Archive: 01/1999
1999-01--1
1999-01-05
- Tamil socialist barred from visiting Australia
- Communication Workers Union paves the way for deregulation of Britain's postal service
- Heart patients under a heartless capitalism
- Soviet writer Anatoly Rybakov dies at age 87
- Minnesota: massive police action dislodges anti-highway protesters
- A reader comments on "The bombing of Iraq: A shameful chapter in American history"
- On the Thomas Jefferson controversy
- Banana producers exploit hurricane devastation in Central America
1999-01-06
1999-01-07
1999-01-08
1999-01-09
- Some interesting films on US television, January 9-15
- WSWS calls for protests against Australian government's exclusion of Tamil socialist
- Attorney for Julie Hiatt Steele charges Starr with abuse of prosecutorial power
- What the Pinochet affair shows about Britain
- Flu outbreak highlights crisis in Britain's health service
- Marty Jonas on Alfred Hitchcock's decline
- Workers Struggles: Asia
- UNSCOM-CIA revelations show how the American people were lied to about Iraq
- Starr indicts recalcitrant witness Julie Hiatt Steele
1999-01-12
- Winter storm exposes social chasm in Detroit
- New Zealand Order of Merit for trade union head
- Montreal firefighters dispute highlights need for workers to mount political struggle
- The Americas
- What is fueling the Internet stocks' bubble?
- Week one of the impeachment trial: bipartisan agreement delivers setback to the White House
- Engineer in Pakistan writes on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh
- Continue your coverage and protests of the Julie Hiatt Steele indictment
- The politics of self-delusion
- Auto workers occupy Brazilian plant
1999-01-13
- Australian SEP demands reversal of ban on Tamil socialist
- British prime minister's South Africa visit provokes anger over air strikes against Iraq
- Betrayed
- Britain: Labour's new pension plans will impoverish the elderly
- Salt Lake City bribery scandal: the buying of the Olympic games
- Israel prepares for crisis elections
- Detroit Medical Center announces job cuts
- Concerns over the Thai air crash
1999-01-14
- Union betrayals cut wages
- WSWS calls for protests against Australian government's exclusion of Tamil socialist
- Europe and Africa
- India: Congress party backs BJP "reform" bills
- Asian crisis: ILO report details worsening social conditions
- New reader appreciates World Socialist Web Site
- The Internet companies and the stock market
- Financial markets plunge as Brazil devalues currency
1999-01-15
- Despite court ruling of unfair trial, Texas executes Troy Farris
- WSWS readers condemn Australian ban on Tamil socialist
- Labour's Scottish land reforms play to the nationalist gallery
- Labor to abolish right to silence before criminal trials
- The Senate impeachment trial: The legal framework of a right-wing witch-hunt
- Appeals court hearing on Nathaniel Abraham confession
1999-01-16
- Australian aid organisation protests government exclusion of Tamil socialist
- Fresh fighting in Sierra Leone capital intensifies crisis in West Africa
- Chilean government to make presentation to the Pinochet hearing
- Malaysian judge amends charges in Anwar's trial
- Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Some issues raised by Michael Jordan's retirement
- Detroit schools close indefinitely
- Why Pinochet must be condemned
- Democrats paralyzed as Republicans present their case against Clinton
- The crisis facing Blair's Third Way
- Brazil crisis exposes global faultlines
- The UAW works for the company, not auto workers
1999-01-19
- International protests against Australian government exclusion of Tamil socialist
- 1990s-style student unionism
- World scientists meet to discuss Coto de Doñana disaster
- New Zealand government boosts security agency powers
- Police officers evade disciplinary charges in racist killing of Stephen Lawrence
- The Americas
- Hunger will increase in 1999, UN warns
- American retailers involved in sweatshop racketeering on US-Pacific territory
- "Week one of the impeachment trial"
- Appreciation for the commentary on Michael Jordan's retirement
- "The persuasive power of your articles lies in your insistence on upholding the highest journalistic standards"
- Clinton silent on the impeachment conspiracy
1999-01-20
- Sri Lankan newspapers report Australian government exclusion of Tamil socialist
- Retreat by prosecution in Pinochet extradition case
- A materialist examination of human consciousness
- A curious silence
- The new "White Australia" Policy
- Pennsylvania mother charged in the fire deaths of her four children
- Castroism at forty: the dead-end of petty-bourgeois nationalism
- "One must see nature as no-one has seen it before"
- Banana war threatens jobs and heralds wider trade conflicts
1999-01-21
- The worsening state of working America
- Julie Hiatt Steele to fight Starr's indictment
- Clinton's State of the Union address: a speech in full denial
- The failed vote of no-confidence in the European Parliament
- Australian waterfront workers face further job cuts
- Europe, Africa and the Middle East
- US medical journal editor fired in cave-in to the right
- White House Counsel refutes case against Clinton
- The euro's launch heralds major economic and social conflicts
- A Civil Action: a compelling tale loses much of its impact
- UK admits hostages in Chechnya were asked to report sensitive information
1999-01-22
- Prosecution argues for international law at Pinochet hearing
- Montreal firefighters suspend pressure tactics
- The new "White Australia" Policy
- IMF "mistakes" part of a long-developed program
- "Out of Sight, Out of Mind?"
- Greek students protest against PASOK government
- Social tensions rise in China
- Ashdown resignation a blow to Blair
1999-01-23
- New land laws in Vietnam will lead to greater rural poverty
- Storm clouds gather over US economy
- Some interesting films on US television, January 23-29
- East Timor and the politics of oil
- A horrible state of war
- Australian authorities silent on exclusion of Tamil socialist
- Romanian miners' protest ends
- The view from outside the Pinochet hearing
- Labour's proposed changes to House of Lords are undemocratic
- Asia and Australia
- The Senate impeachment trial: White House lawyers expose legal frame-up
- Detroit Medical Center begins layoffs
- Doctor opposes firing of medical journal editor
1999-01-26
- Clinton proposes huge police buildup
- Cutbacks to New Zealand fire services
- New York: Nassau County jail guards stomp man to death
- MI6 involved in spying against Iraq through UNSCOM
- The Americas
- Japanese finance minister attacks "Washington consensus"
- US officials admit missiles hit Iraqi residential areas
- The new "White Australia" Policy
- "The film has no precedents that I know of"
- The Clinton trial
- Stars and celebrity
1999-01-27
- What is happening in Yemen?
- Unions protest Australian government ban on Tamil socialist
- US high court upholds death sentence of Canadian on death row in Texas
- "Made to look silly and laughable"--the PDS in Germany reacts to the erection of a statue of Rosa Luxemburg
- Cast adrift
- Surge of job cuts by US retailers
- Senate impeachment trial: a conspiracy of silence
- Canadian telecommunications giant to slash jobs and wages
1999-01-28
- Paul Wellstone on "Larry King Live": a revealing exchange
- Pinochet hearing hinges on permissibility of torture
- Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Crisis in Kosovo intensifies
- Australian agents spied for US in Iraq
- Conyers defends Democrats' silence on impeachment conspiracy
- Striking Australian coal miners sacked
- US Supreme Court overturns sampling in Census
1999-01-29
- Australian teacher to challenge frame-up
- Tensions mount in the German PDS
- Former UN official calls for an end to sanctions on Iraq
- Appeals court reinstates tax case against Webster Hubbell
- Weak and weaker
- Britain: Labour pushes ahead with privatisation of education
- A letter on the worldwide plight of heart patients
- In response to the article: "Intellectual property and computer software"
- Earthquake tragedy compounds social misery in poverty-stricken Colombia
1999-01-30
- US-EU banana dispute intensifies world trade tensions
- Some interesting films on US television, January 30-February 5
- Sydney revelations deepen Olympics corruption scandal
- Asia and Australia
- New date to be set for execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Ambon rioting leaves 100 dead in Indonesia
- The racist and anti-Semitic subtext of the Senate impeachment trial
- Impeachment trial procedure violates due process
- China's first major financial bankruptcy
- Australian textile strike enters second month
1999-01-93
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