Archive: 09/1998
1998-09-01
- Telephone workers union agrees to productivity pay and forced overtime
- Socialist Equality Party to stand candidates in Australia
- A comment on the WSWS review of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and a reply by David Walsh
- Changes in airline industry behind Northwest pilots strike
- A rude awakening in store after the German elections
- Market crash portends major political shifts in the United States
- Australian government calls crisis election
- A comment on the film reviews in the WSWS
1998-09-02
- Remarks from the translator of Art as the Cognition of Life
- Job cuts fuel giant profits in Australian telecommunications
- US backpedals over Sudan raid
- LTTE hunting down socialists
- Minority government installed in New Zealand
- Clinton's transportation secretary intervenes in Northwest pilots' strike
- "Modern" German Social Democrats - Jost Stollmann--from multimillionaire to future economics minister
- Private armies involved in the Congo war
- Colombian general served CIA, death squads and drug dealers
- Prostration before reaction
- Art as the Cognition of Life
1998-09-03
- Clinton preaches for capitalism in Moscow visit
- Bad behavior
- First Socialist Equality Party election broadcasts
- The market, planning and socialism
- "Tough love" message from Russia's false friends
- South Korean Hyundai workers rebuff union leaders
- Two thirds of Indonesians to be in poverty by mid-1999
- Growing child poverty in Germany
- Socialist Equality Party begins election campaign in Germany
- Air Canada pilots strike
- Significant breakthrough in diagnosis of human BSE
1998-09-04
- Man-made factors revealed in Wollongong storm disaster
- Russia descends into economic and political chaos
- Malaysia erects currency barriers as economy plunges into recession
- Thousands of riot police attack Korean workers
- Intense conflict over Japanese bank "restructuring"
- British parliament votes to suspend civil liberties
- Reader asks about US bombing of baby milk plant during Gulf war
- Financial crisis spreads through Latin America
- The Northwest, Air Canada strikes and the globalization of the airline industry
1998-09-05
- Some interesting films on US television, September 5-11
- Tensions mount over oil-rich Timor
- War, famine and now pestilence
- For a socialist alternative
- The German Elections: Letters and e-mails ask more about the Socialist Equality Party and its policies
- Minnesota governor calls for presidential intervention in Northwest strike
- Workers struggles around the world: 5 September 1998
- Prosecutor's murder case against two Chicago boys collapses
1998-09-08
1998-09-09
- A balance sheet of the Yeltsin era
- LTTE arrests two more Tamil socialists
- George Orwell and the British Foreign Office
- TB outbreak in New Zealand school
- Public meeting in Australia condemns LTTE arrest of Sri Lankan socialists
- Akira Kurosawa’s achievement
- Indonesian students demand Habibie's resignation
- A letter on auto industry job cuts
1998-09-10
- A tacit agreement to deny reality
- More comments on the Starr investigation
- More letters on Saving Private Ryan
- Strikes and lockouts in 7 Ontario school districts
- Clinton sends top aide to participate in Northwest talks
- The "Million Youth March"
- Deaths in Australian mines--what produced the killing fields?
- Australian teachers union leader demands LTTE release Sri Lankan socialists
- Wolfgang Clement--Prime Minister of North-Rhine Westphalia
1998-09-11
- Sydney's water crisis—a systemic failure
- Was the US missile attack on Sudan justified?
- A banal celebration of ruthlessness
- Unprecedented violence used against Korean workers
- Letters on the Indonesian crisis
- An election campaign in the shadow of crisis
- End game in the Clinton crisis
- Settlement reported near in Air Canada strike
- On the role of imperialism in Africa
1998-09-12
- Highest unemployment in Germany during an election since 1933
- Some interesting films on US television, September 12-18
- "The Al-Shifa factory was not making chemical weapons" - Interview with technical manager of bombed pharmaceutical factory in Sudan
- Northwest agreement abandons wage increases
- A political tinderbox in Malaysia
- Workers struggles around the world 12 September 1998
- Northern Ireland's "peace" built on state repression and paramilitary violence
- How the social democrats and the Greens have contributed to Germany's social misery
- Police raids and surveillance cameras in Australian schools
- A revealing election dispute in Australia
1998-09-15
- Unions advocate closer collaboration with business as Britain heads into recession
- A query from an Australian reader about the WSWS
- Mass arrests of legal immigrants in El Paso, Texas
- Amnesty International issues urgent appeal on behalf of Sri Lankan socialists
- A question on socialism and communism
- Japan enters deepest post-war recession
- German unions and the extreme right wing
- Chagall's response to war and revolution
- Floods threaten 20 million lives in Bangladesh
- Howard and Beazley share common agenda
1998-09-16
- Filipino president declares himself 'pro-business'
- Economic crisis worsens in New Zealand
- British Trades Union Congress delegates condemn LTTE repression
- Marxism and the law
- Financial scandal threatens to engulf French presidency
- An interview with dissident US miner Richard Cicci
- "Mad cow disease" could have spread to Britain's sheep
- Setback for Social Democratic Party in Bavarian elections
- A letter and reply on the Kronstadt rebellion
- Text of "Urgent Action Appeal" by Amnesty International
1998-09-17
- Starr report increasingly discredited
- What is behind Labour's expulsion of Scottish MP Tommy Graham?
- Unions derail Ontario teachers' struggle
- IMF, Indonesia abolish food subsidies
- Why have hospitals become dangerous places?
- Correspondence on globalisation and the contradictions of capitalism
- More signs of recession in US economy
- Clinton grand jury videotape to be made public
1998-09-18
- Vadim Rogovin: 1937-1998
- Blair tells workers that Labour is unable to stop UK job losses
- Australian Labor Party turns full circle on East Timor
- Socialist Equality Party on the TV program "The Outsiders"
- Latin America's crisis spells social upheavals
- 'User pays' in Australian schools
- Cold water treatment for Clinton plan
1998-09-19
- Some interesting films on US television, September 19-25
- Unions put seal on pro-business agenda
- Appeals for the release of the five SEP members in LTTE custody
- Working class organizations, artists and intellectuals demand LTTE release Sri Lankan socialists
- The right-wing agenda after Clinton
- How not to fight the right-wing coup in Washington
- Workers struggles around the world: 19 September 1998
- Why all are silent on the waterfront deal
- Growing nervousness over economic crisis
- Art as the discovery of truths, large and small
1998-09-22
- US officials question official rationale for Sudan missile attack
- The "programs of prompt action" of the Social Democrats and the Greens
- Anwar's arrest intensifies Malaysia's political instability
- Clinton grand jury testimony broadcast by networks
- Obuchi raises spectre of "war economy"
- The Force of Giacometti—painter, sculptor
- Socialism and the environment
- BHP share crash hits steelworkers
- Ford Argentina adds to job cuts sweeping global auto industry
1998-09-23
- A look at Chicago's poor: "Drama in ordinary experiences"
- Statement of SEP (Sri Lanka) General Secretary Wije Dias on status of Tamil socialists held by the LTTE
- Patriotism and the Australian tax package
- Two reports highlight the growth of global poverty and ill-health
- Colombo press conference called to press for release of all SEP members - Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party cites reports that LTTE has released three Tamil socialists
- Commentary on the Northern Ireland Agreement - Using and abusing emergency power legislation with the blessing of Sinn Fin/IRA
- No nerve gas on Iraqi missiles
- Protest turns back attempt to demolish Detroit art project
1998-09-24
- US Senate kills bill to raise minimum wage
- David Walsh at the Toronto International Film Festival
- Does opposition to Starr mean support for Clinton?
- Mandela government sends invasion force to Lesotho
- President Zedillo slashes budget
- Human Rights Watch demands release of Tamil socialists held by the LTTE
- A reactionary consensus on 'work-for-the-dole'
- Bloody disturbances in Albania
- New York City events to launch Art as the Cognition of Life by A.K. Voronsky
1998-09-25
- Striking images, but a misleading interpretation
- Tamil masses in the north of Sri Lanka protest cuts in food rations
- Copper smelter case proves government cover-up
- School students strike against New Zealand funding scheme
- Fourth Tamil socialist reportedly released by LTTE
- On the social crisis in Japan
- Basque separatist ETA offers unconditional cease-fire
- Emergency bailout for bond market speculator
- Clinton crisis exposes Blair's "Third Way"
1998-09-26
- Some interesting films on US television, September 26-October 2
- Swedish Social Democrats battered in election
- Interview with Socialist Equality Party candidates
- Millions languish in poverty, US report shows
- Transit workers still without contract
- Ontario Tories to legislate end to teacher strikes
- New support in Britain for campaign against LTTE's persecution of Tamil socialists
- Four thousand jobs cut in Britain
- Unemployment growing by millions says ILO report
- California court supports cover-up of prison brutality
1998-09-29
- David Walsh reviews the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival
- Philippine Airlines collapses
- New York City events introduce Aleksandr Voronsky's Art as the Cognition of Life
- Biggest ever Japanese bankruptcy
- A change of power in Bonn
- Gas blast paralyses Australian state
- "By thinking in images the artist cognizes the world in order to change it"
- Dissatisfaction dominates Australian election
- Blair government tells poor to fend for themselves
- US Senate bill tightens screws on debtors
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