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Archive: February 2004

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.

2 February 2004

• Britain: Liberal Democrats sack MP for “understanding” the roots of Palestinian terrorism
• No new insights
  Japanese Story, directed by Sue Brooks, script by Alison Tilson
• Poisoning for profit: Book exposes US corporate cover-up of toxic pollution
  Part 1
• Standoff continues over North Korea’s nuclear programs
• US: Homeless die in frigid weather

3 February 2004

• Australian lawyer condemns lack of legal rights in the Solomon Islands
• France: Former prime minister Juppé convicted on corruption charges
• Hutton Inquiry: A black day for democracy in Britain
• JVP-SLFP alliance heightens political tensions in Sri Lanka
• Poisoning for profit: Book exposes US corporate cover-up of toxic pollution
  Part 2
• Resistance is not always the whole picture: Hong Sung Dam’s Dawn woodcuts and the Gwangju uprising
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• “Bush’s WMD probe is a fraud,” says SEP presidential candidate

4 February 2004

• Canada’s Liberal government calls public inquiry into treatment of Maher Arar
• Germany: Government seals the fate of the welfare state
• Letters from our readers
• A blatant attack on democratic rights:
  Protestors jailed over antiwar sign on Sydney Opera House
• Spanish magazine/web site apologizes for misuse of WSWS articles
• Sweden: Anna Lindh murder trial ends
• US budget deficit to hit half a trillion dollars
• Washington conceals US casualties in Iraq

5 February 2004

• Mark Latham passes “acid test”
  Behind the media boosting of Australian Labor’s new leader
• Butler inquiry into Iraq intelligence: Blair prepares another whitewash
• Hypocrisy and right-wing politics fuel furor over Super Bowl episode
• Irbil suicide bombings aggravate tensions in northern Iraq
• Israeli ambassador vandalizes artwork at Swedish museum
• Parents of Rachel Corrie speak at University of Michigan
  Pro-Palestinian activist killed by Israeli bulldozer
• Verdict due in German terror trial
  Justice at the behest of the secret services

6 February 2004

• An old man’s anger: Absolute Friends, by John le Carré
• 19-year-old mourned in Brooklyn
  Another fatal police shooting in New York
• Asian bird flu threatens to trigger worldwide epidemic
• Haiti: Aristide regime shaken by mass protests
• Instability threatens Guinea after presidential election
• New Zealand government challenges court ruling over detained asylum seeker
• Northern Ireland loyalists turn to race violence
• US Democratic primary votes reveal growing popular hostility to Bush

7 February 2004

• An appreciation of Warren Zevon
  Grammys give belated recognition to an enigmatic pop musician
• Britain: Blair caught out once again on WMD 45-minute claim
• Bush plan for community colleges: training ground for low-wage jobs
• Bush’s Iraq commission and the “intelligence failure” fraud
  Part One
• German Socialist Equality Party to stand in European elections
• German foreign policy targets Africa
• Japanese parliament ratifies troop deployment for Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa

9 February 2004

• Bush’s Iraq commission and the “intelligence failure” fraud
  Part Two
• Correspondence on the failure of nationalism in Yugoslavia
• G7 papers over growing problems
• Sri Lankan president dismisses government in constitutional coup
• US blocks UN proposal to combat obesity

10 February 2004

• A series of neo-reformist illusions
  The Real World Economic Outlook 2003 The Legacy of Globalization: Debt and Deflation, Anne Pettifor (editor), Palgrave Macmillan
• A soldier’s view of the Iraq war
• Britain: home secretary proposes “pre-emptive” justice
• California death row inmate granted stay of execution
• New York: Oyster Bar workers in third month of strike
• SEP presidential candidate on Bush’s “Meet the Press” interview: “A spectacle of ignorance, cynicism and indifference”
• Sri Lanka’s president remains silent after sacking the government
• Thousands march in Barcelona for legalisation of immigrant workers
• UN summoned to salvage US plans for Iraq
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

11 February 2004

• As Senate offices reopen, questions raised over White House actions in ricin attack
• Australia: Police shooting highlights lack of mental health care
• Britain: 19 Chinese workers drown working on slave labour gang
• Bush’s Iraq commission and the “intelligence failure” fraud
  Part Three
• Guerrilla war intensifies in Iraq despite Hussein’s capture
• Italy: Investigators ignore role of banks and political leaders in Parmalat scandal
• Letters on “Hypocrisy and right-wing politics fuel furor over Super Bowl episode”
• US: Behind the AFL-CIO’s call for a “a new labor code for Iraq”

12 February 2004

• US-Australia trade deal:
  Another step in the “Balkanisation" of the world market
• Dutch leaders involved in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia testify at The Hague
• Federal authorities drop subpoenas to Iowa antiwar activists
• Germany: Schröder resigns as party chairman
• Right wing-led rebellion convulses Haiti
• Sri Lanka’s constitutional coup thrusts JVP to political prominence
• US: Record number of long-term unemployed losing benefits

13 February 2004

• Anatomy of a fraudulent “grassroots” campaign: Citizens for a Sound Economy in Oregon
• Australian Labor conference bows to Washington: No debate on Iraq
• Britain aided US in spying on UN delegates
• East Timor calls on Australia to stop exploiting disputed oil field
• France: Despite conviction, former prime minister Juppé to keep posts
• Oregon faces deep cuts in schools, health and safety
• SEP candidate Bill Van Auken: “Iraq war’s wounded—an American tragedy and national disgrace”

14 February 2004

• Bush budget freezes social spending to pay for military buildup
• Canada’s Liberal government rocked by financial scandal
• Letters from our readers
• Protest planned over US killing of journalists in Iraq
• Sri Lankan opposition cynically exploits struggles of workers and farmers
• US pressures Norway to extradite leading exiled Kurd
• US: Over 100,000 job cuts announced in January
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• ¡Por una alternativa socialista en las elecciones de 2004!
  ¡Bill Van Auken para presidente!

16 February 2004

• Australian prime minister capitulates to new Labor leader on superannuation policy
• Greenspan testimony points to deepening US fiscal crisis
• South Africa’s health minister says of AIDS sufferers: Let them eat garlic
• Spain: Catalan nationalist sacked after meeting Basque separatists
• Sudan: Khartoum escalates civil war offensive

17 February 2004

• Australia: Riots in Sydney as police blamed for death of 17-year-old Aboriginal boy
• Germany: Klaus Uwe Benneter—the new SPD general secretary
• Iraq: A convenient letter from an Al Qaeda terrorist
• New York City Council opposes USA Patriot Act
• One third of the world’s urban population lives in a slum
• The 2004 US election: the case for a socialist alternative
  A public conference sponsored by the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party
• The death of “TJ” Hickey—the social and economic circumstances
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

18 February 2004

• An exchange on Haiti: Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the dead end of “left” nationalist politics
• Analysts warn China on verge of economic crisis
• Australia: Government-media witchhunt of train drivers falls flat
• Britain: The Respect-Unity coalition and the politics of opportunism
  Part One
• Bush on “Meet the Press”: a letter on the US media
• Creating the past in their own self-involved image
• France: National Assembly bans Muslim headscarves in schools

19 February 2004

• Australian Labor returned in dreary Queensland election
• Britain: The Respect-Unity coalition and the politics of opportunism
  Part Two
• Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci: the fate of a member of the artistic “generation of 1968”
  The Dreamers, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
• Microsoft threat to discontinue Windows 98 and NT operating systems
• Netherlands: Arming the state in response to growing poverty and unemployment
• Socialist Equality Party condemns Sri Lankan president’s dictatorial actions
• Spain: Tens of thousands march against Iraq occupation
• The rise and fall of Howard Dean
  An object lesson in Democratic Party politics
• US: Republicans lose House seat in Kentucky special election

20 February 2004

• Australia: Government and media attack Aboriginal community after Redfern riot
• Australian government introduces pro-business, regional-based immigration visas
• 54th Berlin Film Festival—Part 1
  Disentangling “dark and difficult” cinema
• Kumaratunga tries to justify her anti-democratic actions
• Letters from our readers
• Northern Ireland: Discussions aimed at rescuing Good Friday Agreement
• Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s hunting trip with Cheney: the political and constitutional issues
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

21 February 2004

• Berlin summit: Blair, Schröder, Chirac press for accelerated “reforms”
• Razones para la alternativa socialista en las elecciones del 2004
  Conferencia pública auspiciada por el World Socialist Web Site y el Partido Socialista por la Igualdad
• Dutch parliament votes to deport asylum seekers
• French government attacks labour laws, working conditions
• Hospitals oppose US government effort to obtain abortion patients’ records
• The vetting of John Kerry
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 February 2004

• Attack on Fallujah police highlights lack of US control in Iraq
• Australia: Police victimisation stepped up following Redfern riot
• Britain: Leaked report reveals plans to slash 80,000 civil service jobs
• Haiti: Washington gives greenlight to right-wing coup
• Pentagon institutionalises indefinite detention without trial at Guantanamo Bay
• Ralph Nader to run as independent in US presidential race

24 February 2004

• Russia:
  Behind the disappearance of presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin
• Bush installs right-wing judge without Senate confirmation
• California Democrats back austerity ballot measures
• Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling indicted
• Israel boycotts International Court on West Bank barrier: Why the wall is being built
• Millions of Indian government employees to go on strike today
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

25 February 2004

• Australia: Hundreds mourn the death of TJ Hickey
• Bush education secretary calls teachers union a “terrorist organization”
• Estados Unidos se opone a plan de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para combatir la obesidad
• Grand jury exonerates New York cop who shot 19-year-old youth
• Iran: Elections show political bankruptcy of the “reformers”
• The JVP reassures Sri Lankan business leaders
• Washington utilizes rightist terror to effect “regime change” in Haiti
• Women workers face super-exploitation by global corporations

26 February 2004

• Australian Labor leader proposes retrospective laws to prosecute Guantanamo Bay detainees
• Britain: Prison overcrowding reaches breaking point
• Does Haiti’s “non-violent” opposition want a bloodbath in Port-au-Prince?
• New Zealand: tensions erupt over “preferential” policies for Maori
• Spanish government rejects Iraqi WMD inquiry
• 54th Berlin Film Festival—Part 2
  The legacy of the 1960s: films by Fernando Solanas and Theo Angelopoulos
• Top US scientists blast Bush administration
• Why are the Democrats so incensed at Ralph Nader?

27 February 2004

• Australian sailors misled about anthrax vaccinations for Iraq war
• British government abandons trial of whistleblower who said Iraq war was illegal
• Letters from our readers
• Spain: Dozens of casualties after police attack striking shipbuilding workers
• Two fires kill scores of people in China
• US central bank chief calls for cuts in Social Security
• US: Congress approves school voucher plan for nation’s capital
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa

28 February 2004

• Britain: Short’s allegations of spying against UN confirm criminal character of Iraq war
• Britain’s Labour Party expels rail union
• Sri Lankan prime minister passively accepts his dismissal
• US and France target Haiti’s elected president for removal
• Why Israel boycotted the International Court hearing on West Bank wall
• Workers Struggles: Australia, Asia and the Pacific