Archive: 08/1998
1998-08-01
- Contaminated water supply in Australian city
- Some interesting films on US television, August 1-7
- People's Alliance regime strengthens Sri Lankan military
- Sri Lanka's New Left Front: an anti-working class bloc
- The Powerball frenzy and the American Dream
- Workers struggles around the world - 1 August 1998
- Hyundai workers sacked in South Korea
- GM says US auto union gave blanket no-strike pledge
- Former US Teamsters President Ron Carey expelled from union
- Canada: plummeting dollar producing policy split
1998-08-04
- Observer details right-wing conspiracy behind Starr investigation
- Crisis in South Asia reflected in Colombo summit
- "Our great grandfathers would turn in their graves."
- Auto workers face layoffs at GM's German subsidiary
- Euripides' Medea: A timeless drama
- GM to sell off parts unit
- Asian slump continues to deepen
- Unstable outcome to Cambodian elections
1998-08-05
- The British House of Lords, gay consent and democratic rights
- LTTE authorities in the north of Sri Lanka arrest Tamil socialists
- An exchange on Japanese politics
- Japanese opposition manoeuvres to replace Obuchi
- New US provocation against Iraq
- A letter and reply on Art and Freedom: André Breton and problems of twentieth-century culture
1998-08-06
- Wall Street tumble: a warning of things to come
- New Zealand government loses majority
- Northwest machinists vote down tentative contract
- Celebrity lawyer wins Michigan primary
- New information indicates lives of Tamil socialists in grave peril
- Sri Lankan government imposes island-wide emergency
- Castro on Caribbean tour seeks to build pressure against US embargo
1998-08-07
- WSWS editorial board chairman demands release of Sri Lankan socialists
- US companies announce 10,000 layoffs
- Water pollution cover-up continues in Australian city
- Why is the US media silent on the conspiracy behind the Starr investigation?
- US prison population hits 1.7 million
- LTTE remains silent: International protests mount against arrest of Tamil socialists in Sri Lanka
- Anti-Kabila uprising in eastern Congo
1998-08-08
- Some interesting films on US television, August 8-14
- Third Sri Lankan socialist arrested by LTTE
- Workers struggles around the world - 8 August 1998
- Indonesian military puts generals on trial
- Windfall for corporate executives from Chrysler-Daimler merger
- Fewer than half of Canada's jobless eligible for unemployment benefits
- Bomb blasts at US embassies in Africa kill 80
1998-08-11
- Unhelpful praise for an imperfect film
- LTTE remains silent on arrest of Tamil socialists in Sri Lanka
- Japan could trigger global crisis
- General Motors worker discusses the Flint strikes
- Australian warehouse strikers threatened with dismissal
- 73,000 US telephone workers strike Bell Atlantic
- Chinese floods displace millions
- Western New York hit by spin-off of General Motors' parts division
- Death toll mounts in East African bombings
1998-08-12
- Modern day Britain: where deceased humans become "waste products"
- Pennebaker and Hegedus: seminal figures in American documentary film
- International protests mount against LTTE arrest of Tamil socialists in Sri Lanka
- Hyundai workers continue to fight lay-offs
- Habibie unveils plan to maintain political restrictions in Indonesia
- US telephone workers union ends strike against Bell Atlantic
1998-08-13
- Letter from Sri Lankan SEP general secretary to the LTTE
- Massive job losses hit British industry
- A noteworthy shift in media coverage of Starr investigation
- Pulp Fiction: Something or nothing?
- Jane Campion's The Piano: A sensitive touch to a fairly selfish theme
- Former British MI5 agent alleges plot to assassinate Gaddafi
- International campaign demands release of Sri Lankan socialists
- Ken Loach's Land and Freedom: The Spanish revolution betrayed
- British Petroleum acquiring US oil producer Amoco
- Questions mount in Kenya, Tanzania bombings
1998-08-14
1998-08-15
- UK police to mount nationwide roadblocks
- Some interesting films on US television, August 15-21
- Ontario teachers threaten to resume strike
- Ruling New Zealand coalition disintegrates
- Messages from Russia, US, Australia demand release of Tamil socialists
- Workers struggles around the world: 15 August 1998
- Prosecutors, media distorted case against Chicago boys charged with murder
- The Nairobi terror-bombing: some issues not considered in the American media
- Boeing pushes ahead with huge job cuts
- Australian miner runs for right-wing One Nation party
1998-08-18
- How the UAW promotes anti-Mexican chauvinism
- Russian question hangs over international markets
- The Omagh bombing and the dead-end of nationalism
- Pesan-pesan dari Rusia, AS, Australia menuntut pembebasan bagi sosialis-sosialis Tamil
- Telephone workers strike US West
- Outrage--and silence--over concentration camps for immigrants
1998-08-19
- Sharp tensions between Malaysia and Singapore
- LTTE communiqué threatens Tamil socialists with execution
- Striking auto workers, police clash in Korea
- Human trials of HIV vaccine to begin
- Drug companies profiteering at the expense of the National Health Service
- Clinton speech signals intensification of Washington political warfare
1998-08-20
1998-08-21
- New talks in US West strike
- Australian communication workers face new impasse
- Sri Lankan SEP holds protest to demand release of Tamil socialists
- The press and US militarism -- a lesson from history
- Glasgow workers strike against Labour council budget cuts
- Flood disaster spreads in China
- Blair government in crisis over welfare
1998-08-22
- Some interesting films on US television, August 22-28
- Strikes in three Ontario school districts
- Workers Struggles Around the World - 22 August 1998
- Police and union officials mount frame-up of dissident textile workers in India
- German court reopens case over arson attack on refugees
- The Sudan-Afghanistan attack: Clinton uses cruise missiles to placate political opponents
1998-08-25
- Secret Timor documents implicate former Whitlam government in Australia
- Science v. Religion: The history and significance of the 1925 Scopes trial
- Russian crisis shakes global markets
- Portrait of an Australian by-election
- On the gulf between "high" and "low" in music
- Ringmasters of political pornography
- Landscape and artistic development in new worlds
- NATO plans attacks in Kosovo
1998-08-26
- Marketable despair
- US West hardens stand against striking telephone workers
- Risking a nuclear war
- Another coal mine closes in Australia
- LTTE fails to reply to International Red Cross inquiry into arrest of Sri Lankan socialists
- Indonesian hospitals head toward breakdown
- Gingrich to Clinton: message received
- Food poisoning deaths inquiry shields British meat industry
- What are the real reasons for the US missile strikes?
1998-08-27
- Britain: Labour's arts policy is a disaster in the making
- German federal elections: Partei für Soziale Gleichheit runs candidates in six states
- Northwest Airlines, pilots union in talks as strike deadline approaches
- Professional sports, drugs and profits
- Japan: deepening social crisis underlies political turmoil
- Intensive campaigning begins in German national election
- Blair uses Omagh bombing to sanction erosion of democratic rights
- Escalating war in the Congo threatens to destabilise sub-Saharan Africa
- German TV exposes CIA, Mossad links to 1986 Berlin disco bombing
1998-08-28
- British Labour government to use unemployed as substitute for teachers
- US explanation of Sudanese missile attack unravels
- Faction fight in New Zealand teachers union
- Northwest Airlines prepares for strike
- Reader explains conditions of Mexican workers
- Korean unions accept Hyundai job cuts
- Legal battle over rights of disabled students in Australia
- International market turmoil: A sea-change in world economy
- "This is a test case to try any child as an adult"
- "Shouts from the Wall," an exhibit of Spanish Civil War posters - Fascinating artifacts from a momentous struggle, and crude apologetics for Stalinism
- Mass graves begin to reveal scale of atrocities in Indonesia
1998-08-29
- Some interesting films on US television, August 29-September 4
- Security Council rejects appeal from Sudan over US missile attack
- Rodchenko's art and fate: the experiment continues
- Impending pilots' strike at Northwest Airlines
- Workers struggles around the world: 29 August 1998
- Resignation of American arms inspector sparks new demands for US military action against Iraq
- The "Diana" phenomenon re-examined
- Readers write in about the US bombings in Sudan and Afghanistan
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