Archive: 03/1999
1999-03-02
- The contradictions of surging US growth
- New Zealand prime minister storms out of parliament over tourism scandal
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Albert Glotzer dead at 90
- One in five young Britons suffer mental health problems
- Internet crackdown in China
- The Deutsche Bank, Auschwitz and German business's compensation fund
- The Apple opens in the US
1999-03-03
- Singapore opposition leader jailed
- Socialist Equality Party New South Wales Election Statement
- Job losses mount in Australia as company profits rise
- 1,700 at New York rally to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Sweeping attack on the democratic rights of immigrants
- France's HIV-infected blood trial set to conclude this week
- Hackers shut down East Timor Internet addresses
- Canadian "unite the right" conference adopts revealing resolutions
- Canada's Official Opposition to found new right-wing party
- The 49th Berlin Film Festival: Part 1
1999-03-04
- Why the Vatican defends mass murder
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Spy revelations vindicate Iraqi charges
- Up to 50,000 bank workers face retrenchment in Indonesia
- A cruel juxtaposition of wealth and poverty
- Victim of Ford Rouge explosion says power plant was "running on bubble gum and bobby pins"
- Australian economy hits troubled waters
- The Broaddrick affair: the media renews the war against the White House
- The 49th Berlin Film Festival: Part 2--the latest from Tavernier and a film from Turkey
- US auto industry profits rise along with injuries and deaths in factories
1999-03-05
- US imposes tariff sanctions on European luxury goods
- UN intervention into East Timor being prepared
- Privacy rights threatened by Intel's new computer chip
- Nigerian election fraud leaves elite in control
- Clinton administration argues for right to expel asylum-seekers
- The Voice of the People: A 20 CD collection of folk song by Topic Records
- On the origins of HIV
- Reform of Common Agricultural Policy generates bitter conflicts
1999-03-06
- Some interesting films on US television, March 6-12
- Sri Lankan plantation workers expose frame-up by estate management
- Unanswered questions over the police bashing of Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim
- Anwar's wife to challenge Malaysian prime minister at next elections
- Monica Lewinsky describes intimidation and threats by Kenneth Starr
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Korean union federation quits government economic committee
- US pilot who killed twenty on ski gondola acquitted
- Despite the promise of peace and economic prosperity, Northern Ireland has become a barren land
- Police raid home of British Columbia premier
- Buchanan announces presidential campaign for 2000
- Meaning well is still the opposite of art
1999-03-09
- Leaked documents reveal Australian Labor leader's East Timor role
- Much more than bananas at stake in US-Europe trade conflict
- Widening gulf between rich and poor in New Zealand
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The rise and decline of Pauline Hanson's One Nation
- An exchange of letters on Stalinism, Trotskyism and the Communist Party of Canada
- Bangladesh: With protests intensifying, investors decry rivalry among political elite
1999-03-10
- Protests hit Pennsylvania welfare cuts
- Cost of Sri Lankan racist war equals 18 months of the country's GDP
- Macpherson report leaves major questions unanswered
- Supreme Court delays Clinton plans to deport thousands of legal immigrants
- Tamil Nadu journalist shocked by poverty in Glasgow
- Police falsified evidence about 1989 Hillsborough football disaster
- Letters on the acquittal of US marine pilot
- China spy scare: a new stage in the political warfare in Washington
- The 49th Berlin Film Festival: Part 3--documentary films from Germany, Switzerland and Austria
- Natural life and social life
1999-03-11
- Iris DeMent song provokes intense debate
- Papua New Guinea in legal battle with mercenary outfit
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Auto workers write to WSWS about fatal explosion at Ford plant
- Family of injured worker gets restraining order to prevent Ford from destroying evidence
- Despite growing protests, US states execute two more men
- Blair government intervenes in Republic of Congo
- "What's really at issue is the future of public education"
- Toronto school support staff workers strike
- Two German films about fascism
- Bipartisan push to further cut youth wages
1999-03-12
- Iris DeMent song provokes intense debate
- Graduate students strike at the University of Michigan
- A remarkable anthology of world poetry
- The politics of the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party): a balance sheet
- Court acquits former prime minister
- New disciplinary measures against NSW teachers
- General strike in Ecuador opposes IMF austerity measures
- The social underpinnings of the murder of Amadou Diallo
- Clinton's crocodile tears for Central America
1999-03-13
- Some interesting films on US television, March 13-19
- Texas sets date for execution of Canadian Stanley Faulder
- Aftermath of the US impeachment drive: Starr presses persecution of Susan McDougal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US layoffs up 41 percent since February 1998
- On WSWS coverage of US politics
- The Battle for Chile: a heartfelt testament to Pinochet's victims
- Australian troops placed on alert for intervention in neighbouring countries
- Landslide victory for right-wing extremists
1999-03-16
1999-03-17
- UN talks propose autonomy ballot for East Timor
- Background to the recent Nigerian elections
- The resignation of German Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine--the end of Bad Godesberg
- Civil rights lawyer murdered in Northern Ireland
- Former UN relief coordinator speaks in Detroit
- Five million US families without safe and affordable housing
- An important test case for teachers' rights
- Mass resignation by European Commission
- Universe expanding faster than expected
1999-03-18
- Sweden edges towards adopting the euro
- Political and social tensions mount in South Africa
- At least 11 deaths in Amtrak collision in Illinois
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Political observations from Bandung, Indonesia
- Michigan judge condemns 16 year old to life sentence with no parole
- Ecuador on brink of civil war as government deepens austerity measures
- Media sensationalises Sydney hearing
- Australia's richest man cleared of breaching media laws
1999-03-19
- Tourist murders expose Ugandan success claims
- State Labor government seeks to balance budget at the expense of public health
- World Poetry and the English language
- Witnesses undermine Starr case against Susan McDougal
- Mahathir crows over Sabah election win
- Canadian Parliament debates motion to study scrapping national currency
- Registration of Political Parties Act used to disbar Socialist Party in British elections
1999-03-20
- Some interesting films on US television, March 20-26
- More protests against exclusion of Tamil socialist
- A law and order bidding war against the youth
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US, NATO threaten bombing in Yugoslavia
- Socialist opponent of Stalinism dies in New York
- Indonesian bank workers protest closures and job losses
- Britain: Labour's budget sets stage for further attacks on welfare
1999-03-23
- A letter from South Africa
- The Academy Awards: Hollywood at its worst
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- War in Kosovo draws nearer
- Tensions high on Indonesian island of Ambon
- Death penalty opponents speak in Detroit
- Dayton, Ohio union officials defend KKK member
- Statistics point to increased incidence of brain-wasting disease in Britain
- World Bank chief sounds the alarm
1999-03-24
- The British working class and the Pinochet affair: what accounts for labour's silence?
- New Zealand firefighters' union gives go-ahead for job cuts and restructuring
- Lafontaine's resignation: how German business pressured the government to change course
- In a fresh attack on Kurdish democratic rights, UK watchdog shuts down Med TV station
- Labor's jobs program--no hope for the unemployed
- Dayton Accord near collapse: the political crisis in Bosnia
- Account of McCarthy period slanders socialist opponents of Stalinism
- Clinton at the Gridiron Club: making light of a political coup
- Liberals embrace the right's social agenda
- European Human Rights Commission challenges UK sentencing procedures in the Jamie Bulger case
1999-03-25
- Victorian Labor Party pitches for big business support
- British Lords issue ruling on Pinochet appeal--stage set for further litigation in extradition case
- Australian state election reveals youth opposition to Labor
- US-NATO bombs fall on Serbia: the "New World Order" takes shape
- Workers struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Election slump for Finnish social democrats
- Letters from WSWS readers on Elia Kazan and the Oscars
- House Republicans block vote to condemn racist group
1999-03-26
- Britain's anti-terror squad arrest Abu Hamza al-Masri
- ¿Quien será el siguiente en ser bombardeado por los Estados Unidos?
- McDougal trial exposes Starr-media conspiracy
- Whom will the United States bomb next?
- Indian budget lauded by big business
- Another victim of welfare reform: 11-month-old baby dies in Pennsylvania house fire
- Angolan civil war escalates
1999-03-27
- US military uses Yugoslavia as testing ground for high-tech weaponry
- Some interesting films on US television, March 27-April 2
- One in five British adults have serious problems reading and counting
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Stanley Kubrick--an appreciation
- General strike by Israeli public sector workers
- War dominates the European Union summit in Berlin
- Political police will hack into computers
1999-03-30
- An oddly human work
- Three day strike by New Zealand nurses
- Support for old parties plunges
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US, NATO prepare public opinion for ground war against Serbia
- Explosion at Michigan fireworks factory kills at least four workers
- Fictitious capital and the rise of the Dow
- Worldwide protests against US-NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
- British Liberal media and ex-radicals declare support for bombing of Kosovo
- Thousands demonstrate in Germany against NATO military strikes
- Rallies in Australian cities denounce NATO attack
1999-03-31
- Sri Lankan bank workers defy court injunction
- NATO attack on Serbia has repercussions for Europe as a whole
- Britain's Home Secretary considers freedom for Pinochet
- New York welfare policy claims a second infant's life
- Clinton signals a shift to a wider war against Serbia
- Interview with an actor on the Elia Kazan controversy: "I think it was one of the darkest periods in our history"
- Ireland: Report cites Royal Ulster Constabulary hostility to murdered civil rights lawyer
- Michigan fireworks factory cited for repeated safety violations before fatal blast
- Yugoslav immigrant condemns US bombing
- Canada: Liberals adopt emergency law to end federal workers strike
- Amnesty International condemns US for executions and police brutality
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