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English: 1999

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.

26 July 1999

• Ford offers settlement to block lawsuits over Michigan plant explosion
• Indonesian generals bid for a major role in next government

27 July 1999

• A contribution to the critique of Jürgen Habermas
• At a loss
  Orphans, written and directed by Peter Mullan
• Australian Premiers call for inquiry into how to cut health spending
• Rogue Trader: A film deeply in awe of the market
  Written and directed by James Dearden
• Australia:
  Shortages of casual teachers highlight education inequality
• Sri Lankan journalists march against crackdown on media
• The massacre of Serbs in Gracko: Who is responsible?
• Unions strangle Quebec nurses' strike
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

28 July 1999

• A letter on the US debt bubble
• An exchange about the financial bubble in the US economy
• Iran: the political situation in the aftermath of the mass protests
• King Hassan of Morocco: world leaders mourn a ruthless despot
• On the WSWS article about the deaths of three US construction workers
• Praise —"Gritty realism" and the problem of perspective
• The Brazilianisation of Britain's cities
  The impact of globalisation on urban development
  Part One
• US Reform Party convention: political confusion and right-wing nostrums

29 July 1999

• "Operation Horseshoe" —propaganda and reality
  How NATO propaganda misled the public
• A military massacre in Aceh
• Dollar fears send tremor through markets
• Niger takes on the trappings of civilian rule
• Poor and elderly die in US heat wave
• Readers write in on the issue of workers' democracy
• Sharp tensions erupt across the Taiwan straits
• The Brazilianisation of Britain's cities
  The impact of globalisation on urban development
  Part Two
• Tories oust Liberals in Nova Scotia election
  Another debacle for Canada's social democrats

30 July 1999

• As US layoffs mount, Federal Reserve threatens moves to undermine workers' wage demands
• Poverty and unemployment in Italy
  Conditions for workers deteriorate under the centre-left D'Alema government
• Scenes from a marriage
  David Walsh reviews Eyes Wide Shut
  Directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Frederic Raphael and Kubrick, based on the novel Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
• The Stephen Lawrence case
  London detective cleared on all but two disciplinary charges in cover-up of racist murder
• The Serbian opposition: a portrait of Zoran Djindjic
• US Congress nears approval of $800 billion tax cut for the rich
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

31 July 1999

• Book Review
  A humane life
  Jackson's Track Memoir of a Dreamtime Placeby Daryl Tonkin & Carolyn Landon, Viking Books ISBN 0-670-88332-8
• Widening media scandal in Australia
  Big business pays millions to radio talkshow host
• Casino gambling in Detroit—low-wage jobs and illusions of striking it rich
• Indonesian opposition leader Megawati breaks two months' silence
• Some interesting films on US television, July 31-August 6
• The Atlanta massacre: what it says about America
• The Sierra Leone peace deal
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

2 August 1999

• Australian rural town acts to defend education facilities
• LTTE suicide bomber kills another prominent political opponent in Sri Lanka
• Letters to the WSWS on JFK, Jr. and the Balkans
• Obuchi raises the banner of Japanese nationalism

3 August 1999

• Minister murdered in Western Samoa
• Public transport privatised in Australian state
• The Falun Gong crackdown: a crisis in China's corridors of power
• Case highlights use of secret evidence
  US judge orders release of immigrant held three years in solitary confinement
• US steps up counter-insurgency operations in Colombia
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 August 1999

• An exchange on the Wim Wenders film Buena Vista Social Club
• NATO general ordered military assault on Russian troops at end of Yugoslav war
• Over 300 feared killed in Indian train disaster
• Protests over unpaid wages in Argentina
• Rural discontent repressed in China
• The New York Times and Clinton's contempt fine: the impeachment cover-up continues
• The case of British Tory Treasurer Michael Ashcroft: wealth, patronage and parliamentary politics

5 August 1999

• Biography falls short of penetrating myth surrounding ANC leader
  Mandela—The Authorised Biography
• Depleted uranium weapons used in Balkan War expected to cause thousands of fatal cancers
• Indonesian military cracks down in Ambon, Batam and Aceh
• Australia:
  State Labor government tries to hide cuts to Technical and Further Education
• Strike wave in South Africa
• UN report on Eastern Europe and the former USSR
  The 'free market's' social catastrophe
• The Balkan summit in Sarajevo: a shabby colonialist exercise
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

6 August 1999

• An interview with Deepa Mehta, director of Earth
  "If people want to separate they should understand what it would really mean"
• Dow and Union Carbide to merge: two companies that have profited from the deaths of thousands
• German foreign policy and the abduction of PKK leader Cevat Soysal
• Profit drive blamed for Swiss canyon tragedy
• Retired US steelworkers oppose agreement with USX Corp.
• Ricky Blackmon the first of seven Texas death row prisoners to be executed in the next two weeks
• UN Human Development Report finds:
  Social inequality and poverty increasing worldwide

7 August 1999

• Asia's monsoon floods affect tens of millions
• Crisis of overproduction devastating American agriculture
• Next step in carve-up of the Balkans: Montenegrin regime approves plan for statehood
• In wake of Kashmir retreat
  Pakistani opposition presses for Sharif's resignation
• Some interesting films on US television, August 7-13
• Drop Dead Gorgeous
  The beauty pageant and other ugly American phenomena—winning by any means necessary
• US pushes for military involvement in East Timor
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

9 August 1999

• Battle over censorship and control at California radio station
• New pressures for economic restructuring as
  Japan's jobless rate hits record high
• The United States of Italy
• What is involved in the Genetically Modified Food debate?

10 August 1999

• "Second wave" industrial laws to strip workers' rights in Australia
• A letter on the music of Joaquin Rodrigo
• "When the terrors of life outweigh the terrors of death..."
  Another murder-suicide in Australia
• Dollar fears spark market jitters
• Thirteen farm workers killed in California van crash
• White House plan for FBI Internet spying
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

11 August 1999

• Bringing the lessons home
  An interview with Jim Allen conducted in 1995
• Brutal police attack claims 17 lives in southern India
• Events on Florida's death row underscore barbarism of the US judicial system
• Jim Allen: A lifetime's commitment to historical truth
• Readers comment on the WSWS
• The Austrian writer Peter Handke, European public opinion, and the war in Yugoslavia
• The number one task of US Congress: how to make the rich richer
• Two parliamentarians charged over murder of Samoan minister
• US, Japan exert sharp pressure on North Korea over possible missile test

12 August 1999

• Fascist gunman attacks Jewish center in Los Angeles
• NATO's "mistaken" ethnic cleansing
• Leaked documents show ...
  Plan to send 15,000 US Marines to East Timor
• Refugees mount protests and escapes at remote Australian detention centre
• Simmering tensions in UN Security Council as
  Richard Butler denounces Kofi Annan
• A lament for the "good old days"
  The autobiography of Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove
• US job cuts continue at record pace
• Who is NATO's new General Secretary George Robertson?
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Working and poor in the United States

13 August 1999

• A reply to correspondence on Marx's theory of value
• Australian miners strike to defend entitlements
• Australian schoolgirl contracts HIV via blood transfusion
• Civil war in Namibia
• Correspondence from MM
• Intimidation against settlers continues in Solomon Islands
• Kansas Board of Education removes evolution from science curriculum
• India shoots down Pakistani plane
  New crisis in Indo-Pakistani relations
• China-Taiwan crisis worsens
  Rival warplanes patrol the Taiwan Strait

14 August 1999

• A damning report on Australian Aboriginal health and welfare
• Behind the government change in Russia: coming elections heighten power struggle of post-Soviet oligarchs
• Britain: what the Liberal Democrats' leadership contest reveals about New Labour
• China Democracy Party members face political trials
• Iraqi child deaths have doubled under UN-imposed sanctions
• Some interesting films on US television, August 14-20
• The New South Wales rail system—a disaster waiting to happen
• US political notes: Pat Robertson favors assassinations, Congress promotes religion in schools
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

16 August 1999

• Howard aims for a corporate tax bonanza in Australia
• Inadequate safety measures behind rail disasters in India
• Internet produces conflict between commerce and censorship
• Sister of mentally ill prisoner facing August 17 execution in Texas: "A segment of society is applauding a man's death"

17 August 1999

• Australian authorities bar Deaf Congress delegates from entering the country
• Ethnic conflict escalates in Nigeria
• Hot nights in the city: New York City's environmental future
• Social inequality and the World Wide Web
• Turkish trade union leader murdered
• US continues buildup
  Warnings of "Vietnamization" of Colombian civil war
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

18 August 1999

• Cindy Sherman Retrospective
  An artist to be taken seriously
• A focus for imperialist intrigue
  Civil war erupts again in Afghanistan
• Efforts stepped up in Spain to prevent trial of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
• IMF tightens the screws on Zimbabwe
• Iowa straw poll: the decadence of American politics on display
• New faction in the German Green party
  Right-wing young Greens go on the offensive
• Texas court issues last-minute stay of execution of mentally ill death row prisoner
• As WTO prepares for "Millennium Round"
  World trade conflicts intensify

19 August 1999

• "Eyes wide shut": The reopening of Columbine High School
• China spying charges denounced as racist frame-up
• New PNG government implements IMF's economic restructuring demands
• Arrest of workers continues as
  South Korean president releases rival's wealthy son
• The continued drastic impact of the AIDS epidemic on sub-Saharan Africa
• Thousands die in Turkey earthquake
  Unsafe construction blamed for high death toll
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

20 August 1999

• Anger mounts in Turkey following earthquake disaster
• Contract employee dies in accident at Rouge Steel in Dearborn, Michigan
• Dover, England refugees become focus of chauvinist campaign
• Fissures widen in Northern Ireland Agreement
• Malaysian government instigates a politically motivated 'anti-corruption' drive
• Serbs and Roma flee KLA terror in Kosovo
• The impact of growing labor productivity: a letter from a WSWS reader
• An exchange of letters
  The impact of increasing labour productivity on the crisis of profit system

21 August 1999

• A reader comments on Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and David Walsh replies
• Former AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland dies: a Cold War anti-communist and servant of big business
• French police arrest 210 asylum-seekers
• Kellogg and Pratt & Whitney top list of US job cuts
• Kirkland and the Bulletin newspaper: a revealing exchange
• Moscow escalates intervention in Dagestan
• Some interesting films on US television, August 21-27
• Typhoon compounds North Korean food shortages
• Earthquake finds US energy secretary in Turkey
  What was Bill Richardson up to in Istanbul?
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 August 1999

• Britain's Home Secretary denounced for inciting racial hatred against Gypsies
• Cambodian activists found innocent over toxic dumping protests
• Kenneth Starr and his accomplices: new aspects of the impeachment conspiracy
• The resegregation of US public schools

24 August 1999

• Nachtgestalten [Nightshapes]: a new film by Andreas Dresen...
  ... A wind from the East
• Bank Bali scandal puts pressure on Indonesian President Habibie
• British mercenaries planned assassination of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan
• The PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) publicly renounces the armed struggle
• The breakdown of the profit system
  Letter from a WSWS reader
• The breakdown of the profit system: perception and scientific analysis
• Turkish government calls off rescue efforts as earthquake death toll mounts
• US military trains for urban warfare
• Wall Street's dirty secret: 1990s boom based on smashing of labor in the 1980s
• Workers Struggle: The Americas
• Youth suicides in New Zealand prisons

25 August 1999

• Australian firefighters demand better death and disability pensions
• British Columbia's premier felled by casino-licensing scandal
• British Home Secretary pushes through scheme to disperse asylum-seekers
• How the Turkish earthquake disaster was prepared
• New revelations in murder of Irish civil rights lawyer
• The atmospheric music of Underground Lovers
• The earthquake in Turkey: Western bankers see a silver lining
• Trade deficit fuels fears of dollar crisis

26 August 1999

• Detroit school board demands sweeping concessions from teachers
• Labour government cuts public spending in Britain to lowest rate in 40 years
• New York's asthma rates reveal social disparities
• Snapshots of America's brutal society: state murder, police corruption and the expanding prison population
• South African public sector workers hold mass one-day strike
• Three years of US welfare reform: hunger grows, poverty deepens
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

27 August 1999

• As Papua New Guinea government prepares to privatise
  Air Niugini sacks engineers
• Bangladesh government crackdown on women engaged in prostitution
• Bank of New York probe exposes ties between Western financiers and Russian Mafia
• Six-year cover-up cracks
  FBI admits use of incendiary grenades at Waco
• Physical education cuts in Britain threaten children's health
• RUC reform increases tensions in Irish peace agreement
• Scant international aid for Turkish earthquake disaster
• Trial date set for 14-year-old Michigan youth charged with first-degree murder

28 August 1999

• Britain's Labour government massages the figures on hospital waiting time
• Clashes continue in Dili as
  East Timorese prepare to vote in UN referendum
• One and a half million poor in Britain going without gas and electricity
• Political aftershocks in Turkey
• Some interesting films on US television, August 28-September 3
• UN reports reveal global growth of drug abuse
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

30 August 1999

• A third of all those evicted in Britain suffer with mental illness
• Another comment on Eyes Wide Shut
• Australian parliament "regrets" injustice to Aboriginal people
  Behind the politics of "reconciliation"
• The political issues facing Detroit teachers
• The speculative appreciation of the stock market: a reply to a letter

31 August 1999

• American Airlines workers indicted for drug smuggling: critical issues behind the headlines
• Civil liberties in the US threatened on two electronic fronts
• Congo peace deal reveals continuing instability
• Mass meeting overrules union leaders
  Detroit teachers launch strike
• Greenspan's warning: confidence appears normal until the moment it is breached
• NATO's landmines and cluster bombs kill or maim 150 in Kosovo
• US bosses' pay is 400 times the average worker's
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

1 September 1999

• A non-election for Singapore's new president
• British government advances quota system for housing asylum-seekers
• Kosovo and the crisis in the Atlantic Alliance
• Next phase of exhumation of mass graves in northern Sri Lanka to begin
• Refugees protest conditions in Belgium's "closed centres" for asylum-seekers
• Why we need Byron

2 September 1999

• A note in appreciation of Eyes Wide Shut
• Ansett New Zealand pilots face lockout
• Australian Education Union conference underscores its own irrelevance
• Teachers fight to defend public education
  Detroit strike exposes fraud of school "reform"
• Diego Rivera's artistic mastery
• Meeting of the "Shanghai Group" in Bishkek: China moves toward Moscow to strengthen its influence in Central Asia
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

3 September 1999

• Anger and form in the work of Ben Shahn
• Australia to hold "Republic" referendum
  But no public discussion about the details
• European governments turn against asylum-seekers
• Labour admits class sizes are rising in Britain
• Money laundering and the financial system
• New Zealand Symphony Orchestra musicians protest against union
• Punishment beatings and forced exile thrive in Ireland's "imperfect peace"
• Snapshots of America's brutal society: two more executions, another police killing

4 September 1999

• Cover-up of Waco massacre unravels as new evidence exposes FBI lies
• Morocco claims Ceuta and Melilla
• Protectorate Kosovo: What NATO's war and occupation have wrought
• Some interesting films on US television, September 4-10
• Teachers union leaders conspire to end Detroit schools strike
• After vote for secession
  Western powers accelerate plans for military intervention in Timor
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

6 September 1999

• A letter on It All Starts Today
• After the Turkish earthquake: government amnesties for torturers and criminals
• Belgium's imperialist rape of Africa
  King Leopold's Ghost—A story of greed, terror and heroism in colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, Macmillan, 1998, £22.50, ISBN: 0333661265
• Shift work and ill-health

7 September 1999

• Australian laws violate children's rights
• Indian elections: a further shift to the right by the main parties
• Job insecurity, intensification of work damage British workers' health
• Pressure stepped up for UN force in East Timor
• Genocide in Australia
  Report details crimes against Aborigines
• Sri Lankan government steps up attacks on Tamil civilians in the north

8 September 1999

• A critical look at Britain under New Labour
  Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, by Nick Cohen
• A resounding setback for Schröder
  German Social Democratic Party loses state elections in the Saarland and Brandenburg
• Ongoing consequences of the Gulf War
  Casualties increase from use of depleted uranium
• New York City teacher comments on the Detroit school strike
• Union leaders betray Detroit teachers' strike: new strategy needed to defend public education
• Australia prepares military intervention in East Timor
  What are the real motives?
• The Philippines:
  Why 60 people died in the Cherry Hills housing estate
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 September 1999

• Detroit teacher commends WSWS for printing the truth about the school strike
• Detroit teachers end nine-day strike
• Letter on the situation in Aceh, Indonesia
• Puerto Rican nationalists to be released after two decades in prison
• Signs of decay on America's Labor Day 1999
• Slavery in the modern era
  Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, by Kevin Bales
• The divided opposition in Serbia
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Yangtze floods and the Chinese government's self-satisfied response

10 September 1999

• Australian Productivity Commission finds that gambling is "beneficial"
• The dead end of Chavez's "revolution"
  Coup warnings grow in Venezuela
• Further evidence of the impact of welfare reform—2.7 million US children living in extreme poverty
• German Armed Forces Federation to demonstrate against cuts in defence budget
• Habibie loses out in power struggle with Indonesian military
• Norway targets immigrants for attack and discrimination
• What lies behind the corruption scandals in the Kremlin?

11 September 1999

• Australian government threatens to imprison Timorese refugees
• British prime minister's "moral crusade" targets the poor
• CBS-Viacom merger: monopolies tighten their grip on the media
• Explosion at US Ford plant: report exposes corporate negligence and union complicity
• Eyes of the child —A chilling documentary exposing child poverty in Britain
• Some interesting films on US television, September 11-17
• The social background of the Victorian state elections
  A political comment
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

13 September 1999

• Belgian Foreign Minister criticises US role in Africa
• East Timor and Kosovo: Indonesian atrocities expose US hypocrisy on “human rights”
• Labour to host Britain's largest arms bazaar

14 September 1999

• Germany: The crisis of the Social Democratic Party
• An inarticulate hope
  Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
  Playing at the Royal National Theatre, London through September 18
• Ok Tedi mine closure—BHP and PNG government in conflict
• Three Tamil fishermen killed in northern Sri Lanka
• US and India discuss joint strategy against Afghanistan's Taliban regime
• State Department documents confirm
  US hypocrisy on human rights
  The case of Turkey
• US threats clear way for military intervention in East Timor
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

15 September 1999

• Australian public health specialist:
  "Financial cutbacks have lowered the standard of infection control" in Victoria
• General McCaffrey's secret talks: US discussed plans for Colombian intervention
• How Britain crushed the "Mau Mau rebellion"
  Channel Four TV's Secret History—Mau Mau
• Indian elections: widening chasm between official politics and the working masses
• Pinochet's lawyers seek former dictator's release on grounds of ill health
• State Department documents confirm
  US hypocrisy on human rights
  The case of Sri Lanka
• "Shoot-to-kill" mandate
  Vietnam War veteran to command Australian forces in Timor

16 September 1999

• Australia: The tragic deaths of two Melbourne CityLink construction workers
• Indonesia's accomplices spearhead East Timor "peacekeeping" force
• Iranian court hands down four death sentences in connection with July student protests
• Plan for transport of Indian goods through Bangladesh provokes factional strife within country's elite
• The German army lobbies for rearmament
  Soldiers demonstrate against cuts in the defence budget
• US auto talks—deal reported near between UAW and DaimlerChrysler
• Wye 2 agreement paves way for restructuring of economic relations in Middle East

17 September 1999

• Australian state government privatises major hospital
• Correspondence on East Timor
• East Timor and protest politics
• Eight dead in Texas church shooting—the latest eruption of social tensions in America
• Patten Report on reform of Royal Ulster Constabulary provokes Unionist outcry
• State Department documents confirm
  US hypocrisy on human rights
  The case of Israel
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

18 September 1999

• Buchanan turns to the Reform Party: a new stage in the breakup of the US two-party system
• Deaths from AIDS dwarf war casualties in Africa
• Indonesians protest against security bill and Timor atrocities
• Some interesting films on US television, September 18-24
• Sri Lanka: delay in case of framed Tamil plantation youths
• UAW contract with DaimlerChrysler paves way for further downsizing in US auto industry
• State Department documents confirm
  US hypocrisy on human rights
  The case of Colombia
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

20 September 1999

• Bloody Sunday: New reports confirm British troops killed unarmed Irish civil rights protesters
• Deflation accelerates further opening of Chinese economy
• New Zealand parliament gives unanimous backing for East Timor troops
• Russian police begin mass roundups in wake of terror bomb attacks

21 September 1999

• A New York story: different worlds for the children of the rich and the poor
• Spotlight on Australian justice
  Aboriginal teenagers jailed, prison suicides treble
• Australian imperialism and East Timor: The Prime Minister's Address to the Nation
• The Kosovo war, German "national interests" and the rightward turn of the SPD
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Workers poisoned for decades at Kentucky nuclear weapons plant

22 September 1999

• AIDS crisis in Papua New Guinea
• Australian government refuses visas to Liberian youth soccer team
• Fort Worth, Texas gunman linked to fascist group
• Indian elections: Big business embraces the BJP
• Major earthquake strikes central Taiwan
• New evidence of Britain's arms trade with Indonesia
• New massacres in Burundi civil war
• State elections in Saxony: German Social Democratic Party in free fall

23 September 1999

• Moralizing and opportunism at the rallies on East Timor
  A letter from a reader
• More Los Angeles Police Department violence and frame-ups exposed
• Nazism and the myth of the "master-race"
  Britain's Channel Four Secret History documentary on "Hitler's search for the Holy Grail"
• Alfredo Kraus (1927-1999)
  One of Spain's finest tenors dies
• Roma and Ashkali driven out of Kosovo en masse
• Sri Lankan airforce bombs Tamil civilians
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

24 September 1999

• Australia: Pollsters, pundits shocked by state election result
• British union leader denounces unofficial walkout after calling for a "strike-free future"
• China backs Australian military intervention into East Timor
• Italy to create a professional army
• KLA given official police function in Kosovo
• Murder trial of Michigan child to begin October 18
• Sri Lankan forces to expand military base on the Jaffna peninsula
• The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival
  First in a series of articles by David Walsh
• US concerns over political stability in Pakistan

25 September 1999

• Australian tax plan: A "golden honeypot" for the wealthy
• Canadian Auto Workers settles with Ford as US auto talks continue
• Detroit bus drivers stage sick-out
• Following prairie election victories, Canada's social democrats to lurch further right
• Military kills five protesters as Indonesian parliament enacts sweeping security law
• Montreal police carry out mass arrests to quell student strikes
• New charges of cover-up in murder of Irish lawyer
• Some interesting films on US television, September 25-October 1
• Taiwan earthquake: Human toll rises, political fall-out begins
• US corporations cutting jobs at fastest pace in a decade
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

27 September 1999

• Human Rights League lodges complaints over Belgian deportation methods
• Inquiry foreshadows major rationalisation of Australian performing arts
• Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea—no peace for the masses
• US liberals join right-wing attack on clemency for Puerto Rican nationalists

28 September 1999

• The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival— second in a series of articles by David Walsh
  A dry bone in a stream
  The Wind Will Carry Us, written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, based on an idea by Mahmoud Ayedin
• Australia heading for a "quagmire" in East Timor
• After 16 years in the service of big business
  Australian trade union leader resigns
• Clinton administration blocks easing of sanctions against Iraq
• Labour vote plummets in recent by-elections in Scotland and England
• New York City's mayor threatens Brooklyn Museum
• North Carolina hurricane flooding—the manmade component of a natural disaster
• Pinochet extradition hearing told of torture and murder
• Two workers killed in Ohio coal mine collapse
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

29 September 1999

• A letter on police brutality in Los Angeles
• Ansett New Zealand pilots fight company lockout
• BBC Radio retrospective on the Anglo-Boer war, 1899-1902
• Chile's "Caravan of Death" creates problems for ruling elite
• Pastrana in Washington
  Colombian president asks for $1.5 billion in military aid
• European court rules against ban on homosexuals in British armed forces
• Family of murdered Irish civil rights lawyer in libel action against Ulster Unionist MP
• Is this the real thing?
  American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes, written by Alan Ball
• Stock exchange paid for Australian tax report
• US victory in Ryder Cup meets with chauvinist outburst in Britain

30 September 1999

• A time "out of joint": Peter Zadek's Hamlet at the Berlin Schaubühne
• An exchange with a WSWS reader on ethnic conflict in Nigeria
• Buchanan and the crisis of the US two-party system
• French high school students protest poor conditions and teacher shortages
• The assault on public education in the US
  Right-wing organizations push school vouchers in Michigan
• US-Japan conflicts over rising yen
• US auto industry talks
  United Auto Workers reaches deal with General Motors
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

1 October 1999

• City Hall versus the Brooklyn Museum:
  Artistic freedom and democratic rights under attack in New York
• Australian companies continue to downsize
• Ecuador default, Colombia devaluation: renewed debt and currency jitters in Latin America
• India and Pakistan vie for US's favor
• Kosovo and East Timor: a reply to a WSWS reader
• Labour's "anti-poverty" audit aimed at final dismantling of British welfare state
• Letter from a WSWS reader
• Pinochet extradition verdict expected October 8
• The Western powers and East Timor—a history of manoeuvre and intrigue
• Turkish security forces massacre political prisoners
• Theatre Review:
  Who's Afraid of the Working Class?—the Melbourne Workers Theatre
  Stories from behind the statistics

2 October 1999

• Arrests follow pro-Anwar demonstration in Kuala Lumpur
• Letter from a reader
  Bush pardoned anti-Cuban terrorist
• Canada: Saskatchewan New Democratic Party forms coalition with Liberals
• The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival-third in a series of article by David Walsh
  Films from Taiwan and China
• Highest number of US executions in 45 years
• Indonesian parliament convenes amid a mounting political crisis
• Russia mounts invasion of Chechnya
• Some interesting films on US television, October 2-8
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

4 October 1999

• Australian Green Paper targets welfare benefits
• Safety violations produce Japan's worst nuclear accident
• Teachers strike in New York suburb of Yonkers
• US agency charges New York City with violating civil rights of workfare participants

5 October 1999

• British Prime Minister Blair tells Labour Party conference "the class war is over"
• Cape Town promotes sex tourism
• Irish nurses set for first all-out strike
• The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival—fourth in a series of articles by David Walsh
  Some problems the cinema is equipped to deal with
• Strong opposition in New York to Mayor Giuliani's attack on art exhibit
• US Supreme Court upholds conviction of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 October 1999

• Australian led "peace-keepers" strike temporary deal with Falintil in East Timor
• Britain's Paddington rail crash claims 27 lives
• Food bank use in Canada continues to rise
• Kenya's President Moi announces economic cutbacks in bid for IMF funding
• Poverty, inequality and disease in Kenya
• Scottish Parliament hit by lobbying scandal
• US Supreme Court rejects delay of murder trial for Michigan child
• What is the path to genuine democracy in Turkey?
• What the UN knew about militia violence in East Timor

7 October 1999

• Census reports highlight inequality, stagnating living standards
  44 million Americans lack health insurance
• Death toll could be as high as 100 in London rail crash
• Merger of Canada's major airlines will mean massive job losses, fare hikes
• Monopolies grow ever bigger: US telecom merger tops $100 billion mark
• New York City reports outbreak of West Nile virus
• Sordid political horsetrading in the new Indonesian parliament
• The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival—fifth and final in a series of articles by David Walsh
  The importance of knowing something about the world
• US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal responds to Supreme Court rejection of appeal
• Ultra-right Freedom Party takes second place in Austrian parliamentary elections
• Walkout over racism at Ford UK
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

8 October 1999

• "For us it is hard and inexplicable that this Chilean government is defending Pinochet so strongly"
  Interview with the president of the Association of Relatives of Executed Political Prisoners in Chile
• 70 confirmed dead and 100 still unaccounted for in London train crash
• A WSWS reader writes on Pat Buchanan and the US elections
• Australian unions preside over "orderly closure" of Newcastle steel plant
• Daewoo collapse threatens further financial crisis in South Korea
• The view from the jaded top
  Metropolitan Museum director offers an olive branch to New York Mayor Giuliani
• Negotiations to begin in six-month-old Mexican student strike
• Spain's ex-Socialist Party Prime Minister Gonzalez joins defence of Pinochet
• The Kosovo war and the rise of German militarism
  Letter from a reader and a reply by WSWS editorial board member Peter Schwarz

9 October 1999

• Death on the US-Mexican border
  "Operation Gatekeeper" claims the lives of 444 immigrant workers in five years
• British court rules Pinochet extradition to Spain can proceed
• Hindu chauvinist-led coalition to form India's next government
• London rail disaster—interim report fuels rail safety controversy
• Public meetings to be held in Australia
  Military intervention in East Timor: What are the real motives?
• Some interesting films on US television, October 9-15
• Thai factory explosion kills 35 workers
• Thatcher rallies Tories in defence of Pinochet at British Conservative Party conference
• Two master photographers from Japan
• UN figures show: international production system developing
• Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia

11 October 1999

• A reader criticises WSWS review of radio program on the Anglo-Boer War
• Australian Labor Party backs low pay for young workers
• Social Democratic government in Sweden pressed to adopt euro
• Tamils in northern Sri Lanka denied food rations

12 October 1999

• Australian special forces operating in East Timor months before UN ballot
• Australian trade unions to oversee public sector job cuts
• British Ford workers to ballot on industrial action
• Clinton appeals for Canadian unity
• Comments on poverty conditions in America
• Israeli deal for Palestinian "safe passage" tramples on democratic rights
• Badillo smears immigrants
  New York protests continue over City University chief's racist diatribe
• Nigerian government clamps down on gas protesters
• US State Department warns against European military independence from NATO
• US autoworkers union reaches deal with Ford
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

13 October 1999

• "Europeans only" housing legalised in Norway
• Fiftieth anniversary of the Peoples Republic of China: a celebration of nationalism and the market
• Jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson dead at 76
• More evidence of army torture and murder dug up in northern Sri Lanka
• New Indian government to heed demands of big business
• Pakistan military ousts prime minister
• Social crisis in Poland at the breaking point
• Staff strike and student protests highlight crisis in New Zealand universities
• Who's Who in India's ruling NDA coalition

14 October 1999

• December 2 death warrant signed for US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
• East Timor provokes Australian foreign policy crisis
• Media witchhunt against Australian school parents association falls flat
• Privatisation, deregulation and the London rail disaster
• Subcontracting in South African mines undercuts workers' wages and conditions
• US signals readiness to work with coup leaders in Pakistan
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

15 October 1999

• Former party chairman attacks German SPD Chancellor Schröder: The Lafontaine debate
• British cabinet reshuffle
  Mandelson appointed Northern Ireland Secretary in an effort to rescue "peace process"
• Public anger grows over police shooting of innocent London man
• Sinhala Heroes Forum intensifies racist campaign against Tamil workers in Sri Lanka
• Splits widen in the World Trade Organisation
• US Supreme Court rejects appeal of mentally impaired death row inmate
• What big business expects of India's new government

16 October 1999

• Habibie's speech to the Indonesian parliament sparks protests and criticism
• NBC's The West Wing -an illusory view of the Clinton White House
• Pakistani military establishes martial law regime
• Papua New Guinea government rules out independence for Bougainville
• Some interesting films on US television, October 16-22
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
• World trade talks seek dismantling of public health, education and services
• Zedillo government spurns victims of Mexico storm and mud slides

18 October 1999

• Appeals filed to block December 2 execution of US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Argentina's presidential candidates vow to slash spending
• Some issues raised by the Brooklyn Museum exhibit
  David Walsh reviews Sensation
• Wall Street's bleak week: a warning of things to come?

19 October 1999

• British newspaper says NATO deliberately bombed Chinese embassy in Belgrade
• Correspondence on Marx's analysis of interest rates
• New Zealand elections characterised by widespread political disenchantment
• One-quarter of New York City's population lives below the poverty threshold
• Relatives of London man shot dead by police speak out
• Speakers at US conference condemn sanctions against Iraq
• Tensions mounts in Chile after Britain rejects call for Pinochet's immediate release
• The AFL-CIO's endorsement of Al Gore: what it represents and what it doesn't

20 October 1999

• Conflict over oil in Sudan
• Hundreds of thousands hit by Bangladesh floods
• Irish civil rights activist targeted for smear campaign
• Nissan announces 21,000 jobs to go in Japan's first major downsizing
• Second rail collision follows London, Paddington disaster
• Teacher discusses lessons of the Detroit strike
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

21 October 1999

• A travesty of democracy: Indonesian parliament anoints Abdurrahman Wahid as president
• Indonesia votes to hand over East Timor to UN control
• Irish hospitals hit by first national nurses' strike
• Mayakovsky's The Bedbug at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin: a missed opportunity
• North London man wins compensation from police for false murder conviction
• Scottish teachers ballot for strike action
• Telstra share values boosted by job destruction
• US Senate rejection of test ban treaty heralds new eruption of American militarism
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

22 October 1999

• Australian government threatens to deport remaining Kosovar refugees
• Britain's Labour government clamps down on protests during visit by Chinese premier
• Côte d'Ivoire's economy dependent on child labour
• Dasa and Aerospatiale Matra SA merge: Europe strengthens its armaments industry
• London Underground signalman: "Train operating companies view safety provisions as a drain on profits"
• Megawati inserted as Indonesian vice-president to head off social unrest
• US judge rules secret evidence unconstitutional, orders release of Palestinian immigrant

23 October 1999

• "We're all corrupt," says Republican contender in the US election sweepstakes
• IMF-World Bank conflict over assessment of Asian crisis
• New report shows sharp growth of inequality in Britain
• Russia poised for all-out attack on Chechen capital
• Some interesting films on US television, October 23-29
• Switzerland sends Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon back to France
• The Australian Ballet in New York City
• University of Papua New Guinea shuts early after student protests over fee rises
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

25 October 1999

• British agriculture faces worst crisis since 1930s
• Concessions at Dayton Delphi plant reveal content of new contracts with US auto companies
• Global warming and capitalism
  The Heat is On by Ross Gelbspan
• Sri Lankan police step up harassment of estate workers after bomb explosion
• The films of François Truffaut
  David Walsh reviews a program of the filmmaker's works at the Detroit Film Theatre

26 October 1999

• A New Zealand clothing company goes "global" and shuts all local factories
• Washington and the Pinochet coup in Chile
  Declassified documents confirm US role in 1973 death of Charles Horman
• New Indonesian president pledges to encourage foreign investment and private enterprise
• On George Bush's pardon of anti-Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch
• Two Hands —Exaggerated praise for an Australian comedy
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

27 October 1999

• Federal judge grants stay of execution for US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Labor forms new minority state government in Australia
• Opposition to KLA grows in Kosovo
• Right-wing journalist warns of Britain's collapse into chaos
  The Abolition of Britain—from Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair, by Peter Hitchens
• Sri Lankan president calls snap poll
• WSWS readers discuss health care, jobs

28 October 1999

• Australian media inquiry: the millionaire talkback radio hosts from "Struggle Street"
• Britain's hereditary peers vote to abolish their constitutional role
• Sri Lankan postal authorities victimise Socialist Equality Party member
• Three American films: Sadness, and less
  The Limey-Three Kings-Bringing Out the Dead
• US presidential race: Buchanan quits Republicans to run third-party campaign
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

29 October 1999

• British appeal court quashes conviction after hearing of police torture
• Fiji's new Labour-led coalition ditches its promises for better living standards
• Irish nurses strike suspended pending membership ballot
• On-the-spot report from Michigan courtroom: Scenes from the murder trial of a 13-year-old
• Shooting death of Armenian prime minister heightens crisis in the Caucasus
• US expert outlines social and environmental disaster in Russia
• US schedules five executions this week

30 October 1999

• Blacklisted US film director Abraham Polonsky dead at 88
• Britain's rail union calls off national conductors strike
• Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields going for a song
• New York City forces homeless to work or face eviction from shelters
• Pakistan's military regime to implement IMF dictates
• Some interesting films on US television, October 30-November 5
• The new Indonesian cabinet: a precarious government of "national unity"
• Trade war over beef between Britain and France
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

1 November 1999

• Clinton, Republicans agree to deregulation of US financial system
• Correspondence on the breakdown of the profit system
• Irish journalist wins court battle against police
• Market reform in Russia brings "dire economic situation"
• Two studies in US underscore importance of early education programs

2 November 1999

• Federal judge rules in favor of Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Indian government prevails over truckers' protest to halt fuel price increases
• Many questions raised by Egyptair Flight 990 crash
• Repudiation of Menem era
  New Argentine president to deepen austerity policies
• Pakistani autoworkers wage 18-month struggle against Suzuki
• Plans for second stage of House of Lords reform leaked

3 November 1999

• British prisons chief calls for release of two boys imprisoned for killing James Bulger
• Child labour on the increase in Bangladesh
• New study documents growing chasm between rich and poor in Germany
• Protests against the Burmese military junta
• Toronto teacher discusses worldwide assault on public education
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

4 November 1999

• All candidates in Niger elections pledge to enforce IMF and World Bank dictates
• Australia's "Republic" referendum reveals mass disaffection
• Further major corporate restructurings in Japan
• Hawaii, Seattle: latest shooting rampages in the US
• Michael Portillo emerges as serious challenger for leadership of Britain's Conservatives
• Michigan murder trial of 13-year-old: Testimony undercuts prosecution case
• Sharp turn to the right in Swiss elections

5 November 1999

• Egypt's President Mubarak appoints new prime minister to speed up privatisation
• France's Minister of Finance Strauss-Kahn resigns
• Henri Cartier-Bresson: From a higher reality to a respect for reality
• Sydney Olympics ticketing fiasco: premium seats reserved for the rich
• Trade talks could "blow up" says US commerce secretary
• Voter turnout at record low in off-year US elections
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East

6 November 1999

• A sign of despair in regional Australia: police siege ends in suicide
• Britain's Labour government cuts disabled benefits and gives tax handout to business
• Democrats narrowly retain control of Philadelphia City Hall
• Europe and the US challenge Russian domination of the Baltic states
• New York City police cleared in fatal shooting
• Some interesting films on US television, November 6-12
• The UN in East Timor: all the trappings of a colonial protectorate
• US government preparing for mass arrests in Puerto Rico
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 November 1999

• Australian university students occupy campus over substandard conditions
• The unhappiness of youth
  David Walsh reviews Boys Don't Cry, directed by Kimberly Pierce
• Poor health care for Sri Lankan tea plantation workers
• Quebec public sector workers balk at giving unions strike mandate
• US unemployment figures show decline in job growth and stagnating wages

9 November 1999

• Defeat for Australian republic referendum highlights social divide
• Investigations belie NATO claims of "ethnic genocide"in Kosovo
• Letters on the Michigan murder trial of 13-year-old
• Michigan begins random drug testing of welfare recipients
• Northern Ireland: Loyalist paramilitaries had security intelligence files
• Railtrack announces record profits in the aftermath of the British rail disaster
• Sri Lankan soldiers rebel as one army camp after another falls to the LTTE
• The fraud of the 35-hour workweek in France
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 November 1999

• "Stolen generations" court case
  Australian government defends forced removal of Aboriginal children
• "Stolen Generations" court case
  Children lived in fear of seizure
• Michigan prosecutes 13-year-old as an adult
  Closing arguments due in murder trial of Nathaniel Abraham
• Death toll in eastern India cyclone may top 10,000
• Forensic psychiatrist speaks on the Abraham case: "When Nathaniel needed a system there was no system there for him"
• "The police investigate the police and they are never prosecuted"
  London march protests against deaths in custody
• The Onex-Air Canada struggle: unions pit worker against worker

11 November 1999

• Behind the Microsoft antitrust case: computer giants battle for markets and profits
• Britain: Second juror condemns jailing of two boys for the killing of James Bulger
• Clinton's photo-op against poverty
• Federal appeals court upholds racial profiling by upstate New York police
• Mahathir calls early election in Malaysia
• Protests against fascist murder in Sweden
• Background to the Nathaniel Abraham case
  The origins of the juvenile justice system in America
• Uruguayan election: Frente Amplio wins plurality in first round
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• Workers and residents in Western Australia suffer health problems from Alcoa's alumina plant

12 November 1999

• Animal Farm: a new version on US television
• Demonstrations to protest Italian government plan to end free access to universities
• Five dead in Flint, Michigan nursing home blast
• Funding crisis shuts hospital emergency wards in Australia's largest city
• Rifts appear in Indonesian regime over Aceh
• The decline of the German Social Democratic Party
• Transport strike paralyses Lagos, Nigeria

13 November 1999

• After the Truth: An attempt to tackle Germany's past
• More plans to deregulate and privatise tertiary education in Australia
• Opposition grows to government attacks on public health in Sri Lanka
• Rocket, bomb attacks boost US-Afghan tensions
• Some interesting films on US television, November 13-19
• UN war crimes prosecutor confirms much-reduced Kosovo death toll
• US Supreme Court escalates attack on rights of death row prisoners
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 November 1999

• Australian steel company leaves deadly toxic legacy
• Election defeat predicted for ruling National Party in New Zealand
• Rally opposes murder trial of 13-year-old Michigan child
• Support falls for major parties in leadup to Taiwan presidential election

16 November 1999

• Angola: MPLA inflicts new defeats on UNITA
• British soldiers executed in First World War denied official pardon
• China-US trade deal to "restructure" Chinese economy
• Gloria Abraham speaks out on the Michigan murder trial of her 13-year-old son
  "People need to become aware that the government can do these things"
• A chilling portrayal of life and death on the front lines of World War One
  Harvey Thompson reviews The Trench, directed by William Boyd
• Killings of Kosovans continue under NATO occupation at pre-war rate
• Political turmoil in Sri Lanka as UNP defectors back Kumaratunga
• Australia:
  State Labor government seeks to overturn teachers' conditions
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 November 1999

• America's ugly face
  The Insider, directed by Michael Mann, written by Mann and Eric Roth
• East Timor: the history and politics of the CNRT
• Labour's "homelessness czar" attacks aid to people forced to sleep outdoors
• Michigan jury finds 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham guilty of second-degree murder
• Pakistani political elite supports military regime
• "It's a tragedy for all of us," says Robin Adams
  Shooting victim's mother opposes jailing of 13-year-old defendant in Michigan murder case
• Survivors of Korean War massacre by US soldiers seek investigation
• Sri Lanka:
  Tens of thousands flee in the face of advancing LTTE forces
• US Supreme Court clears way for first federal execution since 1963

18 November 1999

• American abortion doctor detained by Australian immigration
• Background to the Russian assault on Chechnya: a power struggle over Caspian oil
• Blair government outlines draconian measures against civil liberties
• Human rights advocates condemn murder conviction of 13-year-old Michigan child
• Thousands of Indian cyclone survivors at risk due to official indifference
• "I have traveled all over the world... but nobody has ever treated me like this"
  WSWS interviews Dr Warren Hern
• The growth of right-wing extremism in Austria
  What lies behind the recent successes for Jörg Haider's Freedom Party?
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

19 November 1999

• A superb exhibit on militarism
  Camouflage: An exhibition of paintings and etchings by Chandraguptha Thenuwara
• Falun Gong members go on trial in China
• High school students protest in Detroit
• New issue of World Socialist Web Site Review now available
• Reflections on the No Gun Ri massacre by a former US serviceman stationed in Korea
• Larry Roberts discusses murder trial of 13-year-old Michigan youth
  WSWS reporter interviewed on Seattle radio about Nathaniel Abraham case
• Why the rush to judgment in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990?

20 November 1999

• Book Review:
  Auden's poetry and his last years
  Later Auden by Edward Mendelson Farrer, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 1999
• Australia's corporate salaries soar as wages are depressed
• Two examples of the social chasm in America
  Fed raises interest rates, White House and Congress strike budget deal
• London inquest into Asian student's death returns open verdict
• Official disinterest over tens of thousands still missing in East Timor
• Social Democracy at the end of the century: 21st congress meets in Paris
• Some interesting films on US television, November 20-26
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

22 November 1999

• Lithuanian ministers resign over terms of US buyout of state oil refinery
• Sri Lankan presidential poll: lengthy candidate list reflects growing disaffection
• Sydney nurses take their concerns to the streets
• US intrigues and the imposition of United Nations sanctions on Afghanistan

23 November 1999

• 13-year-old convicted of murder in Michigan: Harsh truths about a repugnant verdict
• Asylum-seekers imprisoned in heat and squalor
• Australian anti-refugee measures flout international law
• The artistic and social significance of the Bauhaus
  Former Bauhaus student to speak in Sheffield and Liverpool
• London pensioner dies of starvation
• Mitchell review of Northern Ireland Agreement proposes new formula to begin devolution
• WSWS readers comment on Nathaniel Abraham verdict
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 November 1999

• Australia: New South Wales Supreme Court begins manslaughter trial of 11-year-old child
• British steel firm fined over Yemeni worker's death
• New attack on artistic freedom and democratic rights
  Detroit museum shuts down exhibit
• LSSP backs Kumaratunga in Sri Lankan election
• New York's mayor calls for police crackdown on the homeless
• State racism in the Czech Republic
• US probe of EgyptAir crash: media brands Arab doubts as "wild speculation"
• WSWS readers comment on EgyptAir Flight 990 disaster

25 November 1999

• A conversation with Sri Lankan artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara
• Conservative candidate for London mayor resigns in disgrace
• Mahathir concerned over losses in upcoming Malaysian election
• New Clinton special prosecutor linked to religious fundamentalists
• Pakistan's military regime prepares IMF program
• The battle for Mannesmann: the background to Germany's first hostile take-over

26 November 1999

• Anglo-French summit takes further step towards European military independence from America
• Refugees on hunger strike in New Zealand prison
• Royal Ulster Constabulary awarded George Cross
• Australian state government faces demand for teacher's reinstatement
  Test case to be held in Supreme Court
• Thai-Burma border reopens after weeks of tension
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

27 November 1999

• Agendaless in Seattle: WTO talks could become a "fiasco"
• Clinton in Kosovo: rhetoric versus reality
• Top AFL-CIO officials, Democrats tied to campaign payoff case
  Ex-Teamsters official convicted in union election swindle
• Social Democrats, union leaders agree to wage cuts, longer work hours for construction workers
  German government steps in to rescue Holzmann building company
• Labour chooses candidates for London Mayor: a process based on manoeuvre and media hype
• Michael Ignatieff in the New York Times
  Liberal historian defends the Balkan War against Kosovo "revisionists:" Sophistry in the service of imperialism
• Paul Bond reviews Ratcatcher —a film by Lynne Ramsay
• Some interesting films on US television, November 27-December 3
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 November 1999

• PBS documentary: "The Battle Over Citizen Kane"
  A revealing look at an old controversy
• Australian Greens join Labor to block registration of new parties
• How today's film industry views Orson Welles
• Human Development report shows worsening poverty in South Asia
• Impressions of the Malaysian elections: little to do with democracy

30 November 1999

• Agreement signed in Istanbul on US-backed Caspian oil pipeline
• A WSWS contributor responds to Intrepid Thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union and Frank Brenner replies
  An exchange of letters on Freudianism and Marxism
  A WSWS contributor responds to Intrepid Thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union and Frank Brenner replies
• Indictment of Argentina's military alarms political establishment
• Manslaughter trial of 11-year-old continues in Australian Supreme Court
• Ulster Unionists vote narrowly for power-sharing deal
  New Northern Ireland Executive to convene this week
• Thousands protest at World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle
  Political first principles for a movement against global capitalism
• Readers respond to comment by Barry Grey on Michael Ignatieff's defense of Kosovo War
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

1 December 1999

• Australian union joins building companies to win contracts in East Timor
• Fresh evidence that NATO's bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade was deliberate
• Molson brewery workers occupy Ontario plant
• New York City Ballet musicians on strike
• Police attack protesters at Seattle WTO meeting
• Stage set for a clash between Free Aceh supporters and Indonesian security forces
• The humanity of Van Dyck
• US releases Egyptian jailed for three years on secret evidence

2 December 1999

• Arrests of protesters at WTO meeting in Seattle near 500
• British police attack anti-WTO protesters in London
• Comedy, despair, isolation
  Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze, written by Charlie Kaufman
• What price increased productivity?
  Four miners killed in Australian mine disaster
• Amid hostility to market reforms
  Nationals defeated in New Zealand elections
• US Department of Agriculture report shows 10.5 million households without adequate food
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

3 December 1999

• At least seven dead in second worst rail disaster in Australia's history
• Clinton interview sparks warnings of WTO split
• First complete privatisation of a Local Education Authority in Britain
• Letters on the Nathaniel Abraham verdict
• More readers write in on the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash
• Nawaz Sharif faces possible death sentence in Pakistan court
• PKK leader Ocalan's fate remains undecided after death sentence upheld by Turkish appeals court
• Power devolved to Northern Ireland Assembly
• The plausible and the implausible in Carolyn Chute's Snow Man
• Washington Post Online echoes official line on Chinese embassy bombing

4 December 1999

• 18,000 jobs threatened in Scottish take-over bid for National Westminster Bank
• Australian teachers oppose worsening conditions in new NSW award
• Canada: Federal government to change rules on Quebec secession
• Financial scandal envelops former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
  What's behind the corruption campaign and who benefits?
• International banker points to fundamental crisis in global capitalism
• Political instability in Catalan region of Spain following election losses for ruling party
• Some interesting films on US television, December 4-10
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

6 December 1999

• Nine prisoners die in Madras Central Jail riot
• Over 280 dead in Chinese ferry disaster
• The social meaning of the anti-WTO protests in Seattle
• Touring Russian orchestra forced to busk on streets
• Where is the German Party of Democratic Socialism going?

7 December 1999

• A comment on Freudianism and Marxism
• Assassination of Islamist opposition leader destabilises Algeria
• End of remedial courses at four-year colleges
  City University of New York to exclude thousands of students
• David Lynch's compassion
  The Straight Story, directed by David Lynch, written by John Roach and Mary Sweeney
• Indian government to accelerate pro-investor "reform"with Congress backing
• Letter on the conditions of children in Pakistani prisons
• Malaysian election results a blow to the Mahathir government
• Six die in Detroit house fire
  Firefighters not equipped to cut through home's security bars
• Thailand expels thousands of Burmese immigrant workers
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

8 December 1999

• A metaphor for post-Soviet Russia
  Review of Alexey Slapovsky's The Little Cherry Orchard
• Army massacres civilians and police shoot to kill in Nigeria
• Disenchantment dominates Chilean election campaign
• German SPD conference strikes a new note in foreign policy
• Pope's visit to India exacerbates tensions in BJP-led government
• Sentencing postponed for 13-year-old Michigan youth convicted of murder
• Four days of violence and death
  Social conditions and tensions in the US take their toll
• Sri Lanka: LTTE's support tilts towards UNP presidential candidate
• The collapse of the WTO talks: What this means for global capitalism
• US Supreme Court to consider reversing Miranda decision

9 December 1999

• A letter on the WTO talks
• A mind so open that the brain fell out
  Dogma, written and directed by Kevin Smith
• Bitter contest in Sri Lankan presidential elections
• Mad Cow Disease inquiry reveals how British government protected pharmaceutical companies at expense of public health
• Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat clamps down on his critics
• Thousands rally in defense of the homeless in New York
• Workers Struggles: Europe and the Middle East
• Australian jury unmoved by government campaign
  Young boy acquitted of manslaughter

10 December 1999

• Britain demands swift action against France over beef ban
• Britain extends diplomatic recognition to Libya
• Despite new treatments, world AIDS deaths continue to rise
  Wide disparity seen between rich and poor nations
• Detroit museum controversy: Censored artist defends his exhibit
• Dozens of Sri Lankan refugees killed in artillery attack on church
• Military chiefs call the shots in the Indonesian cabinet
• More on Freudianism and Marxism
  A reader responds to an exchange of letters between WSWS contributors Alan Whyte and Frank Brenner

11 December 1999

• A reader writes in on the Malaysian elections
• Australian government pressures Timor refugees to leave
• Blair government refuses public inquiry into deaths in police custody
• Chilean President revives labour reforms in bid to win votes
• Growing social divide in Britain
  Blair seeks to refute new study on the widening gap between rich and poor
• Nuclear saber-rattling from Yeltsin as Chechen War intensifies
• One in eight South Africans HIV-positive
• Some interesting films on US television, December 11-17
• The Nathaniel Abraham case and the conditions facing Michigan's children
  "Here is this mother begging for assistance and no one responds"
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

13 December 1999

• A brave New World —not that you'd know it
  Amazons of the avant-garde—an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London until February 6
• Britain's further education cuts cause working class students to drop out
• Clinton lectures the world on labor standards—but what is the state of workers' rights in America?
• The Bauhaus—its artistic and social significance
  Former Bauhaus student speaks in Liverpool and Sheffield
• Spratlys continue to loom as Asian flashpoint
• The record of the PA government
  Sri Lanka plantation workers hit by declining wages and conditions after privatisation

14 December 1999

• US spurns father's appeal for return of Elian Gonzalez
  Cuban child sacrificed to right-wing political agenda
• Frankfurt intends to "go it alone" in creating pan-European stock exchange
• Helsinki summit marks aggressive turn by Europe
• Incoming Labour Prime Minister rules out immediate rises in pensions and wages in New Zealand
• New York transit workers prepare for December 15 contract expiration
• Three prisoners set to die December 14 as US executions near 100 for the year
• US protests demand freedom for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

15 December 1999

• Australia: new Labor government in Victoria defends Kennett's gagging laws in the Supreme Court
• Cuban detainees take hostages at Louisiana jail
• German SPD party congress: united without a perspective
• Italian officials ignored tenants' complaints in apartment building collapse
• JVP enters Sri Lankan election with an eye to a deal with the major parties
• Mounting concern over failure of World Trade Organisation talks
• Supreme Court declares government's gag clause invalid
  Sacked Australian teacher wins significant victory
• The Worcester fire and the social crisis in America

16 December 1999

• "The heart and soul of country music is the experiences of ordinary people"
  An interview with Dale Watson
• Croatian President Franjo Tudjman dies
  "He was a monster, but he was our monster"
• In wake of anti-strike injunction, New York transit union accepts tentative contract
• Indian tea estate workers still on strike after six months
• Two-tier system in New York City parks
• US brokers Syria-Israel talks
• WSWS reporters visit refugee camps in the war-ravaged north of Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

17 December 1999

• Australian Labor Party wins safe Liberal seat in Victorian by-election
• British Labour government intensifies attacks on asylum-seekers
• Inexcusable
  The Green Mile, written and directed by Frank Darabont, from the novel by Stephen King
• Memphis jury finds that a conspiracy led to Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
• Sri Lankan government cuts funding for vital drugs in public hospitals
• The Jamie Bulger killing: European Court rules that two 11-year-olds tried as adults did not receive fair trial
• Token compensation for some victims of forced labour under the Nazis

18 December 1999

• Canada's political elite supports law to impede Quebec secession
• Election violence escalates as polling date nears in Sri Lanka
• An American artist
  Paul Cadmus dies at 94
• Rightwing could form government in Chile after presidential election
• Russia on the eve of the Duma elections
• Signs of political instability as South Korean government prepares for next year's election
• Some interesting films on US television, December 18-24
• Two Cuban detainees surrender in Louisiana jail standoff
• US indicts Taiwanese-American target of nuclear espionage furor
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

20 December 1999

• Readers comment on Elian Gonzalez and workers' rights in the US
• Rifts emerge in ruling party as Taiwan's presidential election heats up
• A scientific milestone
  Scientists unravel genetic code for human chromosome 22
• Strikes and protests signal a confrontation after the Sri Lankan elections

21 December 1999

• "Reform" of US tax agency has led to decline in audits of the wealthy
• Sri Lankan President Kumaratunga narrowly escapes assassination by suicide bomber
• Sri Lankan election leaves Tamil parties in complete disarray
• The end of the dole "as we know it" in Australia
• UNP sniffs a possible win in the Sri Lanka presidential election
• Venezuela: Pervasive poverty compounds human disaster from floods and mudslides
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

22 December 1999

• Defection of Conservative MP spotlights rightward lurch of Britain's Labour government
• Do nostalgia and serious purpose mix?
  Liberty Heights, written and directed by Barry Levinson
• Behind Clinton's boycott
  Panama Canal handover no end to US sway
• Portuguese colonial rule over Macau ends after 442 years
• Pro-government forces make gains in elections to Russian Duma
• Welfare cuts hit co-operative jobs in Sri Lanka

23 December 1999

• Artists organise against artistic censorship in Berlin
• Chilean Socialist Party candidate backtracks on abortion policy
• David Walsh names his favorite films of the year and the decade
• Former IMF deputy to stand in Côte d'Ivoire presidential elections
• Kumaratunga's narrow election win sets stage for further instability in Sri Lanka
• Letters to the World Socialist Web Site
• Sri Lankan unions divide health workers over the color of uniforms
• Trial in Amadou Diallo killing is moved out of New York City
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

24 December 1999

• An interview with victimised Australian teacher
  "Freedom of speech must be defended"
• American historian C. Vann Woodward dies: an interview with Civil War historian James McPherson on Woodward's contribution
• Australian Labor helps deliver a "tax jackpot for investors"
• Chilean teachers send message of support to victimised Australian teacher
• Elderly patients being left to die in British hospitals
• Korean Air jumbo jet crashes near London
• Some interesting films on US television, December 25-31
• Striking Karachi newspaper workers appeal for support
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 December 1999

• Australian unions call strikes as BHP shifts to individual contracts
• Europe ravaged by record storms—more than 100 dead
• Fierce fighting around key northern military base in Sri Lanka
• National Gallery of Australia cancels Sensation exhibition
• Student loans report aimed at holding together Scottish coalition government
• Study finds "indisputable" link between BSE/"Mad Cow Disease" and CJD in humans
• Surveys show significant growth in British Internet use
• The rehabilitation of Gustav Gründgens
  Gustav Gründgens —A German Career: an exhibition at the Berlin Staatsbibliothek

30 December 1999

• Arrests made in India over screening of film on the Manjolai massacre
• Christmas Eve coup in Côte D'Ivoire
• Favorite artists, works and performers of the twentieth century: a survey of WSWS contributors
• Indian Airlines hijacking highlights political tensions on the Indian subcontinent
• New Argentine government shoots down protesting workers
• Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl faces criminal investigation
  What lies behind the German Christian Democrats' financial scandal?

31 December 1999

• Britain's Labour government agrees to finance controversial Turkish Ilisu dam project
• Country music singer Hank Snow dead at 85
• Diplomatic scramble by Japan, US to open up North Korea
• Floods devastate central Vietnam
• Mergers lead to thousands of job cuts in Britain's utility companies
• Mistaken identity
  The Talented Mr. Ripley, written and directed by Anthony Minghella, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith
• OSCE report paints devastating picture of conditions in Kosovo
• Overloaded ferry sinks in the Philippines killing at least 42 people
• Report cites continued global warming trend in 1999
• Six Sri Lankans held for 19 months without trial plan to go on hunger strike

4 September 2008

• Abdullah Öcalan'ın Yakalanışı: sı&;ınma hakkına ne oldu?
• El antiguo Primer Ministro socialista, Felipe Gonzalez, se une a los defensores de Pinochet.
• La "terapéutica shock" del FMI y la recolonización de los Balcanes
• La OTAN y la Guerra Contra Yugoslavia
  Por el control del mundo, por petroleo, por oro
• Detrás de la guerra de los Balkanes
  Respuesta a un simpatizante del bombardeo de USA-OTAN contra Serbia