation with lies on “terror” - California campaign: socialist candidate John Christopher Burton hits Iraq war in television, radio interviews
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Sydney Film Festival—Part 4
Courageous and thoughtful cinema
Titicut Follies directed by Frederick Wiseman andThe Spirit of the Beehive directed by Victor Erice - Democratic presidential candidates back US occupation of Iraq
- US: Verizon contract paves way for large-scale downsizing
9 September 2003
- $140 million cash payout for New York Stock Exchange CEO
- A highly political verdict: Indonesian court convicts Islamic cleric
- Al Jazeera correspondent arrested in Spain
- Australian government denounces court for ordering release of refugee children
- Bush, 9/11 and Iraq—a policy founded on deception
- France: Heat wave catastrophe exposes health care crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Thousands of US troops evacuated from Iraq for unexplained medical reasons
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 September 2003
- Australia: Renewed drive to sell Telstra sharpens divisions in government ranks
- Blair government endorses Murdoch’s anti-immigrant campaign
- Blair government sends more troops to Iraq
- Italy’s new media law tailor-made for Berlusconi
- Ontario Tories launch reelection bid with vitriolic attacks
- Socialist candidate John Christopher Burton replies to Bush speech on Iraq: “Stop the slaughter in Iraq and the looting of America! US troops out now!”
- US fails to pressure China into currency revaluation
11 September 2003
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A victim of state terror in the US
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America: A Drama in 30 Scenes by Stephen Sewell - Abbas’s resignation heralds escalating Israel-Palestine conflict
- Australia: Teachers union calls strike in bid to regain credibility
- Candidato socialista John Christopher Burton responde al discurso de Bush sobre Irak: “¡Paro a la masacre en Irak y al saqueo de los Estados Unidos! ¡Por el retiro inmediato de las tropas estadounidenses de Irak!”
- Iraq: Eyewitness says US helicopter attack killed ITN reporter Terry Lloyd
- September 11: After two years, cover-up begins to unravel
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Socialist Equality Party to hold election meeting on California crisis
John Christopher Burton, socialist candidate for governor, to speak in Los Angeles - US army extends Iraq tours of Guard and Reserve troops
12 September 2003
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A glib satire of contemporary life in the US
Fury by Salman Rushdie -
As Iraq war lies disintegrate
Australian government tries to discredit former intelligence analyst - Britain: Iranian asylum seeker driven to suicide
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Paris, Berlin react to Bush’s speech
Europe lays down conditions on Iraq - New York City: Relatives of 9/11 victims march in opposition to US war policies
- Recall debate in LA: Green candidate Camejo praises Democrat Bustamante
- September 11—30 years since the US-backed coup in Chile
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
13 September 2003
- Bombing in Irbil points to growing instability in northern Iraq
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Declaración del Partido Socialista Por la Igualdad sobre las elecciones de California para la destitución
En California, votar "¡No!" en contra de la destitución del gobernador. Votar por John Christopher Burton para una solución socialista a la crisis
Por ¡Empleos para los desempleados! ¡Miles de millones para la educación, la sanidad pública y la vivienda! ¡EE.UU. fuera de Irak! - Letters from our readers
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Reunión del Partido Socialista por la Igualdad sobre las elecciones en California!
John Christopher Burton candidato socialista, se dirigirá al público en Los Ángeles - Rwandan crisis deepens as Kagame begins seven-year term
- Sweden: Murder of Foreign Minister Lindh expresses volatile social relations
- US attorney general’s “Patriot” tour: the specter of a police state
- US: More than 1 million more in poverty in 2002
- Vote no in the Swedish euro referendum
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 September 2003
- Diego Garcia islanders fight to go home
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“Reality doesn’t interest me...”
Leni Riefenstahl—propagandist for the Third Reich - Socialist candidate John Christopher Burton denounces bipartisan attack on workers’ compensation in California
- South African government does about-turn on AIDS treatment
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Descent into chaos:
US soldiers slaughter 10 Iraqi police in clash outside Fallujah - West Australian government exploits boy’s death to attack Aboriginal community
16 September 2003
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Nick Beams reviews Keith Windschuttle’s The Fabrication of Aboriginal History
An assault on historical truth
Part 1 - Britain: Civil rights group challenges illegal use of anti-terror laws
- Federal appeals court postpones California recall election until March
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Socialist candidate pledges to continue campaign
John Christopher Burton responds to court ruling delaying California recall vote - Tom Thomson: painter and “Canadian legend”
- US-sponsored IAEA resolution sets stage for confrontation with Iran
- Why is Israel threatening to murder Arafat?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 September 2003
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Nick Beams reviews Keith Windschuttle’s The Fabrication of Aboriginal History
An assault on historical truth
Part 2 - An interview with Jafar Panahi, director of Crimson Gold
- Britain: Another whitewash over Iraq
- Candidato socialista John Christopher Burton reprocha el ataque de los Republicanos y Demócratas contra el Programa para la Compensación de Trabajadores de California
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Toronto International Film Festival 2003—Part 1
Encouraging signs - France: Day of action greets new school year
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Candidato socialista promete seguir con su campaña política
John Christopher Burton responde al dictamen del Tribunal Federal de Apelaciones que aplaza las elecciones para la destitución en California - Letters on the California recall election
- The lessons of Chile—30 years on
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Interview with Felicity Arbuthnot
US actions in Iraq building a “well of hatred” - WTO meeting collapses as trading system begins to crack
- Why the SEP is opposing the California recall
18 September 2003
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Nick Beams reviews Keith Windschuttle’s The Fabrication of Aboriginal History
An assault on historical truth
Part 3 - Azerbaijan succession is focus of oil conflict
- Britain: The TUC prepares a rescue mission for Blair
- California budget cuts imperil Los Angeles County health care
- French government tries to quell scandal over heat wave deaths
- US vetoes UN resolution opposing Arafat’s murder
19 September 2003
- Families of Guantanamo Bay prisoners launch US Supreme Court appeal
- Italy: Berlusconi intensifies his attacks on the judiciary
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Toronto International Film Festival 2003—Part 2
Reproductions of life - Sri Lankan High Court whitewashes massacre of Tamil detainees
- Swedish “no” vote on euro deepens crisis in Europe
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The Columbia Space Shuttle disaster: science and the profit system
Part 1: The physical cause of the accident and the decay of shuttle infrastructure - The courts, the California recall and the crisis of the US political system
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
20 September 2003
- Friedman of the Times declares war on France
- John Christopher Burton: “Transform the recall into a referendum on Bush’s policies of war and social reaction”
- Socialist candidate in California recall addresses students on Iraq war
- Spain: Aznar names successor and reshuffles government
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The Columbia Space Shuttle disaster: science and the profit system
Part 2: Schedule pressures undermined safety considerations -
UAW contract with Big Three
US auto union sanctions mass layoffs and plant closings - Why Junichiro Koizumi is being retained as Japanese leader
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 September 2003
- An interview with Tom Zubrycki, director of Molly & Mobarak
- Australian manufacturing workers hit by wave of lockouts
- Court of appeals to reconsider postponing California recall election
- Escalating attacks on US troops in Iraq
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Toronto International Film Festival 2003—Part 3
Intimate moments, genuine protest - Studies document housing disaster for millions in US
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The Columbia Space Shuttle disaster: science and the profit system
Part 3—Political and economic causes underlying the accident
23 September 2003
- Britain: Millions of poor without basic utilities
- Families of Guantanamo Bay detainees address public forum in Sydney
- Heavy-handed tactics against music fans: the recording industry’s new assault
- Letters on “Friedman of the Times declares war on France”
- Reducciones en el presupuesto de California ponen en peligro la atención médica a los residentes del condado de Los Angeles
- Spain: Aznar’s Popular Party faces growing criticism over Iraq
- Why has the US government imprisoned Captain Yee?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- World growth increasing but imbalances getting worse
24 September 2003
- Bavaria state election: A growing gulf between establishment politics and the people
- Britain: Lessons of the Hutton Inquiry
- Bush at the UN—a war criminal takes the podium
- Canberra blackmails Papua New Guinea into accepting Australian overseers
- Candidato socialista en las elecciones para la destitución en California se dirige a estudiantes acerca de la guerra contra Irak
- Federal appeals court overturns postponement of California recall election
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Toronto International Film Festival 2003—Part 4
How does the artist portray historical tragedy? - Interview with Babak Payami, director of Silence Between Two Thoughts
- Letters to John Christopher Burton, candidate for California governor
- Se intensifican los ataques contra las tropas estadounidenses en Irak
25 September 2003
- Amnesty International report denounces US treatment of war prisoners
- Britain: Notorious Yarl’s Wood asylum detention centre reopens
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Indian government courts alliance with Israel and US
Sharon given red carpet welcome in New Delhi - The ADL and Berlusconi: honoring a “flawed” friend of Zionism
- US soldier asks: “How many more must die” in Iraq?
- US troops slaughter three more Iraqis
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Workers’ pensions in jeopardy
US: $400 billion deficit in pension plan funding - US: Millions still without power a week after Hurricane Isabel
26 September 2003
- Argentine judge frees military officers facing extradition
- CIA recruiting Saddam’s secret police
- Latest Australian labour force figures: no cause for celebration
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Toronto International Film Festival 2003—Part 5
Seven films, genuinely concerned with humanity or not - The US military detains another of its Guantanamo Bay soldiers
- US Congress passes $368 billion for Pentagon war machine
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
27 September 2003
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An international socialist strategy is needed to oppose war
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party (Britain) - California debate travesty shows need for socialist alternative
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A handshake and a cowardly speech
German Chancellor Schröder rushes to the aid of Bush -
Military sent into hospitals
Striking Sri Lankan health workers defy intimidation - US and UN give tacit backing to Guinea Bissau coup
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
29 September 2003
- A militarist as “peace” candidate: Retired general Wesley Clark enters Democratic presidential race
- Britain: National Health Service faces mounting cash crisis
- Democratic candidates back Bush’s Iraq war spending bill
- Hong Kong government withdraws proposed security law
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A correction on
London protesters condemn occupation of Iraq and defend Palestinians - Thousands join renewed antiwar protests around the world
30 September 2003
- Dollar fall adds to global turbulence
- Elia Kazan: director, HUAC informer dead at 94
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NYSE’s $188 million man forced out
Grasso and Wall Street’s “governance” crisis - LTTE joins government strikebreaking against Sri Lankan health workers
- Netherlands: New round of job and social service cuts prepared
- Peter Camejo and the Greens bid for “respectability” in California recall campaign
- The New York Times whitewashes Bush’s lies on Iraq war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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