Archive: 07/1999
1999-07-01
- Australian youth suffer sharp falls in jobs and incomes
- Sri Lankan doctors defy government strikebreaking
- The struggle for Caspian oil, the crisis in Russia and the breakup of the Commonwealth of Independent States
- Scotland's top defence lawyer exposed as a Protestant bigot
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- After the European elections: the view from Italy
- "It is in my inability to conform that I find the passion necessary to create"
- Emergency food providers say child hunger is rising in New York City
- US "bubble" continues to inflate
1999-07-02
- Background to the Ocalan verdict: European interests and the Kurdish question
- Fraudulent elections in Malawi
- The all-too vigilant John Sayles
- Germany's new budget: the beginning of the end of the welfare state
- Learning through play an "easy option" — says Labour
- General Motors closes Buick City complex in Flint, Michigan
1999-07-03
- A watering down of Wilde
- Michigan to begin drug testing of welfare recipients
- Some interesting films on US television, July 3-9
- Clinton's Medicare plan would undermine universal health insurance for the elderly
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Germany: The transformation of the Greens' social policy
- Britain's Freedom of Information Act — a charter for state secrecy
- Pharmaceutical companies dump useless drugs in Albania
1999-07-05
1999-07-06
- Talks confirm undemocratic character of Northern Ireland Agreement
- Solomon Islands accord paves the way for further conflict
- Scandal over redundancy payouts hits New Zealand government
- Some cracks in the media propaganda front: reports of grossly exaggerated atrocity stories in Kosovo
- Youth centre fire in South Korea claims 23 lives
- Racist gunman kills himself after three-day rampage in Illinois and Indiana
- US manufacturing and mining jobs continue to decline
- "It's an attempt to destroy the country's psyche, its historic soul"
1999-07-07
1999-07-08
- More of Spike Lee's filmmaking
- Sri Lanka: People's Alliance regime plans to dismantle free health service
- Quebec nurses' strike at a turning point
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- No reply from CNN
- When will the US "debt bomb" explode?
- Was CNN involved in a NATO effort to assassinate the Serbian information minister?
- WSWS interviews renowned French director Bertrand Tavernier
1999-07-09
- South African asbestos miners sue British company
- Sydney Olympic organisers dump international youth band
- What does US sanction for the execution of Abdullah Ocalan say about its "humanitarian"aims in the Balkans?
- Workers comment on inquiry into Australian gas explosion
- Israel's Prime Minister Barak forms autocratic government
- Executions carried out in three US states
- Union retreats amidst growing mass support to the Sri Lanka doctors' strike
- Music of life
- Britain's doctors attack government health policy
- Bangladesh budget heaps on more burdens as poverty grows
1999-07-10
- Some interesting films on US television, July 10-16
- A modern-day equivalent of the workhouse
- An interview with Bertrand Tavernier
- A work of authenticity, artistic substance and optimism
- Clinton's "anti-poverty" tour covers up deepening social polarization
- Readers comment on the WSWS review of Spike Lee's Summer of Sam
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US scheme to end fighting in Kashmir in doubt
- Families—the fastest growing subgroup of the homeless population
- The German army as occupying power... and spearhead for German business
- The political issues in the fight for workers’ democracy
1999-07-12
- A comment on Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini
- New York cop acquitted in shooting of unemployed "squeegee man"
- PNG Prime Minister resigns after Australian intervention
- In US presidential campaign: big money backs Bush, Gore and Bradley
- Blair denounces public sector workers to an audience of Venture Capitalists
1999-07-13
- Joaquin Rodrigo, famed Spanish composer dies
- A fitting tribute to a man of principle
- Australia: Sacked Oakdale miners work without pay to recover entitlements
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Scores die in US heat wave
- A prescription for further social inequality
- Chile documents expose criminal role of US foreign policy
1999-07-14
- World Socialist Web Site Review published
- Kvaerner almost certain to close its Govan shipyard in Scotland
- Quebec nurses return to work under 48-hour "truce"
- A supplementary point about the Moreau exhibit
- Gustave Moreau
- Victims' families campaign for reassessment of Tiananmen Square massacre
- Mass protests and repression in Iran
- Sharp electoral reverse in the Cook Islands
- Potential environmental catastrophe in Balkans
1999-07-15
- A hand held out to Beijing: US policy after Tiananmen Square
- Right-wing US senator quits Republicans, to run for president as independent
- Works of genuine artistry, worthy efforts and some others
- More than a quarter million mentally ill in America's jails and prisons
- Next stage in dismemberment of Yugoslavia: push for "independent" Montenegro
- Long-running trial of Malaysian human rights activist
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- California jury imposes record $4.9 billion fine in GM product liability case
1999-07-16
- Doctors' report "Growing up in Britain" highlights growing inequality in children's health
- US media attempts to discredit campaign for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Pakistan regime in crisis over climbdown in Kashmir
- Social contradictions behind the mass protests in Iran
- New techniques to boost the Internet's capacities
- The "Chilean Road"—electricity blackouts
- BBC programme depicts catastrophic conditions since war resumed in Angola
1999-07-17
- Zimbabwe: Trade unions step in to form a new pro-business party
- Some interesting films on US television, July 17-23
- Terrorism indictments brought against six tea plantation workers
- A conversation with Petr Lutsik
- Outskirts and Checkpoint: two films from Russia
- Bankers' man installed as PNG Prime Minister
- WSWS readers comment on Kosovo, Kurdistan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- South Korea's economic recovery—a recovery for whom?
- US racist church linked to more murders
1999-07-19
- The judgement in the show trial of Öcalan and the policies of the PKK
- Media sensationalism and the Kennedy crash
- US orchestrated Suharto's 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia
- Task Force calls for major attacks on City University of New York
- Neglect of flood control threatens China for second successive year
- After the elections in Armenia
1999-07-20
- Australian tycoon uses police and helicopters against Visy Board strikers
- Estrada embarrassed by proof of Marcos billions
- British Labour's "modernisation programme": transferring public assets to private capital
- The Moon landings in historical perspective
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US orchestrated Suharto's 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia
- Labour government agrees deal to keep Govan shipyard open
- Five days in Ecuador general strike
1999-07-21
- Xenophobic attacks on North African immigrants in Spain
- One of this century's human tragedies, as witnessed by a child
- Union leaders conspire with government to end militant strike
- Union agrees to "performance pay" for New Zealand teachers
- Northern Ireland "peace process" in disarray
- US warplanes continue killing in Iraq
- US orchestrated Suharto's 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia
- Letters from WSWS readers
1999-07-22
- Humanitarian disaster in Yugoslavia
- Record trade deficit in US fuels tensions with Europe and Asia
- TB on the rise in Britain
- Inside the US prison system—frame-ups, brutality and murder
- Two accidents highlight worsening coal mine safety
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Australian immigration crackdown claims new victims
- Libya's Colonel Gadhaffi—from pariah to African "statesman"
- Letters on the Moon landing anniversary
- The subtle work of a much-neglected Australian artist
1999-07-23
- The impact of globalisation on health and safety at work
- Human guinea pigs and profiteering in World War II
- US and World Bank threaten Indonesia over Timor
- Nurses' rejection vote opens way to broader struggle against Quebec government
- Rush to complete new stadium blamed for deaths of three US construction workers
- Italy bars entry to fleeing Kosovan Gypsies
- The nature of democracy in capitalist Russia (perhaps not in Russia alone?)
- Argentine economy in free fall
1999-07-24
- Some interesting films on US television, July 24-30
- Well-deserved accolades for new Loach film
- Health services as an economic factor-the example of Poland
- The crisis in Britain's mental health care
- British government proposes draconian legislation against mentally ill
- Media hysteria fails to prevent release of John Lewthwaite
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- The death of JFK Jr. and the politics of celebrity
1999-07-26
1999-07-27
- Rogue Trader: A film deeply in awe of the market
- Sri Lankan journalists march against crackdown on media
- Joaquín Rodrigo, el famoso compositor español ha muerto
- Unions strangle Quebec nurses' strike
- At a loss
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The massacre of Serbs in Gracko: Who is responsible?
- Australian Premiers call for inquiry into how to cut health spending
- A contribution to the critique of Jürgen Habermas
- Shortages of casual teachers highlight education inequality
1999-07-28
- The impact of globalisation on urban development
- On the WSWS article about the deaths of three US construction workers
- US Reform Party convention: political confusion and right-wing nostrums
- Praise —"Gritty realism" and the problem of perspective
- A letter on the US debt bubble
- Iran: the political situation in the aftermath of the mass protests
- King Hassan of Morocco: world leaders mourn a ruthless despot
- An exchange about the financial bubble in the US economy
1999-07-29
- The impact of globalisation on urban development
- Tories oust Liberals in Nova Scotia election
- Niger takes on the trappings of civilian rule
- "Operation Horseshoe" —propaganda and reality
- Poor and elderly die in US heat wave
- Dollar fears send tremor through markets
- Readers write in on the issue of workers' democracy
- Sharp tensions erupt across the Taiwan straits
- A military massacre in Aceh
1999-07-30
- US Congress nears approval of $800 billion tax cut for the rich
- London detective cleared on all but two disciplinary charges in cover-up of racist murder
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- As US layoffs mount, Federal Reserve threatens moves to undermine workers' wage demands
- Conditions for workers deteriorate under the centre-left D'Alema government
- David Walsh reviews Eyes Wide Shut
- The Serbian opposition: a portrait of Zoran Djindjic
1999-07-31
- Some interesting films on US television, July 31-August 6
- The Sierra Leone peace deal
- Casino gambling in Detroit—low-wage jobs and illusions of striking it rich
- Big business pays millions to radio talkshow host
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- A humane life
- Indonesian opposition leader Megawati breaks two months' silence
- The Atlanta massacre: what it says about America
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