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Archive: November 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 November 2003

• 50 Years of the International Committee of the Fourth International
  Public meetings of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain and the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit of Germany
• Brandenburg intelligence service slanders the WSWS: What really took place in Frankfurt-Oder?
• California wildfires raise social questions
• Duranty’s Pulitzer and the hypocrisy of the New York Times
• London: Royal Mail provokes unofficial postal strike
• Quebec Liberal government plans sweeping privatization
• Sri Lankan opposition launches anti-government campaign
• Two films at the Montreal World Film Festival
  Komrades, directed by Steve Kokker, and Babi Yar, directed by Jeff Kanew
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

3 November 2003

• Pacific Islanders to be used as cheap labour
  Australian government prepares to revive “blackbirding”
• Britain’s Conservatives ditch their leader
• A corporate-orchestrated merger
  Canada’s right-wing parties to unite
• Clint Eastwood, the critics and the “heart of darkness”
  Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Brian Helgeland, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane
• Closer Sri Lanka-India economic and defence ties
• Iraqi guerrillas shoot down US helicopter, killing 16 soldiers
  Rumsfeld says more such “bad days” to come

4 November 2003

• 100,000 demonstrate in Berlin against Schröder’s Agenda 2010
• A political answer to social cuts and war
• Khodorkovsky’s arrest and the defenders of billionaires’ “democracy”
• Australia:
  More sensational “terror cell” claims: but where is the evidence?
• Pakistan intensifies military operations in Afghan border areas
• A moving novel exploring the Rwanda tragedy
  Review of Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
• The New York Times’ Friedman libels the Iraqi resistance
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

5 November 2003

• Atlantic City, New Jersey: 4 workers killed, 21 injured in construction collapse
• En Italia: 10 millones se van en huelga general en contra de las reducciones de las pensiones
• Israel intensifica guerra contra palestinos
• Linda Tripp to collect bonanza from Pentagon: $595,000 payoff for Clinton tapes
• New York City officials scapegoat captain in Staten Island ferry disaster
• Spain: Popular Party accused of stealing Madrid election
• Sri Lanka plunges into constitutional crisis
• The probability of dissent
  The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• US television network caves in to right wing over Reagan mini-series
• Union moves to weaken California grocery workers’ struggle
• Zionists try to prevent Hanan Ashrawi receiving the Sydney Peace Prize

6 November 2003

• Australian central bank lifts interest rate
• Britain: Union sells out postal strike
• German parliament expands army mandate in Afghanistan
• In wake of helicopter attack—Washington prepares for mass killing in Iraq
• Iraqi police to be trained in Jordan
• Relatives of US soldiers killed in Iraq denounce Bush policy
• Socialist Equality Party condemns Sri Lankan president’s constitutional coup
• Taiwan’s president outlines pro-independence election strategy

7 November 2003

• Confusion surrounds Sri Lanka’s state of emergency
• Colorado woman faces charges by military
  Interview with US soldier who refused to abandon children and return to Iraq
• Letters from our readers
• New York Times on the Reagan series controversy: in praise of cowardice
• Northern Ireland: Adams offers to disband IRA as new elections are called
• US: Democrats lose two more governorships in off-year elections
• Washington rejected sweeping Iraqi concessions on eve of war
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

8 November 2003

• Britain: Anti-terror legislation opens up broad attack on civil liberties
• Bush vows decades of war for “democracy” in the Middle East
• European poll identifies Israel and US as greatest threats to world peace
• Australia: One Nation convictions quashed
  Hanson verdict short-circuits political frame-up
• Los Angeles transit strikers vote down management’s “final offer”
  Union pushes for binding arbitration
• Michigan: Two construction workers killed when crane hits electrical wire
• Elite US army unit murdered hundreds of civilians
  Ohio newspaper uncovers Vietnam war crimes
• US: Job cuts mount amid signs of upturn
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

10 November 2003

• Letters on “The New York Times’ Friedman libels the Iraqi resistance”
• Michigan: Borders workers strike in Ann Arbor
• Revelations about Australia’s former immigration minister
• The political issues in the Sri Lankan constitutional crisis
• US mutual fund industry hit by fraud scandal

11 November 2003

• Arguments of an authoritarian state: Brandenburg intelligence service slanders the WSWS
• Quentin Tarantino’s playful violence and high body count
  Kill Bill: Volume 1, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino
• Swiss elections: End of political consensus?
• The Milosevic Trial: Last prime minister of Yugoslavia breaks 12-year silence
• US extends its military influence in Eastern Europe
• US unleashes renewed bombing raids on Iraqi towns
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

12 November 2003

• A convenient vagueness
  Elephant, directed and written by Gus Van Sant
• Britain: Blair’s apologia for Iraq war on eve of Bush visit
• Britain: Blair’s apologia for Iraq war on eve of Bush visit
• Canada’s social democrats court “progressive” Tories
• Gore issues warning over “Big Brother” regime in US
• New evidence of official lies on Iraq’s “nuclear program”
• New evidence of official lies on Iraq’s “nuclear program”
• The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
  Part 1
• The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
  Part 1
• US high court to hear Guantanamo appeal
• US: Gunpoint police raid at South Carolina school

13 November 2003

• A study in political cowardice:
  Congress strips profiteering penalties from $87.5 billion Iraqi occupation bill
• Heinrich Hannover defends WSWS against slanderous attack by Brandenburg intelligence service
• Israel’s crisis opens rift within Sharon government
• Letters from families of US soldiers
• Liberia: US puts a bounty on Charles Taylor’s head
• The Saudi bombing—who benefits from this atrocity?
• The political economy of the Sri Lankan “peace process”
• The political economy of the Sri Lankan “peace process”
  Part 1
• The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
  Part 2
• Washington Post shrugs its shoulders over torture victim case

14 November 2003

• Can Hollywood be subversive?
  Dirty Pretty Things, directed by Stephen Frears
• Germany: MP’s anti-Semitic speech exposes ugly face of the CDU
• Netherlands: Trade unions agree to two-year wage freeze
  The failure of the “Polder Model”
• Protesting textile workers killed by Lesotho police
• Protesting textile workers killed by Lesotho police
• The crisis of American democracy: its social and political roots
• The political economy of the Sri Lankan “peace process”
  Part 2
• The political economy of the Sri Lankan “peace process”
  Part 2
• The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
  Part 3
• The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
  Part 3
• War on terror methods for Miami anti-globalization protests
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

15 November 2003

• Britain: New government attack on asylum seekers
• The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International
  Chapter 17: The Split in the Fourth International
• The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International
  Chapter 18: James P. Cannon’s “Open Letter”
• Israel: Histadrut suspends general strike against pension reform
• Mother of US soldier: “Bush killed my son”
• No resolution to Sri Lankan political crisis
• The entanglement with life
  The Human Stain directed by Robert Benton
• US “turning point” in Iraq—deeper into the abyss
• WSWS republishes extracts from The Heritage We Defend by David North, chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

17 November 2003

• Australian government flouts international law to eject Kurdish refugees
• European Social Forum: French LCR seeks to channel popular opposition to official left parties
• Provocateurs and criminals in the employ of the Brandenburg intelligence service
• Sinhalese extremist thugs attack arts festival in Colombo
• US media sanctions campaign of atrocities in Iraq
• Why are retirement pensions under attack?

18 November 2003

• Briefly noted
  Love Actually; Intolerable Cruelty; School of Rock; The Matrix Revolutions
• Bush aboga por décadas de guerra para establecer la "democracia" en el Oriente Medio
• Bush’s visit to London: Is a state provocation being prepared?
• Canadian authorities complicit in Arar’s illegal detention and torture
• Japanese government holds power, but with reduced majority
• Los Angeles County and public employees union reach tentative contract
• Teenager’s death highlights terrible toll in Australian workplaces
• The Maher Arar case: Washington’s practice of torture by proxy
• US: State scapegoats parents, workers in New Jersey child welfare scandal
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

19 November 2003

• An international socialist strategy to oppose militarism and war
• Arizona sheriff introduces female chain gangs
• Following recent local elections
  Conservatives and Greens form coalition government in Upper Austria
• Election fraud induces political crisis in Georgia
• PR blitz to boost Iraq war fizzles
  Jessica Lynch criticizes government-backed lies
• Letters from our readers
• The New York Times “sours” on Bush’s new plan for Iraq
• Thousands of workers in South Korea strike against repressive labour laws
• More telecommunications jobs eliminated
  US: 21,000 Verizon workers accept buyout

20 November 2003

• Arson destroys Indiana Holocaust museum
• Bush’s London speech: A defense of aggression and lawlessness
• Bush’s London visit highlights mass opposition to US and British governments
• India: Tamil Nadu government launches far-reaching attack on the press
• Spain: Investigation into death at sea of 36 African migrants
• More telecommunications jobs eliminated
  US: 21,000 Verizon workers accept buyout
• Washington demands “triggers” for attack on Iran

21 November 2003

• Britain: Massive turnout at demonstration against Bush and Iraq war
• David North addresses Sri Lankan Trotskyists on the 50th anniversary of the ICFI
• Federal appeals court upholds Bush abuse of “material witness” statute
  A green light for arbitrary arrests
• Fissures deepen within Israeli political establishment
• Love and anti-refugee racism in rural Australia
  Marking Time directed by Cherie Nolan, written by John Doyle
• Massachusetts high court rules in favor of same-sex marriages
• Terror blasts in Istanbul: atrocities aid Bush’s “war on terror”
• No agreement in Miami on FTAA
  “Free trade lite” deal papers over US-Latin American conflict

22 November 2003

• Letters from our readers
• New York police assault fundraiser for anarchist group
• Crowned by big business
  Paul Martin to be Canada’s new prime minister
• Reflections on the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination
• Striking Los Angeles transit workers return to work without a contract
• Sylvia Plath is hardly present
• Uzbekistan: Britain’s ambassador embarrasses Bush administration
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• “Meet the people”—Bush and Blair style

24 November 2003

• An exchange on “Friedman of the Times declares war on France”
• Britain: Police chief apologises to family of man shot dead by officers
• Indonesia: Trials underway into Suharto-era atrocities
• International and corporate pressure for a political compromise in Sri Lanka
• Terrorism commission caves in to White House over 9/11 documents

25 November 2003

• France: Elf verdicts reveal state corruption at highest levels
• Report exposes criminal connections of Lithuanian president
• Spain: Relatives of military plane crash victims met with official indifference
• US occupation authority tramples on Iraqi workers’ rights
• Unemployment rate in Australia twice the official figure
• Whither the US dollar?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

26 November 2003

• Bush, House Republicans rig vote to pass Medicare bill
• Medicare bill marks major step in destruction of government health plan for US seniors
  A windfall for drug companies, private health insurers
• Northern Ireland election: An attempt to rescue the Good Friday Agreement
• On “State scapegoats parents, workers in New Jersey child welfare scandal”
• Police violence at Miami FTAA protest
  Mayor says repression was a “model for homeland security”
• Political crackdown in China as leadership prepares mass privatisations
• The New York Times: a proposal for ethnic cleansing in Iraq

27 November 2003

• Afghanistan: escalating opposition to the US occupation
• Britain: Media and government use Istanbul bombings to intimidate antiwar dissent
• European Union to deport immigrants
• Facts, but no framework
• Las raíces sociales y políticas de la crisis de la democracia en Estados Unidos
• Letters from our readers
• New Zealand anti-terror legislation gives police sweeping new powers
• The “war on terror” and American democracy—some ominous warnings

28 November 2003

• 50 Years of the International Committee of the Fourth International
  Public meeting of the Socialist Equality Party in Australia
• Britain: Queen’s speech outlines attack on students, immigrants and civil liberties
• Makiko Tanaka returns to political prominence in Japan
• US moves to silence Iraq’s most popular TV news channel
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

29 November 2003

• Britain: Blair’s relations with Europe deteriorate after Bush’s state visit
• Britain: Survey shows increase in social inequality
• Bush’s PR stunt in Baghdad underscores US crisis
• California Governor Schwarzenegger launches right-wing agenda
• “We’re living in strange times”
  Marking Time scriptwriter speaks with WSWS
• Sri Lankan government treads a fine line over the budget
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific