Archive: 07/1998
1998-07-01
1998-07-02
- Sri Lankan police detain Tamil socialist
- The case of Nathaniel Abraham: background to the prosecution of a child for murder
- Talks fail to end Philadelphia transit walkout
- 40,000 building workers halt rush hour traffic in Manhattan
- Economic crisis fuels tensions in Malaysian government
- How the auto industry and the UAW have changed
- Danger of new US-made crisis in Persian Gulf
- Hyundai workers strike over layoffs
- GM workers at Ohio brake plants vote to authorize strike
- A refreshing change from Hollywood's image of youth
- A naive answer to some serious questions
1998-07-03
- Out of Sight: Steven Soderbergh makes do, but what does he make?
- Last car plants close in New Zealand
- Correspondence from readers on the GM strike
- GM plans to bypass struck plants and resume production of key models
- Documents reveal Labor's waterfront conspiracy
- CNN withdraws report on US use of nerve gas in Vietnam War
- China and human rights--rhetoric and reality
1998-07-04
- Acute social contradictions underlie new political set-up
- Some interesting films on US television, July 4-10
- Welcome to Sarajevo: a shallow look at war in the Balkans
- Talks collapse in Philadelphia transit strike
- Workers' struggles around the world - 4 July 1998
- Ford moves to take over Kia Motors
- "We, the workers, have no voice in the union or in management decisions."
- $50,000 fund to support the World Socialist Web Site
- A comment on Boogie Nights
1998-07-07
1998-07-08
- Asian crisis blasts through Scotland's "Silicon Glen"
- Moscow's anti-crisis program: layoffs, price increases and tax cuts for the wealthy
- Significance of the Green Party: an exchange of letters
- An exchange on "Danger of a new US-made crisis in Persian Gulf"
- Reader comments on social conditions in Indonesia
- GM presses ahead with restructuring plans
- A rare chance to see the recent works of Lucian Freud
- Spain's role as border guard for Fortress Europe
- Workers grapple with the impact of globalization
1998-07-09
- US miners' union assaults dissident workers, then moves for their expulsion
- Two-day general strike paralyzes Puerto Rico
- Another mine death in Australia
- Talks intensify to end GM strikes
- An exchange on the Detroit newspaper strike
- "The International is trying to silence us"
- A fascinating human self-portrait
- Cousin Bette: Poor Balzac
- Death of Moshood Abiola increases tensions in Nigeria
1998-07-10
- Reader discusses third parties in the US
- 500,000 workers join in Puerto Rican general strike
- Victimized Detroit school bus driver to be reinstated
- An exchange on Malaysian politics
- Labour's lobbyists in search of a fast buck
- Britain's Labour government hit by scandal
- GM worker from upstate New York - "Management and the union have been squeezing more and more out of the workers"
- Wall Street wants settlement that facilitates GM downsizing
- Science, politics and morality
- Fired journalists say CNN caved in to pressure
- Two letters in response to "A comment on Boogie Nights"
1998-07-11
- Some interesting films on US television, July 11-17
- Case studies of social breakdown
- Settlement in Philadelphia transit strike
- The political situation in Nigeria after death of Abacha
- London-Frankfurt Stock Exchange alliance escalates war for global investment
- Workers' struggles around the world – 11 July 1998
- Mass strike and rally called in South Korea
- IRS overhaul will benefit US business and the rich
- Indonesian regime fires on workers and protesters
- Health care crisis in Bulgaria
- Australian politics in turmoil
1998-07-13
1998-07-14
- Some thoughts on the France 98 World Cup
- Tamil youth and SEP supporters arrested
- On form and content in music
- On the historical and social roots of Orangeism
- Loyalist violence claims three young lives in Northern Ireland
- GM throws down the gauntlet to auto workers
- Officials discuss global economic crisis - Not a "new economic paradigm" but old disorders
1998-07-15
1998-07-16
- Book by Vadim Rogovin now available on tape
- Inquiry covers up causes of Australian mine disaster
- Support for victimized Detroit school bus driver
- Thousands strike in Korea despite arrests
- Social polarisation grows in France under Jospin government
- Unionist violence continues in Northern Ireland
- The General Motors strike and the working class
- The GM strike, globalization and the UAW
- Why did CNN retract its nerve gas report? A closer look
- Germany expelling thousands of Bosnian refugees
- New dinosaur fossils ignite old controversy
- America West Airlines fined for 41,000 safety violations
1998-07-17
- How the German government and parties pave the way for the extreme right
- A "chilling effect" on art and democratic rights
- Police in Michigan mount a manhunt for anti-Klan demonstrators
- Japanese politics in limbo
- Indian government threatens to use army to break postal strike
- Another blow to the Howard government
- Court threat to General Motors strike
- Australian warehouse workers face police attacks
- On CNN's retraction of nerve gas story
- The Starr investigation and the right wing
- Impressions of political life in the US
- Canadian dollar falls to record low
- Wage restraint and privatisation from British Labour government
1998-07-18
- Some interesting films on US television, July 18-24
- Secret Service agents begin testimony against Clinton
- Publisher commends WSWS
- Who is Laurence Silberman?
- California judge orders man electronically stunned in courtroom
- An exchange over the Nathaniel Abraham case
- Police in Michigan mount a manhunt for anti-Klan demonstrators
- Workers' struggles around the world - 18 July 1998
- Indian postal workers end strike
- Patients cut off waiting lists in Australian hospitals
- City University of New York ends open admissions
- Reader comments on the retraction of the CNN "Tailwind" story
- Student commends WSWS coverage of economic crisis, NEA-AFT merger vote
1998-07-21
- The old Russia and the new: Yeltsin buries the tsar
- IMF protected US banks in Russian bailout
- One in four US children under six live in poverty
- Up to 6,000 killed by PNG tidal wave
- A whiff of fascism from New York City welfare chief
- Australian Labor Party says shoot at Indonesian fishing boats
- Auto workers turn away from GM-UAW collaboration
- Court to monitor arbitration in US auto strike
- Remaining 9,000 British miners' jobs under threat
- Executions on the rise in California
1998-07-22
- Resident fights for release of pollution documents
- US isolated at conference on war crimes
- One in four US children under six live in poverty
- World Bank warns of disaster in Indonesia
- Student asks about Tiananmen Square
- "There should be equal opportunity around the world"
- "The unions use nationalism to divide the workers"
- Student leader commends coverage of James Byrd murder
- Buffalo '66: "All my life I've been a lonely boy"
- British GM workers speak on US strike, working conditions
1998-07-23
- Support won for victimised teacher
- A reply to a letter "On form and content in music"
- The cover-up of a racist murder in Britain - What the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry has revealed and what it has not
- Auto layoffs spark general strike call in Korea
- Homeless Russian boy raised by stray dogs
- Death toll high among immigrants, elderly
- Greenspan: US central bank will resist a movement for higher wages
- The devastation of CUNY: a cynical attack on working class youth
- An exchange of letters on the Mad Cow Disease (BSE) crisis
1998-07-24
- Comments on the Starr-Clinton controversy
- Sri Lankan military hid bodies of its Tamil victims in mass graves
- Support for victimised Australian teacher
- Readers commend coverage of PNG tidal wave disaster
- Philadelphia transit workers to vote on tentative pact
- A new rift in New Zealand's government
- In response to an article on the IRS overhaul
- In response to Why did CNN retract its nerve gas story? A closer look
- The evidence of US nerve gas use in Operation Tailwind
- Fired journalists defend report on nerve gas use in Vietnam War
- Canadian Auto Workers official denounces GM strike
- An exchange on Bulworth and race and class in America
- A self-assured experiment in film
- Australia: Teachers denounce privatisation of migrant language courses
1998-07-25
- Some interesting films on US television, July 25-31
- British carmaker Rover to cut 1,500 jobs
- Lack of resources compounds Papua New Guinea tragedy
- Background to PNG disaster: the legacy of colonial domination
- Hundreds turn out for miner's funeral
- Mexican auto worker: "I would like to help the GM workers win"
- British media show concern about Labour's closeness to business
- Workers struggles around the world 25 July 1998
- Unions cancel Korean general strike
- Wall Street demands GM victory in strike
- America: Two snapshots of the brutal society
- Sharpton, lawyers guilty of defamation in Brawley case
- A letter on Nathaniel Abraham case
1998-07-28
- Starr subpoenas Clinton in Lewinsky investigation
- Support from NZ for victimised Australian teacher
- Australia: Former PM Fraser calls for coalition
- Replies to critics of the GM strike
- Settlement near in GM strike
- More warehouse strikers arrested in Sydney
- The Capitol shooting as the symptom of a social crisis
- Argentine workers launch GM solidarity campaign
- An exchange on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1998-07-29
- On the treatment of workers in Singapore
- Tiny Rowland: No longer the "Unacceptable Face of Capitalism"
- On liberalism and the Democratic Party
- Parents and teachers denounce NZ school closure
- Northwest Airlines workers rebel against machinists' union
- Another comment on form and content in music
- Political instability in Japan
- UAW abandons jobs fight at General Motors
- On socialism and democracy
1998-07-30
- Labour Government sets out to close Britain's borders to refugees
- Poetry, soldiers and war
- Government cuts prepare rail disaster
- Looting and land seizures in Indonesia
- Australian students rally against racist party
- High school students discuss One Nation
- US auto union ends strike on GM's terms
- Clinton crisis reveals decay of American democracy
1998-07-31
- TRW announces the closure of 21 plants
- Kenneth Starr, the American media and the pursuit of "truth"
- Demand for release of Sri Lankan detainees
- Dramatic rise in support for the Scottish National Party
- Attack on Scottish local government workers exposes factional struggle in Labour Party
- Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan: Small truths at the expense of big ones
- Ontario unions bury protest campaign against Harris government
- US, Britain block relaxation of Iraq inspections
- Australia: Labor seeks to block pollution documents
- More letters on the GM strike
- Two more US children face murder charges
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