Archive: 10/1998
1998-10-01
- US military demands spending increase
- Ontario legislature orders teachers back to work
- South Korean bank unions call off indefinite strike
- Caribbean's poor hardest hit by Hurricane Georges
- "It was only a matter of time before this happened"
- Australian gas disaster raises many questions
- The enduring significance of the work of Max Ernst
1998-10-02
- Voter turnout in US primaries hits record lows
- US steelworkers strike Kaiser Aluminum
- David Walsh reviews the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival: Part 2
- Over 1,500 casualties in three days of Sri Lanka war
- The prosperous live longer
- British employers have little to lose from EU's "Working Time Directive"
- Former Los Angeles mayor dies
1998-10-03
- Workers struggles around the world -- 3 October 1998
- Some interesting films on US television, October 3-9
- Behind the sacking and arrest of Anwar Ibrahim
- More questions than answers on hedge fund collapse
- Blair tells British Labour Party conference, "The honeymoon is over"
- Ecuadorian workers and police clash in national strike
- California students protest funding of prisons instead of universities
- Ten-year-old charged with manslaughter in Australia
1998-10-06
1998-10-07
- An interview with Tsai Ming-liang, director of The Hole
- The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival: Part 3
- Warnings of famine and starvation in the former Soviet Union
- FBI informer, implicated in Klan killings, dead at 64
- Australian tour by Indonesian opposition leader Amien Rais
- Global reorganization threatens GM workers' jobs
- Political crisis deepens in Spain following ETA cease-fire
1998-10-08
- Scottish National Party's reformist mask begins to slip
- Russian marchers demand Yeltsin's resignation
- Clampdown on child pornography used as pretext for state control of the Internet
- US, NATO threaten new bombing campaign against Serbia
- UN oil for food coordinator denounces Iraq sanctions
- Impeachment then and now
- Conflicts dominate Washington meeting: World leaders at International Monetary Fund conference acknowledge global economic crisis
- Amnesty International reports widespread human rights violations in the US
1998-10-09
- The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival: Part 4
- City of New York agrees to $3 million settlement in police brutality case
- A political struggle in the guise of a sex scandal--Malaysia and the US
- Violent attacks on striking Kenyan teachers
- Sackings and wage cuts in Hong Kong
- On the Starr investigation
- On the gas breakdown in Australia
- A growing concentration of wealth
1998-10-10
- UMWA dissidents among 450 workers laid off at Pennsylvania mine
- Some interesting films on US television: October 10-16
- Britain's Conservatives on verge of split
- Healthcare professionals warn of "terrible consequences" as US uninsured population grows
- Mandela government sends more troops to Lesotho
- Workers struggles around the world
- Megawati pledges an "open market"
- Deep-seated fears send US dollar tumbling
- The Democrats: fighting impeachment on their knees
- Brazilian president prepares to implement IMF austerity package
1998-10-13
- The anti-gay lynching in Wyoming: who is responsible?
- More job losses in Scotland's Silicon Glen
- Italian government in turmoil after resignation of Prodi
- Germany after the elections
- Safety inspections slashed at Australian gas plant
- New revelations demonstrate role of right-wing lawyers, judges in anti-Clinton coup
- Blair hails Chinese Stalinists as proponents of the "Third Way"
1998-10-14
1998-10-15
1998-10-16
- Report documents growth of social antagonisms in America
- Why is the New York Times supporting Kenneth Starr?
- Indonesian generals and businessmen join Megawati's camp
- US Supreme Court lets anti-gay measure stand
- Questions on globalization and Aboriginal rights
- William Finnegan's Cold New World: Grim conditions facing young people in 1990s America
1998-10-17
- Some interesting films on US television: October 17-October 23
- Montana Republican tells candidates' forum: "Clinton should be shot"
- Workers struggles around the world: 17 October 1998
- New wave of layoffs in US
- The development of the radical right-wing parties in Germany
- Mass strikes in Colombia hit austerity demands
- Budget agreement maintains right-wing consensus
- Mega fever in Bali
- A painter and his hell
- US cited for widespread human rights abuses
1998-10-20
- Murderous conditions in Sri Lankan free trade zones
- Oxfam report details human cost of IMF programs
- New Zealand court approves fire service job cuts
- The Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement on Kosovo
- Touch of Evil: that ticking noise in our heads
- Readers comment on WSWS coverage of Starr investigation
- British Museum exhibit provokes controversy over Celtic history
- BSE detected in beef passed for human consumption
1998-10-21
- Damning documents in Sydney water contamination scandal
- After Matthew Shepard's killing: which way forward to defend democratic rights?
- Pinochet arrest sparks diplomatic crisis
- Pentagon issues warning over anti-Clinton statements by military personnel
- Who is responsible for the oil explosion in Nigeria?
- Australian waterfront workers object to new conditions
- Can Henry Kissinger be extradited?
- The Greens' fall from grace
- Surrey Council puts state school out to private tender
- Canadian students protest university fee hikes and budget cuts
1998-10-22
- The Wall Street Journal defends Pinochet
- New book documents US complicity in drug running
- Grand jury exonerates Houston cops in murder of Mexican immigrant
- Death squad inquiry continues to shake Spanish social democrats
- Hubble telescope captures glimpse of early universe
- Crisis mounts over Pinochet arrest
- Kenyan teachers strike betrayed
- Canada: Chretien government resists calls for increased social spending
- Video reveals prison bashing in Australia
1998-10-23
- Former British PM Thatcher calls for Pinochet's release
- Homelessness and hunger in Ontario
- US judge rules The Tin Drum is not child pornography
- National Health Service cuts lead to hundreds of baby deaths in Britain
- Signs of economic slowdown mount in US
- The Pinochet coup and the death of Charles Horman
- Mass demonstrations by French high school students
- Reader comments on anti-gay lynching in Wyoming
- Readers comment about article on the Starr investigation and the New York Times
1998-10-24
- Workers struggles around the world -- 24 October 1998
- Some interesting films on US television, October 24-30
- Scottish Socialist Party fosters nationalist divisions
- Sri Lanka: Tamils protest against delay in excavating mass graves in Jaffna
- Government crisis in Spain over Pinochet arrest
- The critical reception in Germany of Vadim Rogovin's 1937
- Republican candidate arrested for murdering opponent
- Britain's Labour government reveals its compassion for Pinochet
- New York prison administers medicine for profit
- US group sues over new attempt at Internet censorship
- From the archives of Marxism: Lessons of the 1973 coup in Chile
- A reply to article on "Rethinking McCarthyism"
- Colombian union leader assassinated as national strike intensifies
1998-10-27
- Australian government seeks new cover-up on Timor deaths
- The Starr-Tripp connection: Evidence mounts that independent counsel orchestrated frame-up of Clinton
- BMW/Rover to axe thousands of auto jobs at Longbridge, England
- The murder of Dr. Slepian
- High Court bid to free Pinochet begins
- A collection of rarely displayed images
- Death toll from Nigerian pipline explosion may reach 1,000
- Banks, not hedge funds, at centre of world financial crisis
- Police brutality in America
1998-10-28
- British authorities use new technology to increase state surveillance
- Pinochet’s arrest provokes political turmoil in Chile
- Further criminalization of the poor in the US - Working class couple charged for the accidental deaths of their children
- Deteriorating health care in New Zealand
- Sharp clashes between police and demonstrators in Malaysia
- Mounting political instability in Australia
- Germany's red-green coalition: Vague promises and calls for sacrifice from all
1998-10-29
1998-10-30
- Former CP leader D'Alema becomes prime minister of Italy
- Student protests call for Indonesian president to resign
- US election notes
- Vail, Colorado arson attack: The reactionary implications of "eco-terrorism"
- UAW agrees to axing of Dayton brake plant jobs
- General strikes in Bangladesh demand government's resignation
1998-10-31
- Some interesting films on US television, October 31-November 6
- Sixty-two dead in Sweden's worst fire in modern times
- International school examines the century’s central problems of history, politics and culture
- US holds key evidence against Pinochet
- Owners cancel first month of NBA basketball
- Workers struggles around the world
- Ford announces temporary plant closures
- Stalinist parties in India pledge to support Congress power bid
- AIDS devastation in Africa
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