Archive: 08/1999
1999-08-02
1999-08-03
- Public transport privatised in Australian state
- Minister murdered in Western Samoa
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US judge orders release of immigrant held three years in solitary confinement
- The Falun Gong crackdown: a crisis in China's corridors of power
- US steps up counter-insurgency operations in Colombia
1999-08-04
- Over 300 feared killed in Indian train disaster
- NATO general ordered military assault on Russian troops at end of Yugoslav war
- The New York Times and Clinton's contempt fine: the impeachment cover-up continues
- Rural discontent repressed in China
- An exchange on the Wim Wenders film Buena Vista Social Club
- The case of British Tory Treasurer Michael Ashcroft: wealth, patronage and parliamentary politics
- Protests over unpaid wages in Argentina
1999-08-05
- The 'free market's' social catastrophe
- State Labor government tries to hide cuts to Technical and Further Education
- Strike wave in South Africa
- Biography falls short of penetrating myth surrounding ANC leader
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Depleted uranium weapons used in Balkan War expected to cause thousands of fatal cancers
- The Balkan summit in Sarajevo: a shabby colonialist exercise
- Indonesian military cracks down in Ambon, Batam and Aceh
1999-08-06
- Retired US steelworkers oppose agreement with USX Corp.
- Social inequality and poverty increasing worldwide
- Profit drive blamed for Swiss canyon tragedy
- German foreign policy and the abduction of PKK leader Cevat Soysal
- "If people want to separate they should understand what it would really mean"
- Ricky Blackmon the first of seven Texas death row prisoners to be executed in the next two weeks
- Dow and Union Carbide to merge: two companies that have profited from the deaths of thousands
1999-08-07
- Some interesting films on US television, August 7-13
- US pushes for military involvement in East Timor
- Pakistani opposition presses for Sharif's resignation
- Next step in carve-up of the Balkans: Montenegrin regime approves plan for statehood
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Crisis of overproduction devastating American agriculture
- The beauty pageant and other ugly American phenomena—winning by any means necessary
- Asia's monsoon floods affect tens of millions
1999-08-09
1999-08-10
1999-08-11
- The number one task of US Congress: how to make the rich richer
- Two parliamentarians charged over murder of Samoan minister
- Jim Allen: A lifetime's commitment to historical truth
- US, Japan exert sharp pressure on North Korea over possible missile test
- Brutal police attack claims 17 lives in southern India
- The Austrian writer Peter Handke, European public opinion, and the war in Yugoslavia
- Events on Florida's death row underscore barbarism of the US judicial system
- Readers comment on the WSWS
- An interview with Jim Allen conducted in 1995
1999-08-12
- Plan to send 15,000 US Marines to East Timor
- Who is NATO's new General Secretary George Robertson?
- NATO's "mistaken" ethnic cleansing
- Working and poor in the United States
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- US job cuts continue at record pace
- Refugees mount protests and escapes at remote Australian detention centre
- The autobiography of Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove
- Fascist gunman attacks Jewish center in Los Angeles
- Richard Butler denounces Kofi Annan
1999-08-13
- Correspondence from MM
- A reply to correspondence on Marx's theory of value
- Rival warplanes patrol the Taiwan Strait
- Intimidation against settlers continues in Solomon Islands
- Civil war in Namibia
- Australian miners strike to defend entitlements
- Kansas Board of Education removes evolution from science curriculum
- New crisis in Indo-Pakistani relations
- Australian schoolgirl contracts HIV via blood transfusion
1999-08-14
- Some interesting films on US television, August 14-20
- Behind the government change in Russia: coming elections heighten power struggle of post-Soviet oligarchs
- The New South Wales rail system—a disaster waiting to happen
- US political notes: Pat Robertson favors assassinations, Congress promotes religion in schools
- Britain: what the Liberal Democrats' leadership contest reveals about New Labour
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iraqi child deaths have doubled under UN-imposed sanctions
- China Democracy Party members face political trials
- A damning report on Australian Aboriginal health and welfare
1999-08-16
1999-08-17
- Social inequality and the World Wide Web
- Turkish trade union leader murdered
- Hot nights in the city: New York City's environmental future
- Ethnic conflict escalates in Nigeria
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian authorities bar Deaf Congress delegates from entering the country
- Warnings of "Vietnamization" of Colombian civil war
1999-08-18
- IMF tightens the screws on Zimbabwe
- World trade conflicts intensify
- An artist to be taken seriously
- Texas court issues last-minute stay of execution of mentally ill death row prisoner
- Efforts stepped up in Spain to prevent trial of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
- Iowa straw poll: the decadence of American politics on display
- Right-wing young Greens go on the offensive
- Civil war erupts again in Afghanistan
1999-08-19
- Thousands die in Turkey earthquake
- China spying charges denounced as racist frame-up
- New PNG government implements IMF's economic restructuring demands
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- South Korean president releases rival's wealthy son
- "Eyes wide shut": The reopening of Columbine High School
- The continued drastic impact of the AIDS epidemic on sub-Saharan Africa
1999-08-20
- Anger mounts in Turkey following earthquake disaster
- Contract employee dies in accident at Rouge Steel in Dearborn, Michigan
- Malaysian government instigates a politically motivated 'anti-corruption' drive
- Serbs and Roma flee KLA terror in Kosovo
- Dover, England refugees become focus of chauvinist campaign
- Fissures widen in Northern Ireland Agreement
- The impact of increasing labour productivity on the crisis of profit system
- The impact of growing labor productivity: a letter from a WSWS reader
1999-08-21
- Some interesting films on US television, August 21-27
- What was Bill Richardson up to in Istanbul?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Typhoon compounds North Korean food shortages
- Former AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland dies: a Cold War anti-communist and servant of big business
- Kellogg and Pratt & Whitney top list of US job cuts
- French police arrest 210 asylum-seekers
- A reader comments on Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and David Walsh replies
- Kirkland and the Bulletin newspaper: a revealing exchange
- Moscow escalates intervention in Dagestan
1999-08-23
1999-08-24
- US military trains for urban warfare
- Turkish government calls off rescue efforts as earthquake death toll mounts
- The PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) publicly renounces the armed struggle
- British mercenaries planned assassination of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan
- Youth suicides in New Zealand prisons
- ... A wind from the East
- Workers Struggle: The Americas
- Bank Bali scandal puts pressure on Indonesian President Habibie
- Wall Street's dirty secret: 1990s boom based on smashing of labor in the 1980s
- The breakdown of the profit system
- The breakdown of the profit system: perception and scientific analysis
1999-08-25
- The atmospheric music of Underground Lovers
- The earthquake in Turkey: Western bankers see a silver lining
- How the Turkish earthquake disaster was prepared
- Australian firefighters demand better death and disability pensions
- New revelations in murder of Irish civil rights lawyer
- Trade deficit fuels fears of dollar crisis
- British Columbia's premier felled by casino-licensing scandal
- British Home Secretary pushes through scheme to disperse asylum-seekers
1999-08-26
- Three years of US welfare reform: hunger grows, poverty deepens
- Labour government cuts public spending in Britain to lowest rate in 40 years
- Snapshots of America's brutal society: state murder, police corruption and the expanding prison population
- South African public sector workers hold mass one-day strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Detroit school board demands sweeping concessions from teachers
- New York's asthma rates reveal social disparities
1999-08-27
- The political lessons of the Waco massacre
- FBI admits use of incendiary grenades at Waco
- Scant international aid for Turkish earthquake disaster
- Bank of New York probe exposes ties between Western financiers and Russian Mafia
- Air Niugini sacks engineers
- RUC reform increases tensions in Irish peace agreement
- Physical education cuts in Britain threaten children's health
- Bangladesh government crackdown on women engaged in prostitution
- Trial date set for 14-year-old Michigan youth charged with first-degree murder
1999-08-28
- Some interesting films on US television, August 28-September 3
- Political aftershocks in Turkey
- East Timorese prepare to vote in UN referendum
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain's Labour government massages the figures on hospital waiting time
- One and a half million poor in Britain going without gas and electricity
- UN reports reveal global growth of drug abuse
1999-08-30
1999-08-31
- NATO's landmines and cluster bombs kill or maim 150 in Kosovo
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US bosses' pay is 400 times the average worker's
- Greenspan's warning: confidence appears normal until the moment it is breached
- Detroit teachers launch strike
- Congo peace deal reveals continuing instability
- Civil liberties in the US threatened on two electronic fronts
- American Airlines workers indicted for drug smuggling: critical issues behind the headlines
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