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World Socialist Web Site Archive: November 2000

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.

November 2000

30 November 2000
How Europe views the American electoral crisis
How the conservative CDU/CSU alliance in Germany stirs up hatred against foreigners
Recording giants could join Bertelsmann's embrace of Napster
Bangladesh factory fire kills 48 workers - Locked gates prevented workers escaping death
ASEAN makes tentative moves toward an East Asian economic bloc
Letters on the US election crisis
Two letters on Thomas Jefferson

29 November 2000
The US election - Gore cites breach of democratic rights in defending his appeal of Florida vote
The US election - Bush campaign organized Republican riot to halt Miami-Dade recount
Canada's Liberals retain power by exploiting popular opposition to right: Major class conflicts loom
US trade deficit a sign of growing problems
Ceasefire declared between Serbia and Albanian separatists
Rightwing violence in Sweden
Sri Lanka: Colombo residents demand halt to toxic pollution
Shouting but not saying much--Requiem for a Dream

28 November 2000
As the US election is thrown into the courts, the issue is joined: the right to vote or government by usurpation
British minister visits Colombo - A new burst of diplomatic activity to push peace talks in Sri Lanka
DaimlerChrysler to cut thousands of jobs in North America
Britain's top Prisons Inspector and Children's Society call for an end to jailing children
Floods deluge Australia's most populous state
NSW flooding highlights growing river management crisis
General strike in Argentina
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Correspondence about Pan Am 103/Lockerbie

27 November 2000
The US election - Bush campaign spokesman Governor Marc Racicot tied to extreme-right forces
The US election - Journalist Christopher Hitchens: from "left" charlatan to mouthpiece for the Republican right
Canadian Alliance's Stockwell Day and the charge of anti-Semitism - What is the right covering up?
Political warfare erupts in Britain over plans for European Army
Queensland vote-rigging inquiry reveals: The rotting structures of the Australian Labor Party
An exchange over the Singapore Airlines crash in Taiwan

25 November 2000
The US election
Democrats, liberals retreat in the face of Republican provocations

The US election
Anatomy of a right-wing riot--the Republican mob attack in Miami-Dade

The debate over a "defining German culture" The Christian Democrats march to the right
Two boys convicted of Jamie Bulger killing apply for anonymity ruling
Putin's visit to India highlights significant strategic shifts
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

24 November 2000
The Republican right prepares for violence
The US election crisis: why is Ralph Nader silent?
Further moves to undermine Australian public broadcaster
Austrian spying affair reveals close connections between Haider's Freedom Party and police
Canadian Elections: The Bloc Québécois-a trap for workers
Alcohol deaths reflect desperate conditions in Kenya
French court rules that Yahoo must block access to auction site
An exchange on globalisation

23 November 2000
The US Elections: Democrats bow to bullying from the Republican right
Right to vote upheld in Florida Supreme Court decision on recounts
Israel steps up military and economic warfare against Palestinians
South Africa: Eleven die in factory fire
New York Mayor Giuliani announces crackdown on "quality of life" crimes
Violent protests in Indian capital over factory closures
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

22 November 2000
Peruvian dictator resigns: the fall of Fujimori
Norway: Labour Party moves to strengthen global drive of country's energy sector
Challenge to Japan's prime minister reveals deep rifts in ruling circles over economic policy
Three Los Angeles police found guilty of framing suspects
New Northern Ireland Police Bill set to become law in weeks
The debate over a "defining culture" in Germany
German Christian Democrats attack the Central Jewish Council

Australia and New Zealand bully island states into accepting regional intervention

21 November 2000
Hand recounts in the US elections: fact and fiction
Argentine debt crisis threatens global turbulence
One year after the Musharraf coup
A beleaguered Pakistan military regime faces mounting criticism

Bosnian elections a setback for the West
Canadian elections: the real issues in the health care debate
Study shows opposition to US workers' right to organize has "no parallel in the western industrial world"
Thousands of New York City teachers rally to demand contract

Workers Struggles: The Americas
More letters on the US elections

20 November 2000
Florida presidential recount: Bush campaign makes appeal to military and extreme right
Israel's liberal press demands military suppression of the Palestinians.
Fijian High Court ruling declares military government illegal
Interview with Susanthika Jayasinghe
"There are thousands of talented athletes in Sri Lanka but they have no opportunity to develop"

A letter on the situation in Palm Beach, Florida

18 November 2000
Court slows Bush grab for power: America at the knife-edge
On-the-spot report from Florida
Ft. Lauderdale residents voice their opinions about the US election crisis

The Canadian Alliance election platform: a manifesto for unbridled reaction
Sri Lankan president puts negotiations with the LTTE back on the agenda
Daewoo collapse to have global consequences
Sinn Fein seeks judicial review against Ulster Unionist leader's exclusion order
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Letters on the US elections

17 November 2000
Elements of a conspiracy
How Bush's man at Fox News worked to shape the outcome of the US election

George W. Bush's three principles: lies, fraud and theft
On-the-spot report from Florida
US election crisis reveals deep feelings about fairness and democratic rights

Australian government clashes with leading charity over welfare reform
France announces measures to prevent spread of BSE/Mad Cow Disease
Germany: Party of Democratic Socialism proclaims its love for the Fatherland
On South Africa and Libya

16 November 2000
Canadian elections: why the Alliance campaign is in disarray
Austria's Kaprun railway disaster reveals lack of safety measures
Philippines Congress rushes through impeachment of President Estrada
Britain's fuel tax protests come to a sorry end
Election turbulence adds to US economic worries
President Mubarak's party sustains significant losses in Egyptian elections
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

15 November 2000
The Bush campaign and the rise of the political underworld
Behind the Clinton impeachment trial - Profile of a right-wing conspirator: the case of Theodore Olson
US election may be on hold, but Texas execution machine grinds on
Bill to stabilise parliament delayed - Papua New Guinea prime minister staves off leadership challenge
Nyerere's legacy of poverty and repression in Zanzibar
Britain: Surprise resignation of Chief Inspector of Schools embarrasses government

14 November 2000
The US election: the conspiracy begins to unravel
Opposition unites with former Milosevic supporters in Serbia's new government
South Africa's ANC government faces growing opposition
Amid power struggle in Jakarta
Indonesian security forces fail to block independence rally in Aceh

Conference at New York University: a demoralized attack on Trotskyism
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Letters on the US elections
Letter from a Taiwanese film director

13 November 2000
In US presidential election: Bush seeks to block counting of Florida votes
The New York Times, the Washington Post and the crisis of the 2000 election
Ontario Tories launch massive attack on workers' rights
Media lies and distortions exposed
WSWS
investigates the Bindunewewa massacre in Sri Lanka

Spanish government clamps down on Basque separatist ETA
Another glimpse at the state of film in Eastern Europe
Tenth film festival in Cottbus, Germany

11 November 2000
The Wall Street Journal and the US electoral crisis
Texas executes Mexican national--Governor Bush refuses to grant reprieve
Canada's social democrats seek to stave off parliamentary annihilation
Sixty-two years after the Nazi pogrom of 1938
Two hundred thousand demonstrate in Berlin against neo-Nazi terror

German government moves to ban neo-Nazi party
What are the consequences of banning the NPD?

Asian youth murdered in British young offenders institution
Japan's economic woes continue
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Authenticity rarely matched by contemporary filmmakers
The Road Home by Zhang Yimou

10 November 2000
From impeachment to a tainted election:
the conspiracy against democratic rights continues

Official march against right-wing extremism
German government demonstrates "for humanity and tolerance"

Britain's pro-business mini-budget means no real concessions on either fuel taxes or pensions
Money laundering exposes Nigeria's oppressors
China imposes censorship of news reports and Internet chat rooms
Political Art--what it mostly isn't, and what it could be
Protest & Survive at the Whitechapel Gallery, London until November 12

9 November 2000
The 2000 US election results: the constitutional crisis deepens
Something rotten in the state of Florida
The impeachment of President Clinton: Is America drifting towards civil war?
Corruption scandal points to South Korea's continuing economic instability
Norwegian envoy meets LTTE leader
Tentative moves in Sri Lanka to put peace talks back on the agenda

France gripped by fear of deaths from Mad Cow Disease
Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

8 November 2000
British government employs black propaganda and threats against fuel tax protestors
Voting rights denied to 3.9 million Americans due to criminal convictions
Indonesia: the drawn-out saga of Tommy Suharto's jailing
New Lithuanian government deepens orientation to European Union
You can lead a horse to water ...
The Yards, directed by James Gray, written by Gray and Matt Reeves
Readers write in about the Jamie Bulger case
Letters on the US elections, Korea and the Middle East crisis

7 November 2000
The political issues facing American workers on election day 2000
Authorities scapegoat pilots for Singapore Airlines crash in Taiwan
European Central Bank intervention does little to boost euro
Why has Israel's pacifist movement failed?
Britain steps up presence in Sierra Leone as UN Force crumbles
Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 November 2000
The US elections
Al Gore's campaign: the death rattle of American liberalism
Michigan, California school voucher initiatives threaten public education
On eve of US elections:
auto plants idled and layoffs swell
Gus Hall (1910-2000):
Stalinist operative and decades-long
leader of Communist Party USA
Sri Lankan government under pressure to form a national unity coalition
Amid impeachment proceedings
Philippines president Estrada struggling to hang onto office
Britain's flood disaster exacerbated by spending cuts

4 November 2000
The US elections
George W. Bush's drunk driving arrest: revelation from the past spotlights political cynicism of the present

Second cease-fire attempt points to growing divisions within Israeli ruling circles
Online music-swap firm Napster forms strategic alliance with media giant Bertlesmann
The Walkerton tragedy and Ontario's water crisis-some political lessons
Mutiny highlights deep splits in Fiji's military regime
After the murder of Tamil detainees
Sri Lankan police and army crack down on Tamil plantation workers
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

3 November 2000
The Nobel Peace Prize and Korea's Kim Dae-jung
British government admits to 250,000 possible variant CJD deaths
Following the massacre of Tamil detainees SEP member speaks about his time in Sri Lankan "rehabilitation" camp
Six Kurdish immigrants suffocate in back of Italian truck
Australian bank announces record profits alongside new branch closures and hefty fee increasesA note on sources for the Socialist Equality Party statement "The Working Class and the 2000 US Elections"
WSWS readers write in on US elections

2 November 2000
After communal elections in Kosovo: new conflicts on the horizon
Northern Ireland's First Minister Trimble adapts to hardline anti-Agreement Unionists
Green Party presidential candidate at the University of Michigan
For what social forces does Ralph Nader speak?

Australians living on the edge
New report slams government welfare policy

Two letters and two replies on "The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi"--Part 2
Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

1 November 2000
The New York Times and the 2000 elections: a contorted attempt to legitimize the two-party monopoly
Gore in Warren, Michigan: a snapshot of the Democratic campaign
Layoffs mount as US economic slowdown continues
Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party member faces workplace victimisation
Spanish Prime Minister Aznar spearheads drive to deregulate Europe's economies
A precipitous increase in Australia's prison population
Two letters and two replies on "The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi"
Music review: McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster --piano trio in the spirit of Coltrane

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