Archive: 10/1999
1999-10-01
- Turkish security forces massacre political prisoners
- The Western powers and East Timor—a history of manoeuvre and intrigue
- Kosovo and East Timor: a reply to a WSWS reader
- Labour's "anti-poverty" audit aimed at final dismantling of British welfare state
- Pinochet extradition verdict expected October 8
- Artistic freedom and democratic rights under attack in New York
- Who's Afraid of the Working Class?—the Melbourne Workers Theatre
- Letter from a WSWS reader
- Australian companies continue to downsize
- India and Pakistan vie for US's favor
- Ecuador default, Colombia devaluation: renewed debt and currency jitters in Latin America
1999-10-02
- Some interesting films on US television, October 2-8
- Films from Taiwan and China
- Canada: Saskatchewan New Democratic Party forms coalition with Liberals
- Arrests follow pro-Anwar demonstration in Kuala Lumpur
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Indonesian parliament convenes amid a mounting political crisis
- Highest number of US executions in 45 years
- Bush pardoned anti-Cuban terrorist
- Russia mounts invasion of Chechnya
1999-10-04
1999-10-05
1999-10-06
- What is the path to genuine democracy in Turkey?
- Australian led "peace-keepers" strike temporary deal with Falintil in East Timor
- Scottish Parliament hit by lobbying scandal
- What the UN knew about militia violence in East Timor
- Britain's Paddington rail crash claims 27 lives
- Letter from a reader
- Poverty, inequality and disease in Kenya
- Kenya's President Moi announces economic cutbacks in bid for IMF funding
- Food bank use in Canada continues to rise
- US Supreme Court rejects delay of murder trial for Michigan child
1999-10-07
- The importance of knowing something about the world
- Death toll could be as high as 100 in London rail crash
- New York City reports outbreak of West Nile virus
- Monopolies grow ever bigger: US telecom merger tops $100 billion mark
- US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal responds to Supreme Court rejection of appeal
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Sordid political horsetrading in the new Indonesian parliament
- Walkout over racism at Ford UK
- 44 million Americans lack health insurance
- Merger of Canada's major airlines will mean massive job losses, fare hikes
1999-10-08
- 70 confirmed dead and 100 still unaccounted for in London train crash
- "For us it is hard and inexplicable that this Chilean government is defending Pinochet so strongly"
- Negotiations to begin in six-month-old Mexican student strike
- Daewoo collapse threatens further financial crisis in South Korea
- Spain's ex-Socialist Party Prime Minister Gonzalez joins defence of Pinochet
- The Kosovo war and the rise of German militarism
- A WSWS reader writes on Pat Buchanan and the US elections
- Metropolitan Museum director offers an olive branch to New York Mayor Giuliani
- Australian unions preside over "orderly closure" of Newcastle steel plant
1999-10-09
- UN figures show: international production system developing
- Some interesting films on US television, October 9-15
- Thatcher rallies Tories in defence of Pinochet at British Conservative Party conference
- Military intervention in East Timor: What are the real motives?
- Thai factory explosion kills 35 workers
- London rail disaster—interim report fuels rail safety controversy
- British court rules Pinochet extradition to Spain can proceed
- Two master photographers from Japan
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- "Operation Gatekeeper" claims the lives of 444 immigrant workers in five years
- Hindu chauvinist-led coalition to form India's next government
1999-10-11
1999-10-12
- Australian special forces operating in East Timor months before UN ballot
- US State Department warns against European military independence from NATO
- La "Caravana de la Muerte" en Chile crea problemas para la élite gobernante
- Australian trade unions to oversee public sector job cuts
- Nigerian government clamps down on gas protesters
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Israeli deal for Palestinian "safe passage" tramples on democratic rights
- US autoworkers union reaches deal with Ford
- British Ford workers to ballot on industrial action
- Comments on poverty conditions in America
- Clinton appeals for Canadian unity
- New York protests continue over City University chief's racist diatribe
1999-10-13
- Social crisis in Poland at the breaking point
- Pakistan military ousts prime minister
- Jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson dead at 76
- Staff strike and student protests highlight crisis in New Zealand universities
- "Europeans only" housing legalised in Norway
- Who's Who in India's ruling NDA coalition
- New Indian government to heed demands of big business
- Fiftieth anniversary of the Peoples Republic of China: a celebration of nationalism and the market
- More evidence of army torture and murder dug up in northern Sri Lanka
1999-10-14
- Privatisation, deregulation and the London rail disaster
- East Timor provokes Australian foreign policy crisis
- US signals readiness to work with coup leaders in Pakistan
- Media witchhunt against Australian school parents association falls flat
- December 2 death warrant signed for US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
1999-10-15
- US Supreme Court rejects appeal of mentally impaired death row inmate
- Public anger grows over police shooting of innocent London man
- Former party chairman attacks German SPD Chancellor Schröder: The Lafontaine debate
- What big business expects of India's new government
- Mandelson appointed Northern Ireland Secretary in an effort to rescue "peace process"
1999-10-16
- World trade talks seek dismantling of public health, education and services
- NBC's The West Wing -an illusory view of the Clinton White House
- Some interesting films on US television, October 16-22
- Pakistani military establishes martial law regime
- Zedillo government spurns victims of Mexico storm and mud slides
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Habibie's speech to the Indonesian parliament sparks protests and criticism
- Papua New Guinea government rules out independence for Bougainville
1999-10-18
1999-10-19
- Tensions mounts in Chile after Britain rejects call for Pinochet's immediate release
- New Zealand elections characterised by widespread political disenchantment
- One-quarter of New York City's population lives below the poverty threshold
- Relatives of London man shot dead by police speak out
- Speakers at US conference condemn sanctions against Iraq
- The AFL-CIO's endorsement of Al Gore: what it represents and what it doesn't
- Correspondence on Marx's analysis of interest rates
- British newspaper says NATO deliberately bombed Chinese embassy in Belgrade
1999-10-20
- Irish civil rights activist targeted for smear campaign
- Conflict over oil in Sudan
- Second rail collision follows London, Paddington disaster
- Nissan announces 21,000 jobs to go in Japan's first major downsizing
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Teacher discusses lessons of the Detroit strike
- US Senate rejection of test ban treaty heralds new eruption of American militarism
- Hundreds of thousands hit by Bangladesh floods
1999-10-21
- Indonesia votes to hand over East Timor to UN control
- Telstra share values boosted by job destruction
- North London man wins compensation from police for false murder conviction
- Scottish teachers ballot for strike action
- Irish hospitals hit by first national nurses' strike
- Mayakovsky's The Bedbug at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin: a missed opportunity
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- A travesty of democracy: Indonesian parliament anoints Abdurrahman Wahid as president
1999-10-22
- Australian government threatens to deport remaining Kosovar refugees
- London Underground signalman: "Train operating companies view safety provisions as a drain on profits"
- US judge rules secret evidence unconstitutional, orders release of Palestinian immigrant
- Megawati inserted as Indonesian vice-president to head off social unrest
- Côte d'Ivoire's economy dependent on child labour
- Britain's Labour government clamps down on protests during visit by Chinese premier
- Dasa and Aerospatiale Matra SA merge: Europe strengthens its armaments industry
1999-10-23
- Some interesting films on US television, October 23-29
- New report shows sharp growth of inequality in Britain
- University of Papua New Guinea shuts early after student protests over fee rises
- Switzerland sends Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon back to France
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- "We're all corrupt," says Republican contender in the US election sweepstakes
- IMF-World Bank conflict over assessment of Asian crisis
- The Australian Ballet in New York City
- Russia poised for all-out attack on Chechen capital
1999-10-25
1999-10-26
- Two Hands —Exaggerated praise for an Australian comedy
- A New Zealand clothing company goes "global" and shuts all local factories
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New Indonesian president pledges to encourage foreign investment and private enterprise
- Declassified documents confirm US role in 1973 death of Charles Horman
- On George Bush's pardon of anti-Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch
1999-10-27
- Labor forms new minority state government in Australia
- Sri Lankan president calls snap poll
- Federal judge grants stay of execution for US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Opposition to KLA grows in Kosovo
- Right-wing journalist warns of Britain's collapse into chaos
- WSWS readers discuss health care, jobs
1999-10-28
- Sri Lankan postal authorities victimise Socialist Equality Party member
- Australian media inquiry: the millionaire talkback radio hosts from "Struggle Street"
- Britain's hereditary peers vote to abolish their constitutional role
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Three American films: Sadness, and less
- US presidential race: Buchanan quits Republicans to run third-party campaign
- On-the-spot report from Michigan courtroom: Scenes from the murder trial of a 13-year-old
1999-10-29
- US expert outlines social and environmental disaster in Russia
- British appeal court quashes conviction after hearing of police torture
- Irish nurses strike suspended pending membership ballot
- Fiji's new Labour-led coalition ditches its promises for better living standards
- US schedules five executions this week
- Shooting death of Armenian prime minister heightens crisis in the Caucasus
1999-10-30
- Some interesting films on US television, October 30-November 5
- Three filmmakers who were silenced
- Britain's rail union calls off national conductors strike
- Blacklisted US film director Abraham Polonsky dead at 88
- Pakistan's military regime to implement IMF dictates
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The new Indonesian cabinet: a precarious government of "national unity"
- New York City forces homeless to work or face eviction from shelters
- Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields going for a song
- Trade war over beef between Britain and France
1999-10-51
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