Archive: 11/1999
1999-11-01
1999-11-02
- Pakistani autoworkers wage 18-month struggle against Suzuki
- Federal judge rules in favor of Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Plans for second stage of House of Lords reform leaked
- Indian government prevails over truckers' protest to halt fuel price increases
- Many questions raised by Egyptair Flight 990 crash
- New Argentine president to deepen austerity policies
1999-11-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New study documents growing chasm between rich and poor in Germany
- Toronto teacher discusses worldwide assault on public education
- British prisons chief calls for release of two boys imprisoned for killing James Bulger
- Protests against the Burmese military junta
- Child labour on the increase in Bangladesh
1999-11-04
- Michael Portillo emerges as serious challenger for leadership of Britain's Conservatives
- Sharp turn to the right in Swiss elections
- Hawaii, Seattle: latest shooting rampages in the US
- Australia's "Republic" referendum reveals mass disaffection
- All candidates in Niger elections pledge to enforce IMF and World Bank dictates
- Michigan murder trial of 13-year-old: Testimony undercuts prosecution case
- Further major corporate restructurings in Japan
1999-11-05
- Trade talks could "blow up" says US commerce secretary
- Sydney Olympics ticketing fiasco: premium seats reserved for the rich
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa and the Middle East
- France's Minister of Finance Strauss-Kahn resigns
- Voter turnout at record low in off-year US elections
- Egypt's President Mubarak appoints new prime minister to speed up privatisation
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: From a higher reality to a respect for reality
1999-11-06
- The UN in East Timor: all the trappings of a colonial protectorate
- Some interesting films on US television, November 6-12
- US government preparing for mass arrests in Puerto Rico
- Democrats narrowly retain control of Philadelphia City Hall
- New York City police cleared in fatal shooting
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Europe and the US challenge Russian domination of the Baltic states
- Britain's Labour government cuts disabled benefits and gives tax handout to business
- A sign of despair in regional Australia: police siege ends in suicide
1999-11-08
- Poor health care for Sri Lankan tea plantation workers
- US unemployment figures show decline in job growth and stagnating wages
- Australian university students occupy campus over substandard conditions
- Quebec public sector workers balk at giving unions strike mandate
- David Walsh reviews Boys Don't Cry, directed by Kimberly Pierce
1999-11-09
- Sri Lankan soldiers rebel as one army camp after another falls to the LTTE
- Defeat for Australian republic referendum highlights social divide
- Railtrack announces record profits in the aftermath of the British rail disaster
- Letters on the Michigan murder trial of 13-year-old
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Investigations belie NATO claims of "ethnic genocide"in Kosovo
- Northern Ireland: Loyalist paramilitaries had security intelligence files
- The fraud of the 35-hour workweek in France
- Michigan begins random drug testing of welfare recipients
1999-11-10
- Forensic psychiatrist speaks on the Abraham case: "When Nathaniel needed a system there was no system there for him"
- London march protests against deaths in custody
- Death toll in eastern India cyclone may top 10,000
- The Onex-Air Canada struggle: unions pit worker against worker
- Closing arguments due in murder trial of Nathaniel Abraham
- Children lived in fear of seizure
- Australian government defends forced removal of Aboriginal children
1999-11-11
- Uruguayan election: Frente Amplio wins plurality in first round
- Protests against fascist murder in Sweden
- Federal appeals court upholds racial profiling by upstate New York police
- Behind the Microsoft antitrust case: computer giants battle for markets and profits
- Mahathir calls early election in Malaysia
- The origins of the juvenile justice system in America
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Clinton's photo-op against poverty
- Britain: Second juror condemns jailing of two boys for the killing of James Bulger
- Workers and residents in Western Australia suffer health problems from Alcoa's alumina plant
1999-11-12
- The decline of the German Social Democratic Party
- Five dead in Flint, Michigan nursing home blast
- Transport strike paralyses Lagos, Nigeria
- Demonstrations to protest Italian government plan to end free access to universities
- Funding crisis shuts hospital emergency wards in Australia's largest city
- Animal Farm: a new version on US television
- Rifts appear in Indonesian regime over Aceh
1999-11-13
- Some interesting films on US television, November 13-19
- US Supreme Court escalates attack on rights of death row prisoners
- After the Truth: An attempt to tackle Germany's past
- Opposition grows to government attacks on public health in Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UN war crimes prosecutor confirms much-reduced Kosovo death toll
- More plans to deregulate and privatise tertiary education in Australia
- Rocket, bomb attacks boost US-Afghan tensions
1999-11-15
1999-11-16
- China-US trade deal to "restructure" Chinese economy
- British soldiers executed in First World War denied official pardon
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Killings of Kosovans continue under NATO occupation at pre-war rate
- Harvey Thompson reviews The Trench, directed by William Boyd
- State Labor government seeks to overturn teachers' conditions
- Political turmoil in Sri Lanka as UNP defectors back Kumaratunga
- Angola: MPLA inflicts new defeats on UNITA
- Gloria Abraham speaks out on the Michigan murder trial of her 13-year-old son
1999-11-17
- Tens of thousands flee in the face of advancing LTTE forces
- Labour's "homelessness czar" attacks aid to people forced to sleep outdoors
- US Supreme Court clears way for first federal execution since 1963
- Pakistani political elite supports military regime
- Survivors of Korean War massacre by US soldiers seek investigation
- America's ugly face
- Shooting victim's mother opposes jailing of 13-year-old defendant in Michigan murder case
- East Timor: the history and politics of the CNRT
- Michigan jury finds 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham guilty of second-degree murder
1999-11-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Thousands of Indian cyclone survivors at risk due to official indifference
- Background to the Russian assault on Chechnya: a power struggle over Caspian oil
- What lies behind the recent successes for Jörg Haider's Freedom Party?
- Human rights advocates condemn murder conviction of 13-year-old Michigan child
- WSWS interviews Dr Warren Hern
- American abortion doctor detained by Australian immigration
1999-11-19
- New issue of World Socialist Web Site Review now available
- Reflections on the No Gun Ri massacre by a former US serviceman stationed in Korea
- Falun Gong members go on trial in China
- Why the rush to judgment in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990?
- High school students protest in Detroit
- A superb exhibit on militarism
- WSWS reporter interviewed on Seattle radio about Nathaniel Abraham case
1999-11-20
- Australia's corporate salaries soar as wages are depressed
- Fed raises interest rates, White House and Congress strike budget deal
- Some interesting films on US television, November 20-26
- Official disinterest over tens of thousands still missing in East Timor
- London inquest into Asian student's death returns open verdict
- Social Democracy at the end of the century: 21st congress meets in Paris
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Auden's poetry and his last years
1999-11-22
1999-11-23
- Australian anti-refugee measures flout international law
- Asylum-seekers imprisoned in heat and squalor
- London pensioner dies of starvation
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ha muerto uno de los mejores tenores de España
- Mitchell review of Northern Ireland Agreement proposes new formula to begin devolution
- WSWS readers comment on Nathaniel Abraham verdict
- Former Bauhaus student to speak in Sheffield and Liverpool
- 13-year-old convicted of murder in Michigan: Harsh truths about a repugnant verdict
1999-11-24
- Australia: New South Wales Supreme Court begins manslaughter trial of 11-year-old child
- LSSP backs Kumaratunga in Sri Lankan election
- British steel firm fined over Yemeni worker's death
- New York's mayor calls for police crackdown on the homeless
- WSWS readers comment on EgyptAir Flight 990 disaster
- Detroit museum shuts down exhibit
- State racism in the Czech Republic
- US probe of EgyptAir crash: media brands Arab doubts as "wild speculation"
1999-11-25
- New Clinton special prosecutor linked to religious fundamentalists
- Pakistan's military regime prepares IMF program
- The battle for Mannesmann: the background to Germany's first hostile take-over
- Mahathir concerned over losses in upcoming Malaysian election
- Conservative candidate for London mayor resigns in disgrace
- A conversation with Sri Lankan artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara
1999-11-26
- Refugees on hunger strike in New Zealand prison
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Royal Ulster Constabulary awarded George Cross
- Test case to be held in Supreme Court
- Thai-Burma border reopens after weeks of tension
- Anglo-French summit takes further step towards European military independence from America
1999-11-27
- Agendaless in Seattle: WTO talks could become a "fiasco"
- Some interesting films on US television, November 27-December 3
- Ex-Teamsters official convicted in union election swindle
- Paul Bond reviews Ratcatcher —a film by Lynne Ramsay
- Labour chooses candidates for London Mayor: a process based on manoeuvre and media hype
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Liberal historian defends the Balkan War against Kosovo "revisionists:" Sophistry in the service of imperialism
- German government steps in to rescue Holzmann building company
- Clinton in Kosovo: rhetoric versus reality
1999-11-29
1999-11-30
- Political first principles for a movement against global capitalism
- Agreement signed in Istanbul on US-backed Caspian oil pipeline
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New Northern Ireland Executive to convene this week
- An exchange of letters on Freudianism and Marxism
- Readers respond to comment by Barry Grey on Michael Ignatieff's defense of Kosovo War
- Manslaughter trial of 11-year-old continues in Australian Supreme Court
- Indictment of Argentina's military alarms political establishment
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