Archive: 02/1999
1999-02-02
- Britain: Local councillors investigated for misappropriating anti-poverty funds
- Judge issues gag order sought by Starr
- Starr sends a message: the political coup will continue
- Eight years after capitalist reforms--a social crisis in Russia "without parallel"
- A tragic death underscores decline in New Zealand public health care
- Labour's compensation deal for British miners not all that it appears
- The Stephen Lawrence case: police credibility slides further into disrepute
- The Americas
- Fatal explosion at Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan
1999-02-03
- United Auto Workers officials cover up for Ford management
- Indonesia issues an "independence" ultimatum on East Timor
- "My exclusion is a serious attack on the democratic rights of both Sri Lankan and Australian workers"
- The American right and Scottish nationalism
- Chileans condemn Thatcher Foundation's defence of Pinochet
- Malaysian judge directs Anwar to answer charges
- Nat Hentoff and the decay of American liberalism
- Auto workers raise concerns that fatal blast was linked to unsafe conditions
- The Clinton impeachment and the World Socialist Web Site
- Angola prison and The Farm
- Health hazards in Bangladesh
1999-02-04
- Ford acquires Volvo car operations
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- NATO threatens force in Kosovo
- New political laws passed in Indonesia
- Former power plant supervisors suspect gas leak in fatal blast at Ford's Rouge plant
- Dire warnings but no agreement at World Economic Forum
- Clinton administration budget snubs social needs
- Oregon jury rules against anti-abortion web site
1999-02-05
- "A unique form of art"
- A glimpse of the cultural life and times of ancient Vietnam
- US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to address right-wing, pro-impeachment organization
- Thai government survives censure debate
- India: Charges of BJP's complicity in murder of Christians rock government
- Ford resuming production following fatal explosion at Michigan plant
- Britain: new Food Standards Agency no occasion for restored confidence
- Harsh new penalties for the young unemployed
1999-02-06
- A pat on the head from the Detroit News
- Some interesting films on US television, February 6-12
- Toronto report on homelessness: a sweeping indictment of government cutbacks and social conditions
- First execution in the Philippines in 23 years
- On mining companies and colonialism
- New York City police execute Guinean immigrant in a hail of bullets
- Labour moves against Ken Livingstone's candidacy
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- United Nations report: US killed 17 Iraqi women and children in January raid
- As Senate trial winds down, efforts intensify to cover up conspiracy against democratic rights
- Second Ford Rouge worker dies
1999-02-09
- Two-day strike on London Underground
- "This cannot be ignored as a minor incident"
- Poverty on the rise in Sri Lanka
- Youth on the go
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Further job cuts sweep North American economy
- Nation columnist Christopher Hitchens fingers Clinton aide
- An exchange on the International Space Station project
- What was new and unique about Cézanne?
1999-02-10
- What lies behind the Australian Labor Party's shift on East Timor?
- Poland: Widespread opposition to health reforms
- Polish farmers blockade borders
- Union splits ranks in US television technicians' settlement
- South Korean workers fight mass job cuts
- World leaders gather at King Hussein's funeral
- Hunger and homelessness plague US working families
- Wollongong steelworks pumps out dangerous dioxins
- Menem invites US to "dollarize" Argentina
1999-02-11
- No evidence of chemical weapons at Sudan factory targeted by US
- Sri Lanka: People's Alliance regime used fraud and thuggery to steal election
- FBI helped pursue Pinochet's political opponents in the US
- US Circuit Court strikes down suspects' rights
- Workers Struggles: Europe and the Middle East
- US Senate debates impeachment behind closed doors
- Why are the Democrats pushing for a censure resolution against Clinton?
- The New South Wales Labor government's "drug summit"
- Australian youth suffer dramatic decline in living standards
- Federal judge orders American Airlines pilots to end sick-out
1999-02-12
- Indonesia transfers East Timor leader to house arrest
- Unionists and Tories raise the stakes in British-Irish Agreement
- German political establishment shifts to the right
- Performance-related pay worsens inequalities in British education
- Germany: Christian Democrats mount racist campaign
- Canadian government report opposes job training for unskilled
- American Airlines pilots continue "sick-out"
1999-02-13
- Some interesting films on US television, February 13-19
- America's workplaces--among the deadliest in the industrialized world
- Profile of a right-wing conspirator
- Malaysian judge bars evidence of a political conspiracy in Anwar's trial
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Indian chemical workers appeal for support
- Impeachment trial ends, but the conspiracy continues
- Scoundrel time redux: Christopher Hitchens as a social type
- Michigan Ford plant explosion claims third victim
- American Airlines seeks contempt of court ruling against pilots
- Britain: Inquiry attacks Blair government over "arms-to-Africa" scandal
1999-02-16
- Sri Lanka: Tensions over Free Trade Agreement with India
- A rising number of industrial deaths in New Zealand
- Britain: South Wales declares two public health emergencies over meningitis
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Clinton to send Marines to Kosovo
- Britain and Spain exchange threats over Gibraltar
- Death toll mounts in blast at US auto plant
- The Clinton impeachment and the attack on democratic rights
- "The UAW allows management to play Russian roulette with the lives of workers"
- Politicians and media defend child boxing tournament in Australia
- Judge imposes fines, calls American Airlines pilots extortionists
1999-02-17
- An exchange on Vietnam's new land laws
- Clinton administration moves to impose punitive tariffs on Japanese, Brazilian steel imports
- Child and teenage poverty deepens in Australia
- More than 300 dead in Indonesian shipping disaster
- International scientists raise concerns over genetically modified food
- John Ehrlichman, key conspirator in the Nixon White House, dead at 73
- New fears of stockmarket slide
- The life and death of King Hussein of Jordan
1999-02-18
- Blair government targets unemployed, disabled and lone parents
- Typographers settle with Detroit Newspapers
- New York transit workers and the impeachment crisis
- Framed Black Panther leader Geronimo Pratt wins appeal
- The seizure of Abdullah Ocalan: whatever happened to the right of asylum?
- Immigrant killed by New York City police buried in Guinea
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Julie Hiatt Steele thanks WSWS for opposing frame-up by Kenneth Starr
- US expands air war against Iraq
- Trial opens in racist dragging death in Jasper, Texas
- Judge delays imposing heavy fines against American Airlines pilots
1999-02-19
- Joy Gardner's mother issues writ for compensation
- 13-year-old child sentenced as an adult in Michigan
- Book examines persecution of Pennsylvania miners
- International repression follows Ocalan's capture
- Free Internet providers boost UK access
- Indonesian president lashes out at Singapore as 'racist'
- Origins of HIV virus identified
- A reader asks the WSWS to comment on the sacking of England football coach Glen Hoddle
- On the drugs crisis
- The reality behind Canada's "good news" budget
- Kurdish protesters express outrage in Australia
1999-02-20
- Some interesting films on US television, February 20-26
- Protests continue against Australian government's decision to bar Tamil socialist
- UK Rover plant may still close as BMW tightens its belt
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US policy toward the Kurds--a mass of contradictions
- Filmmaker and informer
- Jobs cut, as economic insecurity of US workers rises
- Unionist domination of Northern Ireland Assembly confirmed
- Freeport obtains Indonesian approval to expand world's largest gold mine
- How union-management collaboration has undermined workers' safety in the US auto industry
- War resumes between Ethiopia and Eritrea
- Australian communications union faces membership decline
1999-02-23
- Ohio carries out first execution in 36 years
- British Home Secretary issues gagging order over Stephen Lawrence inquiry
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Filmmaker and informer
- Immigrant workers tied up with rope
- Conflicts in G7 as world economy moves closer to slump
- Two more workers die from Ford Rouge explosion
- British Home Secretary proposes preventative detention
1999-02-24
- Blair defends billionaire cabinet member
- ... and director Abraham Polonsky
- Five workers killed in Pennsylvania chemical blast
- Human Rights Watch report on Turkey: a profile of a police state
- The manhunt for Ocalan: How Washington flouts international law and democratic rights
- Cuts threaten future of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art
- Filmmaker and informer
- New York: Long record of abuse at Nassau County jail
- Indonesian opposition leader Megawati opposes East Timor independence
- Massacres by landlord militia rock India's second most populous state
- India: BJP-led coalition sacks Bihar state government
- US economy: How long can 'impossible balancing act' continue?
- A letter from Brazil, in solidarity with the Chilean people
- The police killing of Amadou Diallo
- Conversations with blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein ...
1999-02-25
- Yemen trial condemned as unfair
- The role of the German government in the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan
- Poverty rate soaring among children
- Cuts threaten future of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art
- Britain: Macpherson inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence provokes right-wing backlash
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Italian workers protest threats by government
- The music of everyday events
- As corruption scandals mount, US trade union leaders meet in Miami Beach
1999-02-26
- Zimbabwe: Mugabe government abandons the rule of law
- Jeans maker Levi Strauss to cut 5,900 jobs in the US and Canada
- The failure of the Rambouillet conference
- Racist killer sentenced to death in Texas murder
- The political issues in the fight to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
- New York transit worker comments on the impeachment crisis
1999-02-27
- The Wall Street Journal and Juanita Broaddrick
- Life is not the problem, but the conditions under which it is offered
- Mike Tyson thrown in solitary confinement after being denied psychiatric medication
- Some interesting films on US television, February 27-March 5
- Mass arrests at Australian mine
- Britain: Macpherson report fingers witnesses in Stephen Lawrence murder
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Funeral procession honours young Kurds slain at Israeli embassy
- US government responsible for genocide and terror in Guatemala
- State takeover of Detroit schools imminent
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