Archive: 09/1999
1999-09-01
- Next phase of exhumation of mass graves in northern Sri Lanka to begin
- A non-election for Singapore's new president
- Kosovo and the crisis in the Atlantic Alliance
- Why we need Byron
- Refugees protest conditions in Belgium's "closed centres" for asylum-seekers
- British government advances quota system for housing asylum-seekers
1999-09-02
- Diego Rivera's artistic mastery
- Ansett New Zealand pilots face lockout
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Detroit strike exposes fraud of school "reform"
- A note in appreciation of Eyes Wide Shut
- Meeting of the "Shanghai Group" in Bishkek: China moves toward Moscow to strengthen its influence in Central Asia
- Australian Education Union conference underscores its own irrelevance
1999-09-03
- Punishment beatings and forced exile thrive in Ireland's "imperfect peace"
- Snapshots of America's brutal society: two more executions, another police killing
- Anger and form in the work of Ben Shahn
- Australia to hold “Republic” referendum but no public discussion about the details
- New Zealand Symphony Orchestra musicians protest against union
- Labour admits class sizes are rising in Britain
- Money laundering and the financial system
- European governments turn against asylum-seekers
1999-09-04
- Cover-up of Waco massacre unravels as new evidence exposes FBI lies
- Some interesting films on US television, September 4-10
- Western powers accelerate plans for military intervention in Timor
- Morocco claims Ceuta and Melilla
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Protectorate Kosovo: What NATO's war and occupation have wrought
- Teachers union leaders conspire to end Detroit schools strike
1999-09-06
1999-09-07
- Job insecurity, intensification of work damage British workers' health
- Pressure stepped up for UN force in East Timor
- Sri Lankan government steps up attacks on Tamil civilians in the north
- Australian laws violate children's rights
- Indian elections: a further shift to the right by the main parties
- Report details crimes against Aborigines
1999-09-08
- What are the real motives?
- Why 60 people died in the Cherry Hills housing estate
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Casualties increase from use of depleted uranium
- A resounding setback for Schröder
- Union leaders betray Detroit teachers' strike: new strategy needed to defend public education
- New York City teacher comments on the Detroit school strike
- A critical look at Britain under New Labour
1999-09-09
- Slavery in the modern era
- The divided opposition in Serbia
- Signs of decay on America's Labor Day 1999
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Puerto Rican nationalists to be released after two decades in prison
- Detroit teachers end nine-day strike
- Detroit teacher commends WSWS for printing the truth about the school strike
- Yangtze floods and the Chinese government's self-satisfied response
- Letter on the situation in Aceh, Indonesia
1999-09-10
- Coup warnings grow in Venezuela
- What lies behind the corruption scandals in the Kremlin?
- Further evidence of the impact of welfare reform—2.7 million US children living in extreme poverty
- Norway targets immigrants for attack and discrimination
- Habibie loses out in power struggle with Indonesian military
- German Armed Forces Federation to demonstrate against cuts in defence budget
- Australian Productivity Commission finds that gambling is "beneficial"
1999-09-11
- The social background of the Victorian state elections
- Some interesting films on US television, September 11-17
- Australian government threatens to imprison Timorese refugees
- CBS-Viacom merger: monopolies tighten their grip on the media
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Explosion at US Ford plant: report exposes corporate negligence and union complicity
- Eyes of the child —A chilling documentary exposing child poverty in Britain
- British prime minister's "moral crusade" targets the poor
1999-09-13
1999-09-14
- Three Tamil fishermen killed in northern Sri Lanka
- Ok Tedi mine closure—BHP and PNG government in conflict
- Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US threats clear way for military intervention in East Timor
- US and India discuss joint strategy against Afghanistan's Taliban regime
- US hypocrisy on human rights
- Germany: The crisis of the Social Democratic Party
1999-09-15
- Vietnam War veteran to command Australian forces in Timor
- Pinochet's lawyers seek former dictator's release on grounds of ill health
- How Britain crushed the "Mau Mau rebellion"
- Indian elections: widening chasm between official politics and the working masses
- US hypocrisy on human rights
- "Financial cutbacks have lowered the standard of infection control" in Victoria
- General McCaffrey's secret talks: US discussed plans for Colombian intervention
1999-09-16
- US auto talks—deal reported near between UAW and DaimlerChrysler
- Indonesia's accomplices spearhead East Timor "peacekeeping" force
- Australia: The tragic deaths of two Melbourne CityLink construction workers
- Wye 2 agreement paves way for restructuring of economic relations in Middle East
- Iranian court hands down four death sentences in connection with July student protests
- The German army lobbies for rearmament
- Plan for transport of Indian goods through Bangladesh provokes factional strife within country's elite
1999-09-17
- East Timor and protest politics
- Eight dead in Texas church shooting—the latest eruption of social tensions in America
- El callejón sin salida de la "revolución" de Chávez Amenaza el golpe de estado en Venezuela
- Patten Report on reform of Royal Ulster Constabulary provokes Unionist outcry
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- US hypocrisy on human rights
- Correspondence on East Timor
- Australian state government privatises major hospital
1999-09-18
- UAW contract with DaimlerChrysler paves way for further downsizing in US auto industry
- Some interesting films on US television, September 18-24
- Sri Lanka: delay in case of framed Tamil plantation youths
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Indonesians protest against security bill and Timor atrocities
- US hypocrisy on human rights
- Buchanan turns to the Reform Party: a new stage in the breakup of the US two-party system
- Deaths from AIDS dwarf war casualties in Africa
1999-09-20
1999-09-21
- Australian imperialism and East Timor: The Prime Minister's Address to the Nation
- A New York story: different worlds for the children of the rich and the poor
- Workers poisoned for decades at Kentucky nuclear weapons plant
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Kosovo war, German "national interests" and the rightward turn of the SPD
- Aboriginal teenagers jailed, prison suicides treble
1999-09-22
- Major earthquake strikes central Taiwan
- AIDS crisis in Papua New Guinea
- Fort Worth, Texas gunman linked to fascist group
- Indian elections: Big business embraces the BJP
- Australian government refuses visas to Liberian youth soccer team
- State elections in Saxony: German Social Democratic Party in free fall
- New massacres in Burundi civil war
- New evidence of Britain's arms trade with Indonesia
1999-09-23
- Sri Lankan airforce bombs Tamil civilians
- Nazism and the myth of the "master-race"
- More Los Angeles Police Department violence and frame-ups exposed
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Roma and Ashkali driven out of Kosovo en masse
- Moralizing and opportunism at the rallies on East Timor
- One of Spain's finest tenors dies
1999-09-24
- Australia: Pollsters, pundits shocked by state election result
- The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival
- Sri Lankan forces to expand military base on the Jaffna peninsula
- US concerns over political stability in Pakistan
- KLA given official police function in Kosovo
- Italy to create a professional army
- British union leader denounces unofficial walkout after calling for a "strike-free future"
- China backs Australian military intervention into East Timor
- Murder trial of Michigan child to begin October 18
1999-09-25
- Some interesting films on US television, September 25-October 1
- Australian tax plan: A "golden honeypot" for the wealthy
- Taiwan earthquake: Human toll rises, political fall-out begins
- Following prairie election victories, Canada's social democrats to lurch further right
- Montreal police carry out mass arrests to quell student strikes
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- New charges of cover-up in murder of Irish lawyer
- Military kills five protesters as Indonesian parliament enacts sweeping security law
- Detroit bus drivers stage sick-out
- US corporations cutting jobs at fastest pace in a decade
- Canadian Auto Workers settles with Ford as US auto talks continue
1999-09-27
1999-09-28
- Australia heading for a "quagmire" in East Timor
- A dry bone in a stream
- Labour vote plummets in recent by-elections in Scotland and England
- Pinochet extradition hearing told of torture and murder
- New York City's mayor threatens Brooklyn Museum
- North Carolina hurricane flooding—the manmade component of a natural disaster
- Two workers killed in Ohio coal mine collapse
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian trade union leader resigns
- Clinton administration blocks easing of sanctions against Iraq
1999-09-29
- European court rules against ban on homosexuals in British armed forces
- Stock exchange paid for Australian tax report
- Ansett New Zealand pilots fight company lockout
- Family of murdered Irish civil rights lawyer in libel action against Ulster Unionist MP
- US victory in Ryder Cup meets with chauvinist outburst in Britain
- A letter on police brutality in Los Angeles
- Colombian president asks for $1.5 billion in military aid
- Chile's "Caravan of Death" creates problems for ruling elite
- BBC Radio retrospective on the Anglo-Boer war, 1899-1902
- Is this the real thing?
1999-09-30
- US-Japan conflicts over rising yen
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- A time "out of joint": Peter Zadek's Hamlet at the Berlin Schaubühne
- French high school students protest poor conditions and teacher shortages
- Right-wing organizations push school vouchers in Michigan
- An exchange with a WSWS reader on ethnic conflict in Nigeria
- Buchanan and the crisis of the US two-party system
- United Auto Workers reaches deal with General Motors
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